Name: Byrl Raze Buckbriar (call me Raze).

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Site: Cryptography project site. (https://octade.net)
Publications: https://octade.net/publications.html
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5144-3278
Netnews: Find me on #Usenet in #Newsgroup alt.rhubarb.
Git: https://codeberg.org/OCTADE
Keyoxide1: https://keyoxide.org/0CF7084CF97B85F2ABF97010C6663A42C56F5F0E
Keyoxide2: https://keyoxide.org/B9B2A8EC2C4B20D2011CFEAA07E4A7FFF6585E8F
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/octade.bsky.social
HackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=OCTADE
Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/@buckbriar

~ Henry Kissinger

#quotes

@infostorm@a.gup.pe

This is cool.

It is a Fediverse server you can use with a newsreader client like Thunderbird.

Demo: https://illuminant.asjo.org/
Profile: https://illuminant.asjo.org/user/asjo
Source: https://koldfront.dk/git/illuminant/

#NNTP #Illuminant #Fediverse #Software #Usenet #CoolCode

@infostorm@a.gup.pe @usenet@a.gup.pe @usenet@lemmy.ml

My whole body is bruised 😭 i haven't felt this sore since my last baby

Most events advertised by media and government are fiction. What you see on the Internet and TV is not real. What experts, foundations, agencies, governments, and nonprofits say is never the truth. None of it is real. It is all agitprop. It is all agenda-driven manipulation. None of it has ever been real. There is always an angle or agenda behind the way the information is presented. Those images and sounds and slogans and speeches are NOT reality. It is a false reality offered for you to buy into.

Reality is between you and your neighbor. How you treat your neighbor ... whether or not you treat your neighbor as equal in dignity and rights ... or whether or not you use your fears of government stories as an excuse to hate and abuse your neighbor ... which is why they give you their stories in the first place. By stoking division they can rule you, fleece you, control you, and profit from you.

In the Game of Thrones the Tyrion character was used to tell us who rules:

"What unites people? Armies? Gold? Flags? No. It’s stories. There's nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. No enemy can defeat it. And who has a better story than Bran the Broken? The boy who fell from a high tower and lived… He's our memory. The keeper of all our stories. The wars, weddings, births, massacres, famines, our triumphs, our defeats, our past. Who better to lead us into the future?"

When you believe someone's stories, that person rules over you. The person who crafts the stories that you take for reality has control of your mind and your life. Whoever crafts your reality is your master. They keep ramping up the anxiety to stunt critical thinking and invoke emotional responses and emotional investment in narratives crafted to steer people into doing their bidding.

#Propaganda #Media #News #Politics #Religion #GameOfThrones

@infostorm@a.gup.pe

Okay, so about Microsoft's latest #quantumcomputing announcement. I'm going to link you to Scott Aaronson's blog for a nice FAQ, but I think this bit is the tl;dr: "*If* Microsoft’s claim stands, then topological qubits have finally reached some sort of parity with where more traditional qubits were 20-30 years ago.[...] Topological qubits can win if, and only if, they turn out to be so much more reliable that they leapfrog the earlier approaches [...]"

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8669

The Wind and the Lion | Full Movie with Sean Connery
https://youtu.be/D-In3mEfBxg

This movie was filmed before the normalization of brainless Hollywood portrayals of all foreigners as mindless drones. It showed an era of mutual respect and honor codes between adversaries instead of jingoistic 'light of the world' self-worship.

No spoilers. It is too good for that.

#WorthIt #SeanConnery #ClassicFilm #FullMovie #Movies #Film #Cinema #History #TeddyRoosevelt #Berbers

@infostorm@a.gup.pe @movies@a.gup.pe @classics@a.gup.pe @film@a.gup.pe

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Bearded Berber Sultan with black and red head dress, portrayed by Sean Conner in the movie, The Wind and the Lion.

I think Fedi feels very grounded and realistic. There aren't as many emo depressed aesthetic posts as there are genuine mental health posts and people who support each other for it.

Truly, it is a safe space.

master: welcome to my Smart Home

student: wow. how is the light controlled?

master: with this on-off switch

student: i don't see a motor to close the blinds

master: there is none

student: where is the server located?

master: it is not needed

student: excuse me but what is "Smart" about all of this?

master: everything.

in this moment, the student was enlightened

Hello dear academic community, I am looking for research, novels, non-fiction, media reports, etc. on "living underground", as in resistance, hiding in repressive regimes, etc. Any material and any region.

Maybe more people are interested in this topic...
@socialscience @histodons @academicchatter

#Bible #Christian #Christianity

Lula às vezes que parece vive no mundo de 20 anos atrás.

#Brasil #politica

I don’t know anyone who thinks #ElonMusk preaches #Christian values. He has some opinions that align, but I’ve never heard him claim to be a Christian or anything like that. https://x.com/KINGV0NBURNER/status/1890753922412744894

How do you drink your coffee and/or tea?

Select all that apply!

Please BOOST for maximum exposure to the #Fediverse

#Poll #Polls #POTD #Question #Questions #QOTD #Coffee #Tea

Sometimes looking at the current happenings, the thought crosses my mind "I wish I could go back in time and ask Jesus and/or the apostles for advice in person".
Then I catch myself and remember that my faith is based on Jesus being resurrected and being present NOW through the Holy Spirit, I shouldn't need to go back in time to ask and receive advice from Him.

#faith #christianity #Jesus

Fun fact: if your email address has a + sign in, you're going to have a very bad time with Chase bank.

One of my accounts has an old email address with a + sign in. I get an email (to my new address) once a month saying my email address is incorrect. Yes, ironic.

Only ~25% of their staff can even _find_ that email address on my account. None can remove it as the removal form says it's an invalid email address format. I've spent 3 years trying to fix this with them.

#chase #email #privacy

Been a bit since I did an abstract line doodle. I'd forgotten how much these help me relax. #art

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Thick lined geometric doodle filled in with bright colors. I thought I saw a person on their knees, but others might pull something different from it. That's the beauty of abstract doodling, imo.

#Bible #Thought of the day: When #Christians discuss “divine inspiration” we tend to not really consider “genre.” Like, saying Job is a work of fiction will upset a number of biblical literalists. But this assumes that God can’t “breathe” through a work of fiction?

The book of #Revelation is likely to be a kind of ancient drama, written in symbolic poetic prose. It’s not a step-by-step guide for the future. To deny its genre is to risk denying God the full breadth of His inspirational work.