I'd be interested in occasionally helping with some features here and there. I'm admittedly rusty with both PHP and vanilla JavaScript though since I've mostly worked with typescript, jquery, and front-end frameworks. I've been considering contributing to some open source free speech + privacy oriented project after seeing how much censorship there is, and how even the sites that are more pro free speech are not good at protecting user privacy. I downloaded Docker + Postmill + the images but still need to get it all up and running.

There's a lot of potential for a new fork of Postmill to have features that make it better for free speech and privacy. I'm thinking stuff like

• Option to post anonymously. Would need to figure out some way to limit this. Maybe give users with a high non-illegal non-spam post count a key.

• Moderator elections for certain forums.

• Automatically stop logging the ip address for users that reach a certain non-spam non-illegal post count and remove all ip logs for that user.

• Maybe even obfuscate when people post since everyone has a unique pattern of when they like to go online.

If it has enough desirable features, then other people who are considering making a Reddit-like site would consider using the fork instead of Postmill. Anonymous posts would especially be a desired feature. You see it all the time on Reddit that people make accounts like throwaway20473632.

It could be called “Free Private Postmill” or something unconnected to Ramble. Eventually Ramble’s culture could become more like Voat as censored people migrate here and then devs won’t want the name “Ramble” on the gitlab page that potential employers see.

I think if the fork is uploaded and the vision is put out there on other pro free speech forums, a lot of developers would be interested.

Year One& Two: First, I would undoubtably go out for the single most expensive meal of my life at a michelain star restaurant. I'll say that would cost $500. I still have 2 years of college left, and Ideally I would want to invest it all during that time, but realistically I am only human so I would take out $30K to live on for a year, and an additional $20k for tuition for both semesters that year. I absolutely could survive on less than 30K for a year, but knowing my own foolish spending habits when I have money I'm accounting for stupid spending. I would invest my remaining $949,500. Good hedge funds report 15% annual returns, so going by that metric after a year I would have $1,091,925. Take out another $50K for living and tuition, then reinvest and I have $1,198,213.75 by the time I finish college.

Year Three: From here I would accelerate my 10 year plan. Looking at landwatch.com I can see there is an 80 acre property available for $250,000 in Montana already with power and septic hook up, I'd buy that. Until the property is ready I would move out and rent a hypothetical house nearby. Idk what rent actually costs out there but for simplicity I'll stick to 30K a year living expenses, a factor a medium uhaul into that since SO and I dont have too many belongings. Once we get to MT I wouldn't do much with the property for the rest of the year, but I would take $2K to upgrade equipment for my soap making business. After these expenses, I am left with $916,213.75, which never left my hedge fund investment account so by the end of the year it has accumulated to $1,053,645.81.

Year Four-Seven: I just googled how much it costs to build a house, and and results vary wildly. SO and I want a house that isn't too big, but also want a conservatory and a fully functional laboratory so we can both work from home so I'm just going to guess this would be a $1 million home. Obvi we can't pay for this all outright or we would go broke immediately, so I'll say we take 4 years to build it, and split the cost over that time. By now we should both have careers, and no longer need to live off of the passive income from interest so I'll no longer be taking out 30K for living expenses. 250K out of our savings, with the remainder compounded annually at 15% for 4 years:

Year Four: $1,053,645.81- 250,000= 803,645.81 x 1.15= $924,192.68

Year Five: $924,192.68- 250,000= 674,192.68 x 1.15= $775,321.58

Year Six: $775,321.58- 250,000= 525,321.58 x 1.15= $604,119.83

Year Seven: $604,119.83- 250,000= 354,119.83 x 1.15= $407.237

Year 8: Alright, my dream house is built, I've had 5 years since college to perfect the art of perfumery and introduce perfumes to my soap business, and now I have a fully operational chemistry lab to start refining my own ingredients. I imagine SO and I are making enough to live comfortably on by this point, so I invest the entire remaining $407.237 into my perfume ingredient refinery. Greenhouses, aromatic plants, trade agreements with farms overseas where rare aromatic plants grow, that I wouldn't be able to grow in the U.S. (cinnamon, myrrh, etc.) Through wise investing I stretched the 1 million and used it to establish my dream, in only 8 years.

I think i would buy $1,000,000 dogecoin and then buy GME actions with it !

That little amount of money isn't even enough to make me dream. I'd likely just put it in my account and not care much about it either way. It's something nice to have, but not life changing. You'd have to add at least four zeroes. With ten billion in paper money I could do some basic dreaming. Still not enough for big dreams, but it would be a start.

I'd invest in the creation of an anime studio in Japan that would churn out all the anime I want that nobody makes. It would likely cost a couple of million per series and I'd want hundreds of them.

But yeah, with just some pocket change, I wouldn't do anything.

Are you still looking for help with this feature request or are you already on it?

Still seeking help, honestly. I've not yet begun to look into it.

JS dev here. One of the things I really like about this site is that it is usually fast even when using the tor network.

Of course, for the best security, people should always have JavaScript disabled when using tor, but tor with JavaScript enabled is better than nothing and some people may use the site that way.

I noticed in the Reddit enhancement suite code that DeusExMachina posted, they are using typescript and lodash.

I would consider using vanilla JavaScript to minimize bloat for people who use anonymity networks. Some people who are really into privacy deliberately only use old computers too. So maybe just use the compiled JavaScript generated by the typescript. (It won't be as easy to read as the typescript though) Or use the typescript as a guide and write some similar code from scratch. Lodash isn't necessary either.

Are you still looking for help with this feature request or are you already on it?

Here is the Expand code of Reddit enchancement suite : https://github.com/honestbleeps/Reddit-Enhancement-Suite/blob/af73cc6b26d68a28bb67aa14f9d6e9f13b65a8dc/lib/modules/showImages/expando.js

Hope it helps ! ( RES is GPLv3 , which means you can do anything with it )

I agree, this would be great! Although it would require javascript to function, it'd definitely be a big help.

It's on the to-do list, I'm just not 100% certain on how to do it myself. The sourcecode is public ( https://gitlab.com/postmill/Postmill ) and I'd be willing to sponsor a community dev server for anyone who is interested in helping develop features for the site.

Rambler, I came back here to read the new posts and noticed that the way I phrased my previous post was insensitive. It could be read to mean that I think you might be lying or delusional so I'm sorry about that. I believe you and your post really made me wonder how it could have happened

TBH I do have doubts about the friends and family who have told me about paranormal experiences though. In every case, they have either been very religious, having mental issues, or both. Not that there's something wrong with being religious, but I think in general religious people are less likely to look for natural explanations. And even good religious people have an incentive to lie or exaggerate sometimes because they are trying to literally save souls from eternal torment.

The guy who told me about seeing the sign in the form of an animal was very religious and also once told me that he has five or seven personality disorders or some number like that. I have religious family members who report experiences with ghosts and demons. I think they were probably hallucinating and/or misinterpreting noises.

I brought up the credibility issue because I'm guessing you are similar to me, in that you've heard of paranormal events from other people before but weren't convinced enough to start believing yourself. Obviously, someone close dying while you're not there with them is not a good experience at all. But I think for skeptics, there is a positive side to experiencing something which is hard to explain. There is probably a basic human need to believe in something more, but if you are a skeptic who has only had ordinary experiences, it can feel irrational to search for it.

Does he love RMS?

Defend Richard Stallman!
https://libreboot.org/news/rms.html

To start off, it's probably best if you throw this away and don't read it, because you probably don't want to know how this works. "Foreknowledge is the flowering of the Dao. But it is the flower of folly. The wise man takes the fruit, and leaves the flower!" But if you must...

Every sentient organism experiences two related phenomena: free will, and qualia. These two things are temporal inverses of one another, and they both result from precognition. Picture a machine can read a ticket with a number printed on it, and print out a ticket with the same number a minute before. If you take the ticket you got out of the machine in the past, back into the machine in the future, you create a loop. No law of physics says what to put on the ticket. No random numbers are generated to decide the value. Yet there is a value. Where does it come from? Outside the universe. It is a boundary condition. When you do it that way, it's free will. But you could also resolve to write your own number on the ticket. You get a ticket out of the machine that matches your number. Then you put either ticket in the machine. That's qualia. You are taking information out of the universe that goes into the loop. This is I/O for the universe, basis of sentience.

Now normally people don't suffer from precognition in their daily lives. Why? Because it's dangerous. And it causes all kinds of annoying little syndromes. The things that stick out are bad things - like someone dying - and if you see them before they happen, maybe they happened "because" you saw them. Note causality is bunk - there is only one future - yet which universe we live in is the result of free will as we experience our other dimension of time moving through the parallel universes, but I digress.

Some free thinkers may get the unfortunate notion to try to suppress the repression mechanism in the brain that stops them from remembering the future. (It is just like remembering the past in operation) Additionally, judging by massive gyrations in the economy, QE, Covid, Hong Kong suppression etc., I am suspicious that some of the people raising brain organoids (fetal brain like things up to 200 days old) are trying to use them to play the market, with predictably awful results. (I don't know that)

Any kind of "magic" or "psi" is a manifestation of precognition, without exception. Dowsers can't dowse if you don't eventually tell them if they were right. And telepaths who think they are getting a message from someone at a certain time have simply remembered hearing the time, and been affected by it when they saw it was actually that time.

The precognition end of the loop is like memory, but it can be painful from excess blood flow. That isn't affected by the emotional importance of the memory but by its technical complexity. Like a "training" method is you try to pull out a result from a search engine using four words that have nothing to do with the search term. Picking the right file out of a million files ... ouch. The retrocognition end feels like a sort of drunkenness. You get this weird sense that you are hallucinating something into reality. Because you actually are.

Paranoia is a defense. You precognition fear very well, and if you remember being afraid you'll get hit by a stray bullet, that competes with the risk you really are, which reduces the notion that you're a walking magnet for pulling something like that in at yourself. Or increases it, in terms of perception.

When two preaks get together, they can do a thing called psiduel where they start weirding each other out. The loser should look at the sky, first thing created or something, I mean, it seems soothing somehow.

Precognitive feedback is when there is a congruity between past and future. Like, you just miss a shuttle bus, and you remember the next time you'll miss it, and ... before long, you literally miss it by a few seconds every single time you go at it, without exception, because past and future are all mixed up.

Precognition is hard to cure entirely. Main method I know has to do with the Diocletan Persecution. It turns out that Christians making the sign of the cross can interfere with precognition. NO idea why that should work, but you may in fact find it effective.

If you are in the mood for a different and seemingly less hazardous psi excursion, try looking outside the frame in your dreams. Our free will comes from comparison between very similar parallel dimensions along the chain of creation. When you dream you're getting chased by a monster, you may actually be sensing thoughts from your parallel-dimension self who is watching that as a movie. Sometimes you might get a bit during the day. You're never far from your self in the parallel dimensions! Try to take down the music, make notes on the architecture... in this era of Covid, the most memorable movies I've seen lately were in a parallel universe. :)

Well, its 2 days since the second dose, and so far, no obvious problem. Very slight soreness in the muscle, and I know that could continue longer than with a regular vaccine since the muscle is what's really making the vaccine protein. Better muscle making vaccine protein than myocardium making virus, no?

Sorry for your loss.

I've heard several stories like yours, and I believe what happened to you was real. There is obliviously a evolutionary advantage to knowing when one in your group dies. We know many insects like ants and bees have a well understood way of communicating about the death of one of their own. Humans being a higher level animal are harder to understand.

Another commonality in these stories tends to be that few and usually only one family members tend to experience this phenomena. Maybe you are a uniquely perceptive individual. Maybe you were closer than you realize to the person who passed. Maybe the person who passed wanted to thank you personally. Either way, you should be honored to be a part of it.

I've never been religious or spiritual person, but I've recently started feeling that what I can only describe as evil exists in my world. Hopefully what you got to experience was the opposite of that.

I’m sorry to hear that. It’s great that you were there for them near the end. I’ve heard of stories like this. My old friend said that he got a sign when someone in his family passed. I think he saw some animal or something which he took as a sign and then it turned out that the person had died.

I’ve always hoped that some unusual experience would happen to me so I could experience it firsthand. When hearing about paranormal experiences second hand, even from trusted friends and family, I always have to acknowledge the possibility that it’s a delusion or lie or that there is more to the story. Or of course that it’s a coincidence. "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" and all. People die and have accidents regularly. When no one predicts it, no one notices that no one predicted it. Also, when people get a feeling that something bad happened or will happen and then it turns out to be nothing, people don’t take note of that either. Only when someone has an unusual feeling AND something happens does the story get passed around. But it’s great that you thought to jot down the time. Most people don't think to do that. Now you have stronger evidence that it wasn’t a coincidence. It must have been really interesting to the doctor you showed as well.

I think it could be a combination of coincidence and science. If you saw this person earlier in the day, or the previous day, you could have subconsciously picked up on cues that they were doing worse than before. The subconscious mind can be much better at figuring things out than the conscious mind. Many victims of violent crime describe having had a bad feeling about the perpetrator prior to being attacked or prior to getting in a romantic relationship which later turns out to be abusive. Often the feeling is brushed off because it seems unfounded and irrational.

You could have picked up body language or something about how they were breathing, or something about their voice. Maybe even a smell. So lets say your subconscious picks up on the fact that they are going to die in the next 24 hours (just throwing a number out there since I don’t know how accurate the subconscious mind is). 24 x 60 = 1440. 1/1440. So you’re probably going to get the feeling that they died at some point since your subconscious picked up on the likelihood earlier. Then you have a 1/1440 chance of getting it on the exact minute. Even if you didn’t get it on the exact minute, it probably would have registered as a remarkable event.

That is the most likely naturalistic explanation I can think of. But if you feel like what you experienced was more spiritual or paranormal in nature, then that is very understandable. If I had that experience, I would probably become more interested in exploring spirituality and religion. The mainstream scientific view is that psychic abilities are pseudoscience, but scientists do not fully understand how consciousness works or what it is, so they can’t claim to know everything about how one consciousness can interact with another consciousness. Some philosophies say that everything is one consciousness. I’m guessing Buddhist monks understand more about the nature of consciousness than most scientists who study it.

You may be interested to read about Operation Stargate and Grill Flame. The CIA was studying psychic abilities for years- mainly remote viewing. Apparently the results in the lab were statistically significant but the program was still not useful enough for them to continue. What you are describing, where two people have an emotional connection and one dies… that is a harder thing to study and there is not the same national security incentive that would encourage lots of research on it.

The foregoing observations provide a compelling argument against continuation of the program within the intelligence community. Even though a statistically significant effect has been observed in the laboratory, it remains unclear whether the existence of a paranormal phenomenon, remote viewing, has been demonstrated. The laboratory studies do not provide evidence regarding the origins or nature of the phenomenon, assuming it exists, nor do they address an important methodological issue of inter-judge reliability. Further, even if it could be demonstrated unequivocally that a paranormal phenomenon occurs under the conditions present in the laboratory paradigm, these conditions have limited Executive Summary American Institutes for Research E-5 applicability and utility for intelligence gathering operations. For example, the nature of the remote viewing targets are vastly dissimilar, as are the specific tasks required of the remote viewers. Most importantly, the information provided by remote viewing is vague and ambiguous, making it difficult, if not impossible, for the technique to yield information of sufficient quality and accuracy of information for actionable intelligence. Thus, we conclude that continued use of remote viewing in intelligence gathering operations is not warranted.

https://fas.org/irp/program/collect/air1995.pdf

death is a complicated thing. i dont think any of us fully understand it until we are gone. im personally atheist but i like to think about my lost loved ones looking down on me from the heavens. but as far as that feeling you experienced i had the same thing once. my mothers side lives in a slavic country and i often spend summers there. when i had left after my month to go back home to america i was sure i had said goodbye to everyone, but i guess i hadnt said goodbye to my great grandmother and great aunt. i knew it was a mistake and i had an immense fear i would never get to see them again and i had forgotten to say goodbye. fast forward 3 months or so my great aunt passed away. i had a similar feeling to what you may have described but i brushed it off as nothing because how would i know my great aunt would die. touching back on me being atheist, even though i do not believe in god i do believe there is a spiritual side to life. i believe many interpret that as god, but i see it just as an equal flip side of science or fact. so maybe that is why. but i suppose we will never really know. all we can do is ramble on.

First of all, my condolences. I don't really know what to say more, the loss of a loved one is always harsh and hard to get through.

Secondly, I do know people from my family and outside who experienced a very similar/exact same thing. Is this a proof of existence of the spiritual world? Who knows. I try to not think too much about it, it's very easy to get lost in deliberations for hours and it is kind of scary. We humans don't like the unknown.

Though I have to admit, events like this do add some mysticity to our otherwise pretty well documented world.

Tor Project is "REMOVE". Tor Project posted on offcial SNS account.

The Tor Project is joining calls for Richard M. Stallman to be removed from board, staff, volunteer, and other leadership positions in the FOSS community, including the Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project. Sign the open letter: https://rms-open-letter.github.io/

The Tor Project @torproject@mastodon.social

The Tor Project has made it clear to Freedom Software Foundation and #LibrePlanet in the past that we did not want to participate in the event if they welcomed RMS back.

To re-instate him without notifying the community prior to the event is against the transparency we stand for in this community.

The Tor Project @torproject@mastodon.social

I agree the following reply.

@torproject You should focus more on privacy and security and less on trying to cancel people you don't like.

Joshua Crawford @jlcrawf@librem.one

Interesting. I can definitely understand where support of him is coming from then. But even people who hate him should be able to see that removing him for stating some opinions is a slippery slope.

His comment about the woman who had sex with a 14 year old saying he wishes he had been "abused" that way is messed up but a pretty common sentiment. A lot of guys find it hard to understand how that could be psychologically damaging and if he is autistic, that would make it even harder for him. I also can see how someone with autism could be particularly annoyed at laws where the difference being a rapist or not is a 1 day difference in age, or a few months, or which country it happens in. It isn't very logical but most people don't dwell on it because they have no interest in having sex with someone younger than 18. Most people who do dwell on it are pedophiles or ephebophiles, but it's possible that he just takes an interest because of his tendency to criticize anything that doesn't make sense to him. Even I, who supports statutory rape laws and the age of consent law being 18 can see that it's weird to have a sudden cutoff even though legally the cutoff has to be somewhere. But imo a 30 year old who has sex with an 18 year old is about as slimy as one who has sex with a 17 year old. I think a 30 year old would be able to see how immature an 18 year old is. Consent is a tricky area to legislate. There are lots of ways to get questionable consent while being legally in the clear.

You are right that many things are taken out of context. I looked at his site to see his thoughts on child porn in context. I think looking at child porn with real children (not drawings) for pleasure is an extremely evil thing to do and I'm glad people who do it are punished. So I was disturbed by his comment about there being "no reason" possession should be illegal. I'm glad to see that he seems to mainly be concerned with the affect the laws have on freedom. Though, I worry that if possession were made legal, it would be much harder to go after pedophiles.

These quotes are from https://web.archive.org/web/20210325014131/https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html

A man in the UK has been sentenced for prison for having a cartoon depicting a fictional child in some sort of sexual situation.

The advocates of this kind of censorship started by saying they were trying to protect real children from being abused in order to take their photos. Making such photos should be a crime, and is a crime, but that is no reason to prohibit possessing copies of the photos.

However, they have already gone far beyond that. No child was harmed in drawing the cartoon.

To criminalize possession of copies of anything published — no matter what it is — is oppressive, and leads to many other forms of tyranny.

"Child pornography" is an all-purpose excuse to attack human rights on the internet. The FBI and Holder are now using it as an excuse to demand to be able to snoop on everyone's computers. This "cure" is worse than the disease.

Germany imposes internet filtering on routers (which I suppose includes those in ISPs as well as those in people's homes), blocking sites with no trial, and claims that the names of the censored sites are a "secret".

A site that posted the list of blocked domains was threatened with blockage itself.

Germany also made a rather shocking claim that posting this list in the US is illegal under US law, on the grounds that some of the censored sites display "child pornography".

Some works are disgusting, but censorship is more disgusting.

Illustrating the evil of making it a crime to possess pornography, a man in the UK was convicted of the crime of not knowing how to delete all copies of a disgusting video sent to him by a stranger.

Yeah, Stallman is a hard one to judge. On one hand he´s an ultra-principled free software activist with strong views about things. He has been fighting for software freedom for decades and never compromises on his principles. I´m 95% sure he has some form of autism and is, from what I heard, quite a pain to deal with. I think that the media backlash he got was totally unjustified and people took his comments wildly out of context, something that´s quite easy to do with someone who is as literal and outspoken as him. As far as I´m concerned he´s entitled to holding controversial views - such is the nature of free thought. Provided no laws are broken, of course.

So, no, I don´t think he should be removed for his views and the surrounding controversy. However, I can absolutely imagine that he´s a pain to work and communicate with in daily life. I think that it is fair that the people who work with him frequently have a right to decide whether he´s unwelcoming and whether he´s a good figurehead for the FSF. I´ll copy some stuff from the support letter:

An Unlikely Icon

“Stallman… is a hard man to like. He is driven, often impatient. His anger can flare at friend as easily as foe. He is uncompromising and persistent; patient in both.”

• Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law Professor, democracy activist

I have had 3 lunches, 1 free software event, and 1 long car ride with Richard Stallman and can vouch for Lessig’s view. In that span of time he managed to confront and berate me countless times. He is by far the most disagreeable person I’ve ever met.

Richard Stallman has an often extreme bristliness about him and an intense propensity for confrontation, which can repel many. However, it is this same uncompromising nature that has led to his firm adherence to his principles. Even when his ideas were ridiculed, even when faced with piles of cash to be made in proprietary software, Stallman stayed on the side of software freedom. He has been preaching software freedom since nearly the origin of software and he adheres strictly to his own moral code. That is what has earned the respect and trust of so many concerned about digital liberties.

Once Stallman comes to a logical conclusion on an issue, he sticks by his views, does not matter the outside pressures. This could be his stance on neckties - symbols of corporate subservience, he won’t wear them. Or his stance on pronouns - "they” is always plural though he champions and frequently uses singular gender-neutral pronouns. Or his controversial views on age of consent laws, the term “First Nation,” prostitution, and other incredibly sensitive topics. Stallman will not, cannot keep a view - however unpopular - to himself.

The paradox of Stallman is that while his pointedness and stubbornness leads many to dismiss him as a jerk, his stubbornness and confrontations are actually rooted in his life-long obsession with morality. Though you may disagree, there is ample reason to believe he has come to hold his views from a concerted, rigorous, good-faith effort to be a voice for good in the world.

Ironically, given the smears against him, one of Stallman's core tenets seems to be consent! He has dedicated decades to arguing for free software, which protects computer users from nonconsensual activities being done on their machines (amongst other things). There is plenty of evidence that Stallman consistently applies his values of consent and freedom to romance and other relations. I find the claims that he is an “abuser” and “predator” online particularly misguided.

I have to wonder whether he might be a pedophile or at least an ephebophile given some of these comments. https://rms-open-letter.github.io/appendix

The allegations that he harassed women are concerning, but at least I didn't see any allegations of sexual assault.

I can see why people would feel uncomfortable working with him, and it might drive some talent away from free software. But the same could be said for any project that has an Antifa member / supporter on the board of directors. That would make some people uncomfortable and drive away some talent too.

I really dislike some of his views but I don't think anyone should be removed for expressing opinions since that leads to self censorship. If he is ever found guilty of some serious crime like sexual assault or possession of child porn, it would make more sense to remove him in that case.

https://vimuser.org/
My eyes crashed! XD

What surprised me is that Leah Rowe signed the support petition.

After the whole drama with stallman and libreboot's withdrawal from gnu, this was the last name I expected to popup on the petition.

Thanks, nice site!

It is now re-enabled.

Unfortunately that feature is out above my ability to complete on my own, but I do like the idea of it. I'll add it to the list regardless.

rms should be removed from the Freetardist Software Foundation. And preferrably the FSF itself, I absolutely hate it.