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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • Little me had this. I got my feeling of success from this thing. Believe it or not, but getting one of these installs to work on a consumer i386 wasn’t easy. It was uphill, both ways, bla bla bla they had just introduced python as this hip new systems language that they used in the installer - which was the style at the time, and still is, apparently. The circle of life I guess. In any case, my system drive couldn’t be the slave. It had to be the master. What’s that, nurse? Is it nap time? ZzZzZzZzZz…



  • Nicely written - even though it reads “like a writer who is in love with their thesaurus”… he said, writing allegorical poetry in the abstract, like an a absolutely self indulgent toss pot.

    No joke, I was writing one of those the other day and was reminded of a scene from - of all things - a whodunnit, where one of the protagonists is forced on a date to sit through an hours long epic poetry reading called “an epithon”. The other protagonist who doesn’t want him to go on this date says “serves you right”…

    And as I’m writing this abstract imagery using symbolism and metaphors, my eyes roll into the back of my head, because suddenly I envision myself as the one reading that epic poetry, dressed in a turtleneck and blazer, sitting in an egg chair, reading from a tomb thicker than a slab of concrete.

    Moma, I should have written show tunes. I don’t know what I was thinking. Now I write beautifully structured poetry that no one will ever read because they don’t know what a thesaurus is. Smh.










  • You’re irrelevant IN the big picture, at least with that attitude. Defeatism is everywhere and prevents grassroots movements and is the sign of a weak spirit. I refuse that attitude and stick to the merits of a concept, rather than falling back on a logical fallacy like appeal to majority. Stop doing that, because that’s how you get subjugated, that’s how change is prevented, that is how those in power and influence remain in power and influence. Be the change you want to see.

    EDIT: but yes, i was lost, as i thought i was answering to a comment in my inbox, but I did also find @MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml mom - and boy did I meet those potatoes, lemme tell ya.



  • The wOrLd GuBmInTs is such a huge umbrella that it must mean it’ll rain the Atlantic Ocean.

    WESTERN GOVERNMENTS are allowed to go against privacy and encryption because of stupid Karen’s screaming “won’t somebody please think of the children” and old fops going “basically terrorists” and not a single one of them have considered the decentralisation principle as an actual barrier, because their constituency allows it, because their constituency is technically illiterate.

    EASTERN GOVERNMENTS are largely authoritarian. Sorry, world, but I’m not in the mood to piss about here.

    THE GLOBAL SOUTH gets bundled together as well, because no one there has the resources to actually prevent the spread of encryption software, much to the shegrin of western governments, who tried to sanction that shit, but got overridden by people who took a plane ride with aa USB stick.

    Again, PGP over email is still unbreakable and can be used as well, incl with private email servers, or even Matrix servers. You don’t need Telegram or Signal. The “whose next” problem relies on the idea that you and I are the only people who know of these problems, and that’s kind of arrogant.

    M’buru Ufufu is on that plane right now, with tons of encryption software on a USB stick, the UN be damned. UMA LELE, UMA LELE~!




  • It’s not a fight, it’s logic. The world governments can do nothing to OpenWhisperSystems (the makers of Signal), because they don’t store any communication.

    Telegram however thought they were smart, by storing data and splitting that data up in to several different pieces around the world, assuming governments wouldn’t collude together to get it.

    But they didn’t foresee the litigious nature of nation states, and that’s what we’re seeing now. If these nation states also start to collude with one another, everyone who thought they were safe are gonna get fucked.

    Signal does not store any communication data. They only facilitate handshake between clients and the clients manage the data between themselves.

    This is why Telegram isn’t safe, but Signal is.