⚡⛥ Maður Margvalds ⛦⚡

Partying in the woods with several hundred of the local Iranian community.

@sun@shitposter.world That's one of my next projects too. Create language learning apps for myself. Gotta clear the slate of all the other side projects first though.

@reverend@social.undeadnetwork.de

So what is it, really – a financial investment, a tool for emancipation, or simply a waste of time?

In it's current form? It's an investment in the same way placing your chips on red at the roulette wheel is an investment. It was supposed to be a tool for emancipation, but every potential for it to actually be that has been coopted or legally prohibited by governments and the exchanges which are beholden to them. The only exception that comes to mind is friends who use it to transfer money to family in a foreign country. In that case it has legitimate utility, in spite of the other caveats. Is it a waste of time? No moreso than any other technology. But it really depends whether you're approaching it based on it's original intent and principals, or whether you're just looking to get a big score if the market shifts in your favour suddenly. Arguably the vast majority of users either fall into the latter category, or have enough financial clout to engineer that situation for themselves (eg. via pump and dump). Never mind the scammers.

XMR is really the only crypto that comes to mind which is worth it's salt from that perspecttve. There are a small handful of others like ANC, XZC/FIRO, ZANO, and maybe others that at least try, but I don't know how well they actually accomplish that in practice. If you have to go through a traditional exchange to even get any to start with, it's pretty pointless from the get-go. At least precious metals are relatively stable and time tested, even while they have their own issues (eg. environmental destruction, indigenous rights, etc, etc).

@reverend@social.undeadnetwork.de Reminds me of Brave's ERC-20 Basic Attention Token for tipping website owners. I'm not opposed to the idea, though I think ETH in particular has a lot of potential besides use as a currency. Even things like NFT's are potentially quite useful for holding the deeds to property, providing the ability to record consumer reviews, and all kinds of other stuff like that which is only tangentially related to currency transactions. The main issue with any of this is the AML/KYC barriers, followed by the trust issue involving 3rd-parties needed to validate transactions. I'm personally unwilling to use any form of transaction which compromises my identity and spending habits, and unfortunately using more P2P methods for transacting comes with too steep a premium to make it worthwhile for anything other than financial speculation. As such I'm more inclined to just deal in cash when transacting, and store all my savings in the form of physical precious metals. That's actually had tangible benefits for me, which is far more than I can say for the convoluted, expensive and risky usage of cryptocurrencies to date. Notwithstanding the issue of assaying and exchanging at a reasonable rate, it's also not subject to the electric grid or internet access. That said, in a perfect world where cryptocurrencies actually lived up to their hype and weren't just veiled psyops by government and central banks, I'd be happy to support it.

@reverend@social.undeadnetwork.de The original bitcoin whitepaper is good, but part of the benefit of it is the element of privacy. While that's still possible given certain precautions, the introduction of AML/KYC into the broader ecosystem defeats the purpose. It's essentially been coopted by central banking and governments, which makes the original intent of the technology rather moot. Apart from that, the blockchain itself has grown so large (3/4 TB) that it's infeasible for the average consumer to have a copy on their device, especially if it's a smart phone or such like. Which means trusting 3rd-parties (anathema to the point). Mining is basically impossible to gain an ROI as a lone individual unless you own a data-centre with government subsidies. Also to verify the blockchain itself takes about 1hr, and during high traffic periods it can take up to several days to confirm a transaction, or pay a higher transaction fee to gain priority, which is pretty retarded if you ask me. So there's obviously a scaling problem, and the concept of sovereign currency that an individual can self-host is a pipe dream.

@xaetacore@neondystopia.world Just like the 2022 Ottawa Freedom Convoy protest. White supremacy is just a smear tactic used by politicians to deflect from their responsibility to the communities they were elected to serve.

@Vox@noauthority.social He did a whole series on porch pirates over the course of years. I don't know specific videos off hand, but there might be a playlist on his YT channel. He's famous for creating glitter bombs, cockroach bombs, etc. But also did a full investigation including social engineering to track down who was behind it. I think he's also appeared on other shows and news segments besides his own channel to discuss it.

@Eiregoat@nicecrew.digital @Morghur@decayable.ink @jb@nicecrew.digital I just found it funny/typical that two Christian Saintsreligious

SecTor 2025 | AI, Deepfakes, and the Next Evolution of Digital Identity Verification | Black Hat
https://youtu.be/bllWkSuFaU4

7 Movies That Smuggled Magick Into the Mainstream | Jason Louv
https://youtu.be/srmObREgA1g

Should add The Skeleton Key to the list. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397101/

Odissea E.01 Telemaco and Penelope (1968) | leitmotif
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHf7oDGP-qDz-fH6LxpuuBMEd6uamC952

An 8 part Italian miniseries of the Odyssey. Youtube has English subs available.

@lain@lain.com @ElDeadKennedy@shitposter.world

hel vs hell

Norse vs Anglo-Saxon...

@VD15 I made one of those, and quickly found out that mice and rats can jump out of there quite easily when frightened.

@matthew@social.retroedge.tech @jeff@mk.magicka.org

If people give up most of their privacy...

That ship already sailed. It's just the crumbs that are left for the rats to pick clean.

"Turns out it's because Cloudflare wants to have a fingerprint of your device via WebGL, the only reason for doing this would be tracking."

https://hacktivis.me/articles/cloudflare-turnstile-webgl-fingerprinting

Because being the defacto MITM for > 20% of the internet isn't good enough.

If you want a clue about how often you're gonna be pwn'd, I made a chromium extension for that. XPI is just a zip file, so inspect the contents to see what it does.

https://mega.nz/file/OrhiABpb#BUetvHb4tpHwk0YGdbbnyM-rNlrUK6D2sNy9zEHz3Oo

@vitalis@dirtyknight.life Byzantium.

@WTFPurpleAlpaca @Bernard

throws off the anti-White bullshit please Jesus

Please imaginary brown pseudohistorical super Jew from non-European country, save us from brown people from non-European country!!

@rw @spacemanspiff @augustus

one of those are refering to abortions

Numbers 5:20-27 was specifically about the legal requirement to obtain an abortion in cases of infidelity. The rest demonstrate the general attitude of Yahweh concerning the status of infants as living persons, and Exodus 21:22-23 specifically in regard to the lack of legal liability associated with shedding the blood of an unborn child.

Satanist

That's your superstition, not mine.

God hates

You got that part right. At least in reference to your own God.

the shedding of innocent blood.

Lol. Only applies when they're Jewish (and depending on historical interpretation, the right kind of Jew). For just a few more examples...

https://biblehub.com/psalms/137-9.htm https://biblehub.com/1_samuel/15.htm https://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/20.htm

@reverend@social.undeadnetwork.de Personally I don't use cryptocurrency, but I do think there's merit to it. As far as that goes, I think currently the only crypto which actually aligns with the original promise of the technology is XMR. Which is why it's blackballed by all the major exchanges and governments. Everything else is in effect basically just a trojan to get people onboard with CBDC, whether they know it or not. ETH is interesting as a distributed computing platform, but the economics of using it for payments doesn't seem realistic given the transaction fees, and it also enforces a pay-to-play ethos which doesn't sit well with me. If I ever do use crypto it will probably be XMR, and mainly to pay for services that accept it and have an anonymity/privacy first policy, rather than as a store of wealth or a means of financial speculation. There can be no democracy in a meaningful sense, nor civil rights, without the right to privacy. It's the foundation, and too many people are either ignorant of that or take it for granted and allow themselves to be lured into the surveillance state by peer-pressure and the false promise of financial utility, when not purely out of greed and a get-rich-quick mentality. Just like AI, it can be a valuable tool. But it must be used wisely and judiciously lest the tool use you instead.

@rw @spacemanspiff @augustus In verses 21, 22, and 27, the NIV specifically translates the text to say that this process will cause the woman to miscarry (ie. have an abortion). In the Septuagint (Greek), the corresponding words used in these verses are μήτρα (mētra), meaning “womb,” and the verb used is ἐκφωνήσει (ekphōnēsei), which can mean “to bring forth” or “to cause to abort,” as it does in this context. The supposed earliest example of this text is fragment 4Q27 from the "post-2002" Dead Sea Scroll fragments which are considered to be modern forgeries without verifiable provenance. However they do contain Numbers 5:11-31 in Hebrew and agree with the oldest authentic Hebrew text of the Leningrad Codex (1008 CE). In that case the Hebrew is לְהַפִּיל יָרֵחָהּ (lehafil yarechah) “to cause her thigh to fall away”, and וּלְהַצְבֹּת בִּטְנָהּ (ulehatsbot bitnah) “and to cause her belly to swell”. That said, the earliest confirmed authentic copy is Papyrus Fouad 266 (1st century BCE) which has the Greek version, as do both Codex Vaticanus (4th century CE) and Codex Sinaiticus (4th century CE). Suffice it to say that the earliest known context of these passages specifically refer to the consequence of the ceremony as being that the woman will have an abortion as a direct result of consuming the magic potion (in the case she is both guilty and pregnant).

@seatree@nicecrew.digital @Economic_Hitman@noauthority.social @Forestofenchantment@furville.drinkanddrive.africa @ForbiddenDreamer@poa.st @harblinger@wizard.casa @Junes@clubcyberia.co TMTOWTDI...

@lain@lain.com @meeper@udongein.xyz Arabic keyboard?

Red Haired Mummies, Witches & Pyramids of China (The TRUE Story) | Timeless with Fred Snyder
https://youtu.be/pJLqA7N1-vE

@lain@lain.com @ElDeadKennedy@shitposter.world

the existence of hell implies the exstince of heaven

Or Asgard if you're being mythologically accurate.

@Vox@noauthority.social Mark Rober? He did a whole series on that, and ended up tracking down a number of organised crime rings based out of Indian call-centres which were responsible. It's often not lone individuals doing it, but actually employees of international gangs run just like a corporation with hr, middle management, etc.

Balsam Fir: Lung Support, Wound Healing, and the Medicine Right Outside Your Door with Erica Macrum | Herbs With Rosalee
https://youtu.be/qcAg_nvp6wc

OTYKEN Instrumental Fantasy | Northern Siberia (Epic Folk Music & Piano, Saxophone, Electric Guitar)
https://youtu.be/bcO8deDQgRM

Sacred vs Holy in the Germanic Tradition | Scott T. Shell (Germanic Beliefs and Religion)
https://youtu.be/fr0JqQHC5ws

Being and Logos - Introduction to Middle-Platonism - 1 of X - The Shadow of Plato | ESOTERICA
https://youtu.be/I19wgJ5VKf8

@rw @spacemanspiff @augustus Turns out I was wrong about Papyrus 266. That's only part of Deuteronomy (my bad). The Greek version from Codices Vaticanus and Sinaiticus is still the oldest authentic copy of the text available though, and is explicit that it's an abortion. You're welcome to self-delude, but the original context of the text is clear. In any case, what Abrahamites say they believe, and what they actually do in practice, is rarely consistent. More often than not it's just intellectual gymnastic contortions necessary to expound whatever bigotry they happen to find in vogue du jour, upto and including the genocide of entire civilisations in the name of their pseudohistorical super Jew(s), or Arabian pedo, depending which version of the violent mass delusion concerned.

@Eiregoat@nicecrew.digital @Morghur@decayable.ink @jb@nicecrew.digitalhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_C%C3%BAl_Dreimhne

Foraging and Cooking Magnolia Flowers | Forager Chef
https://youtu.be/pjJnJ6vTyoU

Good advice. I had to do some incident response for a client earlier in the week because of the recent WordPress 7.0.1 exploit. This is basically what I did. Thankfully they weren't able to LPE, so it wasn't too much of a headache.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/after-the-break-in-what-attackers-do-once-theyre-already-inside/

How Ursa Ag Built a Repairable, No-Tech Tractor | 404 Media
https://youtu.be/lqwdvFz1Xeo

Hansa: The Infiltration of the Dark Web | fern
https://youtu.be/V6d8Yy7Ji68

@vitalis@dirtyknight.life Hail to Hecate Lampadaphoros!

@reverend@social.undeadnetwork.de Yeah. There is a lot of interest in cryptocurrencies in rural Africa and other places like that because cell phones and cell service is far more widespread than banks and government ID. In that case it makes a lot of sense, and people can actually do P2P transactions more or less how they were meant to be done. It's almost the equivalent of hawala, but the hawaladars are replaced by an algorithm.

@SJAsh_03@mastodon.sdf.org @aliceamour@beige.party

"love is a disease"

A paraphrase of Plato's discussion of the deleterious affect of eros (Phaedrus), not Diogenes.

what Diogenes would have made of Buddhist style non-attachment

Later Stoic philosophers considered him an exemplar of apatheia (passionlessness) and autarkeia (self-sufficiency). This thread of Hellenic philosophy arguably stems from Pyrrho, who studied Buddhism in India while he was accompanying Alexander the Great. It's commonly thought that he Hellenised Buddhist teachings and brought them back to Greece with him upon his return.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Buddhism

Honey Lilac Lemonade | Forager Chef
https://youtu.be/C5qLOtLk8W8

@lain @meeper Derka derka I guess. Aloha Snackbar!!