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@mary and I want your input. We need to do an exterior wall mock up for the new house we’re building. I don’t just want to tear it down when we’re done, but rather design it to be a permanent chicken coop. This thing will be like a concrete bunker for chickens. We’ve never owned chickens, but could imagine having up to a dozen one day. What size should we make this thing? I want to pour a height of 10’-8” on the tallest wall to test the form system, but don’t want it bigger than it needs to be.

One of the things that bugs me a bit about Gemini is the need for TLS. I don't think you can just serve up gemtext via http or ftp, you have to run a Gemini Capsule. I just used Lagrange to open local files and it worked beautifully. Tried it again via X11 forwarding on a remote server with the same results. I kinda love this.

Want to grow some millet this year. I know that if you eat a LOT of some varieties, you can get thyroid problems. I'm about to refresh my memory on the subject and wanted to know if anyone has grown it and what varieties you recommend. I swear I've seen something that looks a lot like millet growing in the wild around here, will get some pictures to verify.

Installed FoxtrotGPS (one of my favorite programs) and rsynced my maps from the NAS to the Librem. Lots of offline maps on a mobile Linux device!

@kyle I got my Librem 5 this week and am having fun with it. It's a dream come true. Thanks for all your hard work at Purism. I will get a copy of your new book.

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So far, impressed! Camera and XMPP work right out of the box.

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I'm finding more and more websites that don't function in Firefox and I have to access them via Chrome. Gross. The latest was FedEx. Of COURSE they dropped by with my Librem 5 the last 2 days in the 30 minute window that my wife is out of the house. They need a signature.

Gotta head to a remote job site for tomorrow. Apparently this will be the first time I’ve been away at night since Heidi was born.

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I do not believe this Pentagon "leaker" story.
It stinks of fabrication.

The mistake that was made in the construction of the story, was claiming this Airman pulled the information off of JWICS. Even if he had the SCI clearance required to enter and access a SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Fascility), which is the only way to access JWICS, there would be a logged record of his searches associated with his ID, and a logged record of any printed documents. There is also no physical way to download documents from a SCIF to an external device, and JWICS is a closed intranet. The system is designed to prevent leaks. The claim that the New York Times supposedly found this person by matching the patterns of granite from his counter top, is at best, a fabrication. And then there is the matter of the documents themselves, and knowing where to find them. You dont just "see" documents like this in a SCIF. You have to know exactly where to look. Unless someone sends you an ICE mail telling you exactly where to look, (of which there would be a record), you would not find them. The way this whole story was presented, the behavior of the corporate media, the way the Pentagon officials talked, it reeks of a staged event. We have seen first hand how they really behave when a real leak occurs. The wild anger and rage they directed toward Snowden is an example.

I do not believe this story.

So the question becomes, why do this? Why lie? What would be the purpose?.
The answer to that is two fold. The first is an increasing sentiment within the U.S. bureacracy which sees its own constitution, and citizenry as an obsacle to its "job", which in their minds, requires more and more power. The second, related to the first, is answered by the demands they make in the wake of the event. What do they want?

Two things were expressed...
1. More power, funding, and control over the internet. It will be used to push Senate Bill 686, the Restrict Act. Or something similar, with the goal being complete control over all communication across the internet. You see, they have used the internet to destabilize and topple other countries. They are terrified of this happening to them. So now, by consequence, the 1st Amendment is a threat to their power. And since the Smith-Mundt act was gutted during the Obama administration (which Biden is a continuation of), the legal restrictions that prevented the CIA from running propaganda ops on the American public have been removed.

2. The inteviews about this "leaker" contained continual references to how he was a "God loving patriot". As the "War on Terror", which they created, winds down, and they need a new enemy to justify their massively bloated secred budgets, they want to create a new enemy. Their target it seems is the American public itself. Or more specifically, the majority of people who belive that government should be restrained, answerable, and transparent. To accomplish this, they intend to create a stereotype, and then use their corporate media partners to insist that this created stereotype is first real, second a minority, and third, a grave threat to "America".

I believe that there is a war going on inside all federal agencies right now. I think that if this Airman is not a prop, he was likely a part of an entrapment event, which are being run by the FBI and DOJ, who are searching all federal agencies for people who are willing to speak out in defense of the Constitution, when the see that the Government is breaking the law. They are trying to drive all of them out, leaving only those who show absolutely loyalty to Agency, and State, above Constitutional law.

What I suspect all of this is, is the out of control emergence of the Military Industrial Complex Eisenhower warned about in his farewell address... the jugernaut, which if not stopped, would eventually threaten the People themselves, the liberty of everyone, and the nation itself.
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"Everything I want to do is illegal"
War stories from the local food front by Joel Salatin

https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/everything-i-want-to-do-is-illegal/

Looks like I actually might get the Librem 5 I ordered in 2019...it has shipped!

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