OCTADE
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(Owner soc.octade.net) (5&2)(<a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=5and2" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#5and2</a>)(<a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=nazarene" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Nazarene</a>)<br><br>Director of the International Department of Civil Disobedience.<br><br>For thoughtful response to thoughtful inquiry contact my email. Don't send me private direct messages on the Fediverse. If you have a general question ask it in a public timeline. I block users who send me annoying private messages about things that should be asked in a public timeline.<br><br>I sometimes post links to items I find curious, interesting, or of research and study value. This does not necessarily mean that I agree with the linked matter. Don't assume.<br><br>NAME : Raze<br>ABOUT : <a href="ht
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Post #2575779
SILENCE IS DEAFENING "While the [age verification] bill moved through the legislature, the OSI, FSF, Software Freedom Conservancy, and Linux Foundation all sat it out — no testimony, no public analysis, no formal opposition on the record." Are the adults listening? California's computer age verification law is poison. The new California age verification law is a version of INGSOC's telescreen watching you. And the usual self-proclaimed software freedom fighters are AWOL as th...
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Post #2491307
Your rulers understand the following principle which they use to make men their useful idiots: "When you fight something, you’re tied to it forever. As long as you’re fighting it, you are giving it power. You give it as much power as you are using to fight it." -- Anthony de Mello
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Post #2128835
California Just Killed Open Source [3D Printer Laws aren't about guns] https://youtu.be/Nhz6vao13bs [copypasta] California AB 2047: The End of Open Source 3D Printing California just introduced a bill that doesn't just regulate "ghost guns", it mandates a digital kill switch for every 3D printer sold. California AB 2047 requires "blocking technology" that connects your printer to a government-approved database before every single print. If the system goes down,...
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Post #1882563
USENET IS NOT DEAD !!!!! USENET IS STILL FREE FREE FREE! Usenet is an ever-living, Casper the friendly ghost of discussion networks. Just a friendly reminder that Usenet still exists and access to text newsgroups is still FREE. Access is provided by volunteer sysops around the world. See links below. Back in its glory days it seems that just about every academic institution had its own Usenet hierarchy of newsgroups. Linux was revealed to the world via Usenet. Open source philosophy gained...
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Post #316349
How about we solve the homeless problem and housing crisis first? The warmongers spent eight trillion dollars to drop bombs on weddings, fatten defense contractors, and provide medical care for maimed soldiers ... but building homes for the homeless and poor would be evil socialism and we can't have that. In effect what is being implied is that we can't build homes for the poor, but we should instead use that money to bomb foreign nations for so-called democracy. The money spent on mil...