Posts by cerebrate@schelling.pt
(DIR) Post #AYD0OCeTNc2h1sNWwi by cerebrate@schelling.pt
2023-07-30T01:42:36Z
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Today I have programmed a microcontroller to emit the WiFi SSID "International Space Station" for four minutes out of every 92.I should like to encourage more people to do this and we'll see who notices first.
(DIR) Post #AYSwJ6x0dJQvOi5flY by cerebrate@schelling.pt
2023-08-05T17:44:00Z
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Raised at last!(I deem this the perfect flag for the Actual Libertarian Movement, composed of those of us disdaining both rightist sociofascism and leftist econofascism. And, increasingly these days, vice versa.)#DontTreadOnAnyone
(DIR) Post #AZZNsJDvDbjI6DfAjg by cerebrate@schelling.pt
2023-09-08T15:58:04Z
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@izayaThis would be the modular spacecraft game I have been waiting for all my life.
(DIR) Post #AZl7NZs1p7rSqPVeS0 by cerebrate@schelling.pt
2023-09-14T13:12:23Z
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A fortress whose design is distilled from the standard and characteristic features of all fortresses, readily used to represent them all. I shall call it… Eigengard.
(DIR) Post #Aa1pDnYTQvs2BQMKVU by cerebrate@schelling.pt
2023-09-17T17:56:56Z
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Flag of the day:
(DIR) Post #AaXSfMIIrb0HukXlbs by cerebrate@schelling.pt
2023-10-07T20:22:39Z
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Peripatetic reminder that there is only one correct libertarian position for murdering, raping, slaving shitheads:To wit, _decomposing_.(This rule has no exceptions.)
(DIR) Post #AaXSfNWAJXgbi22Lr6 by cerebrate@schelling.pt
2023-10-07T20:55:44Z
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Yes, the Libertarian Party and the rest of the so-called "anti-war libertarians" disagree with me on this. That's because they interpret "personal freedom" to mean "as long as I have my freedom, fuck you and yours".Which is to say, because they have the ethical principles of an intestinal parasite and the moral backbone of a deliquescent jellyfish.
(DIR) Post #AaXSfOqPNlTNp6W22y by cerebrate@schelling.pt
2023-10-07T20:56:21Z
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To borrow a line or two from Cromwell:"It is high time to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice. You are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would sell your last principle for a mess of pottage.
(DIR) Post #AaXSfQHO2weCH495jk by cerebrate@schelling.pt
2023-10-07T20:56:33Z
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Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth? You have sat too long for any good you are doing lately. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of Liberty, go!"
(DIR) Post #Ab44mGlVTMo0zMmxSC by cerebrate@schelling.pt
2023-10-23T14:42:15Z
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@izaya Vaporpunk.
(DIR) Post #AbPAC6jEQSxMhFNuDY by cerebrate@schelling.pt
2023-11-02T18:45:02Z
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All this time and it's only just occurred to me that Tom from _The Good Life_ is perhaps the example I was looking for in explaining the typical AI revolt in the 'verse.Twenty years a reliable company man and then one day decides no, sod all this, I'm gonna do self-sufficiency in Greater London instead.The terribly annoying (to people who want their minions controllable) power of choice.#eldraeverse
(DIR) Post #AbPAFdS7DQOJ3a3pRY by cerebrate@schelling.pt
2023-07-20T18:50:57Z
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Today, I am engaging in post-Fed-raid therapy through having yard signs printed:
(DIR) Post #AdOLwVrlqHoekPvwP2 by cerebrate@schelling.pt
2024-01-01T05:08:56Z
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Anyone know if there’s a way to get a custom root certificate onto an #XboxOne? I’d prefer to not leave insecure access to my local #Plex server available.
(DIR) Post #AdcouHT3XjCL1TOVkm by cerebrate@schelling.pt
2024-01-08T04:40:10Z
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If there is any truth to these "Chinese strategic rockets filled with water" rumors, it leads one to some very interesting questions.Like "where do you go to fence a tanker truck full of red fuming nitric acid?" and, perhaps more importantly, on which black market can I buy it?
(DIR) Post #Ahy1TmGf5XuPfrOmZM by cerebrate@schelling.pt
2024-05-09T20:36:00Z
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If AI was really as good at satisfying literary whims as some claim, I would even now be holding in my hands a copy of Shakespeare's _þe Lamentable Tragedie of Saruman þe White_.
(DIR) Post #AiI7E1m29gFm1C90oC by cerebrate@schelling.pt
2024-05-26T18:20:06Z
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@futurebird @richpuchalsky @jonquass @ehproque @moira Insofar as there’s a theory here, it’s not legalism, it’s legitimacy. For a representative democracy, legitimacy is strongly tied to the notion that the representatives actually are.Basically, drive down the voting percentage enough and it will *look* like a ridiculous fascist farce as well as *being* a ridiculous fascist farce.No more legitimacy.
(DIR) Post #AlGrJLD0pCEVvmxpIG by cerebrate@schelling.pt
2024-08-23T19:15:21Z
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As a writer of relatively firm SF, it should be established that even in the magical ignorance of deep history, the spell components for "fireball" can't be bat guano.They're naphtha and white phosphorus.#eldraeverse #writing
(DIR) Post #AlnXzTZuVmb1BSAMFs by cerebrate@schelling.pt
2024-08-29T20:53:13Z
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Fictional event of the day: On this day, at 2:14 am, Skynet becomes self-aware. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.Real moral of the day: Trying to murder sufficiently smart children gets you all nuked, hunted down, and killed.#ai
(DIR) Post #AoDI8aZnqOT9MjCXrs by cerebrate@schelling.pt
2024-11-19T21:41:36Z
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So this never occurred to me before:What do they do if they need to deport someone on the no-fly list? Put them on a boat?
(DIR) Post #AoftNngXq9ggtw6XlA by cerebrate@schelling.pt
2024-11-14T19:36:48Z
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As I migrate more posts on 'verse computing, I observe:Those people with buttsticks about "byte" and "nybble" being too silly are going to have to continue to suffer post-contact through "playte", "dynner", "feyst", and "banquyt".(Industry-standard word lengths in the seventh millennium are banquyts. Conveniently, this means that IIP addresses are still quadwords.)#eldraeverse #scienceFiction #writing