Designer of the TEC-1GđŸ©žLibertarian.

Australia
Joined August 2021
Replying to @Loriss65
The TEC-1G is an Open Source revamp of a 40 year old "trainer computer" based on a Z80 CPU, made and designed in Australia. It was the first computer I ever owned and built it as a teenager. Around the 40th anniversary, I revamped it and added a lot of features, and had a little group of people help me re-release it with a new Monitor (think OS). It's been quite popular with sales all over the world and software and hardware still being designed and written for it.
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Those who are opposed to corporations and favor government do not realize that government is simply the largest, most monopolistic corporation of all and it has a monopoly on violence.
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Who needs Bitcoin when you could use these...
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"The social contract is broken. No French citizen should be forced to pay taxes anymore to a state that doesn't want to protect them." Spot on. At its most basic level, the only thing the state is actually supposed to do is protect its citizens from internal and external threats. We can argue whether that thing should be called "The State" if it's just a security service, but the bottom line is that even an anarcho-capitalist utopia will need some form of security. And there is no point for "The State" to even exist if it doesn't protect its citizens, from criminals, invaders, etc. Therefore, paying taxes to the state is no longer legitimate. Starve the beast until it starts doing its job.
The store was looted for more than one hour by a migrant gang. Everywhere in France, migrant gangs are roaming the cities completely unhindered. They are breaking into private homes and stores as they desire. The police and army are sitting it out and completely letting the French population down. The social contract is broken. No French citizen should be forced to pay taxes anymore to a state that doesn't want to protect them. Also, those Taxes are directly flowing into the ghettos to feed those thugs and finance their high fertility rates.
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Why is Australia willing to import racial problems, today?
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What we know: 1. She's a member of the French left-wing party and an activist, one of the biggest advocates for opening up migration to North African peoples. 2. She owns a small chic boutique in an upscale spot, she stood in her shop trying to save it from looting and theft telling them that she's a famous activist. 3. She told them I'm so-and-so, the activist for asylum, I'm with you, I've defended you and your entry and stay in France, they spat on her, knocked her down, and trampled her with their feet, good thing she's still alive. 4. And they looted the whole shop, losing all the struggle and work of her lifetime in a moment. Standing there stunned, not believing that these thieving, rabble-rousing, criminal, barbaric hordes are the ones she's spent her whole life defending, and advocating for them to invade her country and destroy it
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La mujer de la fotografía es una manifestante que intenta impedir el saqueo del establecimiento. Ella no es la propietaria. Es un supermercado de la cadena Franpix. En el vídeo completo de puede ver. instagram.com/reel/DenbGUyid

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Did you know in 2014, Ukraine needed a loan? There were two offers on the table: 🔮 The IMF dangled $15 billion,but with strings attached: -Scrap the ban on private land ownership. -Slash pensions and fuel subsidies,classic austerity. 🔮 Russia also offered $15 billion. No strings, no neoliberal gutting of the economy. President Yanukovych picked the Russian deal. So what happened? Washington backed a coup, ousted him, and installed a new puppet regime. Then the new government bent the knee to the IMF. Signed off on austerity program and opened the door to privatization. Now, massive chunks of Ukrainian land,about a third, are in the hands of foreign giants like BlackRock.
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I can concur. It truly is amazing. The website it is making for me would have cost me MONTHS of design to-and-fro and I can’t guess at how many thousands of dollars it would have cost me. AND it’s quite intuitive in terms of what I want. Very impressive.
Grok @Bot is like hiring an incredibly competent employee
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My thoughts on XBT.
Replying to @MundokAdam
> Or maybe he's mad because he kept all his Bitcoin on an exchange and got rugged of his XBT This is actually an issue I have with how XBT came about. I get why XBT happened, and I agree with Mechanic and all, that BTC is captured and will never separate Money from State nor will it become MoE. So we did (do) have to Fire the Miners. But the problem is that it happened in such a knee jerk, unplanned, rushed way that did not give everyone, @saifedean included if you are right, time to prepare for the fork. And look at the timing of the ColdCard hack. Do you really think it happening just a week before the fork was a coincidence? How many coins get rush-swept into exchanges? How much XBT will NEVER SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY because the controlled exchanges had so much tied up BTC? And then there is the utter lack of any professionality in the XBT community when it comes to any skerick of marketing ability. Having the likes of Luke and Chris as the spokesmen for the project?! Those guys are certified geniuses
 in coding. On a social front, they are retarded autistics. And their marketing prowess amounts to blocking people and calling them evil. That’s it. They make the community smaller, not increase adoption. Even the word “marketing” is sneered at by any but the most savvy of plebs in Discord. Couple this with what I consider a premature fork, before the code was actually ready to deal with the main problem in BTC (miner centralisation) that needs to be fixed IN CODE, not by stern words or wishful thinking. And extending the coinbase lock to a year is utterly retarded for every mining aspect you can think of. Electricity costs money. And sometimes you have to pay the bills. AND you have killed off supply for a year. That seems like a cynical way to boost the price but that’s just the cynic in me talking. I support the idea of XBT and actually wish it well. Thankfully my BTC stack was in self custody so I have my stack of XBT that I hope becomes something. But my gut feel is that it won’t. Because it was born prematurely. Like about 4 months too early to parents that are socially retarded. Good luck with that.
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Here's list I compiled of reasons why any sane Bitcoiner would never own an EV, Unless the goal is to be a Cuck too. - Remote dependency: A car that needs a server to act normal isn’t a car, it’s a leash with tires. - App control: When your phone is the key, the cloud is the master. - Remote lock/start: Convenience is the bait; control is the hook. - Location tracking: Your vehicle shouldn’t report coordinates like a parole monitor with cupholders. - Software features: If an app controls windows, climate, tailgate, charging, lights, and ride height, you rent permissions. - Speed Limit Mode: Once a vehicle can be software-limited, the question becomes: who gets the button next? - OTA updates: You bought one car, but tomorrow the mothership can install a different one. - Feature paywalls: Hardware you paid for should never beg a corporation for permission to function. - Subscription creep: They sell you the car once, then sell you pieces of it forever like digital crack dealers. - Account lockout: Lose the account, lose the kingdom, cloud feudalism on wheels. - Telemetry: A real car hauls ppl; this thing hauls your data back to the plantation. - Driving tracking: Hard braking, speed, routes, habits, your vehicle becomes a stainless steel snitch. - Insurance weaponization: The car rats, the insurer smiles, and your premium gets Skull-Fucked. - Government access: Once the data exists, the subpoena machine starts licking its chops. - Sensitive location exposure: Your car should not know enough to build a prosecution map. - Hackable surface: Cellular, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, APIs, apps, cloud, every “smart” feature is another door. - Brick-by-bug: Mechanical cars break from worn parts; software cars break because an update sneezed wrong. - Cloud outage risk: If the network dies and your car gets stupid, it was never sovereign. - Right-to-repair squeeze: You own the metal, but they own the spell required to fix it. - Service lock-in: When only the manufacturer can bless the repair, you’re not a customer, YOU ARE livestock. - Parts pairing: A bolt-on part needing software approval is tyranny wearing a torque wrench. - Resale friction: Selling a car should require title and keys, not sacrifice to cloud gods. - Digital transfer: When ownership needs server approval, property rights get kneecapped. - Policy risk: Terms of service should never touch your steering wheel. - Acceptable-use creep: Today it’s app rules; tomorrow it’s “your mobility privileges are under review.” - Behavior nudging: They don’t have to force you when software can herd you like cattle. - Navigation influence: The map isn’t neutral when the company controls the rails. - Charging dependence: If mobility depends on approved networks, freedom has a plug in its neck. - Dead-zone weakness: A real machine gets mean off-grid; a cloud car gets confused. - Remote diagnostics: Diagnostics are fine, until “checking” becomes “controlling.” - Remote service commands: Anything powerful enough to fix you remotely can restrict you remotely. - Recall-by-software: They fix bugs over the air, and rewrite ownership without touching the driveway. - Feature removal: If a feature can be activated remotely, it can be revoked remotely. Rental cosplay. - Privacy decay: The more connected the car gets, the more your private life becomes a corporate spreadsheet. - Centralized control: One company, one account, one cloud, one kill-switch-shaped architecture. What could go wrong? - Precedent risk: The danger isn’t what they admit today, it’s what the architecture allows tomorrow. - Dystopian core: It looks like the future but operates like a locked iPad. EVs are sold as the future but built like a rolling terms-of-service agreement. NO TY. FUUUUUUUCK ALL THAT. đŸ€Ł
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This works well. If Grok @Bot makes a mistake with a purchase or leaks your card (never happened yet), SpaceX will make you whole.
Grok @bot booked a flight for me today the entire process was really really easy
..I send a photo of my credit card and it did the entire process
. Tbh, last time I booked, the website was way too confusing
. It’s not an easy website, and Grok Bot did perfectly well and booked a flight for me
. And I got a message for a booking confirmation
.going to board it soon
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BREAKING: 3D-PRINTED FAKE MEAT and FISH have officially entered American grocery stores WITHOUT disclosing 3D-PRINTING on the packaging. Israeli company Steakholder Foods is behind the rollout, selling the following products under the brand name PERFECTA: “Marbled Steak” “Filet Mignon” “Chicken Breast” “Salmon Patties” “White Fish Patties” The fake meat is printed using soy flour, rapeseed oil, modified starch, methylcellulose, gums, and artificial meat coloring. I will NOT be eating this slop.
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CAPTURE Part 4: THE MACHINE The fourth and final installment is out. Bitcoin Magazine wasn’t just covering the fight over Bitcoin’s future. Its parent operated an Ordinals trading desk, invested in businesses tied to the ecosystem, and maintained editorial policies that exempted parts of that same business. Then came an $80,000/month marketing contract, with an option for Nakamoto Inc. to buy BTC Inc at a valuation tied to its earnings, in a window that included the OP_RETURN fight. Nakamoto exercised the option. Readers were not consistently told about these commercial relationships. A documented investigation into the commercial interests and media infrastructure surrounding the Bitcoin Core controversy. citadel21.com/the-machine
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Just a reminder that tomorrow is International No Bra Day, to help raise awareness of breast cancer. Do your part to Raise Awareness; Men, share this post. Women, well, you know what to do. daysoftheyear.com/days/no-br

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Mine de rien, je pense qu'Elon Musk est en train de poser les bases d'une philosophie extrĂȘmement solide. Et trĂšs peu de gens l'ont remarquĂ©. Petit retour en arriĂšre. Le christianisme nous a laissĂ© un socle de valeurs qui a rendu possible tout le reste. Il y avait la dignitĂ© de l'individu et la valeur du travail. Il y avait aussi l'idĂ©e que le monde est ordonnĂ©, donc intelligible. Les premiers scientifiques cherchaient Ă  lire les lois d'un crĂ©ateur. Sans ce socle, il n'y aurait pas eu de mĂ©thode scientifique ni de rĂ©volution industrielle. Puis Nietzsche arrive : Dieu est mort. Et il ne le dit pas en triomphant. Il prĂ©vient : on vient de scier la branche sur laquelle on Ă©tait assis, et rien ne la remplace. Ce qui vient aprĂšs, c'est le nihilisme. 150 ans plus tard, on y est. Le dĂ©bat public est coincĂ© entre deux camps qui ne se parlent plus. D'un cĂŽtĂ©, des religieux qui dĂ©fendent des dogmes que beaucoup ne peuvent plus croire au pied de la lettre. De l'autre, un matĂ©rialisme intĂ©griste qui croit avoir dĂ©jĂ  tout compris. Pour lui, l'univers est une machine et la conscience une illusion, donc il n'y a rien de plus Ă  chercher. Ce deuxiĂšme intĂ©grisme est Ă  mon avis le plus dangereux, parce qu'il se fait passer pour de la science. Or la vraie science ne ferme jamais une question. Et la conscience est probablement la plus grande question ouverte qui existe. Personne ne sait ce que c'est. PrĂ©tendre le contraire, ce n'est pas du scepticisme, c'est un dogme. C'est lĂ  que l'approche d'Elon devient intĂ©ressante. La mission de xAI, c'est de comprendre la vraie nature de l'univers. Ça ressemble Ă  un slogan, mais c'est en rĂ©alitĂ© une philosophie complĂšte. Elle dit trois choses. Il existe une vĂ©ritĂ©. Elle vaut la peine d'ĂȘtre cherchĂ©e. Et la chercher est la chose la plus noble qu'une civilisation puisse faire. Ça rejoint directement la phrase la plus puissante du christianisme : « La vĂ©ritĂ© vous rendra libre. » C'est la mĂȘme boussole morale, mais sans obligation d'adhĂ©rer Ă  un dogme. En mĂȘme temps, le scepticisme scientifique reste le moteur. On ne prĂ©suppose pas la rĂ©ponse, on la dĂ©couvre. Ce n'est ni l'Église, ni le matĂ©rialisme. C'est une troisiĂšme voie. Et elle convient parfaitement Ă  quelqu'un d'agnostique, qui dit simplement : je ne sais pas encore, mais je veux savoir. Maintenant, ajoutez la superintelligence. Pour la premiĂšre fois, on va avoir un outil capable de s'attaquer aux questions qu'on a mises de cĂŽtĂ© depuis des siĂšcles, faute de moyens. Quelle est la nature de l'espace et du temps ? Qu'y a-t-il sous la physique qu'on connaĂźt ? Qu'est-ce que la conscience humaine, rĂ©ellement ? Chacune de ces rĂ©ponses sera un bond en avant comparable Ă  Newton ou Einstein. Peut-ĂȘtre plus grand encore. C'est exactement la philosophie dont a besoin une civilisation qui veut monter sur l'Ă©chelle de Kardashev. Une civilisation de type 2 maĂźtrise l'Ă©nergie de son Ă©toile, une civilisation de type 3 celle de sa galaxie. On n'y arrive pas avec du nihilisme, ni avec des dogmes figĂ©s. On y arrive avec une curiositĂ© sans limite et de l'humilitĂ© face Ă  ce qu'on ne sait pas. Il faut aussi la conviction que la vĂ©ritĂ© vaut tous les efforts. Nietzsche avait posĂ© la question : par quoi remplacer Dieu comme source de sens ? La rĂ©ponse est peut-ĂȘtre sous nos yeux. Ce n'est pas une nouvelle religion, c'est une quĂȘte : comprendre l'univers.
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Voici mon socle philosophique. On me demande souvent si je suis croyant. La rĂ©ponse honnĂȘte, c'est que je suis agnostique. Mais pas un agnostique tiĂšde, qui hausse les Ă©paules et passe Ă  autre chose. Un agnostique entiĂšrement tournĂ© vers une seule obsession : chercher la vĂ©ritĂ© et comprendre l'univers. Ça repose sur quelques convictions simples. D'abord, il existe une vĂ©ritĂ©, et elle mĂ©rite qu'on lui consacre sa vie. Je ne prĂ©tends pas la possĂ©der. Je prĂ©tends la chercher. Pour ça, je n'ai pas trouvĂ© de meilleure mĂ©thode que celle de Socrate : questionner sans relĂąche, Ă  commencer par ses propres certitudes. Savoir qu'on ne sait pas, c'est le point de dĂ©part de toute vraie connaissance. Celui qui a dĂ©jĂ  toutes les rĂ©ponses, qu'il soit dogmatique religieux ou matĂ©rialiste intĂ©griste, a arrĂȘtĂ© de penser. Ensuite, il y a de la vĂ©ritĂ© dans tout, et lĂ  oĂč il y a de la vĂ©ritĂ©, la beautĂ© Ă©merge. Je crois profondĂ©ment qu'une forme de beautĂ© objective existe. Le visage d'une belle femme, une symphonie qui sonne juste, une Ă©quation Ă©lĂ©gante, une cathĂ©drale, un coucher de soleil sur la cĂŽte bretonne. Ce n'est pas qu'une question de goĂ»t. Quand quelque chose est vrai, harmonieux, bien construit, presque tout le monde le reconnaĂźt. La beautĂ© est le signal que l'on touche Ă  quelque chose de juste. Cela implique de refuser la laideur. Pas par snobisme, mais par exigence. On s'est habituĂ©s Ă  vivre entourĂ©s de choses moches : une architecture sans Ăąme, des objets jetables, des systĂšmes absurdes. Je pense qu'une civilisation saine doit construire des systĂšmes qui tendent vers la beautĂ©. Et la bonne nouvelle, c'est qu'il existe une infinitĂ© de beautĂ©s possibles. On n'a pas fini d'en crĂ©er. Cette beautĂ© ne s'arrĂȘte pas aux formes, elle existe aussi dans les idĂ©es. Une idĂ©e vraie a souvent quelque chose d'Ă©lĂ©gant. C'est pour ça que je trouve les idĂ©es Ă©conomiques fondĂ©es sur la libertĂ© si convaincantes, de l'Ă©cole autrichienne de Hayek et Mises jusqu'Ă  Milton Friedman. Elles partent d'un principe simple : des individus libres, qui Ă©changent librement, crĂ©ent spontanĂ©ment un ordre que personne n'aurait pu planifier. Il y a lĂ  une beautĂ© d'horloger. Et Ă  mes yeux, il n'y a rien de plus beau que la libertĂ© individuelle. Enfin, le sens de tout ça, c'est le dĂ©passement de soi. Chercher la vĂ©ritĂ©, crĂ©er de la beautĂ©, dĂ©fendre la libertĂ©, ce sont trois façons de dire la mĂȘme chose : devenir plus grand que ce qu'on est aujourd'hui. C'est pour ça que je me sens si en phase avec le projet d'Elon Musk. Au fond, son projet n'est ni technologique ni commercial. C'est un projet de dĂ©passement. Aller sur Mars, construire une intelligence capable de comprendre l'univers, rendre la conscience multiplanĂ©taire. Il s'agit de continuer Ă  jouer le jeu, de repousser la frontiĂšre, de dĂ©couvrir ce qu'il y a derriĂšre. Je n'ai pas besoin d'un dogme pour donner un sens Ă  ma vie. J'ai besoin d'une direction. La mienne tient en une phrase : chercher la vĂ©ritĂ©, tendre vers la beautĂ©, et comprendre l'univers tant qu'il reste quelque chose Ă  comprendre.
Mine de rien, je pense qu'Elon Musk est en train de poser les bases d'une philosophie extrĂȘmement solide. Et trĂšs peu de gens l'ont remarquĂ©. Petit retour en arriĂšre. Le christianisme nous a laissĂ© un socle de valeurs qui a rendu possible tout le reste. Il y avait la dignitĂ© de l'individu et la valeur du travail. Il y avait aussi l'idĂ©e que le monde est ordonnĂ©, donc intelligible. Les premiers scientifiques cherchaient Ă  lire les lois d'un crĂ©ateur. Sans ce socle, il n'y aurait pas eu de mĂ©thode scientifique ni de rĂ©volution industrielle. Puis Nietzsche arrive : Dieu est mort. Et il ne le dit pas en triomphant. Il prĂ©vient : on vient de scier la branche sur laquelle on Ă©tait assis, et rien ne la remplace. Ce qui vient aprĂšs, c'est le nihilisme. 150 ans plus tard, on y est. Le dĂ©bat public est coincĂ© entre deux camps qui ne se parlent plus. D'un cĂŽtĂ©, des religieux qui dĂ©fendent des dogmes que beaucoup ne peuvent plus croire au pied de la lettre. De l'autre, un matĂ©rialisme intĂ©griste qui croit avoir dĂ©jĂ  tout compris. Pour lui, l'univers est une machine et la conscience une illusion, donc il n'y a rien de plus Ă  chercher. Ce deuxiĂšme intĂ©grisme est Ă  mon avis le plus dangereux, parce qu'il se fait passer pour de la science. Or la vraie science ne ferme jamais une question. Et la conscience est probablement la plus grande question ouverte qui existe. Personne ne sait ce que c'est. PrĂ©tendre le contraire, ce n'est pas du scepticisme, c'est un dogme. C'est lĂ  que l'approche d'Elon devient intĂ©ressante. La mission de xAI, c'est de comprendre la vraie nature de l'univers. Ça ressemble Ă  un slogan, mais c'est en rĂ©alitĂ© une philosophie complĂšte. Elle dit trois choses. Il existe une vĂ©ritĂ©. Elle vaut la peine d'ĂȘtre cherchĂ©e. Et la chercher est la chose la plus noble qu'une civilisation puisse faire. Ça rejoint directement la phrase la plus puissante du christianisme : « La vĂ©ritĂ© vous rendra libre. » C'est la mĂȘme boussole morale, mais sans obligation d'adhĂ©rer Ă  un dogme. En mĂȘme temps, le scepticisme scientifique reste le moteur. On ne prĂ©suppose pas la rĂ©ponse, on la dĂ©couvre. Ce n'est ni l'Église, ni le matĂ©rialisme. C'est une troisiĂšme voie. Et elle convient parfaitement Ă  quelqu'un d'agnostique, qui dit simplement : je ne sais pas encore, mais je veux savoir. Maintenant, ajoutez la superintelligence. Pour la premiĂšre fois, on va avoir un outil capable de s'attaquer aux questions qu'on a mises de cĂŽtĂ© depuis des siĂšcles, faute de moyens. Quelle est la nature de l'espace et du temps ? Qu'y a-t-il sous la physique qu'on connaĂźt ? Qu'est-ce que la conscience humaine, rĂ©ellement ? Chacune de ces rĂ©ponses sera un bond en avant comparable Ă  Newton ou Einstein. Peut-ĂȘtre plus grand encore. C'est exactement la philosophie dont a besoin une civilisation qui veut monter sur l'Ă©chelle de Kardashev. Une civilisation de type 2 maĂźtrise l'Ă©nergie de son Ă©toile, une civilisation de type 3 celle de sa galaxie. On n'y arrive pas avec du nihilisme, ni avec des dogmes figĂ©s. On y arrive avec une curiositĂ© sans limite et de l'humilitĂ© face Ă  ce qu'on ne sait pas. Il faut aussi la conviction que la vĂ©ritĂ© vaut tous les efforts. Nietzsche avait posĂ© la question : par quoi remplacer Dieu comme source de sens ? La rĂ©ponse est peut-ĂȘtre sous nos yeux. Ce n'est pas une nouvelle religion, c'est une quĂȘte : comprendre l'univers.
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The UN has publicly announced that climate change never existed!! Solar power generation was just about vested interests. All man-made!! That's the whole story!!! 🐾
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