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mxmilkiibon Armada: Encrypted, Open-Source, Discord Alternative (Built on Nostr)

avoid Zulip for a properly secure Discord replacement, givin its lack of (and roadmap refusal for) e2e; https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues/6096

mxmilkiibon Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters

very early The Baroque Cycle coded, Quicksilver etc, Neal Stephenson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baroque_Cycle

mxmilkiibon Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar over 'Little Red Dots'

you made it dark

mxmilkiibon 4,400-Year-Old Tomb of Egyptian Judge Found at Saqqara with Colors on Walls

what frontier models are this bad these days?

mxmilkiibon OpenArm: An open-source 7DOF humanoid arm

I've got a collection of socks needing darning!

mxmilkiibon Triple H Writes Anniversary Story for Spider-Man #1000

cos it's interesting to some hackers

mxmilkiibon The Death of Shame Is Tearing Us Apart

fuck shame, attend to guilt

mxmilkiibon Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra

I thought it would be GLM based, as Devin has had free GLM-5.2 for a while now

mxmilkiibon Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

shouldn't we, by the same account, maybe even more, be disparaging of capitalism?

mxmilkiibon Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

did Pinochet make libertarian capitalism an oxymoron?

mxmilkiibon Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

indeed, the context here is political/organisational rather than epistemological

anarchist organisational practices are real

people have been creating solutions to counter "The Tyranny of Structurelessness" for many decades now

coarsely put, anarchists (and work/housing co-ops, and protest groups) most generally favour consensus-process with proper anti-slow facilitation and role rotation, vs the [usually] majority voting systems and power dichotomies that are the style of communism (see democratic centeralism)

though many places just don't mention this essentially counts as anarchism (or libertarian socialism), cos a) the stigma, b) they just don't need to or know to, c) they do, just behind closed doors

"horizontalism/horizontalidad" has been a good descriptor

https://www.seedsforchange.org.uk/guides

https://www.radicalroutes.org.uk/structure-and-governance

see also sociocracy, and Murray Bookchin

and the whole range of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism plus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_communism in general

mxmilkiibon Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

I'm fond of the communalism of Murray Bookchin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communalism_(Bookchin)

their ideas of liberatory technology and post-scarcity anarchism are refreshing

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lewis-herber-murray-...

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-post...

plus the Kurds & co evolved their own system from the "libertarian municipalism" Bookchin described

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_confederalism

mxmilkiibon Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%

isn't that pretty much the definition of ecological restoration?

mxmilkiibon Detecting scraper bots through scroll behaviour

the best economic use-case for the semantic web (text/turtle, text/n3); businesses providing manifests of their stocks and services

plus, AI would also skip search result ads, and, if those have to legally be displayed as such, then there goes the market for them, I'd think

mxmilkiibon Linux 7.2

8K still not working properly

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-More-AMDGPU

mxmilkiibon Sun Clock

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tdr.sunris...

mxmilkiibon GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities

isn't that more what a skill or mpc are?

mxmilkiibon I built a browser-native SysEx librarian for 80s/90s synthesizers

where exactly is it featured in/on the three sites the above the fold info says?

did you prompt it to create an engineering post for HN? because there's an internal link that says "HN Engineering Post"

best wishes

mxmilkiibon London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces

"The police service in England and Wales is "not good enough" and its leadership needs an "ethical reset", Lord Blunkett has said.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0429yx1k9o 4 July 2026

"Speaking exclusively to the BBC ahead of the publication of a major report he co-authored on police leadership, the former Labour home secretary said its findings point to weaknesses in leadership, morale and culture across the service.

The report, to be published on Monday, will conclude there are "significant causes for concern" and that police leadership requires a "fundamental overhaul".

mxmilkiibon Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM

it's not as dead-pan with an /s

imhho, I prefer the ambiguity, the increased hilarity, the increased mental work of considering whether a statement is in good faith or being sarcastic/sardonic, the opportunity to understand how people can be hurt and the motives of barbs and lashes and how to discern the distress and deeper needs of "violent" people, and eventually the remembered insights on how to better generate boundaries and equanimity

in the way of Buddhist psychology, phenomenological bracketing, non-violent/compassionate communication, Brechtian principles, deconstruction, clowning, DBT, etc

lol

though I know this doesn't scale to situations without a boundary, where you can get abuse just for existing. I would use /s in a commons that expects a higher standard of good faith/well-being interactions

(does thoroughly confusing or disrespecting people for a jape equate to an abuse? how much of memeing is not just legal but moral? these are rhetorical questions, you are allowed to save your mental labour on this for yourself, self-care is prime, though I hope you all have a appropriate levels of support)

Stuart Lee is my favourite comedian, they are masterful in playing with this

https://youtu.be/5S9QJXa5YP8 - Stewart Lee deals with audience latecomers (Basic Lee)

https://youtu.be/EclpMn-mK5E - Stewart Lee HITS OUT At Audience Behaviour (Basic Lee)

https://youtu.be/NtFJ1HT3gto - Stewart Lee on Stewart Lee fans (Basic Lee)

https://youtu.be/TrkPNwSRxtM - Stewart Lee on his Audience (Content Provider)

shout out to the somewhat similar subtitles use of: (!)

p.s. as an alternative to Windows, I always recommend folk use KDE, and a distro based on Arch btw

mxmilkiibon Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM

you sound sarcastic

mxmilkiibon The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025)

DUCK DUCK GO MURRAY BOOKCHIN!!

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lewis-herber-murray-... (1965)

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/murray-bookchin-post... (1971)

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2018/06/15/how-my-fathers-ide...

mxmilkiibon When online commenters detect my art as AI

is not "very" different. to me, many of these read as hedged insinuations

mxmilkiibon Interrail: 6,379Km and 13 Countries over 7 weeks

WALK to school?! back when I were a lad, we had to CRAWL to school! what a great workout it was! and, for our packed lunches, we'd have a hard-boiled potato with a dod of ketchup, and some breadcrumbs if we were lucky, and we enjoyed it!!

mxmilkiibon Count Binface, Nigel Farage's space-warrior foe

I was wrong, the average cost is 348,000 gbp

mxmilkiibon Count Binface, Nigel Farage's space-warrior foe

what are you on? Farage resigned their seat because they got 5 million they didn't declare and wished to avoid parliamentary procedure, instead saying "the voters should decide", and the other parties knew it was only a PR stunt so declined to take place, because there will be a by-election (yet another £200,000) that will happen anyway once the undeclared gift gets him booted.

mxmilkiibon Fable Built Thomas Jefferson's Rotating Bookstand

can one read this without signing-in with google?

mxmilkiibon Programmers need to start meditating

"'A Course on Early Buddhist Meditation' is a series of ten long-format talks on meditation by Bhante Sujato. The curriculum derives from the early suttas, particularly from the Theravada tradition.

"The video trailer for the original course from which this series has been derived/edited can be found here - https://youtu.be/EEOykTO5754

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcMC0iGGyFk&list=PL70fWqztn7...

"Mahāsatipaṭṭhānasutta - Bh. Sujato", the main breath mindfulness/meditation sutta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcMC0iGGyFk&list=PL70fWqztn7...

https://suttacentral.net/dn22/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain...

A_History_of_Mindfulness_Bhikkhu_Sujato.pdf;

https://santifm.org/santipada/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/A_H...

"This series of 10 Dhamma Talks by Bhante Sujato, given during the rains retreat in Santi Forest Monastery in NSW, Australia in 2007 is the most detailed description of Ajahn Mahachatchai's Metta Meditation technique I have ever come across on the internet."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HREe6phLMpU&list=PLTcGMzIEhl...

Cūḷavedallasutta/The Shorter Elaboration, a socratic discource between a nun and, iirc, their former partner, who later became a monk/mendicant ("begger")

"10.2 “The noble eightfold path is conditioned.” (grasping for good things is good, until you finish crossing the river with that raft)

https://suttacentral.net/mn44/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=plain...

https://suttacentral.net/snp1.8/en/sujato?lang=en&layout=pla...

https://youtu.be/maBmEU4YUi8 - Metta Sutta/The Discourse on Love, recital/chant in English by Sujato

mxmilkiibon Show HN: Material Hack – Reboot of the Hacker News Client Materialistic

I started off with Opus 4.8, but fairly quickly switched to GLM-5.2 for the vast majority of work. just a couple of days of "effort"

mxmilkiibon Wiki Spy

what a curious way to explore media! very artsy

I liked that navigating through spaces of images of items, none of which I quite knew the name, purpose, cultural references regarding or social significances of -thing

what an ocean of oceans of oceans this world has been and is

endless fun, a lovely bit of play, and the sound; satisfies! ty