2026-04-14T19:08:06Z https://yabu.me Dan Morris https://yabu.me/npub18kgc9l66n9t4ykg82j4kccnf2e6y7nlmzdnqc2vqv7k5g80vyhxqtyv2ch https://files.sfba.social/accounts/avatars/109/304/801/881/359/198/original/38ee7cc6fd51d190.jpg https://files.sfba.social/accounts/avatars/109/304/801/881/359/198/original/38ee7cc6fd51d190.jpg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswr0rlmseqwxk8jrdpqdnrhyeuczcl262wm4drkj83gx0ed2240zqzyq7erqhlt2v4w5jeqa22kmrzd9t8gn60lvfkvrpfspn663qaasjucmysukz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszet5ekl36804yf2vafqat9ng4npxne3m25q59a7v9ka9fmt3e8lcy7ujzx'>nevent1q…ujzx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>[enter comment that would get me flagged by maga AI tools] 2025-12-17T16:50:47Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrz0gfgde6fapzkpfdp6tfzjmql3wkgzuukcgf07dxkpye4r50urczyq7erqhlt2v4w5jeqa22kmrzd9t8gn60lvfkvrpfspn663qaasjuckekvrf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp688yv8ugfvsa7y589r9ye6wngvrtdr355nkjtfn6e09kr3ljdvqhj88fe'>nevent1q…88fe</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>as the father of 2 girls that are 16, some old fucker contemplating having sex with them can listen to this all day long, I&#39;m still going to leave them in a bloody pile in the street. 2025-11-14T21:40:12Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9yjy724wjrcsewj8s46vc95u03rsaavdskda36kqzj49gr47kdmqzyq7erqhlt2v4w5jeqa22kmrzd9t8gn60lvfkvrpfspn663qaasjucgggjw0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqzhd6ftjh5z0fne9g82v9gmpx9ff3g2fegd689rfpphuyt4v8eus8t5wcc'>nevent1q…5wcc</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>We&#39;re so fucked. My wife was just planning a trip to Hawaii and my FIRST thought was, &#34;I wrote some stuff about how I don&#39;t like Fascism.... I wonder it that will flag something&#34;.<br/><br/>That&#39;s NOT normal. 2025-09-21T17:17:58Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2cx46988504h3w6sfsq5ydhm8pat7shqtx0z3n638vrgccx7luwqzyq7erqhlt2v4w5jeqa22kmrzd9t8gn60lvfkvrpfspn663qaasjucz543fe In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs06hg6uladhcypseg4m8ml7ufrwxp9utk75fqcjpr230g6pzcxgxq2xkspn'>nevent1q…kspn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>did you guys ever check out ScuttleButt (<a href="https://scuttlebutt.nz/">https://scuttlebutt.nz/</a>) It seems to have fallen off the rails, but it was a pretty brilliant Idea of encrypted peer-to-peer social media and messaging. Kind of like a complete mastodon instance running on your local machine and you have a list of &#34;servers&#34; that are really just other machines that you sync up with when you log in. So, when you turn on your PC, it has a list of your friends who are &#34;on&#34; and have registered their IP with anyone who has a &#34;polling&#34; station, kind of like a bittorrent tracker. Then it requests any messages in their out-box, directly. When they &#34;made friends&#34;, they generated a key between them. So messages don&#39;t leave your PC until they&#39;re already encrypted, and then aren&#39;t sent until your correspondent requests them, and they decrypt them on their own pc using that shared key.<br/><br/>Unfortunately, it was a bit clunky and slow. But.... I love the idea of eliminating centralized systems entirely, especially now. 2025-09-18T18:56:16Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxue4c7xy52897ac3rw3vuzwvj8cujunmcgc59ugj6a2ww58atf8qzyq7erqhlt2v4w5jeqa22kmrzd9t8gn60lvfkvrpfspn663qaasjuczyqshs In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs84c5vzlptp39cxyhur4kcr9j47xstza0quq3tpjgqrm4x3z45hjgdt5x5a'>nevent1q…5x5a</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>what&#39;s funny is that Mastodon is wide open, like email, and direct messages can easily be read on the server. <br/><br/>however.... ActivityPub (the base of mastodon) is soon coming out with Messaging Layer Security (MLS) which is an end to end encryption. <br/><br/>AND Mastodon is run on multiple servers. (I actually host my own for the family on a crappy old server in my office)<br/><br/>so it&#39;s quite possible that the safest and most stable message system, that cannot be taken down or corrupted by the government, may actually end up being activitypub. lol 2025-09-17T19:28:35Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsz22usnnn7d47e5r89rhuwcp9x435m04uu9q823dsphrnjtflmd3qzyq7erqhlt2v4w5jeqa22kmrzd9t8gn60lvfkvrpfspn663qaasjuc5u20hu I applied for a mortgage, yesterday they were just finishing up and did a &#34;hard pull&#34; on my credit. All looks good, right?<br/><br/>This morning, starting at 8am, I started getting calls from people wanting to sell me mortgages.<br/><br/>It&#39;s 2pm and there have been over 30 so far. I called my broker and asked him WTF was going on and had RocketMortgage been hacked or something? <br/><br/>Turns out EXPERIAN SELLS YOUR INFORMATION AS A LEAD WHEN THERE IS A HARD PULL.<br/><br/>Can you fucking believe that? These fuckers are calling me like, &#34;Hi Dan, It&#39;s John Smith, I&#39;m calling about your mortgage application. Do you have a minute to help me get some additional information&#34;<br/><br/>And then when I realize he&#39;s just a fucking scammer, he&#39;s like, &#34;Oh, you filled out an online form and we&#39;re just responding.... &#34; and then hung up.<br/><br/>THIRTY CALLS.<br/><br/>I have the Opt-Out and all that stuff done now, but WTF? How the FUCK is that &#34;ok&#34;? If my bank or doctor or insurance company did shit like that.... or do they?<br/><br/>God, I&#39;m so pissed. 2025-07-11T21:16:18Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsw0cfcn5d60n6f62dd7j8acktdv898s8ex7gu2z5dft2w2g33tetczyq7erqhlt2v4w5jeqa22kmrzd9t8gn60lvfkvrpfspn663qaasjucl8x5fd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9dk20x580pylnvhkxlhzl75yegqs83h8cje9clfu8ck4wf674x3skdumjy'>nevent1q…umjy</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>people leaving the US will be limited too. Even my inlaws, Chinese Americans born and raised in the USA, are afraid to travel because they are afraid they won&#39;t be able to come back. I mean, you&#39;d think that&#39;s crazy, but they see green-card people swept up off the street and think, &#34;that&#39;s what a lot of my friends have. If they can take them, they can take me too&#34;.<br/><br/>And I can&#39;t sit here and tell them that&#39;s not going to happen, but when they are sending GreenCard holding hairdressers to El Salvadoran prisons - with NO apology and NOT returning them.... well.... wtf is next? 2025-04-04T18:14:35Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsz3wdhsmdtdmtkgxp7e4k3ys7nq5w3gcn986r8qde6u8qzknx7htgzyq7erqhlt2v4w5jeqa22kmrzd9t8gn60lvfkvrpfspn663qaasjucwhl2u7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0apwp55smh07he7g2vtww9ujnm602vjm4zkk8fuh3p893lc5ytkccl9f7n'>nevent1q…9f7n</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Lots of countries have these gold visas (I know because I&#39;ve been looking for a way to gtfo of this one and go to europe)<br/><br/>Ours is the EB5 and it&#39;s like a million bucks and you have to start a business and then you can apply for a green card and then citizenship. This one simply ditches the business aspect and sells a greencard outright.<br/><br/>And 5 million isn&#39;t going to do shit with our deficit. Like, nothing at all. The entire purpose of this type of visa was to get investment into the economy, not &#34;give me the money so I can spend it on tax breaks for billionaires&#34;, which is exactly what this bullshit is. 2025-02-26T00:40:23Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfx0935zu2lu7g7dnemzk6ky6vywg4p46nzrcn4l4swc76y53rp9gzyq7erqhlt2v4w5jeqa22kmrzd9t8gn60lvfkvrpfspn663qaasjuc727h7f #uspol <br/>I remember when the supreme court ruled against gay marriage. People protested and held sit-ins and complained online.<br/><br/>Our Mayor, Newsom, Said, &#34;Screw you. My clerk of courts will marry any gay couple. What are you going to do about it?&#34; <br/><br/>And there were lines down the street of people getting married. And THAT is why we have same sex marriage now. Not because of a protest, not because of a lawsuit, but because a democrat just went ahead and said, &#34;Do it and let them come for me&#34;.<br/><br/>I hated Newsom until that day. Since then, I still sometimes get irritated with him, but because of that one decision, I&#39;ve backed him for decades.<br/><br/>We need to be that way if we are going to survive this. We need democrats who are in power and willing to take real risks. 2025-01-28T21:26:01Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgu848lgxzgjcff2rk3x6ay9s22am6eqwsmhq5hpce60l8dg2sfkqzyq7erqhlt2v4w5jeqa22kmrzd9t8gn60lvfkvrpfspn663qaasjuclws0e3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvn038yv2lkp70dyas9q6mux8tvphm0wgq9t0723hwy2fuqsxwrrquc69ga'>nevent1q…69ga</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>AI has a lot of drawbacks (environmentally, politically, educationally, etc) but it isn&#39;t going away - ever.<br/><br/>So, we need to stop tilting at windmills and act to solve the problems. Perhaps legislate that AI servers must be hosted entirely with solar/wind? Perhaps laws that ensure they can&#39;t be used if they answer any of a set of several thousand important questions incorrectly. Perhaps legislate that their use in impersonating humans is illegal.<br/><br/>There are ways to make this better that arent simply impossible. 2024-12-31T17:49:36Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdeyuhly8nk6akfaanfxt0us7yugs8q7hlteg6pu4aukknqy4p42gzyq7erqhlt2v4w5jeqa22kmrzd9t8gn60lvfkvrpfspn663qaasjucvmefl9 It&#39;s so exausting to hear people talk about the bus system &#34;running at a deficit&#34;.<br/><br/>What about public works? They&#39;re running at a massive deficit! 100%<br/><br/>There are a million roads I never drive on. Those drivers should pay a toll, right? Roads should be self supporting! <br/><br/>Sidewalks, why not? Toll sidewalks! Put giganitc steel gates at each street corner to make sure people pay the sidewalk toll and don&#39;t &#34;gate jump&#34;<br/><br/>Don&#39;t get me started on those handicap people! Sheesh, that parking costs a TON! Let&#39;s privitze it all and I&#39;m sure the capitalistic government system will be much better for wheelchair users, right?<br/><br/>ugh.....<br/><br/>ok. I admit it. I get kinda triggered when people bitch about muni. 2024-12-19T18:37:20Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrdezzw8y5gnj2qgl92hgryr0nx50g27vclavqk0cc4wh6asnyj2qzyq7erqhlt2v4w5jeqa22kmrzd9t8gn60lvfkvrpfspn663qaasjuccy0zmy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdn2jxgec85m8zaqlaxuvscxl66fhmnamt7gkw327xa52zrwn4fusalmynm'>nevent1q…mynm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I think maybe people don&#39;t understand that you are free to set up a fascism-is-awesome.social domain and host it for like $5. If people at trans-lives-matter decide to block you, then you probably don&#39;t want to be on this site either. It&#39;s a win win.<br/><br/>Nobody is oppressing you. There is no gigantic Kabal of &#34;woke&#34; (whatever the fuck that means today) admins who secretly control the fediverse 2024-12-01T23:32:49Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0sdyl99yu0audxflcfuh7edmwujenk7zzuwfnwrp4ndycdwjn3zszyq7erqhlt2v4w5jeqa22kmrzd9t8gn60lvfkvrpfspn663qaasjuc7pm0pe In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2wva9fu0jkslnz3zcx4v0uj7jxlualwn6rgqmypplz8f03m7vdusarmczr'>nevent1q…mczr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Mastodon really is whole different thing. What&#39;s comforting is that it is so decentralized that it can&#39;t easily be controlled or shut-down. You can&#39;t have douchebag billionaire come and take over *all* the instances. You can&#39;t have the government &#34;decide&#34; that Mastodon needs to be &#34;controlled&#34;, whereas the new administration could probably pull some crazy shit and take over BlueSky.<br/><br/>We&#39;re in for a real ride in the future and there&#39;s a legit likelihood that it will be very very bad. Mastodon may end up being a social lifeline. 2024-12-01T19:04:41Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsp2cf7dnac3yjkg2w66t70get0399875yelc3a50ad5r8et5zs7qczyq7erqhlt2v4w5jeqa22kmrzd9t8gn60lvfkvrpfspn663qaasjucm4zavk Good lord. I can&#39;t fucking believe there are really people who think that the fact that I voted means I support fascism. 2024-11-15T20:09:35Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy52vvrhcd7tj8s553gt24smm2ea2zpdey2de9kx9kyl7cxnwn93szyq7erqhlt2v4w5jeqa22kmrzd9t8gn60lvfkvrpfspn663qaasjucs6ruy5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst7thjnkteqxcwjduas9859mp9ynpmkttfxg52sssgf0x07t6y00sd8r0kt'>nevent1q…r0kt</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Well, I took in foster kids that are undocumented. I have a fcikkn palistinaina flag hanging from my office window. I have been beaten and arrested at protests. I&#39;ve BEEN to the middle east and to africa and Nicaragua.<br/><br/>WTF do I have to do?<br/><br/>I use the tools that I have to make things better. 2024-11-15T20:08:30Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsr64tcj7aj56p00ncejp7wsqwc0dhrsp0298slrz5ajgraltwa7dszyq7erqhlt2v4w5jeqa22kmrzd9t8gn60lvfkvrpfspn663qaasjuc5awc2n In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstfyxnrguvqpv9hv6x7phhqmrdkcqkae9k0q6ersmuz8k5velyadg48azea'>nevent1q…azea</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>As far as I&#39;m concerned, their inaction was a vote for burning this country to the ground with me and my family in it.<br/><br/>Destroying the future everything I hold dear and most likely ending any chance we have to hold of Climate change.<br/><br/>so. fuck them. We tried, but they let this happen right in front of their faces.<br/><br/>Fuck them. <br/><br/>Not as much as the trumpies who did this. Because FUCK THEM.<br/><br/>but they&#39;re like a bunch of kids who watch a bully beat the crap out of some disabled gay kid, then set him on fire, and just think, &#34;well, whatever. I can&#39;t do anything&#34;, and walk away as flames run up the walls. 2024-11-15T19:49:12Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstfyxnrguvqpv9hv6x7phhqmrdkcqkae9k0q6ersmuz8k5velyadgzyq7erqhlt2v4w5jeqa22kmrzd9t8gn60lvfkvrpfspn663qaasjucmecv8j In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs082ngykpa2t3y9duwaryffs809j0rcwnk9ejg382ewps42xz428ggzmluj'>nevent1q…mluj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>you really think that? really? <br/><br/>If I spend a month telling my kids to choose between 2 restaurants and one of them is like, &#34;yah, whatever.&#34; and then when we end up going to sushi because that&#39;s what his sister wanted, and he&#39;s like, &#34;EWWWW I DON&#34;T WANT THIS&#34;.<br/><br/>Do I say, &#34;oh my! I&#39;m so sorry. We all decided to go here and you said whatever.&#34; My Bad. <br/><br/>No. I tell him, &#34;well, you should have spoken up, because we all discussed this for months and you didn&#39;t speak up&#34;, and we eat sushi.<br/><br/>To me.... that was a vote. he voted to be represented by his sisters decisions.<br/><br/>He wasn&#39;t excluded. He chose that path.<br/><br/>Do you believe that&#39;s not the case? 2024-11-15T19:45:14Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8mz74ktey5ldpju5qjdewfmel6meeazxfavsmqmlrhezaztqm42szyq7erqhlt2v4w5jeqa22kmrzd9t8gn60lvfkvrpfspn663qaasjuc2ajuta In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg3q389yrjahn77a7q66r6px4752ps07v4kthcms9myv6aeak67xqgdgtff'>nevent1q…gtff</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>When I ask my kids what they want for dinner, and only one or two speaks up, and the others just shrug, then we get what the others wanted. By that &#34;shrug&#34;, they voted. They said, &#34;whatever&#34;, I trust those two to make an informed decision. <br/><br/>They voted. Their inaction was &#34;I don&#39;t like either and I&#39;ll be satisfied with whatever the people who study this stuff choose&#34;<br/><br/>Don&#39;t pretend they didn&#39;t vote. They voted. That was no &#34;oh shit, I forgot to vote&#34;. They voted with inaction. 2024-11-15T19:31:15Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs95u65rxenacqq4s0aemj894ttnhj6amldgqlf2agcrvg5gktnlrczyq7erqhlt2v4w5jeqa22kmrzd9t8gn60lvfkvrpfspn663qaasjuccvk88g In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2v7dlyfesm60ppre7gxmecyqphnpjt0mr2pmjtq5g5e6pvhkahvq0ka20g'>nevent1q…a20g</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I don&#39;t think very many are really mad. They&#39;re still having a party. They never get mad until something they forced everyone else to endure happens to them. Only then do they care. And then, it&#39;s only that one particular issue. And even then, they&#39;ll got through a billion logical contortions to somehow excuse themselves from accountability. 2024-11-12T17:50:41Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2m7zvwrh3r55hta6h7el24ck3h7sfjx5s3r0g07cdcvlsednxjhszyq7erqhlt2v4w5jeqa22kmrzd9t8gn60lvfkvrpfspn663qaasjucl9e4mw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqh5fvse00z9equvtqp20qratfyuzhvnqxtez0jcy9g5zj4rxdrmsaqgtdh'>nevent1q…gtdh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>at this point, would it really matter? The bad guys one, this country is 100% fucked and I don&#39;t see ANY way to bring it back in my lifetime, and by the time a generation or two gets the gumption to change things violently, climate change will be out of control and humanity itself will basically be ending.<br/><br/> I don&#39;t see a way out. I feel like these people literally cut my children&#39;s lives short and it infuriates me. 2024-11-12T00:39:26Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfwcezth3sdtvgr68w9zl578lxlk3dhnh9rjfgjpq0jk0psf9smeczyq7erqhlt2v4w5jeqa22kmrzd9t8gn60lvfkvrpfspn663qaasjuc2ure6r God. I just don&#39;t know what to do. I feel like this entire country just stepped off a cliff and nobody has any idea just how bad it&#39;s going to be when we get to the bottom, but the majority are cheering about it. 2024-11-06T18:24:07Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrhwhz9908c2pxxrjpjggyht8j7f32j2ku0hdnsj8p9g0sme3mjpczyq7erqhlt2v4w5jeqa22kmrzd9t8gn60lvfkvrpfspn663qaasjucqjr2tv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvl2jerxpafedw2grct58dsat937j9ulm0lm9j82lngg386uvlafgztzvee'>nevent1q…zvee</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Nowadays, elections are strictly about getting people to the polls. That&#39;s it. We don&#39;t need to convince anyone, we just need to get people with common sense to the polls. <br/><br/>There are no real &#34;swing voters&#34; we should be sucking up to. There are no Trump supporters who we should even *consider* wasting our time convincing.<br/><br/>Getting more good people to the polls than he can get deplorables to the polls. <br/><br/>that&#39;s it. 2024-10-18T20:15:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqszcwxrh7ur35c5nf7pspd9vvdj3f6tgtxyp629knsxzwyljf9yheczyq7erqhlt2v4w5jeqa22kmrzd9t8gn60lvfkvrpfspn663qaasjucagav32 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9zhtahf4nszz2df23zjt6he49lh0njadynyd28v5hc8dxx6uuxrge40gln'>nevent1q…0gln</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>the only thing that will bring COBOL down is the fact that all the people who program it are dying off.<br/><br/>and moving it to Java. ugh.... 2024-10-01T20:19:33Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsd7tdnxjw4c4vasfxzak9trcac4re3gdl4xnkn4vrwjsetutp7wqqzyq7erqhlt2v4w5jeqa22kmrzd9t8gn60lvfkvrpfspn663qaasjuc736d5d In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvzlpvnf33v4vzwdufeq7xp8zmje4qy209s45davt3jw9flg3rr5q2ng9ze'>nevent1q…g9ze</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I still don&#39;t see the benefit of IPV6. We&#39;ve had clients put a lot of effort into it, but I just don&#39;t see a &#34;real&#34; net benefit. 2024-09-29T19:48:58Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsg573h7jsjtls7r08mjs7ckfvla329a9rkzh9jxms3c9nzs03ya0czyq7erqhlt2v4w5jeqa22kmrzd9t8gn60lvfkvrpfspn663qaasjuc9rgwkc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswq2ar0gvxxdsp3y3f5t3l2xd9sadma5medlnc7tpmd3rw83ccf3smkj0ve'>nevent1q…j0ve</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;We choose our friends. History chooses our allies.&#34;. Is pretty solid. 2024-09-08T19:17:30Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrfnfuerdf588mert2xkumevtgvgau5n88cq3ckyn0tjxn9fpp64gzyq7erqhlt2v4w5jeqa22kmrzd9t8gn60lvfkvrpfspn663qaasjuc3h2ry7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdc06500td5dvnx38qrjhshzcx5e8cgyatdumanrndfr2cr57ltlqdkgjm4'>nevent1q…gjm4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>it&#39;s far to common to consider &#34;fascism&#34; and &#34;totalitarianism&#34; synonyms.<br/><br/>Fascism itself has a neat history. Originally, it was super progressive: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascist_Manifesto">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascist_Manifesto</a><br/><br/>Then, to get broad support, it basically changed to &#34;yah, but elites should be in charge, churches should have power, women shouldn&#39;t vote and we should let the state use violence to protect the free market from the evil socialists.&#34;<br/><br/>Reminds me of how Republicans always talk about Lincoln and somehow forget about how all the anti-civil rights politicians switched parties and became the backbone of today&#39;s republican party. 2024-09-05T22:36:02Z