Thu 06 February 2025

Content Warning: This post deals with religion and politics

Last Sunday, I did something that I really don't like doing.

I left church early.
With a heavy and conflicted heart.

The Sunday prior, I walked into church and spoke briefly with the pastor. I told him I was shocked to …

Category: Ethics Tagged: 100DaysToOffload Bible Christianity Content Warning Ethics Life Non-technical post Philosophy Polemic

Thu 30 January 2025

I'm noticing a troubling trend among FOSS projects, even terminal-only utilities: no manpages (or a 1-paragraph useless one), barely any help screens, and a link to a wiki site like a github page or "readthedocs."

The thing is, the whole ethos behind so many terminal utilities is a hearkening back …

Category: Tech Tagged: 100DaysToOffload BSD Computing Ethics FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) FreeBSD Linux Non-religious post Polemic Productivity UNIX

Fri 13 December 2024

Across three decades working in I.T., I've had the opportunity to observe some spectacularly good and spectacularly bad managers. I feel like writing an homage to the three that were the most memorable.

Name obfuscation methodology

I will be using the real name of the individuals mentioned, but I …

Category: Life Tagged: Life Non-religious post Non-technical post Polemic Prose

Tue 29 October 2024

In Part I, I discussed the state of "Native Messaging" services in FOSS Android forks/builds, and why RCS might never be coming to these OSes.

What does that leave us with? Well, SMS and MMS, of course, but using what client?

Unfortunately, there is (of course) no one good …

Category: Tech Tagged: Computing Ethics FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Non-religious post Polemic Productivity

Mon 28 October 2024

Now that I've piqued your curiosity with an reference to a children's book I've never actually read (because I'm an alien, apparently), let me pause the narrative train by carefully defining some terms:

• FOSS: Free and Open Source Software
• ROMs [sic]: Custom builds of the Android mobile operating system from …

Category: Tech Tagged: Computing Ethics FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Non-religious post Polemic Productivity

Sat 02 December 2023

LLMs (Large Language Models, colloquially referred to as "A.I.") are perfect...

Perfect exemplars and the very embodiment of the brain-rot of our society.

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