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$35 to delete my old tweets
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The Best Way to Ease into Linux in 2026
Why: Linux is a good way to get more out of your hardware. It runs less “spyware” like monitoring. ItΚ»s a little less automated. You donΚ»t need to log into Microsoft or Apple to do things. How: create an external SSD disk connected over USB-3 to boot the machine. This way, you can reboot into…
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The 2026 Midterms, California, LA County, SGV
The Democrats don’t have a known good strategy to limit Trump’s authoritarian power grab, irrational wars, or even to deliver a coherent anti-fascist message. Despite this, they keep trying. Here are some key issues. SoCal Midterm Battleground Races See Ballotpedia Battlegrounds I’m including only well funded rivals in these lists, compiled from the Ballotpedia information.…
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Fixing Broken Linux MINT Boot
Symptoms: rebooting immediately goes into the grub command line. The easiest way to fix this is to use a USB boot, and run tools to fix the boot. This page explains how to fix it from the command line. The following commands are how I fixed it. grub> set root=/dev/sda2grub> linux /boot/vmlinuz.old root=/dev/sda2grub> initrd /boot/initrd.img.oldgrub>…
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show notes for riceball.com video
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LLMs and Subversive Drones Against Surveillance
I had an obvious idea to deal with the Flock security cameras: an anonymous drone that would fly to the camera, and then spray paint the lens, rendering the camera useless. a small autonomous drone that will fly to surveillance cameras and spray paint the lens Grok won: The image on the right is pretty…
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How to Use Craigslist and Facebook to Get Rid of Stuff for Free
Once the rainy seasons is past, you can take a lot of stuff out and give it away or sell it. Here’s a photo of some stuff I’ve given away. This is a small fraction of what I’ve donated to the junk pickers. It’ll soon be time to purge again. In the winter time, I…
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This War Does Not Exist
https://websim.com/@certaincoin/this-war-does-not-exist These scenarios did not happen. They were made up by an LLM. The first set of scenarios were set up by me, in a single paragraph. The LLM wrote the stories. Japanese Civil War The Japanese Civil War (1951-1957) was a major internal conflict in Japan that emerged from the social, economic, and political…
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Draft: The Disinformation Landscape, MRAsians, and the Left Avoiding Discussions of Some Issues of Interest
(This was written in 2022.) A recent report came out about disinformation in the Asian media sphere, and it was weird to me. It mentioned Asians With Attitudes as one of the disinformation sources. r/aznidentity was also mentioned. These were under the umbrella of “MRAsians”. The MRAsians thing happened back around 2018, but got a…
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Computer Programmers Labor Union
I had a page on here with that title, and it got a little traffic. This was back in the 2000s. Times have changed a bit, and there are now a lot of programmers with union contracts. Here’s a blast from the past, 2010: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/9481/are-there-any-unions-for-software-developers Here’s a brief outline of what I recall reading that…