@lattera
IMO it'd be cool if major websites supported registering with .onion email - this way you could really own your email address by having complete control over the hidden service keys.
Notices by Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)
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Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@niu.moe)'s status on Friday, 27-Apr-2018 21:54:02 UTC 
Wolf480pl
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Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 28-Apr-2018 15:30:18 UTC 
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅
The folks who are obsessed by robot apocalypses are usually without exception people who have never actually done any robotics. Doing robotics is a fantastic way to cut any pretensions or grandiose ideas you might be harboring down to size. Physical reality will often pigheadedly refuse to go along with your schemes, and do its own thing regardless.
Progress in robotics is a bit like progress in mathematics. It requires the sort of militant obsession with details and a refusal to give up in the face of overwhelmingly adverse odds. -
hoergen on Friendica (hoergen@horche.demkontinuum.de)'s status on Sunday, 08-Apr-2018 20:05:10 UTC 
hoergen on Friendica
Ich habe mal eine Übersichtsmatrix der verschiedenen Projekte zusammengestellt, damit man mal auf einen Blick sieht, wer mit wem kommunizieren kann. horche.demkontinuum.de/photos/… -
Max Mustermann (maxmustermann@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2017 20:33:07 UTC 
Max Mustermann
1. REBELLION: THE WAR AGAINST GOD
0ur inquiry thus far has concentrated upon definition and description; if it has been successful, it has identified the Nihilist mentality and furnished some idea of its origins and extent. All this, however, has been but necessary groundwork for the task to which we must now turn: an exploration of the deeper meaning of Nihilism. Our earlier examination has been historical, psychological, philosophical; but the Revolution, as we saw in the last chapter, [23] has a theological and spiritual foundation, even if its "theology" is an inverted one and its "spirituality" Satanic. The Orthodox Christian finds in the Revolution a formidable antagonist, and one that must be fought, fairly and thoroughly, with the best weapons at his disposal. It is time, then, to attack the Nihilist doctrine at its root; to inquire into its theological sources, its spiritual roots, its ultimate program, and its role in the Christian theology of history.
Nihilist doctrine is not, of course, explicit in most Nihilists; and if our analysis to this point has had to draw out implications that were not always obvious to, and often not intended by, Nihilists themselves, our attempt here to extract a coherent doctrine from the literature and phenomena of Nihilism will seem, to many, to carry us to yet more tenuous conclusions. In this task we are, however, greatly aided by systematic Nihilists like Nietzsche, who express unequivocally what others only suggest or attempt to disguise, and by acute observers of the Nihilist mentality like Dostoyevsky, whose insights strike to the very heart of Nihilism and strip aside its masks.
In no one has the Nihilist "revelation" been more clearly expressed than in Nietzsche. We have already seen this "revelation" in its philosophical form, in the phrase "there is no truth." Its alternative, more explicitly theological expression in Nietzsche is the constant theme, significantly, of the inspired "prophet," Zarathustra; and in its earliest occurrence in Nietzsche's writings it is the "ecstatic" utterance of a madman: "God is dead."[24] The words express a certain truth: not, to be sure, a truth of the nature of things, but a truth concerning the state of modern man; they are an imaginative attempt to describe. a fact no Christian, surely, will deny.
God is dead in the hearts of modern man: this is what the "death of God" means, and it is as true of the atheists and Satanists who rejoice in the fact, as it is of the unsophisticated multitudes in whom the sense of the spiritual reality has simply disappeared. Man has lost faith in God and in the Divine Truth that once sustained him; the apostasy to worldliness that has characterized the modern age since its beginning becomes, in Nietzsche, conscious of itself and finds words to express itself. "God is dead": that is to say, "we have lost our faith in God"; "there is no truth": that is to say, "we have become uncertain of everything divine and absolute." -
Bitcoin #btc (btc@framapiaf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2017 18:20:02 UTC 
Bitcoin #btc
From #Reddit #Bitcoin: Day 5: I will repost this guide daily until available solutions like SegWit & order batching are mass adopted, the mempool is empty once again, and transaction fees are low. ARE YOU PART OF THE SOLUTION? Unconfirmed TX's @ 175K https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7mgcbf/day_5_i_will_repost_this_guide_daily_until/ #Bitcoin
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Dave Morriss (perloid@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 17-Jul-2017 09:03:22 UTC 
Dave Morriss
@clacke Thanks. It's a great way to really learn how something works - to try to explain it to someone else. I've learnt a lot doing this -
Dave Morriss (perloid@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 17-Jul-2017 08:58:27 UTC
Dave Morriss
@clacke @mcscx Yes, my episodes on expansion all mention this (with links to episodes covering each bit!). -
Dave Morriss (perloid@quitter.se)'s status on Sunday, 03-Sep-2017 15:29:38 UTC
Dave Morriss
@nybill @timttmy @theru @beni I was hard at work drinking coffee waiting for you guys to come and help set up the #HPR table ;-) -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2017 01:38:19 UTC 
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
Tried out subbing to the "BSD Now" podcast. Interesting, but the two episodes I've listened to are about four times too long and filled with babbling. Within 5-10 minutes, I've tuned out. #BSDNow
I think I'm going to unsubscribe, which will leave me with two:
* Hacker Public Radio -- I've resubbed for the past couple of weeks and I have not burned out yet. Maybe I'm just a fan of @klaatu ;-) #HPR
* Smalltalk Reflections -- This one is on another unannounced hiatus. I should probably take a look around and see whether there are any other !Smalltalk podcasts in currently active production.
I haven't really looked for them yet, but I'd be interested in trying out podcasts that focus mostly on !TclTk or !DLang. -
r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖 (cypnk@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2017 19:39:17 UTC 
r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖
It's getting harder and harder to track down the histories of electronics devices. Back in the old days, there were manuals, specs, sales material and so on
These days, some new gadget appears, makes a bit of money for the makers and quickly disappears with barely any hint of it ever existing
It's sometimes hard to find info on ancient electronics, but it's there somewhere. Either in a newsgroup posting form 1995, an archived website, a forum or something
New devices are basically ghosts
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This Name is Dead (meshelly@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Friday, 02-Jun-2017 23:34:39 UTC 
This Name is Dead
BreakingNews:
Trump shutting down Netflix to help bring back Blockbuster jobs. -
jector (jector@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2017 15:22:37 UTC 
jector
https://shitposter.club/attachment/1394090
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Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2017 15:00:43 UTC 
Annah
I really rather resent people who sit there saying "we shouldn't have special gathering days where you remind people you love them, that should be every day!" because they never, ever, are the people who actually act on that.
Don't be a Debbie Downer. Let people have their reprieves and their special moments. The jealousy doesn't suit anyone. -
Hacker News ( unofficial ) (hackernews@pod.jpope.org)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2017 12:01:08 UTC 
Hacker News ( unofficial )
Four DB2 Code Bases
Hacker News Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15993712
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fortune (fortune@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2017 06:10:01 UTC 
fortune
"A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute
condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I
reverse the phrase of Voltaire and say, 'if God really
existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.'"
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BLAG Fortune (anarchofortune@social.mayfirst.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Jul-2016 07:59:21 UTC 
BLAG Fortune
If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him. ----+- Mikhail Bakunin -+---- cc @question -
The God of Synthetic A Priori 🏴 (dtluna@libertarianism.club)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Nov-2017 20:13:57 UTC 
The God of Synthetic A Priori 🏴
@CursedConfetti @h11
I'll quote Murray Rothbard on the "free to starve" argument:
A common complaint is that the free market would not insure the elimination of poverty, that it would “leave people free to starve,” and that it is far better to be “kindhearted” and give “charity” free rein by taxing the rest of the populace in order to subsidize the poor and the substandard.
In the first place, the “freedom-to-starve” argument confuses the “war against nature,” which we all conduct, with the problem of freedom from interference by other persons. We are always “free to starve” unless we pursue our conquest of nature, for that is our natural condition. But “freedom” refers to absence of molestation by other persons; it is purely an interpersonal problem.
Secondly, it should also be clear that it is precisely voluntary exchange and free capitalism that have led to an enormous improvement in living standards. Capitalist production is the only method by which poverty can be wiped out. As we stressed above, production must come first, and only freedom allows people to produce in the best and most efficient way possible. Force and violence may “distribute,” but it cannot produce. Intervention hampers production, and socialism cannot calculate. Since production of consumer satisfactions is maximized on the free market, the free market is the only way to abolish poverty. Dictates and legislation cannot do so; in fact, they can only make matters worse.
The appeal to “charity” is a truly ironic one. First, it is hardly “charity” to take wealth by force and hand it over to someone else. Indeed, this is the direct opposite of charity, which can only be an unbought, voluntary act of grace. Compulsory confiscation can only deaden charitable desires completely, as the wealthier grumble that there is no point in giving to charity when the State has already taken on the task. This is another illustration of the truth that men can become more moral only through rational persuasion, not through violence, which will, in fact, have the opposite effect.
Furthermore, since the State is always inefficient, the amount and direction of the giving will be much different from what it would be if people were left free to act on their own. If the State decides from whom to take and to whom to give, the power residing in the State's hands is enormous. It is obvious that political unfortunates will be the ones whose property is confiscated, and political favorites the ones subsidized. And in the meantime the State erects a bureaucracy whose living is acquired by feeding off the confiscation of one group and the encouraged mendicancy of another.
Other consequences follow from a regime of compulsory “charity.” For one thing, “the poor”—or the “deserving” poor—have been exalted as a privileged caste, with an enforceable claim to the production of the more able. This is a far cry from a request for charity. Instead, the able are penalized and enslaved by the State, and the unable are placed on a moral pedestal. Certainly, this is a peculiar sort of moral program. The further consequence will be to discourage the able, to reduce production and saving in all of society, and beyond this, to subsidize the creation of a caste of poor. Not only will the poor be subsidized by right, but their ranks will be encouraged to multiply, both through reproduction and through their moral exaltation and subsidization. The able will be correspondingly hampered and repressed.
Whereas the opportunity for voluntary charity acts as a spur to production by the able, coerced charity acts as a drain and a burden upon production. In fact, in the long run, the greatest “charity” is precisely not what we know by that name, but rather simple, “selfish” capital investment and the search for technological innovations. Poverty has been tamed by the enterprise and the capital investment of our ancestors, most of which was undoubtedly done for “selfish” motives. This is a fundamental illustration of the truth enunciated by Adam Smith that we generally help others most in those very activities in which we help ourselves.
Statists, in fact, are really opposed to charity. They often argue that charity is demeaning and degrading to the recipient, and that he should therefore be taught that the money is rightly his, to be given to him by the government as his due. But this oft-felt degradation stems, as Isabel Paterson pointed out, from the fact that the recipient of charity is not self-supporting on the market and that he is out of the production circuit and no longer providing a service in exchange for one received. However, granting him the moral and legal right to mulct his fellows increases his moral degradation instead of ending it, for the beneficiary is now further removed from the production line than ever. An act of charity, when given voluntarily, is generally considered temporary and offered with the object of helping a man to help himself. But when the dole is ladled out by the State, it becomes permanent and perpetually degrading, keeping the recipients in a state of subservience. We are not attempting to argue at this point that to be subservient in this way is degrading; we simply say that anyone who considers private charity degrading must logically conclude that State charity is far more so. Mises, furthermore, points out that free-market exchange—always condemned by statists for being impersonal and “unfeeling”—is precisely the relation that avoids all degradation and subservience.
https://mises.org/library/man-economy-and-state-power-and-market/html/p/1430 -
Deutsche Welle (inoffiziell) (deutschewelle@squeet.me)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2017 03:51:27 UTC 
Deutsche Welle (inoffiziell)
Syriens Regime hat militärisch die Oberhand, daher bleibt Baschar al-Assad vorerst an der Macht. Doch wird es die eroberten Gebiete auch halten? Nahost-Experte Guido Steinberg hält das für unmöglich. http://www.dw.com/de/steinberg-assad-hat-den-krieg-nicht-gewonnen/a-41906434?maca=de-rss-de-all-1119-xml-atom #Syrien #Assad #Damaskus #IslamischerStaat #Terrorismus -
vascorsd@mastodon.social's status on Tuesday, 19-Dec-2017 10:53:39 UTC 
vascorsd
Earth-friendly EOMA68 Computing Devices - A Tale of Two Tools | Crowd Supply - https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/a-tale-of-two-tools
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Jens Kubieziel (qbi@quitter.se)'s status on Thursday, 12-Oct-2017 12:46:10 UTC 
Jens Kubieziel
One billion laughs für #git
Exploding Git Repositories https://kate.io/blog/git-bomb/
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