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This zine is my submission for the Fuck Capitalism Jam 2026.

Deltarune fans are asking, what’s the deal with this character called ERAM?

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Read on AO3 Archivist “You wanted to see me boss?”

Minimum required reading: The Magnus Archives Episode 38: Lost and Found Audio Transcript Read on AO3 Nihilio, The Pale, The Endless Snowstorm, The Nothing The following is a fanfiction of the Magnus Archives, while both this and it’s source are clearly f…

During the Palisades and Eaton fires, any Angeleno who turned on the news would be given something else to worry about: crime.

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Update 2025-10-18: the in-line footnotes were not working on mobile so I have added a footnotes section at the bottom spoilers ahead

Open IRC Log <violetFate> hi!

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Update 2026-02-02: See my latest privacy guide Terminology What is a threat model For any given piece of information the threat model is who or what you are protecting it from.

For when you don’t already have a kubernetes cluster Level 1: Just Back It Up Install syncthing for your distro and add another device This tutorial won’t go into that, see the official syncthing tutorial here Move the weechat folders to ~/Sync (the defau…

Robin inspects her ID It appears she has already received an SSH key, this can be used to access the school’s internet relay chat server.

A young woman stands in her room, it just so happens that today is her first day of high school.

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Update 2026-02-02: See my latest privacy guide What and Why This guide explains how to make a burner phone with a threat model.

Pi Alert Pi Alert continually scans your network and can alert you for new devices joining and devices going offline.

I operate on a mental calendar loosely based on CGP Grey’s Theme System.

or, why Cloudflare is hosting a mirror of everything on libgen If you’ve been on libgen recently you’ve probably seen this: huh!??

Update 2026-02-02: See my latest privacy guide categories casual: convenient option for casual usage secret: for a more intense threat model, for example, if you are a blogger in Florida avoid: something recommended by other privacy guides that I would av…

Neocities neocities is free hosting in the style of the original geocities a lot of very interesting looking sites, many made with html by hand plus, a lot of them are inspired by serial experiments lain Yesterweb Links tagline: Remember when the internet…

(this is satire) inspired by bottom dudo is a secure passwordless privilege escalation utility to replace sudo Features No vulnerabilities Obscurity No bloat AI-powered execution AI-powered command caching No Bloat dudo is only 33 lines of code, sudo is l…

This is basically the config from home.file Setup Install home-manager Create a directory called ~/backups to store the symlinks to backups (the actual data will be stored in /nix/store) Backing up a file Add this to your ~/.config/nixpkgs/home.nix: home.…

This post is my take on GNU Doesn't Care About Your Agency - Xe Update from 2023-04-11 see also: The Free Software Foundation is dying - Drew Devault’s blog The Free Software Foundation, who developed the GNU system, is surprisingly critical of most GNU/L…

Let's look at a for loop in Javascript for (i = 0; i < 3; i++){ console.log(i); } > 0 > 1 > 2 Now let's write that same loop in python for i in range(0, 3, 1): print(i) > 0 > 1 > 2 The range command is flexible for i in range(4, -4, -2): print…

Firejail - Linux namespaces sandbox program Installing $ apt install firejail NixOS programs.firejail.enable = true; Profiles $ firejail firefox # Run firefox with the default profile $ firejail --noprofile firefox # Run firefox without a p…