Have any of you ever heard of Reader Rabbit (embed)? I’ve been going through some old physical media. It was a simpler time.

I’ll be 502’ing my repositories for a bit. Use private or public mirrors in the mean time. Most of the stuff on there is in sloppy mode, so you won’t miss them.

I can eat goofy bot traffic, but my curiosity wants to be satisfied and I’m itching to do some data gathering and analysis. It turns out that sending a blanket 502 causes the metadata to arrive even faster (bots go crazy).

One of the glorious things about self hosting truly personal stuff, is that you can just turn off your server(s). There is no pressure to keep anything up.

I helped someone with a tmux config. It’s been a while since I’ve used tmux but I’ve since realized it’s better to copy paste tmux list-keys into tmux.conf and reset all shortcuts (for debugging).

tmux list-keys

The help menu (tmux list-keys -N) displays shortcuts with bind-key -N "description".

Turns out (rather gleefully) that I was proven wrong. Spooky competition did its thing and now I have two fiber links. One is symmetrical.

I think ISPs should compete more strategically with Starlink by looking into WISPs (fixed wireless + WiGig). Many of the out islands have limited to no banking. At home, everyone’s best friends with Starlink.

Sandboxing in systemd? I would’ve shown my (somewhat manual) method but then I was strolling through the GitHub and saw shh (systemd hardening helper). It uses strace to generate suggestions. You’ll need to be extremely careful, playing inside a sandbox summons debugging hell. I tried it briefly.

I’ve been catching up. Speed-reading two years worth of tech media is like reading about a war at 10x the speed. You have four quotes in your quiver (this is a math problem now). At what angle(s) would you draw your title bow to inflict the greatest pangs of outrage?

I’ve gotten used to hearing a certain phrase. “You can’t trust the AI” to not make mistakes. That’s how you know; they kind of did it. Imagine there’s a box and that box is orange.

Someone takes that orange box, calls it a black box, declares that orange is the new black, points to another orange box and tells you to open up that black box. Can you … no questions asked? If so, then you might have mathematical powers (or color blindness).

I was thinking the other day that when I first saw CSS, my initial question was, “Why is everything not important?” And, I was told that’s not (not) important. Shared abstractions; they drive on parkways and park on driveways.

Why dabble with Firefox? Everything is customizable. How long will this be so? Who knows. E.g, I have custom stylesheets that hide comments everywhere (Firefox/Chrome) among other things. “Experts” only?

about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox

chrome://browser/content/browser.xhtml

toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets true

Scam and spam emails these last few years have been mixing up those metaphors.

Have you heard of Pegasus?

I’m some kind of God who sees everything. However, don’t panic. As we know, God is merciful and forgiving, and so do I. But my mercy is not free.

Just google “buy coin” and then it will be no harder than buying some useless stuff on Amazon.

I think they lost most of their targets by starting off with a reference to the thoroughbred flying dutchman.

This graph is from Grafana. It’s moreso for developer operations. I used to use qtiplot for random stuff, but nowadays I use gnuplot for scriptability (not GNU, see demos). Then, there’s Microsoft Excel et al.