all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
I was amused at how similar Google’s NotebookLM generated, chirpy, facile podcast style is between these different topics: Unabomber Manifesto. James Holmes’s Psychiatric Reports. Peace of Westphalia. Steamed Hams.
So I’ve had one of these original UE Boom portable bluetooth speakers for *ever*. Didn’t use it for a while & the battery completely discharged. Then it simply would not charge. Charge light blinked,...
Vernor Vinge died yesterday, 2024-03-20. I know others had wrote about a Singularity-like event happening, since the early days of SF — either psychic, robot brains, benevolent alien uplifts, biological/viral, etc. But Vinge’s Omni...
Running out of space and have to clone to a larger SSD and, finally, setting up as BTRFS pays off with a simple “btrfs replace” command eliminating me having to futz with dd and...
Getting somewhat difficult to find supplies for my indestructible 20-year-old Dell 3100cn laser printer. Just had to replace a drum I last replaced 6 years ago. This thing is a tank that has travelled...
Men have been concerned over controlling ejaculations for a really long time. Because it’s so associated with fertility and reproduction, of course states and proto-state machineries (religions, superstitions, autarchs, etc) are driven to regulate...
Politics – Trending: Ivanka Trump Trending with “Crime Family”
Twitter has re-discovered the Googlewhack. I got to update my 2002 entry.
I value Firefox’s superior ad/tracker blocking, endless extensions, etc, but wow that memory usage. This is a quit-restart-to-update command (via btop++).
So my Firefox running on Fedora Gnome Wayland was crashing with hardware accel every time I brought up the “show all windows” task switcher. Turning accel off was ugh. The fixes I read were...
At last Chimgam lives again! A simulation of ddongchim. In the early 2000s, I hosted this on my website as Korean Arse Shooter. It often attracted several thousands hits per day, topping out around...