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In C++, an abstract base class defines a virtual function = 0. That means some class must inherit from it, and define their version of the virtual function (with the "override" keyword for some reason). If a third class inherits from the second class and also overrides the function, then calling that virtual function will use the code in the third class. Except when it uses the code in the second class, and ignores the code in the third class, no matter what you do.
#C++ #programming #FuckEverything

2026-03-21 06:34:05 UTC

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I don't suppose you could get a summarized list of this small set of people, including legal names and birthdates and "THESE ARE THE CORPORATE CREEPS ATTACKING LINUX PLEASE SLASH THEIR TIRES" on the top of the document? Asking for a friend

2026-03-10 17:55:42 UTC

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that might be my dumbness shining through

2026-03-10 17:51:11 UTC

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Like, for the record I think budding pieces of yourself off your gonads and growing them into a baby is fucking amazing. It's just also selfish. Selfish things can be amazing. Just keep your babies from messing with me over their lifetime, and you can have as many as you want!
If more parents got off their high horse and admitted they're still just people like everyone else, the world would be a lot better place.
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2026-03-10 17:36:54 UTC

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Especially since it's wrong, like really wrong, like past missing the point he knows he's wrong and just wants to fool people into being slaves. Actual bullshit!
Audre: the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house
Some putz: There is no toolset better suited to conduct an orderly dismantling of a structure than the tools that built it.
Anyone with half a brain: But then they're not the master's tools. They're the slave's tools. So slaves should sieze the means of their master's production?
Some putz: uhhhh noooo they should stay slaves and masters will dismantle their own house... voluntarily. ...Reagan...

2026-03-10 17:19:05 UTC

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You have to tip your houseboat over and really snnnniff the water.
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2026-03-10 17:06:45 UTC

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Let's assume you have a common unit of account that workers use to track the flow of advances of goods between themselves. You take your unit of account, that you got through advancing goods and your own hard work, and head to my store to buy shoes. I can tell it's safe to give you the shoes, because you have proof that you've done hard work and advanced goods to um... someone.
Then you get mugged on the way there and left bleeding and unconscious in the alleyway. The mugger proceeds to walk into my store and give me your money. How do I tell that the mugger wasn't the one who worked hard and advanced goods?
Alternatively suppose you make it to my store, but a scammer runs in and shouts that you mugged them and stole their money. How do I tell you're not the mugger?
That's what I mean by blood money. Has nothing to do with credit or loans. Though loans do make it much worse.

2026-03-10 16:59:29 UTC

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I also call for police reform, doesn't mean I think the police is a good thing. UBI is just a stopgap measure to try to deal with people who insist that we only use money. But it is better than nothing at all!
Ideally we wouldn't have to pay money for most things, because it's right there, and there's enough for everyone.

2026-03-10 06:41:59 UTC

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I'm always amazed by people who feel so proud of their selfless sacrifice, when the only people they're sacrificing for are smaller pieces of themselves that budded off their ovaries one day. "Once I first saw my Newborn Child, I realized it's not all about me anymore" uhh yes it is

2026-03-10 06:37:17 UTC

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Might not be all bad. Historically, arming your enemies, training them in combat, and how your military operates doesn't work out so well for you. Which is why they removed the draft. Fascists learned from Ghana, to never let people have that power again. If the current administration has forgotten, well that's not a good sign for future times of "not being a war torn shithole," but it's at least some hope.

2026-03-10 03:11:33 UTC

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...found the New California Republic?

2026-03-10 02:56:41 UTC

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Jeez, that sounds exhausting.

2026-03-10 02:00:23 UTC

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How do you make people all agree on the common value of any quanititative unit? Without soldiers?

2026-03-10 01:52:43 UTC

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Or to more seriously respond, how do you make people all agree on the common value of any quanititative unit? Without soldiers?

2026-03-10 01:49:56 UTC

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Oh my mistake. The factory owner told us we can't possibly survive without capitalism, and that proves it. Without using the mafia's blood money, we're doomed to unwashed savagery engaging in barter and nothing else, just like Adam Smith said.

2026-03-09 19:21:01 UTC

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I dunno about friendship, just say "I'm not staying past 5?"
But here:
https://fedicy.us.to/media/445e5/image/jpeg/love%20your%20job%20but%20don't%20love%20your%20company,%20always%20leave%20work%20on%20time.jpg

2026-03-09 16:18:56 UTC

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Wow that's uh... an extremely diverse group of performers he's got there to pose for his album covers. Black, white, male, female, astronaut, skiier, anime, pumpkinkin... certainly none of those photos were cobbled together from shady AI training sets. Couldn't possibly be the case. 🧐

2026-03-09 16:04:30 UTC

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I was seeing Canada geese in northern Oregon last month, if you want an idea of how far south they've gotten.

2026-03-09 15:50:15 UTC

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Why, instead of groups of workers simply acting on the free gifts of nature, advancing streams of material resources to one another, and using a simple unit of account to track the balance of these advances of material resources and who owes what to whom, do they have to go to someone who is in possession of stockpiles of these imaginary paper claims?
Because when you allow them to hold people accountable, people forget but the records do not. People slip, make mistakes. There are unavoidable extenuating circumstances. Factors beyond their control. Even natural disasters. So your "balanced" accounting ends up with owing units to others. And since your military pillages and imprisons people in order to keep the accounting books balanced, they have to pay back their debts or suffer and die. And of course people with a shred of decency won't do that, while people without struggle mightily to "take risks" to get their grubby mitts on every inequality they can.
Soon the champions of suffering, sadists beyond measure, have all the units, and everyone else is in their debt, pressed by their own military into slavery without end.
So basically you're a dumbass for using money and rich fucks will turn it against the people every time. Just make friends, and respect territory, and don't bother balancing every f*cking transaction, especially not for tax purposes. If you can't pay back the money you owe, then we burn the books. They're not worth enslaving a single soul.

2026-03-09 06:27:44 UTC

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The current political establishment has to accept you before you have a hope of getting elected. As such, you have to concede on certain things which would seem immoral, and adopt a policy that doesn't disrupt the consolidation of wealth, however left you may be. So they had no choice but to support genocide! 🤡
The critical flaw here is in the claim that "The current political establishment has to accept you before you have a hope of getting elected." If that's true, then the current political establishment are anti-democratic fascist slavers who must be (all of them) executed for treason. And once you do that, suddenly that claim stops being quite as true!
Fact is that if you must go against the people electing you, to get elected, then the election itself is a sham, and you're better off fighting from outside the system.

2026-03-09 05:54:27 UTC

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I might look up at the stars some time, if that was what I saw.

2026-03-09 05:44:31 UTC

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It's just actually (literally) killing a few people needlessly every year, because there is nobody who's rich, who cares. And nothing may be done for anyone but the rich, no matter how self-evident, easy to achieve, or life-saving.
Pff, how could that possibly be fascism? 🤡

2026-03-09 05:40:32 UTC

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Have you read the book "The Kin of Ata are Waiting For You?" It's some hapless author's utopian self insert fantasy, but there's a lot of wisdom in it too. In particular, they define boredom. Boredom is not inactivity. It is the fear that there is something essential for your survival that you need to do, and you don't know what it is. Boredom is anxiety, not apathy.
So yeah, you stop learning and you get very creative, out of desperation. 100% agree.

2026-03-09 04:48:52 UTC

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ILLUMINATUS! @nprofile…kvuk
http://illumnati.com/n23.htm

2026-03-09 04:07:04 UTC

So you impose a 512 character limit. Uh huh. And do you also impose a 512 byte attachment limit? #fediverse #meta #HotTake

2026-03-09 04:04:49 UTC

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GAMARGAT

2026-03-09 03:02:35 UTC

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😩

2026-03-09 01:57:14 UTC

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It's really gone downhill, especially video search. It just pulls from Microsoft Bing I mean, so they're the ones who are shit these days.
Does anyone know a search engine that returns results in order of upload/modification time? That's the only thing I really use DDG's video search for, and all I can do there is limit it to stuff uploaded last week, or last month, not allowed to set the order. And it doesn't work anymore... so many people who used to appear will upload, but all you see is videos on whatever disaster the newscasters are trying to manipulate us with.

2026-03-08 20:18:48 UTC

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Forgive my transgressions, I remembered the lyrics wrong. God is actually the source of all our gifts. Jesus Christ is the one whose power uplifts. Very important to get it right!

2026-03-08 16:37:13 UTC

Heading to church, if anyone wants to come and roll your eyes with me at people singing about how Jesus Christ is the source of all our gifts.
#life #religion #snark

2026-03-08 16:08:00 UTC

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It's especially ironic because the only people who would be caught dead burning drugs at a homeless camp are the police.

2026-03-08 15:50:20 UTC

My mother's watching a news report on "Skid Row" in Los Angeles, in which while passing tents, the reporter repeatedly mentions cleaning up needles and drugs, and never actually speaks to any homeless people. (Couldn't find someone drugged up enough to look bad on television?) Last I saw they were approaching a fire, speculating on what it "could" be: clothes, drugs, feces. Feces?
My brother in Christ, if you are approaching a pile of burning feces, you will not need to speculate!
#lying #news #propaganda #AntiHomeless #DeathCult

2026-03-08 15:27:36 UTC

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Assuming you have the luxury of putting yourself out to help thankless strangers, sure. Universal basic income shares the burden with people who have that luxury but refuse.

2026-03-08 06:28:53 UTC

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Oh yeah the Mexican food and the farmers market are great! Lots of good people here! But they're not the city, sadly. The mayor and his/her cronies shipped in from Texas are the only ones who define the "City of Hillsboro." Just go up Brookwood sometime to highway 26, you'll see the ugly side of this place. All that wasn't there 10 years ago.
I'd like at least something more like the Beaverton system, where the city council get to do something other than sit there and look pretty. But I'll even accept our current dictator mayor situation if it stops all these data centers from going up, tax-free on our dime. If you can't tell from the dripping sarcasm in my voice, the polar opposite of that is true.
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2026-03-08 06:08:47 UTC

So, I just figured out another reason charity sucks sweaty monkey balls. Food donated to charity; grocery stores love to do that! They'll donate tons of food for the needy. It's all expired, possibly rotting food that they can no longer sell, but who are you to complain? It's free!
Universal basic income, now. Stores can't save all the good food for the not-poors that way. That's why food stamps are so powerful, and charities are so pathetic. You only take donations? How about go and demand the needy's fair share from those generous donors?
#politics #HotTake #charity

2026-03-08 05:42:13 UTC

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I'm near Portland, Oregon in the Pacific Northwest. Shacked up in a scummy city known as Hillsboro. I uh... don't have a favorite breakfast. Sometimes different things seem awful. This morning I had a tuna salad on wheat bread thingy. Tomorrow I'm hoping for oatmeal with some cranberries I scrounged up.

2026-03-08 05:03:39 UTC

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Damn, what a tragedy!
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2026-03-07 20:50:37 UTC

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aus.social
=_=

2026-03-05 19:02:43 UTC

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I did fork the project. What's that, you've never heard of it? And you've never heard of me? Funny how things work out that way, huh?
But besides that yes, what I think you're getting at is complexity is a form of obfuscation. Obfuscation is like, you can't call source code open, if what you share was processed to eliminate all information possible and confuse the original intent, so all we see is some junk like "(function()v1=(function(a,b,c)c(function(d,e)e(f, g))(3))(97))(idk)." Javascript is infamous for having very effective code obfuscators, and that's why Google Drive for instance is as closed source as anything Microsoft produced.
Complexity becomes obfuscation, by hiring infiltrators to make a project bigger and more complex, adding things like telemetry (which makes up more than half of Firefox's source code now), and "modern" UIs deliberately designed to require a lot of code to program. Hiring more people to false flag advocate for bigger, kitchen-sink software that tries to do everything. Like the people going on about WebASM or some nonsense.
It can even happen accidentally, when the project members aren't careful to limit themselves to making focused applications with strong modularity. Also known as feature creep.
The fact of the matter is, the more complex, bloated, tangled and convoluted your open source software is, the less open it is. Modularity, cohesion, and decoupling help with debugging, but also with making your code more accessible to people trying to understand it. (As long as you don't get into abstraction hell.)

2026-03-05 17:37:34 UTC

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Vengeful forest god
By makeshift bow and arrow
Defeated with ease.

2026-03-05 17:32:32 UTC

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You can actually bypass the security of the TPM spy chip by aiming an industrial laser at it and turning it on at full power until the CPU is molten slag, then going and taking up goat herding as a profession.

2026-03-05 17:14:02 UTC

Y'know, when Patrick Farley drew a comic about a massive drone army fighting tyranny in the Middle East, I don't think this is what he had in mind...
#politics

2026-03-05 16:55:37 UTC

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Improve your situation, then give it a bit since it takes a while to recover from trauma. Then you'll know! 🙃

2026-03-05 07:47:26 UTC

Did the muffin thing today. What do you call it when you sell people muffins, but you're not charging any money? Well over a hundred muffins got et, pretty cool. The college students have started coming over to volunteer from like 1:30 to 2, so I couldn't even get close to the little table we're serving muffins on.
So I went in to where they were taking bulk sacks of food and repackaging it, for the "Trading Post" (a combined clothes closet / food pantry) and helped turn 3 four pound bags of sugar into 12 one pound bags. Met a lady named Doris, and another lady who said people get her name mixed up with some other name, but I can't remember either of them.
I got to stay extra late too, because my mother said what she cooked today would depend on how much pain she was in. She didn't elaborate. So we skipped cooking today, and I didn't have to leave early for dinner.
#life #news

2026-03-05 06:37:54 UTC

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Saw a docudrama about New Orleans once, where a guy working on the oil rig was like "Yeah, I grew up in that neighborhood over there," and he's pointing at the open ocean. Shit is getting real.
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2026-03-05 06:34:59 UTC

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wait the double negatives confuse me. When else in history was there 80+ years of incrementally privatized, corporatized and deregulated global colonial capitalism?
Or are you saying it really is something that never existed?

2026-03-05 06:15:46 UTC

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We could always just use less energy.

2026-03-05 05:47:15 UTC

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Often a "like/⭐" means I hear you but have no useful words. It feels lame, but it's probably better than what my awkward brain will come up with as a reply.
Yeah uh, right, um y'know... yeah.

2026-03-05 04:33:19 UTC

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Looks like it's diablo or nothing

2026-03-05 04:04:25 UTC

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THEY STILL SHOULD >:(

2026-03-04 06:11:42 UTC

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Burned out. No really, I avoid any news I can do little about, which is all news. Not barraging me all that much.

2026-03-04 04:50:47 UTC

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I mean... not really? They will take away your medical care and steal the roof over your head regardless of the vote. There's no way to vote that stops that. They want you to vote because they want you to accept the election as legitimate and representative. They want you to believe democracy exists, where no democracy can be found. They want you to blame each other, for voting wrong, for abstaining, for participating. And you do. You are.
The vote doesn't matter.

2026-03-03 21:15:42 UTC

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Crazy on all counts...

2026-03-03 20:19:42 UTC

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Here's a better idea: repossess the land, demolish the data centers, and put the governor to work mopping floors because that's all she gets to do now that she stabbed us in the back.

2026-03-03 20:05:37 UTC

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It's a cult. When someone tries to escape the cult, you don't hurt them with everything that cult has done to you. You support them, and tell them it's not their fault. Because it's not, for two reasons.
1. It's a cult. It's fucking mind control.
2. "De-centering herself has to be part of the deconstruction."
Don't tell them anything they did was OK, and don't deny that they've hurt people if they bring it up. But cults rely on you to persecute their members, to hate and reject them. You're being trolled. It's part of the mind control. Step 4 is to make your group members feel like the scum of the earth and that everyone hates them... but you understand them, you love them, you need them, and you're the only one who ever will. I don't care how many people fall it and blow up at the ex-cultist. Don't take the bait.

2026-03-03 19:01:50 UTC

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It is a cruel world, when you can post about glory holes and farts simultaneously.

2026-03-03 17:21:24 UTC

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GenXXers think they're so special for being left alone at an inappropriate age, but it was normal for the Boomers, the Silent Generation even more so. It was only the moral panicks of the 1980's that convinced people that they should be wardens, not parents. Very recent and strange phenomenon.
Anyway that dude is sick, everyone involved in his creation should be ashamed, if not punished.

2026-03-03 09:23:26 UTC

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Man, I have a break in consciousness every time I get distracted. I don't know what you think is in your head to get murdered, but it probably won't be around in a couple minutes anyway!
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2026-03-03 06:14:48 UTC

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Thing is those people uhh... fail. Badly. Catastrophically. Generative AI gives them nothing. They are prospering only through the massive wealth disparity, allowing the parasite class to basically ram their head against the wall and still make money off it.
So yes, people would read books you write about writing software, and no, AI can't possibly compete with that. It's just money that's broken, not people.
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2026-03-03 06:10:31 UTC

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I mean I... did, but I never got paid for it either way.

2026-03-03 04:28:10 UTC

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I think Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show gave people hope, and proved to many that the bigots can't get their way. Don't really care whether it had an effect on bigots or not. The:
Democratic/centrist fetishization of bipartisanship and norms, and their capitulation and "reaching across the aisle"
...is not the same as accomodation, or kindness, or even tolerance. These centrists are bigots, complicit in bigotry, sabatoging themselves so they can pretend to be decent people, and prevent actually decent people getting voted in. They're throwing the game, not just failing to win it.
Not saying tolerance of bigots is a good idea, but the only person arguing that we should just give in and compromise with the bullies is one of the bullies hiding around the corner, speaking through a hand puppet.

2026-03-02 22:09:52 UTC

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Elon Musk is not American -_-

2026-03-02 22:02:25 UTC

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Nah, it's just a rehash of the previous ones. Go see Tremors 2 instead.

2026-03-02 21:17:50 UTC

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A little confused. That post is about lying that they killed tens of thousands of "Americans." Do you mean that was a lie, and also the killing of Iranian protestors is a lie?
All I know is I vaguely noticed someone yelling about Iran cutting off outside communication during protests or something.

2026-03-02 20:04:45 UTC

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That's why they got shot down by friendly fire. Because tehy're invisible so their friends couldn't see they were in the way.

2026-03-02 19:41:29 UTC

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I wish!

2026-03-02 17:09:48 UTC

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I dunno, if we were using Secure Scuttlebutt?
Usually it just does nontransparency by adding encrypted stuff to the public log.

2026-03-02 16:41:49 UTC

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Well, let's say you and I want to secretly exchange stuff nontransparently, but all we have is append only logs. I add a private message to you, to my append only log, that says I'm starting a different append only log. Using that log (only shared between us) we exchange secrets. So everything I publish is completely transparent except for everything that isn't.
I don't think there are any use cases for blockchains. It's just spinning your wheels for what seems like it'd be useful, but there are always better ways to do it.

2026-03-02 06:18:04 UTC

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I been working on it for the past 15 years, so not likely to ever happen. But I swear it would be great! No blockchain needed!

2026-03-02 06:15:52 UTC

Yeah my amazing idea for a forum that works great is like:
1. Big Things are broken up into Little Things, each one hashed into lists of hashes to summarize it.
2. Big lists of hashes are broken up and hashed into smaller lists of hashes.
3. Eventually you got 1 root hash.
4. Your blog (every post in sequence) is a Big Thing
5. Every time you post you figure out the new Root Hash of your new blog
6. Sign the Root Hash, and share it with your friends
7. Anyone can request a Little Thing by its hash.
So if you're on a flaky network, you can just request the hashes for pieces of a blog you're missing, get as many as you can while you're online. Can push those Little Things to other people too if they'll let you. No download or upload fails, it's all eventually consistent if you keep the "exchange missing pieces" thing.
Annnd, encrypt the pieces with your public key as a symmetric key, so anyone holding them has deniability. (They need your public key before they can read them.)
So that's it. Multimedia attachments are also Big Things. The whole hash tree thing makes swarming happen just by default. Only tricky part is finding servers/supernodes to store your blog on, to make it easier to distribute.
#programming #fediverse #rant #idea

2026-03-02 05:54:35 UTC

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I could ramble on about parasocial relationships, but basically it's because they don't want us to form tribes, so they hijack our brains with larger-than-life celebrities, whom we form fakey fake tribal relations with because they're so much cooler than the village's greatest mushroom gatherer. Community decimation by bedazzlement! Attention monopolies!
I guess I'm saying that liking celebrities is a mental injury, like someone's breaking people's legs and people are like "Why are there people crawlin around and not walkin?"

2026-03-02 04:43:01 UTC

Reason I roll my eyes every time I hear "append-only log" is it's completely useless and unnecessary. We already have things called "hard disks" that can save a log, with no obligation to delete it once saved. And to use an append-only log, you have to sign new updates to it, otherwise anyone could start appending to your log. So why not use the signing key for identification? If you do that, what's the point of the log?
Just reading this code it's like INVALID_PROOF, verifyUpgrade(proof), class TreeProof, settleProof() all to prove that your current log entry refers to all past log entries. Why would you care if someone's latest log refers to all their past logs? What's invalid about them removing a past log, and publishing that as an update? Just...
1. keep a list of root hashes for every log
2. someone sends you a signed root hash for their latest log
3. it's verified. you're done. Add it to the list.
4. download the rest of the latest log later.
Why does no one do that? It's not append-only, because why would it need to be? To keep me from deleting a log entry on my own log? You have all the old root hashes! If I delete a log entry or edit one in my latest log, just look at those old ones.
#programming #rant

2026-03-02 00:12:28 UTC

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You can only hate so much before you're exhausted. If your hatred isn't productive, it's just dragging you down, or worse, controlling you. People like her don't give those speeches just to please their fascist collaborators. They give it to fool people like you and me into getting upset, falling into hatred and despair. She's going to end the world, and the world will cheer her as she slits our throats...is what she wants you to think. To rage impotently against her, wasting your time doing anything to help people, or end her master's grip on us.
In the end the only problem is people who listen to her, and people who listen to them. But her, she's just a troll.

2026-03-02 00:03:13 UTC

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Fascists gonna fash. I want to know how we can do something about all those people applauding her. But why on earth torment yourself by listening to some crazy megalomaniac's arrogant lies? Your hatred is too precious to waste on her.

2026-03-01 23:32:36 UTC

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Creepy... 😬

2026-02-27 18:18:58 UTC

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I dug deep to find my inner self once, and all I found was a hole.

2026-02-27 17:38:03 UTC

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It was Lennart Pottering's uh... "passion" project. He's the one who demanded we all use his sound server even though it added a layer of complexity and a new point of failure, and sound already worked. You might know it as PulseAudio. That particular fellow realized a critical vulnerability in the "open source" community. None of us compile anything anymore.
So if he could get projects to add "optional" systemd support that could only be removed at compile time, then binary distributions like Debian or Arch had to choose: require systemd, or forbid it. He also has big influence in the Redhat project, so they turned everything to use systemd, and their users couldn't do shit about it. Debian/Ubuntu followed, and Arch was soon after. Because once most people (using Redhat) were using systemd, they went through the trouble of learning how to use it, and came to expect it.
Even if it could be made secure, the way it was introduced makes it really hard to avoid vulnerabilities, because uh... it's mandatory, so you just have to hope it's secure. And it's a big fat kitchen sink project with no discipline about keeping things secure, because it's mandatory, so they're accountable for nothing.
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2026-02-27 17:21:41 UTC

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Because it was pushed on the community by brute force and trickery, and lo and behold adding a needless (mandatory) dependency to ssh, a dependency that itself is completely sloppy and depends on everything under the sun, introduces a vulnerability to ssh.
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2026-02-27 17:15:17 UTC

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And then he shows how OpenSSH is linked to XZ via (sighhhh) systemd, without one single remark or criticism of systemd. Yeah I'm done.
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2026-02-27 17:10:42 UTC

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Wait, is he starting out by saying that the xz utils backdoor was the fault of people demanding that software be free and open source?
Ugh, now he's going on about the man in the middle fallacy. I agree with you, but this video is kind of crunk.

2026-02-27 07:00:58 UTC

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I haven't looked up at the stars in... so long.

2026-02-25 17:34:56 UTC

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I-I don't do that. S-shut up

2026-02-25 17:14:34 UTC

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Yeah like, we need more guns and violence in movies and TV, but presented in a way that it's real f*cking serious, and being casual about it makes awful things happen.
Can we have a show about putting people who publish copaganda up on a firing line? That'd be a start!

2026-02-24 21:36:27 UTC

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Hey man not trying to start any trouble. I won't help if you don't want it. Sorry I did!

2026-02-24 20:19:48 UTC

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tl;dr when the government becomes a joke, the punchline is mass executions
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2026-02-23 17:47:59 UTC

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So women can't fix it? Not even with a shotgun? Just stand sadly by, while the white knights sweep in and save her?
I can't stop people from bitching that women are total hoes, nor would I. I'd stop people from feeling like that, by getting them into genuinely sweet relationships, if I could. Or at least getting their anger directed at oppressive rich fucks, and not sex workers. I don't have even that luxury though. So whatever.

2026-02-23 17:37:09 UTC

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I'm not sure why especially by men. Some people out there are shitty, some just lashing out because they're lonely, or got dumped. Or cheated on. Lecturing people on language use feels wrong, when you're taking the literal meaning of their words, and not examining the motivations behind their writers. You want misogyny, look for the well suited gentleman with a wife and three kids, talking calmly about family values, traditional families, and protecting the children. You know she's hiding a black eye, the way some of those slimeballs talk.
A social media ban for under-16s might prevent young boys seeing endless content that treats women with contempt and hate.
Language like that, for instance! Are you entirely sure that is a 15 year old girl?

2026-02-23 08:37:24 UTC

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Oh also obligatory mention that tags are way better than content warnings. Nobody who needs a CW can use them, since you get triggered by the content warning. And everything you say is going to bother at least someone. Tags are infinitely superior, because you can tag stuff as fascism, and as gore, and everybody who doesn't want to see one or the other can filter it out, without even reading it. At the same time nobody who doesn't mind either tag will have to click through a content warning.

2026-02-23 08:30:58 UTC

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I dunno, maybe if it was super important. I'd definitely ask him to leave if I had to warn everyone that someone's right outside the building putting people in chokeholds. Plus I didn't need to be so enthusiastic in my retelling. It just reminded me of content warnings and stuff.
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2026-02-23 08:06:27 UTC

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Yeah like, I was trying to tell a story of that lady they put in a chokehold for submitting a petition, because it's freaking badass to get taken down like that, and one guy there shut me down hard. We were not to speak of anything like that, and we had to change the subject right now.
I uh... assume because... someone put him in a chokehold at some point and it brought back bad memories. He didn't say though. Just no talking about it, I'm not OK with this.
So of course I changed the subject. But it really is insidious how things can actually get worse for everyone if people who've been through terrible things can't let people talk about them. Sometimes we need to be disturbed, and there are consequences when we can't stand it. How to give people that resilience, I can't say though. Some people are just... slave to their trauma and it doesn't seem like anything can free them from it. How do you lecture someone into not having a completely involuntary PTSD episode?

2026-02-23 07:54:47 UTC

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The Luddites didn't even go full Luddite. They felt they had not exhausted political action, then were summarily executed and/or sent to slave colonies. They mailed letters, did public demonstrations, signed petitions, and for their efforts they were beset by bullshitters accusing them of "military-like drills," among other obvious fabrications. They wrecked machinery, then got blamed for death threats. They were blamed for the Pentrich uprising, which itself was caused by the unbearable exploitation of the working class, and not by the working class who justifiably marched on Nottingham. But nobody there was flying some imagined flag of Ned Ludd!
I wasn't there when it went down, but I call it like I see it. A city nearby to me had a lady last week who marched up to city council during a public hearing and held up a petition at them, which they'd been ignoring for months because 19,000 people wanted to revoke the city's permit that they granted to ICE to hole up in there. They freaking swarmed her with cops, and the news dutifully reported that in the wake of this vicious attack, city council members were going to have to start carrying firearms to defend themselves. She's been charged with criminal trespassing. In a public hearing, at city hall. People in power lie like that ALL the TIME. Not even a lot of power. Any "representative" of anyone anywhere in the USA is going to lie that protected, civil acts are dangerous violence that must be stopped with more violence. I can't imagine the UK is much better.
Until someone shows me the "death threats and possibly attacked" magistrates, I'm going to assume the magistrates were lying. Even when they were (supposedly) flying Ned's flag, I'm not holding a single one Luddite to any extremist lens, until I read some record other than that of the total slimeball Samuel Bamford, claiming the protestors opened fire unprovoked, because when the mill owners fired on them, that was just "to intimidate" and shouldn't have been seen as uh... shooting them.
I mean um... going "full Luddite" as you put it is probably a bad idea, since they start murdering people long before that point. So I agree. Just... don't expect them to play by any rule other than "kill people until they stop nattering at me."
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2026-02-23 02:28:00 UTC

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Ah, yeah I guess it is tangentially like attacking supply lines. Still, showing your enemy's people that they can't tolerate your existence anymore is... well, it might go well for them.
Honestly I think there's more to this. A group that pulls shit like this probably has support from elsewhere (cough)richfucks(cough) and that's why they think they can throw their people under the bus.
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2026-02-23 01:03:04 UTC

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Setting busses on fire is just poor form. What message is that supposed to send? Don't kill crime bosses, or they'll burn the busses their members use to travel around? Or they'll set fire to this random unrelated thing? And blockade of highways? Seems kind of pathetically ineffective to me. Certainly won't win them any community support, which is the only way enemies of the state can get any support.
Maybe they're just mad and doing shit that's dumb, not strategic.

2026-02-23 00:29:11 UTC

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In all seriousness, it's like any bullshit. Based on truth, to screw you over with a distorted reality rigged against your existence. Yes, "money corrupts" but that doesn't matter. People who get their limiters taken off can go a bit off the chain, but that's not what's happening. Vast majority of it was corruption stealing money, corrupted by other means. So go ahead and allow yourself to have money.