Pohon BBS

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.

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## 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.

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## 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.

Imageboard Textboard News

2024-01-04T03:33:21+00:00

New *chan appear? Old *chan die?
Any notable events or happenings?

Here we discuss all current news and drama in this funny little slice
of the internet.

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.

PGP thread

2025-03-05T17:08:13+00:00

because why not?

> Web PGP tool:
https://browserpgp.github.io/

> My new public key

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Age of Mythology classic

2025-10-20T13:42:38+00:00

via https://archive.org/details/aom-pc-redump

Grab ISO via https://archive.org/download/aom-pc-redump/AOM-PC-REDUMP/Age%20of%20Mythology%20-%20Gold%20Edition%20%28Canada%29%20%28En%2CFr%29.zip

unzip ISO, install AoM first then Titans second

Keys:
- AoM - HYQRH-FV79R-RHHPW-23G37-BDM76
- Titans - T2HB2-G4PK6-MQPDR-CTYPQ-64JK6

Next grab patch from Ubisoft
http://patches.ubi.com/age_of_mythology_the_titan/age_of_mythology_the_titan_dvd_fix.exe

Make sure to update the directory if you're running a 64 bit OS (you probably are), eg
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Age of Mythology

Finally, in the AoM directory run msxmlenu.msi and you can now boot Age of Mythology 2 by executing aomx.exe

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[

Gipf Project abstract strategy games

2025-07-17T16:44:34+00:00

Collection of 2 player abstract strategy games here, a total of 6
games: https://www.gipf.com/project_gipf/index.html

They're notable because they are all very easy to pick up and play,
difficult to master, 0 probability / 100% skill, highly psychological
kinds of games. Many have won many awards (including "mensa select"!)
and they can all be freely played online.

If anyone would like to try playing together, I think the flagship
game "gipf" is a good place to start -- there's a description on the
rules here: https://www.gipf.com/gipf/index.html

https://BoardSpace.net seems to be a good way to play these games
online. They allow guest members. My username is jerky and I am
open for games!

Incidentally boardspace has a big collection of high quality abstract
strategy games, see index: https://boardspace.net/english/logon-page.html

ASCII art

2024-01-12T06:21:30+00:00

Share cool ASCII art (no SJIS art, fuck you weebs)

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.

Hiiii from Torochannel

2025-06-12T05:16:36+00:00

Hello, I’m the admin of Torochannel.

Handheld games

2025-06-01T01:44:31+00:00

Got any portable console recs?
GBA/DS/PSP etc.
Posting from DSi Browser.

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.

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

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.

Matrix server launched

2024-11-17T15:51:02+00:00

In the past I have hosted matrix-synapse servers on multiple
occasions; resource consumption was always the limiting factor that
led me to pull the plug on them. Maybe someday I'll launch an XMPP
server. Until then, please enjoy using our matrix-conduit server.
Say hi in #lounge:gikopoi.com or swing by the #relay:gikopoi.com room
to chat with our discord and irc friends.

multichan/0chan.vip down

2024-10-24T17:37:44+00:00

0chan.vip (multichan) is down.
unavailable.

the last bastion of truth & freedom. a truly decentralized federated multichan
bbs without js bloat.

bring it back.
pohon is not a replacement because it's not a decentralized multichan.

SJIS vs UTF-8 FLAME WAR

2024-06-23T06:23:04+00:00

GO! ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Does Anonymity really improve discourse?

2024-05-24T07:30:05+00:00

By anonymity, I really mean anonymity -- not pseudonymous communities

Anonymity lowers the barrier to entry... for people who prefer
anonymous communities. But a lot of people who want to invest a lot of
real energy into a community, people who want to put work into serious
projects, are not going to prioritize an imageboard over something
like Discord or Twitter.

The main purpose of imageboards is to give a toilet to the internet.
Need to blow off steam? Vent? Post a dick pic? Get involved in petty
debates? Or are you such a brain damaged person that you get banned
from "mainstream" internet constantly -- you're the target audience
for 4chan.

Textboards and Gikopoi seem to have less tendency to go to complete
ass than imageboards, so anonymity does not automatically imply shit.
But this may just be due to the fact that these communities are very
small -- and they have less bias against pseudonymity than imageboards
As a counter-example, look at Sageru IRC for something that's generally
lower quality than /b/, /soc/, /pol/ etc

On places like IRC, Gikopoi, Mastodon, and other low-barrier pseudonymous
communities, mentally ill people and naughty children are easily blocked,
which creates a negative feedback loop that incentivizes the posters to
either shape up or get out. On the other hand, with an imageboard, when
trolling, someone can flame himself in the comments to keep himself in the
spotlight -- an anti-feature.

So my basic opinion is that anonymous and pseudonymous communities are
essentially equally good when small, and that as communities scale,
anonymous communities fare worse. This makes me think that gatekeeping
is actually not a bad thing. I can't imagine that Something Awful would
have done well without the $10 account registration fee, and something
like Reddit wouldn't work without karma. Anonymous communities have no
means by which to gatekeep, which is ultimately to their detriment

What do you think?

FOSS Games

2024-01-12T21:45:24+00:00

what is your favorite foss game? cataclysm:dda is pretty good.

stylesheet thread

2024-07-12T22:44:05+00:00

talk about pohon stylesheets here
here are various site features to test
>gtxt
%%spoiler%%

Gikopoi Booru is open for business

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

https://booru.gikopoi.com

Enjoy

Tabletop Games, online

2024-05-23T01:25:55+00:00

Here are some popular ways to play tabletop games, online, without the
need to register any account or download apps:

- https://en.crosswordsarena.com/ -- Scrabble-ish
- https://lichess.org -- chess
- https://skribbl.io/ -- Pictionary
- https://maque.games/ -- Zung Jung mahjong
- https://cardgames.io/ -- several card games, and a few board games.
You'll want to increase the play timers by default; it's no fun
losing a game due to an invisible timer running out

Services that require registration:
- https://dominoes.playdrift.com/ -- This is the best dominoes service
that I know of. However you DO need to register an account.
- https://www.platoapp.com/download/ -- A big collection of classic
games, especially for mobile devices but also for Windows desktop