**SLC Punk - Stevo and his parents** One of the best cinema scenes of all time: https://youtu.be/tSm6RjyNtEQ

**Mastui — a retro‑modern Mastodon client for your terminal** > "Blazing‑fast TUI built with Python and Textual. Multi-account, Multi‑column timelines, image rendering (ANSI/Sixel/TGP), persistent cache, and an elegant keyboard‑driven workflow." > https://mastui.app/ #mastui

The real holiday is Black Friday. All shopping blasphemers will be trampled at a store near you.

So tell me how you fed the diabetes during this year's turkeycidal bonanza.

@[email protected] **Free Usenet Hosting Providers** +++ Ausics (Australia) > https://newsgroups.ausics.net > +++ Blue World Hosting (Missouri) > https://usenet.blueworldhosting.com > +++ Chmurka (Polish) > http://news.chmurka.net > +++ CSIPH > http://csiph.com > +++ DOTSRC > […]

@[email protected] Have you tried brewing any of these yet? - dandelion wine - ginger bug - spruce beer - birch beer What's the coolest or weirdest stuff you've fermented? #brewing #wine #mead #ferments #fermenting #beer

We all find A way to Turn ache Into art. Just look At what Stars can do When they’re Given a heart. #poetry

@[email protected] I am testing the recent Debian package. The app works well yet I see a few peeves. I see no facility to passively serve a directory tree of files. This would be extremely useful. And I do mean EXTREMELY USEFUL. It would replace the need for running HTTP / FTP / SFTP etc […]

**SELF HOSTING YOUR SITE AND APPS** No Cloudflare. No 2FA nonsense. No cloud surveillance. Your box. Your rules. https://hestiacp.com/ #hestiacp #selfhosting #selfhosted #webmasters #weblords

**USENET GROUP** [for your address book] https://soc.octade.net/usenet/ A #Fediverse group for discussing topics and tools related to #Usenet and #NNTP or #NetworkNews. #groups #fedigroups #fediverse #retro Image licensed under the Creative Commons […] [Original post on soc.octade.net]

If there were to be a console-first, text-centric social network without images would you use it? Which features would you want in such a network and its terminal interface?

Is anyone else having issues with private message spam from this actor? #spammers

This is gold. **Arrested for Telling a Cop to Shut UP-James Freeman is Suing to Rename This Texas City** https://youtu.be/zyLnHzg4Xrg

You are Not without Hope: You are Strong Enough to Carry your Heart. #poetry

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 […]