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Paul Besso

@Pbesso

Dad, Grandpa, Lover. Crafting words as a Writer & Poet. Mycelial systems thinker.

Ireland Katılım Ağustos 2009
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Get em early for next week, because if you're anything like me, you'll keep forgetting them. You can't win if your not in. #Community #Fethard
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This isn’t just a cartoon video; it is a memetic counterstrike — humour aimed at the current theatre of fear, grievance, and rage. When politics becomes spectacle, sometimes the only sane response is to turn the spectacle back on itself. Super Gavin vs The Orange Tumor is ridiculous but so is the political reality it is highlighting. Mockery matters. Symbols matter. Memes matter. Laughter can puncture what outrage keeps inflated. #Satire #Memetics #PoliticalSatire youtube.com/watch?v=2yNop4…
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A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT. He knows his time is running out. So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour. He died 5 months later. This is that lecture. The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇 Bookmark it for later
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Working on dynamic QR codes today. I want to let users be able to set up their own web server and track statistics, sans IP, because the idea of my app is privacy first. ET does not phone home. However statistics are important metrics when working on a campaign. So I am working on a way to package a simple web server setup to satisfy users goals. The choice to create dynamic QRs is 100% a toggle and not required. The server setup is 100% your choice and controled by you, the user. Check the link. I will be updating tomorrow with the updated APK for Android. #IndieDev #FreeSoftware #MIT
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My friends in here are seeing less and less of me everyday. If you’re still getting my posts, please reply with a 💙
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@DrAllyLouks I am so sad that you have to go through this abuse online with no recourse to end it Dr Ally.
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Dr Ally Louks@DrAllyLouks·
Being a woman on the internet is a special kind of hell. Someone is paying big accounts to use my face and aspects of my identity to advertise fetish content. We have laws against this in the UK and I still can’t do anything to get these posts taken down. Reporting doesn’t work.
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🚀 Desktop version of QR Studio Ultra is alive. Just ported the whole thing from Android and the scanning is now working like butter. I can point my MFP at a QR, hit “Scan QR”, and it instantly: Loads the image/file Detects if it’s encrypted Auto-routes straight to the decrypt modal with passphrase prompt Privacy-first. 100% offline. MIT licensed. Still ironing out a few porting bugs, but we’re getting there fast. Who else wants a proper desktop QR power tool that actually respects your data? #IndieDev #PrivacyFirst #MIT #QRCode #OpenSource
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I built QR Studio Ultra because I’m fed up. Fed up with apps that commoditize you. Fed up with cloud dependency. Fed up with ugly, basic tools. So I made one for me — and now for you. Beautiful artistic QRs. Real encryption. AI that actually works. Batch generation. All 100% offline. Works on phones with no SIM, no network, no bullshit. This is freedom in app form. Free. Open source. MIT licensed. github.com/Cypher-Shadowb… Who else is tired of being the product? #Freedom #OfflineFirst #Privacy #IndieDev #NoMoreBullshit #QRCode
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Just dropped the sexiest QR code creator alive. QR Studio Ultra turns boring black squares into glowing digital art — rich gradients, curved text, neon rings, and AI that actually gets your vibe. Military-grade encryption built in. 100% offline. MIT licensed. Free. I built the tool I always wanted. Try it → github.com/Cypher-Shadowb… #QRCode #AI #Cyberpunk #DesignTools #IndieDev #CreativeCoding

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This isn’t a toy. QR Studio Ultra is a serious weapon for artists, designers, creators, and businesses who want beautiful, scannable, private QR codes. AI Magic • Military-grade encryption • Batch generation with scores • Premium SVG exports • Offline forever • 100% free & MIT licensed. Find one that’s better. Find one that’s more private. Find one that does all this for free. I’ll wait. (And probably still be wearing my shirt.) github.com/Cypher-Shadowb… #QRCode #CreativeTools #PrivacyFirst #IndieHack #DesignMatters #NoBS
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Batch mode is stupidly satisfying. Paste a list of links (or text) → instantly generate dozens (up to 50) of unique, beautiful QRs with scannability scores, different styles, and perfect SVG exports. Café menu, event tickets, merch links, privacy pages — all done in seconds. No more one-by-one bullshit. This is how you actually ship beautiful QR experiences at scale. (Attach grid screenshot of batch results) #QRCode #BatchGeneration #DesignTools #Productivity #IndieDev #CreativeCoding
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Type shit like “cyberpunk neon phoenix rising from digital ashes” and it spits out a full-styled QR — perfect gradients, glowing rings, curved text, and a center image that actually belongs there. No more generic black squares. It’s like Midjourney had a baby with a QR code and I raised it right. Watch it in action 👇 #AI #QRCode #PromptToArt #Cyberpunk #CreativeTools
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The encryption window allows a user to encrypt or decrypt a payload using world-class encryption. The encrypted QRs can then be decrypted in the App or by using the correct decryption technologies and passphrase. It also employs a forensic date function for evidence of tampering.
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Enough said.
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Using my App, NFC Studio Ultra, for a practical application. If the machine operator encounters an issue all they have to do is scan for the solution. This is a real money saver as it reduces support calls and lost labour costs. As time moves on and more issues are added to the sheet the practicality of the implementation grows. The App is here: github.com/Cypher-Shadowb… Scroll down and grab the APK and install it, or download the source code and build it yourself. #IndieDev #MIT
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What happens when people become afraid to enter the realm of politics or civic life? It becomes the realm of tyrants. Political violence is a form of reflexive control. It does not merely punish participation; it conditions people to withdraw from it, leaving the gate wide open to the wolves who hunt our freedom. The real tragedy is that the mechanism is rational at the individual level. Withdrawing to protect yourself makes sense. It's only catastrophic at the collective level. Let me present an example. In the town I live in, we have recently opened a community cafe. It's a wonderful venue that does a very good job but in the first week they had one bad review. The result of that review has been a very obvious cooling effect and they are afraid to pursue reviews now. The problem with that is that the door is now open for those who have a beef to leave a bad review and dominate the review space. If you look at some of the sites where reviews are left, a lot of bad reviews are left by people that only have one or two reviews behind them. The way to combat that problem is to get many reviews so that you have some padding. Use the fire hose effect but in a good manner. Don't try to eliminate bad actors — dilute them. Flood the space with authentic participation until the signal-to-noise ratio works in your favour. The same firehose logic applies in civic life. Showing up, voting, running for local office, attending council meetings — the volume of participation is the structural defence. Behavioural engineering FTW! #PoliticalViolence #CivicCourage
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