if you keep refollowing me in an attempt to get me to follow you back, i will mute you. (this probably only applies to generic faceless accounts so don't worry if you're a human account, i'll follow you if you are interesting for me & my path)
Farran
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Yo hi! I usually post things about linguistics, science, biology, environmental science, health, and recently, some stuff on numbers. I'm an advocate for freedom of communication
I'm a bunch of things but I mainly focus on environmental science, training people into becoming scientists, and an array of aspects about communication. A strong future for humanity and life depends on good community and good communication. I accidentally became a linguist, and I've made a few alphabets, my latest one is called NewEng and it does a good job of encapsulating both English pronunciation & its accents, and English etymology.
Some things about handling sleep paralysis, just from my unfortunately excessive experience

Sleep Paralysis | Health | Mastery
Font rendering idea:
We have variable width typefaces
How about the font configuration panel in OSes and apps having a line nib config?
In it you'd be able to set the shape of the nib, any onset and coda shapes and flicks, nib angle, etc.
This would enable infinitely customisable font appearance
something that keeps returning to mind
self sovereignty versus large scale majix
we ARE being used in occult major arcana
used by the rulers in alchemica megalo
to achieve their societal manipulation
twisting us into polarity inside their economy artifice
so the thought is:
too many of us are totally unaware
thus we cannot align our power to escape
if another actor manipulates us without our knowledge or consent
with potentially good purpose
to combat the rulers
is that... ok?
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we are SO incongruent that I just don't see how enough of us can EVER become aligned to overthrow the Rulers
but if someone were to intervene, through large-scale alchemical manipulation
then perhaps we'd unknowingly reach critical mass
i suppose this is comparable to the inherent issues of democracy:
a) people often want what's best for themselves & don't think of others
b) people often don't know what they themselves actually need
c) people are uneducated & unaware of politics so vote poorly
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i think this might also be something we NEED to think about, sooner rather than later
democracy is CLEARLY collapsing
the current society and hierarchy are collapsing
the economy (as we know it) is collapsing
and the ecosystem is also collapsing
someone and something IS going to rise to fill the power vacuum
perhaps we should be thinking about which form of manipulation we would allow and benefit from
something is going to manipulate us
may as well be aware and allow the right one in.
What would be awesome is if govt legislation and restrictions were irrelevant, and that companies and corporations simply behaved well because it is right, treated the environment well because it is right, treated employees well because it is right
Imagine that
It's time to fully ditch Google and M3ta and Apple and Amazon and any other tech behemoths that are owning us!
Over the next few weeks I'll be posting about all the apps and services that I've been exploring over the past few days.
There's a lot of options! I've been lazily dwelling in the Google garden ecosystem for far too long, it's very refreshing to hunt around the web and find new things. Google's offerings are rather antiquated, to be honest.
Check out Nostr!
A fully decentralised social communication network, totally non-hierarchical, not controlled by any entity, uncensorable, versatile, and you can access it from various apps.
Nostr is a protocol, not a platform.
Come join us!
I'll attach my profile in the next post


MouxDesign
Nostr developers! ๐ We

Western capitalism:
"Socialism is evil! Communism is evil! Etc!"
Western families:
Go on holidays with their young children to Viet Nam and Cuba and have a terrific time
i want a list of companies with a trustworthiness index
the trustworthiness is regarding "likelihood to betray fellow humans and lifeforms and the ecosystem and planet"
Maybe I'll just make this myself. I have been looking for a grapplable project to start myself off on programming.
Would be a great community-contributable platform, too. Cos there's no way I'll be able to set indices for every major company!
windows keyboard layout resets after unlocking every time and it's gotta be the most annoying thing in my daily life cos I use a custom keyboard layout with extra letters where the number row is so i NEED this layout, and switching layout is laggy and the switcher popup is laggy, fuck i hate windows so much goddamn when are we gonna mario party microsoft? forreal can someone do that
smokers really arrive somewhere, sit down next to a stranger and start breathing smoke into their airspace
yo keep your poison and shitty lungs and sickness and wasted money on healthcare to yourself
so I was looking for zeronet last week and that's what led me to nostr, via someone's recommendation on reddit
and yesterday I realised that โ at least on the surface โ nostr appears to operate fairly similarly to zeronet, it just doesn't need a local web-server-like aspect
can any nostr developers confirm this?
of course, I could go learn about it, and at some point I probably will cos I am due to get my teeth into programming pretty soon so I might start with a nostr-related project
oh hi I'll get back to all y'all's replies soon! things going on like moving house and other personal issues, brb, afk, ttyl
At 4am this morning I woke up and went to pee and I couldn't finish peeing because I was dreaming about base 12 and so 9+1 (10) no longer felt like the end of a set so each time I got to 9+1 I had to keep counting up to 9+3 (12) but that also didn't feel like the end of a set so I was in this recursive loop of counting again and again trying to get to one of the 10s and anyway this is a story of why you shouldn't learn base 12 (but it's basically the only reason)
fun fact:
you can take full ownership of windowsapps folders and delete any apps that keep running in the background using up your ram and network
beware: this increases risks with viruses etc so be super careful to not install anything using administrator privileges unless you really trust it
i've deleted:
clipchamp
feedback hub
outlook
idk, some other things that kept running
my computer is MY computer, thanks very much microsoft
When you show someone your creative works and they say "why do that?" and it sounds like they don't have a clue about being creative for pleasure
These poor souls
Just been fighting a virus/malware situation on my computer.
I went to post some comments on VirusTotal but my long comment explaining how to handle it was rejected, maybe it was too long.
I've posted it on my gitbook website.
(Yeah I know I know, it's regular server-based internet)
"Fighting MaleficAms.C and Quasar.GG!MTB // 30th January 2025"
https://farranddroid-tech.gitbook.io/farranddroid-tech-support/internet-safety/viruses-and-how-to-fight-them/maleficams-and-quasar
Is there really no firewall software that blocks everything by default and pops up to ask you for permission each time a new app tries to connect outbound for the first time?
ok I'm looking for some software that automatically force-expires all session tokens for all logged-in accounts on my computer.
Malicious cracked software that steals session tokens is becoming increasingly common.
Does this exist? Can it be programmed? Can a session token be identified as active or expired?
((Yes, I do steal Adobe's and others' software. No, most creative workers around the world cannot afford their ridiculous licensing fees.))
Just opened Nostr and found a bunch of chill replies from a bunch of chill people. Heartwarming, not a feeling I've felt from social media in... Years..since the g+ days actually. Could be because the stuff I post on social media is not marketable, dopaminergic or otherwise algorithm-satiating, so my meaningful posts never gain any reach. Anyhoo, here it is nearly 2am so I'm off to sleep, GN Nostr (and Threads) ๐ฅฐ will read and reply to you all tomorrow โ in the Lunar New Year! ๐ด๐ค