Name: Byrl Raze Buckbriar (call me Raze).

Likes: Interested in WORK PRODUCT, inspiration, faith, truth, beauty, nature, self-improvement, encouragement, edification, praiseworthy things, how-tos, beautiful things, artwork, fluid poems, and general human kindness and achievement. See my profile hashtags for technical subjects of interest.

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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

This is the kind of mischief I like to see: Biting back at businesses that screw with people’s lives. This woman had her car repossessed because paperwork was suddenly 'not enough'. She found the business missed registration deadlines and filed to take over the business name. Nice! https://apple.news/A0SNEnkMMSO-ALzhPrfYr6g

Got some black amber rough, and am playing around with making shapes from it...

Black amber needs a LOT of light to make it glow! This stuff is also pretty fractured.

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An irregular triangular prism, a cuboid, and a chunk of dark brown (black) amber, held in a hand

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The triangular amber prism held in front of a light to reveal its translucency

https://rocksolid-us.pugleaf.net/

#NNTP #Usenet #RocksolidLight #Retro #PugLeaf

The hot days of Summer are here at last. I’m back to making ElctroHops and my muse is spinning tonight
Come join us
https://cjsr.streamon.fm
#EDM
#TranceFamily #RabbitsofMastodon #Ravers #PLUR #SaturdayNight-

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Hacker rabbit with a rainbow skull and crossbones rabbit shirt

My latest #BibleStudy notes on #Genesis20: https://notes.laniecarmelo.tech/shares/puLBoEJCgyPwKalkRc2WFg
#Bible #Christian #Christians #Christianity #Faith #Genesis @christians
Need to get a few things done but might try and do #Genesis21 here in a little while.

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 you’ll see."

But only the wealthy were welcome there,
I heard slanderous gossip galore,
And from that pulpit so highly prized
The preacher glorified war.

"Is there anything more you could want in a church?"
In pride, he said to me.
"Just one thing," I made reply —

"Christianity!"

-- Peace Pilgrim --

#christian #church #religion #christianity #bible #christ #faith #prayer

@religion@a.gup.pe @infostorm@a.gup.pe @bible@a.gup.pe @poetry@a.gup.pe

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A black and white photo of a woman known by the moniker, "Peace Pilgrim" with the words, "Peace Pilgrim" printed on her shirt.

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

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Photo of a billboard for Uranus Fudge Factory which reads, "The best fudge comes from Uranus."

#selfhost #selfhosting #mastoadmin

I moved my Mastodon server today from futurist.info to mastodon.futurist.info

I'm not sure I'm federated anymore. My following feed seems messed up. I'm unsure if things work.

Let me know if you see this, and if you iknow of any diagnostic tools I might run.

I have updated the meme to modern times.

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young time - high money - low energy - high adult time - low money - low energy - high old time - high money - low energy - low

Sometimes, I wish I lived in a fantasy world where magic was seen as normal, and that channeling powers caused real things to happen, if I had magic like that, I know I'd use it for good. #Books, #Bookstodon

Upgrading to Debian 13, wish me luck.

he stock portfolios of more than two dozen members of Congress outperformed the market in 2024.

This isn't due to luck or skill.

Lawmakers can use privileged information to trade stocks while they’re supposed to be working for you.

Pink Velvet Cake 🩷

I wrote this as a ha-ha-but-seriously-yes:

You should only use software you wrote for yourself, never let anyone else touch it. Other Peoples' Code is the work of the devil.

I think this gets at something fundamental to the way we experience reality.

There is something very durable about our expectation that tomorrow will be mostly like today.

We often can’t properly understand risks we face until they manifest in our own lives, and by then it might be too late to take mitigating actions.

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People living just twenty miles from a town flattened by a tornado in Ohio would claim that the flattened town was in the tornado track and they were not, so it would never happen to them. The following week they might get killed, in the event itself surprised and feeling that this was an unprecedented freak occurrence, but meanwhile, until then, they swore it couldn't happen. The Ministry for the Future Kim Stanley Robinson

phunnee!

https://github.com/706f6c6c7578/minicrypt

#cryptography

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 handle, Retro Guy. According to his wife Kaylen Miller, Thom died about two weeks ago from pancreatic cancer. He had a years-long struggle with cancer and multiple therapies and surgeries. During all the time of his illness he continued to hack away providing network access and software updates absolutely free to his user base. He was a strong believer in the value of open and decentralized communication for all. His software is simple and awesome, and useful for censorship-resistant communication. (https://gitlab.com/rslight-public/rocksolid-light)

Thom, known as Retro Guy, created the Rocksolid Light NNTP forums and server software. He served the hacker community as a free speech advocate and provider of free speech communication networking. He refused to censor opinions that he found offensive or stupid on the principle of the golden rule. He endured a lot of annoyances to provide service for many. Thom maintained the software for years giving web-based NNTP access to countless users. Thom was always helpful and patient with users needing assistance, even when he was feeling ill and suffering. He pushed through his pain to serve others with something he believed was a necessary tool and blessing for the general public.

I am sad to learn of Thom's passing. He will be missed and remembered. I will remember him by continuing to run his software.

More:
https://news.novabbs.org/rocksolid/article-flat.php?id=1024&group=rocksolid.nodes.help#1024

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https://news.novabbs.org/rocksolid/article-flat.php?id=560&group=rocksolid.nodes.announce#560

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https://news.novabbs.org/rocksolid/article-flat.php?id=561&group=rocksolid.nodes.announce#561

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https://www.novabbs.com/interests/article-flat.php?id=25410&group=alt.obituaries

#obituary #rocksolidlight #usenet #nntp #freespeech #cancer #condolences #networknews #retroguy #novabbs #bbs

~ Henry Kissinger

#quotes

@infostorm@a.gup.pe