tl;dr specifically for OTP 29 Follow normal Erlang/zx install procedure outlined below. After installation: Download the manpages from erlang.org Screenshot 2026-07-17 Extract to ~/.erts/<whatever version>/ The tarball extracts everything to ./man which you need to copy to ~/.erts/29.0.3/ mkdir -p ~/build/eman cd ~/build/eman wget https://github.com/erlang/otp/releases/download/OTP-29.0.3/otp_doc_man_29.0.3.tar.gz tar xzvf otp_doc_man_29.0.3.tar.gz mv man ~/.erts/29.0.3/ Edit your ~/.bashrc or […]
The Matrix can MULTIPLY?! The SHOCKING truth Big Data doesn’t want you to know (pt 1) (HEARTBREAKING)
This post is lecture notes for this lecture I gave on zxq9’s stream on 2026-07-13 Our plan is to do a stream every week on American Monday at 8:00 PM Eastern Time (9:00 PM Realistic Time). We’ll see how long that plan lasts. We’re going to rotate who’s speaking every week. Next week’s speaker is […]
The Tragedy of the Laser Pointer
I have a lot of cats. They like playing laser. After a while the cats figure out a few things. Among these are: the red dot appears immediately following the clicky sound, usually in the late evening when the benevolent hairless ape that dispenses food and cleans up my poop is watching the glowing box […]
Migrating from Ubuntu/KDE to Devuan/XFCE
Ah, Devuan… the great migration begins. Leaving KDE and Ubuntu behind means learning a few new habits, and as opposed to that sucking really badly, there is actually quite a lot of good news: old-school GTK and Qt programs are pretty darn good these days and dramatically lighter weight than the KDE mainstays. Yes, KDE […]
Building Erlang + ZX on Devuan Excalibur
With Ubuntu/Kubuntu out of the running for “works and is mostly sane”, we are having to shift once again over to Devuan, which we have been using for servers for several years now at Tsuriai and QPQ, but not as often on desktops (because Kubuntu was just so convenient and changing habits is annoying). This […]
GAJU: Create and Call a Gajumaru Smart Contract
“Smart contract” is a bad term. It is malicious antisense made up by a marketing department with the intent of warping the intuitions of non-experts in dangerous ways. A much better term would be “ledger logic” or “chain script” or even “weave” or “doom” or something like that — because a “smart contract” is just […]
Electrification of the Line
Early electrification of the manufacturing base is an interesting story. It isn’t just a story about replacing one sort of drive for another, but rather a process of iterative revelations that were only possible after each iteration had taken place. To keep the story short here I’ll summarize, but the details are almost as interesting […]
Nonsense VS Antisense
The vast majority of content online is now machine generated. Even before the advent of LLMs, most of the information posted online from the late 2000’s onward was either malicious or insane. Almost everything you see online is part of information warfare. Academic journals, legacy media, social media posts, video content, podcasts, etc. Very little […]
Entropism: Defining Consciousness
Much like life, consciousness often eludes definition or even description. We have a tendency to create ambiguous definitions for consciousness that deify the category of whoever is doing the defining (ourselves) while at the same time locking down certain aspects of consciousness that lead us away from knowing anything useful about it. Learning from our […]
Entropism: Defining Life
Life is a concept with which we are all intuitively familiar but is difficult to pin down with a concrete definition. Let’s start with a definition up front and go from there. An Entropist definition of life is simple: A locally anti-entropic process that maintains or increases local order at the cost of an increase […]