I personally am not super keen on that version of anarchism (revolutionary socialism), but at least it accurately fit the archetype and isn't just the usual shallow pejorative anarchism=chaos trope.
Apart from just liking sci-fi and having a low bar for entertainment, I liked it in particular because "anarchists in space". It's the only TV show I've ever seen that did anarchism properly (whether you agree with that version of anarchism or not).
Now the AI hype train is causing them to be integrated into the backend of almost everything, you can't even tell that's where the information is coming from a lot of the time. As a result you have to have a finely tuned bullshit metre running 24/7/365 from now on.
qwq:32b is supposed to be as good as the deepseek-r1:671b I have it on my system but haven't given it a whirl just yet. You're right though. Most of this shit is just hype and these models are actually dumpster fires when you try to do anything useful with them. Great for people with low IQ and gullible, or those who want to farm out low IQ tasks to software which will get 50% of them completely wrong.
I was told I'm an "honorary brown person" because I was able to eat my former room-mate's food without them having to change the recipe. It wasn't even that spicy by my standards tbqh.
"Canada" didn't vote for him. Registered Liberals did. It was just their party leadership election and had nothing to do with "Canada" apart from the fact that since Turdeau resigned, that made Carney defacto PM until the next federal election happens. Hopefully soon, because these WTO shitlib fuckwits need to be gone asap.
OMEMO (Version 0.3.0 of XEP-0384) used AES-128-GCM, but later versions (0.4.0) moved to AES-256-CBC + HMAC-SHA-256, aligning more closely with Signal's approach. However, a recent change in the OMEMO specification (Version 0.7.0) introduced the truncation of the HMAC-SHA-256 authentication tag to 128 bits, which weakens the security. Also contact lists are stored in plain text, as is the information concerning whom the messages are address to and from. But at least unlike Signal it can be self-hosted and if you're using a server which you own/trust for both sender and receiver, that mitigates the issue somewhat. However again, as I said, the cross-platform client-side support is a dumpster fire which makes it nearly impossible to get regular people to use it.
> metadata leakage is no better or worse than delta chat
Fair enough. But again, it doesn't require a cellphone number, and it can be self-hosted.
None that I have much direct experience with, because not enough geek/privacy-conscious friends willing to use them. However at face value, Threema, SimpleX, DeltaChat ... none of those have any requirement to provide personally identifying information.
I would ideally include XMPP+OMEMO too, but the client-side cross-platform support is absolute garbage, and the crypto is quite outdated. Also it only protects the message content, not the metadata. But at least it's been around forever, is based on open standards, and has formed the backbone of many other chat platforms over it's history. So still worth an honourable mention, even if not a recommendation.
This explains why when I'm around Xtians it's basically just a countdown until one of them says "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." or similar shit. In an ideal world, I'd have a pyre in the backyard to burn them at the stake every time I heard that. I could run an power plant off the thermal energy and go off-grid.
Damn! I just checked and turns out there're currently 112 international retards who want to see the shit I post. Dafuq?? I can only guess that about 100 are fed bots...
I don't think that's really changed a whole lot personally. Apart from the odd village cunning men/women in places were that's the time honoured tradition, the English Pagan witch phenomenon was always mainly centred around private covens where the members wanted to stay under the radar to avoid persecution and only disclosed their spiritual practice to other practitioners. Since Gardner it's more out in the open and a lot more solitaires (mainly thanks to Cunningham), but many folks still prefer to stay out of public view. In my own lineage people pride themselves on being "hidden children" of the Gods. That's the tradition. Unless making money off it as a psychic reader, or herbalist or such like, then there's little reason to advertise. Even a herbalist doesn't have to identify as a priest/witch to do the job effectively.
Notwithstanding that there are countless other types of folk healer/magician among groups like the Pennsylvania Dutch (braucherei, hexerei), Appalachians/Ozarks/Bayou (treaters, etc), Eastern European people (molfar, etc), or African Diaspora, etc where their craft is often heavily synchronised with Christinanity (which itself provides some protection from persecution) and almost entirely unrelated to Traditional Wicca/Witchcraft from the British Isles. For Pagans though it's generally better/safer to keep things under your hat and only deal with people who intentionally seek you out and pass vetting. Otherwise it's just a huge can of worms that's more often than not, unworthy of the asinine bullshit involved. Seeking public attention has more to do with LARP'ing and flossing the ego than it does anything practically related to the craft itself.
The word "fae" and "faerie/fairy" actually comes originally from the Latin word "fate", referring to the 3 Fates, which are spin offs on the Moirai and various other IndoEuropean personifications of time. So .. technically the Irish culturally appropriated it from the Romans... 😜
My personal favourite personifications are the Norns, because their names are cool. Urðr, Verðandi and Skuld (literally: happened, happening, and "should" happen ... 3 very happening babes).
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