I read about the history and legacy of the Delta Clipper recently. It’s incredible how notability and the right people propels niche technology into popular culture. It “Fulton follies” onto the mainstream and amasses social proof.

Abbreviations are another completion primitive in Vim. Since it’s full auto, it wants to be magical. <Key> presses and scripts can be replayed. Paired with custom completions and output from external tools, it transforms into advanced witchcraft and/or cursed sorcery. In my case, it just expands acronyms.

There’s an artful wisdom gained from age, maybe. I’m still young though so let’s say; personal experience. It’s understanding that sometimes you don’t have to play the game.

Knowing my luck, I’d have light expertise on Intel CPUs right about now if I still had interest in playing games. I heard somewhere once that processor imperfections influence the numbering of its variants (i3, i5, i7). If so, then the wonders of economies of scale?

Here’s Vim editor thesaurus completion. This kind of completion has its various limitations that I might detail later. I mentioned thesauri in passing but my Internet connection is pitiful and writing about editor meta feels a bit bizarre.

More Vim editor meta? Since posting a video of my LaTeX/Vim shenanigans, queries for tips arrive occasionally. Completion and whole line completion are boilerplate hammers. The more buffers and windows loaded, the more “robust”.

I do not contemn the knowledge of the strange? Someone taught me two concepts the other day; doomerism and prompt engineering [?].

Honestly, a lot of global tech news sounds like a prompt engineering session of doom. Hallucinating bots and crawlers is just a beautiful piece of work.

But what on this doomsday is up with its subculture? Why does it read like promptly engineered satire? Wikipedia is a giggle.

I sometimes forget that KiB style units are confusing. The kB / KB is practically ambiguous. Kibi is “2 to the 10” or 1024 (binary), but…

1 kB ≈ 1 KB ≈ 1 KiB ≈ 1000 B ≈ 1024 B? Read my mind?

The SI metric system is still a great feat though and unifies primary dimensions (length) on equivalent units (meters). Instead of hands, inches, feet, chains, furlongs, barleycorns, rods, and links — it’s just meters prefixed arbitrarily. Time’s probably messed up though.

True story: I saw a ‘6 soft white rolls’ bread package morph into “6 50 foot white rolls” because of metric illness.

Contact forms are magical informants. Can you smell what kind of spam the spammers (and scammers) are cooking?

1. AI traffic/content farming services
2. Blockchain services
3. Coin recovery services
4. Guest posters for any of the above
5. Link sellers
6. Cloaking dealers
7. Cyber security spooks
8. Rich people asking us poor people for money
9. Visionary astrologers and foretellers

The last four years have taught us valuable lessons. In the shopping mall at the “end of the world”, the three most valued goods are toilet paper, toilet paper stocks and finally, toilet paper stockpiling. Accounts of toilet paper recall options are most likely bogus.

I recovered some junked DLINK DIR 615 I1s a while back. These routers were soft bricked (on-and-off remote access). A peek online hinted at a built-in recovery/safe mode.

That failed in modern browsers. The suggestions here didn’t work either. Why? Who knows? They were made in 2012 and discontinued 2017. Using the “recreate the developer’s environment” trick, a 2012 browser (Opera) revived the custom firmware updater! Now they work again. The end.

Default firmware: https://tsd.dlink.com.tw/