#Coffee #CowboyCoffee #MorningMudd

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

Dave Winer is right: Mastodon is harder to host than WordPress

Even though it's apples and oranges in some way, Dave Winer is right when he says that it's easier to host WordPress than Mastodon. Dave's a little more all in on WP than I am. Maybe a lot more all in. Still, it's true that anybody can host their own WP instance on shared hosting, a VPS, bare metal -- what have you.

https://passthejoe.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/dave-winer-is-right-mastodon-is-harder-to-host-than-wordpress/

Police raided the wrong home, killed an innocent woman, then planted marijuana in her basement to cover up their mistake. https://theintercept.com/2025/10/08/collateral-damage-episode-one-dirty-business/

Re that last reblog...Police brutality isn't just an american thing it would seem.

Do you hate/dislike machine learning?

let me tell you, Wisconsin's #vpn ban is simply is nothing but #wordsalad because it doesn't work!
first off, the federal government literally recommends VPNs. in fact, if you see this document and this document you can see that the government literally recommends VPNs.
so this would go against the federal governments own recommendations.
second off, this violates the first and forth amendments.
o, and this doesn't work at all.
in fact, in order for this to even work, they would have to implement the #great #firewall of #china architecture, where they'd have to censor everything coming from the internet, or they'd have to do something similar to #kwangmyong which, again, would violate the first and forth amendments.
and knowing #internet providers like #comcast / #xfinity , #spectrum / #charter, ISPs are too lazy to implement deep packet inspection themselves, meaning they'd very likely just block VPN sites at the DNS level, which, keep in mind, doesn't work.
#epicfail #cybersecurity #censorship

Christmas presents complete! This is a seven-letter build of Cees' Cryptex (https://www.printables.com/model/28937-cryptex-5-6-7-8-or-10-letter-wheels). Tougher than I expected (a little elephant foot will throw off the letter wheel/encoder tolerances), but amazing once I got it right. #3dPrinting

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Photo of a cryptex - a cylindrical combination lockbox with wheels that form a password when properly rotated. This one is partly open, showing the interior tube where you can store secrets. The endcaps are matte brown with silver accents, and the letter wheels alternate in marble and ivory colors.

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https://news.gegeweb.org

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https://news.nntp4.net

https://usenet.ovh

https://www.open-news-network.org

nntp://paganini.bofh.team

https://pasdenom.info/news.html

https://solani.org

Is your Freudian slip a nightgown or pajama jumper?

Mockingbird swill is unimpressive, trite, shopworn, hackneyed, old hat, etc.

You are what you say you see in others.

#Google fixes new #Chrome zero-day flaw exploited in attacks

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-fixes-new-chrome-zero-day-flaw-exploited-in-attacks/

#cybersecurity

Huff it, fart muffin!

#roast #jokes #humor #brainfart

@mirabilos

As it is, I'm unable to troubleshoot the weird networking issues I'm having with #Debian 13. On all my Debian 13 boxes, reverse name lookups are b0rken (even after installing the silly systemd-named, although it did improve a little), and this is across 2-3 different debian machines and on 2 different WLANs.

On this machine (which I'm planning to switch to #FreeBSD), I get very odd and random timeouts. Some websites load fine, many just hang. I'm scratching my head and not sure where to even start with that.

I just need to sit down with a proper Linux networking book and learn things from the ground up.

But of course, since the integral structure of Linux userspace is hardwired to Lennart Poettering's right butt cheek, no book is worth anything after about two weeks.

This is a very frustrating, silly, and utterly avoidable situation.

Foxtrot-foxtrot-sierra.

Hey everyone, I’m new here and still learning how to use Mastodon.
My name is annmika, I’m originally from Germany and now living in the United States.
Nice to meet you all feel free to say hi, I’m still figuring things out here.

EDIT: @bedast is the master of the internet and found the song!!!!!

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/21946

Original request:

I have this bad habit of singing this little diddy that includes:

Happy happy
I’m so
Pee-pee!

Kev thinks I just made it up like the thousands of other random jingles I sing that I legitimately did make up, but I swear this is from a real song.

I tried to Ask Jeeves, but that dummy didn't know anything about it.

Does anybody know?

due to the #exploitation of tweesecake, whenever we can get @ChrisDuffley's mastodon instance to a newer version, I will be using his instance as the default. I will be migrating over there whenever I get the chance to update the instence

Public sentiment of AI remains overwhelmingly positive: 77% of GenAI users have a favorable view, vs. just 15% unfavorable. Personal AI use even leads work use by 2:1, showing AI has become part of everyday life, not just the office! Read more: https://ccianet.org/news/2025/11/new-ccia-research-finds-generative-ai-is-the-fastest-adopted-technology-in-history/

My gammon boss and his narcissistic wife posted a pic of them both wrapped in a duvet and drinking hot chocolate. I commented 'pigs in blankets' which I thought was on my burner account. It wasn't. Quickly deleted but think he saw it as he's been more hostile than normal

user with 537 tabs and documents open on three 4k monitors: why do computers these days use so much ram? this never happened when I had one single Internet Explorer window open on a 800x600 monitor

"the year of the linux desktop will never arrive"
...do you even remember the last year windows was any good?

as far as I'm concerned 2012 was the last year of the windows desktop.
Because that's when windows 8 got released with the full screen start menu that literally nobody asked for, with no option to change it, because that's when they decided they know better than everyone else.

Ever since then the only reason people use Windows is because it's a DRM console that runs apps Big Tech made.

We’re incredibly proud of Prof. Vincent Rijmen, whose pioneering work with Joan Daemen led to #Rijndael, now honoured with an #IEEE Milestone as the foundation of the global #AES standard. A landmark moment for KU Leuven and for secure communication worldwide.

Where do the bad rainbows go?
Prism.
They get a light sentence.
It gives them time to reflect. 🌈

Internet sure internets weirdly at the moment. Maybe I'm blocked by everyone.
Which does seem logical given the crap I torture you with.

But seriously, is this thing on? 🔊

🤔

LOAD "$" ,8

#DialUpModemFlashBack #cloudflare

I'm stocked up on booze, pretzels, and popcorn for the next Carrington event.

Illustration by Ivan Bilibin for an 1899 edition of the Russian fairytale Vasilisa the Beautiful.

One of two Bilibin illustrations from the tale available to buy as prints from our online shop — https://publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints/artist/ivan-bilibin

that’s an unfortunate Google snippet

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Google search result titled: “FBI Records: The Vault – Jeffrey Epstein”. Snippet text: “Get a Job! FBI Fun and Games! Personal tools. Log in • Mail Image Get FBI ...”

we poemed in triptych
hijack and starfish
villains verbing nouns

Inform your friends and family about these tools.

#Briar ... https://briarproject.org

"Censorship-resistant peer-to-peer messaging that bypasses centralized servers. Connect via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or Tor, with privacy built-in."

#Retroshare ... https://retroshare.cc

"Retroshare establish encrypted connections between you and your friends to create a network of computers, and provides various distributed services on top of it: forums, channels, chat, mail... Retroshare is fully decentralized, and designed to provide maximum security and anonymity to its users beyond direct friends. Retroshare is entirely free and open-source software. It is available on #Android, #Linux, #MacOS and #Windows. There are no hidden costs, no ads and no terms of service."

#RicochetRefresh ... https://www.ricochetrefresh.net

"Ricochet Refresh is an open-source project to allow private and anonymous instant messaging."

#OnionShare ... https://onionshare.org

"OnionShare is an open-source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network."

#DeltaChat ... https://delta.chat

"Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app."

#Bitmessage ... https://bitmessage.org

"Bitmessage is a P2P communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers. It is decentralized and trustless, meaning that you need-not inherently trust any entities like root certificate authorities. It uses strong authentication which means that the sender of a message cannot be spoofed, and it aims to hide "non-content" data, like the sender and receiver of messages, from passive eavesdroppers like those running warrantless wiretapping programs."

#TorBrowser ... https://www.torproject.org/download

"Protect yourself against tracking, surveillance, and censorship."

#I2P ... https://geti2p.net

"The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) is a fully encrypted private network layer. It protects your activity and location. Every day people use the network to connect with people without worry of being tracked or their data being collected. In some cases people rely on the network when they need to be discrete or are doing sensitive work."

#Hyphanet ... https://www.hyphanet.org/

"Hyphanet is peer-to-peer network for censorship-resistant and privacy-respecting publishing and communication. The original Freenet."

#BitChan ... https://github.com/813492291816/BitChan

"BitChan is a decentralized anonymous imageboard inspired by BitBoard and built on top of Bitmessage with Tor, I2P, and GnuPG."

#DarkMX ... https://darkmx.app

"DarkMX is a new decentralized communication app that utilizes Tor hidden services to allow you to easily have an anonymous, reliable, and censorship-resistant presence on the internet. You can chat. You can share files. You can search other people's files. You can keep a contact list and send private messages to your friends. You can create your own custom .onion site, available to anyone with a Tor Browser."

#Decentralized #TOR #AntiSurveillance #Anonymity #Anonymous #Privacy #Filesharing #Networking #Communication #P2P #F2F #PeerToPeer #Censorship #AntiCensorship #FreeSpeech

Have you tried brewing any of these yet?

- dandelion wine
- ginger bug
- spruce beer
- birch beer

What's the coolest or weirdest stuff you've fermented?

#Brewing #Wine #Mead #Ferments #Fermenting #Beer

In this house, chili cheese fries count as a meal.

y'know, I should really get to riding my next exploitation of the blind post, I meant to do a part 2 but never actually got to doing it

We all find
A way to
Turn ache
Into art.
Just look
At what
Stars can do
When they’re
Given a heart.

#poetry