sister_sam

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 07:50:10 CET

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Or trying to ride barefoot

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.

2026-02-18 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 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 06:07:54 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 05:31:52 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 05:17:24 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.

2026-02-17 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 21:15:26 CET

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Heaven help us all!

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 01:18:42 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

2026-02-15 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 08:11:15 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 08:06:49 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 07:55:31 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 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.

2026-02-12 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 21:54:51 CET

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If you are asking if she is trans then yes she is. If you want a shorter article as sample of her work try https://juliaserano.medium.com/transgender-people-and-biological-sex-myths-c2a9bcdb4f4a