We're back. Here's a quick summary of important events:
Running, this time, on RancherOS because there's no reason for me to be doing anything as root on my machines (I'll just break stuff lol). (have moved to Fedora 31 ca. February 2020)
Next project: a CI server providing a super-duper easy interface to build Android apps with. Every SDK is a flaming nuclear cluster garbagefire, but at if it's a) contained in a container, AND b) "out of sight, out of mind" (that is, I only interact with it by pushing code to my nice clean Git server), then that's about as cancer-free as it's going to get.
For those of you who have admirably failed to partake in Zuckerbook (consider me pre-doxed), thereby missing out on the "Facebook Exclusive" posts, the paragraph to follow comprises my reparations (and I plan to not make any more FB-exclusive content from here on out). Then again, 99% of my "content" so far is just sharing links to articles, so I will most likely adopt a "batch" model like Scott's, for sharing links (That is the best blog in the world, though; be sure to check it out if you haven't. Those "Links" posts are just one part of the stuff he curates.)
- [TODO: Writeup/Transcribe this FB rant including updates in comments]
- Free Software Foundation FINALLY calls Intel out on their literal hardware backdoors, some words on the same topic by the technicians putting in the effort to fix it
- [TODO: Writeup/Transcribe my FB rant about this]
- Bliss.BMP ~4K TIFF original [Mirror] (if on Windows, be sure to use Control Panel and NOT Windows Photo Viewer to set it as your wallpaper!)
- Neat little website (has a copy of Beowulf in the original language!)
- Jordan Peterson gave a shoutout to this remix of some fragments of one of his lectures, which is hilarious
- Yanny|Laurel is objectively trivial [TODO: exfiltrate deets from ZuccBook]
- Actual Footage of my brain during my DiffEQ final
- Fascinating sci-fi story / artistic experiment
- Scott Alexander preliminary declares faith in the Gods of Straight Lines
- {gevyyvba} or bust, tbh. {zvyvvba} is for NORMIES (←BINGE-READING THIS BLOG IS AN INFOHAZARD) {rot13}
- Scott Alexander realizes that the Gods of Straight Lines may have actually been prophesying their own Doomsday for a very long time
- I really ought to git gud at curation
- giv insight pls (especially: what is it that drives the rest of you, if not insight?)
- Modding Wi-Fi [unlicensed/free bands!] to work well over 50km and more (I need an RF lab NOW!)
- The Nature/Structure of Government [Power] (hopefully, posting this qualifies me for the Interesting watch lists, rather than the mundane ones)
- Relevant to previous link? You decide. I am annoyed by a few of these, but think that he's correct about most, if not all, of them.
- Turns out MIRI comprises a whole lot more than just Yukdowsky's personal blog for Bayesian Philosophy papers no journal would take. huh.
- Curtis Yarvin prepares for his 3rd incarnation (I'm going to be royally pissed if he has matured enough to actually follow through with what I assume were his ideations way back here; I really want to see him do another creative work.)
- Technical problems with putting DNS in charge of HTTPS (thank god that ICANN at least pretends not to be an agent of the USG anymore; though, unless we get some kind of DNSSEC equivalent to HPKP for the country keys it's all irrelevant because even if you trust Sweden per se, the US could just force ICANN to sign a one-off fake Sweden key for the strike. But that's not the technical issue I discuss in the linked question.)
- Read this story if you want to feel dumb (I was never good at riddles…)
- What the previous story is actually about (spoiler to the riddle, if you thought it was nontrivial)
- TIL I cannot be trusted not to let an untested AGI out of containment
- Some smart people with aligned goals review legislation relevant to my upcoming RF lab
