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Voluntaryist, privacy nut, pissed off would be radical optimist. Software architect, developer, "hey you" by trade.

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2026-02-28 07:05:13 CET

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It's on my todo list. Tried GUIX for a while for similar reasons and because I am crazy about lambda languages. It was a bit too "pure" to be a general machine for me.

2026-02-28 06:20:25 CET

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Why is scarcity always the assumption?

2026-02-28 06:19:01 CET

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Banning domestic surveillance is fucking hilarious. OpenAI was forced by government to keep logs of chats and by existing law must turn those over on demand to government. I also expect PRISM like government involvement in OpenAI especially as they are in real financial trouble. Also Americans are MASSIVELY SURVEILLED 24/7 even without OpenAI.

2026-02-26 08:47:18 CET

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Not my background but I would love to hear more about the project when you aren't in stealth mode.

2026-02-26 08:43:40 CET

Get off Apple now. Time for Linux and GrapheneOS unless you want further abuse.
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Apple is now blocking app downloads across three countries and wiring age data directly into developers’ apps, all in the name of compliance. It’s also bringing some of these features to some US states that are demanding compliance with digital ID checks.
Starting this week, users in Australia, Brazil, and Singapore can no longer download apps rated 18+ without first confirming they’re adults. The App Store handles that age confirmation automatically, which sounds tidy but raises the obvious question: how does Apple know? The company isn’t detailing the mechanism, only noting that developers may still face separate compliance requirements on top of what Apple handles.

2026-02-25 01:34:21 CET

Fuck 'em
Bitcoin Depot now requires ID for every ATM transaction
Bitcoin Depot, the largest Bitcoin ATM operator in North America, announced on February 24 that it has begun requiring customers to provide identification for every transaction at its kiosks across the United States, becoming the first major operator in the industry to implement per-transaction ID collection.

2026-02-24 08:43:43 CET

They want to control all of your computing and access to the internet. This is horrendous.
Colorado Senate Bill Would Require Apple and Google to Embed ID Checks in Operating Systems
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Colorado’s latest attempt to regulate minors’ online access differs from its predecessors. Senate Bill 26-051 doesn’t target adult websites directly. Instead, it targets the operating system sitting on your phone.
The bill, currently before the Senate Committee on Business, Labor, and Technology with a hearing scheduled for February 24, would require operating system providers to collect your date of birth when you create an account.
https://reclaimthenet.org/colorado-operating-system-age-verification-minors-online-access

2026-02-24 08:25:36 CET

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That is not what cypherpunks had in mind at all.

2026-02-24 08:24:41 CET

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Nostr is one of many outgrowths not the pinnacle.

2026-02-24 08:21:46 CET

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I am quite suspicious of such claims especially toward more open source models that are competitors. Any tech can of course be used for good or ill. But Anthropic does its own manipulations.

2026-02-24 06:53:13 CET

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I didn't think Idiocracy was prophecy.

2026-02-24 06:51:05 CET

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Why are virtual shared spaces better with nostr? I could think of a few ways but I am curious which you are after.

2026-02-24 06:49:27 CET

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Too much of our world is based on coercion, greed, deceit and punishment. Lots of dominance/submission alpha/beta stuff. Fewer gammas but I think our numbers are increasing.

2026-02-24 06:47:22 CET

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Such bogus claims and worse have been made against immigrants in the US for over 150 years. Scarcity minded fools think that newcomers are a "threat" or are here to usurp their wealth. A very old story that it would great to grow beyond. People come here for more opportunity and a batter life for themselves and their children. Welfare recipient is NOT what they come for nor are they eligible.

2026-02-24 06:40:11 CET

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NAW. The Trumpster will just launch a full attack because he is feeling particularly pissy one morning.

2026-02-24 06:37:32 CET

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Interesting. What does the PRD for the project look like?

2026-02-22 05:27:40 CET

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KYC IS a crime against the privacy and rights of everyone. It treats everyone as a suspect and someone to be controlled.

2026-02-22 05:26:13 CET

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My own open source RSS aggregator. Typically akgregator

2026-02-20 23:43:38 CET

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FWIW I am a double Gemini. So I guess I can be expected to be twice as schitzy. 😉

2026-02-20 23:40:46 CET

Trump takes blatantly illegal action again. He really things he is a King.
Trump announces new 10% global tariff, accuses Supreme Court of being “unpatriotic and disloyal”
On Friday, Feb. 20, 2026, President Donald Trump announced at a White House briefing he will impose a 10% global tariff after the Supreme Court ruling.
The Supreme Court's Friday ruling found that the IEEPA does not authorize tariffs in peacetime and stated, `The Framers did not vest any part of the taxing power in the Executive Branch` — Chief Justice John Roberts.
Under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974, the administration said it will impose tariffs limited to 150 days, with the executive order to be signed later today by U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer.
Retailers and companies have already sought refunds in lower courts while small businesses celebrated, with the National Retail Federation calling it `much needed certainty` and a $3 trillion estimate impacts the next decade.
Absent congressional action, the decision emphasizes that the Trump administration's tariffs would lapse after 150 days unless Congress votes to extend them, prompting international calls for clarity.

2026-02-20 17:43:02 CET

YAY! Finally some good news.
https://youtu.be/wUatEBElC6Y

2026-02-19 07:55:43 CET

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Some geeks decided to make it real.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/microsofts-new-10000-year-data-storage-medium-glass/

2026-02-19 07:52:36 CET

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Probably turned out well but I have never seen banana bread made that way instead of squishing the bananas into the dough.

2026-02-19 07:50:10 CET

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Or trying to ride barefoot

2026-02-19 06:56:02 CET

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Not how oauth works now is it?

2026-02-19 06:44:33 CET

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Thousands are being thrown in gualgs by Trump and company including even citizens. Citizens are murdered on the street. And his Gestapo is declared to be above the law. Are you too blind to see this?

2026-02-19 06:07:36 CET

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Poor thing. Cows are very social beings.

2026-02-19 06:05:28 CET

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I have known since mid-80s that government systems are woefully behind. Was offered a contract with IRS to bring it more up to date. I told them I considered that the equivalent of building nuclear bombs for a living.

2026-02-19 06:02:40 CET

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All of government is an evil blight. Even if AI could do it works more efficiently it would just be a more efficient evil blight.

2026-02-19 06:01:36 CET

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It will get rid of neither in very large numbers this side of AGI. Current LLMs are vast statistical most likely next token machines. They do not reason. They do not understand. They do not abstract. That is not sufficient to make human workers superfluous.

2026-02-19 05:54:00 CET

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Spin up gravity when you need it on a large enough space station and have the advantage of microgravity or none when that is best for what you are doing.
Lots of differentiation of material in asteroids and half mirror solar furnance in inner solar system can provide a lot of process heat on demand.
Asteroids are not at all useless. Best nickel deposit on earth I hear was from an ancient metallic meteor hit. BTW the metallics have a lot of very high priced precious metals that would be darn useful for funding the rest of what is really needed for space development.

2026-02-19 05:35:36 CET

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I think large scale space colonies, O'Neil colonies at GEO and beyond laregely build from near earth asteroid material is the way to go. 2 mile by 10 mile or so rotating cylinder. Earth normal inner outer edge gravity. Variable gravity toward the center. Solar mirrors for light and much of heat. Much better than being on some rock not at all fit for human habitation like the moon or Mars.
Of course first step is a doozy. IMHO we need lots of space robotics and nuclear space tugs to change down near earth asteroids to get it done. Can't do it with humans in space alone as we are fragile, especially outside van Allen belts, until a lot of supporting space infrastructure is in place.

2026-02-19 05:27:37 CET

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Is the list open? I would probably pick among some local models and ones from nano-gpt myself if I had the option. And is the criteria for type of model needed code reasonably accessible? It would be an interesting thing to hack and maybe train.

2026-02-18 22:56:20 CET

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Awesome! I think perplexity does some auto routing but pretty much none of the other big players do last I checked. Great to see this usable by anyone. I see it exposes as an openai compatible model which is great. But where does it get its model list to switch among?

2026-02-18 22:48:34 CET

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Uh, developer compiled it and hashed the build so you can tell for sure it is the same one.

2026-02-18 22:46:31 CET

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Remind me when a human steps foot on the moon again right next door.

2026-02-18 22:41:46 CET

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What for? It doesn't have any of the privacy of start9. It doesn't even have the privacy of installing a bunch of software directly. Nor the accuracy. It is a security nightmare.

2026-02-18 22:40:27 CET

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We definitely will. Human language is too ambiguous and LLMs simply trying to find the best token than follows from the previous ones actually understands nothing at all.

2026-02-18 22:37:51 CET

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WTF would Anthropic care considering their API token charges?

2026-02-18 07:56:45 CET

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Thanks for the insult. It may surprise one as ignorant as you but gender identity is orthogonal to sexuality. We are no more slutty regardless of whether into women, men or both than any other women out there. And if we go in for surgery we are no more likely to be into anal than other women either. So fuck your insulting childish fantasies. TS is not reverse notation for "Sex Toy".

2026-02-18 06:12:25 CET

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Completely misses the point IMHO.

2026-02-18 06:07:54 CET

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We don't need no stinking bank. Not for 10 XMR payment, not for 10 BTC payment. So WTF?

2026-02-18 06:02:06 CET

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I don't believe the truly good future involves any party BS at all.

2026-02-18 05:56:09 CET

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Not when government may call me and mine "enemy".

2026-02-18 05:55:06 CET

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Buying a what if protection is not inherently a scam. I think you may be saying that but I am not sure by your wording.

2026-02-18 05:31:52 CET

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Year of the Horse again? I was born in Year of the Horse.

2026-02-18 05:28:42 CET

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I know damn well it is real because I was born trans. I fully transitioned over 33 years ago in case you think I did it because it was "popular' or some such BS or because some commies fed me a narrative.
Everything is not a weapon of the communists although many things they may attempt to weaponize. Do you see the difference?
I was made cross wired when it comes to gender. That is a fact. I chose to make what peace I could to live more happily and well. Do you really think that is some commie plot?

2026-02-18 05:23:29 CET

Throw these products to the curb. They do not remotely give a shit about you. You are their product.
Meta Considers Timed Face Recognition Launch to Exploit Distracted Society
Meta's own document treats the civil liberties backlash not as a reason to reconsider, but as a calendar event to schedule around.
https://reclaimthenet.org/meta-smart-glasses-face-recognition-surveillance

2026-02-18 05:21:58 CET

It is about internet access and control.
Germany’s CDU Pushes Real-Name Social Media Mandate and ID Checks
The party could ask Germans to show their papers before they can post a tweet.
https://reclaimthenet.org/germanys-cdu-pushes-real-name-social-media-mandate

2026-02-18 05:20:20 CET

Arizona Bill Would Require ID Checks to Use a Weather App
The bill would require parental permission or ID checks to open the calculator app that came with your phone.
https://reclaimthenet.org/arizona-bill-would-require-id-checks-to-use-a-weather-app

2026-02-18 05:18:55 CET

Don't think for a second this is just in the EU.
Macron, Merz, and von der Leyen Defend Expanded Speech Controls
The Munich Security Conference just became a defense session for Europe's most ambitious censorship regime.
https://reclaimthenet.org/macron-merz-and-von-der-leyen-defend-expanded-speech-controls

2026-02-18 05:17:24 CET

As a software architect I have been hearing for years that the cloud allows always up or close to it sites and services. Further that it allows unlimited horizontal scaling. However even YouTube, with free except internal charges Google Cloud, can't manage to stay available for nearly a million users today. So what is the real story. And when a cloud provider like AWS goes down it can take down everything running on it.
That horizontal scaling? Dunno. Most SaaS software including that from AWS directly throttles the hell out of users with no smooth handling of greater demand.

2026-02-18 03:28:52 CET

2026-02-17 23:35:48 CET

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No, that was not the original purpose of PoW.

2026-02-17 23:35:09 CET

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YAY! In this old world we must always choose. Those that would enslave us are happy to tell us how sippy-safe and drippy-dry we will be under their rule.

2026-02-17 23:32:54 CET

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You see a Marxist behind everything. They take advantage of a great number of things and cast them differently for their own purposes it is true. But that does not mean those things, like gender dsyphoria, are made up and have zero reality.

2026-02-17 21:17:28 CET

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They obviously have no idea what a VPN is or how easy it is to set up your own.

2026-02-17 21:15:26 CET

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Heaven help us all!

2026-02-17 21:12:41 CET

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This is very seriously overhyped. AI is NOT replacing all these software offerings. Those companies that tried to replace their workers and these products with AI alone are suffering including big ones that were part of the hype like Salesforce.
Frankly I think the economy worldwide is in serious trouble and AI is one of the favored excuses of the moment to "explain" it. Those of us that have watched financial talking heads explain whatever for years know how often they read from the same press release to make a semi-plausible to the majority conditioned by similar stories "explanation" while really explaining nothing at all.

2026-02-17 21:08:03 CET

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Agree but act on what you personally believe is the right thing to do. Not what government says. Not what your friends say. Not what whichever tribe you generally want to be part of says. This is the WAY.

2026-02-17 21:06:14 CET

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They are not capable of this "like". Why the anthropomorphizing?

2026-02-17 21:04:59 CET

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There are hundreds of millions of gun owners. Clearly 99.999% of them do no do mass shootings.

2026-02-17 21:01:00 CET

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You don't know what you are talking about. Gender is NOT a totally dimorphism dichotomy like you are suggesting. Some of us know that in our own lives and from the beginning. Here you blatantly deny our reality, all our experience, all the knowledge of MDs, shrinks, care givers for over 80 years of our treatment in the West and the experience of trans people documented throughout history.
You are denying the millions that personally and through their caregivers have experienced that living true to their wired in gender different from what was assigned to birth socially and through medical changes has made a HUGE difference in quality of life.
This is an act of reality denying aggression.

2026-02-17 01:29:58 CET

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I don't remember tantric sex being about hating doing it.

2026-02-17 01:27:26 CET

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Hey, protect the furries. 😉

2026-02-17 01:25:54 CET

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Further than that. J Edgar Hoover pretty much forced the FBI into existence without all the dirt he had on the rich and powerful in politics and out.

2026-02-17 01:24:04 CET

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I am in that demographic age wise. But I built my own first computer in the 70s. All my computers run linux (well one Mac when I need that world for some reason). My phone is running grapheneos. I turn it off when I don't need it or want to be interrupted instead of having it track me 24/7 just on the off chance someone might call in the middle of the night. I give a shit about privacy and am expert in protecting it.

2026-02-17 01:18:42 CET

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All of that first sentence is largely nonsense. Yes there are various class warfare theorist around but they are not definitive of studies and the truth about LGBTQIA people. You are denying all that has been learned to claim it is all about one thing only. Surely you see that is not reasonable.

2026-02-17 01:16:21 CET

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Welfare is relatively recent. Historically it was not what made US attractive. So even ending welfare state is not likely to end its desirability.
And all of that has nothing to do with how hideously dangerous the growing tyranny is in the US

2026-02-17 01:14:15 CET

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Why even bother to correct such obviously empty claims. Queer theory does not call for "queering" anyone. What "personal religion" and how is yours validated? There are at least 400 sects of Christianity alone. And how does your religion trump law or determine justice much less seek to find and show rather than merely exclaim what is true in reality?
There is no religion that says conclusively what is a man or a woman. And certainly none that say, for instance, whether some people are born trans.

2026-02-17 00:25:34 CET

And another complete horseshit headline..
Top fund manager warns most software firms won't survive AI
A fund manager whose portfolio has outperformed 99% of competitors is sounding the alarm on software stocks, warning that artificial intelligence poses an existential threat to the industry and that only a handful of companies will survive the coming disruption.
"We think application software faces an existential threat from AI," said Nick Evans, whose $12 billion global technology fund at Polar Capital beat 99% of peers over the past year and 97% over five years, in comments reported by Bloomberg on Sunday.

2026-02-17 00:24:13 CET

Another day, more rank stupidity in headlines. We are orders of magnitude away from sufficient dependable qubits to be a credible threat to BTC or most encryption. People are just making up "reasonable" worry scenarios without checking the relevant facts at all.
Bitcoin community divided over quantum threat
Bitcoin faces mounting pressure to adopt post-quantum cryptography, yet the cryptocurrency's decentralized developer community remains sharply divided over how urgently the network must prepare for quantum computing threats. The debate has intensified as institutional investors increasingly flag quantum risk in regulatory filings, while developers argue over whether the danger lies years or decades away.

2026-02-15 21:05:40 CET

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/E4eK5LVesZQ?feature=share

2026-02-14 03:16:52 CET

Then he will be impeached. That would be direct arbitrary election interference. His "voter id" requires birth certificates or more. Relatively few have them.
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Trump says he will seek to require voter ID for midterms regardless of Congress
Trump vows to mandate voter ID for the 2026 midterms via executive order amid stalled legislation and claims of election fraud, with 85% public support cited.
On Feb. 13, 2026, President Donald Trump said he would seek national voter-ID requirements for the November midterms regardless of Congress and will shortly issue an executive order laying out the legal reasons.
Amid opposition from House Democrats, Trump posted to Truth Social that he will push for voter-ID laws for the 2026 midterms, despite legislative delays.
Reporting notes President Donald Trump did not clarify the legal basis for nationwide voter ID rules while backing proof-of-citizenship requirements and limits on mail-in ballots.
Under the Constitution, state and local officials run elections, complicating a federal mandate as President Trump declared he would bypass Congress to require voter ID for the November midterm elections.
With narrow Republican majorities and typical midterm losses for incumbent presidents' parties, similar House-passed bills have repeatedly died in the Senate.

2026-02-13 22:39:46 CET

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I really know no such thing. Some things called "woke" are garbage. Other things called "woke" are actually true or the best we have figured out on some things but aren't popular with some other people. The word "woke" itself as come to be more about what group X or Y does or does not consider right-think to some approximation and thus useless to speak with much clarity. There are a lot of group-think package deal words like "woke", "left", "right".

2026-02-13 08:16:50 CET

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Doing a good job distinguishing between unrelated things is not very praiseworthy.

2026-02-13 08:14:05 CET

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The Law? The Law is a whore.

2026-02-13 08:11:15 CET

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100% Unconstitutional.

2026-02-13 08:10:43 CET

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They may do whatever but not with impunity.

2026-02-13 08:10:12 CET

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The streets are public usually. What they can't do legally is invade homes and businesses without a warrant.

2026-02-13 08:06:49 CET

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Rules? We don't need no stinking rules!

2026-02-13 08:02:55 CET

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They do not "need to" for any rational reason to the extent of collecting everyone's id. It is a ploy not about protecting children at all but about forcing id gathering to be online as the new normal and ultimately forcing Digital ID.

2026-02-13 08:00:50 CET

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There is not definitive evidence that microplastics cause cancer.

2026-02-13 07:58:48 CET

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It was awesome. Derrick Broze and Aaron Day knocked it out of the park.

2026-02-13 07:57:24 CET

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Guilt by lose association is grossly unjust.

2026-02-13 07:55:31 CET

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Fuck the UK

2026-02-13 07:49:39 CET

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Obviously you can't have all those Omni- things be true of God without a total idealism where there is "really" nothing but God. But so what?

2026-02-13 07:47:39 CET

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One of the most authoritarian Latin American countries with government sanctioned and controlled wallets is your idea of a good time?

2026-02-13 07:46:30 CET

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Applies to Trump and company.

2026-02-13 07:43:17 CET

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Oh yes because Rust is magic pixie dust that makes all things wonderful.

2026-02-13 07:41:18 CET

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By the nature of using ANY technological tool that is well integrated it is not possible to separate what was done by the tool or its significance to the entire work cleanly. This is irrational distinction. But most our US IP law is irrational.

2026-02-13 07:35:38 CET

In the Department of the Bloody Obvious
NY Fed report says Americans pay for almost all of Trump's tariffs
A Federal Reserve Bank of New York report shows Americans paid nearly 90% of Trump’s tariff costs in 2025 as import tax rates rose from 2.6% to 13%.
On February 12, 2026 the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Americans bore 90% of President Donald Trump's tariffs.
Study authors noted average tariffs climbed from 2.6% to 13% during 2025, pushing back against the Trump administration's claim that foreigners would pay the levies.
Authors reported pass-through rates showing Americans absorbed 94% of tariffs last year from January–August, easing to 92% in September–October and 86% in November, with past work finding 100% pass-through by foreign exporters.
Federal Reserve officials say higher tariffs raised the cost of imported goods, complicating interest-rate decisions and increasing prices for U.S. consumers and businesses.
The Supreme Court is set to rule on the legality of many of President Donald Trump's tariffs, which officials say impacts may wane but cost-of-living effects could persist.

2026-02-13 04:53:54 CET

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Aaron Day is right. What this is administration is doing with stablecoins and with Clarity Act is de facto CBDC and worse.

2026-02-13 04:49:49 CET

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Uh, no.

2026-02-13 04:49:24 CET

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Sometimes both.

2026-02-13 04:46:07 CET

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Of course. It isn't about protecting kids. It is an excuse to normalize demanding id everywhere. And to make that not as painful and massively insecure they will fix it with full Digital ID. This was always the goal.

2026-02-13 04:44:03 CET

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Fuck all companies and organizations that go along with tyranny. Boycott all of them.

2026-02-13 04:19:04 CET

This is not about protecting kids. It is about
1) KYC to use the internet at all
2) a way to push digital ID
https://reclaimthenet.org/40-attorneys-general-back-ids-online-safety-act

2026-02-12 22:05:45 CET

Those that think biological sex is simple may want to have a look at this.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190623134506/https://www.nature.com/news/sex-redefined-1.16943

2026-02-12 21:56:50 CET

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Education is far to important to entrust to government especially.