feonixrift @feonixrift@hackers.town

I have reached the end of the internet.

I'm not turning back... I brought a machete.

Do less better.

Please be obscure.

The common can survive without your help.

The obscure needs you.

#datavore

The horror of an era replete with magic (technology) is that your choices matter. You can lose your life in here, gazing blankly into a whispering void. Or you can seize great power... wisdom of ages at your finger tips, should you know the correct incantations (search strings) to seek it. But noone will rescue you from the former, should you get distracted in your quest for the latter.

- To construct the interface between biological and technological selves in a manner oriented to support their underlying nature.

- To support the integration of technological with biological selves in order to extend personal capability.

- To defend the interface between technological selves and the external network in order to protect personal integrity and autonomy.

- To disseminate the capabilities so obtained as widely as the desire for them supports.

'backups are running' is the new 'compiling'; i get to goof off for a bit.

I have data archives I've barely managed to read any of yet on a bunch of topics .. that were handed to me by friends data-dumping at my request on something I knew they really understood and were enthusiastic about. Once in a while I just pull up the calibre tag for one of those and read a little and give it a virtual hug because these archives are precious to me. They represent both a friend's enthusiasm and caring and also a reassurance that I will have somewhere to turn when my need for that information suddenly becomes crucial. ​​ Even if I can't process it all in the moment, your enthusiasm is a light.

Workspace being pleasant matters. As I get immersed a lot of the fanciness will fall away but it helps me get going. [screenshot: writing LaTeX]

An expert critique has appeared: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2020/07/10/a-few-thoughts-about-signals-secure-value-recovery/

"In fact, as of this week, Signal has added a “disable PINs” feature into its latest beta. Encrypted data still goes to Signal servers, but it’s now encrypted in a way that nobody can access." ... that is NOT what I agree to when I say to disable the feature of sending data to the servers. "but we threw away the key" is not an acceptable excuse.

This moves my personal feeling from "good engineering, bad communication" to "delete asap."

https://twitter.com/pookleblinky/status/1282484819369299969 this whole thread...

It describes the ghosthack. This is worse than indoctrination, bigger than a cult. This is the enemy. What did this to the poor person's mother... to so many people. That is the target. Ghosthacks are unacceptable.

"I cannot overstate that she was an RN. She took college courses, she got hired, she got paid, to understand the basics of modern medicine. She's smelled C Diff. She's intubated people. She's kept charts.

All of that knowledge and experience is gone.

It's gone, as surely as if she had alzheimers. It's been replaced with whatever nonsense the last angry guy in sunglasses screaming at his camera from his driver's seat screamed."

Read the whole thread.. please.

I got good notes this time on the wave of inflammation over the last few days, and I'm not amused by them. Looks like I get to food log again. And some of it may be neurological which really annoys me.

Do not underestimate the power of being able to walk around the house putting things away without having a mental step counter pinned to a low value like '20 steps and you have to rest at least an hour'.

Most people have _no idea_ how much they walk, just doing things like decluttering. Or how much less they'd be able to think through the task if every one of those steps flashed pain through them.

(My hips are better today. Catching up around the house.)

+++ 17.37 Uhr: Die Reproduktionszahl (kurz R-Wert) liegt nach Angaben des Robert Koch-Institutes (RKI) am Sonntag (12.07.2020) bei 1,04 (Datenstand 0.00 Uhr). Das bedeutet, dass ein Infizierter im Mittel etwas mehr als einen weiteren Menschen mit dem Coronavirus Sars-CoV-2 ansteckt. Die Reproduktionszahl bildet das Infektionsgeschehen etwa eineinhalb Wochen zuvor ab. Am Vortag lag der R-Wert in Deutschland bei 0,93 – zuvor bei 0,80. Der 7-Tage-R-Wert wird auf 0,91 geschätzt.

https://www.fr.de/panorama/corona-virus-covid-19-infektion-deutschland-ballermann-mallorca-schock-90008618.html

Will you idiots please put your stinking masks back on and quit clogging up the downtown with cafe meetings.

Anyone know if 'randomly, acid sweat and holes in my skin' is an EDS thing?

fr.de stopped autoplaying videos if an adblock is on. thank goodness; now I don't have to figure out how to block their videos.