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Hi neighbor! There’s an ongoing meetup / demonstration against the mandates Fridays and Sundays at the intersection of Winchester and Stevens Creek in San Jose. Next one is tomorrow, February 20, from 3 to 6. Be there or be square!

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More power to you. I am simply avoiding Silicon Valley until Sarah Cody is deposed and jailed.

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Can't make it tomorrow, but I'll see you next weekend.

Is there a central location online where people are able to talk? If not, we ought to make one.

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Bay Area Pie Makers is the group you are looking for. They are on Meetup at https://www.meetup.com/bay-area-pie-makers/

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Yes, it’s a closed group with an obfuscated name. Apply and you will (hopefully) be let in if you sign up for Meetup and pass the “I am not a troll” survey test when you join. If you’re having trouble or for whatever reason you want to contact me personally, see my own site at http://howtosee2020.com — I was thinking about setting up my own forum there but so far all I have is an email alias. So far it’s just me at the other end!

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If it's a closed group delete your post and allow them to remain underground.

I'm more of the mindset of "come and get me".

But that's me - if they wish to remain underground, let them continue to be.

We have to decentralize the Internet. IPFS looked promising, even the tox protocol did, or bit torrent. What we need to do is make an entirely uncontrollable communication system which even the creators can't control.

I already have a trust system. I guess I should patent it before somebody else realizes how to do it so it won't be abused.

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We can’t let the fear of “them” finding us out keep us from reaching out to others of “us.” If you don’t want to join the Meetup, I hope at least you’ll send me an email (it’s on my web site: “come and get me”).

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I agree, but if they want to remain underground, let them continue to be.

I'd advise you to delete your post or edit it to remove the link. I think they'd prefer this, and you should respect that.

See you in a week.

Go look up the Tox protocol. This is my ID:

2779E73EE1BE4E85A52DDA1E0E0DE8006905250171725CD64BE0ED1C29DACC4C03491A64CDA5

Only protocol I trust, although I don't understand the math of ECC, and I don't know if XSalsa20 is secure. Even so, no server.

We both have to be online to talk, but I'm NEVER offline, save for a power outage of a disk failure. Likely I won't respond immediately, and you have to go through the laborious process of asking to contact me. I'll accept the next day, regardless of who you are.

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That is a bizarre name.

Discussion isn't available to me. I have to be a member?

Perhaps we engineers aren't doing our part. We need to make this a hell of a lot easier.

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