firefly

I am a #bibliologer and a #cryptologer. I study the Bible, codes, and ciphers among other things. I enjoy #poetry. I like #neologisms. I burn with insatiable curiosity about everyone and everything.

Public Key

npub16a3z5wjg2a9cz2hagxdhwcs2hs46hh3kreqg3jkk8vtz9fl8j98qadhqv6

NIP-05 Address

firefly_at_neon.nightbulb.net@mostr.pub

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsdwc328fy9wjup9t75rxmhvg9tc2atmcmpusygettrk93z5lneznspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43quga4xq

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relay.mostr.pub

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npub16a3z5wjg2a9cz2hagxdhwcs2hs46hh3kreqg3jkk8vtz9fl8j98qadhqv6

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Last Notes

2024-10-10 06:49:12

@npub1kkq…4x5a
Is there a good source of details on the Internet Archive data breach yet? I wonder how people should respond to this news ... it's truly dirty that crackers would target something that has been helping millions of people for so many years ...
https://me.pcmag.com/en/security/26310/hacker-defaces-internet-archive-claims-it-suffered-a-breach
#InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #BrewsterKahle #OpenLibrary #DataBreach #HIBP #PWND

2024-08-17 02:56:35

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#UnjustEnrichment is the relevant principle of law.

2024-08-05 06:11:43

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@npub1699…5n59 @npub1kt3…5004
False prophecy and scaremongering ... ask yourself, que bono?

2024-08-05 06:09:35

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@npub1yg7…zajc @npub1kt3…5004
Is it as good as, 'The Pearl?'

2024-08-05 05:45:48

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@npub1vut…6xv7
If 'real men wear diapers' then a 'real man' with a gun would be called a 'diaper sniper'.

2024-08-05 05:31:38

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@npub1vyr…fy55
"Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil." ~ Ephesians 4:26-27

2024-07-27 16:57:48

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BRAINZ!

2024-07-11 21:09:27

I found this at Boldmatic.
https://neon.nightbulb.net/firefly/s/21c40bb7f248e9420b5e02b4b28d66ee.jpeg

2024-07-03 13:34:25

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Amusingly, that dog looks like his name should be Blue.

2024-07-03 13:12:26

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Those blossoms are like Queen Anne's Lace that has been drinking protein shakes.

2024-06-24 14:23:57

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@npub1kt3…5004
COVID + fiction is a redundancy of terms.

2024-06-07 05:15:43

Adobe roofies all of their customers
https://youtu.be/EXxMCm941WA
TL;DR ... Don't pay the mafia to avoid broken kneecaps. Instead pay the mafia and they break your kneecaps anyway.

2024-05-22 11:25:47

Early on in my hobby I came to the realization that cryptographic prowess has no viable market price point. More's the pity. Yet I think one day I may change that with my secrecy sauce.
#cryptography #cryptology #maths #encryption #ciphers

2024-05-22 10:45:31

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@npub1cet…dwae
And then they all chant, "Hail Hydra!"

2024-05-22 09:02:22

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@npub1n6w…rzel
Is this about the SystemD hydra ???

2024-05-19 13:44:03

Terabytes of Old Usenet Articles since 1980s Restored in 471,000 News Groups
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40406863
@npub1q82…9nuk @npub17t4…lykt

2024-05-17 22:18:42

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@npub1m64…uaks @npub1glu…d3sz
+1 OpenBox

2024-05-17 22:17:21

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@npub17uy…305p
Yup. When someone tells me I can't do something I get infuriated. The world is like whack-a-mole, ready to beat down the one that stands up.

2024-05-17 22:12:34

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@npub1vrg…g69a
Faux News [sic]

2024-05-17 21:53:13

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@npub1a7j…tfef
As long as they wear flambouyant costumes and war paint then I agree.

2024-05-17 21:51:43

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@npub1wk6…yq89
This is such a heute-teute way of saying, 'Make me sammich."

2024-05-17 21:49:01

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@npub1vyr…fy55 @npub16cf…8gmf
Exodus 23:2
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:

2024-05-11 02:22:14

Do you remember Usenet? It's still free.
https://sybershock.com/#usenet

2024-05-10 20:41:12

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"And the worms ate into his brain ..." ~ Pink Floyd

2024-05-10 10:00:24

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@npub1fta…87qx
The password is a secret handshake done by keymasons.

2024-05-10 09:44:12

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@npub1vyr…fy55
Bingo.

2024-05-10 09:37:25

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@npub1vyr…fy55
... mostly btc pumper dumper parrots ...

2024-05-10 09:36:34

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@npub1784…5up9
HACKING IS NOT A CRIME
ACKING IS NOT A CRIME H
CKING IS NOT A CRIME HA
KING IS NOT A CRIME HAC
ING IS NOT A CRIME HACK
NG IS NOT A CRIME HACKI
G IS NOT A CRIME HACKIN
IS NOT A CRIME HACKING
#HackingIsNotACrime

2024-05-10 09:34:12

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@npub16wy…hy6a @npub1y3s…ajjt
try harder

2024-05-10 06:26:02

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@npub1a7j…tfef
I want to know how Conan the Librarian feels about this.

2024-05-10 06:21:29

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@npub102p…cg35 @npub1kt3…5004
Fools of a feather fantasize together.

2024-05-10 06:18:09

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@npub1n6w…rzel @npub16wk…lxsf
Software freedom may feel good at first until that damn penguin nails you with his sharp beak.

2024-05-10 06:16:26

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@npub1lsc…yg4v
Egads!

2024-05-10 06:14:14

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@npub1n6w…rzel
Chain them to a wall in front of a Commodore 64 and require them to learn Lisp while interacting with the Lemmyverse.

2024-05-10 06:11:23

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@npub14jm…07j9
spot on rationale for 'why' and 'advantages'

2024-05-10 05:57:38

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@npub176r…kwlw
The same healthcare industry that robs the sick and poor with sickeningly overpriced care, meds, and services, gets robbed itself. I shed no tears for the corrupt medical industrial complex.

2024-05-10 05:48:00

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@npub17ay…2gy6
Lord willing I will get around to publishing a book one day. I think by this comment you have earned a free copy autographed with ink from pressed coffee beans.

2024-05-10 04:16:52

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We may also need to weigh in on the meaning of #Quantum and #Computer.

2024-05-04 14:43:19

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@npub15yp…j00n
shitGPT: The cat sat in the crap.

2024-05-01 19:08:14

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Bitmessage Subscriptions View
@npub1n5q…f05r
https://neon.nightbulb.net/firefly/s/7af23ee8d14d3711944d1277d84028bb.png

2024-05-01 19:07:10

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Bitmessage Broadcast View
@npub1n5q…f05r
https://neon.nightbulb.net/firefly/s/538104299bc63739f7d777c12b46cfd9.png

2024-05-01 19:05:55

Bitmessage for untraceable, uncensorable, and anonymous communication
https://bitmessage.org
Attached: inbox view.
#Bitmessage #Privacy #Anonymity
@npub1n5q…f05r
https://neon.nightbulb.net/firefly/s/f128f886c92da22851d371d9e53e398f.png

2024-05-01 00:14:10

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@npub1vyr…fy55
The disobedient cowards want celebrity accolades and a war medal for every fart they strain with.

2024-04-27 20:33:32

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@npub1vyr…fy55
Which Americans?

2024-04-27 20:30:41

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@npub1kdj…4j2j
Should I agree with your right to say that protestors have no right to protest?
Let us square dance in a round room as we contemplate ...

2024-04-27 20:28:19

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@npub1tuw…8560 @npub1vyr…fy55
George Washington helped create the system that now feeds on the people.
Judge a tree by its fruit, not its shipping label.

2024-04-27 20:24:13

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@npub18m3…hynf
Yup: https://youtu.be/tHZxeR0uXQE

2024-04-27 19:57:59

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@npub1k5l…d4hj
Once you remove all the fat and calories, send them to me! You can have the cake.

2024-04-27 19:56:17

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Or have your lawyers write the letters and mail them.
Change your enemy's digestive chemistry ... change the world!

2024-04-27 19:08:07

Here comes Democracy!
@npub13e3…xhfk
https://neon.nightbulb.net/firefly/s/6dbce8ee54db718675e1e780cddbd425.png

2024-04-25 20:38:17

Ways to communicate more privately than with centralized email:
Retroshare: https://retroshare.cc/
Onionshare: https://onionshare.org/
Bitmessage: https://bitmessage.org

2024-04-23 04:07:27

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@npub1vyr…fy55
It's just getting warmed up. We are entering the grand solar minimum.

2024-04-23 03:21:35

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@npub1xr5…93g6 @npub1vyr…fy55
Thus the modern meaning of, 'unsee'.

2024-04-23 03:17:23

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@npub1a7j…tfef
Turf war now.

2024-04-21 14:19:06

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I remember this.

2024-04-21 14:12:56

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This is a nice nostalgic piece of history.

2024-04-20 10:02:52

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I had no problem finding DEES NUTS via Google:
https://grabdeesnuts.com/
https://neon.nightbulb.net/firefly/s/ff2dfa29ede779218402f06a50940ba6.webp

2024-04-20 02:31:00

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@npub1vyr…fy55
There is no such thing as a 'carbon footprint'. It is a gaslighting excuse for feudal slavery.

2024-04-20 02:16:38

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The issue then is that Mastodon FE wrongly reports the numbers as zero instead of returning, 'hidden', or 'unknown' or just hiding that output altogether. Thus their front end is inadvertently misleading.
I vaguely remember some FE like Pleroma or Friendica actually allowing the user to select hiding followers and followees and reporting them as 'hidden' in the number field.

2024-04-18 22:09:33

NSA ’just days from taking over the internet’ warns Edward Snowden
https://cointelegraph.com/news/nsa-days-from-taking-over-internet-whistleblower-edward-snowden
#NSA #Privacy #1stAmendment #Surveillance #Spying #Internet #FISA #Congress #Law

2024-04-18 21:59:26

I notice that when viewing a snac profile from another instance all instances show zero followers and zero followees. What do I need to configure for the snac server to report the correct numbers?
@npub1p77…0jxq

test

test

test

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They already built it long ago. They're adding more perimeter towers and guard dogs.

2024-04-17 07:08:47

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It always boils down to nose, grindstone.

2024-04-17 07:02:47

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@npub1sc5…lnun
Amish Hackers

2024-04-17 07:01:32

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@npub1q9r…p2tj
google search was once great and useful. today google search is a useless abomination.

2024-04-17 06:59:11

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@npub1r9j…4ppx
3, the alias approach is probably best.
Set up a script so you can just enter an alias and populate it to exim / dovecot / mailer config and /etc/aliases.
Or, install hestia control panel to manage mailer and use the web panel gui.
Either way, $profit$

2024-04-17 06:56:30

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@npub1vyr…fy55 @npub1wc5…gysc
When the clock strikes 13 the spell is broken ...
https://youtu.be/n1AD6LPmJO4

2024-04-17 05:54:15

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@npub1vyr…fy55 @npub1kfe…md5y
Are there any believers over there on NOSTR? And by believers I don't mean people who worship GOP instead of GOD.

2024-04-17 05:52:51

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@npub19ma…axkl @npub1vyr…fy55
It says, NO TRESPASSING.

2024-04-17 05:34:08

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@npub1l27…8wla
You guys have outdone yourselves. As you continue to grow and augment your application please remember many of us hate JavaScript with a unholy and fiery zeal. And consider that avoiding JavaScript generally means less work for the code maintainers. Thank you.

2024-04-17 05:31:30

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@npub1tfz…54ty
Fidonet still lives. He may be using a cane to ambulate, but living is living ...

2024-04-17 05:26:40

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@npub1vyr…fy55
Maybe there's a market in harvesting methane from farts. No doubt someone would agree and be willing to protest until a fart harvesting law is enacted.

2024-04-17 05:18:13

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@npub1vyr…fy55
Seems like battered wife syndrome. Deputies are en route to do a wellness check ...

2024-04-17 05:17:25

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@npub135q…seee
And watch the haters bash what you love ... ;>

2024-04-17 05:16:04

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@npub1cha…hf02 @npub18am…p424
Fediverse is mostly just a propaganda mill for vaccine manufacturers and electioneering propagandists.

2024-04-17 04:55:43

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@npub1vyr…fy55
The FBI is a mafioso cartel and all of its chiefs belong in prison. They are slavers, kidnappers, extortioners, sabateurs and all around vile, filthy criminals.

2024-04-15 10:42:40

Hatching Secret Sauce Eggs is a Rooster's Business
This is how I make the secret sauce. The recipe is inside the egg.
https://neon.nightbulb.net/firefly/s/c1e9e99e09d8c53ce8f972ca8684df42.jpeg

2024-04-15 10:30:30

This is how I make the secret sauce. The recipe is inside the egg.
https://neon.nightbulb.net/firefly/s/bf19c20e5a9ff5838cc1510e3bc1e200.jpeg

2024-04-15 10:16:39

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@npub1tmq…l89a
Quantum, Schmantum ...
"On the Heffalump Threat"
by Peter Gutmann
https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/heffalump_crypto.pdf

2024-04-15 09:26:44

The rooster is crowing and I am hardcore hangry for a cheemsburbger. No beef lives in the fridge. It will be hours before any burger joint is grilling. The grocery stores don't open for several hours. First world problems ...

2024-04-15 09:19:52

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@npub1dl4…fvxl
Y'all forgot the 'flush' button.

2024-04-15 09:16:59

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@npub1va6…qg3t
I like to add heat and meat. You might also try your sweet tone idea along with mixing in some Thai chili paste and fish sauce with lemongrass or savory to spice and sour it. Put that on your chicken and rice then prepare for a short and blissfull food coma.

2024-04-13 08:18:59

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Snac is speedy. I replaced Pleroma and Friendica with snac and I don't regret the choice.
@npub1tp9…dzfn

2024-04-13 01:37:24

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"Away, therefore, with all the scientific moonshine that would connect men with monkeys; that would have the world believe that humanity, instead of resting on its own characteristic pedestal — gloriously independent -- is a sort of sliding scale, making one extreme brother to the ourangou-tang, and the other to angels, and all the rest intermediates!" ~ Frederick Douglass

2024-04-12 20:45:27

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This guy runs Twitter.
Today we explore a homeless man who owns a social media website.
https://youtu.be/kDAtmzOjTgs

2024-04-12 20:42:34

@WhatTheHales Want to DISQUALIFY Judge Craig C. DeThomasis for BIAS & PREJUDICE (Third Attempt)
This judge is really crooked. He is a anti-first amendment activist. Share far and wide. Call and write the legislature to impeach the biased monster.
https://www.youtube.com/live/gQe45j6Q7jU
@npub1qyj…7ay9

2024-04-12 20:36:43

@WhatTheHales Want to DISQUALIFY Judge Craig C. DeThomasis for BIAS & PREJUDICE (Third Attempt)
This judge is really crooked. He is a anti-first amendment activist.
https://www.youtube.com/live/gQe45j6Q7jU

2024-04-11 23:51:49

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Nice work! That reminds me of the Teddy Roosevelt that my mom made for me.
Happy birthday to your mother hen!

2024-04-11 09:26:03

HANDSOMEWARE - Either a swag name for my elite software stack or a exploit that requires sending handsome pictures to decrypt your files.

2024-04-11 09:22:53

When you boot up and this is all you see on the screen ...
https://neon.nightbulb.net/firefly/s/5968c0398636cb9933ad72d0745bdf68.png

2024-04-09 09:24:07

Molly Malone - Patty Gurdy
(Irish Traditional / epic Hurdy-Gurdy Music)
https://iv.melmac.space/watch?v=YCjXkV1aaC8

2024-04-08 23:15:41

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You live, you learn. I just wish I'd learned this sooner!

2024-04-08 22:33:55

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My phone camera 'corrected' the lighting so that the photos of the total eclipse are all washed out. Had I been using a $40 1980s film camera or $3000 astronomical camera this would not have happened.

2024-04-08 22:31:30

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exactly
legends in their own minds

2024-04-08 07:07:05

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alpaca lips ...

2024-04-08 00:37:30

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If 'tut' TUI client allowed to render images as ANSI art with 'chafa' that would be swell. Just a hotkey to pop up a modal with the image rendered in chafa would complete this swell app.
#TUT

2024-04-07 04:42:41

University: Only Blacks Can Hoe Community Garden
https://www.toddstarnes.com/campus/university-only-blacks-can-hoe-community-garden/
Truth is stranger than fiction. I wonder if the University dean and administrators are silently chuckling tongue-in-cheek about this nonsense. I've known Democrats like this, who publicly proclaim their 'love of diversity' then privately show they love underpaid and volunteer 'plantation workers'.