Pohon BBS

Gikopoi quotes

2024-01-16T05:59:31+00:00

... a continuation from https://0chan.vip/threads/local/1694397860/

Good quotes will be added to giko.py quotebot!

dnd 2026

2026-01-09T17:52:25+00:00

DM : piper
players:

* zoomy
* hotaru?

What is law? The secular functional tests.

2026-01-10T12:37:24+00:00

Below is a practical checklist of Bastiat-style tests you can apply to any policy to decide whether, by his criteria, it is **law‑ful** or **un‑law‑ful**, expressed in secular and functional terms.

YES LL BECAUSE I LITERATE, LOSERS
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## 1. Rights-Protection Test

**Question:**
Does this policy exist primarily to protect individuals against violations of their basic rights—**life, liberty, and property**—or is it trying to do something else?

- **Law-ful if:**
- It prevents or punishes physical aggression, theft, fraud, or coercion.
- It organizes common defense (police, courts, basic security) so that individuals don’t have to carry out private retaliation.
- **Un-law-ful if:**
- Its main purpose is to manage outcomes (e.g., set prices, guarantee jobs, provide benefits) rather than stop rights violations.
- It uses the state’s force to promote particular lifestyles, moral codes, or economic patterns.

**Functional idea:**
Law is a **defensive mechanism**, not a tool for shaping society’s positive goals.

---

## 2. Non-Aggression / Negative-Law Test

**Question:**
Does the policy only **forbid aggression and protect against harm**, or does it **compel** people to do things they have not chosen?

- **Law-ful if:**
- It is “negative” in nature: it says, “You may not assault, steal from, defraud, or otherwise violate others’ rights.”
- It uses force only in response to prior or imminent rights violations.
- **Un-law-ful if:**
- It is “positive” in nature: it says, “You must participate, fund, or behave in certain ways, even if you are not harming anyone.”
- It compels actions like mandatory charity, compulsory membership in state schemes, or forced participation in “public” projects that go beyond self-defense.

**Functional idea:**
Legitimate law **stops** injustice; it does not **command** virtue, generosity, or social cooperation by force.

---

## 3. Legal Plunder Test

**Core principle:**
Bastiat’s key criterion for un-law-fulness is **legal plunder**: when the law is used to take from some to give to others.

**Question:**
Does the policy **take wealth or advantage from one group and transfer it to another** by force, under the color of law?

- **Law-ful if:**
- Any taking (e.g., taxation) is strictly confined to funding the protection of everyone’s life, liberty, and property.
- It does not favor specific industries, classes, regions, or interest groups.
- **Un-law-ful if:**
- It grants subsidies, special protections, or benefits to some at others’ expense.
- It uses instruments such as targeted tariffs, industry-specific protections, forced welfare transfers, “guaranteed” income/jobs, or other schemes that forcibly redistribute resources.

**Functional idea:**
If a private individual doing the same thing would be called **theft or extortion**, then the state doing it via policy is **legal plunder** and un‑law‑ful in Bastiat’s sense.

---

## 4. Universality and Impartiality Test

**Question:**
Is the policy **truly general**—the same rules, applied to everyone equally—or does it **privilege or burden** particular groups?

- **Law-ful if:**
- It is **universal in scope** and **non-discriminatory**: the same protections and the same restrictions apply to all individuals.
- It does not create legal categories with special rights or exemptions.
- **Un-law-ful if:**
- It treats groups differently, giving some legal privilege (e.g., monopolies, protections, exemptions) or placing special burdens on disfavored groups.
- It is effectively written “for” or “against” specific classes, professions, or interests.

**Functional idea:**
Legitimate law is a neutral set of **general rules**; once it becomes a tool for “our group vs. their group,” it is perverted.

---

## 5. Scope and Social-Engineering Test

**Question:**
Does the policy **confine itself** to preventing and punishing rights violations, or does it **organize** and **direct** areas like education, religion, charity, or economic life?

- **Law-ful if:**
- It leaves decisions about education, charity, religion, work, and lifestyle to individuals and voluntary associations.
- It only intervenes when there is actual or imminent rights-violation (e.g., abuse, fraud, coercion).
- **Un-law-ful if:**
- It sets up compulsory schooling systems, official moral or religious codes, mandatory welfare schemes, or economic plans that people must support or obey regardless of consent.
- It tries to “engineer” social outcomes (e.g., equality of material conditions, uniformity of beliefs) by force.

**Functional idea:**
Law should **protect free choices**, not replace them with a legislator’s blueprint for how people should live.

---

## 6. Consent and Self-Ownership Test

**Question:**
Does the policy **respect each person’s self-ownership** and the fruits of their labor, or does it treat individuals as resources to be directed?

- **Law-ful if:**
- It assumes individuals own their bodies, time, and legitimately acquired property.
- It does not commandeer their labor or resources for purposes other than common defense and justice.
- **Un-law-ful if:**
- It obliges people to fund or participate in endeavors they would not voluntarily support, when those endeavors go beyond protecting rights.
- It presumes that a portion of everyone’s labor and property is available to be allocated according to some social plan.

**Functional idea:**
Individuals are not means to collective ends; policies that treat them as such are un‑law‑ful in Bastiat’s framework.

---

## 7. Systemic Consequences Test

**Question:**
If generalized, does this policy tend toward a system of **universal legal plunder** and conflict, or toward **stable justice** and peaceful cooperation?

- **Law-ful if:**
- Its generalization leads to a society where people mostly interact by voluntary exchange, under equal protection of rights.
- It tends to reduce conflict by giving everyone a clear, limited framework of protection.
- **Un-law-ful if:**
- Its pattern—“use law to get benefits for my group”—would push every group to fight for control of the state, leading to permanent conflict and widespread plunder.
- It blurs the line between justice and injustice, encouraging people to see whatever is legal as automatically right.

**Functional idea:**
A law‑ful framework **stabilizes** expectations and cooperation; systemic legal plunder makes politics a war of all against all.

---

## How to Use These Tests in Practice

When evaluating a specific policy (tax, subsidy, regulation, welfare program, education law, etc.), walk through these questions:

1. **Rights-Protection:**
- What concrete rights-violations does this policy prevent or punish?
- If none, why is force being used?

2. **Non-Aggression / Negative-Law:**
- Is the policy only stopping harm, or is it commanding positive behaviors?

3. **Legal Plunder:**
- Who pays, who gains?
- Would the same transfer be wrongful if done by a private person?

4. **Universality:**
- Does the rule apply identically to everyone, regardless of class or category?

5. **Scope / Social Engineering:**
- Is this about defense of rights, or about shaping how people live, believe, work, or trade?

6. **Consent / Self-Ownership:**
- Could individuals reasonably opt out if they disagree, or is participation coerced?
- Does it override individuals’ control of their own labor and property for non-defensive ends?

7. **Systemic Effects:**
- If all groups used law this way, would we get general justice or general plunder?

- If a policy **passes all or almost all** of these tests, Bastiat would likely consider it **law‑ful** (legitimate law).
- If it **fails one or more key tests**—especially the **legal plunder** and **scope** tests—he would classify it as a **perversion of law**, i.e., **un‑law‑ful**, even if it is formally enacted and widely approved.

Minecraft (Gikocraft)

2025-11-20T17:28:47+00:00

To ALL Giko users,

I've set up a modded Minecraft server for us to play on. Come join, it's fun!

Info at: https://hermitage.is/minecraft

In brief:

The Minecraft version is 1.20.1
The server IP is 88.99.245.62
It uses the Forge modloader version 47.4.0

You must have these mods installed (+dependencies):

Ars Nouveau
Botania
FallingTree
Faster Ladder Climbing
Gravestone Mod
Just Enough Items
Rechiseled
Waystones

You also need to have a valid M$ account with a copy of the game.

Giko Presidential Run 2026

2025-09-04T20:21:58+00:00

We are looking for candidates for the presidential run of 2026.
Butterscotch , our great candidate from 2024-2025 has announced
that he is growing weary of his duties and is opening the floor to
elections.

Please enter your policy in this thread. Debates between candidates
can occur within this thread or on site on the given days -- please
create events on https://events.gikopoi.com/ if you will --

Debate #1 September 27
Debate #2 October 11
Debate #3 October 25

Election Day November 4

tripex tripcode finding software

2025-01-05T00:04:23+00:00

releasing version 1.0 of my tripcode finding program, 'tripex'

compile the program as follows:
gcc tripex.c -o tripex -O3 -lcrypt

example #1; find tripcodes containing 'nice' (case insensitive):
./tripex -n $(nproc) -i nice

example #2; find tripcodes starting with either 'giko' or 'mona':
./tripex -n $(nproc) ^giko ^mona

example #3; find fully lowercase tripcodes with quads:
./tripex -s -n $(nproc) "^[a-z]*$" "$.$\1\{3,\}"

untested on anything but GNU/Linux with glibc, but it would probably work on FreeBSD too.
don't trust any update posts unless they have my tripcode or you can audit them yourself!

-----BEGIN FILE tripex.c-----
/* CC0-1.0 */

#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include

#include

#define ARRAY_SIZE(x) (sizeof((x)) / sizeof((x)[0]))

static unsigned char saltFilter[256];
static unsigned char rngFilter[256];
char *tripcode(const char *key);

void usage(void)
{
fprintf(stderr, "usage: tripex [-Ehilnmsv] expressions\n"
" -E\tuse extended regular expressions\n"
" -h\tshow usage\n"
" -i\tignore case\n"
" -l\tkey length\n"
" -n\tnumber of threads\n"
" -m\tmax number of tries (per thread!)\n"
" -s\tstack expressions (logical AND)\n");
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int re_flags = 0;
int sflag = 0;
size_t n_procs = 1;
size_t key_len = 8;
size_t max_tries = 0;

int opt;
while ((opt = getopt(argc, argv, "E:hil:m:n:sv")) != -1) {
switch(opt) {
case 'E':
re_flags |= REG_EXTENDED;
break;
case 'i':
re_flags |= REG_ICASE;
break;
case 'l':
key_len = atol(optarg);
if (key_len < 1)
errx(EXIT_FAILURE, "key length must be at least 1");
break;
case 'n':
n_procs = atol(optarg);
if (n_procs < 1)
errx(EXIT_FAILURE, "need at least one process");
break;
case 'm': /* ! PER THREAD ! */
max_tries = atol(optarg);
if (max_tries < 1)
errx(EXIT_FAILURE, "need at least one try");
break;
case 's':
sflag = 1;
break;
case 'v':
printf("tripex 1.0 by taocana\n");
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
case 'h':
/* FALLTHROUGH */
default:
usage();

return EXIT_FAILURE;
}
}

argc -= optind;
argv += optind;

if (argc < 1) {
usage();
errx(EXIT_FAILURE, "need at least one expression");
}

size_t n_exps = argc;
regex_t *exps = malloc(sizeof(regex_t) * n_exps);
for (size_t i = 0; i < n_exps; i++)
if (regcomp(&exps[i], argv[i], re_flags))
errx(EXIT_FAILURE, "failed to compile regex");

for (int i = 1; i < n_procs; i++)
if (!fork())
break;

regmatch_t pmatch[1];
unsigned char key[key_len + 1]; /* dynamic array, bad form but i'm lazy */
key[key_len] = 0;

for (size_t n = 0; !max_tries || n < max_tries ; n++) {
if (getrandom(key, key_len, 0) < 0)
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "failed to get random key");

for (int i = 0; i < key_len; i++)
key[i] = rngFilter[key[i]];

char *trip = tripcode(key);
if (!trip)
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "failed to generate tripcode");

for (size_t i = 0; i < n_exps; i++)
if (regexec(&exps[i], trip, ARRAY_SIZE(pmatch), pmatch, 0))
if (sflag)
break;
else
continue;
else if (!sflag || i >= n_exps - 1)
printf("%s %s\n", trip, key);

free(trip);
}

for (size_t i = 0; i < n_exps; i++)
regfree(&exps[i]);
free(exps);
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

char *tripcode(const char *key)
{
/* we don't do any sjis conversion, but who cares anyway? */
if (strlen(key) == 0)
return NULL;

unsigned char *tempKey = malloc(strlen(key) + 2);
if (!tempKey)
return NULL;
strcpy(tempKey, key);
strcat(tempKey, "H.");

unsigned char salt[3];
for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
salt[i] = saltFilter[tempKey[i+1]];
salt[2] = 0;
free(tempKey);

struct crypt_data data;
bzero(&data, sizeof(struct crypt_data));

char *tempCode = crypt_r(key, salt, &data);
unsigned char *code = malloc(strlen(tempCode) - 3);
if (!code)
return NULL;
strcpy(code, tempCode + 3);
return code;
}

static unsigned char saltFilter[256] =
"................................"
".............../0123456789......"
".ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ....."
".abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz....."
"................................"
"................................"
"................................"
"................................";

static unsigned char rngFilter[256] =
"{dDOFByx8Jdo=C.{hFw:'p%m+]E-*}~4"
"O)YiM99y?%A)tldRIN4!fat`J|(iI+}h"
"]59P#T_Qx#h0q8w+F,$}Vo5Gq; "k6>O~Ge,.DW9`hqhaSf#A.vrnhy`[2Ct"
"Bb6|7Mr+iJZG5.&7>?K@{D~6*Vs'H_*>"
"$Mh3R-F$Sp^.E5R-W1DnQzXC@Tf']xxt"
"o`GLO'Ui`S/v,aegU2HkE3Y6y!WZm%?k"
"aD/H=yH4vQg7dC*(Gx$vV[

gikopoi.py

2024-01-15T16:25:28+00:00

There is now a terrible Gikopoi bot I've written based on code from
kafli: you can invoke it with the !help command in the bar.

It has a blackjack and bank plugin.
You can win REAL gikocoins and send them to your friends!

I'm planning to add a !memo function (send a message to someone
offline or AFK and the bot sends them your message when they return)
and also !random / !addquote functions (get or add gikopoi quotes).

What else do you think would be useful? I was thinking the bot could
share youtube metadata when a youtube link is shared, e.g. the title
of the video and its duration. The possibilities are endless...

source: https://github.com/153/giko.py

Giko Mahjong night when?

2025-07-14T18:31:19+00:00

I vote we play the Zung Jung variant of Mahjong on the site
https://maque.games/ -- very minimalist game site, no ads, guests OK

Zung Jung is a good variant of mahjong because it's pretty forgiving
and makes it easier for people to be creative with scoring hands,
relative to HKOS or Riichi.

This is a democracy so if weebs demand we play riichi that's an
option.

Mahjong is a game that takes about 2 minutes to learn. Draw a tile,
throw a tile away. If the guy before you throws away a tile that lets
you make a straight, you can take it. If anyone throws away a tile
that lets you make 3 of a kind or 4 of a kind, you can take it.
Certain combos, based on relative rarity/difficulty, score really
high points. A finished hand is basically 4 sets (set: 3 of kind
or 3 in a row) with a pair to finish it.

If we play together on VC, I think everyone could learn the rules
pretty quick; the biggest obstacle is finding a day and time that
everyone can set aside 1-3 hours away for.

Until we can find 4 people to play a game of mahjong, I suggest people
can play Rummy on cardgames.io to warm up in smaller groups (2-3) :
it tickles the same part of the brain.

Giko Firewall blacklist discussion

2025-05-24T07:46:39+00:00

I use shared ipv4, assigned by ISP & have no control of it. It does being shared across many hundreds of other ISP customers. I don't know how this work, maybe even NAT.
Since free ipv4 addresses ended many years ago, and ipv6 is not implemented/given here.
I don't have money to buy clean private ip or vpn.

Unban my ip *.*.*.50 I don't have other ip & can't cchange it,
sadly I can't join your game server play.gokipoi.com

あなたのIPは拒否されました。TorやVPNを使わないでください。
Your IP was rejected. Please do not use Tor or VPNs.
https://www.abuseipdb.com/check/*.*.*.50

What's the logic of this?
Whole world is on Tor, NordVPN, you freely discussed their usage inside gikopoi chat room.
I'm not using them, but it should be legal to use them. Every 3rd youtuber is promoting VPN.
In many countries (china, russia, venezuela, cuba, iran, syria, libiya, africa ... etc ) it is impossible to browse internet without vpn. Banning Tor in anonymous imageboard game? Astonishing non-sence level of hypocrisy.

Those sort of ip bans, making the web worse & gatekept, same stuff CF, js hCaptcha, or Anubis does does but with exception without js.

Are you afraid of bots? But you do have idle bots in giko.
I neven used a bot, neither spam.

Quickfix: whitelist subnets. But I don't know subnets ranges of my isp.

fix: pohon nonjs captcha should work fine for gikopoi.
or you could come up & invent another new type of nonjs captcha.
some folks made anime or math captcha.
optional simple account creation (without email) is fine too, since it is sort of variation of captcha.

Never ban IPv4, today they are all shared (or will be eventially soon), and behind 1 ip there could be thousands of users.

What to do with "burnt" gikocoins?

2025-02-08T19:23:00+00:00

Akai, our chair of economic music, is working on a way to address the
inflation issue of gikopoi -- finding a way to consume coins
permanently for a use in a different sort of game that takes into mind
principles learned from systems of "progressive taxation"

From a different angle, it cannot be denied that if coins lost by
gambling ended up in a special wallet, giko.py would probably have more
coins than all other users combined.

If coins lost gambling ended up in a special account, what would be
interesting ways to make use of these coins?

Maybe each week people with a balance of at least X gikocoins could vote
for a user to receive a percent of the "pot", eg 5%

Maybe each week, people could buy lottery tickets for a chance to win
some random percentage of the pot, eg between 3% and 50% -- akin to the
US "powerball" system or something like "keno"

The most creative and fun answer will be the one implemented.

Proprosal: EUR currency of gikopoi

2025-04-07T21:00:00+00:00

There are so many currencies we could call baseline, most notably:
- yen -- but only appeals to Japanese
- usd -- but Trump is crazy and Americans are minority
- eur -- basically a dollar*

I think "EUR" should be our baseline on Gikopoi because people with
odd currencies can understand EUR pretty well, and it also sends a
message to Americans that they are not the boss. Actually I would
rather use EUR than USD even if I lost money.

Zzazz missing since January 2nd

2025-04-04T20:26:25+00:00

It's been 3 months since our hero has last logged on. He was last
witnessed throwing down handfuls of benzodiazepines and chugging vodka
on stream. His current status is unknown, likely among the angels.

I propose we honor our missing hero by making the 2nd of every month
a day we live a little bit more like zzazz, in his honor, whether we
engage in drinking contests, shirtless streams, smoke narcotics on
camera, sing and play music live, netplay old games, or otherwise
attempt to emulate our fallen hero

Goroshek has also deceased. RIP little rat.

Giko Chess Games

2025-02-06T17:31:40+00:00

Archduke vs Akai
2025-02-06, 17:20

1.e4 e5
2.Nb1c3 Ng8f6
3.Bf1c4 Qd8e7
4.d3 c6
5.Bc1g5 d5
6.Bg5xf6 Qe7xf6
7.exd5 b5
8.dxc6 bxc4
9.c7 Nb8c6
10.d4 Nc6xd4
11.Nc3d5 Qf6c6
12.Qd1h5 Nd4xc2
13.Ke1d2 Nc2xa1
14.Qh5xe5 Qc6e6
15.Ng1f3 Qe6xe5
16.Nf3xe5 Bf8d6
17.Ne5c6 Bc8a6
18.Rh1e1 Ke8d7
19.Nc6b4 Bd6xb4
20.Nd5c3

New project: WikiWikiWiki

2024-06-08T18:14:26+00:00

Greetings,

https://wiki.gikopoi.com has been launched.

Source code @ https://github.com/153/wikiwikiwiki

Shin Megami Tensei TTRPG

2025-04-25T18:46:25+00:00

We need to play this on Giko

Rules PDF: https://files.catbox.moe/5l9e6r.pdf

Habbo Hotel Meeting 2025

2025-04-17T13:58:02+00:00

I'd like the members of gikopoi.com
to visit Habbo Hotel for Easter.
What do you say?

The Giko Backgammon Tournament

2025-03-23T18:36:18+00:00

Just a fun idea I had. We should collect a list of interested parties
for an April tournament, best of 10 (permitting use of doubling cube)
per match, maybe with a $5 buy-in per person

(winner gets 90% of funds, 10% of money goes toward paying VPS bill)

Playing for nothing is also fine but $5 feels like enough to stake
that the games would be a little more interesting but nothing to get
upset over.

Best of 10 may sound like a lot but incorporating the doubling cube,
1 game becomes 2 becomes 4 becomes 8 potentially very quickly... playing
with a small number of games per "match" gives RNG an advantage over
skill, which is something to be avoided

care about pohon bbs moar please ;_;

2024-07-09T23:25:55+00:00

i actually really like the board software and style sheets. it would
be nice if the bbs had more love like jspoi gets. this board is
deserving of some more effort and love infused into it by gikopoi.com
humans. please take time to talk here o _ o`

in unrelated news, i am considering changing pseudonyms. some uneasy
feeling i get whenever i keep a pseudonym for too long and it might
be more than just a symbol.

gikopoipoi.net forthcomingness

2025-03-21T11:17:39+00:00

Doesn't it seem kind of disingenous for gikopoi.com to not have even a little
explanatory sentence or something somewhere explaining it actually is,
in relation to gikopoipoi.net? An alternative instance with some little
preference-based mods? And then going as far as calling it "kidpoi", it's like
you forked off of it against your free will or something. Rubs me the wrong way.

Disable Gikopoi Firewall?

2024-09-13T15:36:14+00:00

Should I disable the Gikopoi firewall that keeps out (primarily) Tor
users? A lot of people have complained about this over the years;
largely I've felt that if people want to use Gikopoi, there should be
no problem in using their normal IP address and that there is no good
reason for using Tor -- no countries block gikopoi.com and information
is already encrypted via HTTPS if people are concerned about roommates
or government spying on them.

However, at the same time I acknowledge that there may be interesting
(yet mentally ill) people who will only use Tor or whatever sketchy
VPNs the firewall blocks that are not necessarily pedophiles/spammers.

If this experiment goes wrong, it only takes 2 seconds to turn the
firewall back on. So, I open this question up to the audience.

The Giko Gathering 2025

2024-09-02T17:50:38+00:00

hotaru has proposed a Giko Gathering 2025 in Turkey.

Pros:
- Turkey is pretty cheap
- Accessible to most Euro bros
- Accessible to Indonesians
- Hotaru can probably score us weed

Gikopoi map ideas

2024-08-13T07:02:56+00:00

Now that someone is working on a level editor for gikopoi... what are
some map ideas you have?

I made a brief list here:
https://wiki.gikopoi.com/w/GikoRoomIdeas

Gikopoi Election 2024

2024-05-23T03:24:05+00:00

The year is 2024 and the Gikopoi Election is underway again.

---------------------
Year-Month-Day scheduled events
---------------------
2024-07-06 -- First debate, speeches / presentations
2024-09-08 -- Second debate, speeches / presentations
2024-11-05 -- Final election day
---------------------

If you would like to run as candidate, post a reply to this thread
with your Gikopoi name, and write an essay of at least 100
words on what changes you would bring, values you embrace, etc.

Propaganda can be submitted to our image gallery:
https://booru.gikopoi.com/post/list/election

Gikopoi Booru is open for business

2024-05-23T03:07:23+00:00

https://booru.gikopoi.com

Enjoy