It would be really nice to have a community where everyone had household compute that was their “main” computer. They could be the hubs for communications that’s always on, and you could set it up to communicate with an otherwise anonymous public handheld, or just leave it until you get home and decide to get online. handhelds wouldn’t need to be repositories of sensitive data, they could just be thin clients that could be safely wiped and restored (without needing a corporate entity’s help or permission) in the event of damage or theft. Home networks could become overlapping network nodes, reducing or eliminating the need for regional or global internet provider services. We could really run the internet ourselves.

“Columbus thought he was in India! And did he worry about being wrong? No! He just called everybody Indians, and we still do it today. Why? 'Cause. You want to be an American? You fill out that ballot because you don’t know what you’re doing. Just like when we named this country after the fourth or fifth guy who discovered it, Amerigo Vespucci. Who cares? America.”

– Tracy Jordan

Reminds me of the “kuh-TAR” vs “CUT-urr” thing with Qatar in American english. AFAIK neither is technically more correct than the other but there seems to be an ideological split? As in, conservatives tend to call it “kuh-TAR” and progressives tend to call it “CUT-urr”. I’ve been corrected in pronunciation both ways, so people seem to care a great deal about it. So puzzling.

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It’s fun when my government decides which administration officials to shitcan via press leak vibe check.

It looks like a dog ate bird poop and threw up on a biscuit. It’s really good though.

When I was younger there was a hot new book called The Artist’s Way. I never finished it, I don’t even know if I would recommend it, but one of the practices it recommends is morning pages, and morning pages helped me.

What you do is you get a pen and a notebook, and write three pages every morning. If you miss a morning, wait til next morning and write three pages. It doesn’t have to be good or even sensical. A lot of my early morning pages were line after line of “I don’t want to do this, this is bullshit, I’m just kiiiiiiiilllllllling trees and wasting space this is dumb”. Eventually I got bored of writing that stuff and started writing other things, but it took a long time.

The trick is you gotta do it every day, even on days you don’t want to. No one but you can make you write so if you don’t do it, you won’t do it.

Oh it’s pandemonium. My nipples can launch a thousand ships per minute. Each.

You’re getting near a description of Merkle’s Puzzles, one of the earlier versions of public key cryptography. If you like thinking about this stuff I think it’s a fun read.

This is my reflection on my own experience with meditation, I have no other expertise on the subject.

It’s not not that. It doesn’t completely prevent processes from starting up randomly, but it does make it easier and faster to shut them down gracefully. It’s also helpful for understanding and adjusting system calls that keep restarting processes I no longer need running all the time.

Meditation is essentially a software patch that reduces the brain’s tendency to DDoS itself.

My alt-text isn’t showing up and I spent too long on it to give it up so I’m putting it in a comment:

I do very much enjoy their aquarium.

yep that works a lot better. Mine did spit out a wall message, but only after the script hangs and has to be ctrl-D’ed. I figured I had tested enough for the internet joke and I shipped it to prod.

Before I read the article I’m going to guess based on the headline:

Flaming mechanical cathedrals to the god of money would be a little too on the nose?

Nah, it’s nothing that complicated, it’s just a bash script

while [ 0 -eq 0 ]
do
        wall | head -c 16 /dev/random
        sleep 1
done

It’s such a defeated attitude. Back in my day the internet Nazis at least pretended to give a shit about their ideology, now it’s just “we can’t let them take away our wallowing drivel, otherwise we would have nothing left to wallow in” like, Really? the best defense you can come up with is “it’s better than nothing?” When was nothing an option?

Oh right, when nazi ideology dictated that the only legitimate culture is its own. God damn, nazis, it must be bleak to live in a world where you’re not allowed to enjoy any good art. No wonder you’re such cranky assholes all the time.

Big fan of Trump still having on suit pants and black shoes under the robes.

And he hulked out so hard he grew a belt.

LMAO “not rehosting nazi content” -> “we’d have no content” is a wild statement.

Even better, it’s a new way of not saying it.