#FreeSchool ⬅️ (see hashtag) @freeschool@qoto.org

#GitHub is Microsoft territory (aubsidiary0 much like using windows every day by ,,,

Hope you don't feel good about using it! ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub

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Artist and occultist Austin Osman Spare (1886–1956) developed his own unique method of creating and using sigils, which has had a huge effect on modern #occultism.

#Spare did not agree with #medieval practice, arguing that such supernatural beings were simply complexes in the unconscious, and could be actively created through the process of #sigilization.

Spare's technique became a cornerstone of #chaosmagic. It also influenced artist Brion Gysin, who experimented with combining Spare's sigil method with the traditional form of magic squares:

#Calligraphic #magick squares were one of the techniques most commonly applied by #Gysin. He would reduce a name or an idea to a " #glyph " and then write across the paper from right to left, turn the paper and do the same again, and so on, turning the paper around and around to create a multidimensional grid... The same techniques and consciously driven functional intention also permeated his paintings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigil#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBaker2011[[Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_page_number_citations_from_July_2021]]%3Csup_class=%22noprint_Inline-Template_%22_style=%22white-space:nowrap;%22%3E[%3Ci%3E[[Wikipedia:Citing_sources|%3Cspan_title=%22This_citation_requires_a_reference_to_the_specific_page_or_range_of_pages_in_which_the_material_appears. (July_2021)%22%3Epage needed%3C/span%3E]]%3C/i%3E]%3C/sup%3E_5-0

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In a very real sense, everything he created was an act of #sorcery.

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In chaos magic, following Spare, sigils are commonly created in a well ordered fashion by writing an intention, then condensing the letters of the statement down to form a sort of monogram. The chaos magician then uses the gnostic state to "launch" or "charge" the sigil—essentially bypassing the conscious mind to implant the desire in the unconscious. To quote Ray Sherwin:

The magician acknowledges a desire, he lists the appropriate symbols and arranges them into an easily visualised glyph. Using any of the gnostic techniques he reifies (consider an abstract concept to be real) the sigil and then, by force of will, hurls it into his subconscious from where the sigil can begin to work unencumbered by desire.

Artist and occultist Austin Osman Spare (1886–1956) developed his own unique method of creating and using sigils, which has had a huge effect on modern #occultism.

#Spare did not agree with #medieval practice, arguing that such supernatural beings were simply complexes in the unconscious, and could be actively created through the process of #sigilization.

Spare's technique became a cornerstone of #chaosmagic. It also influenced artist Brion Gysin, who experimented with combining Spare's sigil method with the traditional form of magic squares:

#Calligraphic #magick squares were one of the techniques most commonly applied by #Gysin. He would reduce a name or an idea to a " #glyph " and then write across the paper from right to left, turn the paper and do the same again, and so on, turning the paper around and around to create a multidimensional grid... The same techniques and consciously driven functional intention also permeated his paintings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigil#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBaker2011[[Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_page_number_citations_from_July_2021]]%3Csup_class=%22noprint_Inline-Template_%22_style=%22white-space:nowrap;%22%3E[%3Ci%3E[[Wikipedia:Citing_sources|%3Cspan_title=%22This_citation_requires_a_reference_to_the_specific_page_or_range_of_pages_in_which_the_material_appears. (July_2021)%22%3Epage needed%3C/span%3E]]%3C/i%3E]%3C/sup%3E_5-0

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In a very real sense, everything he created was an act of #sorcery.

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In chaos magic, following Spare, sigils are commonly created in a well ordered fashion by writing an intention, then condensing the letters of the statement down to form a sort of monogram. The chaos magician then uses the gnostic state to "launch" or "charge" the sigil—essentially bypassing the conscious mind to implant the desire in the unconscious. To quote Ray Sherwin:

The magician acknowledges a desire, he lists the appropriate symbols and arranges them into an easily visualised glyph. Using any of the gnostic techniques he reifies (consider an abstract concept to be real) the sigil and then, by force of will, hurls it into his subconscious from where the sigil can begin to work unencumbered by desire.

May 1975, #Foucault dropped #acid in the southern California desert.

That #trip helped redirect Foucault’s thought and contributed to a tectonic shift in the intellectual life of the era.

He came to reinterpret the #social #movements of May ’68 and reposition himself #politically in #France, embracing anti-#totalitarian currents and becoming a critic of the #welfare #state.

📖 https://peoplescoopbookstore.com/item/c_Q0CGOT0rR0IEKmGQOYEQ/lists/_XmSutHmaEQ/

#Philosophers #Books
#LGBTQ #Sexuality etc

Modern disease related to wanting everything simple or short - without detail or imperfection in writing / speaking that comes with it.

#LongWriting being the opposite reflecting things more realistically as a longer work in progress.

Even if both have their advantages, #Shortism only or expecting perfection in a few lines often leads to thing like fascism measured by lack of speaking / listening or expecting things to work without understanding things.

Lack of #Attention in the modern day I think often leads to facilitating #fascism because:

➡️ "it's too long" to learn things (not just extremes of freedom)

➡️ "well I didn't do those bad things" as attempted excuses from those who didn't do the long work which enables the bad to continue and uncaring work to perpetuate because it's them also part of it...

Do let me know if I'm wrong, and yes you can write longer than 2 lines... !

To create big positive impacts on individual people over time is what can carry humanity some place new

or

Individual people are what carries humanity over time, and with their the energy built up, they literally can carry humanity to some place new
or

#Change is from #Individual #Level mostly

SYSTEMS DO HELP BUT ALSO NOT REALLY...

#Systems for other less-moral reasons do 'change' behaviour by force or how people are fed, but not really the educated moral reasoning so solving the basic needs (including caring people listening) can help people get back to a better kind of 'normal' and change that is naturally always coming with it.

#POSITIVE #CONVERSION (e.g. #FEDIVERSE CONVERSATION) = #CHANGE

#LSD #Quote

"Little by little I could begin to enjoy the unprecedented colors and plays of shapes that persisted behind my closed eyes. Kaleidoscopic, fantastic images surged in on me, alternating, variegated, opening and then closing themselves in circles and spirals, exploding in colored fountains, rearranging and hybridizing themselves in constant flux ..."

- Albert Hofmann #1938 #Swiss #chemist #AlbertHofmann

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_LSD#cite_ref-8

#Quotes ‘learning how to adult’ :inigomontoya2: I think you mean licking boot?

- trendless @trendless
#Quote From Post: https://zeroes.ca/@trendless/113606667722343108
Playing #capitalism as #adult #capitalist ? 💰 👢 🚄 🚗 🏦 💰

- A CHANCE TO IMPROVE AS AN #INTERVENTION OF SORTS...

As people hollow out the planet and people pay them from afar (#tax to unknown distant people and stuff we can't see every day, banks #diluting all money by providing more #loans) it's totally a #war we're all #funding even indirectly through #supermarket powers and #cheap etc being offered and delivered to us by #supermarkets...

🏷️💲The planet at a #discount of sorts. 💲🏷️ Just have to buy it all... ™️

It's always been a #mistake to buy or sell the #planet (which includes #renting shelter and spaced for our #kids, #interest being charged etc).

🏦 #Banks also funding global #oppression (it is oppression itself with it's #arbitrary / false #mathematical functions for ' #growth ' by inflating #debt).

💰 📐 People higher up the #matrix (and many below) who indulge themselves without #limits (or even self-#restriction practised) ultimately own every action, forever.

So if it's stuff from a distance or not building us as online/offline individuals and instead playing the paying game for all the luxuries / fast food type / bourgeois instant speeds, then that's what they will get.

They / we ultimately act like another brick in the wall.

QUICK #EXAMPLE

#Germany for a short contrast example, is buying it's fuel to raise it's own economy from #Russia since a long time and now being asked to fight against Russia even though it's a customer of them!... Just an example there that we naturally have to #evolve out of what others evolved us into it and do that on a #personal level also (NOT waiting for #Germans to stop #leveraging other #resources in order to become great itself).

#INTERVENTION?

So take this communication #post as something to improve from a distance that what doesn't work too well.

If #communication is lacking #depth between individuals themselves it could be just another kind type of #death or #distance or #shortism in which communication is a part of #killing / reducing power / #ignoring others / not keeping everything between us / not really bonding.

CREDITS

Inspired from some of the words already posted by @EubieDrew@spore.socialand and re-created it also to see how I feel about this process at the end as I had some sentiments I needed to write.,. Post exactly is:
https://spore.social/@EubieDrew/113435945780420683

CREDITS

Inspired from some of the words already posted by @EubieDrew@spore.socialand and re-created it also to see how I feel about this process at the end as I had some sentiments I needed to write.,. Post exactly is:
https://spore.social/@EubieDrew/113435945780420683

- A CHANCE TO IMPROVE AS AN #INTERVENTION OF SORTS...

As people hollow out the planet and people pay them from afar (#tax to unknown distant people and stuff we can't see every day, banks #diluting all money by providing more #loans) it's totally a #war we're all #funding even indirectly through #supermarket powers and #cheap etc being offered and delivered to us by #supermarkets...

🏷️💲The planet at a #discount of sorts. 💲🏷️ Just have to buy it all... ™️

It's always been a #mistake to buy or sell the #planet (which includes #renting shelter and spaced for our #kids, #interest being charged etc).

🏦 #Banks also funding global #oppression (it is oppression itself with it's #arbitrary / false #mathematical functions for ' #growth ' by inflating #debt).

💰 📐 People higher up the #matrix (and many below) who indulge themselves without #limits (or even self-#restriction practised) ultimately own every action, forever.

So if it's stuff from a distance or not building us as online/offline individuals and instead playing the paying game for all the luxuries / fast food type / bourgeois instant speeds, then that's what they will get.

They / we ultimately act like another brick in the wall.

QUICK #EXAMPLE

#Germany for a short contrast example, is buying it's fuel to raise it's own economy from #Russia since a long time and now being asked to fight against Russia even though it's a customer of them!... Just an example there that we naturally have to #evolve out of what others evolved us into it and do that on a #personal level also (NOT waiting for #Germans to stop #leveraging other #resources in order to become great itself).

#INTERVENTION?

So take this communication #post as something to improve from a distance that what doesn't work too well.

If #communication is lacking #depth between individuals themselves it could be just another kind type of #death or #distance or #shortism in which communication is a part of #killing / reducing power / #ignoring others / not keeping everything between us / not really bonding.

CREDITS

Inspired from some of the words already posted by @EubieDrew@spore.socialand and re-created it also to see how I feel about this process at the end as I had some sentiments I needed to write.,. Post exactly is:
https://spore.social/@EubieDrew/113435945780420683

CREDITS

Inspired from some of the words already posted by @EubieDrew@spore.socialand and re-created it also to see how I feel about this process at the end as I had some sentiments I needed to write.,. Post exactly is:
https://spore.social/@EubieDrew/113435945780420683

#Philosophy + #Movements in #Life / #Fediverse

#Foucault would agree with me that “the death of revolution” occurring in 1968 is the death of the dream of overthrowing the state to replace it with a socialist / communist one and simply lost a lot of many things during counterculture.

INDIVIDUAL POWER OF OUR RELATIONS / RELATIONSHIPS

Foucault asserts that #individual subjectivity is constructed by the power relations themselves.

The power of what is ‘already there’ or already inside us is also useful from which what power acts upon but is not always totally needed to bring "best out of people". The relationship can almost 'create' it even from only 0.1% personal power or interest in something to become bigger from relationships...

FEDIVERSE RELATED COMMENTS

Fediverse could be working on as more dedicated intimacy even of greater various shallow or deeper depths (to build our own trust and almost re-build ourselves from these ruins / broken cultures left over commercial / industrial / colonial ruins like lego as the individuals)

Ok I admit the #lego thing was a bit of a last thought to what was coming from the image of people 'recreating' and 'rebuilding' themselves. 🧱

Are you just another bricking the commercial wall?

#INDIVIDUAL #POWER OF OUR #RELATIONS / #RELATIONSHIPS
in #Fediverse?

Self-Hosted - No Google

https://selfhosted.show/133

#selfhosting #computer #software #hardware #podcast #2024 #pi #raspberrypi

Self-Hosted - No Google

https://selfhosted.show/133

#selfhosting #computer #software #hardware #podcast #2024 #pi #raspberrypi

@tchambers
about: #DIY #selfhosting #Privacy #Surveillance

Meet the Self-Hosters, Taking Back the Internet One Server at a Time

By John Kehayias
September 2, 2021, 9:00am
Pic of raspberry pi

It’s no secret that a small handful of enormous companies dominate the internet as we know it. But the internet didn’t always have services with a billion users and quasi-monopolistic control over search or shopping. It was once a loose collection of individuals, research labs, and small companies, each making their own home on the burgeoning world wide web.

That world hasn’t entirely died out, however. Through a growing movement of dedicated hobbyists known as self-hosters, the dream of a decentralized internet lives on at a time when surveillance, censorship, and increasing scrutiny of Big Tech has created widespread mistrust in large internet platforms.
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“Self-hosting” is a practice that pretty much describes itself: running your own internet services, typically on hardware you own and have at home. This contrasts with relying on products from large tech companies, which the user has no direct involvement in. A self-hoster controls it all, from the hardware used to the configuration of the software.

“My first real-world reason for learning WordPress and self-hosting was the startup of a podcast,” KmisterK, a moderator of Reddit’s r/selfhosted community, told Motherboard. “I quickly learned the limitations of fake ‘unlimited’ accounts that were being advertised on most shared hosting plans. That research led to more realistic expectations for hosting content that I had more control over, and it just bloomed from there.”

Edward, co-creator of an extensive list of self-hosted software, similarly became interested in self-hosting as a way to escape less-than-ideal circumstances. “I was initially drawn to self-hosting by a slow internet connection and a desire to share media and information with those I lived with,” he told Motherboard. “I enjoyed the independence self-hosting provided and the fact that you owned and had control over your own data.”

Once you’re wrapped up in it, it’s hard to deny the allure of the DIY self-hosted internet. My own self-hosting experiences include having a home server for recording TV and storing media for myself and my roommates, and more recently, leaving Dropbox for a self-hosted, free and open source alternative called Syncthing. While I’ve been happy with Dropbox for many years, I was paying for more than I needed and ran into issues with syncing speed. With a new Raspberry Pi as a central server, I had more control over what synced to different devices, no worries about any storage caps, and of course, faster transfer speeds. All of this is running on my home network: nothing has to be stored on cloud servers run by someone else in who-knows-where.

My experience with Syncthing quickly sent me down the self-hosting rabbit hole. I looked at what else I could host myself, and found simply everything: photo collections (like Google Photos); recipe managers; chat services that you can connect with the popular tools like Discord; read-it-later services for bookmarking; RSS readers; budgeting tools; and so much more. There’s also the whole world of alternative social media services, like Mastodon and PixelFed, to replace Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, which can be self-hosted as a private network or used to join others around the world.

Self-hosting is something I’ve found fun to learn about and tinker with, even if it is just for myself. Others, like KmisterK, find new opportunities as well. “Eventually, a career path started with it, and from there, being in the community professionally kept me personally interested as a hobby.” Edward also found a connection with his career in IT infrastructure, but still continues self-hosting. “It is nice to be able to play around in a low risk/impact environment,” he said.
Author's Raspberry Pi server
The author’s Raspberry Pi home server supports automated data backups, file syncing, an ad blocker, and more.

But beyond enjoyment, self-hosters share important principles that drive the desire to self-host—namely, a distrust of large tech companies, which are known to scoop up all the data they can get their hands on and use it in the name of profit.

Despite new privacy laws like Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA), the vast majority of Americans still don’t trust Big Tech with their privacy. And in recent years, the countless privacy scandals like Cambridge Analytica have driven some tech-savvy folks to take matters into their own hands.

“I think that people are becoming more privacy conscious and while neither these laws, nor self-hosting can currently easily resolve these concerns, I think that they can at least alleviate them,” said Edward.

Some self-hosters see the rising interest in decentralized internet tools as a direct result of Silicon Valley excess. “The growth of self-hosting does not surprise me,” nodiscc, a co-creator and maintainer of the self-hosted tech list, told Motherboard. “People and companies have started realizing the importance of keeping some control over their data and tools, and I think the days of ‘everything SaaS [Software as a Service]’ are past.”

Another strong motivator comes from large companies simply abandoning popular tools, along with their users. After all, even if you’re a paying customer, tech companies offer access to services at their whim. Google, for example, is now infamous for shutting down even seemingly popular products like Reader, leaving users with no say in the matter.

KmisterK succinctly summarized the main reasons people have for self-hosting: curiosity and wanting to learn; privacy concerns; looking for cheaper alternatives; and the “betrayed,” people who “come from platforms like Dropbox or Google Photos or Photobucket or similar, after major outages, major policy changes, sunsetting of services, or other dramatic changes to the platform that they disagree with.” This last one “is probably the majority gateway to self-hosting,” based on recent traffic to r/selfhosted, he says. Look no further than their recent Google Photos megathread and recent guides from self-hosters on the internet. For me, changes in LastPass, even as a paid user, had me looking elsewhere.

nodiscc also noted the different reasons people self-host, saying, “There would be many… technical interest, security/privacy, customization, control over the software, self-reliance, challenge, economical reasons, political/Free software activism.” Looking at the growth of self-hosting over the years, Edward says, “These aren’t comprehensive reasons but I expect that privacy-consciousness, hardware availability and more mainstream open-source software have contributed to the growth of self-hosting.”

These are all good reasons why self-hosting is so essential. Self-hosting brings freedom and empowerment to users. You own what you use: you can change it, keep it the same, and have your data in your own hands. Much of this derives from the free (as in freedom to do what you like) nature of self-hosting software. The source code is freely available to use, modify, and share. Even if the original author or group stops supporting something, the code is out there for anyone to pick up and keep alive.

Despite the individualistic nature of self-hosting, there is a vibrant and growing community.

Much of this growth can be seen on Reddit, with r/selfhosted hitting over 136,000 members and continuing to rise, up from 84,000 just a year ago. The discussions involve self-hosting software that spans dozens of categories, from home automation, genealogy, and media streaming to document collaboration and e-commerce. The list maintained by nodiscc and the community has grown so long that its stewards say it needs more curation and better navigation.

The quality of free and easy-to-use self-hosting software has increased too, making the practice increasingly accessible to the less-technically savvy. Add to that the rise of cheap, credit card-sized single-board computers like the Raspberry Pi, which lower the starting costs of creating a home server to as little as $5 or $10. “Between high-available hosting environments, to one-click/one-command deploy options for hundreds of different softwares, the barrier for entry has dramatically been lowered over the years,” said KmisterK.

Of course, even the most dedicated self-hosters admit that it isn’t for everyone. Having some computing knowledge is fairly essential when it comes to running your own internet services, and self-hosting “will never truly compete with big-name services that make it exponentially easier,” KmisterK said.

But while self-hosters may never number enough to put a serious dent in Big Tech’s offerings, there is aclear need and benefit to this alternative space. And I can’t think of a better model for the kind of DIY community we can have, when left to our own devices.

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