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 […]
Category: Society
Should be obvious…
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 […]
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 […]
Slavery
Slavery is best defined not as a state of servitude, but a state of dependency.
The Cannon Conjugate
Gather round children, and let Daddy tell you a story known in the world of computing as "the leftpad debacle". NPM is the computing equivalent of a gay bathhouse where programmers all gather to exchange diseases (the formal term in computer science is "bugchasing" if you want to look it up). Years ago, a programmer […]
Don’t look back
This is a post for fellow antivax chads. If you’re a vaxtard (or ever were), you probably don’t want to read this. Or do. But proceed at your own risk. I keep meeting girls I like and then finding out they got a covid vaccine. If you got the vaccine, you would have been one […]
Aegora.jp: An Explainer
Aegora.jp is a somewhat complicated system in that it directly uses on-chain contract call transactions as its payment method. This means that a sale’s status passes through phases that are governed by actions that occur on the chain which can only be initiated by transactions that are signed by the users and must be verified […]
Alternative Tracks
“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually, then suddenly.” Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises A cascade of financial crises are rushing across the Western world. Gradually Imagine a set of express trains that are all headed toward a single catastrophic, multi-track collision. Each train is heavily damaged already, but the […]
An obvious solution to the Fermi Paradox
The past three years have made obvious a simple solution to the Fermi Paradox. Any advanced civilization will eventually discover nuclear and (in our case) biological weapons. These present a systemic risk to the entire uniplanetary civilization. AI may also present a systemic risk, but that is less clear. The civilization now has two choices: […]