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OCTADE (octade@soc.octade.net)'s status on Friday, 03-Apr-2026 22:25:40 JST 
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The Rust Wedge and the Big Tech Buy-off: A Veteran Engineer’s Warning to Every PC Owner (+ jofito)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0JAAF61AiE
"I warned you years ago that Windows 11 was the beginning of the end. Today, the door is officially closing on general-purpose computing. In this 24-minute manifesto, I am moving past the "ripping on Rust" memes to address a documented existential threat to your hardware. Between the $12.5M Big Tech "security" grants and the US government's memory-safety mandates, we are witnessing a coordinated execution of legacy systems."
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OCTADE (octade@soc.octade.net)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Jan-2026 16:06:56 JST
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Don't drink out of a toilet bowl!
Brawndo. It has what plants crave. It's got electrolytes.
#Brawndo #Idiocracy -
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OCTADE (octade@soc.octade.net)'s status on Friday, 14-Nov-2025 04:06:10 JST
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This is gold. The police who arrested him would have to wear his name on their uniforms.
Arrested for Telling a Cop to Shut UP-James Freeman is Suing to Rename This Texas City
https://youtu.be/zyLnHzg4Xrg
#Corruption #Cops #Police #Thugs #Tyranny #Government #Law #Legal #Courts #Lawsuit #Constitution -
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OCTADE (octade@soc.octade.net)'s status on Monday, 27-Oct-2025 15:20:17 JST
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You left part of the story out of the picture. I added an extra frame to the bottom of the picture to reflect 'reality' more accurately.
The billionaires investing in space don't want Star Trek ... they want Dune ... but we got Spaceballs.
#billionaires #space #startrek #dune #spaceballs #memes -
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OCTADE (octade@soc.octade.net)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Oct-2025 13:07:06 JST
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/// Some apps for secure and anonymous communication and file-sharing ///
Inform your friends and family about these tools.
#Briar ... https://briarproject.org
"Censorship-resistant peer-to-peer messaging that bypasses centralized servers. Connect via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or Tor, with privacy built-in."
#Retroshare ... https://retroshare.cc
"Retroshare establish encrypted connections between you and your friends to create a network of computers, and provides various distributed services on top of it: forums, channels, chat, mail... Retroshare is fully decentralized, and designed to provide maximum security and anonymity to its users beyond direct friends. Retroshare is entirely free and open-source software. It is available on #Android, #Linux, #MacOS and #Windows. There are no hidden costs, no ads and no terms of service."
#RicochetRefresh ... https://www.ricochetrefresh.net
"Ricochet Refresh is an open-source project to allow private and anonymous instant messaging."
#OnionShare ... https://onionshare.org
"OnionShare is an open-source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network."
#DeltaChat ... https://delta.chat
"Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app."
#Bitmessage ... https://bitmessage.org
"Bitmessage is a P2P communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers. It is decentralized and trustless, meaning that you need-not inherently trust any entities like root certificate authorities. It uses strong authentication which means that the sender of a message cannot be spoofed, and it aims to hide "non-content" data, like the sender and receiver of messages, from passive eavesdroppers like those running warrantless wiretapping programs."
#TorBrowser ... https://www.torproject.org/download
"Protect yourself against tracking, surveillance, and censorship."
#I2P ... https://geti2p.net
"The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) is a fully encrypted private network layer. It protects your activity and location. Every day people use the network to connect with people without worry of being tracked or their data being collected. In some cases people rely on the network when they need to be discrete or are doing sensitive work."
#Hyphanet ... https://www.hyphanet.org/
"Hyphanet is peer-to-peer network for censorship-resistant and privacy-respecting publishing and communication. The original Freenet."
#BitChan ... https://github.com/813492291816/BitChan
"BitChan is a decentralized anonymous imageboard inspired by BitBoard and built on top of Bitmessage with Tor, I2P, and GnuPG."
#DarkMX ... https://darkmx.app
"DarkMX is a new decentralized communication app that utilizes Tor hidden services to allow you to easily have an anonymous, reliable, and censorship-resistant presence on the internet. You can chat. You can share files. You can search other people's files. You can keep a contact list and send private messages to your friends. You can create your own custom .onion site, available to anyone with a Tor Browser."
#Decentralized #TOR #AntiSurveillance #Anonymity #Anonymous #Privacy #Filesharing #Networking #Communication #P2P #F2F #PeerToPeer #Censorship #AntiCensorship #FreeSpeech -
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OCTADE (octade@soc.octade.net)'s status on Monday, 08-Sep-2025 15:20:54 JST
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Many have seen the clip, "Are we the baddies?"
I'm not one of the baddies, but I might have to ask:
"Am I the old man shaking fist at cloud?"
I sometimes catch myself mumbling grumpily at the 'cloud' and SaaS parts of yon Internet. Hosting and VPS services can make me especially grumpy and fist-thumpy when they break.
#grumpy #grump #grumble #grrr #grouse #grouch -
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OCTADE (octade@soc.octade.net)'s status on Sunday, 24-Aug-2025 16:51:29 JST
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Feral kitty came on to the porch. She demanded that I pet her. I put out some food. She would not touch the food and instead kept rubbing my leg until I started petting and wrestling with her. She still would not touch the food. Then I went and got a different kind of cat food and she nom-nommed and mow-mowed it down. Even the wild ones can be finicky. -
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OCTADE (octade@soc.octade.net)'s status on Sunday, 10-Aug-2025 00:14:27 JST
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"It's a pity both sides can't lose."
~ Henry Kissinger
#quotes
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OCTADE (octade@soc.octade.net)'s status on Sunday, 10-Aug-2025 00:05:25 JST
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I am seeking #BBS software for #Linux that has built-in #NNTP server and can feed with other #Usenet servers. I would like some suggestions and reasoning. A BBS with actually secure passwords and authentication would be best, since a lot of them are not secure by modern standards.
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OCTADE (octade@soc.octade.net)'s status on Sunday, 10-Aug-2025 00:00:58 JST
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TORSERV: Host a Static Website on the Dark Web in Under 1 Minute
"Hosting a Tor hidden service — also known as an onion site — typically requires in-depth technical skills and manual configuration. With TorServ, you can host a static website anonymously in seconds, without touching any config files."
This software deserves some attention. It could be useful for at-risk people who need to publish while protecting identity.
#TorServ #TOR #Onions #OnionNetwork #Privacy #Anonymity
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OCTADE (octade@soc.octade.net)'s status on Saturday, 09-Aug-2025 23:57:48 JST
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Many people have never heard of P2P file-sharing networks like DarkMX even though DarkMX and its predecessor, WinMX, have over two decades of continued development. P2P file-sharing networks are more stable than torrents. DarkMX has a very slick retro interface. It is almost identical to the old WinMX from 20+ years ago, except it brokers all connections via TOR for preserving privacy.
I figured out several ways to run DarkMX on a headless server without GUI. This allows me to install it on a remote server without any desktop environment and run the software as a daemon without the GUI.
First I used the X forwarding feature of SSH to pipe the GUI to a local machine. On that machine I did all the configuration inside the GUI. Then I closed the program.
Then on the remote machine I used 'xvfb' to run DarkMX as a nohup'd daemon with a dummy GUI buffer. That way I don't need to be connected to the GUI from a local machine and the application will still run. It also uses less RAM without the GUI.
There are other ways to do this, such as VNC and xpra. I just chose the quickest, dirtiest method in this case.
Why would I go to all that trouble? Well, I don't need to, but there are some people who might need to publish while maintaining strict anonymity. So they would need tools like DarkMX and TOR. For me it's just fun.
DarkMX operates over the TOR privacy preserving network. As a result the location of my peer is hidden and extremely hard to impossible for an adversary to locate. So when I publish something, such as a letter, or paper, or opinion, anyone can download it since censoring it is not viable. It ensures that my speech remains free and available to the general public. Now when I author essays, papers, homiles and such, I can publish them as file shares, and I can publish them simultaneously as a TOR hidden website with the built-in webserver feature. So readers don't need DarkMX to read my files--they can just fire up TOR Browser or use a TOR proxy with their web browser. If they want to snarf a whole directory they can install DarkMX, or use a script to snarf them via TOR.
If you are inclined to fiddle around with installing this software on a headless server, please share the techniques and tools used that suit you.
(DarkMX download site: https://darkmx.app)
#DarkMX #P2P #FileSharing #Anonymous #SelfHosting #TOR #OnionNetwork #Censorship
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OCTADE (octade@soc.octade.net)'s status on Saturday, 09-Aug-2025 23:55:10 JST
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NATIVITY OF JESUS CHRIST
I am doing some research on the nativity of Jesus of Nazareth. I am looking into the many sectarian traditions and scholarly opinions on this subject.
I would like to get hermeneutic opinions and off the cuff opinions on some groundwork questions.
1. What actual year do you think Jesus was born?
2. How old was Mary when she was married?
3. How did Mary conceive?
4. What is the significance of his birthplace?
5. What is the significance of the Magi who sought him after his birth?
6. Why was it necessary or significant for an angel to tell Mary she was going to conceive?
Where possible, links or citations would be useful for particular opinions or traditional explanations.
#bible #jesus #theology #mary #miriam #virginbirth #nativity #incarnation #christ #christianity
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OCTADE (octade@soc.octade.net)'s status on Saturday, 09-Aug-2025 23:52:47 JST
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SMUD - an appropriate name for the electric company conducting surveillance for the police.
The $94 Million Smart Meter Surveillance Scheme Exposed
https://youtu.be/onYWQJsWFpk
Sacramento residents discovered their utility company has been secretly feeding their private energy data to police without warrants, leading to a massive surveillance operation that generated $94 million in fines. This explosive investigation reveals how SMUD transformed smart meters into government spy devices, monitoring when you shower, sleep, or use appliances.
Innocent homeowners faced armed police raids for using electricity to power medical equipment or mine cryptocurrency. One resident was forced outside in his underwear at gunpoint, while another disabled veteran was threatened with arrest for refusing warrantless entry. The surveillance threshold dropped dramatically from 7,000 to just 2,800 kilowatt hours per month, making air conditioning use suspicious in Sacramento's brutal heat.
Internal documents expose how SMUD analysts actively mined customer data for police, checking over 10,000 homes in a single month. Despite California law explicitly prohibiting utilities from sharing precise meter data without warrants, SMUD violated these protections daily for a decade.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's lawsuit could reshape smart meter privacy nationwide. With the October 2025 court decision approaching, every American with a smart meter needs to understand how their utility company might be spying on them right now.
#SMUD #SmartMeters #EFF #Privacy #Utilities #Electricity #surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #Spying #4thAmendment #WarrantlessSearch #Constitution #CivilRights #Courts #Lawsuit #SCOTUS #Cops #Police #Extortion #Fraud
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OCTADE (octade@soc.octade.net)'s status on Saturday, 09-Aug-2025 18:30:37 JST
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I like the scheduled post feature in the snac2 web front end. Is there a way to schedule a post using the command-line server side? I know, I know, I can just write a shell script or cron job to fire at particular times ... but figured I would ask if snac2 has that capability. -
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OCTADE (octade@soc.octade.net)'s status on Thursday, 31-Jul-2025 06:13:28 JST
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Liberate Princess Porcellus from the Wickedpedia dungeon! -
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OCTADE (octade@soc.octade.net)'s status on Thursday, 31-Jul-2025 06:10:32 JST
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OCTADE (octade@soc.octade.net)'s status on Thursday, 27-Feb-2025 02:28:31 JST
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Illuminant - A NNTP-based Fediverse Server
This is cool.
It is a Fediverse server you can use with a newsreader client like Thunderbird.
Demo: https://illuminant.asjo.org/
Profile: https://illuminant.asjo.org/user/asjo
Source: https://koldfront.dk/git/illuminant/
#NNTP #Illuminant #Fediverse #Software #Usenet #CoolCode
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OCTADE (octade@soc.octade.net)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 01:38:17 JST
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USENET IS NOT DEAD !!!!! USENET IS STILL FREE FREE FREE!
Usenet is an ever-living, Casper the friendly ghost of discussion networks.
Just a friendly reminder that Usenet still exists and access to text newsgroups is still FREE. Access is provided by volunteer sysops around the world. See links below.
Back in its glory days it seems that just about every academic institution had its own Usenet hierarchy of newsgroups.
Linux was revealed to the world via Usenet.
Open source philosophy gained its steam via Usenet.
Usenet is the original free speech network.
Usenet is the original 'social network'.
NovaBBS
https://novabbs.org
Simple and free access to text-only Usenet Newsgroups
https://www.i2pn2.org/
#Usenet #BBS #NetworkNews #EternalSeptember
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OCTADE (octade@soc.octade.net)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 20:05:46 JST
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Trump is REALLY serious about eliminating Income Tax (IMPORTANT)
(IMPORTANT!) I don't much care for politics but this is a positive development for everyone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy290h4Yn18
(Boost, Copypasta to other networks, text your mom ... this is great news!)
Trump is talking very seriously about eliminating the income tax for U.S. Citizens. This is the first time a President has had the stones to seriously approach this issue. The income tax is the bread and butter of the military-industrial complex, which enriches itself on our backs. There is no time better than now to abolish the Federal Income Tax.
I don't believe the anti-tariff fear-mongerings. America funded its operations on tariffs for several generations, with no federal income tax at all. Plus the income tax is a war tax. It was implemented specifically, and I do mean SPECIFICALLY, for funding the war machine. Gutting the income tax guts the war machine.
There will be a lot of resistance from the Federal Reserve and the war machine military industrial complex. They depend on the income tax to foment wars and socially engineer our lives and their total information awareness panopticon.
The American people are taxed and that money is used to enrich the rich and the rest of the world through subsidies, bribes, grants, etc. Instead America should tax the rest of the world and enrich the American people. Abolishing the progressive personal income tax on wages is the first step in the right direction.
Whether you are Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, or whatever, now is the time to write to your representatives and demand that they support the abolition of the income tax. Fifty million letters should fill up Congressional mailboxes with ABOLISH THE INCOME TAX ON WAGES NOW! ABOLISH, NOT REDUCE! ABOLISH, NOT CUT! ABOLISH! emblazoned on the envelopes.
This is serious. It doesn't matter if your party lost or won the election. What matters is that we get this tax gorilla off the backs of all Americans. We have a President seriously talking about it repeatedly. Trump kept his promises to pardon Ross Ulbricht and other persons given draconian punishments by the courts. He has kept several other political promises. He promised to stump before Congress for the abolition of the income tax. Don't let the momentum die on this proposition. Don't let him wane on his commitment to abolition of the income tax. Get behind it and push!
Abolishing the income tax will do more good for American workers than all the political promises of the last twelve Presidential elections. This is an opportunity for real change for the average American.
#IncomeTax #AbolishIncomeTaxNow #Abolition #Tariffs #Economy #Taxes #GeoPolitics #Politics
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OCTADE (octade@soc.octade.net)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2025 10:37:52 JST
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OK. Alrighty then.
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