ᗪavid John

@viq

I have nothing but great things to say about #Bitwarden Been with them for years.

Some will say: the multiverse explains it. Infinite universes — one had to have our constants by chance.

That's cosmological multiverse. Eternal inflation. Untestable. Unfalsifiable.

Many-worlds is different — a quantum mechanics interpretation. Also unfalsifiable.

Both are philosophy wearing equations.

Intelligent design is the answer.

#Physics #ManyWorlds #Multiverse #FineTuning #IntelligentDesign

The universe runs on constants. Numbers with no units — just baked into reality.

The fine-structure constant: 1/137. The cosmological constant: fine-tuned to 1 in 10¹²⁰. The strong nuclear force: 2% off — hydrogen never forms.

Fred Hoyle — an atheist — looked at carbon resonance and called it "a put-up job."

Penrose put the odds of our universe's initial conditions at 1 in 10^(10¹²³).

Someone knew exactly what He was doing.

#Physics #Cosmology #FineTuning #Faith

Science excites me in a way very few things can. Tell me how things work.

JWST has been finding hundreds of strange compact blobs 12 billion light-years away — red in optical light, blue in UV. Formed ~600 million years after the Big Bang. Nobody knows what they are.

I love that.

#JWST #Astrophysics #Astronomy #LittleRedDots #Science

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-jwst-makes-some-headway-understanding-little-red-dots

"Researchers at Aalto University published a new quantum theory of gravity in 2025 that describes gravity in a way compatible with the Standard Model, using four one-dimensional unitary gauge symmetries. They're presenting it openly for the community to stress-test. Could be real, could be another dead end but it's getting serious attention."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/05/250505121800.htm

#Physics #QuantumGravity #QFT #QuantumFieldTheory #StandardModel #TheoreticalPhysics #Science

I found a new phone carrier.

I also like being on the ground floor of something special.

https://www.phreeli.com/

#Privacy #DigitalPrivacy #SurveillanceCapitalism #PrivacyMatters

275 million records. 9,000 schools. One vendor.

This is what single points of failure look like at scale. ShinyHunters got in through Free-For-Teacher accounts — low-verification, same infrastructure as everyone else.

Ransom deadline is today. #CanvasHack #Infosec #StudentPrivacy #DataBreach

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/05/millions-of-students-personal-data-stolen-in-major-education-cyberattack

#tailscale is awesome. That is all.

UPMC called to follow up on the glowing review I left for one of their staff. A sharp, kind young woman who actually gave a damn.

Instead they got to hear me explain that it took five months and two denials to get the first mental health medication that's made me feel better in over a decade.

She was great. The system she works in is not.

#MentalHealth #HealthcareSystem #InsuranceDenials #MentalHealthMatters #UPMC

Just filed an FTC complaint against Yahoo. They gate account deletion behind forced acceptance of new terms that include sharing your inbox with Microsoft's AI. Their own TOS says you can delete anytime. Their privacy email bounces. So I filed.

#Yahoo #DataRights #Privacy #DarkPatterns #FTC

Gen X. Dyslexic. Couldn't read properly until I was 11. Still sometimes can't tell left from right. Read more than two pages and I've already forgotten what I just read. That's just how my brain is wired. So I never did get more than a GED. Worked the ER as a patient advocate — on overnights I was the administrator on duty. Managed public communications at a 711-bed hospital in Brooklyn NY. Political organizer — worked the 2008 Obama campaign in Michigan and Ohio. Pro Union Pacifist. Follower of Jesus Christ. Convinced faith doesn't have walls. Traveled to Canada, Spain, the Philippines, and Peru. Love different cultures. Fred Rogers and Jane Elliott are my lifelong heroes.

Not bad for a GED.

Privacy nerd. Self-hoster. All-AMD workstation. openSUSE Tumbleweed. FOSS everything.

Mastodon is my main social. bazurk.wtf is my corner of the web.

Yeah I'm a lot. Deal with it.

#neurodivergent #FOSS #Linux #selfhosted #Christian #interfaith #UnionStrong #travel #dyslexia

#Ren
Neurodivergent

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=7y4MUCCHFGY

Thank you https://nerdvpn.de/ for the use of your instance prior to hosting my own. You guys rock.

#NerdVPN

Okay so apparently I now have my own self hosted front end to Youtube. Downloaded all my subscriptions and uploaded it locally.
I have a #selfhosting addiction.

https://invidious.io/

#Invidious rocks.

Okay so I might try to self host an #Invidious instance as well.

Its just an idea.

The excitement of convincing my friends to come on my #XMPP server.

You pick up sayings when you live around wise people.

"Az men iz a ganef, iz men a ganef."
If you're a thief, you're a thief.

Seems to be the case with many of our politicians.

If I could end one thing to help humanity the most — I'd pick greed. It's the worst factor in the world today.

We have enough for all of us. But we store it away and pretend to be important. Amass wealth and fame. Surround yourself with people who tell you you're better than others.

We are all G-d”s children. Wealth of this world means nothing to Him. Sooner or later you answer for your treatment of others.

"Love thy neighbor."

Have you?

#Politics #Greed #Faith #Yiddish #LoveThyNeighbor #Humanity #Justice #Equality

I will legit setup Enabling HTTPS certs in Tailscale just to get this #$&%# icon to go away.

I know the traffic is encrypted but stuff like this bugs me enough to take on a whole new project.

#Tailscale #SelfHosted #Homelab #HTTPS #Privacy #FOSS #TrueNAS #SearXNG

So I am up and running. I spent most of the time trying to get to customize the image but I suppose they don't want it messed with so yeah. But #Victory none the less!

So I decided to create a self hosted search engine on my NAS. Turns out its not as difficult as you might think.
I also get to opt out of who I use in my search engine. And best of all I own my own data.

So what do we think? I'll just keep it private of course on my internal network. I'll access it via tail-scale remotely.

#SearXNG #SelfHosted #FOSS #Privacy #Homelab #TrueNAS #Tailscale #OpenSource #DegoogleYourself

Just confirmed: my TOTP seeds live on my Token2 Bio3 key itself.
The app is just a reader. The seed never leaves the hardware.

That said — Proton Authenticator looks genuinely excellent.
If I didn't have a key where the seed lives on it,
that's where I'd put my seed.

Gigity.

#TOTP #2FA #Infosec #ProtonAuth #Token2 #FIDO2

#Protonmail has an option for a second password.

One that handles your login and a whole separate one for your data.

I am not going to lie, the nerd in me got turned on a little.

JMP + Snikket is just an amazing combo for those that are privacy and security minded people for $6 a month.

My own XMPP server fully encrypted using the same Signal/Whisper protocol with 10 accounts and a number not tied to my phone.

I don't know about you but if that is not worth $6 a month I don't know what is.

Big tech is not your friend. Act accordingly.

#Privacy #Security #XMPP #JMP #Snikket #FOSS #SelfHosted #DeleteBigTech

#Protonmail with this skin and a #dyslexic friendly font is a real sweet spot for me.

#hangon #feelbetter #anxiety #depression #bipolar