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.

Disclaimer: If I follow your account it does not imply agreement with your views.

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

https://ockhamsbeard.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/against-libertarianism/

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Libertarianism is just anarchy for rich people, illustration with person in a suit outfit holding a "no government" sign, next to a person in a punk outfit holding a "no government" sign and glaring at the person in the suit

When moving personal projects off #Github, how would you deal with the existing repos there?

Deleting the repos would invalidate all links to them, but leaving the code on Github also does not feel right...

(Boosts welcome)

#Enshittification

Sadly, my band project „Nine Inch Screws“ didn’t really take off…

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Photo of a long rusty screw I found on the ground. It’s maybe just 15cm long. But it has nice golden hour light falling on the habd that‘s holding it.

If you're new to the Unix or Linux command line, I just want you to know:

Me and all my colleagues with years of experience

Still get confused between `ln -s` and `ln` daily.

The ‘Most Colorful Home in Queens’ Hits the Market for $3 Million in New York City - https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/the-most-colorful-home-in-queens-hits-the-market-for-3-million-in-new-york-city/

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The ‘Most Colorful Home in Queens’ Hits the Market for $3 Million in New York City

I can't believe those movie exec cowards decided to call the 3rd movie in the "Now You See Me" series "Now You See Me: Now You Don't" instead of *just* "Now You Don't".

The only way to redeem themselves is to call the 4th film "Now You See Me: Now You Don't 2"

Do you prefer your kefir fizzy or not?

Or perhaps one could saddle a teacup pig and be called the same.

I drive an EV. I love it. I haven't been to a petrol station in months. Plus I love smoking boy racers in their silly BMWs at the red light without even trying. But...

But sometimes I worry how I'd cope if there's an emergency evacuation order cos there's a hurricane or a wildfire coming¹. You can't flee a twister if you need to stop and charge for 3 hours.

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¹ I live in England where we have zero evacuation orders, but still...

#EV #ElectricVehicles

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An image of a red sports car driving away from a twister.

The war on crypto never ends. The war on privacy, civil rights, security and freedom of speech never ends.

This time we are dangerously close to lose. The "Child Sexual Abuse" (CSA) EU regulation proposal, more aptly nicknamed "ChatControl", will be voted AGAIN this October, and many countries who opposed it last year are now undecided. The proposal at its roots aims at allowing authorities to break end-to-end encryption for the usual reason: "because of the children". As a father of two, I am disgusted by this recurring, cheap rhetoric.

What you can do: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/#WhatYouCanDo

#eu #CSA #CSAM #ChatControl #privacy #security #surveillance #authoritarianism #crypto #cryptography #civilrights

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An excerpt from Patrick Breyer's website, stating: The End of the Privacy of Digital Correspondence The EU Commission proposes to oblige providers to search all private chats, messages, and emails automatically for suspicious content – generally and indiscriminately. The stated aim: To prosecute child sexual exploitation material (CSEM). The result: Mass surveillance by means of fully automated real-time surveillance of messaging and chats and the end of privacy of digital correspondence. Other aspects of the proposal include ineffective network blocking, screening of personal cloud storage including private photos, mandatory age verification resulting in the end of anonymous communication, appstore censorship and excluding minors from the digital world.

a friendly request to the masto authors out there.

if at all possible when a hashtag prompt or something asks for a snippit of your work, I get that everyone shares screenshots. but for those of us who can't see the text in it or who's OCR throws a fit. can there be another way of sharing snippits of your work. a link to a note on IOS or a public dropbox link or a google doc of the particular blob you want to share? or if it's possible share it in your post outright? I understand this may not be possible for everyone but so those of us who can't see for what ever reason don't feel excluded?
#PennedPossibilities, #WritersCoffeeClub, #WordWeavers, #WritingCommunity

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 federal law, still active today, that allows the U.S. government to classify and bury private inventions deemed a “threat.” It's called the Invention Secrecy Act—and it's already been used over 6,000 times.

From Nikola Tesla’s wireless energy to Townsend Brown’s anti-gravity tech to Joseph Papp’s engine that ran on noble gases, history is littered with breakthrough inventors who vanished into obscurity... and whose technologies never made it to the public.

This episode uncovers the case studies, the hidden power of secrecy orders, and the chilling question: What else have they buried?

#patents #USPTO #inventions #inventors #secrecy #laws #Tesla #USGov #Government #NationalSecurity #GagOrders

@academicchatter@a.gup.pe @edutooters@a.gup.pe @infostorm@a.gup.pe

>>However, since the outbreak of the war with Hamas, the number of school-class visits to the museum has drastically diminished. Teachers of classes in which Muslim and Arab pupils are 40% or more have no idea how they can include such a visit in their learning programs without creating chaos. There have been cases of Muslim parents forbidding their children from visiting the Jewish Museum.<< 🙁

I figured out several ways to run DarkMX on a headless server without GUI. This allows me to install it on a remote server without any desktop environment and run the software as a daemon without the GUI.

First I used the X forwarding feature of SSH to pipe the GUI to a local machine. On that machine I did all the configuration inside the GUI. Then I closed the program.

Then on the remote machine I used 'xvfb' to run DarkMX as a nohup'd daemon with a dummy GUI buffer. That way I don't need to be connected to the GUI from a local machine and the application will still run. It also uses less RAM without the GUI.

There are other ways to do this, such as VNC and xpra. I just chose the quickest, dirtiest method in this case.

Why would I go to all that trouble? Well, I don't need to, but there are some people who might need to publish while maintaining strict anonymity. So they would need tools like DarkMX and TOR. For me it's just fun.

DarkMX operates over the TOR privacy preserving network. As a result the location of my peer is hidden and extremely hard to impossible for an adversary to locate. So when I publish something, such as a letter, or paper, or opinion, anyone can download it since censoring it is not viable. It ensures that my speech remains free and available to the general public. Now when I author essays, papers, homiles and such, I can publish them as file shares, and I can publish them simultaneously as a TOR hidden website with the built-in webserver feature. So readers don't need DarkMX to read my files--they can just fire up TOR Browser or use a TOR proxy with their web browser. If they want to snarf a whole directory they can install DarkMX, or use a script to snarf them via TOR.

If you are inclined to fiddle around with installing this software on a headless server, please share the techniques and tools used that suit you.

(DarkMX download site: https://darkmx.app)

#DarkMX #P2P #FileSharing #Anonymous #SelfHosting #TOR #OnionNetwork #Censorship

@selfhosted@a.gup.pe @infostorm@a.gup.pe @darknet@a.gup.pe infosec@a.gup.pe

#P2P #FileSharing #Networks #Darknet #Darkweb #Software

@infostorm@a.gup.pe @p2p@a.gup.pe @darknet@a.gup.pe @networks@a.gup.pe

Suddenly I feel extremely old

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A post on the computers subreddit. It asks "what ports are these?". Below, a photo of a bright green and purple old ps/2 mouse and keyboard ports

I never felt
So lonely
As when
I learned
Your name

#poetry

My four year old nephew has been learning Spanish.

He doesn’t even know how to say “please” yet, which I thought was poor for four.

New cosplay prop in progress. Just finished priming this Zero Halliburton case from Marketplace (after fixing the broken latch).

Any guesses?

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A fully white attache case, sitting on a table

Man reads about the bad effects of eating too much salt. Sees a lot about how to reduce sodium intake - but nothing about chlorine. Gets the idea of reducing chlorine intake... by replacing sodium chloride with sodium bromide.

Asks ChatGPT if this is okay. Yes!

Replaces his salt with sodium bromide. Gets 'bromism'. Becomes paranoid, has hallucinations. Goes into a full-blown psychotic episode. Gets locked up. Doctors suspect bromism, treat him. Gets better.

But was he really all right at the start?

https://gizmodo.com/man-follows-diet-advice-from-chatgpt-ends-up-with-psychosis-2000640705

Sometimes humans are just too stupid and in those cases no chatbot in the world can help you... :-D

"A man gave himself bromism, a psychiatric disorder that has not been common for many decades, after asking ChatGPT for advice and accidentally poisoning himself, according to a case study published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

In this case, a man showed up in an ER experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations and claiming that his neighbor was poisoning him. After attempting to escape and being treated for dehydration with fluids and electrolytes, the study reports, he was able to explain that he had put himself on a super-restrictive diet in which he attempted to completely eliminate salt. He had been replacing all the salt in his food with sodium bromide, a controlled substance that is often used as a dog anticonvulsant.

He said that this was based on information gathered from ChatGPT.

“After reading about the negative effects that sodium chloride, or table salt, has on one's health, he was surprised that he could only find literature related to reducing sodium from one's diet. Inspired by his history of studying nutrition in college, he decided to conduct a personal experiment to eliminate chloride from his diet,” the case study reads. “For 3 months, he had replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide obtained from the internet after consultation with ChatGPT, in which he had read that chloride can be swapped with bromide, though likely for other purposes, such as cleaning.”"

https://www.404media.co/guy-gives-himself-19th-century-psychiatric-illness-after-consulting-with-chatgpt/

#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Chatbots #MentalHealth #ChatGPT