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Are We That Helpless? | Tennessee Bible College https://www.tn-biblecollege.edu/08/are-we-that-helpless/

It is high time for people to take personal responsibility, to have some courage, and to stop acting like helpless children. This is not about being stubborn and proud. It is about using the mind God gave us. It is about having the strength to listen to the lessons of history and common sense. It is about trusting in God and His Word instead of being addicted to the news.

One of the best things I've read lately.

#mind

@nvk exactly. Even if they truly were safe and super effective I would never support forced vaccination.

I approve of the way Drew DeVault characterizes the Apple CP scanner:

> Police to begin regular, warrant-free searches of homes for child abuse material
https://drewdevault.com/2021/08/10/Apple-CSAM-scanning.html

ClassicPress (democratically run fork of WordPress 4.9) shows a lot of promise. They have a LOT of documentation work to do.

I should join that project and work on the docs.

Follow Zuby on Twitter. He has understood everything.

Offences commited during Feeding of the 5000 (in the bible):

* no covid-safe plan, greater number of people than maximum gathering size, no masks, no QR check-in enforced, no covid marshals, no per-square-metre density limits or enforced social distancing
* no gluten free, low sodium or vegan option (medical, faith based discrimination)
* no toilets provided, no infant care facilities, and no disability access (OH&S laws violation)
* No refrigeration, fish out of fridge > 2 hours, no valid food handling certificate, no council licensed food premises to serve from (Food Safely laws)
* No 'working with children' checks, police checks, or "working with children and vulnerable adults" training and guidelines (Duty of Care)
* Event staff weren't wearing proper identification
* No qualified first aiders or paramedics were organised to be in attendance
* No liability insurance

These things are all well and good, by the way. I don't mind that we do them, it just feels a bit ridiculous sometimes.

Here's a little thing that may not be obvious to many people....

When you install an open-source app from Google Play or the Apple app store, there is no guarantee that what you install actually matches the public code.

@fdroidorg are doing a great service. They independently build the public source code for apps from scratch, review for common issues, and publish their builds. Thanks to "reproducible builds" it's possible to verify they do not tamper with the code.

https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Security_Model/

@aral, I don’t think the @fsf has ever issue any statement similar to JS is dangerous. I think its official stand is only against non-free software, which includes client-side code. GNU LibreJS is recommended by the foundation instead of disabling JS all together.

Cc: @dheadshot and @rustygopher

Mozilla is basically a not-for-profit/for-profit that protects/violates your privacy.

I don’t understand why some people are confused. It’s really quite simple.

How FDA approval works:

A panel of 11 experts votes 10 "not enough evidence to show the drug works" and 1 "not sure". FDA approves the drug. 1 panel member resigns.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=21/06/11/001212

Brought to you by the government regulators who gave emergency authorization (not approval) for a medical experiment that's killed 5000+ people in USA.

So a few researchers from the Russian cybersec firm, PT Security, recently found secret instructions inside Intel CPUs that allow them to disassembler and modify the microcode inside the chips. This is an extremely technically impressive hack that is about as low level as you can get. But it is not inventing a new hack, it is discovering undocumented backdoors that Intel have put into their own chips going back decades.

Suddenly, BAM! The US Treasury Dept puts PT Security on the Sanctions List and accuses them of being a FSB/GRU front company--a claim that cannot be disproven, so PT Security is now in the double jeapordy situation of having no way to clear their own name.

What a coincidence amirite?

I find this whole incident and Deep State coverup to be the most bleak and dystopian news in computing since 2013 when the Snowden leaks began. We all complain now about being peasant sharecroppers who just pay rent to Big Tech Oligarchs and Monopolies who own all computing infrastructure, the software-as-a-service, your iPhones and Androids. You no longer own your own computers and the noose is tightening for what you are allowed to do with your rental computers.

The punchline to this is that you are not even allowed to know about the lowest level NSA backdoors built into every CPU in every computing device you own. And if some hacker genius does figure it out and tells you, that hacker will be sanctioned, cancelled, gulag'd and finally drone striked by the US Govt.

You are not allowed to know about the NSA backdoors inside Intel CPUs and if you do find out, you will be blackballed from the entire economy and be unable to buy or sell without the Mark of the Beast on your hand.

The guy who found NSA's backdoor in Intel chips tried to talk about it at the famous Blackhat hacker conference.

Rejected.

Fucking hilarious. Here we have one of the biggest, deepest hacks found in decades and Blackhat doesn't want to talk about it. Probably because Blackhat wants to give more time to trannies and nigs who can't code to talk about some diversity BS.

Blackhat is a intel front and a limited hangout. Their job isn't to help cyber security, their real job is to keep faux hackers distracted on meaningless high level lame hacks, while covering up the real shit deep down inside the chips that cannot be detected or blocked (until now). If you work in cyber security, you are a clown wearing a Superman costume and you don't even know what you don't know.

imagine what the NSA can do with a secret CPU instruction that allows them to modify the microcode inside an Intel chip? such as the one this guy found.

all security is fake and gay LARPing to create a smokescreen to distract you from noticing that NSA is already raping your CPU at will.

funny, somehow the secret CPU instruction that gives backdoor access to Intel chips was already been labelled by NSA's Ghidra reverse engineering tool.

how did NSA know about this years ago? LOL you already know the answer. @adam

If you’re using F-Droid, you won’t need to root #Android 12 to get automatic updates for your apps. #google’s monopoly is finally loosening up.

https://www.xda-developers.com/android-12-alternative-app-stores-update-apps-background/

I got a taste of the sheer volume of rubbish that makes up 80 or 90% of the fediverse on friday - lewds and worse down to stuff that is liable to get you arrested. I nearly quit, but I've simmered down a bit.

It made me realise that while i strongly like decentralisation of powers - nations not UN, states not federal ... I don't think I believe in "Freedom of Speech" as a virtue in it's own right. We earn the right to speak, nobody is born with it.

I hate what "Free Speech has been twisted into - once, it meant the right to maturely present a case and be heard, but now it means the right to publicly pursue all kinds of perverse and twisted things. To promote abuse of others, and speak about things that are shameful even to mention.

It made me realise how much rubbish @josias moderates too - mate, you're a champion and you are carrying a heavy responsibility in the work you do, creating a safe-harbour for the rest of us to hang out in. Thankyou for your perseverance and willingness to do what others won't. It makes this server the sanctuary it is, and I so, so appreciate it.

4/ actually, it's a lot like religious *repentance*. True repentance for a wiccan means things like burning all your craft books and getting rid of the stuff - to stop eating sugar i basically had to not have it in the house, put away the junk food cookbooks, and go looking for 'real' food to eat instead.

It was really hard to quit, but as i cleaned sugar out of the house and learnt new ways to eat, it felt like repentance a bit - except I didn't get any real reward, at least not yet... i just have no crutch at 3pm when i'm tired and have low blood sugar. hmph

Also then our family have literally been throwing wrapped chocolates into our front yard, handing chocolate eggs to the kids, bringing us cake, and offering us biscuits with icing on top.

They mean well and are just trying to meet social obligations but i wonder if it's a bit like that with unbelieving family in a faith context - you're invited to watch shows you've decided not to anymore, or drink more than you were going to, or whatever your convictions are

Despite threats and withdrawal of support from former and current corporate patrons, FSF has reaffirmed their commitment to keep RMS on the Board of Directors. I hate to admit I was dragging my feet on renewing my FSF membership to financially support their cause -- because of the anti-FSF FUD -- but this settles it for me. I'm donating later today after I'm done with work.

https://www.fsf.org/news/statement-of-fsf-board-on-election-of-richard-stallman

RMS's statement: "I'm working on being less tone-deaf."
https://www.fsf.org/news/rms-addresses-the-free-software-community

@everlastingrocks @rose_myrtle there are multiple issues with MMS support, one of the major ones being that MMS is geographically in another area as most developers are. I can't work on it because it just isn't a thing here.

The other issue is that the technical implementation of mms is kinda horrible. Some people have made implementations that work though and currently in the slow process of upstreaming it to the 10 projects in the tech stack to glue it all together

@masterofthetiger unclear. we suspect that both will be about the same - probably two years ish based on similar sars cases. but we can't possibly know until we actually see serum antibody tests start coming up negative. and there's some talk in immunology circles about memory T cell immunity being created that doesn't show up on serum tests. shrug! we'll know more in the future.