You left part of the story out of the picture. I added an extra frame to the bottom of the picture to reflect 'reality' more accurately. The billionaires investing in space don't want Star Trek ... they want Dune ... but we got Spaceballs. #billionaires #space #startrek #dune #spaceballs #memes

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**CRYPTOGRAPHY GROUP** [for your address book] https://soc.octade.net/cryptography/ A Fediverse group for sharing and discussing #ciphers, #codes #cryptography and #encryption. #crypto #cypher #cypherpunks #confidentiality #privacy

**PAPERS PLEASE!** [for your address book] A Fediverse group for sharing your papers and preprints. https://soc.octade.net/papers/ #papers #writing #preprints #authors #research #reading

**Hexlish Alphabet for English, Constructed Languages and Cryptography: Automatic, Structural Compression with a Phonetic Hexadecimal Alphabet** DOI : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13139469 Hexlish is a legible, sixteen-letter alphabet for writing the […] [Original post on soc.octade.net]

Debunking the Myths of the Sacred Namers - Myth # 4 - Jehovah is Pointed with the Vowel Markings of Adonai In the linked paper, Carl D. Franklin digs deep into the history of the tetragrammaton and debunks some of the myths commonly accepted as fact. The paper is part of a series and well worth […]

**The American Myth of Illiteracy: How Education Worked Before Taxpayer-Funded Schooling** > "If you want to sell someone something, you first have to convince them that they need it. This rationalization is the likely source of a fundamental myth of the American public school system: that […]

Artificial Intelligence (#ai) is pure #darpa technocrat poison.

Some fool sent me a private message asking about my vaccination status. There's no shortage of cretins online.

MAGICAL THINKING: > "There are no hidden backdoors or privacy concerns because the entire codebase is open to peer review." >

#nowplaying #music #tunes #calexico - Hair Like Spanish Moss https://youtu.be/j-oNUff37YE

"The reason there are so many distro forks is so that everyone can share a donate button because they made an ubercool wallpaper, theme and some preinstalled useless programs. And most important beside the donate button: don't forget to print in front of the […] [Original post on soc.octade.net]

**Salvatore Ganacci - Work Hard Not Smart (Official Lyric Video)** https://youtu.be/t4IY7LgLUE0 #nowplaying #nowlistening #music #video #salvatoreganacci #fatalfury #workhardnotsmart #dj #techno #rave #gamingmusic #gamertunes #radio #youtube #youtubemusic #eurobeats

I rather like the pic I took of my grandkid Onix here.

"Internet fury is not real life. It's going to be ok." ~ Some FBI guy

**/// Some apps for secure and anonymous communication and file-sharing ///** #briar ... https://briarproject.org "Censorship-resistant peer-to-peer messaging that bypasses centralized servers. Connect via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or Tor, with privacy built-in." #retroshare ... https://retroshare.cc […]

**TYT Reacts: Charlie Kirk Fatally Shot at Utah Valley University** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=533pBCqgE-k > "Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist and co-founder of Turning Point USA, was giving a presentation at Utah Valley University when he was […] [Original post on soc.octade.net]

The first 15 minutes are gold logic showing the hypocrisy of the Christian doctrine of eternal hellfire punishment. The author points out how Christians paint God as a hypocritical liar in order to uphold their religious tradition instead of staying consistent with the Bible. The Christian […]

What happened to guppe groups? I tried: https://a.gup.pe/u/opensource And instead of the group page I got the page shown in the attached image. #memoryhole #guppegroups #fediverse #groups

@[email protected] I noticed that when I add attachments to a draft the attachment files remain in the static directory even after deleting the draft. I tested with TXT, HTML, and PDF files. I also ran snac purge and the orphaned files remain. I am running the current /backports/ version of […]

Many have seen the clip, "Are we the baddies?" I'm not one of the baddies, but I might have to ask: "Am I the old man shaking fist at cloud?" I sometimes catch myself mumbling grumpily at the 'cloud' and SaaS parts of yon Internet. Hosting and VPS services can make me especially grumpy and […]

Why Americans Eat What Europe Bans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfehGfSTu70 #slop #fakefood #nutrition

The writer can be truly anonymous when posting to Usenet. Usenet is accessible via TOR and open access servers that don't require registration or identifying information. The writer can write and discuss using a pseudonym or pen name without fear of retaliation from employers, government […]

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The Rocksolid Light tradition continues in a new news server platform: pugleaf. In honor of the late Thom Miller (Retro Guy) pugleaf has been born to carry on the mission of free and open web access to the original social network: Usenet. https://github.com/go-while/go-pugleaf Pugleaf sports a […]

@[email protected] > "I want to be one of those women who gives the devil paralyzing panic attacks just because #god woke me up that day." > Don't be surprised if Jesus be like, "Here, I'll hold your beer."

@[email protected] @[email protected] It looks like Academia.edu is blocking works that were formerly public. So much for academic freedom and public knowledge ...

It looks like ResearchGate hosed the CSS formatting on their web portal.

Feral kitty came on to the porch. She demanded that I pet her. I put out some food. She would not touch the food and instead kept rubbing my leg until I started petting and wrestling with her. She still would not touch the food. Then I went and got a different kind of cat food and she nom-nommed […]

ThE iNtErNuTz is the same old stream of garbage. I want to put up a new antenna and start yakking skip.

If I could saddle a 800-lb hamster I would be a hamboy. Or perhaps one could saddle a teacup pig and be called the same.

**6,000 Patents Hidden By The Government | U.S. Invention Secrecy Act** Short video: https://octade.net/urls/6000_patents.html In 1998, Stanley Meyer claimed to invent a car that ran on water. Days later, he was dead—and his invention disappeared. But Meyer wasn't the only one. There’s a […]

If you are using P2P file sharing software (besides bittorrent) please post links to the software with your opinion. #p2p #filesharing #networks #darknet #darkweb #software @infostorm@a.gup.pe @p2p@a.gup.pe @darknet@a.gup.pe @networks@a.gup.pe

@grunfink@comam.es I like the scheduled post feature in the snac2 web front end. Is there a way to schedule a post using the command-line server side? I know, I know, I can just write a shell script or cron job to fire at particular times ... but figured I would ask if snac2 has that capability.

SMUD - an appropriate name for the electric company conducting surveillance for the police. **The $94 Million Smart Meter Surveillance Scheme Exposed** https://youtu.be/onYWQJsWFpk Sacramento residents discovered their utility company has been secretly feeding their private energy data to […]

**NATIVITY OF JESUS CHRIST** I am doing some research on the nativity of Jesus of Nazareth. I am looking into the many sectarian traditions and scholarly opinions on this subject. I would like to get hermeneutic opinions and off the cuff opinions on some groundwork questions. 1. What actual […]

**Would this sabotage AI scrapers?** It seems to me that #alttext may be helpful to AI bots snarfing data. Since detailed descriptions are included this may be of great advantage to the AI intelligence curve for building more accurate scanning and analysis datasets. One way to gum the gears […]

Fediverse is peppered with #cringy, delusional, self-hating twitposting. Some people's feeds read like a suicide letter demanding everyone else to commit suicide with them. Some twitfeeds exude the vibes of an assassin's hit list. Some twitfeeds smell like authoritarian extermination orders […]

Many people have never heard of P2P file-sharing networks like DarkMX even though DarkMX and its predecessor, WinMX, have over two decades of continued development. P2P file-sharing networks are more stable than torrents. DarkMX has a very slick retro interface. It is almost identical to the old […]

I'm looking for more #cryptology and #cryptography related profiles to follow. Recommends appreciated.

I found this fun puzzle in rec.puzzles courtesy of 'HenHanna'. ___________________________________________________ This word has 10 letters. namely: 1234567890 1234 - carries heredity 456 - is a period of time 567 - is a pest and 890 - is a charged particle What is the word? #puzzles […]

TORSERV: Host a Static Website on the Dark Web in Under 1 Minute > "Hosting a Tor hidden service — also known as an onion site — typically requires in-depth technical skills and manual configuration. With TorServ, you can host a static website anonymously in […] [Original post on soc.octade.net]

The #gnu #pascal source code appears to be no longer available. Pity. > Forbidden > You don't have permission to access this resource. > https://www.gnu-pascal.de/gpc/h-index.html @linux@a.gup.pe

I am seeking #bbs software for #linux that has built-in #nntp server and can feed with other #usenet servers. I would like some suggestions and reasoning. A BBS with actually secure passwords and authentication would be best, since a lot of them are not secure by modern standards […]

NEWSCARD: Decentralized, Encrypted Paste Bin via Usenet Newsgroups _NEWSCARD_ Publish and fetch permanent named records via Network News Newscard creates a decentralized, encrypted, named record paste bin. git repo] [https://codeberg.org/OCTADE/newscard […] [Original post on soc.octade.net]

Since the passing of Retro Guy some volunteers have started a project to continue the Rocksolid Light legacy with a new NNTP server coded in golang. The new platform is named, 'Pug Leaf' after Retro Guy's avatar of a little pug holding a leaf in its maw. https://rocksolid-us.pugleaf.net/ #nntp […]

CHRISTIAN CHURCH He said, "Of course I may be wrong, But I wouldn’t be surprised If this were the greatest Christian church That ever man devised. Our organ is the very best Our choir stays on key. Our stained glass windows — priceless Our pulpit — the best […] [Original post on soc.octade.net]

"THE BEST FUDGE COMES FROM URANUS." Real billboard. Seen it myself multiple times. The company also sells a replica in their store in the town of Uranus, Missouri. (not my photo) #uranus #fudge #billboard

"minicrypt is dedicated to Alice and Bob." phunnee! https://github.com/706f6c6c7578/minicrypt #cryptography

Hacker and free speech advocate Retro Guy has passed away. I have been away from the Internet for at least a couple months. I came to quickly check my feeds and I am sad to have found report of the passing away of a very cool hacker, Thom Miller, known by the […] [Original post on soc.octade.net]