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Cake day: February 16th, 2026

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  • A non-profit community service.

    We need an international digital media co-op library.

    Anyone can upload/donate their digitally owned content and share ownership with the community… Or people can pool funds with the community and it can buy digital content as a non-profit co-op with shared ownership and access. Then use private torrents to decentralize data hosting and improve streaming to members.

    Imagine Netflix as a non-profit digital library.

    Movies, TV shows, eBooks, magazines, and music.

    Maybe Cuba would be willing to host it’s main office?



  • I initially put down a deposit on a Cybertruck at announcement, figured I might use it for camping.

    Decided against it because it didn’t meet my quality and feature requirements at release.

    Had one drive across in front of me in a hardware store parking lot with a big Trump sticker in the window, suggesting he was riding along.

    So glad I never had one. Just no.

    It’s a very different experience than seeing just any old car with a political bumper sticker on it. It’s not like it’s a big deal if somebody else with a Carola or Blazer happens to have differing political views.

    The pro-Tesla group were primarily very environmentally savvy and mostly liberal for the longest time. Then it suddenly shifted into some really nasty cult BS.

    On the flip side, there are still a lot of model 3s and Ss and Ys in the area, and I don’t think I’ve ever even seen a sticker on one of those cars, and I’ve never known their owners to be crazy Elon cult jerks (I’m sure some are, just my experience here).

    I wouldn’t buy one now, but they used to just seem like cool and more sustainable cars.

    It’s a real share Elon had to ruin that.

    My hope is that he is removed from the equation and the company can shake off the cult and get back to doing well as a smaller clean car manufacturer.





  • Faraday bags work… But test them.

    I got a cheapo $7 Chromebook sized bag that seemed to work for my SOs iphone. We don’t use NFC so I couldn’t test that.

    No BT, WiFi, or Cell, and probably no GPS.

    I only did casual testing.

    The screen still showed the signal having low bars for WiFi and cellular, but it didn’t actually receive a signal at all when trying to call or use the net, not even with the top of the bag open a sliver and my hand in there.

    If the device was off or in airplane mode and in the bag, I’d be comfortable assuming it was safely hidden from tracking.

    I haven’t thoroughly tested my various personal devices, but I expect identical results.

    I think everyone should probably have a bag like this around, in a go-bag or something, just in case. And it’s safer to have your phone available than not, as long as it’s secure (use a pin or password to lock it, use encryption, put emergency into on it for first responders).





  • There is a conversation to be had here about how newer broadcast mediums like YouTube are not regulated the same way as older mediums like TV/Radio… And it is that old regulation and those differences that allowed Colbert to sidestep this censorship.

    Both the censorship and the tech aspects of this story are worthy of discussion, and thus this ‘event’ most certainly does belong here.

    But most people are more concerned about the censorship and the content of the video, and that will naturally influence the direction of most discussions about it.

    Plus, people don’t always even look at the forum a post was shared too before commenting. Naturally they just see a thing that interests them and they start talking about it.

    I only know the forum cause I got far enough down the comments to see yours.








  • The motivations for a person’s good actions are generally less important than that they act good, less you are looking for a way to manipulate them into acting poorly. Only then do the reasons behind their actions become more important than their actions themselves.

    God aside, he agrees with the words some ancient people spoke regarding how to be good people and thrive as a society, and no science has ever proven those words wrong… Science agrees, hand over fist.

    Research the sins and virtues and extrapolate their outcomes, or look to past examples. Then, when acting as an individual, choose the sin or virtue that best serves the whole community, including yourself.