+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@qoto.org

Rural private network with TIP's OpenWifi

New here. Seems like a lot of people moved over here from Twitter. I never used the site but the recent dumpster fire there and growing dissatisfaction with is leading me to explore alternatives. Here's a picture from a recent hike and one from the summer, if you like animals and/or vistas feel free to follow me. I work mostly with Python for the development of novel energy analytics methodologies, but don't often post about it...

Hello, World!

Laid off Keystone Pipeline workers have no sympathy for laid off Twitter workers. They can just learn to lay pipelines.

ELON!

some eight years ago, someone asked me, at a Q&A session at free software meeting, what I expected to be in ten years. I said I'd probably be a terrorist. not because my privacy- and freedom-defending practices would change, but because they'd likely be mislabeled as terrorism. looks like I was two years off :-(
that said, of all the "suspicious behaviors" in the picture, the only one that vaguely resembles mine is the last one: I use Tor for nearly all of my web browsing. I've used the same Neo Freerunner with the same simcard for some 13 years, and counting, but I don't really use it much. I mostly just ssh into it and run emacs with tunneled display to see SMSes on a larger screen.

@Becassine Diroptodon was a Marsupial Elephant, Procoptodon was a Marsupial Moose, Megalania was a 9 meter long reptile closely related to Monitors and Komodo Dragons that functioned as a grizzly or polar bear. We also had Komodo Dragons. The Marsupial Lion was, you guessed it, a Mountain Lion. The Tasamanian Tiger occupied the niche that belongs to the Coyote, and other canines in the Americas. The Quoll is a Marsupial Fox.

Oh yeah? Well you could also pay an AI to buy and read your book you fking asshole.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S004565359700458X?via%3Dihub
"Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDD), dibenzofurans (PCDF) selected chlorinated pesticides, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) and some volatile organic compounds (VOC) were analysed in the exhaust fumes of candles made from different waxes and finishing materials. "

Took like 3 hours, but it will make a cool pillow. Now i only need to make the wife actually stitch it up 😂

the reason vampires are often so arrogant is they're incapable of self-reflection

Some of the excessive behavior self-destructive towards oneself and one's community you've seen over the past two years may be tied to the synthbio-tech inducing endogenous toxin production akin to the venoms of various predatory animals within the human target.

One snake venom found in particular, a rat when bitten will return to it's colony and see it's former family as enemies and begin attacking - weakening the community before the snake enters.

Another venom from the cone snail paralyzes it's victim before slowly drawing it in.

>"Their presence suggests a possible association between COVID-19 disease and the release in the body of (oligo-)peptides almost identical to toxic components of venoms from animals."

When it comes to disabling a population, someone *knew* exactly what they were doing.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35106136/

>paraffin candles actually emits PCDDs and PCDFs
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@dusnm

It is a matter of conditioning people to become more obedient. Paint "them" (people who oppose the oppression) in the most negative light possible to ensure that such groups don't grow because what they say and do is rational, moral and legitimate. Unlike the jackboot gang we call the authorities.

@bonifartius

I am trying to work out the strengths and weaknesses of messaging platforms from fully decentralized to federated to centralized. I am only a user on Mastodon/activitypub and IRC, but I have in the past hosted usenet and currently host:

smtp (email)
XMPP
Matrix
SSB (Secure ScuttleButt)
SIP (fully decentralized)

The impressive feature of twitter and it's totalitarian centralized ilk is that a single id can have millions of followers - and know that. SSB supports unlimited secure (signed) broadcasting, but there is no mechanism for knowing how many followers there are. Of course, TV was in the same boat, and you could get an estimate by polling. BBC broadcasts on SSB.

Counting followers is essential for monetizing content via advertising and sponsors in a decentralized manner - i.e. not subject to cancellation at a whim by a global centralized platform.

Matrix seems ideal for many of the purposes people use Teams or Substack or Slack. Private conversations e2e encrypted, logging with controlled retention (HIPPA compliant), voice and video calls, voice and video conferencing, media. But performance of small personal servers drops with number of participants in a room - I don't think it can support a million followers.

XMPP has inconsistent state for multiple devices, and is terrible at group chats. I do use it a backup for matrix and for voice/video calls. Open XMPP clients supporting VOIP and IPv6 are easier to find than SIP clients. (And SIP is even worse at state for multiple devices.)

Usenet has no authentication (not worth tacking on GPG header schemes).

Email is not designed to be "instant" (as in IM), but can be coaxed into resembling that by clients such as DeltaChat.

Ok, so now I should make a feature matrix (which includes Matrix), but have I missed any open and federated/decentralized protocols? Any other features? Current feature list:

broadcast (million+ followers)
follower count
p2p voice/video
e2e encryption
authentication
federated
decentralized (or federated that can be practically fully decentralized, like SMTP)

Did I miss any?