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In the US there seems to be strong sentiments going both ways on whether or not to use the Universal Metric System (e.g. meters, grams, litres, etc.).

I love food, it's one of the most important things in my life.

I haven't posted on my blog for quite a while, but there's a reason for this.

A common core ideal of our modern societies has become productivity, being able to produce more in less time.

The ARM CPU architecture, although quite old (first introduced in 1985) has only recently started to pick up steam, currently competing in the CPU market with Intel and AMD.

I've gone over before in my post about the Google memo, on how our current way of encouraging women to take STEM courses is failing.

Over the course of this summer I've been working a lot on the album 'Summer', primarily on the song "Linda's Open Doors".

Recently I've decided to change how my blog works to make it easier to manage.

Maybe half a year ago a friend and I were talking about owning one's own labour as well as working less, and we were trying to figure out the way to work less and live more while at the same time own more of one's own labour.

I have recently put up my own git hosting instance on the VPS at git.themusicinnoise.net.

Coming from someone who uses the GPL constantly this seems kind of strange or even contradictory, but I do actually dislike licensing.

As of lately I've been delving deeper into what is the psychedelic rock genre, looking for inspirations, and I've come across a subgenre called stoner rock.

For any of you that have been using Firefox for quite some time now with your abundance of addons, you've probably noticed that most of them are no longer compatible with the newest Firefox 57 (Quantum).

Recently I have found myself disliking OOPLs , and I'd like to explain my reasoning for this.

I'll keep this brief and to the point.

I have to admit that I'm probably not the best example of what is considered user-friendly (since I use i3 with terminals everywhere, CLI versions of a bunch of applications, etc.), however I do know what is considered user-friendly, primarily because I am

I believe that in recent years the situations we've seen politically have gotten worse, people have become polarized, they are shifting towards extreme actions which do nothing but to worsen the situation.

A long time ago I figured out that GRUB2 has the capability of decrypting a LUKS encrypted partition therefore allowing for the `/boot' partition to be encrypted, however I haven't had the time to test it out until today.

As someone who moves around a lot, I dislike having to bring lots of equipment with me, this includes amplifiers, keyboards, etc.

I have recently restructured my blog so that there are now multiple sections dedicated to different topics.

For someone like me, one of the most damaging aspects of the society we live in is the constant stress and anxiety we feel throughout our lives, how we rarely have the time to reflect, to stop and think for a while, or simply to do nothing (yes, I mean no…

As promised, a criticism of Apple MacOS (or whatever people are calling it nowadays), of course, this will mostly be mixed in with issues I have with Apple itself, and some of them may sound familiar (because they're the same as with Windows).

Normally I dislike hopping onto bandwagons for this blog, but this is about a field that I am very involved in: the technology field.

For those of you who use GNU/Linux or BSD (or basically any other UNIX-like system) this post will come as no surprise to you, but I still felt the urge to make it anyways.

It's quite annoying to hear, as it is for most techies, whenever people say that millennials are the 'technology' or 'digital' generation.

In many countries in the West xenophobia has been rising, yet I have not seen this kind of behaviour in Andalusia.

Ever since before Ice in the Fall I've been working on an album called Summer.

One thing I've always loved and come to appreciate more and more is the wonderful nothingness which is silence.

It pains me to see how often we end up 'just dealing' with our computer software being restrictive, how we say we dislike how a certain software functions and yet we just roll over and take the hit.

I have recently switched from Parabola to Arch.

Something that really annoys me about most repository hosts nowadays is that all of them are highly dependent on using pull-requests to contribute code, when originally all VCSs had (and still have) ways to contribute via patches (that and the `patch' com…

Too often have I heard people say that someone is "Judgemental", someone saying "Don't judge!"

Recently I came across the Sleepycat License, which I believed to be a copyleft Free Software license that only requires any projects using the Sleepycat licensed software to disclose source code (not necessarily forcing any particular license on the user…

For quite some time now I've been using Bitmessage, an e-mail replacement that was made to protect user privacy based on the Bitcoin model.

NOTE: I am explicitly referring to the GNU General Public License version 2 and 3 when I say GPL, it is not referring to other licenses such as the Lesser General Public License or the Affero General Public License.

A while back I wrote a blog post on HTTPS and how it is not necessary for all websites, however I have recently had a change of heart on the issue.

In my previous post I demonstrated how to setup LVM on LUKS with Parabola GNU/Linux-libre.

As of recently I have reinstalled Parabola with a LUKS encrypted partition containing both swap and root (I do not have a separate home partition).

Often times us programmers are told that something we are creating is too complex, too techie, or too advanced for the average person and therefore it is our responsibility to make our programs easier to use for other people.

Recently I started learning Esperanto, the universal second-language.

As many may have noticed, unfortunately TOR has been presented by the media as solely a tool for illicit activities that most of us consider to be extremely alarming (ie child pornography, hit-men, counterfeit bills, etc.), when those of us who have used…

Recently I have made a switch to Parabola GNU/Linux-Libre, one the free GNU/Linux distributions (the others use the standard Linux kernel which has non-free blobs for drivers, as well as distributing non-free firmware).

Recently I've decided to start learning Esperanto alongside Japanese.

Merry Grav-Mass!

Nowadays we are very used to being pounded with the ever more popular idea that books are sacred and that anything digital is somehow impure (even if it's the same material but on a screen).

So, in a previous post I spoke about how I use GNOME as my DE, and I explained that it's mostly because I didn't want to have to got through the hassle of setting up a more minimal WM to make it usable.

Of all the programming languages my favorite in general is C.

For those of you who don't know, CLI means Command-Line Interface.

One of the largest struggles in the Free Software movement is that against non-free firmware.

Games form a very important part of our lives, even if it's not necessarily computer games you do play some sort of games (although I would guess that most who read my blog would play some sort of computer game, mobile games included since mobiles are a t…