Notices by dobó istván (istvan@noauthority.social)

@sun The CIA wants everyone to write rust.

rust in your kernel should make you as uncomfortable as backdoors in your silicon, which you have if you are using a post-2008 CPU.

@sun PPC master race.

@p @fluffy I just appreciate the imagery.

The gangster computer god AI drawing software does a pretty good job of illustrating the moon brains in the brain bank city on the far side of the moon we can never see.

If I want to see the synthetic stairway to the stars and inside-out planets what better way than to have the computer god directly show me what it is making.

@p @fluffy https://youtu.be/_cn29POo1Zk

@Hoss @Eiswald One hundred and fifty motherfucking dollars and not a penny less before I sell.

@john_darksoul @Eiswald @Hoss 1. The value of silver from 2000 BC to AD 1920.

2. The increased utility of silver since 1920.

3. The decreased mining of silver since 1920.

When the thumb is off the scale and people stop accepting imaginary paper receipts for silver, it will float back to its historic value where an ounce of silver is a day’s wages for a tradesman.

@icedquinn @Alex @sun Honest question: what defines "alt right" at this point?

So many people have been lumped into it that it appears to have gone from a hardcore "white identitarian" movement in 2016 to "big tent non-left" where all former moderates and default liberals end up after being ejected from their space by the left.

@LukeAlmighty @Jens_Rasmussen @MK2boogaloo You guys make me glad I’ve never been employed by someone in Europe/America.

@ageha @sun I think the last time they tried to make a vendor list of everyone across all the Tuscon shows the table printed as a 90 page book.

@sun @ageha There isn't a "Tucson gem show". It's more like the Tucson gem shows.

There's at least 40 shows all over the city over three weeks. Maybe five are the really big and important ones.

@sun Thank God.

The diamond business needs to die. If it takes austerity to make it happen then fucking fine.

If Tucson sets the industry tone of the year, expect high prices, grinding, and pain as gold, silver, and stones climb and the dollar continues to disintegrate.

Going to be a fun ride if you are holding anything valuable that’s not coming out of the ground.

I don’t know where prices are going to stabilize.

No one can sell material for less than it costs to replace it, but as long as energy costs climb the cost to replace it does too.

Odd how gems go up even when no one is selling or buying.

Speaking personally, we only had one customer in the entire last year who wanted a diamond engagement ring. There were two who wanted a cheap lab diamond because they didn’t give a fuck.

Everyone else is getting color gems and custom design work.

Remaining diamond demand (except melee) seems to be tied to boomer parents bullying their children into giving their money to Israel via the diamond tax instead of the usury tax, or encouraging them to double up and borrow money to buy a diamond.

Diamonds still looking like one of the worst possible investments going forward. Exception to be made for color diamonds.

People are finally catching on about their lack of rarity, but they still don’t know how fucking deep the rot runs with the fake and gay “Kimberly Process” and every other lie that built the industry.

I don’t know what Israel is going to do to make up for losing 1/5 of its economy, but I have faith they’ll keep the scam on life support until they find a replacement.

Reports I’m hearing from Tucson is an industry implosion of 40 percent in precious gem sales as prices still climbing.

Except Tanzanite because ha ha fuck you it’s worthless now lmao.

High energy costs have driven up mining. High mining costs have driven up rough. High rough has driven up high cut.

Is 2025 going to be the year of the lab gem? Seems as likely as the year of the Linux desktop (it’s never been so over).

@feld The Usenet branches for gopher and gemini are alive, amazingly.

@sun I have no idea how the MUCs that are out there work or what they run on since they all seem to have features not in Prosody.

It must be magic, and that would explain why there are so few of them and why XMPP is fucking dead outside of turbo-sperg communities (read: every MUC I'm active in).

@sun I run Prosody too and had nothing but headaches trying to create a MUC. Finally had to give up and just be happy at least user accounts worked and I could join MUCs on other servers.

@sun Are you hosting your own XMPP server? It might not be the client alone. Some of the XMPP server implementations are a fucking disaster, especially when it comes to creating and managing MUCs.

@sun Finding usable XMPP clients is surprisingly difficult, isn't it?