#Coffee #CowboyCoffee #MorningMudd

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
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Git: https://codeberg.org/OCTADE
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THE BILLIONAIRES INVESTING IN SPACE DON'T WANT STAR TREK THEY WANT DUNE.

Hey y'all. Here's a hypothetical scenario for you. If someone broke up with their ex and still maintained a good friendship with that ex, would you still pursue a relationship with that person if you were interested in them? Or would you see them being friends with their ex as a bad thing and not trust that the romantic feelings were in the past and that you had nothing to worry about? Would you see the ex as a threat? Or do you believe that trust should be given freely until you have a good reason not to?

please list and/or tell me about every ActivityPub software which is excellent for running a single-user instance!

boosts desired!

a friend that always complained about how linux users are obnoxious with the way they're trying to convince them to come over

says that it's now windows 11 users being obnoxious trying to argue why 'windows 11 is not so bad'.
the turns are tabling mentlegen 🏓

I'm on a bit of a crusade. I think there are lots of people (on my family FB feed) who have forgotten why they PERSONALLY should care about climate change. I mean to remind them.

Why do you care? How does it affect you now? How do you believe it will affect you in the future?

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Naw, FTW is the way. ;)

This is the way.

[for your address book]

https://soc.octade.net/cryptography/

A Fediverse group for sharing and discussing #ciphers, #codes #cryptography and #encryption and related applications and #research.

#crypto #cypher #cypherpunks #confidentiality #privacy

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Artistic image of a sheet of paper with binary ones and zeroes and a reddish padlock in the upper right-hand corner..

[for your address book]

A Fediverse group for sharing your papers and preprints.

https://soc.octade.net/papers/

#Papers #Writing #Preprints #Authors #Research #Reading

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cartoon drawing of a feather quill standing in a inkwell

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 English language and for encoding text as legible base 16 or compressed binary. Texts composed using the alphabet are automatically compressed by exactly fifty percent when converted from Hexlish characters into binary characters. Although technically lossy, this syntactic compression enables recovery of the correct English letters via syntactic reconstruction. The implementer can predict the size of the compressed binary file and the size of the text that will result from decompression. Generally it is intuitive to recognize English alphabet analogues to Hexlish words. This makes Hexlish a legible alternative to the standard hexadecimal alphabet.

#Hexlish #Conlang #Alphabets #English #Hexadecimal #Encoding #Cryptography #Ciphers #Crypto #Encryption #Compression #Papers #Preprints #Orthography #Language #Linguistics #Writing #Glyphs #Alphabetology #Technology

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Hexlish Alphabet logo. The word HEXLISH in rainbow colors on a black background with a hexagonal dot above the letter I. Beneat the logo in yellow reads the phrase, "English Text Compression & Encoding."

@pixx Nah, it's cool. I'm alright.

...I keep telling myself

How many times can I edit a post before I get unfollowed?: A Michelle story.

Wilful failure to BBQ is a felony in the south.

Why change to Linux when you can just give up on computers altogether?

A new study has found that nobody is currently OK

Oh my gosh. My mom is back in the hospital again so I had to leave the critters unsupervised. Before I left I hung a small suet cage with fancy stuff from Wild Birds. Woodpecker’s delight. Some hours later when I returned home the entire suet cage is gone. Not fallen to the ground but GONE. Who did this?! 🤔🫤

Nothing makes me lose faith in humanity faster than social media comments. Especially anything related to space. It's like people try their hardest to say the stupidest shit possible. Probably also the algorithm trying to ragebait me by surfacing them above reasonable comments.

Bitcoin is pure, pure evil

Bitcoin’s energy use per dollar generated now exceeds that of mining copper or gold

Bitcoin mining significantly increases PM2.5 pollution, the tiny airborne particles linked to respiratory and heart disease.

Each bitcoin mining rig has a short shelf life of about 1.3 years. Once outdated, they’re dumped

Bitcoin mining needs massive water cooling systems

https://gulfnews.com/your-money/cryptocurrency/cryptos-dirty-secret-how-mining-it-is-hurting-the-planet-and-farms-1.500299583

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 read for anyone interested in textual criticism or translation.

PDF: https://www.cbcg.org/franklin/debunking2.pdf

"Is it true that the name Jehovah borrowed its vowels from Adonai?"

A lot of religious and textual myths have resulting in mass misconceptions about biblical textual history and meaning. Some of the myths misrepresent the tetragrammaton, or the name of God. This eventually led to the creation of the artificial name, Yahweh, which is not a Hebrew word, and is in fact a cleverly disguised classical Latin name for Jove. The author defrocks the Galatinus origin myth, proving the name JEHOVAH was in use long before Galatinus.

The sacred name mythos is popular in some Christian and Jewish sects as well as among the Hebrew Roots movement. This paper exposes some of the false history and baseless assertions about the pronunciation of the tetragrammaton. As it turns out, the early Masoretes and the Reformers as well as some early Catholics had gotten it right - JEHOVAH is the correctly preserved pronunciation of the name of God. The name was never 'lost' and it has been known all through recorded history, if even only by a few.

#Bible #MasoreticText #Translation #Theology #History #Philology #Myths #SacredNames #NominaSacra #Judaism #Christianity #Hebrew #TiberianHebrew

"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 before the proliferation of compulsory, tax-payer funded schooling, Americans were ignorant and mostly illiterate."

"Authority will always try to convince you how helpless and bereft you would be without the authority. Americans were neither illiterate nor ignorant before forced schooling. Compulsory, tax-payer funded education has not been an overall improvement for the population, despite the billions of dollars and wasted hours spent on it. To claim Americans need government schools to learn is a grab for power and control, and ignores centuries’ worth of data and lived experience."

#Education #School #Literacy

wow...
just fucking wow so apparently it was discords fault the hacker got in?
discord has proven time and time again that you should never send government IDs, even for support, to anyone.
for those who couldn't parse the hyperlink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnuyT8FgSpA
the hacker is fucked up too, but discord is even more fucked up for even allowing this to happen in the first place

Half baked idea time

Distributed, decentralized, social media.

The problem, imho, is servers. You can set up a mess of servers, but that still centralizes on them.

My uncooked idea is to completely decentralize to the device and build the network friend to friend up, each acting like a small dns for all its connections and so on.

Yes, storage issues. Yes connection issues, but.. for real decentralized

#halfbakedthoughts

I'm turning off people's boosts a lot more these days. It really is a useful feature.

I have an offer to make: do you want to run an instance on the fediverse for a group that's underrepresented here?

I'll pay the bills. Period.

I'll do admin if needed (software updates and the like). But you decide what kind of community you want it to be, so you put together the mod team.

DM me.

I don’t remember authorizing you to help BunMum clean up the Killing Frost last night, BunDad… -Skye 💕 #SkyeLove #SundayIsBunday

(Fall end of season is what’s been keeping BunMum away the last week! Hoping to catch up with everyone soon ❤️)

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A cross rabbit greets BunDad.

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BunDad piles over thirty bags BunMum filled for yard waste pickup tomorrow am.

https://fourble.co.uk/podcasts

#fourble

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Been a day. I hate this SCOTUS. They treat people like fucking dirt.

'Libertarian' sounds like the opening to a polisci joke.

A second French government has effectively collapsed. What is going on?

welllllll....

The WEF puppets have subverted democracy all across Western governments, acting directly against the natives.
Flooding the countries with third-world savages and taxing them into poverty to pay for the economy-collapsing net-zero hoax.

But that's just my opinion.

https://www.irishtimes.com/world/europe/2025/09/08/a-second-french-government-has-effectively-collapsed-what-is-going-on/

Anne Marie Waters

ISLAM IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Part One

"America is asleep to the danger that confronts us. Since the 1960s, there has been a concerted effort on the part of radical Islamists to infiltrate our major institutions."

Please subscribe here: https://annemariewaters.substack.com/p/islam-in-the-united-states-of-america

It just occurred to me that coffee is vegan

So how many cups a day equate to a serving of vegetables??

I did the DNA ancestry dot com thing, trying to find out about my dad’s dad who we know nothing about. I found lots of cool documents about the known parts of my family. Immigration papers, wedding documents etc. I learned Spanish so I could read those documents for the Mexican half of my family. But still a brick wall when it comes to my grandfather. I found a 1/2 first cousin in L.A., cousin Lola! The answer lays there but I don’t know in what way as she also has information holes in her family and she didn’t want another cousin 🥺 so frustrating. It just seems so strange I have gazillions of family members on there except the ones I want to learn about, I can’t figure it out

Two Markets, One Megamachine: Political Catademocracy and Economic Algorithmics

💡 Capitalism rests on two markets:1️⃣ Political → a market of elites (#catademocracy, #Schumpeter)2️⃣ Economic → a mythical free market (#Polanyi), in fact oligopolistic, producing both goods and consumers (#Lefebvre, #Marcuse).Together, they form the integrated megamachine. 👉 EN & FR article following the link below! #integratedMegamachine #philosophy @philosophy Two Markets, One…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/two-markets-one-megamachine-political-catademocracy-and-economic-algorithmics/

"Libertarianism is an appealing idea if you hold human agency and freedom above all else. However, it has its weaknesses. Freedom is certainly worth having, but at what cost?"

The author wrongly asserts that conservatives want to limit personal freedom and that liberals promote personal freedom. This claim is pure horseshit. Conservatives are merely liberal lite, and both crush personal liberty in deference to the worship of the state.

People mistake words for reality, and get jammed up in mental servitude to their idols.

Now take Libertarianism and its words. They are just words. They claim to believe this and that and to promote this and that. But if you look at the operations of their political party, and their different chapters among the states, you see the same bullshit we find in the Democrat and Republican parties.

Libertarians suffer from the same rings of power syndrome that afflicts people who claim other political ideologies. What they say on the surface would never be implemented in real life once they seized the political machinery. It's all just words with no substance, just like almost everything said by liberals and conservatives is just words without substance.

The author states:

"Liberals do this by limiting the ability of some to gain disproportionate power over the group and exploiting that power for their own ends. "

Conservatives obsess with obtaining economic power over others. They mobilize economic pressure to force others to submit to their will. Yet in recent years the liberals have taken this cue and added that tactic to their arsenal of tricks for forcing people and nations into submission.

The political factions want power to rule, plain and simple. They will use whatever words they think are effective in manufacturing your consent to their power over you. Whether they are liberal, conservative, or libertarian, their main goal is to have the power of the state and its police and armies to regulate your life as they see fit. There is no love in what they do. You, your vote, your labor, your taxes are just a means to an end and nice-sounding policies and ideologies are bait for the trap.

Repeat that meme a million times and expect protests in front of libraries. In order to protest the imagined censorship the protestors will burn down the libraries in rage, destroying all the books. Then the protestors on the other side can complain about the fire departments failing to save all the books.

A strong man can rise up and promise to save us from undocumented librarians.