Wrongthink

In the post about Visualizing Dependencies I shared a graphic relating some APIs.

A major catalyst which has propelled our society into the perpetually rising shepard tone cycle of new hysterias is undoubtedly the crowded mental state which most people operate in.

Even though most ISPs supply a “free” router, they should always be considered as external infrastructure not to be trusted.

The last time I ever used reddit was to truthbomb r/linuxmasterrace with scathing comics I made in GIMP.

To better visualize how middleware can lock projects to specific platforms, one can generally create a flowchart of supported targets.

It’s happened just about everywhere.

Advertisements are an adversarial affair.

Some may struggle to learn new languages because they take a top-down approach.

It has been amusing to watch, from a safe distance, the progressive stasi and the neoboomers clash over control of information flow on the web.

VPN services are being shilled everywhere, on privacy sites, in just about every techtuber channel and by the masses on forums.

Starting in 2010, I began running my own Minecraft servers haphazardly until about 2015.

Despite the staunch views I now hold, I have not always been immersed in libre technology.

The Hated One has recently pivoted into doing mobile phone content.

I have been working through a backlog of topics that accumulated during a period of downtime starting in 2021.

One trend I notice among all the Windows vs Mac vs Linux memes that have been made over the years is that most try to paint Windows as though it were some reasonable middle ground.

The fragmentation of an already small ideological alignment can be devestating for those trying to set and achieve even modest goals for the wider group.

Anyone looking on in horror as a totalitarian technocratic global police state gets erected in the name of public safety™ has probably been ruminating on ways of avoiding it all.

Users of computerized televisions seem willing to tolerate just about anything.

Most consumer robotics of the near future will probably function a whole lot more like Aibo, the subscription hostage robot, than like the Jetson’s robotic butler.

The things which differentiate distributions of Linux from one another are less numerous today but still an important factor in many user’s decisions.

We covered some quick video editing commands with ffmpeg over in Command Line Video Editing.

A prevailing perspective among tech enthusiasts paints liberated software as some secondary, afterthought solution that remains perpetually “not ready for prime time”.

I have devised a simple and effected public health strategy that even mental midgets can comprehend.

Do you enjoy video games?

I get why forks happen.

One thing to bolster your independence is being able to source goods locally.

The independent search engines which promised netizens that they would honor their word not to track, censor or advertise have continually been caught doing just that.

If you lived through the zombie media craze of the late aughts, you’ve probably enjoyed a debate or two among peers detailing how you might survive an apocalypse.

Many insist that the modern web has become unusable without the aid of powerful content blocking tools.

The ultimate hacker computer?

It sure is fun to beat up on television watchers.

You have probably overheard conversations between laypersons bemoaning their interactions with some shiny new tech.

Children everywhere are being groomed en masse, but not in the way that term might illicit imagery of.

This was extracted from a chat before it disappeared down the IRC black hole.

Sharing and receiving copywrong encumbered digital games gratis is always morally correct and completely justified except under condition 1.

It is now the information age.

Discussion arose recently around the disparity found in technical literacy between the Lib-Left and Lib-Right, after a writeup by 寮 sparked some contemplation.

So many privacy advocates get all twisted up trying to find the best privacy respecting phone that they lose sight of the core problem at hand.

Let’s take a brief diversion to talk about aviation.

There was a period of time where I forced myself to learn video editing on terminal with ffmpeg.

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I was orginally maintaining this site in raw HTML from master copies on my production system.

I do a lot of chest beating here championing free software for its successes but let’s take a look at some areas where free software has met with some failure.

Why is it that news believers are incapable of ingesting information unless it is presented to them through a talking head at a desk with a tickertape running below and blaring synthetic trumpets?

I hate to make pages just to state what is probably already obvious, but I feel this deserves being said.

A great power that people do not even realize they have lost is the ability to do things on one’s own system without a network connection.

One rhetoric which often makes its way to the forefront of privacy discussions online is that which states “The only way out is to just move out to the woods and live in a cabin off grid!”.

“We must resist the seductive notion that others can be trusted to guide our consciences for us.

Let’s take a quick journey into the mind of a tech normie.

Many gamers have been in an uproar recently about an anti-user anti-cheat technique which has been in use for far longer than most of them even realize.