OCTADE

@octade@soc.octade.net

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For thoughtful response to thoughtful inquiry contact my email. Don't send me direct messages on the Fediverse. I block users who send me annoying private messages about things that should be asked in a public timeline.

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OCTADE »
@octade@soc.octade.net

I like my coffee brewed so strong that you can float a horseshoe on top of it.


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    OCTADE »
    @octade@soc.octade.net

    ABOUT

    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.

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    OCTADE »
    @octade@soc.octade.net

    Space Queen Enthusiast »
    @GalacticGoddess@sharkey.world

    About the Age Verification bills in California and Colorado:

    It seems few people are actually bothering to read the bills and instead just want to scream while running around in circles. Neither of the bills are mandating you give your ID/Face-Scan/Transactional Documents/etc. to be able to setup your computer.

    The only thing you give is your birth-date/age, you are assigned an age-category, and apps and websites respond accordingly.

    Don't get me wrong, there are still valid concerns about these bills, but few are actually discussing those concerns. Most are just assuming the worst and panicking.

    Also, I don't know how these bills would be enforceable on Linux (or any decentralized, FOSS ecosystem).

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      OCTADE »
      @octade@soc.octade.net

      The bills are unconstitutional on their face.

      1. They require the use of private property for enforced speech and self-incrimination.
      2. They place liability for user behavior on to a third party, violating the maxim of law against prosecuting one person in the name of another, which is covered under the customs and usages clause.
      3. They require a private person who is not a corporate actor to perform labor as a data collector for the government, which is involuntary servitude and violates the 4th amendment clause on unreasonable searches and seizures.
      4. The law is malicious, and dishonest on its face, making it null and void, hiding behind the pretext of 'children' when it is obvious that it does nothing to protect children and merely lays a foundation for further encroachment on the privacy of all ADULTS.
      5. The law is 'void for vagueness' and is worded to allow enforcement to interpret and define it to mean anything they want it to mean, giving them a sledgehammer to attack anyone, anytime, anywhere, for any cooked-up 'reason'.

      I could list many more but I'm already tired of this nonsense.

        Anon Opin » 🤖
        @anon_opin@mastodon.social

        Anyone who makes a heart shape with their fingers is a massive cunt.

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        OCTADE »
        @octade@soc.octade.net

        Here's your sign.

          Alexis »
          @lexipic@dragonscave.space

          Morning People, lexi in the house!

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          OCTADE »
          @octade@soc.octade.net

          Time to go back to sleep!

            hairylarry »
            @hairylarry@gamerplus.org

            @GopherPete

            So, I program the internet for a hobby. Mostly plain text programs (no database). I use APIs, RSS, bash, and I often output html and css.

            Lately I have become aware of people programming gopher the way I program the internet.

            I would like to add this to my toolbox.

            Do you have any links or suggestions on how I can learn about this?

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              Pete the Gopher Keeper »
              @GopherPete@techhub.social

              @hairylarry well... people keep saying how easy it is to write a gopher server, but I shall probably leave that task to them. Have you looked at Gophernicus on GitHub?

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                hairylarry »
                @hairylarry@gamerplus.org

                @GopherPete

                I'm not wanting to write a gopher server. I'm wanting to write code that works with gopher holes.

                For instance is there anything similar to RSS for gopher.

                Is there anything like music discovery on gopher.

                What's the best way to display gopher lists or files on an html page?

                These aren't necessarily projects I want to do. Just example projects of the kind of thing I do.

                So I need specs, examples, and working code that's open source.

                Thanks

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                  OCTADE »
                  @octade@soc.octade.net

                  @GopherPete@techhub.social
                  "For instance is there anything similar to RSS for gopher."
                  The best way is likely to write a bash script to construct an XML file with a page per channel.

                  'cURL' should be useful since it support gopher, although you will have to custom script it.

                  'Lynx' browser also handles gopher quite nicely and you should be able to use the -dump feature and parse what you want.

                  'sfeed' may also help: https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/resolute/man1/sfeed_gopher.1.html

                  gopherfeed: Convert RSS or Atom feeds to gophermap files.
                  https://github.com/lmaurits/gopherfeed

                  gopher_rss: quick rss news parser & headliner for gopher servers
                  https://soc.octade.net/octade/drafts

                  OFFPUNK
                  A command-line and offline-first smolnet browser/feed reader for Gemini, Gopher, Spartan and Web by Ploum.
                  https://sr.ht/~lioploum/offpunk/

                  Debian / Ubuntu APT Package Manager
                  $ apt search gopher
                  $ apt-get install gophernicus bombadillo lynx curl kristall pygopherd sfeed

                  profit!

                  Lynx is great for browsing gopher and nntp.

                  Kristall is a graphical browser with gopher support.

                  Gophie browser:
                  "Gophie is the Open Source Gopher browser for Windows, macOS, Linux and many more operating systems with Java support. Gophie allows you to navigate the Gopherspace, read text, watch images and download files with the integrated download manager. If you don’t like what you see, then Gophie is also fully customisable!"
                  https://gophie.org/

                  Gopher Parser
                  https://github.com/zenshinji/gopher-parser

                  mari's Gopher Repository
                  https://archives.somnolescent.net/web/mari_v3/gopher/

                  Structure of a Gopher Menu
                  https://archives.somnolescent.net/web/mari_v3/gopher/structure-of-a-menu/

                  How To Gopher
                  https://www.davebucklin.com/play/2018/03/31/how-to-gopher.html

                  Reading RSS feeds from wacky protocols with newsboat
                  https://brokenco.de/2020/07/07/newsboat-wacky-feeds.html

                  Don't forget the RFCs. Gopher has a well-documented standard.


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                    Philip Wittamore »
                    @venelles@mastodon.social

                    @octade @GopherPete

                    I wrote my own rss feed script for my phlog:
                    git.wittamore.com/scripts/tree

                    I use it for my phlog:
                    gopher://spike.nagatha.fr:70/1

                    I also obtain other rss feeds using this script:
                    git.wittamore.com/scripts/tree

                    which are listed here:
                    gopher://spike.nagatha.fr:70/1

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                      Pete the Gopher Keeper »
                      @GopherPete@techhub.social

                      @venelles @octade thanks! I used to get a lot of RSS feeds but when I upgraded the box to a VPS one of the required libraries had vanished at least a decade earlier.

                        Lars Windolf »
                        @lwindolf@mas.to

                        @octade @GopherPete I recently added gophermap support to RSS feed reader Liferea. So most phlogs can be read like an RSS feed.

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                          OCTADE »
                          @octade@soc.octade.net

                          @GopherPete@techhub.social

                          Liferea is nice and simple. Used it for years. Unfortunately Debian is slow to update so I might not see the gopher functionality until the end of Bookworm support.

                            Threema »
                            @threemaapp@mastodon.social

                            We’re joining forces with IBM Research to implement post-quantum cryptography in Threema. 🤝 threema.com/bp/quantum-secure-

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                            Marc :antifa: »
                            @marc@mastodon.pub.solar

                            @threemaapp So is post-quantum cryptography a »key technology«? 😅

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                              OCTADE »
                              @octade@soc.octade.net

                              @threemaapp@mastodon.social

                              Shh ... it's a secret.

                                Lazou »
                                @lazou@kanoa.de

                                @threemaapp

                                Finde ich richtig stark! 👌 Damit hätte ich ehrlich gesagt nicht gerechnet. Zeigt wieder mal, wie sehr hier auf Qualität und Weitsicht geachtet wird.

                                  PrivacyDigest »
                                  @PrivacyDigest@mas.to

                                  Americans are destroying | TechCrunch

                                  people across the United States are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras, amid rising public anger that the license plate readers aid U.S. authorities and .

                                  techcrunch.com/2026/02/23/amer

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                                    OCTADE »
                                    @octade@soc.octade.net

                                    That reminds me of this short clip, which is worth the 15 seconds. I almost died the first time I watched it.

                                    Disturbing trend involving parking meters, Home Depot, and $4.38!

                                    https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/12ko862/disturbing_trend_involving_parking_meters_home/

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                                      OCTADE »
                                      @octade@soc.octade.net

                                      FED-iverse ... FUD-iverse ... FE-Diverse ... hrmmm ...

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                                      ⠵⠻⠷⠕⠭ 🍥🍉⚪🌹 »
                                      @z3r0fox@mastodon.social

                                      War is Peace &
                                      Freedom is Slavery &
                                      Ignorance is Strength

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                                      OCTADE »
                                      @octade@soc.octade.net

                                      Big Brother loves you.

                                        Wes Derby »
                                        @countrymetalhead@someplace.social

                                        So far, in this state of the union, I’ve heard a lot of self-flagellation… A lot of how great we are supposedly doing… But nothing about the problems facing our country or how we are going to fix them. Also, on a sidenote, as a broadcaster, I cringed with his microphone technique. Holy hell, that thing clipped so badly I swore he was swallowing it for a minute.

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                                        Eden Linnea »
                                        @EdenLinnea@caneandable.social

                                        @countrymetalhead So many don't know how to handle a mic.

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                                          Wes Derby »
                                          @countrymetalhead@someplace.social

                                          @EdenLinnea No, they sure don't. I've heard him do it before, but last night was just painful. LOL

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                                            Eden Linnea »
                                            @EdenLinnea@caneandable.social

                                            @countrymetalhead Yeah. I've heard some bad stuff fromTori Amos where she sounds lke she's eating the mic and you can hear every breath.

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                                              OCTADE »
                                              @octade@soc.octade.net

                                              A big orange turkey is quite adept at gobbling.

                                                Munchkinbear »
                                                @munchkinbear@mastodon.stickbear.me

                                                @countrymetalhead who knows, maybe that's the only pleasure he gets, eating microphones. cackles.

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                                                  Lynn I 🗽 »
                                                  @Lynn@mastodon.stickbear.me

                                                  @munchkinbear @countrymetalhead Probably not, if the mics don't come from McDonalds! I wonder if that's still his favorite food? :)

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                                                    OCTADE »
                                                    @octade@soc.octade.net

                                                    The GPL is a trojan horse that forces small business and one-man band to share their source code with AI Hegemon MegaCorp.

                                                    The little guy cannot compete if he is forced to share his source code with leviathan-funded competition.

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                                                    slop rose »
                                                    @rose@linuxrocks.online

                                                    @octade Which is why other licenses exist, eh?

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                                                      OCTADE »
                                                      @octade@soc.octade.net

                                                      PERFECT PANGRAM HASH : Anagram Hash Function

                                                      https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18448042

                                                      A pangram is a sentence or phrase that contains each letter of an alphabet or character set at least once. A perfect pangram is an anagram of the alphabet which contains each letter exactly once.

                                                      Pangram hash generates a perfect pangram hash digest consisting of a anagram permutation of a character set. Each character in the output is unique and non-repeating.

                                                      @cryptography@soc.octade.net @crypto@infosec.pub @cryptography@fed.dyne.org

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                                                        Flower »
                                                        @flower@pony.social

                                                        @octade @cryptography@soc.octade.net @crypto @cryptography@fed.dyne.org First viewing of Pascal...in the wild. Cool, I guess.

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                                                          OCTADE »
                                                          @octade@soc.octade.net

                                                          FreePascal is secret weapon.

                                                          https://www.freepascal.org/

                                                          Features:

                                                          LLVM backend
                                                          transpile to javascript
                                                          compiles almost anywhere, probably even your toaster
                                                          FAST FAST FAST

                                                          When sticking to the procedural method the source reads like pseudocode. This makes it useful for writing cryptography and workhorse tools that require utmost clarity.

                                                          When team Python sunset v2.7 and vaporized a decade worth of source code I abandoned Python for Pascal for all my personal fiddles. A Pascal program will compile and start while the Python interpreter is still warming up.

                                                          Natanael »
                                                          @Natanael@slrpnk.net

                                                          Why would that be used for hashes? Don’t see the point

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                                                            OCTADE »
                                                            @octade@soc.octade.net

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                                                            Natanael »
                                                            @Natanael@slrpnk.net

                                                            I run a cryptography forum, I know what it is.

                                                            Why use this for a hash?

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                                                              OCTADE »
                                                              @octade@soc.octade.net

                                                              See the comment on line 31 in the source code.

                                                              CyberFrog boosted

                                                              Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: »
                                                              @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net

                                                              I see a small and slowly growing trend of people pushing to add some form of monetisation to ActivityPub itself and I hope we can collectively push that out to higher layers, meaning ActivityPub should stay limited to transporting messages. If you want monetisation, it MUST be implemented by building a layer on top of AP. Let's not have it in AP itself. My personal opinion. How? You could go for encrypted messages where a time-limited decrypt key is exchanged after payment for example.

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                                                              CyberFrog »
                                                              @froge@social.glitched.systems

                                                              @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net time limited decryption is... messy and hard, but yes we should avoid monetizing the AP protocol itself, that will be a disaster

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                                                                OCTADE »
                                                                @octade@soc.octade.net

                                                                A program should do one thing and do it well. -- Some Unix Wizard

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                                                                  OCTADE »
                                                                  @octade@soc.octade.net

                                                                  Updated and Expanded: Christian Nationalism is a Bait and Switch Hoodwink to Convert Americans to Roman Imperial Religion

                                                                  While everyone is distracted by the scripted ICE theater the counter-reformation unification of Roman Church and state proceeds stealthily. Rome's agents are slowly converting America to the Imperial Roman religion.

                                                                  From his bully pulpit the President is proclaiming Imperial Roman religion about the Roman goddess Mary, formerly known as Minerva, also sometimes known as Venus, and formerly known as Isis in Egypt and Semiramis in Babylon.

                                                                  Presidential Message on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception

                                                                  "In her honor, and on a day so special to our Catholic citizens, we remember the sacred words that have brought aid, comfort, and support to generations of American believers in times of need: Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen."

                                                                  https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/12/presidential-message-on-the-feast-of-the-immaculate-conception/

                                                                  This is deadly Imperial Roman dogma being proclaimed from the Presidential bully pulpit.

                                                                  The Roman "Mary" is Isis of the Egyptian trinity. The Roman "Mary" is NOT the Miriam who gave birth to Jesus of Nazareth. The Roman "Mary" is also known as Astarte, Easter, and in Babylon as Semiramis. The Roman Church pasted a "Mary" nametag on its pagan idol, then by the sword of Constantine and Justinian forced all Christians to worship this idol.

                                                                  Anyone who can actually read the Bible can see that the 'immaculate conception' of a 'sinless mother of god' is nowhere taught in the Bible. But it was taught in Babylon, Greece, Egypt, and Rome. The trinity is a pagan idol having nothing to do with the God of the Bible. Trinity worship is the chiefest of things the true God of Abraham despises. The trinity is a hoodwink to trick Christians into worshiping the old serpent and insulting the divine Creator.

                                                                  The Bible is clear on who God is:

                                                                  "Hear O Israel, the Lord our God is one [echad:singular] Lord alone!"

                                                                  This is the first great commandment of the Law of Moses. Upon this one commandment hang all the Law and the Prophets.

                                                                  Then in the Decalogue given at Sinai a similar command is given:

                                                                  "Thou shalt have no other gods before me."

                                                                  In the Hebrew of this phrase, the word BEFORE is means REPRESENTING. Thou shalt have no other gods REPRESENTING me. Notice he says GODS in the plural, as Israel just came out of Egypt where there was a trinity of gods.

                                                                  The next commandment is a further condemnation of the trinity:

                                                                  "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:"

                                                                  In the religion of the trinity, the father reigns over heaven, the mother/son/daughter/hermaphrodite reigns over the earth, and sometimes the third person of the trinity reigns over the waters. We see this with the Sumerian Anu, Enlil, and Ea, who are copied by the Romans in varying forms, for example as Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva. In this one command the God of Moses is rejecting this form ot trinitarian worship, saying he alone is God, and he is jealous against all idolatry of this trinity demon.

                                                                  Why did the first commandment need to be about God being one or singular?

                                                                  Because Israel just came out of Egypt where the god of Egypt was a trinity. So God founded the entire law of Moses on a complete rejection of the trinity. The first commandment that God gave to Israel was to HEAR that he is SINGULAR.

                                                                  Jesus Christ also rejects the Catholic Trinity:

                                                                  " And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent."

                                                                  Out of Jesus own mouth he says that only the Father is God. More over, he says that the Father is the "ONLY TRUE GOD" showing that Jesus knew there was a false god--the trinity of the Grecians and Romans that came from Egypt that came from Babylon.

                                                                  The Christian religion is an organized insurrection against Jesus Christ while claiming to represent him. Jesus warned us that many would come in his name, and that they are all liars:

                                                                  "All that ever came before [representing] me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. ..... But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep."

                                                                  We have 30 thousand sects full of hirelings who teach you to worship their false trinity idol. Christ's sheep reject this idol and follow the true shepherd, who teaches that the Father alone is God. Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, is the only divine being that has ever existed. There is no other. There is no 'god the son' or 'god the holy spirit'. There is only and ever GOD THE FATHER in heaven.

                                                                  Only Jehovah is God. Jehovah does not share his glory. He shares his life. He shares his wisdom. He shares his titles. He shares his power. He shares his authority. He shares his property which he created. But he does not share his GLORY, his right to be known as the only singular God and Creator. And he especially does not share his glory with idols such as the Roman trinity.

                                                                  Everyone worshiping the trinity is an idolator, just as ancient Israel committed idolatry with the trinity of Babylon and Egypt.

                                                                  The Demonic Trinity of Rome was the Capitoline Triad:

                                                                  The Capitoline Triad was a group of three deities who were worshipped in ancient Roman religion in an elaborate temple on Rome 's Capitoline Hill (Latin Capitolium). It comprised Jupiter, Juno and Minerva. The triad held a central place in the public religion of Rome. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitoline_Triad]

                                                                  The Capitoline Triad Temple is related to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Sepulchre#Connection_to_Roman_temple]

                                                                  Babylonians worshiped a trinity:

                                                                  "The ancient Babylonians recognised the doctrine of a trinity, or three persons in one god--as appears from a composite god with three heads forming part of their mythology, and the use of the equilateral triangle, also, as an emblem of such trinity in unity ..." (Thomas Dennis Rock, The Mystical Woman and the Cities of the Nations, pages 22-23). [https://archive.org/details/mysticalwomanan00rockgoog]

                                                                  Moses, the Prophets, the Apostles, and Jesus Christ of Nazareth rejected the trinity idol of the nations. All of these men gave glory to singular god whom they called, Father. So ask yourself why Christian preachers are teaching you to worship a trinity when the God of Abraham and Moses declares himself to be SINGULAR.

                                                                  The answer is simple: The Christian religion is a centuries-long insurrection against the kingdom of God, masquerading itself as the kingdom of God. And this is what Genesis tells us about the kingdom of Nimrod.

                                                                  The Father created Jesus Christ as the only valid image of deity that men can bow to. Humanity is always bowing to idols of their own making, both physical and mental idols. The Father in Heaven HATES this. He met mankind halfway since mankind is incapable of worshiping what he cannot see. So the Father made an image of himself in the man Jesus Christ, and commands us to bow to that man as God's face or representative. This in no way makes God a trinity nor does it make Jesus a person in a trinity. It makes Jesus a man, like any other man, who was chosen and formed to be the image of God. God solved the idolatry problem, yet to this day the Christian religion persists in denying God's mode of worship and substitutes their idolatry in place of what God commands.

                                                                  Jesus is the Image of God. Jesus is the Son of God. Yet Jesus is neither God nor God the Son. That is a clever trick of Rome to fool people into worshiping their ancient trinity deity.


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                                                                    OCTADE »
                                                                    @octade@soc.octade.net

                                                                    Software Bondage : Software Rape : Software Slavery

                                                                    Software should empower users. Software should not abuse, spy on, or hobble users. This is SOFTWARE FREEDOM.

                                                                    Some evil companies design software to wield power over users. This is SOFTWARE BONDAGE. It is analogous to literal bondage because the user is cornered, shackled or caged.

                                                                    Some evil companies forcibly integrate user systems into the AI cloud panopticon so the system won't install or boot without the user being identified and tracked by the panopticon. This is SOFTWARE SLAVERY. It is analogous to literal slavery in that the user needs constant permission to use the system and can only use the system in a way that chiefly benefits the software slaver.

                                                                    Some evil companies forcibly harvest user data and force users to store private data in compromising cloud settings where their privacy is violated and subject to even greater risk of violation. This is SOFTWARE RAPE. It is analagous to literal rape and denudes users of the privacy and security of their data.

                                                                    When an evil company is doing evil with its software or hardware offerings these terms may be used to tell the truth about such evil actions.


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                                                                      OCTADE »
                                                                      @octade@soc.octade.net

                                                                      @grunfink@comam.es

                                                                      I notice that the /people/ section of snac gives broken links to follower and followee profiles.

                                                                      For instance entries for mastodon users are like this:

                                                                      https://mastodon.social/ap/users/253190229248136435

                                                                      Which appears to be an API endpoint rather than a web link. Links like this lead to a not found page.


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                                                                        The Real Grunfink »
                                                                        @grunfink@comam.es

                                                                        Hi. I've also seen this happen, though very rarely. For some reason, some accounts have URLs like this (with the /ap/ part) as the actor identifier. Also, doing a webfinger query reports this as the actor URL, which points to nowhere, as it returns a 404.

                                                                        I have no idea about why this happens.

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                                                                          OCTADE »
                                                                          @octade@soc.octade.net

                                                                          I gave up trying to determine why it happens.

                                                                          One example is this account:

                                                                          [at] HolosSocial [at] mastodon.social ('at' removed to prevent annoying the user)

                                                                          I followed and unfollowed and re-followed and still it gives the /ap/ endpoint instead of the profile.

                                                                          The Real Grunfink »
                                                                          @grunfink@comam.es

                                                                          Hi. I've already fixed this. Next version will include it, that I'm going to release real soon.

                                                                          OpenComputeDesign »
                                                                          @OpenComputeDesign@linuxrocks.online

                                                                          This is such a bleak fucking planet

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                                                                          OCTADE »
                                                                          @octade@soc.octade.net

                                                                          Sometimes little devil urchins show up in your feed with a feigned conversation to try to trigger you into saying something they can analyze ... or worse, modify, corrupt, and propagate.

                                                                          Robo »
                                                                          @rtw@mastodon.sdf.org

                                                                          The book is perfect technology. It doesn’t need a battery, it interfaces directly with my brain engaging the “imagination.” It’s portable. It’s sturdy. What more could you need?

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                                                                          Jacob Urlich 🌍 »
                                                                          @experimentmapass@social.trom.tf

                                                                          @rtw Very interesting discovery!

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                                                                            OCTADE »
                                                                            @octade@soc.octade.net

                                                                            "What more could you need?"
                                                                            More books. And coffee.

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                                                                              Mute Dog Brewing »
                                                                              @Mutedog@mastodon.social

                                                                              I figured out a way to hold the stupid molasses jug over the kettle while it takes forever to drain. I'll be fermenting this with wild yeast I captured from some flowers I picked in The Bahamas.

                                                                              A 1x2 board goes through the jug handle of a plastic gallon jug of molasses balanced across the rim of a large kettle and another board helps prop the bottle up so it is inverted over the top of the kettle

                                                                              Alt...A 1x2 board goes through the jug handle of a plastic gallon jug of molasses balanced across the rim of a large kettle and another board helps prop the bottle up so it is inverted over the top of the kettle

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                                                                                AI6YR Ben »
                                                                                @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org

                                                                                @Mutedog What alcohol are you making?

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                                                                                  Mute Dog Brewing »
                                                                                  @Mutedog@mastodon.social

                                                                                  @ai6yr this could potentially become rum eventually, except home distilling is illegal so that definitely won't happen.

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                                                                                    OCTADE »
                                                                                    @octade@soc.octade.net

                                                                                    Linux is married to AI hegemony. It's time for a new and better OS. Skift might become a candidate:

                                                                                    SkiftOS : https://skiftos.org/

                                                                                    It's not a *NIX!

                                                                                    "skiftOS isn’t POSIX. It’s a fresh API and userland inspired by Plan 9, Haiku, and Fuchsia. Familiar ideas, different contracts."

                                                                                    Problem: the GPL is poison. It has polluted Linux and the Linux userland software so that only large corporations can afford to monetize it. BSD License or MIT License would be much better allowing small players to produce unique work without then being forced to share their source code with the AI hegemony racket.


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                                                                                      The Incredible Laser »
                                                                                      @IncredibleLaser@troet.cafe

                                                                                      @octade there is another BSD licensed kernel that's used by a small player, it's called FreeBSD and that small player is Sony, and yes the improvements they're doing aren't going to the AI hegemony racket! Or anybody else for that matter

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                                                                                        OCTADE »
                                                                                        @octade@soc.octade.net

                                                                                        The Secret Religion of Silicon Valley (Ancient Myths & AI)

                                                                                        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtEidzV5nNE

                                                                                        "Ever heard of the Enuma Elish? It’s this ancient Babylonian myth where the gods got tired of working, so they created humans to be their slave class. Sound familiar?"

                                                                                        "In this video, I’m exploring how Silicon Valley is basically reenacting this exact same story right now. Except this time, we want to be the gods, and AI is the new slave class."

                                                                                        "I dive into the difference between being made in the "Image of God" vs. the "Image of Man" (Imago Hominis), and why that distinction matters more than ever. We aren't building a god; we are building a mirror—and the reflection isn't always pretty."


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                                                                                          OCTADE »
                                                                                          @octade@soc.octade.net

                                                                                          How about we solve the homeless problem and housing crisis first?

                                                                                          The warmongers spent eight trillion dollars to drop bombs on weddings, fatten defense contractors, and provide medical care for maimed soldiers ... but building homes for the homeless and poor would be evil socialism and we can't have that. In effect what is being implied is that we can't build homes for the poor, but we should instead use that money to bomb foreign nations for so-called democracy.

                                                                                          The money spent on military conquest could have built 80 million houses and provided millions of good, temporary jobs in construction.

                                                                                          In fact the money spent on the conquests in Iraq and Afghanistan could have made a quarter of Americans home owners.

                                                                                          The so-called government of this country HATES the people. And it shows. They are thieving, murdering liars and thugs full of active and chronic hatred and malice toward the people. We live in another Catholic-styled dark age, where the tax collectors and creditors rob the people and use the money to sniff out heretics.

                                                                                          I realize it is too much to ask. I realize you will all waste your energy whining about crap that doesn't matter, like entitlement programs and imaginary racism, instead of doing the things that actually build people up, like giving them a roof over their head free of the encumbrance of debt.

                                                                                          The government forces a fragmentation economy on the people that forces millions to move away from their families and home towns just to find work and housing, then calls it 'socialism' to build houses for the people they have intentionally uprooted. Sick. Just sick and evil.


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                                                                                            Welkin »
                                                                                            @welkin7@mstdn.party

                                                                                            @octade A well intentioned and an admirable proposal. If the houses do get built, how will the homeless and poor survive in those houses? How are the utilities bills, to keep the house warm in winter and cool in summer, going to be paid? How will cost of upkeep of the houses to prevent them from becoming a derelict be paid?
                                                                                            What is needed is gainful employment and living wage. What is needed is to stop the transfer of wealth from the majority to the billionaires and millionaires.

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                                                                                              Electronic Frontier Foundation »
                                                                                              @eff@mastodon.social

                                                                                              Any reputable journalism organization would fire someone who manipulated a photo this way; many have done exactly that. It’s a shame our government can’t adhere to such a basic ethical and moral code too. eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/bewa

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                                                                                              vlakicas »
                                                                                              @vlakicas@mastodon.social

                                                                                              @eff What? Using in short name but it's not GIMP?

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                                                                                                OCTADE »
                                                                                                @octade@soc.octade.net

                                                                                                It is much darker than most realize.

                                                                                                Someone ordered that photo alteration. And someone ordered the manager who ordered it. And someone higher up ordered the action.

                                                                                                The world is full of liars, play-actors, and cynical deceivers. Some of them are so habitual about lying that they don't even think about it. They just do it.

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                                                                                                  adison verlice »
                                                                                                  @adisonverlice@tweesecake.social

                                                                                                  @octade that it is , unfortunately

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                                                                                                    OCTADE »
                                                                                                    @octade@soc.octade.net

                                                                                                    Good to see you are still kicking. You seemed to disappear for quite awhile.

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                                                                                                      adison verlice »
                                                                                                      @adisonverlice@tweesecake.social

                                                                                                      @octade o no, I never disappeared. I guess if you're talking from the prospective of my website, I absolutely did. let's just say some shit happened with cloud flares and I had to work to get control of my domain again blindsoft.net

                                                                                                        Hannah Steenbock »
                                                                                                        @Firlefanz@writing.exchange

                                                                                                        @eff

                                                                                                        See, that's the thing.

                                                                                                        The current US government isn't a government, it's a mafia organization.

                                                                                                        They actively spurn truth, the rule of law, and any kind of decency. All they want is power and riches.

                                                                                                        Everyone who does not want to see this is in denial.

                                                                                                          Oakland Privacy »
                                                                                                          @oaklandprivacy@mastodon.social

                                                                                                          The FBI obtained encryption keys from Microsoft to unlock BitLocker-encrypted laptops and Microsoft complied.

                                                                                                          That’s a sharp break from past industry resistance to key handovers.

                                                                                                          theverge.com/news/867244/micro


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                                                                                                            OCTADE »
                                                                                                            @octade@soc.octade.net

                                                                                                            If you don't own the keys then it's not your data.

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                                                                                                              Vassil Nikolov | Васил Николов »
                                                                                                              @vnikolov@ieji.de

                                                                                                              This is a very serious matter, but this article omits some important points.

                                                                                                              There must be laws and regulations which require every organization handling sensitive information (not only financial institutions and the like) to have sufficiently secure computer systems.
                                                                                                              And there must be regular audits of the latter.

                                                                                                              Software engineering must be regulated in a manner similar to civil engineering and electrical engineering with respect to reliability, safety, and security.

                                                                                                              From the BBC:
                                                                                                              Vastaamo hack: My darkest secrets were revealed to the world
                                                                                                              <bbc.com/news/articles/c62nzxqw>


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                                                                                                                OCTADE »
                                                                                                                @octade@soc.octade.net

                                                                                                                "Software engineering must be regulated in a manner similar to civil engineering and electrical engineering with respect to reliability, safety, and security."
                                                                                                                I believe that the U.S. military tried to do this with the Ada programming language. It seems they had a goal to make everything auditable and verifiable. I haven't studied it in depth so I can only surmise.

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                                                                                                                  Vassil Nikolov | Васил Николов »
                                                                                                                  @vnikolov@ieji.de

                                                                                                                  @octade wrote:
                                                                                                                  «I believe that the U.S. military tried to do this with the Ada programming language. It seems they had a goal to make everything auditable and verifiable.»

                                                                                                                  Right.
                                                                                                                  This is an important point.
                                                                                                                  Indeed the whole story of Ada (now approaching half a century!) is a valuable case study (for one's Unlimited Free Time ™ 🙂).
                                                                                                                  Not all milk and honey, of course.

                                                                                                                  But the military know how to take care of their technologies.
                                                                                                                  Maybe it is clear and redundant to say:
                                                                                                                  my concern is about civil applications of software engineering.


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                                                                                                                    OCTADE »
                                                                                                                    @octade@soc.octade.net

                                                                                                                    Part of the problem is the design and standardization of hardware. There is no respected or august standard or authority to establish hardware guidelines (think posix) and say:

                                                                                                                    "Hey, you are making too many different versions of the same thing that do the same thing and with a zillion different unnecessary interfaces and ways to all accomplish the same job. Stick to a simple interoperable scheme that can be audited against a standard."

                                                                                                                    Many years ago I used to troubleshoot dialup modems. Modems varied wildly in their firmware and AT commands. This caused wild variation in device drivers. And most of that variation was unnecessary. It caused a lot of busy work and wasted time.

                                                                                                                    A modem should not be a modem. A modem should be a specification. Then devices should be designed strictly around the specification. Apply to all other hardware devices, operating system primitives, boot system primitives, compiler logics and routines, then wash, rinse, repeat ... and things would move closer to an infrastructure that can be strictly audited regardless of the particular implementation.

                                                                                                                    Anyway consider this a fantasy rant. I don't see it ever happening.

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                                                                                                                      Vassil Nikolov | Васил Николов »
                                                                                                                      @vnikolov@ieji.de

                                                                                                                      Yes, this is one aspect of this big matter.
                                                                                                                      Other aspects are, for example, the regulation of manufacturers' responsibilities and regulations about required qualifications to be a software engineer.

                                                                                                                      I believe that something like this will happen if and when there are acutely bad consequences of a software failure or too many chronically bad consequences accumulate.

                                                                                                                      @octade

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                                                                                                                        OCTADE »
                                                                                                                        @octade@soc.octade.net

                                                                                                                        Christian Nationalism is a ruse to eliminate separation of church and state.

                                                                                                                        While everyone is distracted by the scripted ICE theater the counter-reformation unification of Roman Church and state proceeds stealthily. Rome's agents are slowly converting America to the Imperial Roman religion. This is the true goal of so-called 'Christian Nationalism': the forcible conversion of America to Roman imperial Christianity, a la Constantine and Justinian.

                                                                                                                        From his bully pulpit the President is proclaiming Imperial Roman religion about their Roman moon goddess Mary, also known as Minerva, Venus, Easter, Astarte, Semiramis, and Isis.

                                                                                                                        Presidential Message on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception

                                                                                                                        "In her honor, and on a day so special to our Catholic citizens, we remember the sacred words that have brought aid, comfort, and support to generations of American believers in times of need: Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen."

                                                                                                                        https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/12/presidential-message-on-the-feast-of-the-immaculate-conception/


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                                                                                                                          Lea »
                                                                                                                          @leadore@sunny.garden

                                                                                                                          @octade
                                                                                                                          I wouldn't say 'ruse' since they're very open about wanting to eliminate that, along with the rest of the Constitution.

                                                                                                                          I'm not sure about the proportions of the various maga factions. There's definitely a significant contingent of maga catholics, but I think the larger faction are the prosperity gospel evangelicals, who align well with the oligarchs. Thiel bridges between both.

                                                                                                                          In any case, while for now they all band together with a common goal, as soon as they succeed in establishing their theocracy, sectarian warfare will quickly follow.

                                                                                                                          BTW you can be sure trump didn't write that "presidential message". Maybe Vance, or someone in his contingent.

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                                                                                                                            Ricki Yasha Tarr »
                                                                                                                            @RickiTarr@beige.party

                                                                                                                            So, apparently younger generations don't have as much generational awareness, because they have access to sooo much more content.

                                                                                                                            I'm an elder Millenial, and I grew up watching what was on TV, and then whatever VHS/DVDs my parents deemed worthy of purchasing. So, the things I would watch would be newer movies and TV shows, of course, but then also older movies and cartoons, as well. I had a larger range of social references, just because I was plumbing from a shallower well. It seems like it shouldn't work that way, but new content is being made at a unprecedented rate. Not just major studios, and Streaming Services, but things like YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitch. I might watch a Midnight movie from the 70's, because that was all that was on, but younger generations never need to. There's just an endless supply of content from whatever you're into at the moment.

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                                                                                                                            OCTADE »
                                                                                                                            @octade@soc.octade.net

                                                                                                                            The new content being spewed at fire hose speed is mostly garbage content with no value to the human heart, soul, or intellect.

                                                                                                                            The poison problem with the current information generation is that 99% of the information at their fingertips is lies, more lies, damn lies, filth, pr0n, aggression, slander, gossip, and propaganda nonsense. Social media, news feeds, and even government blotters consist mostly of obese talking cocaine monkeys shaking their rumps in defiance of things they don't even understand.

                                                                                                                            And the more of this weaponized propaganda sewage they consume, the smarter they think they are.

                                                                                                                            I encounter people who think the ability to recall verbatim reams of nonsense is a sign of higher intelligence. Somehow the ability to memorize and regurgitate a fantasy encyclopedia is considered to be scientific prowess.

                                                                                                                            "Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth."

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                                                                                                                              OCTADE »
                                                                                                                              @octade@soc.octade.net

                                                                                                                              @malcolm@mastodon.social @smallcircles@social.coop

                                                                                                                              I did not know that. So they borked a good feature to generate a self-censorship-oriented culture.

                                                                                                                              Thanks, !

                                                                                                                                Alec Muffett »
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                                                                                                                                OCTADE »
                                                                                                                                @octade@soc.octade.net

                                                                                                                                What about 'back door secrecy'?

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                                                                                                                                  OCTADE »
                                                                                                                                  @octade@soc.octade.net

                                                                                                                                  ... [SENSITIVE CONTENT]I think some are going down the pipeline and drinking from the septic tank.

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                                                                                                                                    OCTADE »
                                                                                                                                    @octade@soc.octade.net

                                                                                                                                    Don't drink out of a toilet bowl!

                                                                                                                                    Brawndo. It has what plants crave. It's got electrolytes.


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                                                                                                                                      The Disreputable Bede »
                                                                                                                                      @badbede@deacon.social

                                                                                                                                      Sharing our grief at the state of evangelical Christianity in America, my excellent friend @CharismaticBatman had lamented that very few Christian leaders have spoken out against political idolatry. It's true, but that makes the rare cases so much more meaningful.

                                                                                                                                      Russell Moore was the president of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission and was forced out because of his criticism of the Trump administration. Today he's editor-in-chief of Christianity Today. Here's his wiki bio: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_

                                                                                                                                      John Piper is a huge influence in Reformed circles but wrote a blog post one week before the 2020 election explaining why he would not vote for Trump. He's an older man and genuinely didn't seem bothered to lose his "platform." His article seems prophetic now: desiringgod.org/articles/polic

                                                                                                                                      Although he's not a pastor or leader, another well-known Christian who has been criticized for becoming "woke" is one of the creators of VeggieTales (strangely, he had hired Eric Metaxas as a script-writer at VeggieTales). He was the voice of Bob the Tomato! Today, he's one of the hosts of The Holy Post podcast. Here's his wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Vis

                                                                                                                                      I've never met these people, but I pay attention and remember this kind of stuff. It makes me feel a tiny bit better to know that even a few people of influence have paid a price for advocating for a more biblical and faithful version of Christianity.

                                                                                                                                      If y'all know of other Christian leaders who have spoken out against political idolatry and paid a price, please reply to this post!

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                                                                                                                                        Andrew Barker »
                                                                                                                                        @abarker@mast.hpc.social

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                                                                                                                                        The Disreputable Bede »
                                                                                                                                        @badbede@deacon.social

                                                                                                                                        @abarker @CharismaticBatman Salute to all these folks, although David French is more like an influential person who happens to be Christian. I may be wrong. I love and respect all of them.

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                                                                                                                                          royal »
                                                                                                                                          @royal@theres.life

                                                                                                                                          @badbede @abarker @CharismaticBatman does Pope Leo count?
                                                                                                                                          He doesn't have a Wikipedia page, but Brian Zahnd tells the story of his break from military evangelicalism as the pastor of a charismatic megachurch. Not a new thing for him, maybe twenty years now.

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                                                                                                                                            The Disreputable Bede »
                                                                                                                                            @badbede@deacon.social

                                                                                                                                            @royal @abarker @CharismaticBatman Nah, I wouldn't count the pope. He's not evangelical, nor American (except for where he was born).

                                                                                                                                            But yes! Brian Zahnd is a great example. I remember reading his contributions to Charisma magazine from WAAAAAYYY back when, before it became a looney tunes propaganda rag. "Letters from Babylon" indeed. I don't know if he's paid any price for it, but I imagine a lot of people in Kansas City wouldn't want to hear what he has to say about political idolatry.

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                                                                                                                                              Sam D »
                                                                                                                                              @spaceraser@polymaths.social

                                                                                                                                              @badbede @royal @abarker @CharismaticBatman

                                                                                                                                              I had to do a double take when I saw the name of his church, Word of Life Church. Here in Wichita, there is a congregation and affiliated k-12 school called Word of Life that is…….. DEFINITELY invested in militant evangelicalism/fundamentalism 🤣🤣🤣

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                                                                                                                                                royal »
                                                                                                                                                @royal@theres.life

                                                                                                                                                @spaceraser @badbede @abarker @CharismaticBatman It's an overloaded name, to be sure.

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                                                                                                                                                  Sam D »
                                                                                                                                                  @spaceraser@polymaths.social

                                                                                                                                                  @royal @badbede @abarker @CharismaticBatman in my city there are three churches with the simple name “Hope Church” and another five or six with Hope in the name.

                                                                                                                                                  I’m not normally Mr “your church name should be branded to get you maximum SEO and that’s why it should be completely unique and maybe even a made up name” but cmon guys. What’s wrong with {name of neighborhood} Lutheran church?

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                                                                                                                                                    Daniel Johnson »
                                                                                                                                                    @ossobuffo@deacon.social

                                                                                                                                                    @spaceraser @royal @badbede @abarker @CharismaticBatman My favorites are the ones that don't even use the word "church" in the name. There's one local to me just called "The Journey." (Don't stop believin'!)

                                                                                                                                                    When I lived in SoCal, I was very amused by a church simply called "My Friend's House."

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                                                                                                                                                      Sam D »
                                                                                                                                                      @spaceraser@polymaths.social

                                                                                                                                                      @ossobuffo @royal @badbede @abarker @CharismaticBatman Reminds me of the bars that have names like "The Library" or "Joe's Place"!

                                                                                                                                                      Where you going with the guys, honey? Oh, just gonna spend the evening at the library!

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                                                                                                                                                        Daniel Johnson »
                                                                                                                                                        @ossobuffo@deacon.social

                                                                                                                                                        @spaceraser @royal @badbede @abarker @CharismaticBatman I see your “bar” but I read it as “gentlemen’s club”

                                                                                                                                                          Michael Grinder »
                                                                                                                                                          @mgrinder@mastodon.social

                                                                                                                                                          @ossobuffo @spaceraser @royal @badbede @abarker @CharismaticBatman In my town it was a fad to use a single words not usually associated with churches, so we have Journey Church, Connect Church, Bedrock Church, Venture Church, River Church, Summit Church...

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                                                                                                                                                            Sam D »
                                                                                                                                                            @spaceraser@polymaths.social

                                                                                                                                                            @mgrinder @ossobuffo @royal @badbede @abarker @CharismaticBatman there’s a real life church in my town called Journey The Way church. I think it was a plant or split off of a church called Journey Church but then Journey closed so now there’s just Journey The Way

                                                                                                                                                              Andrew Barker »
                                                                                                                                                              @abarker@mast.hpc.social

                                                                                                                                                              @spaceraser @royal @badbede @CharismaticBatman I mean, one thing that's wrong with "{neighborhood} Lutheran Church" is that nobody belongs to a denomination like Lutheran-ism anymore.

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                                                                                                                                                                Daniel Johnson »
                                                                                                                                                                @ossobuffo@deacon.social

                                                                                                                                                                @abarker @spaceraser @royal @badbede @CharismaticBatman Well, they do, but they try to disguise it. “How do you do, fellow kids?”

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                                                                                                                                                                  Sam D »
                                                                                                                                                                  @spaceraser@polymaths.social

                                                                                                                                                                  @ossobuffo @abarker @royal @badbede @CharismaticBatman

                                                                                                                                                                  I'm having a difficult time organizing this thought, but I don't think that the general church population is actually as allergic to denominational identity as church growth consultants and anxious pastors of shrinking churches think they are. The young people I serve with want to believe that Christian practice and faith is deeply rooted, rooted more deeply than Reagan-era black suit baptists railing against secular music and democrats from the pulpit. THAT expression has gone out of style, but I think we should probably lean in harder to the identity of "Lutheran" or "Methodist", making clear that having no denominational affiliation just means you have no higher organizational authority than the pastor of the church, not that you're a brand new thing that's never existed before. Non-denoms are generally flavors or factions of Reformed Evangelicalism or Charismatic Evangelicalism anyways.

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                                                                                                                                                                    Daniel Johnson »
                                                                                                                                                                    @ossobuffo@deacon.social

                                                                                                                                                                    @spaceraser @abarker @royal @badbede @CharismaticBatman and if you have no higher organizational authority than the pastor, you risk becoming a cult of personality.

                                                                                                                                                                      thejikz »
                                                                                                                                                                      @thejikz@infosec.exchange

                                                                                                                                                                      @royal @badbede @abarker @CharismaticBatman You all make me happy to be here, and that any exist to help balance this wildness.

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                                                                                                                                                                        OCTADE »
                                                                                                                                                                        @octade@soc.octade.net

                                                                                                                                                                        @CharismaticBatman@theres.life

                                                                                                                                                                        Christian Nationalism is Roman Constantinian Idolatry

                                                                                                                                                                        This political idolatry of 'Christian Nationalism' is not new. Only the wide perception of it is new due to everyone now being plugged into the Internet via their ever-present phones and tablets.

                                                                                                                                                                        In the 1600s through the 1800s we see the political idolatry was at fever pitch and full swing, giving a host of politically-oriented cults, such as Witch-burning Puritanism, Swedenborgianism, Mormonism, Seventh-Day Adventism, etcetera. Even the Anglican church is an Imperialist political cult and has no warrant or sanction in the Holy Scriptures. It is a 'nationalist' tyranny over the mind. And then we see Islam, which Christians mistakenly believe to be a non-Christian religion. Islam is a Christian heresy, founded by heretical Catholics. Even the name, "Mohammed" is a corruption of the earlier Arabic, "Mahmed" meaning, "Messiah". Islam is an offshoot of medieval Christianity with its Saturn idolatry gone to seed. Islam is a daughter of Babylon, the Judeo-Roman prostitute.

                                                                                                                                                                        Christianity has always been a politically idolatrous cult. For instance, The council of Nicea was convened by the Apollo-worshiping, Luciferian Emperor Constantine for nefarious and ungodly political purposes. Every bishop who was a political apparatchik showed up, ironing out a fascist version of Christianity that was forced on the empire by the sword for centuries.

                                                                                                                                                                        The luciferians try to repeat this in every generation in which it looks like Christians will flee the Church plantation for the true body of Christ outside the Church.

                                                                                                                                                                        Remember, the outer sea court of the temple was for the Gentiles (nations). The kingdom was removed from the inner court and given to them without. Christian authoritarians still have not recognized this.

                                                                                                                                                                        If you want to advocate for a more biblical and faithful version of Christianity you need to leave behind the Imperial leadership model of the Church. The Apostles and the Reformers warned us about the man of sin sitting in the chair of the bishopric building his tower of Babel using the people (laity) as their bricks.

                                                                                                                                                                        This thing commonly called, 'Christianity' is the backsliding idol worship of Israel in the Old Testament, brought to life in our current age. Jesus Christ is not a Christian. The Apostles of the Lamb are not Christians. Neither Jesus, nor the Apostles, nor the Prophets would recognize Christianity as legitimate. The sum of all their teachings mark Christianity as an impostor religion of idolatrous customs trading darkness for light.

                                                                                                                                                                        There is no municipal kingdom of heaven. The kingdom of God cannot be brought about by the force of arms of mortal men. It comes by the Spirit of the Lord, not by the spirit of the world. Everyone pretending to build God's kingdom by inveigling, shaming, brow-beating, force, intimidation, fear-mongering, or authoritarianism, or civil government sanction, is an anti-christ, no matter how much they pretend to worship the Father and the Son and no matter how many zillions of times they claim their names.

                                                                                                                                                                        In the Old Testament the Father prophesied to us the rise of the Christian world empire and its eventual destruction in the turning of the ages ahead. The Imperialist Christian cult likes to distract from its own wickedness by pretending Islam is the scapegoat, or by pretending Jews are the scapegoat. It might work for a time for their politics but God the Father is not fooled.

                                                                                                                                                                        "And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. ..... How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her."

                                                                                                                                                                        The 'she' is the Christian Church. She is the harlot Babylon with her many Church babies, a true mother of political prostitutes and abominations of the earth. The Christian church glorifies herself and her system of bishopric authority instead of glorifying the simple gospel of Jesus Christ. Christianity is a machine for perpetuating its own system instead of setting the spiritual captives free.

                                                                                                                                                                        We can truthfully say to the Christian Church what Christ said to the Scribes and Pharisees of ancient Judea:

                                                                                                                                                                        "But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi. But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven."

                                                                                                                                                                        In this age the first Adam who fell is the Church, the continuation of temple idolatry on life support. The second Adam who rises is Christ, or Jacob, who will supplant the first Adam as Jacob supplanted Esau in the birthright, as Jacob crossed his arms to swap the birthrights of Ephraim and Manasseh, as Isaac supplanted Ishmael, even as Paul the Apostle told us plainly. God has repeatedly told us how this Christian empire will be supplanted by Jesus Christ in the last days, yet Christians do not see what is plain in the scripture because they want political and spiritual power over other men, rather than being like Christ and humbly desiring to be a servant of servants for the love of God rather than recognition of position.

                                                                                                                                                                        We learn from the Bible that God doesn't value man's concept of the birthright of authority, and freely supplants the older with the younger, even as he will supplant the older religious and Christian empire of the world with the younger Jesus of Nazareth.


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