I'm currently compiling a bunch of info & guides for setting up your digital life to be secure, private, encrypted, decentralised, and unsurveillable and uncensorable.

Including:

VPN

DNS

Firewall

Antivirus

Encrypted cloud storage

Encrypted messaging

Decentralised social media

Decentralised messaging

Encrypted email

Blocking telemetry

This is especially important for those of you who live in authoritarian countries.

https://farranddroid-tech.gitbook.io/tech-support/digital-life-freedom

if you keep refollowing me in an attempt to get me to follow you back, i will mute you. (this probably only applies to generic faceless accounts so don't worry if you're a human account, i'll follow you if you are interesting for me & my path)

Some things about handling sleep paralysis, just from my unfortunately excessive experience

https://phlowyd-mentalics.gitbook.io/mastery/health/in/habits/sleep/paralysis

Font rendering idea:

We have variable width typefaces

How about the font configuration panel in OSes and apps having a line nib config?

In it you'd be able to set the shape of the nib, any onset and coda shapes and flicks, nib angle, etc.

This would enable infinitely customisable font appearance

something that keeps returning to mind

self sovereignty versus large scale majix

we ARE being used in occult major arcana

used by the rulers in alchemica megalo

to achieve their societal manipulation

twisting us into polarity inside their economy artifice

so the thought is:

too many of us are totally unaware

thus we cannot align our power to escape

if another actor manipulates us without our knowledge or consent

with potentially good purpose

to combat the rulers

is that... ok?

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we are SO incongruent that I just don't see how enough of us can EVER become aligned to overthrow the Rulers

but if someone were to intervene, through large-scale alchemical manipulation

then perhaps we'd unknowingly reach critical mass

i suppose this is comparable to the inherent issues of democracy:

a) people often want what's best for themselves & don't think of others

b) people often don't know what they themselves actually need

c) people are uneducated & unaware of politics so vote poorly

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i think this might also be something we NEED to think about, sooner rather than later

democracy is CLEARLY collapsing

the current society and hierarchy are collapsing

the economy (as we know it) is collapsing

and the ecosystem is also collapsing

someone and something IS going to rise to fill the power vacuum

perhaps we should be thinking about which form of manipulation we would allow and benefit from

something is going to manipulate us

may as well be aware and allow the right one in.

What would be awesome is if govt legislation and restrictions were irrelevant, and that companies and corporations simply behaved well because it is right, treated the environment well because it is right, treated employees well because it is right

Imagine that

It's time to fully ditch Google and M3ta and Apple and Amazon and any other tech behemoths that are owning us!

Over the next few weeks I'll be posting about all the apps and services that I've been exploring over the past few days.

There's a lot of options! I've been lazily dwelling in the Google garden ecosystem for far too long, it's very refreshing to hunt around the web and find new things. Google's offerings are rather antiquated, to be honest.

Check out Nostr!

A fully decentralised social communication network, totally non-hierarchical, not controlled by any entity, uncensorable, versatile, and you can access it from various apps.

Nostr is a protocol, not a platform.

Come join us!

I'll attach my profile in the next post

https://primal.net/e/note1ga7fnxhlqwg389rxf2v407c4xdkhd97k7p2wsx39ky35jfyxq38shegr2e https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/9a859fbc13b98e89b499e0040c809a4945a9489621601f479f34e5a28a9270f3/2839c15cfcbc8a53a1720d8e4b69004885d21ef243857034c79059a340e333e8.webp

Western capitalism:

"Socialism is evil! Communism is evil! Etc!"

Western families:

Go on holidays with their young children to Viet Nam and Cuba and have a terrific time

i want a list of companies with a trustworthiness index

the trustworthiness is regarding "likelihood to betray fellow humans and lifeforms and the ecosystem and planet"

Maybe I'll just make this myself. I have been looking for a grapplable project to start myself off on programming.

Would be a great community-contributable platform, too. Cos there's no way I'll be able to set indices for every major company!

haha right! well I guess my post doesn't reach enough viewers yet. also the notion of freedom that i see on nostr seems to be more considerate freedom than "fuck you"-freedom

but I'm sure that's bias based on who i've followed so far

I'm in Viet Nam and here they don't even believe that smoking is bad for health, and they think it legitimately makes you look cool, rich, focussed, important. They also don't know that you should drink water if you have a headache so take that as you will (I'm not kidding)

windows keyboard layout resets after unlocking every time and it's gotta be the most annoying thing in my daily life cos I use a custom keyboard layout with extra letters where the number row is so i NEED this layout, and switching layout is laggy and the switcher popup is laggy, fuck i hate windows so much goddamn when are we gonna mario party microsoft? forreal can someone do that

smokers really arrive somewhere, sit down next to a stranger and start breathing smoke into their airspace

yo keep your poison and shitty lungs and sickness and wasted money on healthcare to yourself

Hey Scott! Ah cool, great to hear you're interested!

My current project, NewEng, is partially done, I've got it into several phases of spelling updates, but I've run into some troubles with the final phase/s so I need to do some more heavy thought-work to resolve them.

You can learn about NewEng on my website. The website is also not complete, as I'm still working out the best ways to present the orthographic system so that it's accessible by both native speakers and foreign-language learners!

Here ya go:

https://phlowyd-linguistics.gitbook.io/linguistics/neweng-orthography

so I was looking for zeronet last week and that's what led me to nostr, via someone's recommendation on reddit

and yesterday I realised that — at least on the surface — nostr appears to operate fairly similarly to zeronet, it just doesn't need a local web-server-like aspect

can any nostr developers confirm this?

of course, I could go learn about it, and at some point I probably will cos I am due to get my teeth into programming pretty soon so I might start with a nostr-related project

oh hi I'll get back to all y'all's replies soon! things going on like moving house and other personal issues, brb, afk, ttyl

At 4am this morning I woke up and went to pee and I couldn't finish peeing because I was dreaming about base 12 and so 9+1 (10) no longer felt like the end of a set so each time I got to 9+1 I had to keep counting up to 9+3 (12) but that also didn't feel like the end of a set so I was in this recursive loop of counting again and again trying to get to one of the 10s and anyway this is a story of why you shouldn't learn base 12 (but it's basically the only reason)

I still cannot do anything in the Android app 😟 I can't heart or comment or post. Actually I just cleared the app data after the update to see if that would help, I've logged in (with my nsec) and now my profile won't even load 😟

fun fact:

you can take full ownership of windowsapps folders and delete any apps that keep running in the background using up your ram and network

beware: this increases risks with viruses etc so be super careful to not install anything using administrator privileges unless you really trust it

i've deleted:

clipchamp

feedback hub

outlook

idk, some other things that kept running

my computer is MY computer, thanks very much microsoft

When you show someone your creative works and they say "why do that?" and it sounds like they don't have a clue about being creative for pleasure

These poor souls