**The Rise of Algorithms and the End of the Internet** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA_hmtuAPTY [copypasta] **Did the Algorithm Change Your Decisions? | How Your Feed Was Engineered** Right now, somewhere on the internet, a video is being uploaded. Within seconds, a system that no one […]

**Crotch Cams: The New AI Cameras Photographing Drivers** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZcXvuvGxmk [copypasta] Mobile phone and seatbelt detection cameras may sound like a narrow traffic enforcement tool, but many people know them by a more revealing nickname: “crotch cams.” In this video […]

**They’re Selling Your Mental Health Data** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnUxRahoBJU [copypasta] How private is online therapy? And what happens to your most sensitive personal data when you trust an app with it? There is an often-quoted idea that the true measure of a society is how it […]

Tuba : a Fediverse client for Linux and Windows. https://tuba.geopjr.dev/ #fediverse #fedi #software #linux #windows

**Impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanours?** Maybe it means one must be high on spirits during the crime ... ... or the crimes were committed while high? If Drumpf had a son he would look like Afroman ... ... because he got high. Drumpf + Afroman = […] [Original post on soc.octade.net]

**TABLERO DE YINZER** Game devs, drop the keyboard and play this drinking game. Then continue coding to experience real vibe coding. https://ludocity.org/wiki/Tablero_de_Yinzer [copypasta] Tablero de Yinzer is based on Tablero da Gucci, which in turn is […] [Original post on soc.octade.net]

The universe has balanced itself. All is as it should be. #yinz #yinzer #yinzermafia #pennsyltucky #pennsylvania #keystone

**SCOTUS rules that ordinary Americans do NOT owe income tax!** https://youtu.be/bTLYcr-JuDc SCOTUS just contradicted a century of circuit courts and their malicious rulings subjecting Americans to the income tax. Will anyone notice? [copypasta] Dr Champion shows you the astounding words of […]

**Bytemology of Retronym, OCTADE. Yinzer phonics. Butterfly Perfume.** OCTADE or OCTAD is a retro word that means either an octal digit of three bits, or an octal octet or an eight-bit byte. Thus an octade, depending on its historical use, is either 3 bits or 8 bits. OCTADE was used to specify […]

**California Just Killed Open Source** **[3D Printer Laws aren't about guns]** https://youtu.be/Nhz6vao13bs [copypasta] California AB 2047: The End of Open Source 3D Printing California just introduced a bill that doesn't just regulate "ghost guns", it mandates a digital kill switch for […]

**SPACE INVESTMENT**

When I was a teenager I had this wild idea that politics was a big show and the only path forward was to become so independent from government that it becomes irrelevant. Then Trump happened and I got all caught up in that political / culture war nonsense. Now I've realized I was right in the […]

**USENET IS NOT DEAD !!!!! USENET IS STILL FREE FREE FREE!** Usenet is an ever-living, Casper the friendly ghost of discussion networks. Just a friendly reminder that Usenet still exists and access to text newsgroups is still FREE. Access is provided by volunteer sysops around the world. See […]

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**The Rust Wedge and the Big Tech Buy-off: A Veteran Engineer’s Warning to Every PC Owner (+ jofito)** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0JAAF61AiE > "I warned you years ago that Windows 11 was the beginning of the end. Today, the door is officially closing on general-purpose computing. In […]

**SYSOP GROUP** https://soc.octade.net/sysop/ A fediverse group for discussing topics and tools related to #sysop. #groups #fedigroups #fediverse #retro

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NASA is going back to the moon after 50 years ... on April fool's day. The irony ... "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt […]

**OS Age Verification: Millions Of Evil People With GPS In Your Kid's Pocket, Required By Law!** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adCMNAVBGSQ Age Verification is beyond Epstein 2.0. > "Once these OS-level age verification laws take hold, we're about 3 months from a real-time GPS-located […]

@[email protected] [copypasta] **Why Are You Paying Just to Pay?** https://youtu.be/khCCvjDXhsM Paying to Pay | How the System Makes Money Moving Your Money You go to work. You get paid. And then — almost immediately — you start paying money… just to use that money. In this episode […]

**AFROMAN FOR PRESIDENT** #afroman #president #rappers #rapmusic #courts #elections #humor #jokes #comedy

[Corrupt Cops Sex Crimes [explicit lyrics]] **Afroman roasts corrupt pervert cops.** "THIS IS THE SONG I WROTE TO HIM AFTER I FOUND OUT HE SLEPT WITH UNDERAGE GIRLS ..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1iXh7jxjfc #afroman #cops #police #rap #rapmusic #nowplaying

TITLE : "Hexlish Alphabet for English, Constructed Languages and Cryptography: Automatic, Structural Compression with a Phonetic Hexadecimal Alphabet" DOI URL : "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13139469" TITLE : "Cryptologue Arcade - Crypto Darkpaper - Crypto Color Prints - Simplementation […]

**PERFECT PANGRAM HASH : Anagram Hash Function** #doi https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18448042 A pangram is a sentence or phrase that contains each letter of an alphabet or character set at least once. A perfect pangram is an anagram of the alphabet which contains each letter exactly once […]

**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]

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**Generate Random Data From Sound Card** - a neat hack for the properly paranoid - Your computer is likely generating random noise on your sound card. On some systems you can harvest this noise as true random entropy. This entropy can be diffused and […] [Original post on soc.octade.net]

Braxman gets it. Still (((crickets))) from the software freedom fighters. California's age verification law empowers malicious actors with a grooming tool to narrow down the hunt for children. **Age Verification Mandates: The ‘Protect the Kids’ Scam That’s Building a Permanent Surveillance […]

I heard of this thing called CRAZY PILLS. How do I get some? #crazypill

**SILENCE IS DEAFENING** > "While the [age verification] bill moved through the legislature, the OSI, FSF, Software Freedom Conservancy, and Linux Foundation all sat it out — no testimony, no public analysis, no formal opposition on the record." > Are the […] [Original post on soc.octade.net]

Midnight BSD license prohibiting use in California: > "California residents are not authorized to use MidnightBSD for desktop use in the state of California effective January 1, 2027. California law CA AB1043 requires a complex age verification system […] [Original post on soc.octade.net]

I cannot resist the urge to be that old man shaking fist at clouds -- the cloud, as in, the digital one.

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I want to peruse some interesting manifestos--like the Cypherpunk Manifesto, Aaron Swartz' manifesto, the Unabomber Manifesto, etc. ... Many are listed here ... https://1000manifestos.com/list/. I would like to find obscure and interesting manifesto type writings not listed on that web site […]

Happy to report that about a year after getting a mate to communicate using Signal instead of WhatsApp, we just today made the progression to securing our emails via pgp. 🥳 He was already using Thunderbird as his email client, and although just a few clicks it was a James Bond meets Bill Gates […]

@[email protected] @[email protected] **Al Gore Invented the Internet.** **Joe Biden invented PGP encryption.** **Cypherpunks write code.** Joe Biden gifted humanity with PGP encryption (in a roundabout way). Phil Zimmermann created PGP in response to a anti-privacy bill […]

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**Updated and Expanded: Christian Nationalism is a Bait and Switch Hoodwink to Convert Americans to Roman Imperial Religion** While everyone is distracted by the scripted ICE theater the counter-reformation unification of Roman Church and state proceeds […] [Original post on soc.octade.net]

The GPL is a trojan horse that forces small business and one-man band to share their source code with AI Hegemon MegaCorp. The little guy cannot compete if he is forced to share his source code with leviathan-funded competition.

**PERFECT PANGRAM HASH : Anagram Hash Function** #doi https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18448042 A pangram is a sentence or phrase that contains each letter of an alphabet or character set at least once. A perfect pangram is an anagram of the alphabet which contains each letter exactly once […]

**Software Bondage : Software Rape : Software Slavery** Software should empower users. Software should not abuse, spy on, or hobble users. This is SOFTWARE FREEDOM. Some evil companies design software to wield power over users. This is SOFTWARE BONDAGE. It is analogous to literal bondage […]

Sometimes little devil urchins show up in your feed with a feigned conversation to try to trigger you into saying something they can analyze ... or worse, modify, corrupt, and propagate.

Linux is married to AI hegemony. It's time for a new and better OS. Skift might become a candidate: SkiftOS : https://skiftos.org/ It's not a *NIX! "skiftOS isn’t POSIX. It’s a fresh API and userland inspired by Plan 9, Haiku, and Fuchsia. Familiar ideas […] [Original post on soc.octade.net]

**The Secret Religion of Silicon Valley (Ancient Myths & AI) ** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtEidzV5nNE "Ever heard of the Enuma Elish? It’s this ancient Babylonian myth where the gods got tired of working, so they created humans to be their slave class. Sound familiar?" "In this video […]

How about we solve the homeless problem and housing crisis first? The warmongers spent eight trillion dollars to drop bombs on weddings, fatten defense contractors, and provide medical care for maimed soldiers ... but building homes for the homeless and poor would be evil socialism and we can't […]