Last night, I re-watched The KGB, the Computer, and Me, a 1990 episode of NOVΛ chronicling Cliff Stoll's efforts to catch a West German hacker who was using the Lawrence Berkeley Labs' computer systems to hack into military computers in the late 1980s.
I say re-watched, because I …
Category: Tech Tagged: Computing Ethics Non-religious post UNIX Video
Read MoreI got a lot of wonderful feedback on my original FOSS Games are actually pretty good! article, and I wanted to share with you all the information that was so kindly shared with me.
Here are some FOSS games highly recommended by the community, although I have not personally played …
Category: Tech Tagged: Computing FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Gaming Linux Non-religious post UNIX
Read MoreThere's a lot of talk about gaming in Linux these days, and that's exciting, because it's drawing attention to Linux's capabilities. While the games being spoken of are mostly proprietary (and pretty awful, from a software-freedom perspective), it's good to see people getting interested in Linux, even when for only …
Category: Tech Tagged: Computing FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Gaming Linux Non-religious post UNIX
Read MoreLLMs (Large Language Models, colloquially referred to as "A.I.") are perfect...
Much like so many loud voices in society today, the LLM is incapable of discerning reliable from unreliable sources, identifying the origin and validity of a …
Category: Ethics Tagged: Computing Ethics Life Non-religious post Philosophy Polemic
Read MoreI've heard about NaNoWriMo going back at least eight years. I had classmates (back when I was a middle-aged college student ;) talk to me about it, but I always thought the 50,000 words goal was just unattainable.
This year, I finally stepped up to the plate and participated, although …
Category: Writing Tagged: Non-religious post Non-technical post Writing WritingMonth
Read MoreOne thing I've noticed as someone who has lived in *gulp* six decades is that we Americans have a thing for generations. Well, in broad terms, looking at life generationally is absolutely not new, nor uniquely American. But naming generations just might be. Several European FediFriends have expressed to me …
Category: Life Tagged: Life Non-religious post Non-technical post Philosophy WritingMonth
Read MoreI resolved never to put a web browser on this machine, which is a Thinkpad X200t from early 2010 with the Libreboot firmware flashed to it, and the wifi card replaced with a FOSS-driver-loving atheros-based card. Ever since I got it in early 2019, it's been my "writing machine," my …
Category: Tech Tagged: Computing Ethics FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Linux Non-religious post Productivity UNIX Unix Tips WritingMonth
Read MoreYou may have seen me mention The Fediverse or "FediFriends" in previous posts. Now, I anticipate that 100% of my readers are already in the Fediverse (or within a rounding error of 100% 😄), but just in case someone doesn't know, the following is a succinct description and discussion of the …
Category: Tech Tagged: Computing Ethics FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Federated Services Non-religious post Non-technical post WritingMonth
Read MoreBack in September, I posted about using the output of cal and plain text to track things. Here is the example of that format I listed in the post:
August 2023
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
. 2 3 . 5
. 7 . . . . .
. . . 16 . . .
. . . . . 25 .
. . . 30 .
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Read MoreHave you ever had a lucid dream? One where you could just bend reality to your will — fly freely by thinking, become POTUS, rule a banana republic (two things that are becoming tragically similar), or propose marriage the famous person …
Category: Life Tagged: Content Warning Life Non-religious post Non-technical post Prose WritingMonth
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