Sir Ryan Bemrose

No Agenda Stream Dude named Bem. Digital freedom fighter from America's Left Coast and host of Angry Tech News podcast

https://angrytechnews.com

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2024-01-16 00:51:13

A lot of people on here workin' overtime trying to prove Adam's point about the pettiness that's creeped into the platform.
I know all good things must come to an end, but I for one am sad to see NAS go.

2024-01-12 23:57:45

Pacific Northwest weather report. Currently 16°F after a high today of only 19. At these temperatures, the meth is crystalizing into new forms of ice. Heroin is freezing halfway down the needle.
Homeless people are freezing to the street, stuck in ice floes of their own urine. It's so cold, the Democrats are thinking about putting their hands into their *own* pockets.

2024-01-10 16:28:55

Sometimes, after unsuccessfully trying over and over to understand a particularly difficult concept, the only logical conclusion is not that you're too dumb to get it, but rather that the person trying to explain the concept doesn't get it either.
Apropos of nothing, I'm reading yet another article on how quantum will change computing as we know it.

2024-01-09 01:00:59

You have exactly as much right to be proud of your heritage as you have to be ashamed of it. Which is to say, none at all.
You had no part in creating it, and therefore can be neither blamed nor praised for the result.

2024-01-07 02:24:25

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@npub1823…zdth You may be happy to know that I am not blocking you. But not as happy as I am that I'm not blocking you.

2024-01-03 21:04:55

Angry Tech News #80: Artist Proxy better late than never!
https://angrytechnews.com/index.php/2024/01/03/angry-tech-news-80-artist-proxy/
Apple wants to control your digital life, Google wants to control the entire internet, and artists finally get a weapon in the war against AI

2023-12-25 21:44:14

One of the most nefarious things that "experts" have ever done to us is to convince the public that bacon is unhealthy.

2023-12-21 19:57:30

The 14th amendment's insurrectionist clause says anyone who "shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion" against the US is ineligible to be President.
What the Colorado SC didn't bother to prove under any rules of evidence is whether or not Trump did that. Leftists seem to take it as an axiom. I believe the evidence does not support that conclusion, and that any honest court would agree with me.
What remains to be seen is whether we have any honest courts remaining in this country.

2023-12-14 20:56:17

Testimonial: Since I started at the new job, I've lost 35 pounds in the last three months, because I'm on a new miracle weight-loss plan called DIET and EXERCISE.
No pills required, no surgery, no prescriptions or doctors' notes needed at all! Just get outside and move around, and make sure you're eating *real food*.

2023-12-13 18:49:04

Reminder: Every time some politician or bureaucrat passes a law that prescribes or proscribes your behavior, it has an unwritten clause:
"Comply, or we will send people to hunt you down and shoot you."
This applies to ALL laws, from how you drive, to the kind of grocery bags or straws you can use, to what plants you are allowed to put in the ground in your home garden.
Advocates pushing for new laws almost never appreciate the full significance of what they're proposing.

2023-12-08 20:47:51

Does anyone else get "I wish I had told you so" moments?
I've saved myself from some bad life-altering decisions pushed by people with credentials, due to my innate skepticism and distrust for authority. My hesitance often turns out later to be fully justified, but I am at the time unable to articulate myself well enough to convince others to follow my example. So I say nothing.
Now a close friend suffers the consequences of one of those decisions, and I wonder if I should have pushed harder.

2023-12-08 03:49:41

My latest manifestation of counterculture civil disobedience:
I cheerfully say "Merry Christmas" when handing people their deliveries.
The secular politically correct corporate censors would have a fit if they knew.

2023-12-02 02:37:56

Yeah, yeah, several weeks late. Finally updated live show list for correct UTC time to account for government meddling with our American podcasters' timezones. Let me know if you see errors.
http://playlist.noagendastream.com/live
Also added two new shows that have been streaming LIVE for a couple weeks:
Homegrown Hits w/ @DuhLaurien & @npub1ra3…6vkn
Cawfee & Chronic w/ @npub10ph…mgvz & @npub12lr…70dq

2023-11-28 03:03:00

Live podcasting pro-tip:
1) Don't touch the microphone
2) DON'T TOUCH THE MICROPHONE
3) Don't touch the microphone stand either.
4) Don't even touch the desk the mic is mounted to.
We *can* hear it.
Signed, your listeners.

2023-11-26 02:58:28

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2023-11-23 21:13:15

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In this context, I point out that all forms of Leftism (Marxism, statism, wokeness, scientism, climatism, etc) fit the definition of religions.

2023-11-09 20:49:46

Bold prediction: 2024 will be the first year in America when you can vote by APP
Of course they will talk up how much more convenient it is than going to a poll or messing with the mail.
But it will also be marketed as much more SECURE. Think of how dangerous it is, someone can reach into the mailbox or ballot box and change your vote! After all, It's *much* more secure to record all votes in a read-write government database with no paper trail or accountability.

2023-10-24 00:31:47

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@npub13at…quy9 @npub1kk4…0nnf I would never be so sloppy as to leave witnesses.

2023-10-22 13:27:06

So let me get this straight. Due to the 500 character limit, noagendasocial has always been terrible for any argument or discussion deeper than a talking point. And now we're banning memes too?
What's left, knock-knock jokes?

2023-10-21 14:08:20

Ten years ago, the highways in Washington state were immaculate. After a decade of J.F. Inslee, we're approaching California levels of potholes.
Statist: "Without the state, who will build the roads?"
Me: "Who is building them now?"

2023-10-21 04:04:21

Angry Tech News #79: Plan Malvertise drags itself out of bed!
https://angrytechnews.com/index.php/2023/10/20/angry-tech-news-79-plan-malvertise/
Right to Repair in California, T-Mobile gets greedy, Google gets paid to install malware, and a WinRAR vulnerability

2023-10-19 01:20:46

The scientific community is suffering a well-deserved crisis of confidence. Cancel culture is the obvious catalyst; if people aren't free to say what they think, how can we trust what they say?
But I think the root cause is hubris. Anyone with intellectual curiosity can make an observation - about health, technology, nutrition, etc. But it takes some next-level arrogance, bred in an ideological echo chamber, to assume you (and only you) know all there is to know about the subject.

2023-10-01 19:43:43

500 years from now, they'll have a word for the people of this era who refused the covid death shot.
Ancestors.

2023-09-30 17:35:06

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@npub1gke…3xp3 Finally! A reason to wear a mask in public places.

2023-09-28 23:07:49

Dear State-worshiping cultists:
Your chosen deity does not have the power to altar the laws of physics, change human nature, or subvert economic reality. Please stop passing laws as if it can.
Your unintended consequences are only making the world shittier for those of us forced to live in it.

2023-09-28 02:21:00

The rebrand of "the common cold" to "covid" has been one of the most successful rebranding campaigns in history.
The next generation will no more know what you're talking about when you say "I have a cold" as they would if you talked about GoldStar Electronics, Datsun Cars, or US West Telecom.

2023-09-22 19:29:26

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@npub14r4…jcap You know I'm down to help, if you've got room for someone who's got a voice somewhere between the Cookie Monster and Quark from DS9

2023-09-19 21:15:32

Angry Tech News #77: Whiz Factor just whizzed on by
https://angrytechnews.com/index.php/2023/09/19/angry-tech-news-77-whiz-factor/
Google defeats multifactor authentication, Pixel Watch is unrepairable, Ring sells a pet collar, Toyota learns the value of IT, yet another vulnerability in the whole Internet, and mysteriously, not one single thing about the iPhone

2023-09-18 16:52:09

Dear Hollywood:
The trope of "smart-ass kid who knows more than all of the adults in the movie" doesn't get any funnier after the 3,745th movie it's been used in.

2023-09-11 00:33:24

Web-1.0 had pages: Static blobs of information. No code, just data for the browser to display as it sees fit.
Web-2.0 has sites. Dynamic content that runs code every time a user clicks on something. Data is tied to presentation.
Web-3.0 has apps. Active, fully-interactive programs that are running code constantly, some in response to user action. Some on behalf of the site owner. We don't know.
In security circles, "Remote Code Execution" is a dirty word. In webdev circles, it's progress.

2023-09-10 20:58:53

Dear right-wing fanatics:
Controlled opposition is still opposition.
Stop sniping at each other, and point your anger at the people who are stomping your freedoms.

2023-09-10 18:00:01

I'm pleased by this "never again" movement with regards to facediapers and lockdowns... But I still have to scratch my head. Why did you morons fall for it the first time?

2023-09-10 15:52:47

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RIP Star Trek
Sep 22 1966 - May 13 2005
May it find the peace in death that Paramount's studio necromancers won't allow it in life.

2023-08-27 17:00:07

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@npub1899…md6m apropos of nothing, I want to say how incredibly jealous I am of anybody who lives in a place called "Funkstown"
I never knew town-name-envy could be a thing.

2023-08-26 23:11:42

Privacy Pro-tip: When signing up for an account, give the site or company the absolute least amount of information that they require in order to provide the service you're requesting, and no more.
Usually this is an ID and password. Everything else will be used to market and data mine you. Those fields should be left blank, or worst-case, filled with garbage data.
That this is a "pro-tip", and not just stupidly obvious is commentary on the poor state of user education.

2023-08-25 03:25:51

Unpopular truth: The border wall would be unnecessary, if we stopped giving immigrants:
- free healthcare
- free housing
- free education
- free food
- free childcare
- free insurance
- free money for getting old
- free money for demographic groups
- free money for disabilities
- utility subsidies
- food subsidies
- job assistance
- home assistance
- etc etc etc
Perhaps, if people who moved to the USA had to work as hard as people born here, fewer would do it.
Incentives Matter

2023-08-25 00:20:55

Random unsupported hypothesis:
The real reason behind CRT in schools and the other transparent attempts to transform our children into racists, is to move the Overton window on racial equality, so as to minimize the backlash (and potentially create popular support) when it finally leaks that the government is working on racially-targeted bioweapons.
Once you've normalized people hating each other based on race, it becomes a simple matter of propaganda to tell them which races to hate.

2023-08-22 19:39:20

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@npub1p39…k4fx There is a level of commitment and effort involved there that is not commensurate with my occasional desire to watch movies, nor my complete lack of desire to watch anything post-2019.
Amazon is the only streaming service I have left, and that only because my wife still uses the hell out of the free shipping.

2023-08-22 19:27:00

I want to thank Amazon for making horror movies so much safer. Not knowing who the killer is until the end would be so suspenseful. A lot of viewers, their hearts might not be able to take it.
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2023-08-20 19:45:35

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@npub16rk…56gy "wrong"

2023-08-18 02:51:13

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@npub1lmr…ggq9 Hell yes. Do I have to leave at the end of the month?

2023-08-17 20:04:02

News reports sourcing from "X" highlights the profound laziness of journalists today in ways that sourcing from "Twitter" never could.

2023-08-17 18:07:05

Just great. Now in addition to deleting cookies and using a VPN, I'm gonna have to run a UV light over my sewage before I flush it in order to protect my privacy.

2023-08-17 00:45:46

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Bonus points if your long-ass javascript-generated list entries don't contain enough information to decide if an entry is what you want, and you have to click EACH AND EVERY ONE before you know which is right.

2023-08-17 00:43:38

I think what I miss the most about the bygone days when web pages were served via HTML, rather than dynamic bloated off-the-shelf 20Mb javascript "frameworks" is the ability to click to another page, realize it's not what you're looking for, and then hit the 'back' button and end up right where you started.
Somewhere along the line, it became acceptable to force users to re-scroll down a long list of entries each time they click one.

2023-08-16 23:46:40

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@npub18z9…c3uf @npub1823…zdth @npub1zqd…e6fj So what i'm hearing is that, in order to receive zaps from the nostr decentralized network, I have to sign up for a centralized service. Got it. I'll get back to you on that one.

2023-08-16 23:38:46

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@npub18z9…c3uf @npub1823…zdth @npub1zqd…e6fj Presumably someone who runs their own lightning node, rather than rely on custodial bitcoin and centralized services

2023-08-16 23:36:56

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@npub1823…zdth @npub18z9…c3uf @npub1zqd…e6fj Supposing one doesn't have an alby account?

2023-08-15 19:44:19

I'm probably gonna forfeit my ancap card for this one, but I need to say it
"Intellectual Property" is not property.
It's a monopoly on an idea. A gov't-granted prior restraint on human thought and expression.
I'm all for property rights when that property is real and tangible, with scarcity and nonzero marginal cost of production and has the characteristic that taking it deprives someone else.
NONE of this applies to human ideas. You should not be able to own a thought.

2023-08-15 16:23:38

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@npub1tvu…266y @npub1ul8…kl35 This was always inevitable.

2023-08-15 06:05:52

Chatting with an ex-coworker buddy who happens to be woke. He was complaining about ERG chatrooms run by tyrant Karens. "They say that everyone is welcome and open, but they make all of these unwritten rules everyone has to follow or they're out, so nobody is willing to speak their minds."
Sensing an opportunity for a hit in the mouth, I told him that he just described an idea called "oversocialization", that it was first described by a Harvard professor in 1996, and he should look it up.

2023-08-14 05:45:52

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@npub1ks4…x88p @npub1p39…k4fx I mean, it only works well if people use it. Not much use keeping open phone lines if there's nobody calling.
IRC is basically the OG decentralized protocol, but it doesn't do things like voice, so there's room to improve. Is it possible to create a matrix chatroom/voice channel that doesn't de facto require someone to sign up on a third-party service?

2023-08-14 04:58:26

@npub1ks4…x88p Really tried to participate in the show... We have a lot of interesting things to talk about.
Getting hung up on having to log in through a Matrix instance... While I very much support decentralized identity and services, the thing that's even better is anonymous access. Having to sign up for a third-party in order to join the chat is high-friction.
Maybe by next week I'll have my own Matrix instance, and the problem will solve itself.

2023-08-14 00:00:40

City officials announcing that low spring rainfall, and warmer weather (aka "climate change") have resulted in an algae bloom in the city's drinking water reservoir.
So, I guess I get to look forward to a few months of tap water tasting like a swimming pool...

2023-08-13 19:06:26

The last conversation I had with my doctor, in mid-2021, was done over zoom. All I wanted was to renew a prescription, and she woudln't do it without an "appointment".
At the end of the appointment, she popped the question.
"So, have you got your COVID shot?
"No, don't need it. I had COVID last September"
"Oh, did you get tested?"
"No, didn't need to. It felt like a bad cold, matched the symptoms, and I was better in ten days."
"Oh, okay. You should get the shot anyway"
*hangs up*

2023-08-11 20:13:54

Finally tried to watch the last Bond film "No Time To Die". Made it 15 mins.
Opens with picturesque remote setting. Action sequence in which the obvious hero displays extreme badassery
Fast-forward many years. Older, confident hero chastising skittish lover who can't let go of past.
Bedroom scene. Hero on top. Lover on bottom is unsure, timid needs comforting
Formulaic for a Bond film... except Bond is the love interest, and the hero is the girl
Have the writers ever SEEN James Bond before?

2023-08-11 07:56:53

Had a conversation recently with a leftist buddy about "mysterious" medical conditions that became prevalent in the last 50 years. eg: multiple sclerosis, autism, celiac's.
He was fully on board with the official "nobody knows why" narrative from the establishment. But when I asked if it was possibly linked to the thing that nobody is allowed to study, he got defensive and attacked me for being a "conspiracy theorist".
The brainwashed are programmed to defend their brainwashers to the end.

2023-08-08 19:04:08

Angry Tech News #72: Unpatchable Substrate slides into home!
https://angrytechnews.com/index.php/2023/08/08/angry-tech-news-72-unpatchable-substrate/
Tesla jailbreak, a new type of keylogger, and a way to make your devices even LESS resistant to water

2023-08-01 20:07:40

Angry Tech News #71: Watchdog Trolling is nine to five chillin' at Hewlett Packard
(what?)
https://angrytechnews.com/index.php/2023/08/01/angry-tech-news-71-watchdog-trolling/
Google presents an existential threat to the open web. Plus gaming news!

2023-07-27 19:25:28

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@npub1zsl…72gc The absolute best part of the proposal is their "Privacy considerations" section.
https://rupertbenwiser.github.io/Web-Environment-Integrity/#privacy

2023-07-27 17:32:09

Google is yet again attacking the open web.
https://vivaldi.com/blog/googles-new-dangerous-web-environment-integrity-spec/
Google desperately wants all users to trust it as the benevelant overlords of the Internet, arbitrating between untrusted users and untrusted websites. But their threat model is incomplete. Google's threat models never consider Google as a threat to be mitigated.
This is what Google engineers are paid to not understand.

2023-07-15 18:27:25

I will never willingly answer questions about race or gender on any survey, form, or application. The requestor is free to make their own assumptions about me by looking at my face (as humans have always done), but these are THEIR assumptions, which I will neither confirm nor deny.
I do not participate in anybody's divisive game of partitioning people into demographic groups in order to further this sense of false virtue they call "diversity"

2023-07-13 19:40:52

Hot take: The start of the transgender craze was when men started shaving their face.
Real men have beards. When they started using a razor to try to look like women, it was the beginning of the end.

2023-07-09 19:28:09

January 6 was not a coup. J6 was a protest against the coup that happened two months earlier on November 3. On that day, the will of the people was swept aside to replace the leader of a country with a puppet dictator - the textbook definition of a coup.
And nearly every bureaucrat, judge, and politician was in on it, from the local mules who gathered ballots to SCOTUS who ignored the evidence.
Anyone who tells you the coup was on Jan 6 is either projecting, deflecting, or mindwashed.