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History of the annoying PC “beep”. It’s called a “bell”.
At 1:10, you can hear the bell. That’s a Teletype, a remote controlled typewriter from the 1930s. It has an actual bell inside! Originally, teletypes were used like telephones.…
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Directory Structure Checking Script
This is a script to check if my photo archives conform to my naming rules. My archives look like this: Right now, it’s approximately 65,000 files totalling 96GB, so…
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Draft: Unions Should Own LLM Models
During the WGA strike of 2023, I was shitposting saying the WGA should have their own AI, because studios were threatening to use AI to eliminate writer jobs. Though…
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(a)political violence; Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto; Propaganda of the Deed
Remembering History: the Era of Assassinations Luigi Mangione is not an anarchist, but his assassination attack reminds me of the historic period of anarchist bombings and assassinations in the…
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Brief Review of Migrating from Google Drive, Gmail, and Outlook.com to Proton
I have been listening to Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff, and Surveillance Valley by Yasha Levine, so I’m extra paranoid these days. I’m moving my work to Proton and…
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2024 Election Battlegrounds
Polling in Battleground States Harris and Trump are very close in the battleground states (obviously – that’s the definition of a BG). Florida is usually up in play, but…
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Computer Shopping
Need to upgrade. Want something with full HD display, 12GB RAM. No HD (will use existing). Current main computer, a laptop, which I want to replace. Dell Inspiron 3537,…
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Cascading Failures Due to Failing RAID1 on Linux
I recently had a partial server outage due to a failing RAID, but the problems were due to a cascade of software-based dependencies failing.
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UK Race Riots and Organizing; Tipping; Masking in Our Community Spaces; Video Channel Links
I’m so unhappy because I lost a day of links. This video about the UK racist riots had a lot to say about community organizing and the Left: I’m…