He’s in the Epstein files
Edit: Just because someone is mentioned in the Epstein files doesn’t mean they are a pedophile. The premise of OPs post is based on the fact that Hawking is somehow associated with Epstein, which has spawned rumors (from dubious sources) about some kind of impropriety.
I don’t like politicians that support billionaires or holy wars either, but isn’t this ideology partially responsible for the situation we’re in now?
I understand that voting for someone who is not just the lesser of two evils but also directly opposed to our fundamental values might perpetuate a broken system… but couldn’t there be a way to change the political zeitgeist without killing our own citizens in the streets and threatening to glass a country of millions?
I want the systems of oppression to fall as much as the next guy, but allowing the Trump administration to concentrate power as fast as possible doesn’t seem like a fair trade to get there.
Goku: 5 (counting alternate realities, but not counting GT 🤮)
Dean Winchester: 111
I had to look up “Panopticon”… What a sick metaphor
Edit: I forgot to even mention, this explaination is for running windows apps on linux with steam (which is a native linux app available in essentially all repositories).
You can run most games (regardless of how you acquired them) directly in steam via proton.
If the app you want to run is a windows executable (.exe or .msi or whatever), you can add it as a “Non-Steam game” (even if it isn’t a game).
If you have trouble getting it started, try changing the compatibility layer in library -> game -> properties -> compatibility -> enable steam play compatibility tool -> choose some version of proton (like proton experimental)
Fair warning: Valve is currently chill about adding games to steam without proof of purchase, but they could change their minds someday.
Also, pro tip, if you really wanna get in the weeds with proton, I recommend proton-tricks. There are very few windows apps you can’t get running with proton and proton-tricks.
Despite the challenge getting it set up, I have high hopes for movim! I like the direction they’re going now.
I did end up successfully deploying it in a compose stack (despite this issue), and I’ll probably submit a fix if they don’t get to it before I do.
If anyone is interested, I can share the details about how I got it going.
Thanks for the link, I’m happy to give it a try.
I just recently migrated all of my stuff to dockerized services, so swapping out pieces should be pretty easy
I’ve had matrix and element set up on my personal domain for a while, but I’ve only used them for evaluation so far. The system and network resources used are HUGE…
I’ve been setting up movim and a seperate xmpp server for a little while, and I have some initial opinions:
Either way, I am gonna deploy both and let my friends/discord channel users decide what works best.
I’m rooting for xmpp at the moment, but I will be happy with anything that is self hosted, encrypted and federated.
Hopefully I don’t end up having to maintain both protocols with a bridge!
In America, the only part that most people would want to print is the serialized part of the firearm. In a Glock it’s the frame (which is polymer in OEM Glocks), and in an AR, it’s the lower receiver.
You can buy a Glock slide assembly, barrel, frame rails, trigger, etc anonymously and without any paperwork.
The same is true of ARs, you can get all of the parts except the lower receiver anonymously and without paperwork.
Also, unless you live in a state where the local laws explicitly prohibit it (like WA), it’s perfectly legal to make your own firearms. You can even serialize and register them with the ATF if you want (but you are not legally obligated to do so). You don’t need an FFL/SOT to do it.
I wouldn’t do it if you don’t know your local laws though… If you break the law or violate ATF policy, they’ll shoot your dog and send you to prison forever.
Interesting, I had no idea!
Thank you!
Interesting, I had no idea!
Thank you!
Because, properly set up, you can also send mail from that address (or at least that’s how it appears to recipients).
How would you go about doing this? Getting the @linux.com domain to forward incoming email from a specific address somehow?
Ah I’m surprised I missed that. Thanks!
Idk about the NRA, but this is the GOAs response.
While I disagree with their statement about immigration, I gotta at least give them credit for not being totally two-faced.
OK a note; as I was writing this I realized it’s very pedantic, and I agree with the point you’re making… But I really wanna share info about how weird the NFA is and how much the ATF sucks… So please excuse me:
I don’t think a bent clothes hanger can be registered as a machine gun… Unless this happened in 1986?
Tl;Dr only machine guns from before the 1986 FOPA can be registered as a machine gun via the NFA taxes.
The NFA was enacted by congress in 1934, and was designed give the government some way of regulating firearms without infringement (so the laws would be constitutional given the 2nd amendment).
Congress wanted it back then because there was a fear of concealed pistols being used for organized crime during the era of alchohol prohibition. Of course by the time the bill had been passed, pistols had been removed because there were too many interested parties in the firearms industry, and they are not NFA items to this day. Short barreled rifles (firearms with either a “stock” or “vertical” foregrip, and a barrel length (measured from the chamber and including any permanent muzzle devices) under 16"), short barreled shotguns (similar, but the length limitation is 18"), and “Any Other Weapons” which are otherwise concealable weapons that aren’t a pistol were the regulated firearms in that original NFA. Also “Silencers” were added last minute as an afterthought.
NFA items require a stamp to be legally possessed, and the cost of the tax to acquire the stamp was set at $200 because at the time that was a substantial portion of the cost of a firearm like the Thompson Sub-Machine gun. That value of $200 remained unchanged from 1934 until 23 days ago on January 1st, 2026, when it was changed to $0 by the Big Beautiful (🤢) Bill.
Later congress would empower the ATF to enforce it.
The NFA doesn’t violate the 2nd amendment (given the interpretation of the constitution by the judges in america for over 100 years, regardless of whether we like or agree with it) because it’s a set of taxes, not a prohibition.
In 1986 a the Firearms Owners Protection Act was enacted by congress which sincerely gave firearms owners many protections and freedoms, like being able to purchase ammunition via the mail… But as a concession it also classified machine guns (any firearm that can fire multiple rounds via a single activation of the trigger) as NFA items, and prohibited the registration of any future machine guns. There was a brief grace window where things could be registered as machine guns (such as RDIAS or registered drop-in auto seers) and if someone registered a clothes hanger as a machine gun, it would have been then. I’ll explain why an unassuming object can be considered a machine gun later.
The prohibition on registering modern machine guns is not unconstitutional because of either one of two things: you can still own a machine gun, it just has to be old (this is unacceptable to many firearms rights activists and politicians, and would likely be unconstitutional on its own) and/or technically no firearm, including machine guns or any other NFA item, is illegal in the first place. You can circumvent the NFA by paying annual taxes and registering to be an FFL (Federal Firearms Licensee) with a (particular) SOT (Special Ocupationers Tax) license. That allows you to buy, sell, and possibly create (depending on licensing) any firearm you want.
It should also be noted, the ATF gets to decide what counts when it comes to any NFA item, which leads to some shenanigans.
A “firearm” can technically be almost any serialized part on the gun… It doesn’t have to be the barrel or whatever… So on guns like the Sig P320 and the Ruger RXM, just a small piece of metal is serialized and the entire gun around it can be changed without any additional transfers or background checks.
For machine guns, anything that can be readily converted into a machine gun IS a machine gun according to the ATF, so essentially all open bolt guns count. Also if you own a semiautomatic AR15 and also possess an M16 (the AR15 used by the military) fire control group (trigger) you are technically in the possession of a machine gun, regardless of whether or not those parts can actually be put inside that firearm.
Also, in the case of the RDIAS that I mentioned earlier, the ATF consideres the small component to be a machine gun, not the firearm itself. If someone wanted to stick a bent clothes hanger in an AR15 so that it interacts with the fire control group in some funky way causing multiple rounds to be fired per activation of a trigger, it could have been registered as an RDIAS in 1986.
And of course, as you may have assumed by my earlier use of quotation marks, the laws regarding short barreled rifles can be circumvented by using slightly differently shaped “Braces” instead of stocks, and slightly angled foregrips.
Also, the ATF, who are ostensibly a tax enforcement agency, have killed a lot of people and a lot of dogs. See Ruby Ridge and Waco (keep in mind that there are many narratives around those events, and sources that cite the actual documentation and legal proceedings might be better).
If you read all of that, thank you for entertaining my hyperfixation. If I made any mistakes please tell me… I wrote this while stuck on the can.
There are alternatives like mesh networks and radio, but recently in Afghanistan they cut off the internet… Literally. They severed the lines and made the entire country dark.
I figured I aught to return to this to let you know… I ran a bunch of tests and trialed some new browsers for my use case, and ungoogled chromium is working great for me.
Nearly identical performance to Brave (after tweaking some settings and flags), and Mv2 uBlock working perfectly.
Thanks for pushing me to give other browsers a try again!
I don’t think trivalent existed yet when I did my tests, and I didn’t realize Mv2 still worked on ungoogled chromium. I feel like I might have suspected that support would get pulled eventually, but it has been more than a year. I use ungoogled chromium for some web based HID driver stuff.
Might as well give them a try!
I use vanadium (and graphine) on my phone but I use Brave on my desktop.
Until last year I had been using Firefox since around 2007, but I started having awful performance issues.
I ran a ton of tests on a large variety of browsers (including some niche early development browsers) and Brave (with every BS feature disabled) outperformed all of the others by a wide margin.
If there was a foss browser with functioning adblock, no BS features or political ideologies, and reasonable performance, I would switch right away… But all 3 is a tall order.
Also, I wanna note, before I switched I tried every Firefox config and all of the performance focused forks. I tried messing with memory usage and hardware acceleration, and even running it in sandboxes/flatpak… Either way it would consume tons of resources at idle, and would sometimes crash my machine when I kept it running while starting up my hypervisor or blender or my IDE or a resource hungry game.
Brave just works, and has functional adblock.
I’m sorry if I implied more than I meant. I suppose information like this really deserves more context, given how inflamatory it is…
I have no idea if Steven Hawking did anything wrong, but the context for OP’s post is an assumption about Hawking based on his presence in the Epstein files.