#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
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

#NewYear #BahHumbug

Many languages include a reference to Mary in the name: Catalan marieta, Latvian mārīte. Also as part of a compound word, German Marienkäfer or Icelandic maríubjalla, “Mary’s beetle”, Danish, for example, uses mariehøne, literally “Mary’s chicken.” Finally, in English the name does not directly include Mary, but “ladybird” (or “ladybug”) comes from “Our Lady’s bird,” once again referring to the Virgin Mary.
https://mapologies.com/bugs/

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etymology map of ladybird

It doesn't matter who wins the AI race, whether it’s OpenAI, Google, Microsoft or world governments. We will be the collateral damage in this. Energy bills, water bills, and hardware prices are going to become major talking points in 2026 and beyond. These are just a few things I’ve noticed as 2025 comes to a close.

2026 is just up ahead. How are we feeling about it, fam?

#NewYear #TMNT #RetroGaming

I’ve just finished building what I call a “Game of Life simulator on steroids.” Check it out! It basically serves as a simulator for my latest ontology article.

https://conway.altky.sk

#ontology #philosophy #GameOfLife #physics

I just tried Marmite for the first time, and I ask as a friend: what's wrong with you people? Is peanut butter illegal where you live or something? Was a famine involved? Dire times and zombies, perhaps?

Why is "AI" being shoved into everything?

because it forces historically offline interactions into being cloud-based; that's why.

I hardly ever try to use search engines now. I rely 99% on word of mouth or public forum questions.

The web is crap because the search monopoly has digested it.

"many souls go to hell because they have no one to pray and make sacrifices for them" - Our Lady of Fatima

#Privacy #AI #Singularity

It’s a beautiful day until you realize that 64GB of high performance RAM carries the same price tag as a brand new MacBook Air featuring a "generous" 16GB of RAM. How did we get here? Here we call it the “AI” tax 😏 and it is just the beginning of the new era for DIY users.

AI is not the future of anything except domination and control. AI is the death of the future and the return to a dark age of conformity and social thought control. AI regurgitates accepted dogma and is a bar to real research and inspired creativity. AI is a homogeneity engine.

People becoming dependent upon AI will be homogenized zombies. Of course the AI will convince them they are wise thinkers. The more obedient they are to their hidden masters, the black box owners, the more the singularity system will assure them they are the avant garde of gray matter.

I have already seen numerous instances of idiots depending upon AI to come up with ridiculous conclusions while defending them like Don Qixote. This is becoming epidemic among researchers and techies.

Watch out for the controlled opposition--public figures pretending to be against creeping enslavement while leading their followers to do absolutely nothing useful to curtail or stop the advance.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Singularity #Tech

Different facets of the planned system are being individually implemented across an array of countries. The speech control system is implemented in Britain and being tested there. The social credit system is implemented in China and being tested there. The fake news and propaganda system is heavily implemented in the United States.

#GameOfDrones #Singularity #CBDC #Currency #Money #SocialCredit #Government #Economy #Enslavement #CreepingControl #ControlGrid

The world rulers are playing a game of drones. Either you will serve the masters of the hive or you will be fed to their digital dragons.

#GameOfDrones #Singularity #Money #Cash #Currency #Penny #SocialCredit #Tyranny

Anyone who tells you to trust authority is your enemy and the servant of your slaver.

#Authority #Patronage #Freedom

Now listening

Tom Scott – Bless My Soul

On Something Blue - https://kasu.org

#jazz #blues #radio

It's quite telling that Firefox [mobile] doesn't have an ability built in to block domains. That prevents anything from being loaded from the domain.

I understand that extensions support this, but it seems like a basic function that the browser should support for safety.

A capella music is not cool.

And as another Christmas dinner is completed and the table gets cleared, please join with me in giving a little word of thanks to the inventor of the dishwasher.

I want to find every available source of plaintext and VPL bibles in English, Greek, and Hebrew. If I can find plaintext Masoretic text versions and Greek Septuagint versions I will be so very ecstatic.

I would like to find all useful software for bibles: translation, format conversion, preservation, verification, etc. The sword tools are useful, but limited, so I want to see what more is out there.

If you know of any such resources please shoot the links right back here. Thanks!

#Bible #Translation #Greek #Hebrew #Septuagint #Xiphos #BibleTime #Sword #Crosswire

Even if age verification laws require data deletion, you have to trust every website and third-party verifier will actually do it. That's a lot of faith to place in companies with spotty track records—and a risk that doesn't exist in-person when a bartender just glances at your ID. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/why-isnt-online-age-verification-just-showing-your-id-person

Bye there #Mozilla,

Hope your CEO and your AI have a good time together because soon they will be the only ones left using any Mozilla slop 🤖

I was wrong for thinking we could have a nice browser, silly me..

@mozilla

One of the best cinema scenes of all time:

https://youtu.be/tSm6RjyNtEQ

Meanwhile, on the App Store, Firefox claims to champion privacy is now advertising AI partnerships as a new feature 😏 it is turned on by default but you can turn it off. Overall the future of Firefox is not so bright.

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A promotional image for a major update to the Firefox mobile browser. The phone screen is purple, displaying a search bar with sparkles, and text that reads "Search Smarter with AI" and "Meet Perplexity AI in Firefox. Get conversational answers with trusted citations for faster, more confident browsing." A banner at the top reads "NOW AVAILABLE."

I am not capable of political opinions.

Which means both sides think I'm complicit in whatever they see as evil. I don't know, I can't force both sides to find an objective meaning of evil from which I can derive a logical conclusion that they would approve of. And even if it were possible, I'm probably still not capable of political opinions.

The good thing about running a small business these days is you don't answer to anyone, including customers 😭

"Blazing‑fast TUI built with Python and Textual. Multi-account, Multi‑column timelines, image rendering (ANSI/Sixel/TGP), persistent cache, and an elegant keyboard‑driven workflow."

#mastui

Quoted posts are now shown.

Added metadata to remote users in the people page (contributed by dandelions).

Fixed memory leak (contributed by dandelions).

Fixed user matching (contributed by rakoo).

Rendering visibility conditionally, with lesser reach if needed (contributed by byte).

Added a button next to a follow notification to follow back.

Fixed typo in man page (contributed by spky).

Updated Czech and German translations (contributed by pmjv and zen).

https://comam.es/what-is-snac

If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee or contributing via LiberaPay.

#snacAnnounces #FrugalFediverse

It's so freaking annoying that modern computers don't have VGA ports anymore >:(

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/

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

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.