I sent a link to my blog to my best friend from high school, and he sent me back a screenshot of a poll I ran a month ago (dear God, where does the time go?) asking what I should post next on my blog.
The winning entry was for …
Category: Life Tagged: Computing Life Non-religious post Non-technical post Philosophy
Read MoreThere's been some kerfuffle today on the fediverse over the issue of toxicity in the Linux and Open Source community. "Toxic" is one of those trigger words that immediately gets fingers a-pointing. The great irony is that just to mention the word "toxic" can in itself be a toxic statement …
Category: Ethics Tagged: Ethics Federated Services FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Life Linux Non-religious post Philosophy
Read MoreI was chilling out at the parking lot of In-N-Out after having lunch there (because the weather is pretty nice today), but decided to go to a local library to have a nice desk in front of me and do some reading/writing.
I asked the Oracle at Googlii (via …
Category: Life Tagged: ADHD Life Non-religious post Non-technical post Philosophy
Read MoreI thought I had a pretty fair grasp on the idea and archetypes of toxic masculinity. I am …
Category: Ethics Tagged: Content Warning Ethics Life Non-technical post Philosophy
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Read MoreA couple days ago, I was discussing with my counselor the importance of in-person relationships. I commented on how incredibly easy it is to open a computer and drop into a meaningful and enjoyable conversation within a few minutes (especially on the Fediverse!), but that it felt nearly impossible to …
Category: Life Tagged: Life Non-religious post Non-technical post Philosophy Prose
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 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 was re-reading my original UNIX is dead. Long live UNIX article, and I realized something that helped me better classify the various types of UNIX OSes:
I see OSes like the BSDs as UNIXes, while I view MacOS and many Linux distros (particularly the Gnome-oriented ones, more about that …
Category: Tech Tagged: BSD Computing Ethics FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Linux Non-religious post Philosophy UNIX WritingMonth
Read MoreI got into a humorous discussion with a good "FediFriend" today about cloning and necromancy. The result of our rather bizarre conversation was that I would write an article on necromancy if he would write an article on cloning.
His resultant article was not at all what I thought it …
Category: Life Tagged: Bible Christianity Content Warning Life Non-technical post Philosophy WritingMonth
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