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Chaos evangelist. Sometimes evil. Almost godlike. Better, even more magnificent than before. Not for the faint of heart. :gondola_head: :8b_a: :gondola_legs: :8b_d: :gondola_legs: :8b_v: :gondola_legs: :8b_a: :gondola_legs: :8b_n: :gondola_legs: :8b_c: :gondola_legs: :8b_e: :gondola_legs: :8b_d: :gondola_legs: :emergency: :gondola_legs: :8b_v: :gondola_legs: :8b_e: :gondola_legs: :8b_r: :gondola_legs: :8b_t: :gondola_legs: :8b_i: :gondola_legs: :8b_c: :gondola_legs: :8b_a: :gondola_legs: :8b_l: :gondola_legs: :emergency: :gondola_legs: :8b_s: :gondola_legs: :8b_u: :gondola_legs: :8b_p: :gondola_legs: :8b_r: :gondola_legs: :8b_e: :gondola_legs: :8b_m: :gondola_legs: :8b_a: :gondola_legs: :8b_c: :gondola_legs: :8b_y: :gondola_legs: :emergency: :gondola_legs: :8b_a: :gondola_legs: :8b_d: :gondola_legs: :8b_v: :gondola_legs: :8b_o: :gondola_legs: :8b_c: :gondola_legs: :8b_a: :gondola_legs: :8b_t: :gondola_feet: :8b_e: Infamously brutal #cofe gang enforcer. #niu refugee. Programming and tech talk is mostly at @icon_of_computational_sin@mstdn.starnix.network (formerly at @pureevil@functional.cafe) but occasionally leaks. Backup cofe storage and posts are at @newt@cofe.rocks. Bar-hopping and wine connaisseur posts at @abitlame@socially.drinkingatmy.computer. Email is the same as this fedi handle, in case you are a boomer. I write and actively use proprietary software. "@newt@niu.moe - quality posts." - @dielan@shitposter.club "newt, a huge tentacled monster, invalidates your pants." - @moth@husk.site "the trick with @newt is that he means the opposite of everything he says" - @genmaicha “he is fucking weird” - @yangwenli@cawfee.club "newt you must be stopped' - @iwillbite@whinge.town "@iwillbite@whinge.town The man has a 40 inch penis and there's nothing you can say or do to refute that." - @adiz@soc0.outrnat.nl "if there was one person on fedi which radiates chad energy @newt would be it, keep it up king" - @cell@pl.ebin.zone "You must be immune to the autism. True chad energy." - @Tony@clew.lol "Duke Nukem did nothing wrong." - @newt :duke_0::duke_1::duke_2::duke_3: :duke_4::duke_5::duke_6::duke_7: :duke_8::duke_9::duke_10::duke_11: #yestipbot Ţ̴̧̢̧̡̨̛̛̗̼͇̪̬̣̺̭͔̰̼͙̖̟͎̗͇̻͇̹̼̭̳̗̣͚͓̈̃̍́̿͗̈́̍̍͑̆̇̓̃́̊̋̓̾͂̕͝͠ͅH̷̛̗͈̖̭̬͔̖̰̥̮͔͎̣͚̦̜̩̙̩̟̦̒̄͂̈́̾̂̓̾̆͗̽͂̈́̆̆̏̈́͐̓̊͆͂̓̾̈́͌̈́̒̈́̈́̂̅̿̈́̚͘͘̕͝Y̷̛̜̭̱͔̜͖̩̝͖̹͖̹̥̖͕̺̋̈́͛̊̽̈́̌̐͂̾̿̕̚ͅ ̴̛̮͓͔̺̠̠̠̖̥͔̤̟̤̮̭̰̝̩̫̻͉̩͙̻̤̝͎̜̱̦̞͋̀͋̂̎͆͋͗͐̓͂͛͐͒̐̈́͛̓̏̉͑̎̀̐̉̇̽̓͌͗̅̈́͌͐̋͊̈̈́͗̎́͒̋̅͛̕̚̚̚͘͘͘͜͜͠͝͝͝͝͝͠ͅM̵̡̢̢̧̡̡͖̦̺̲̞̪̭͕͙͚͓̦̱̬̲̪̫̥̜̰̼̤̹͉̼̝̤͍̭͕̝͕͈̥̣̘̫̥̣͍̑̊̊̀͜͜͝ͅI̸̧̡̨̡̫̮̪̠̜̟͎̤̜̦̰͓̖̭̤͉̟͎͕̜̩̤͙̰̤̯̥͔̹̤̠͍̙͕̳͔͓̙̼͕̪̜̟̦̼͇͖͉̭̮͇̪̯̝͍̍̽̆͗͊̅̎͆̃̐̚͜͜͠͠ͅͅN̷̥̺̤̣̠̘͓͈̼̰̭̬̋́̐͛̂̊̄͆̆̈́̒̈̽͂͑̌͑̉́̑̒͗̾́͗̂͘̕͠͝Ḑ̴͕̩̠̼̮͓̪̩̱̟̥̞̊͂͒̊̄̆̉̀̇͌͐̑͐́̕͘͘͜͠͝͝͠ͅ ̶̧̢̡̙͈͚͎̼̼̳̹̗̺̠̗̤̞̰͖̲̫̌̈́̾͐̌̈́̀̃͒̒̇̒̎͂͒̈̅̿͐͒̅̓̿͗͗͑̆͛͋̎͑͆̏̔͐͒̎̅̍̂̉̎͊̇̀́͗̎̒́̓̈́͘͘̚̕̕̕͜͜͠͝͠ͅŚ̵̡̧͇̹̬̝̟̟̯̘̮͓̭͚̮̼͔̥̘̦͉̫̙̤̰̻̺̳̱͙̫͎͖̖͇̀̓̂̽̈́̄̈́̆̐̈́͊͂͛́̎̄͗̀̆̇͊̃́͂͂͑̈́̈́͒̈́̑̋́͛̾́͑͊̚͠͝ͅH̴̨̧̧̡̛̛̛̬̞̳̯͎̦͇̞͈̳͓͈͓̤̼̘̱͈̘̩͎̘̳͈̳͓̫̝̲̟̳̙͎̦͕̟̦̺̖̫̄̋͛̔̾͑̿̌̐̊̋̃́͊̿̇̿̋͋͋̆̈́̌͑̈́̆̂̋̿̍̍͋͗͑̓̀̊͌̐̽̿̚͘͘͘͜͝͝͝Ą̴̢̧̡̢̧̧̢̨̩͚̲̲͓̞̖̣̠̤̰̪̳̩̝̗̗̘͚͕̰͎̱͍̣͚͓̞̲͇̬̫̤͉͙̰̮͕͙͚̯̼̣̦͖̫̘̺͚̌̂̓̍͋́̓̒̏͜ͅͅL̷̨̢̡̡̢̨̛̪̭̣̝̻͈͙̹̠͎̯̤͈̳̟͓̜̬͉̩̤͕̰̤̠̠͚͙͇͔̣̝̯̘͙̰̗̭̲̦̟͕̭͇̪͚̞̻̰̘̹͕̘͙͓̋̈͛͂̍́̈́̄̐̿̐̏̊̋̂̇̽̃͌̀́̍͝ͅL̷̺̠̫̱̍̑̌ ̴̡̢̧̼̼͖̥͉̬̮̥͓͇̼̹̙̟͓̼̣̫̰̘̪͖͚̠̘͙̥̺̐͂́̎̿ͅB̴̧͔͓͓͔̖̝̫̗̯͔̫̗͇̙͙̏̿͐̒͋̒͐È̸̢̛͕̩͖̩͕̹̹̟̜̖̦̜̥̪̰͔̮̭̫̳̦̝̥͕̟̬̰̗̙̳̪̤͈̯̣͇̖͌̈́̍͒̍ͅ ̵̧̧̧̬̜̲̮̖͉̤̠̫͉̱̯̟͙͙̘̭̲͇͙̦̫̲̞̼͈͍͓̊͛̾̀̒̂̏̂͛̋̾̃̇̃̈̋̇̀̐̍̄̓̒̀̐̓͂̑̓̀̉̎͐͋͘͘̕͝ͅĊ̸̡̡̨̨̧̧̢̡̡̨̧̛̛̬̺̘̫͓̪̪̘͔͈̠̳̱̝͕̱͍̘͖̫͙̫̥̘̥̳̦̲͚̙̟̯̝͔̝̼͎͇̹͍͔̥͔̤̙̤̲̥̯̩̞̬͔̋̉͒̊̃̏͐͋͂͊̍́̒̈́̿͋́̅̐̔̈́͑̋͒̎̿̀́̓̐̋͗̈́͒̽̒̓̍͑͒́́͋̒͂͋̆̌̈́̐̍̈́̾́̽͂̒̕̕͜͝͝ͅͅƠ̶̢̛̛̛̲̥̬͇̼̠͙̍̈̈́̈́̒̑͒̈́̏̈́͒̏̍͐̄͋̎͑͗̐͗̀́̃̈̂̈͊̌̍͐̽̀̂̌͊̍̍̒͊̈́̈́̈́̀͘͘͠͝͠͝͠͠N̶̡̛̮̦͓̥̟̙̤̤̤̥͚͖̻̻̗͖̜̥̠͈̺̊͂̋̇̄̔̓́̆̒͆̒̃͗́͑͂̌̈͒̎͋̀͛̾̄̌̀͛̍̃̂̓̂͒̾̄͋͊̅̒͆̂͌̔̀̿̂̌͆́͊̿͂̂̑̕͘̕̚̚͜͝͝͝͝ͅS̸̢̢̛̰͉̭̯̦̟̠͔͈̮̣̜̖͍͔̼͈̺̙͈̒̇̋̀̑͌͆͋̀̒͋̑́̏̌̃̈̌̒͛͛͗͒̎̓̐̀̈́̾̅̐͌̾̀̏͂͛̾͒̈́̀̉̓́̉̾͗͑͒̓͘̕͘͜͝͝͝͝ͅƯ̷̢̨̨̢̨̡̲̟̰̻̱̣̻̤̳̜̲̭̝̦̻̱̲̻̣̯̖̜̪̦̜̤̼̱̯̹̜̤͉̻͇̙͓̤̫͍͓̺̄̃̈͂͗̊̄̀̃͛͐̋͐̈̓̀̑͋̈́̓͗̊̒̃͌̈́̈́̓̃̌̂͛̽͗͛̕̕͜͠M̸̢̻̝͚̣̥͕͈̜͈̗͉͕̹̻̝̲̩̤̖̜̳̬͎̙̲̘̪̬͚̗̝̲̼̲͉̊̈́́̎́̾̓̾́͋͂̓̒͑͋̈́̋̇͋̈̕̚È̸͇̭̭͉̣͊͑̊̈́͐̉̈́̉͗̿̆̃̂̅̎͑̀̏́̚̚͘͝Ḑ̸̡̡̧̧͕̼͇̬̮̥̪̜̞̠̰͕̝̼̫̝̻͔̳̜̬̟͎̟͆̆̓͌̊͒̔̐̇͠ͅͅ

nostr:npub17rrzgc0pj6efz3qr2jcged9kg4tv4gk0u2thdnw0mq8p8twq0hzqrj7wsy fun fact. The Dunning-Kruger Effect isn't real. The original paper is bogus and measures the wrong thing.

Dogs that don’t bark are much more menacing

nostr:npub1lurc58gr8jw87lagptufuwgvxyj3906fmc6vqnpglg5nvm9tk35sgmr7kf I'm prepared to have sex with Greta for each day I can ride. She's ugly, but it's a worthy sacrifice.

Snowboarding season here is over. Damn global warming! How much sex do I need to have with Greta to make the season last at least two more weeks?

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>I don't think tax evasion is a good thing and neither does ​:rms1:

I don't care what you think about this. Just yes or no would be enough. The ability to gather taxes is backed by violence and only by violence, no information control is needed here. You pay taxes not because you think it's a good idea, but because otherwise you will be a subject to violence from the state. Everything else is just an ex post facto justification.

>But I have heard that is very easy to evade taxes using cryptocurrencies if that is your interest.

That's basically no, with lots of caveats. I can't buy cofe with crypto in the cofe place with cute baristas and avoid paying VAT in the process. Why? Because if the place doesn't pay VAT, tax authorities will come and close it down. Crypto won't save them.

nostr:npub1wc2kznjw6kldwzz8eedr9pf208waa8ww3fjsqk0nz4rdv8q663qswt4sk7 True. You should be able to just lock yourself out of the story by killing a story character

nostr:npub10lnelsae3zhv6y3kz8jla2fkwjxrpws0j8vehrv54zg7tfsd3p2s4s080l nah.. there should just be a way around this character. A note dropping from his corpse that points you in the right direction or something. There are many ways to do this.

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nostr:npub1wc2kznjw6kldwzz8eedr9pf208waa8ww3fjsqk0nz4rdv8q663qswt4sk7 nostr:npub1h7sjqxxgl6ar4ljpd77xt2qf49xzhfn9a2m837t5htwnmethx3jsqx02qp nostr:npub1qh097tfm3kv0nwffd9ggptn255d3fuqdcy3wauw5p4gz5z45s92qc3xeda nostr:npub1u5ettkwewdh3j6h3pn2punddge5mgrfldyufy4t89xqnqfwkxjzs5ukhmd Also the reason why I'm so into this shit is because I am genuinely convinced that like 90% of issues in the modern world are caused by something related to digital rights.

I firmly believe that if a government can keep secrets, there is no real democracy.

And if tech companies stopped having control over social media with their recommendation algorithms the current culture war would just simply go away. You know, because people might actually just be able to get along if they are not getting gaslit by the constant stream of ragebait cherrypicked bullshit into their doom rectangle 24 hours a day.

And currently almost all of the world's biggest corporations are tech companies. The only real power tech companies have over us is a monopoly enforced by copyright and patent law. As soon as we take this away from them they will be out of business within months, because now we can just take their monopoly away and run it ourselves, decentralized.

And if we actually shared innovations (like software code!) there would be little reason for countries to start doing protectionism, which in turn reduces international conflicts, promotes globalization and that reduces the chances of all out war.

Just simply name any current political issue and I can probably explain to you why it is caused by proprietary software.

nostr:npub1ufmlneg8tt9jwvk6p40t02lxhmkns6zlpu4cwrvxerczdnn4syzqlgqhp4 nostr:npub1h7sjqxxgl6ar4ljpd77xt2qf49xzhfn9a2m837t5htwnmethx3jsqx02qp nostr:npub1qh097tfm3kv0nwffd9ggptn255d3fuqdcy3wauw5p4gz5z45s92qc3xeda nostr:npub1u5ettkwewdh3j6h3pn2punddge5mgrfldyufy4t89xqnqfwkxjzs5ukhmd you are indeed very narrowly minded. Lots of things have nothing to do with software at all, much less proprietary software.

As nostr:npub1ev9hqx5wy9t82020rkjzk63aphqv5z5cmutx3tpayjd885ndhypqheldw4 pointed out, warfare is caused by the strife for power and software is completely irrelevant. Software is just a tool.

nostr:npub1wc2kznjw6kldwzz8eedr9pf208waa8ww3fjsqk0nz4rdv8q663qswt4sk7 As far as I tried in KCD you can kill everyone except story characters.

nostr:npub10lnelsae3zhv6y3kz8jla2fkwjxrpws0j8vehrv54zg7tfsd3p2s4s080l but those are the most important characters to kill. Best games are those where you could just murder your way through the entire game. Doesn't mean that you should. But if the devs thought of this option instead of just forcing you into a certain kind of gameplay, it means they thought of many more fun things.

If I want a medium without meaningful interactions possible, I'd just watch a movie.

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nostr:npub1wc2kznjw6kldwzz8eedr9pf208waa8ww3fjsqk0nz4rdv8q663qswt4sk7 nostr:npub1h7sjqxxgl6ar4ljpd77xt2qf49xzhfn9a2m837t5htwnmethx3jsqx02qp nostr:npub1qh097tfm3kv0nwffd9ggptn255d3fuqdcy3wauw5p4gz5z45s92qc3xeda nostr:npub1u5ettkwewdh3j6h3pn2punddge5mgrfldyufy4t89xqnqfwkxjzs5ukhmd because you don't trust your municipal water company or are afraid of fluoride (you should be btw).I do trust my municipal water and I am not afraid of fluoride but that's because I live in the Netherlands.

Our entire water system is fully democratized and our regional water boards have their own elections.

I'm not joking but we actually have 4 types of political elections in the Netherlands and they are: national, provincial, municipal and water board.

I don't trust the tap water whenever I'm abroad so I don't drink it there tho.

nostr:npub1ufmlneg8tt9jwvk6p40t02lxhmkns6zlpu4cwrvxerczdnn4syzqlgqhp4 nostr:npub1h7sjqxxgl6ar4ljpd77xt2qf49xzhfn9a2m837t5htwnmethx3jsqx02qp nostr:npub1qh097tfm3kv0nwffd9ggptn255d3fuqdcy3wauw5p4gz5z45s92qc3xeda nostr:npub1u5ettkwewdh3j6h3pn2punddge5mgrfldyufy4t89xqnqfwkxjzs5ukhmd And you've just described why people trust Telegram or whatever. Because they have no reason not to.

I could point out legitimate concerns about water quality (and gay frogs), but you'll dismiss me as a conspiracy theorist (which I sincerely consider a compliment). Literally the very same line of reasoning works when it comes to messaging services and most people. They would dismiss you as a conspiracy theorist or a schizo. Doesn't mean you're wrong and they're right or vice versa. In fact, it doesn't mean anything other than these things are outside of their areas of interest.

P.S. Tap water in the Netherlands sucks. I preferred bottled water when I lived there.

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nostr:npub1wc2kznjw6kldwzz8eedr9pf208waa8ww3fjsqk0nz4rdv8q663qswt4sk7 nostr:npub1h7sjqxxgl6ar4ljpd77xt2qf49xzhfn9a2m837t5htwnmethx3jsqx02qp nostr:npub1qh097tfm3kv0nwffd9ggptn255d3fuqdcy3wauw5p4gz5z45s92qc3xeda nostr:npub1u5ettkwewdh3j6h3pn2punddge5mgrfldyufy4t89xqnqfwkxjzs5ukhmd Maybe I'm a little narrow minded but I do really think that most people who have never in their life consciously had a single thought about topics such as digital rights, privacy or software freedom to be very uninteresting usually.

nostr:npub1ufmlneg8tt9jwvk6p40t02lxhmkns6zlpu4cwrvxerczdnn4syzqlgqhp4 nostr:npub1h7sjqxxgl6ar4ljpd77xt2qf49xzhfn9a2m837t5htwnmethx3jsqx02qp nostr:npub1qh097tfm3kv0nwffd9ggptn255d3fuqdcy3wauw5p4gz5z45s92qc3xeda nostr:npub1u5ettkwewdh3j6h3pn2punddge5mgrfldyufy4t89xqnqfwkxjzs5ukhmd you are indeed narrow-minded. For most people. messaging services are just another convenience, like phones or tap water. They don't think about it. You don't think about it either, at least I don't remember you ever writing about moving to the woods and drilling your own water well because you don't trust your municipal water company or are afraid of fluoride (you should be btw).

Digital rights are important, but so are many other things, and most humans have only so much brain capacity. It's just outside of their areas of interest.

There's nothing cuter than a tall girl in a giant oversized hoodie :comfyaww:

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nostr:npub1wc2kznjw6kldwzz8eedr9pf208waa8ww3fjsqk0nz4rdv8q663qswt4sk7 nostr:npub1u5ettkwewdh3j6h3pn2punddge5mgrfldyufy4t89xqnqfwkxjzs5ukhmd nostr:npub1h7sjqxxgl6ar4ljpd77xt2qf49xzhfn9a2m837t5htwnmethx3jsqx02qp nostr:npub1qh097tfm3kv0nwffd9ggptn255d3fuqdcy3wauw5p4gz5z45s92qc3xeda From Matrix to Facebook Messenger and Telegram.Facebook Messenger and Telegram are not alternatives to XMPP, they are not decentralized.

Matrix is the only one that I consider an actual alternative to XMPP.

Personally I think as of right now the technical implementations of XMPP are much better so I still consider it the better option. Although I use both Matrix and XMPP.

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>Facebook Messenger and Telegram are not alternatives to XMPP, they are not decentralized.

They aren't alternative because I can talk to girls on Telegram and I can't talk to girls on XMPP. Therefore, if I want to avoid women as much as possible, XMPP is the only option.

nostr:npub1wc2kznjw6kldwzz8eedr9pf208waa8ww3fjsqk0nz4rdv8q663qswt4sk7 What's wrong with XMPP, though? There's no alternative, superior standard or protocol that I know of which killed and replaced it. All these companies just locked things down to their own proprietary solutions. nostr:npub1h7sjqxxgl6ar4ljpd77xt2qf49xzhfn9a2m837t5htwnmethx3jsqx02qp nostr:npub1ufmlneg8tt9jwvk6p40t02lxhmkns6zlpu4cwrvxerczdnn4syzqlgqhp4 nostr:npub1qh097tfm3kv0nwffd9ggptn255d3fuqdcy3wauw5p4gz5z45s92qc3xeda

nostr:npub1u5ettkwewdh3j6h3pn2punddge5mgrfldyufy4t89xqnqfwkxjzs5ukhmd nostr:npub1h7sjqxxgl6ar4ljpd77xt2qf49xzhfn9a2m837t5htwnmethx3jsqx02qp nostr:npub1ufmlneg8tt9jwvk6p40t02lxhmkns6zlpu4cwrvxerczdnn4syzqlgqhp4 nostr:npub1qh097tfm3kv0nwffd9ggptn255d3fuqdcy3wauw5p4gz5z45s92qc3xeda there are lots of alternatives to XMPP for talking to people. From Matrix to Facebook Messenger and Telegram.

There are three massive issues:

1. Servers implement incompatible sets of XEPs and often fail to federate some stuff;

2. Clients are shit (especially when it comes to OMEME'o);

3. Lack of expected features like normal filesharing.

Every now and then I encounter a thread on fedi where someone whines that certain combinations of clients cannot talk to each other with OMEMO and this is funny as hell.

nostr:npub1ufmlneg8tt9jwvk6p40t02lxhmkns6zlpu4cwrvxerczdnn4syzqlgqhp4 nostr:npub1h7sjqxxgl6ar4ljpd77xt2qf49xzhfn9a2m837t5htwnmethx3jsqx02qp nostr:npub1qh097tfm3kv0nwffd9ggptn255d3fuqdcy3wauw5p4gz5z45s92qc3xeda around 2008-2010 XMPP was everywhere. Facebook had their XMPP federating. Google had XMPP federating. Even fucking Livejournal had a federating XMPP messaging integrated right into their whiny blogging shit.

Today, XMPP is a relic used only by a bunch of stubborn nerds. Just like IRC is.

Yes, I know that certain companies like Grindr use XMPP internally, but they might be using just about anything else since they don't federate.