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2026-04-16 01:49:31 GMT

Wait, hold up, you can steal all of someone's money, from a locked iphone, in mere seconds, and have been able to for years and years and years,
And I'm supposed to believe that mobile OSs are more secure than desktop Linux or BSD?

2026-02-14 01:36:05 GMT

This just in:
Apparently humans still suck

2026-01-23 21:23:53 GMT

I always have this strange urge in the back of my mind to build a pager, even though I have no possible use for one and probably wouldn't want to need one anyway

2026-01-13 04:07:58 GMT

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This is true, yeah

2026-01-12 19:10:57 GMT

It's essential that we all remember, laws don't actually have to be enforced.
There are lots of laws that aren't, and very little legal requirement for "law enforcement" to actually enforce laws.
So any time a law is enforced, it's either by choice, or out of stupidity.

2025-12-26 00:26:37 GMT

I've been seeing more and more people say that, assuming software wasn't _mindbogglingly_ unoptimized, _most_ people would be _totally_ fine with a [486 through core 2 duo, depending who you ask] and everything newer is pretty much unnecessary for the _majority_ of tasks,
And let me just say, I'm all for this. Genuinely _love_ this trend. Agree 100%

2025-12-25 06:26:39 GMT

So, my parents got me a really awesome tool set, name brand and everything, so like, wow, jaw dropped, I was not prepared for this

2025-12-24 19:45:03 GMT

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Ah, so a bit like NAT routing?
A lot of people see it as a stopgap until IPv6 becomes ubiquitous, but it's actually insanely handy for security and network layout/separation. (I will die on this hill)

2025-12-17 01:38:41 GMT

Listen, I literally have a death wish, and yet driving is still absolutely terrifying.
WTF is wrong with everyone, this is not ok

2025-12-13 01:19:30 GMT

I low key hate it when companies try to bring back things I loved, because they always completely fuck it up and ruin everything

2025-12-12 22:07:25 GMT

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I've been reading up on, and it looks like DNS over HTTPS _does_, but then TLS actually provides it's own unencrypted path that can be snooped, although it looks like there have been efforts to encrypt that as well, although there appears to still be debate as to how well it's been done. And plus there are still IP addresses, though there's debate about how well the sites you visit can really be tracked through those these days, and I think I'm too deep plzhlp

2025-12-12 06:33:13 GMT

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I'm not entirely sure how self hosting a DNS cache would really increase security and privacy, because my cache would still need to source it's info from the usual sources in the usual way

2025-12-12 06:27:38 GMT

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Just shifts the trust though, doesn't it?
Everything from signed certificates to VPNs just shift the trust

2025-12-12 06:15:49 GMT

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I don't really trust it, though. It's another step towards the death of the internet as a tool by the people. Assuming that dream isn't already dead completely

2025-12-12 06:07:29 GMT

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Well, the biggest issue for the vast, vast majority of the internet is the URL. HTTPS does not fix DNS

2025-12-12 03:51:54 GMT

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Because it adds absolutely no security to the majority of the internet. Only stuff like banking websites, shopping carts, and secure chat apps benefit at all from going over HTTPS instead of plain HTTP

2025-12-12 02:03:50 GMT

Hear me out...
I've been thinking about it, and the S in HTTPS is completely 100% superfluous on the vast, _vast_ majority of websites

2025-11-29 07:01:17 GMT

I want snuggles :(

2025-11-27 01:46:34 GMT

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My main risk vector is from snooping family, with almost no risk what so ever from any kind of skilled attack. No encryption or strong passwords necessary. Having them not be able to look through my open windows, even just a tiny snippet, is my sole concern :P

2025-11-22 03:02:11 GMT

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Right, except for two things. First of all, I think for home users, switching windows to hide stuff from someone looking over your shoulder is probably one of the single most important things for privacy. And second of all, it speaks to _woefully_ unprotected video RAM, which I would argue is genuinely very bad for security.

2025-11-22 01:42:19 GMT

Listen,
Until computers stop showing my desktop, task bar, and whatever I had open, for a second before showing the screen lock whenever I wake them up, and stop showing snippets of other windows for a second when I switch windows,
I absolutely refuse to take cybersecurity seriously.
Because this is an absolute bare faced _joke_
I simply will not trust obscure hypothetical fixes to hypothetical scenarios I can't see, when stuff I can see and actually matters to me is _blatantly broken_

2025-11-17 01:03:20 GMT

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People keep telling me "Well, VPN providers have different regulations and stuff, so they're more trustworthy than ISPs" But I'll be honest, I kinda doubt that personally

2025-11-16 22:36:06 GMT

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vpns are honestly mostly "useful" if you don't want the immediate network to see the url. Otherwise, they really don't do much imo

2025-11-15 19:52:47 GMT

It's interesting seeing even Unix from the 90s, going to install software from retail CDs, "Missing dependencies"
Ahhh, the familiar pain

2025-11-10 01:56:35 GMT

I'm honestly getting really sick of the idea that everything in computing must be temporary and fleeting because "security"
I refuse to accept that I must accept crappy UI changes, the elimination of backwards compatibility, deprecation of hardware, and forcing all dev efforts to be perpetual or fade away, just because "oh, well, we just realized this attack is _technically_ possible, and we're gonna make that _your_ problem now"
I say _NO_ to temporary computing.

2025-11-08 06:15:41 GMT

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in this case, freeheroes2-pkg

2025-11-08 04:59:38 GMT

I'll be honest, trying to install anything on Linux _not_ from the package manager (Or even if it _is_ in the package manager, if it requires installing external components) is still an absolute _nightmare_

2025-11-03 03:08:40 GMT

Because we as a society have failed to make up our minds to _stopping_ changing the clocks twice a year, I've come up with a complete pro-con list to help make the right choice on this complex matter.
Changing the clocks twice a year:
Pros:
None.
Cons:
Literally death.

2025-10-13 17:24:28 GMT

Listen, hear me out...
I fundamentally don't trust GUIDs/UUIDs

2025-10-11 01:07:13 GMT

TFW you have ADHD so you can't focus until the last minute, but you've been so dazed and out of it that your internal clock is messed up so your ADHD doesn't realize that this _is_ the last minute 😭

2025-10-10 18:00:58 GMT

Hear me out...
Motherboards, even in laptops, should always have as many RAM slots as physically possible.
Because a few years down the line, used low capacity RAM sticks are pennies on the dollar, where as used high capacity RAM sticks cost their weight in gold.
It's an _intensely_ frustrating experience trying to double my RAM and having to pay at least four times as much.

2025-10-09 04:09:45 GMT

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I dunno, watching my own conduct today, I think I'm truly hopeless. I only ever seem to get worse.

2025-10-08 22:14:17 GMT

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I wasn't planning on staying emotionally healthy

2025-10-08 21:33:25 GMT

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well, yes, this is sort of my point. I don't want to hurt anyone, so I would rather not have anyone to hurt

2025-10-08 21:25:02 GMT

**Don't worry, I'm not gonna kill myself any time soon**
But, I really do want to kill myself. Like, as an aspirational goal. I _want_ to die, and _I_ want to be the one who kills me.
Maybe that's why I'm always sabotaging myself in everything else I want to do. Because having friends and having family and being known, all gets in the way of it. And I can't kill myself until all of that is gone.

2025-10-07 17:09:54 GMT

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Oh, my parents aren't religious.
And uhm, by the playground during recess, do you mean my yard? Yes, all the time.
Too be fair, they did try to set up playdates and stuff like that, and I have photo and video evidence of myself, at social events set up for me, having absolutely _none_ of it.

2025-10-07 17:02:23 GMT

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I was homeschooled and I absolutely hate leaving the house. I actually don't know :P

2025-10-07 16:52:50 GMT

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Why?

2025-10-07 16:43:27 GMT

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If they're not fun to be around, they're not perfect

2025-10-07 16:35:35 GMT

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Why not?

2025-10-07 16:29:00 GMT

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Yeah but I want to be a _perfect_ dad. I need to be unequivocally positive, or else there's no point.

2025-10-07 15:53:19 GMT

No matter how hard I try, I just can't seem to let go of my dream of having a daughter.
Every time I think it through, it just doesn't work out. It's absolutely _not_ a good idea. I would be a _terrible_ dad.
I thought about it again recently, and at first I got my hopes up. But the more I thought about it, the more I realize all over again that it's just all wrong.
And it cut me up all over again.

2025-09-30 18:45:41 GMT

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Unfortunately for me, both sound editors and automatic volume control engineers are both so beyond incompetent it would be comical if it wasn't ruining media.

2025-09-29 17:57:33 GMT

Automatic volume control has always sounded like a great idea. Stop loud noises from blowing out your eardrums while keeping dialog audible. I never understood why everyone hates it.
Until I finally heard a common automatic volume control.
It still plays the loud noise just as loud, but then turns the volume of the following dialog down to inaudible levels.
...Right, I forgot, we're dealing with humans here. I don't know why I thought we could make something that actually works.

2025-09-27 19:59:15 GMT

I wrote a new short story for the first time in a long time. But reading it back, my god it's _deeply_ depressing.
What the _actual_ fuck is wrong with me

2025-09-25 02:20:39 GMT

I will continue spelling it "combonation" so long as people keep shortening it to "combo"
Unless it's an old VW, then it's obviously "Kombination"

2025-09-22 19:49:05 GMT

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Might as well throw some jpeg in there, too

2025-09-22 19:45:30 GMT

I should create a hybrid of gif and tiff called jif just so everyone _has_ to pronounce gif correctly

2025-09-21 02:24:46 GMT

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(Guess who's locked out of their homework again)

2025-09-21 02:23:54 GMT

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2025-09-21 02:23:24 GMT

I HATE 2FA SO FUCKING MUCH OH MY FUCKING GOD

2025-09-18 18:41:57 GMT

My phone just gave me a notification to "free up space by deleting unused apps"
Now, given I've tried to do this many times, but was always told "No" by my phone, I figured this is finally my chance, so I tapped the notification.
And do you want to know what apps it wanted me to delete?
ALL THE APPS I ACTUALLY USE.
It wanted to delete:
The calculator.
The sound db meter.
Firefox.
And both home security appliance management apps (the only reason I own this phone)
GOSH DAMMIT GOOGLE

2025-09-16 04:37:58 GMT

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Touche.
But it's highly confusing to my eyes.

2025-09-16 04:34:25 GMT

Listen, it can't just be me, this is _unreadable_
https://linuxrocks.online/system/media_attachments/files/115/212/096/778/449/890/original/a8c1ea2b25286a5e.png

2025-09-12 19:19:28 GMT

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There does seem to be this strange divide in the tech world, between people who want computers to be easy to use, but block people from truly understanding them, and people who want everyone to _have_ to truly understand them to be _able_ to use them.
Surely the valley is also fertile?

2025-08-25 19:19:38 GMT

It's crazy to see how much my opinions have changed since I was a child.
I hated touch screens. I even hated flat panel displays. I thought everything should be a CRT. I loved outdated computers and thought they were so much better. I was such a luddite.
These days, however, my opinions have changed completel- oh wait no, No, my opinions have changed shockingly little.

2025-08-25 16:44:47 GMT

I'm really glad I'm graduating college this fall. Because I've been at this _way_ to long and I'll be honest I'm beyond sick of it.

2025-08-22 03:35:38 GMT

I've been wondering to myself recently, how can I possibly prefer proprietary mobile OS's over Android? Old OS's like BB10 and PalmOS were proprietary. Android is open source. What's wrong with me?
Well, I've decided, first of all, it's totally reasonable to prefer them over iOS, which I absolutely do.
Second, it's a sign I prefer Linux over Windows because it actually _works_, not just because "woo, freedom! Libre! I'm morally superior"
(cont)

2025-08-17 21:04:37 GMT

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That's true.
And there seems to be a painfully small overlap between people who _want_ to adopt, and who feel like they _can_

2025-08-17 20:54:10 GMT

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my little sister is 100% convinced I'd be a fantastic adoptive father. But then she sees a lot of positive things in me that don't

2025-08-17 18:21:21 GMT

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I mean, I want an orphan. But then, I'm an insane weirdo who probably shouldn't be around children, so

2025-08-17 17:05:52 GMT

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Admittedly yes, the idea that children would be traumatized by by boobs is beyond absurd. And if you've ever given a child a camera, you'll quickly realize all they see a lot of butts at their height :P
I still insist though that I've never seen _any_ link between sex drive and care. More the opposite, if anything.

2025-08-17 03:02:06 GMT

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Because everyone seems to have their posts set to autodelete so post I bookmark dissapears after like a week :P

2025-08-17 01:22:45 GMT

The fact that children are made through a process that isn't child friendly is honestly really gross and kinda sad.
What's _really_ sad is that a desire to have sex and a desire to care for children _are not linked what so ever_ so the people most likely to have children are honestly kinda the people who most shouldn't. Lest the first sentence rear it's ugly head.
This is sure one disturbing planet we've got here.

2025-08-14 16:51:53 GMT

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I realize now it could be worse. I could have been the person who created MTP. Nothing will ever be more dumb, broken, or useless than MTP.

2025-08-14 16:01:59 GMT

I'm feeling really dumb and useless rn, ngl

2025-08-14 00:17:22 GMT

"Text messages are no longer supported for 2FA, and have been replaced with automated phone calls. Answer your phone, and press #"
*phone rings*
me: *answers, accidentally presses # and 9 at the same time*
"You pressed the wrong key. Please try again."
me: *tries over and over and phone never rings again*
me: "Maybe if I try my other phone" *clicks "add phone"*
"Log in to manage devices"
Me: "Fuck you doesn't even begin to cut it"

2025-08-10 04:35:31 GMT

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It's an android phone :P
Plus it's shedding glass, is slow as balls, and keeps installing gambling games.
But mainly it's an android slab

2025-08-10 04:32:38 GMT

I'm looking at my options for a new phone because the one I have is making me depressed. But all the options make me depressed, so I might as well not go farther into debt over it.

2025-08-09 05:34:18 GMT

Uggghhhh I miss the early 2000s so much

2025-08-09 03:06:29 GMT

The fact that paid DLC is a thing in a world where mods exist is wild

2025-07-30 18:01:52 GMT

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Ok so I thought I had come up with the perfect game premise based on this year's theme, but actually I've just realized the correct term for what I've come up with is actually _"Existential Horror"_ so...

2025-07-30 17:02:49 GMT

Yoooooooo GMTK Game Jam 2025 has officially started 🥳

2025-07-25 04:06:38 GMT

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I know I would be a horrible father. I really don't think I should be allowed a child. I just selfishly want one anyway, and thrash about in desperation.

2025-07-25 03:58:19 GMT

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To me, it means loving and protecting unconditionally someone precious. How do I think it can be forged? I don't think it can, hence I'm going to be "alone" (without what would mean most to me) forever.

2025-07-25 03:47:26 GMT

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Father-daughter. It'll probably become apparent that I really only talk about the same few things over and over again :P

2025-07-25 03:19:32 GMT

Hmmmmm I'm gonna be alone forever

2025-07-22 19:19:35 GMT

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I should have known there would be OG carputer-ists on the fediverse.
That's really awesome!

2025-07-22 04:38:11 GMT

I'm _way_ too tempted to build a carputer, even though they're both very obsolete, and probably a bad idea (Distracted driving, anyone?)

2025-07-19 03:58:07 GMT

Found a new thing I hate:
"Set of one" in online listings for things where multiple of the item are generally required.
Does that mean it's one full set? Or is it just _one_ item, and you'll need to buy multiple "sets of one" to have an _actual_ set?
If the former, screw you for making things more confusing than they need to be. If it's the latter, fuck you, you don't deserve nice language or full explanations you evil fuck, you know what you are and what you're doing.

2025-07-05 15:08:00 GMT

I've run into a very strange issue,
I've installed Windows XP on an IDE drive, over USB, in a VM. It boots fine over USB in a VM. It boots fine over USB on bare metal. But it _won't_ boot over native IDE.

2025-06-26 15:41:04 GMT

Digital audio is wild, because you can crush the shit out of a music file until it sounds like your neighbors are hosting a party using a broken cellphone on speaker,
But the bass still _kicks_

2025-06-19 02:20:10 GMT

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Never been much of a fan of "independence", actually. I've always thought it was generally not a very constructive concept

2025-06-19 02:16:18 GMT

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Not existing would be nice

2025-06-19 02:10:55 GMT

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Even more lonely, probably

2025-06-19 02:07:04 GMT

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My mom, dad, and brother, and our farm

2025-06-19 02:05:36 GMT

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There's just nothing I can do to make the situation better. So there's just no point in risking what I have left

2025-06-19 02:00:49 GMT

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Well, there's a kernel of truth to a lot of what she said, but not to the degree she said.
My parents are far from perfect. But they're also far from evil.

2025-06-19 01:56:07 GMT

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Mainly the fact that she accused them of all kinds of nasty stuff

2025-06-18 23:08:35 GMT

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Well, they think she's dangerously insane. And they think my older sister is not far off, because she sided with her instead of them.
I can't imagine they'd be thrilled to know I still talk to her.

2025-06-18 22:17:33 GMT

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she called the cops on my parents

2025-06-18 19:41:52 GMT

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oh, many things. Right now the biggest is that I'll get caught still talking to my little sister

2025-06-18 17:37:57 GMT

Random crushing paranoia. Awesome.

2025-06-12 15:13:19 GMT

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Well, everything about life is quite selfish. If we weren't at least a little selfish, none of us would be here

2025-06-12 14:57:57 GMT

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I woulda thought medium format cameras would have the most expensive lenses and sensors?
(Given that medium format is actually bigger than full frame (because humans are really good at naming things))

2025-06-12 06:08:05 GMT

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Well, I'd be the kind of father who was needy and clingy one day, and cold and distant the next. Over and over, as I get terribly lonely, then horribly self conscious

2025-06-12 03:44:25 GMT

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Well, everyone does. But I probably do more than most even so. The world isn't beautiful, so people shouldn't have children. But if people _do_ have children, they should at least think the world is beautiful. So since I don't think the world is beautiful, I should not have children even extra

2025-06-12 02:56:24 GMT

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Well, I want a child so bad it's usually the first thing I think about when I wake up, the last thing before I go to sleep, and the most common thought in between.
It hurts _really really really badly_ but I just can't make it work out. I simply should not have a child.

2025-06-11 18:38:30 GMT

WAIT WHY ARE MEDIUM FORMAT CAMERAS SO CHEAP?
I mean, they're still _sooo_ outside my price range. But considering how insanely inflated the prices are on lesser cameras, if I had money to burn, I know where I'd spend it.

2025-06-11 15:38:34 GMT

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Well, I don't think the universe is sentient, so I suppose it cannot create traps "intentionally". Though if the universe isn't sentient, it probably arguably doesn't have "good" or "bad" either. Good and bad are constructed within us. So I guess maybe that's where the intention of the trap is. Although, since life is generally ignorant of the trap, and helpless to escape it (whatever that looks like), it's debatable whether life is sentient, either.
Cont.