SAIF 23/11

"Nothing can be forecasted with certainty but things MUST be forecasted thus futurism is a necessity" - Nick Land

Feels nice paying for my VPN with lightning

e^ix = cosx+isinbx

e^iπ+1=0

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Allah says: 'I am just as My slave thinks I am, (i.e. I am able to do for him what he thinks I can do for him) and I am with him if He remembers Me. If he remembers Me in himself, I too, remember him in Myself; and if he remembers Me in a group of people, I remember him in a group that is better than they; and if he comes one span nearer to Me, I go one cubit nearer to him; and if he comes one cubit nearer to Me, I go a distance of two outstretched arms nearer to him; and if he comes to Me walking, I go to him running.' "

After many ours of talking and dabbling in conputers with@Proudmuslim, I can confirm I have finally been filtered and btfo by something (was quickly remedied by some reading) View quoted note →

Looking back on my journey here, it’s clear it took a long time and a lot of luck. Like most of you, I got pulled into cyberspace early on, tinkering with my first computer and diving into the internet. Curiosity drove me deeper. I wanted my machine to do things beyond the typical; things I thought were cool or fun. That led me into the world of computers, then Bitcoin around 2011 (I was really young), and eventually opsec, privacy, and security. I had to step away from computers for a long time. But when I returned, I realized something. I’d developed the mindset of a cyber/cypherpunk. It took time and curiosity and it wasn’t instant. That’s why I don’t think doomtalk about how we either orange pill the ummah or its over is productive. If it took us this much time to get here, we can't expect people to become Bitcoiners overnight. You don’t need to convert everyone. You need 10%. The right 10%; people with drive and curiosity already and I'm sure there's plenty to be found. Whether cultivating this 10% will involve events & summits that require skin in the game or something else, I leave that for you to ponder on. #NeverDoom

Cringe edit I know but imagine listening to these people lol

Self host everything series pt 1: Intro: This is the first edition of a journal/blog documenting my efforts to self host as many things as I have the interest and time for. My background: I'm a physicist. Due to extreme curiosity, I've become gripped with the latest strain of computer related autism. Why? 1) Why not? 2) Data sovereignty is the only defense you plebs have in an age of infowar, internet death and jeetification. 3) Let me share something with you from /hsg/: "Home servers are about learning and expanding your horizons. De-botnet your life. Learn something new. Serving applications to yourself, your family, and your frens feels good. Put your /g/ skills to good use for yourself and those close to you. Store their data with proper availability redundancy and backups and serve it back to them with a /comfy/ easy to use interface. Most people get started with a NAS. It’s nice to have a /comfy/ home for all your data. Streaming your movies/shows around the house and to friends. Know all about NAS? Learn virtualization. Spin up some VMs. Learn networking by setting up a pfSense box and configuring some VLANs. There's always more to learn and chances to grow. Things that are online today might not be online forever. It's good to have a copy of something because you never know when it might get taken down due to copyright strikes. " What? I'll be starting with a network attached storage (NAS). As described by /hsg/, it is a /comfy/ home for my data. My usecase is fairly simple, so I don't need anything too high tech. Lowlife works for now, especially for a first project. So I did the cliche thing and purchased a Raspberry Pi. The 5 w/8GB ram to be specific. "How are you going to build a NAS on a pi?" I hear you screech. Hats. Expansion boards that are attached to the Pi via FPC cables. I purchased the Radxa Penta SATA hat and a Samsung SSD. Total cost? $167. Not bad. Guide: 1) Write Pi OS to a microSD card. Install Raspberry Pi imager, choose your device, OS, storage medium, set a username & password and other settings and write the image to your microSD card. 2) Assemble the parts. (Just read the Radxa docs) 3) Set up RAID, LVM, both or something else entirely. 4) Create a directory that will be shared on the network and then mount your LVM LV or RAID array to it. Edit the /etc/fstab file for persistent mounting. Ensure proper permissions are set for the directory (consult Samba docs) 5) Install Samba, edit the /etc/samba/samba.conf to setup the Samba share, then restart samba so that the newly configured shared directory is available 6) Create a user for Samba access: sudo smbpasswd -a <username> 7) Connect to the share from another computer using the CLI provided by the smbclient package or by using a GUI file explorer. SMB capable file explorers can be found on F-droid for android. 8) (Optionally) Mount the share on your PC/Laptop via cifs by installing the cifs-utils package. Pros: - Just Werks - Easy - Cheap - Looks cool (pic rel) Cons: - Expansion limitation + a hard cap limitation due to the small number of Pcie lanes so network + disk speed limitations. Also, ARM architecture and running Plebian PS: I wrote this up on my file server and accessed it on my android phone to grab the text to post on Nostr. /comfy/

Farming Nostr reactions vlog part 2 (yesterday went well)

The magic behind computing is that the more layers you peel back the more exponentially fascinating things get. Another thing is the fact that kino is usually hidden behind the mundane. Take bash redirections for example. what is seemingly to you "taking the output of one command and using it as the input of another" is manipulation of streams of data. About as cyberpunk as one can get. Computing is magical if you let your imagination roam freely (shame it's not that challenging of a subject however)

I am petitioning the Council of Bradford to dose the regional water supply with 20% nsi 189 on account of the large inbred Pakistani population and the subsequently low average IQ scores. I of course demand a 10% kickback from any resulting economic upturn