Linux-fueled Thoughts Unhinged

I guess this is a safer place to put my responses to Edward Snowden's Substack posts when a long time has passed since the post was just released than on Substack itself.

A new post titled Cultural Revolutions was released.

I suppose this is going to tie into some sorely needed life adjustments when it comes to being inspired.

First, Avoid Toxic Tweets from GrapheneOS

I keep making the same mistake, but I should really stop looking at the Twitter accounts for GrapheneOS and Daniel Micay.

Micay's Twitter account is simply unhealthy for an impressionable mind like mine that somehow takes Micay's tweets more seriously than legitimate posts on 4chan and other “degenerate” imageboards.

However, some part of me that's literally defective is trying to convince me that there is some benefit to getting a sneak peak at the direction of where GrapheneOS is going... but honestly, the pragmatic part of my mind already knows that the only GrapheneOS developments worth keeping tabs on are the ones that have been ready to be delivered into the stable release channel of GrapheneOS.

This means that the RSS feed of GrapheneOS is actually the only GrapheneOS “outlet” I actually need to check from a utilitarian point of view.

The constant and overbearing denigration of CalyxOS and Techlore.

I really can't stand GrapheneOS's public facing internet activity anymore.

Although Micay is infinitely more intelligent when it comes to Android development, I know enough to be confident when forming my own opinion.

I wouldn't like to use CalyxOS for my own reasons (only for devices that GrapheneOS has permanently dropped support for) because I can't get LTE only mode and true MAC address randomization per connection.

I also don't like Henry from Techlore because Henry is too much of a “normal” person and constantly suggests closed source software solutions. (I really like Nathan, though — but Nathan technically is from The New Oil.)

I mean, there were a few Twitter drama murmurs regarding GrapheneOS's android-prepare-vendor, but the only definitive evidence left is probably this GitHub issue.

I suppose that technically a public Git repo with no license is the same as copyrighted material (even if you've never made a motion to file any relevant paperwork), but the intention is definitely disingenuous and pretty clear.

So, to prvent myself from going absolutely insane, I will stop looking at Twitter. At the extent this GrapheneOS bullcrap has reached, I might as well consume actual porn on Twitter (via Nitter, of course) rather than reading a single new tweet from GrapheneOS.

I knew that Linux Torvalds wasn't a nice person, but Torvalds still strikes me as a person with a conscious. On the other hand, Micay and his vocal minority don't seem to have any sort of capability for having a conscious, let alone considering if their actions were even good or remotely productive.

I hope that the future of not depending on a benevolent dictator for life model of operation.

Not to be an SJW, but that type of organization needs to stop. This is 2021, not 1990.

(Mr. Robot was auteur because of Sam Esmail, it was more than good, and at least publicly everyone involved was pretty happy — not another repeat of Stanley Kubrik when making The Shining or Steve Jobs in the early days of Apple.)

Second, Surround Yourself With Inspiring... Uh, Content

So, Louis Rossmann has a rant about YouTube removing the dislike button. This is slowly inspiring me to figure out how to self-host my own Peertube instance. This would allow me to post basically whatever I want (including basically full length scathing reviews of shows I hate, ralphthemoviemaker style, such as Season 2 of Homecoming), with a highly reduced risk of getting owned by the DCMA. This would be especially true, since I wouldn't be getting any ad revenue (probably only a Monero wallet address for donations and a shameful self-promotion plug for my Liberapay).

(Odysee is just a place to mirror YouTube videos and is basically a “safe space” for “”“neo”“” conservatives and other questionable people getting banned on YouTube.)

Also, I don't get what the point of removing dislikes on YouTube is when I can still see the dang dislikes on FreeTube!!!

Another example of another video that basically almost shouldn't exist on YouTube is Pyrocynical's almost 8 hour video on Utopia. Apparently this video had about 21 copyright claims on it, but luckily Pyro was able to fight off all of them (otherwise, this video would never have been visible to anyone outside the UK).

I liked Pyrocynical's videos on the Cry of Fear video game, Petscop, and Lost in Vivo.

I also liked the Halloween short film contest Night Mind did for 2021 and runner-ups. I don't know if I'd ever be up for that sort of challenge, but it'd be pretty cool for bragging rights. Personally, I'd like to either edit the short film to look like a one-take or go all in with an actual IRL single take — if I put in enough effort, then I could probably easily get into the winning pool of films (even if I was slightly off-topic, as I noticed I actually didn't like a lot of the winning entries but were included because they were on topic and they had enough technical skill to justify the choice).

Conclusion: Better Off Doing FLOSS

Make people wonder where you walked off to on mainstream social and go live your best life doing FLOSS and FLOS hardware.

(Oh gosh, that's the most New Age 2021 bullcrap sentence I've unironically came up with...)