firefly

firefly, 20 days ago to retrocomputing

Terabytes of Old Usenet Articles since 1980s Restored in 471,000 News Groups

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40406863

I love treasure hunting. Sometimes Usenet feels like the dusty old thrift store of the Internet. If you have ever found a thrift store with rows of shelves chock full of books, old compact discs, and ancient cassette tapes, then you know what I mean.

@usenet @retrocomputing

firefly, 20 days ago to random

New : Kera Desktop Environment for Linux

A single hacker has created a new Desktop environment with interesting features.

https://desktop.kerahq.com/

About two dozen super hackers might want to help get things out of alpha and into release.

"Currently, this is a product of a team of one. It’s me, Mutlu. I started working on this ten years ago. Eight years ago, I made my first appearance. Things happened, and I couldn’t find much time to work or someone to work with. I tried to create a proof-of-concept that was easy to understand and work with. Today, I believe I have finally achieved this, and I hope to extend the team and maybe have enough budget so that I can work on the project full-time. I hope Kera Desktop can go further thanks to the open-source community."

@linux

Telegram founder and CEO alledges signal has backdoors, they don't provide reproduceible builds, etc.

Here’s what he said in a post on his telegram channel:...

"just got doxxed to within 15 miles by a vision model, from only a single photo of some random trees. the implications for privacy are terrifying. i had no idea we would get here so soon. holy shit" (twitter.com)

firefly, 1 month ago to privacy

Bitmessage for untraceable, uncensorable, and anonymous communication

https://bitmessage.org

Attached: inbox view.

#Bitmessage #Privacy #Anonymity

@privacy

European Law Enforcement Officials Declare Encryption Must Be Broken To Ensure Public Safety (www.techdirt.com)

from the less-safety-equals-more-safety,-say-EuroCops dept

firefly, 1 month ago to random

I notice that when viewing a snac profile from another instance all instances show zero followers and zero followees. What do I need to configure for the snac server to report the correct numbers?

@grunfink

firefly, 2 months ago to bookstodon

Ygdrasil, the Internet's first and oldest literary journal is still in operation. Below find two links, [1] to the older archive and [2] to the recent editions.

"Ygdrasil, A Journal of the Poetic Arts is the first Literary Journal to be published on the Internet (1994)."

The oldest archives are here:

https://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/201/300/ygdrasil/index.html

Newer issues from about 2017 to date are here:

https://independentscholar.academia.edu/KlausGerken

The ugly old Internet page and archive is here:

https://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/201/300/ygdrasil/html/2017/17-02/users.synapse.net/kgerken/index.html

Enjoy!

@bookstodon @poetry

firefly, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

Is there a way (via cli or by calling a snac function from a script) to poll and auto-accept follows to a certain profile, and then auto-boost all posts that mention that profile address?

The idea is to function like a group on the local server so that all followers will be able to see all toots addressed to the profile.

So user Bob is following user @boost. User Alice posts a status mentioning @boost. The account @boost automatically boosts the post from Alice. Then user Bob eventually can see the boosted post in the timeline.

If there is a way to hack or cobble this I'd probably rather go that route rather than trying to author C code for it. I haven't even tried to write C code for like 20 years, and even then I was not proficient at it. A hackety solution is just as good for my purpose, if anyone can suggest any.

I know I can emulate this behavior by scripting a mastodon client to do it with a cron job. But if there is a way to use snac commands or a config hack I would prefer it.

@grunfink

firefly, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to programmerhumor

Difference Between Nerd and Geek

Has anyone written a scientific treatise on the differences between nerd and geek?

On the one hand, I could instigate endless debate about the finer points of nerds.

On the other hand I could construct nerds with a 3-D meat printer.

@programmerhumor

firefly, 2 months ago to religion

The Gospel of Cain

False teachers and judaizers often preach the gospel of Cain. They speak lies in hypocrisy. They claim to love god by offering the fruit of the ground as a sacrifice instead of the acceptable sacrifice that God provided with righteous Abel.

The gospel of Cain is a gospel of religious works and pretended declarations of spiritual superiority. The false teachers say that one must keep a law or set of rules to be saved and accepted by God.

One of the most nefarious versions of this false gospel is the version that proclaims you must love God to be saved.

And this requirement to love god is a lie. You do not need to love God to be saved. The entire Law of Moses is summed up in, "loving God."

"Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." (Deuteronomy 6)

No man can keep this commandment. Yet Jesus taught that this commandment is the entirety of the Law of Moses:

"Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."

The way of Cain teaches that you must offer a sacrifice of this love, being feigned and fake, as the 'fruit of the earth' or the fruit of the law. Cain's gospel demands that to be saved you must keep the greatest commandment which equates to keeping the whole of the law of Moses. But we know that no man is saved by the deeds of the law.

"Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin." (Romans 3:20)

"Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law." (Romans 3:28)

The command to love God is a deed of the law.

The sacrifice of Abel is different. Abel chose an acceptable sacrifice of the firstling of the flock. Abel's sacrifice is the sacrifice that God appointed and provided. Cain's sacrifice is what Cain provided by forcing the ground (religion, law) to bear fruit (outward deeds, creeds).

And we know that Cain was a murderer and hated righteous Abel. So we should examine the difference between the sacrifices of Cain and Abel to understand how Cain perverts the gospel.

From time to time the reader may see false teachers advertising the false gospel of Cain as the only way to salvation. These false teachers will say things like this:

"You must love God with all your heart, soul, and mind."

It sounds reasonable to those unlearned in the way of truth. But it is not reasonable and it denies the truth. Jesus came to save not the righteous, but to save sinners. The Law of Moses kills the sinner, rather than saving him. No man can keep this law to have perfect love for God. No man has the power to love God. No man can choose this love. Rather it is God who chose to love man:

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

The way of Abel is to trust in the lamb, which God caused to grow fat and acceptable as a sacrifice for sin. Jesus is the unblemished firstling of the flock that takes away sin. Cain's sacrifice is the result of Cain's own work, rather than the work of God.

The way of Cain is to toss around pithy platitudes about how a man must eke out his salvation by pantomiming that he has great love for god and is loving god with all his mind, and showing it in his works, or in his own sacrifices and declarations of piety.

If a man tells you that you must love god to be saved, he is denying that we are saved because God loves us. He is preaching works as the means of salvation, offering up your own fruit for sacrifice in place of the lamb that God has provided. We learn this also from Abraham:

"And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together."

Abraham said that God will provide himself a lamb for the sacrifice. This is the way of Abel. The way of Cain is for men to provide their own sacrifice of creeds, deeds, and high-minded screeds which have no power to save. You can have creeds, deeds, and screeds. Or you can have the word of God. One is death. One is life.

So the liar that preaches that you must love god to be accepted by God, is teaching that you must offer your own righteous sacrifice, a thing that no man can do. Every sinner already is at enmity with God and can't love God because of sin. Yet the gospel of Cain demands that you must first love god before God can love and accept you. Instead, the true gospel teaches we must trust in the sacrifice that God provided for us to be saved:

"He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned."

The prescription for salvation is simple: believe on Jesus Christ. Pretending to love god with all your mind cannot merit salvation. Such false piety is the gospel of Cain which merits damnation. The modern gospel of Cain is sacrificial judaism disguised under a false Jesus mask. Cain denies the simple gospel of child-like faith and replaces it with a bellowing dragon that demands perfect love from imperfect souls, and threatens constantly to punish them for failing to do the impossible. With man it is impossible to please God, but all things are possible with God:

"But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible."

Perhaps that is why Cain was so angry and persecuted his righteous brother. His righteous brother did nothing to earn God's love and approval. He simply took hold of the sacrifice that God provided, and God did the impossible for him. Whereas Cain has his own righteousness to boast of, a righteousness that Cain planted himself and toiled hard to grow, and God rejected it.

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And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God."

When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved?

But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.

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------------- (Matthew 19) '''
The rich man is the religious man, rich in the religion of the world, or rich in the fruit of the ground grown up by Cain's work. We see these modern Cains polluting the gospel of grace with their holier-than-thou and lovelier-than-thou and more-biblical-than-thou spiritual mumbo-jumbo. Mark them and avoid them. Do not trust in your own righteousness to be saved. Trust that Jesus took away your sin, and you shall be saved.

You will falter. You will fail. You will doubt. You will make mistakes. None of this can undo what God has already promised to those who trust in Jesus Christ. Jesus will guide you into all truth. He will guide you into the perfect love of God. Once you trust Jesus and are saved, then you will have power to love the Father. The gospel of Cain puts the cart before the horse, and requires you to muster up love for God in order to be saved. But it is God's love that saves us, not our own love for Him.

Cain is still in the world today. Cain is still murdering righteous Abel. Cain has risen up in the field using his false gospel as a cudgel to beat the life out of those who trust in Jesus instead of their own works. And like his father, the devil, he does it with a lie, teaching that salvation comes from your own will to choose righteousness. Don't be deceived. God is the chooser. God is the accepter. And God is the one who provides the sacrifice.

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Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

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------------- (Romans 3) '''
The command to, "love God" is a deed of the law. If you are required to first love God to be saved, then you are doomed. But if you believe that God loves you and gave Jesus as a sacrifice for you, then you are saved. Having love for God will be something God works in you, not something you work for Him. And we know who loves God--those who love the brethren and speak the truth without hypocrisy. This, Cain does not do. For Cain this is impossible. Cain hates the brethren of Jesus and wants to destroy them with his false gospel.

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NightBulb | https://blog.nightbulb.net | Flip the night switch.

@bible @bible @religion

firefly, 2 months ago to religion

Lawsuit to Protect Abortion as a Religious Sacrament

I'm puzzled. If abortion is, 'health care', how healthy is abortion for the baby?

Abortion is a religious sacrament.

I've been telling people for many years that abortion is a religious rite, or a religious sacrament:

https://youtu.be/R4luYh-tmp0

Somehow these people feel that banning abortion violates their religion. So we know they have a religion with a rite involving the destruction of the fetus. That rite of human sacrifice is called euphemistically, 'abortion'. That's like slitting a senior citizen's throat and calling it, 'prebortive compassionate death care.'

Abortion is a long established rite of witchcraft blood magic:

https://odysee.com/@montysthinkingoutsidethebox:2/ABORTION-CHILD-SACRIFICE-RITUAL-EXPOSED:e

As we have said before, the practice of abortion is an ancient rite of Moloch worship. Some practitioners would kill the baby in the womb and expel it to harness the power of the baby's life for magic.

Some would give birth then burn the newborn in a furnace to invoke magic for economic and agricultural benefit from the god, Moloch.

This religion of child sacrifice is still alive and well. The witches and idolators want to preserve this blood magic ritual under the rubric of, 'womens rights' and 'health care.'

I'm puzzled. If abortion is, 'health care', how healthy is abortion for the baby?

The rulers want you to sacrifice your children so as to maintain the human population at manageable levels that the rulers can control.

It is clear they have a religion that is centered upon human sacrifice. But it is more than human sacrifice. It is the sacrifice and murder of the innocent and defenseless for the gain of the powerful. That sounds like some political regimes, now, doesn't it?

Who wants to be the religious leader that goes down in history declaring infanticide and foeticide as part of your religion? Any takers?

@religion
@usa

firefly, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to politics

Vote HARDER! That will for sure work this time!

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." ~ Al Anon (1981)

If I vote harder each election, will justice eventually win?

@politics

firefly, 2 months ago to politics

Elections are auctions where people sell their souls to the highest bidder.

@politics

firefly, 2 months ago to science

The scientific method is not a debate between opposing theories. The scientific method is the process of falsifying and verifying claims or hypotheses. When a hypothesis is confirmed by unwavering, repeatable reprocibility, only then does it become a theory. And a theory is NOT an established scientific fact. A theory is a 'best explanation' for reproducible results based upon observed facts.

When anyone gives a unfalsifiable claim that cannot be challenged based upon opinion or 'consensus' this is not science. It is religion.

When anyone tells you to, 'trust the science' or 'the scientific consensus' that person is proselyting a religion and is NOT a scientist but rather is a cultist. There is no such thing as, 'consensus' in actual science. Science is not a democracy or a social club where popular opinion determines the truth or falsity of a claim. Science is a long established method of inquiry and has nothing to do with group think, but is diametrically opposed to group think and cultism.

Most profiles and accounts on social media that mention, 'science' wouldn't know the scientific method if it bit them on the nose. No real scientist ever 'trusts the science' but rather verifies or falsifies every claim by attempting to repeat the claimed results.

Most people also don't know the differences between theory, hypothesis, conjecture, claim, fact, and speculation. When you see the word, 'science' on the Internet, always assume it is delusional bullshit until proven otherwise, because most probably it is.

#science

firefly, 2 months ago to videos

KILLDOZER - because 'Murrica'

Tread: The True Story of Marvin Heemeyer and His Killdozer

https://odysee.com/@thisworldworks:1/Tread.mp4:a

'In 2004, Marvin Heemeyer, a welder in Granby, Colorado, spent over a year building a bulldozer that he transformed into a 65-ton armored vehicle equipped with weapons and a camera. He then drove it through the town, destroying buildings and businesses in a fit of rage.'

'The documentary "Tread" tells the story of Heemeyer's life and the events that led up to his rampage. It is a fascinating and disturbing look at a man who was pushed to the brink by bureaucracy and injustice.'

@videos

firefly, 2 months ago to memes

Republican Martial Art

@memes

firefly, 2 months ago to memes

What I see when you say, "bitcoin miner'

@memes

firefly, 2 months ago to memes

Government education is the best defense against brain-eating zombies.

@memes

firefly, 2 months ago to random

"Sitar Metal' is the World's first & only Sitar fronted Indian Classical-Metal album. Creating history on many fronts, this album marked the beginning of a new chapter in the entire history of a 'Sitar' by introducing & bringing 'Tapping' to the Sitar for the first time ever, featured in the opening section of the lead single 'When Time Stands Still'."

I don't know about the 'first time' 'tapping' claim. Even hillbillies figured out how to tap banjos and somewhere someone is abusing a dulcimer. But this song does have a unique mystique.

https://sitarmetal.bandcamp.com/track/when-time-stands-still

Ahh...yes...new "code-free" framework (lemmy.world)

firefly, 3 months ago to programmerhumor

Whatever is Clever Public License

Do whatever is clever. Do as you wish with this product.

Do whatever is clever shall be the whole of the law.

https://codeberg.org/sugarbug/whatever-is-clever-public-license

@programmerhumor

firefly, 3 months ago to random

Someone is suggesting that a bug in the way Sync app interacts with snac2 should be mitigated by blocking my instance:

https://midwest.social/comment/7715817

Apparently something in the interaction between snac2 and the Sync app causes the app to crash.

@grunfink

firefly, 5 months ago to usenet

List of free Usenet providers:
https://sybershock.com/#usenet

A few interesting hierarchies:

comp.infosystems.gemini
alt.2600
alt.folklore.computers
sci.crypt
talk.politics.crypto
alt.sources.crypto
alt.os.linux
alt.cypherpunks
alt.security.pgp

#Usenet #NetworkNews #NNTP #Retro #PlainText #ASCII #Smol #OldSchool