GM #plebchain and coffeechain ☕☕☕

I hope everybody is having a great sunday🤠🤙

THERE IS STILL HOPE 🫂

Running #meshtastic 📡

Mainly sending in to the void at the moment.

First test with a second device was successfull.

I am really impressed by the range, even in a dense city environment with many buildings.

Who's ready to grow the mesh with me?

#einundzwanzig #lora

Interesting song

My son has also been surprised by how half-hearted many of the other students are. They clearly plan to live at home and study as a long-term occupation.

I know quite a few people that were in college from 19 to 30+ and didn't really learn or accomplish much, other than collecting certificates and loans.

I don't really get the point of that excersize, but maybe they simply couldn't think of anything better to do. Inertia.

You hardly ever see that happen in computer science, tho.

And connections and social supports can help even if one of those is a bit dubious :D One of my cousins spent seven years doing his doctorate! He is genuinely brilliant at maths, though.

GM. Short night.

True. Good night 🌃.

Excerpt from 'Permanent Record' by Edward Snowden.

#cybersecgirl #snowden

The Internet is fundamentally American, but I had to leave America to fully understand what that meant. The World Wide Web might have been invented in Geneva, at the CERN research laboratory in 1989, but the ways by which the Web is accessed are as American as baseball, which gives the American Intelligence Community the home field advantage.

The cables and satellites, the servers and towers—so much of the infrastructure of the Internet is under US control that over 90 percent of the world’s Internet traffic passes through technologies developed, owned, and/or operated by the American government and American businesses, most of which are physically located on American territory.

Countries that traditionally worry about such advantages, like China and Russia, have attempted to make alternative systems, such as the Great Firewall, or the state-sponsored censored search engines, or the nationalized satellite constellations that provide selective GPS—but America remains the hegemon, the keeper of the master switches that can turn almost anyone on and off at will.

It’s not just the Internet’s infrastructure that I’m defining as fundamentally American—it’s the computer software (Microsoft, Google, Oracle) and hardware (HP, Apple, Dell), too. It’s everything from the chips (Intel, Qualcomm), to the routers and modems (Cisco, Juniper), to the Web services and platforms that provide email and social networking and cloud storage (Google, Facebook, and the most structurally important but invisible Amazon, which provides cloud services to the US government along with half the Internet).

Though some of these companies might manufacture their devices in, say, China, the companies themselves are American and are subject to American law. The problem is, they’re also subject to classified American policies that pervert law and permit the US government to surveil virtually every man, woman, and child who has ever touched a computer or picked up a phone.

(*paragraph formatting, my own)

Sydney definitely has the worst of it, but Adelaide home values have doubled in 4 years:

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There is nowhere in Australia where the average person can buy a house any more:

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You’d need to be on 3X average income to buy a home: nostr:note1h9yclh7nufxdmtess2jflkl77xc7dd693qks74xqrqa8f9pkvq3qeq52xn

In fact the median household can only afford 13% of homes in the country: nostr:note1587s4m9sg80y5x9e6z9f5eneyxnhnreldgc8n9ncm9p8xd6hwndqjju5rj

It has mostly been developers with a healthy contingent of mainland Chinese and wealthy Boomers levering up into investment properties. Developers have started to drop off, Chinese money and Boomers still going strong.

I’ve got a running thread with some of the more outlandish sales in Aus: nostr:note1e4gu3g8hanesren3cnu62gvkh5hjwmlalz94esyn6emd8006cwusswz5dt

$4-$5 million is their house, the house they own which their daughter lives in in the next suburb, and I know they’ve got a holiday home but haven’t seen it.

That’s exactly what they are. Sitting on $4-$5 million equity in property, plenty of time on their hands to get involved in socialist political causes for faceless other people but when poverty comes to their doorstep the pretense of Good Samaritan is dropped quick smart.

I'm posting this nasty memes for a long time now, and I don't think that I will stop because of them.

Socialist vs Individualist - a short story.

My neighbours are socialist Boomers. They still have their “Yes” sign up on the front fence from last years failed referendum, and I learned to avoid politics (Greens voters) in our chitchat because I know we disagree.

Recently they got a letter from my landlord complaining about a tree overhanging my fence - I told them not to worry about it because I’m not bothered by it, a small patch of dead grass in the back corner from its shade isn’t a concern. They were thankful for that as it would clearly be a pain to cut and cost a bit to get an arborist in; we’re on generally good terms despite our differences.

Anyway today I awoke to a beaten up car blocking our shared driveway. I had a look inside and it looks like someone living rough, but it doesn’t appear to be abandoned.

The car is completely blocking my car but the neighbours were able to squeeze their Tesla out past it.

So I came out for a delivery after they’d just returned with the lady Boomer on her phone looking up the council’s number. She was about to call them to get it towed and I asked her to please stop and just wait a bit. The fella just says “I want it gone” 😂

Anyway I talked them off the ledge and said wait til this evening, it could be someone at work and I don’t need my car today so let’s not cause this person any more problems. They grumblingly agreed.

So my individualist arse seeing this situation wanted to give this car owner the benefit of the doubt and avoid having what looks to be all their possessions seized with a massive fine to get them back.

The socialists who virtue signal about helping others, who are not inconvenienced as I am, wanted to have the state intervene and have this clearly poor person go through the cost and stress of dealing with them to get their stuff back.

These were just mine and their natural reactions to a situation. Thought it interesting that their supposed “empathy” went out the window the second there’s an eyesore out the front and they reverted straight to Gov intervention with no self-awareness for what it might mean for this person, especially given the way they vote is essentially to take money from people like me to give to people like this..

Good morning

What the fuck happened here?

You left the gates open for the offended people?

I have so many reported posts...🤣😂🤣😂🤣

#nostr #grownostr #plebchain

No, and I have no desire to. I know my current needs and no other country on the planet, currently, allows me to do the things I value most as freely as I can now. Hopefully that changes. I doubt it will. My best hope currently is do everything I can to not lose this in the US.

I have spent a lot of time researching to come to this conclusion though. I can't live as I do now in any other country, sadly. Even western ones. But that's all from a legal perspective.

Philosophically (my preference for Westernism), I don't need to visit any particular place. I think Western philosophy in general is better.

So this issue for me is one of legal structure and philosophy. That, for me, means the US is best. I can leave and choose not to. It wasn't until I could leave that I fully realized this because I didn't have a choice one way or the other before. Now I stay completely by choice. I'll never say that will never change though if somewhere else meets my needs better. And I actually hope competition does improve. I'm not excited about the fact that I have nowhere better to go from a legal perspective.

I'm less rigid about visiting other places, but there are places I will absolutely not visit in their current state. Nothing has interested me thusfar.

Yes. Netanyahu ordered the protests in USA to stop, but it's others that intervene...

Goodnigth! ✨💜🫂