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@p@fsebugoutzone.org

Resident hacker, leader of the fsebugoutzone.org coup of the FSE Autonomous Zone, BOFH of freespeechextremist.com, and former admin of FSE before the establishment of the FSE Autonomous Zone. Launching a guerilla war against myself from this bunker.

I'm not angry with you, I'm just disappointed.

I am physically in Los Angeles but I exist in a permanent state of 3 a.m.

I have dropped a bytebeat album, feel free to DM me for a download code or a link to a tarball: https://finitecell.bandcamp.com/album/villain . There is a chiptunes album there, too.

Revolver is coming: https://blog.freespeechextremist.com/blog/revolver-kickoff.html

War has changed: https://blog.freespeechextremist.com/blog/update-and-roadmap.html

The usual alt if FSE is down: @p or @p.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

p, to random
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> Advocates of killing baby Hitler included Florida governor Jeb Bush and film actor Tom Hanks, while comedian Stephen Colbert and pundit Ben Shapiro were counted among the opponents of the policy.

There is a Wikkypeeja page.

p, to random
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@j Did you turn on signed fetches?

06:17:08.769 [error] Could not decode user at fetch https://bae.st/users/GothGirlsBot, {:ok, %Tesla.Env{client: %Tesla.Client{adapter: {Tesla.Adapter.Hackney
, :call, [[]]}, fun: nil, post: [], pre: []}, module: Tesla, body: "Request not signed", headers: [{"server", "nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)"}, {"date", "Tue, 18 Jun
2024 06:17:08 GMT"}, {"content-type", "text/plain; charset=utf-8"}, {"content-length", "18"}, {"connection", "keep-alive"}, {"access-control-allow-credentials",
"true"}, {"access-control-allow-origin", "*"}, {"access-control-expose-headers", "Link,X-RateLimit-Reset,X-RateLimit-Limit,X-RateLimit-Remaining,X-Request-Id,Id
empotency-Key"}, {"cache-control", "max-age=0, private, must-revalidate"}, {"content-security-policy", "upgrade-insecure-requests;script-src 'self' 'wasm-unsafe-
eval';connect-src 'self' blob: https://bae.st wss://bae.st https:;media-src 'self' https:;img-src 'self' data: blob: https:;default-src 'none';base-uri 'self';fr
ame-ancestors 'none';style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline';font-src 'self';manifest-src 'self';"}, {"permissions-policy", "interest-cohort=()"}, {"referrer-policy", "
same-origin"}, {"x-download-options", "noopen"}, {"x-frame-options", "DENY"}, {"x-permitted-cross-domain-policies", "none"}, {"x-request-id", "F9oEv5bp2jXjF8wcqL
pB"}], method: :get, opts: [adapter: [ssl_options: [versions: [:"tlsv1.2", :"tlsv1.1", :tlsv1]], follow_redirect: true, force_redirect: true, pool: :federation,
connect_timeout: 5000, recv_timeout: 5000]], query: [], status: 401, url: "https://bae.st/users/GothGirlsBot"}}

p, to random
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Oh, also I added a small feature to the ssh interface on FSE to allow you to view an account's most recent posts, so I can type "o/ pnotifbot". I still haven't done the context bit I was planning but every time I look at it, I think "Oh, that's like five minutes and it'd make the ssh interface amazing." and then I don't do it. (If you look at the commits, I slapped the gopher interface around a little, too, but I am not certain it improved anything. :go:)

p, to random
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:isthis: Is this goatse?
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icedquinn, to random
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@p guess what time it is

p,
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@icedquinn Is it time to get ready?
get_ready_pls.mp4

get_ready_pls.mp4

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@p Do you know what happened with 0 and husk site/gh0st?

p,
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@pbanks I haven't heard anything. Her instances are always coming and going, though, which makes it hard to tell if it's normal churn or if it's due to something bad happening; hopefully everything's fine.

j, to random
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@p :terryhacker:
Reverse Engineering Game Code from the Neutral Zone.mp4

Reverse Engineering Game Code from the Neutral Zone.mp4

p,
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@j My computer hates these codecs, it doesn't even like the audio codec, apparently some Google codec. But the metadata had a link in it, and it looks like it will be cool.

p,
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@icedquinn @j @Forestofenchantment

> pete uses some kind of mutant brocoli for a computer.

"Compiling your OS from open source components is lame, your entire computer sucks."

The xz vulnerability should have cured you of this.

Anyway, this is a regular Linux machine, and everything on it (except for a walled-off region) came from acquiring and building the code. I don't install things that are suspect, like new meme formats or anything written by Google. Video codecs in particular are full of holes and they come and go and are forgotten: it's not worth caring about video codecs that haven't ended up in firmware on a set-top box (as the format can be expected to survive once that happens).

Since shitposter.club went away and https://shitposter.club/objects/c1e03d01-0bda-47cd-ad3f-59b960f41737 is no longer visible, I'll go ahead and quote myself:

> Everyone always calls me crazy when I blow off new meme formats but shit like this happens way less frequently in older projects: bugs have been worked out, the formats are stable, and someone that has been running a project for 20 years is less likely to let dumb shit like this happen. (I have updated libwebp but I still have image.webp.enabled=false in Firefox.) A new stupid thing happens, it's all "CHANGE TO THIS NEW RETARDED FORMAT NOW" and almost overnight, everyone's distributing their tarballs in .xz.

You might also recall the "Update liblzma to new version ASAP! Old version sucks!" sockpuppets in Debian and Fedora discussions. This is a bad idea. The "USE NEW MEME FORMAT, OLD MAN" refrain was obviously unwise from the beginning, but after that vulnerability and the analysis of the vector and the way the compromise spread by people chanting "NEW VERSION NEW VERSION NEW VERSION", the thing you are saying has moved from "obviously unwise" to "demonstrably pernicious, with very recent examples of why that is the case, what the eff are you doing".
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@icedquinn @Forestofenchantment @j

> matroska is a gigachad format that stores everything including all the DVD special features.

I also ignored .mkv for about ten or fifteen years, until all the rippers announced that they were going to standardize on it, which meant you could expect it to be fairly well-supported. If I end up transcoding or creating some kind of video, I still just use mp4 and h264/aac, because it will play everywhere on every device without any problems.

Looming, to random

New pfp, new me. Recovering the follows I lost along the way.

p,
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@Looming I can replay the follows from the January 11 backup if you want. It has not been done automatically for anyone (for obvious reasons), but it is an option if you want that option.

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@p can i has account?

p,
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@naaksit Just pre-existing FSE accounts. I am trying to maintain some continuity of service for the people that were using FSE while I write the code that FSE will run.

kybermace, to random
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attn @graf https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20240428-uefirc/

p,
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@graf @kybermace It is a fun hack but it kind of demonstrates how awful UEFI is.

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oof

p,
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@judgedread Around the time the boomers reach reproductive age, the birthrate falls off a cliff. (Some facets of life cannot begin at 50.)

ParadeGrotesque, to random
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Free Speech Extremist = Fascist Speech Exclusively.

Remember these guys?

Seriously, though, they just created a secondary instance called "fsebugoutzone.org" so they can continue spewing their hate all over the place.

Recommendation: everyone block and defederate fsebugoutzone.org ASAP.

Boost for reach please. 🔁

p,
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@ParadeGrotesque

> Free Speech Extremist = Fascist Speech Exclusively.

You send me a DM, I send a polite and well-considered reply, and then I see this, posted about seven minutes after you sent the DM.

> Seriously, though, they just created a secondary instance called "fsebugoutzone.org" so they can continue spewing their hate all over the place.

Since I stood the machine up, when you say "they", you mean me. I'm qualified to speak for myself about my motivations, so I will. I don't know if you're lying intentionally or you merely never let trivial concerns like "Is this actually true?" or "Am I slandering someone for the sake of an internet fight?" get in the way, but it seems that I was mistaken to assume good faith.

The reason this instance exists is laid out here: https://blog.freespeechextremist.com/blog/update-and-roadmap.html . That is linked in the description, which can be read at the domain, or in the nodeinfo ( https://fsebugoutzone.org/nodeinfo/2.1.json ), or sites that make these things visible, like http://demo.fedilist.com/instance/fsebugoutzone.org .

p,
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@graf @ParadeGrotesque I like to wait until a person proves that they are a bot before concluding it; I get less disappointed that way.

p, to random
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:liquidocelot: Incidentally, since the server is now a cluster of machines in a single case, when I was giving it a hostname, obviously I had to call it arsenal-gear.

:campbellai: If you got the joke, then it would make sense to name the four machines on it gw, tj, jd, tr, al. Unfortunately, I'm already using those names elsewhere.

:solidsnakesalute: tx55 is the CM-4. It runs a collection of internal services. It's the only one that doesn't have a Revolver node on it.
:solid_snake: rex is running some compute stuff and some experimental stuff. :nada:
:raiden: ray is this machine, running the bugout zone and the blog and (shortly) the other ancillary services.
:msf: peacewalker is just running Revolver, it's where FSE Proper will end up.

p, to random
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:hacker_f::hacker_s::hacker_e:

We're so back (though temporarily in a bugout zone).

p,
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@dcc I have something I'd like to attach to this but attachments are broken.

tempestt0st, to random

List of one-hit wonders by decade.

In the 1970s, you had 215 songs.
In the 1980s, 261 songs.
In the 1990s, 128.
By the 2000s, just 96.
And in the 2010s, only 61.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_one-hit_wonders_in_the_United_States

p,
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@tempestt0st I think there's the obvious answer, that digital distribution has flattened everything, so you get a lot more music and fewer big hits, a lot of bands get popular in a niche. I don't know if figures for this sort of thing are available, but I suspect that singles in the top 40 represent a smaller share of the total market than they did.

Aside from that, Rick Beato had some interesting commentary on this: he ascribes this to a few factors, one being that overproduction (e.g., beat quantization, autotuning, etc.) makes all of the music sound uniform, and another that studios have been taking this extremely conservative approach where instead of signing a large number of bands and investing in them, studios have the songs written by the same people that wrote the hit songs in the 90s and have been consistently writing music that sells. So there's less innovation because every studio hires the same handful of people, and then wants those people to write something that sounds like whatever thing sold last year, and then they wash all the color out of the recording process.

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