Posts

These are sitewide blog posts by the admin.

• $35 to delete my old tweets
• 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. Itʻs a little less automated. You donʻt 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… Read more: The Best Way to Ease into Linux in 2026
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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.… Read more: The 2026 Midterms, California, LA County, SGV
• 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>… Read more: Fixing Broken Linux MINT Boot
• show notes for riceball.com video
• 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… Read more: LLMs and Subversive Drones Against Surveillance
• 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… Read more: How to Use Craigslist and Facebook to Get Rid of Stuff for Free