WallyFunk

> Buy The Change You Wish to See in the World

Isn't this 'Vote with your wallet'? I know I vote with my wallet. Everything I buy is a vote for how I want the world to be, and what products I want to see flourish and prosper. I also evangelize these products to others so they get on board too, because I alone will not make much of a dent, unless I recruit others to purchase it too.

I ran a little experiment once with Reddit and registered with the Tor Browser. My first post was shadowbanned. After contacting the mods of the subreddit, they unbanned my post and it was visible to everyone. So I concluded Reddit is hostile towards Tor IPs. You have to go out of your way and contact mods to get posts visible, which people aren't going to do.

Reddit is (somewhat) pro-anonymity and doesn't even require an e-mail when signing up and they encourage you not to use your legal name, with username suggestions like SpongebobSquarepants45, but I see why they don't like Tor. Had no problems with VPNs, although VPNs are not really anonymous and we have to blindly trust them.

Interesting project. One thing I noticed: when I clicked the button, a fullscreen window got spawned, without any prompt asking me if I should enter fullscreen (Latest Firefox). On a sidenote: this could be used for browser-in-the-browser attacks[0] where someone could present a mock browser UI with a fake URL.

Other than that, it's a great project. Anything to just sit without distractions gives us an unfair advantage over the majority of the world's population who are addicted to phones.

[0] https://mrd0x.com/browser-in-the-browser-phishing-attack/

> One logical possibility would be written records of some sort, using a substrate that hasn't survived—prone to waterlogging or insects, modern paper would certainly not survive across tens of kiloyears

Sometimes impermanence is a feature, not a bug. I was always told by my elders: 'The Internet is forever'. Once you put things on it, it's hard for them to be removed. A permanent record of sorts. But over the years I've found many sites just evaporate with entire Library of Alexandria events occurring daily on the web. Yes, we have Archive.org which has mirror copies, but it doesn't catch everything.

And bit rot is useful too. After I die, I don't really want my precious data lingering around. Let it rot.

Avoid hype. Tooling might change, but stick to what works. But on the flip side if such tooling 10x's your productivity, it might be worth swapping out old methods. I call these 'game changer' tools. But they are rare enough that I can stay relevant with my current stack.

If the original image is a vector/SVG then it should look well scaled down. I think you can have SVG graphics for a favicon.

Recent one that just got posted: https://engineering.fb.com/2023/12/19/core-infra/how-meta-bu...

Good deep dive.

Interesting

https://who.is/dns/microsoft.com

What are the potential ramifications of this?

> a fake anon account

Good luck with that. I was immediately prompted for my phone number upon registering. And I know there's ways to source an anonymous phone number, I just couldn't be bothered. They shouldn't ask for it in the first place.

Offloading compute to the cloud. We can have low spec, low resource thin clients to access supercomputers through VNC clients.

I have the Gandalf rescue ISO[0] on this, among many other ISOs I use incase I need to repair/rescue or install stuff. My Ventoy setup is a veritable 'Swiss army knife' for general IT related things. The Gandalf Windows preinstalled environment has all this bundled with it, if anyone's interested:

    Tools/Utilities included on this Windows PE:
    AoMei Partition Assistant: Partitioning solution
    WinRAR: Powerful archiver and archive manager
    7-Zip: Archiver and archive manager
    Defraggler: Disk Defragmenter
    MS Paint and Wordpad: Microsoft’s basic image and text editors
    Macrium Reflect: Backup and disk imaging solution
    CCleaner: System optimization, privacy and cleaning tool
    Media Player Classic: Classic Windows media player
    HWiNFO: Hardware information and diagnostic tool
    Snipping Tool: Screen capture application.
    Windows Defender: Microsoft’s excellent antivirus app
    TeamViewer: Remote control solution
    Double Drive: Driver backup application
    Winmerge: File comparison tool
    Opera: Web Browser, Fast, simple and safe way to get around on the web
    GetRight: Download manager
    Ntpwedit: Change or remove passwords for local system accounts
    Partition Wizard
    Virtual Keyboard
    Virtual Magnifying Glass
    DiskCryptor: Disk encryption application similar to Bitlocker
    Bitlocker: Microsoft’s disk encryption application
    Powershell: Powerful automation tool is both a shell and a scripting language
    UltraISO: Directly edit ISO files, make images from CD/DVD-ROM
    Unlocker: Unlocker helps delete locked files with error messages
    Gimagex: A graphical user interface for the ImageX tool
    SuperAntiSpyWare: Free Malware Remover
    Magic Jelly Bean Key Finder: A utility that retrieves your Product Keys
    HiJackThis: Spot home page hijackers and startup programs
    Ghost: The classic imaging tool
    Skype: Provides video chat and voice calls
    VNC Viewer: Remote Control Software
    Sysinternal Suite Troubleshooting Utilities
    VLC Media Player: Open-source cross-platform multimedia player
    IrfanView Image Viewer
    FastStone Image Viewer: User-friendly image browser, converter and editor
    Mozilla FireFox: Another great browser
    Easy BCD: Boot management tool and bcd editor
    Snipping Tool: Take snapshots
    Drive Snapshot: Disk imaging solution
    MyLan Viewer: Network/IP Scanner
    Rufus: Utility to format and create bootable USB flash drives
    Wise Data Recovery: Recovery program to get back deleted photos, documents, etc.
    WinToolkit: Customize Your Windows Installation
    ImgBurn: CD burning tool
    Treesize: Quickly Scan Directory Sizes and Find Space Hogs
    Klite Codec Pack Basic
    RecoverKeys: Retrieves your Product Keys
    Remote Desktop: Latest version of Windows remote desktop
    DismGui: Dism with a graphical interface
    Klite Codec Pack Basic
    Google Chrome: Great Browser
    Powershell: Automation scripting

[0] https://www.fcportables.com/gandalf-boot-iso/

> And how's that going?

It's going well

> Comments such as yours do not address the question at all

I answered. "my resolution is to continuously improve from the day before". Sorry if it sounded vague, but I have no 'specific' resolution other than to improve. That could be anything. Working out, writing, blogging, coding, whatever.

More weird weather because of climate change. Heatwaves aswell as extreme cold snaps, no happy medium.

In the stoic tradition, I don't compare myself to others, only compare to who I was yesterday, and if I didn't get better, then it's a hard fail. So my resolution is to continuously improve from the day before.

Not sure about open source, but there are alternatives out there:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=open+source+alternatives+to+canva

Skip Snaps and just run the AppImage for Librewolf here[0]. I like the way Librewolf removes all the telemetry crap and hardens the browser.

[0] https://librewolf.net/installation/linux/

X86 is a broken wheel. It's complex, and thus buggy. We can patch and mitigate all we want, but it doesn't address the underlying ugliness.

You can only build on strength

I already have FDE setup. Then as an extra measure I store notes in EncryptPad[0]. All my badly written poetry, TODOs, and hopes and dreams are in there.

[0] https://evpo.net/encryptpad/

I tried Linux Lite[0] in a VM, and there was an awful bug where after setting up a disk encryption password, it wouldn't decrypt when I went to login, so I just abandoned my little experiment. I really should submit a bug report about that.

[0] https://www.linuxliteos.com/

I don't understand the premise of Twitter having an .onion hidden service. They're anti-anonymity, at least from my experience, where they extorted my phone number from me so I could continue to use their service. Mixing PII with Tor defeats the purpose of anonymity. You're immediately outed by providing a phone number or even en e-mail.

The more butter the better. And cut off the crusts.

Teach them the value of the little divets on the F and J keys which touch typists use to get a handle on where other keys are at.

I check this every week. It's a good non-biased overview of world events and things the MSM is typically ignoring and propagandizing other topics:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

Have you looked at Fathom[0] or GoatCounter?

[0] https://usefathom.com/

[1] https://www.goatcounter.com/

Some repos are deliberately 'frozen in time' for posterity purposes

The thing about WFH, is once you get a taste for it, it's difficult to go back to the old ways.

I presume any large tech company will ask for my number, at least, at some stage. This is why I have a number on standby in-case that happens, and this is not my main phone number. I have a separate number for Big Tech™, and another private one for giving out to friends & family that I don't attach to any online service.

I recall Terrence McKenna (everyone's favorite historical psychonaut) saying "It's hard to do psychedelics". I agree with him. These things are dangerous when the set and setting is wrong, or if they're done at an off-kilter phase of your life, or that you simply over-indulge in them.

I appreciate the mini renaissance period they're having these days, but these things need plenty of research before trying them. They're not something you do for a giddy high, they're tools. One thing people need to do is integrate the various lessons they've gained from tripping into their daily lives.

All too often, trips are like dreams, they fade and we suffer amnesia after trying them. It's crucial to take notes and integrate the ideas you've gained, otherwise you've wasted the trip(s) IMHO.

A blockchain is just a database. Why not learn various non-blockchain related database systems instead?