On the blog: Tweets from 04/26 to 04/30 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/04/30/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Wink of an Eye https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/04/29/wink.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On the blog: Developer Journal, Old Permic Alphabet Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/04/26/permic.html #programming #project #devjournal
On the blog: Announcing All Around the News https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/04/25/aatn.html #announcement
Monero Maximalism: Or, How Bitcoin Is a 💩coin
Most normal people hear the word “cryptocurrency” and assume that means that they are “cryptic” or “private,“but that’s actually a huge, perhaps the hugest misunderstanding of our time and it has some big consequences.The “crypto” in cryptocurrency merely comes from its cryptographic nature.
When it comes to actual privacy, cryptocurrencies are an unmitigated … ⌘ Read more
Stay frosty: possible test stream on PeerTube and YouTube in a bit
I’m going to probably be doing a test livestream in a bit. Hopefully I fixed the issue in the previous stream with Pulseaudio and buffering.
I’ll probably go live on PeerTube first, test it there, then test it on YouTube. I’m mobile and on limit battery though, so it won’t be a super long stream if everything works out.
PeerTube stream will be at this link: [https://videos.lukesmith.xyz/vi … ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Moses und Aron, ch 4-6 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/04/24/moses2.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Tweets from 04/19 to 04/23 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/04/23/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Plato’s Stepchildren https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/04/22/plato.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
My blog system now has tagging (all pure POSIX shell of course)
This isn’t live on the old blog system’s Github, but partially inspired by by Based Cooking’s tag system which is based on blogit, I’ve added in the feature to tag articles.
I’ve been wanting to write more articles and informational pages on my website, but doing that with no organization is somewhat … ⌘ Read more
The Fragility of Physics
Physics has a reputation of being a uniquely “scientific” field.In other fields, you might hear of the concept of “Physics Envy” which is supposed to be a deep-seated desire of academics of other disciplines for the rigorousness and elegance of physics.Only physics, so the popular understanding goes, is truly able to abstract away from the messiness of detail and create truly beautiful and solvent models of their subject matters.Physics is thus the queen of the “hard sciences.”
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Programs and Equipment I Use
After many requests, here are the programs I use for everything. I’m only putting here programs I consider tried and true and have used for a while.
I’m about getting things done quickly and having as little space between my thoughts and actions on the computer.
I like having vim-like bindings and prefer running programs in the terminal for simplicity’s sake. That said, I’m very much against the cringey meme that things … ⌘ Read more
Making Free Money off Credit Cards
While I’ve done a video on this topic before ( PeerTube, YouTube), some people asked me for more information, so here it is.
In America, people are so notoriously dumb with credit and money that credit card co … ⌘ Read more
Why I Use the GPL and Not Cuck Licenses
Every piece of software I write I license under the GNU Public License Version 3 (GPLv3) unless I have forked it from something else.
The GPLv3 is the premiere copyleft license, meaning that it not only allows users to run, modify and distribute their own versions of what I write, but it also requires that no one in that chain of development restrict and close-source that software: it and sof … ⌘ Read more
Notes on Learning Languages
I get asked a lot about learning languages, so I have a few comments about it here.Hopefully I can awaken you from some dogmatic slumbers about language.
This is hard for people to understand because I think most monolingual people think that languages are just different word lists that people use.As a result, 101 students will manually look up every word in the dictionary to translate.This actually … ⌘ Read more
Academic
Here are some old academic papers that I mostly wrote as term papers and such in graduate school. People occasionally ask out of interest.
By the time I got a year or so into my Ph.D. at Arizona, I had pretty much not intention on continuing in t … ⌘ Read more
Reviews of All Linux Distros (That Matter)
Firstly, once you reach basic competency in Linux, different distributions don’t matter. A lot of newbies analyze distros based on what they look like when you install them, often not realizing that it’s a pretty simple affair not just to change superficial things like your theme and setup, but entire desktop environments. Basically all distro reviews online are wastes of time for people who know what they’re doing. When I came to YouTube, all … ⌘ Read more
Only Use Old Computers!
The ideal ThiccPad.
If there is a single point of advice I can offer novice computer users, it is stop using modern computers.
If you look at “technology YouTube,” part of my neighborhood, but I more mean the massive multi-million subscriber channels, nearly all of it is devoted to constantly reviewing and comparing every new computer, processor, graphics card and product. There’s big money in it be … ⌘ Read more
Learning European Languages (Michel Thomas)
From Gottfriend Hensel’s 1791 Synopsis Universae Philologiae
I’ve said on a couple livestreams that the ideal way for an English speaker to begin learning or excel in learning other major European languages (Spanish, French, Italian and German) is to use Michel Thomas’s audiotapes. They can be found for free on Pirate Bay and other sites, but you can also buy them [on his official … ⌘ Read more
Wanna Learn LaTeX?
I have a full video tutorial series on learning LaTeX, broken into small sensible parts, here.
What is LaTeX?Basically, it’s how big boys write and format documents.Every public brief, scientific article, book, cryptocurrency … ⌘ Read more
Learn Latin
Latin was the first language I learned and has probably been the most useful. Here I’ll talk about some of the things it’s gotten me and some recommendations for how to learn it well.
What I’ve gotten out of learning Latin You get multiple languages for one.Latin, as you probably know is the ancestor of Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, etc. Once you know Latin, it is quite literally downhill learning any of these. In college … ⌘ Read more
Command Line Bibles
I’ve made a couple very useful command-line accessible Bibles for a quick and scriptable lookup of Bible verses and passages. They exist not only in English, but for Latin and Greek as well.
- English King James Version (including Apocrypha) —Github, Gitlab, Local git server
- Latin Vulgate —[Github](https://github. … ⌘ Read more
Why It’s Bad to Have High GDP
To put it in other words…The common way of looking at Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is that it’s a metric of economic success: more GDP is more wealth.Wealth is good. “Poverty” (meaning low per capita GDP) is bad.Nowadays, pretty much everyone talks about “economics” like this as if this truism was scribbled on the back walls of the cosmos.
This is just looking at one side of the ledger in a kind of global double-entry accounting book.A logically equivale … ⌘ Read more
Science vs. Soyence
There’s nothing necessarily wrong with science, reason, knowledge etc. To some degree, they’re fundamental for survival in this world in one way or another. But one of the more worrisome problems which have arisen since the Enlightenment, and especially in the past several years, is the fact that whenever scientific knowledge has increased, human arrogance has accelerated even faster. This isn’t a metaphysical, moral arrogance; it’s one that is more and mor … ⌘ Read more
Hedonism, Asceticism and the Hermetic Answer
The modern world more or less gives you the philosophical choice of either Hedonism or Asceticism.You never really hear it in those terms, but that’s how it is.
Hedonism living for pleasure. Your default lifestyle is eating whatever, watching Netflix and playing video games irrespective of how late it is.You watch porn, masturbate, have sex as much as you can and any consequences of any of this are just facts of life which you view a … ⌘ Read more
Veganism Is the Pinnacle of Bugmanism
People have quoted me as saying that.I forget where it comes from, probably a livestream, but I definitely stand by it.Since a lot of people labor under the assumption that my channel is about “Linux,” I’ve accumulated a lot of subscribers that are variously nerds, furries, degenerates, coomers, libertarians, communists, trannies and among them are vegans.Some of them (I assume) are good people.
There’s a stereotype about vegans that they are annoyin … ⌘ Read more
Learn Chinese
Chinese is the hardest language to learn according to normies who have never tried to learn it.
In reality, Chinese is really easy. It has literally no complex morphology: no tense, plurals, gender. It doesn’t have irregular verbs or nouns because it has no verb and noun endings whatsoever. It’s almost difficult to explain how easy Chinese is.
The only different thing is the writing system which is I hesitate to say anachronistic. The Chinese character system i … ⌘ Read more
The Parable of Alien Chess
A parable on the Logical Postivist “interpretation” of scientific models.
Suppose an alien race comes to Earth and wants to observe our games.They are very interested in chess, despite the fact that they have eyes with properties that make it impossible to make out what actually happens on a chess board.(The whites and blacks and squares all blur together.)
They can still learn about … ⌘ Read more
We Want Our 4 Causes Back!
Aristotle, a medieval depiction
Aristotle, in his Physics argued that there are four causes behind everything that exists. These causes answer the question of “How” or “Why” something is the way it is.
The Material CauseThe material from which something is made. E.g. the stone of a statue.The Efficient CauseThe external force that causes something to be made. E.g. the artisan and his tools who make a statue.The Formal Cause … ⌘ Read more
I like and use the Brave Browser.It’s a free and open source browser with features like:
- Ad-blocking by default.
- Tracker-blocking by default.
- Anti-fingerprinting mechanisms to prevent you from being monitored.
- Built-in Tor windows.
- Run by a based Christian and not furry leftists.
As far as I’m concerned, Brave is indisputably the best general-purpose browser out there.There are other okay brows … ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Developer Journal, Patriots’ Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/04/19/patriot.html #programming #project #devjournal
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Moses und Aron, ch 1-3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/04/17/moses1.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Tweets from 04/12 to 04/16 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/04/16/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Tholian Web https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/04/15/tholian.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On the blog: Developer Journal, Yuri’s Night https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/04/12/yuri.html #programming #project #devjournal
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — The Fellowship of Heroes https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/04/10/fellowship.html #freeculture #bookclub
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On the blog: Tweets from 04/05 to 04/09 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/04/09/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, For the World Is Hollow (etc.) https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/04/08/hollow.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
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On the blog: Developer Journal, National Library Week https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/04/05/library.html #programming #project #devjournal
On the blog: (Finally) Cutting the Cord https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/04/04/cord-cut.html #media #television #nonfree #ethics
Bringing back blog system.
For the benefit of RSS users, I’m going to bring back the blog feature
on my website, which is done with lb,
a minor script I wrote a while ago.
This is where I’ll be posting updates. Old blog entries, while not on the RSS feed
still exist via their permalinks and can be accessed
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On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — A Dark Room https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/04/03/darkroom.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Tweets from 03/29 to 04/02 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/04/02/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Day of the Dove https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/04/01/dove.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
the ‘magic circle’ sine wave algorithm: [[https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/pasp/Digital_Sinusoid_Generators.html]] #links
On the blog: Developer Journal, National Doctors’ Eve https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/03/29/doctors.html #programming #project #devjournal
On the blog: Calafia, Queen of California https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/03/28/calafia.html #fiction #publicdomain
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Valkaama https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/03/27/valkaama.html #freeculture #bookclub
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On the blog: Tweets from 03/22 to 03/26 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/03/26/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
YouTube Channel Deletion (updated)
For info, I’ve added a list of the striked videos so you can see how innocuous they are. ⌘ Read more
YouTube Channel Deletion
YouTube Channel Deletionby Luke Smith
Google is prepping to delete my YouTube channel.
As of today (March 26, 2021), I now cannot post for another two weeks.
YouTube “strikes” which are functionally unappealable (automatically rejected) last for 3 months.
If they give thee concurrent strikes, you channel is permanently deleted.
If YouTube Jannies delete my YouTube channel, remember that
**100% of my videos are still easily viewable, includi … ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Spectre of the Gun https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/03/25/spectre.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On the blog: Assembling a Dark Mode https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/03/24/darkmode.html #techtips #programming #javascript #rails
On the blog: Developer Journal, World Water Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/03/22/water.html #programming #project #devjournal
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On the blog: Asian Women in Fiction https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/03/21/asian.html #politics #harm #media
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — The Spiraling Web, Part 4 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/03/20/spiraling4.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Tweets from 03/15 to 03/19 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/03/19/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Is There in Truth No Beauty? https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/03/18/beauty.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On the blog: Developer Journal, Day against Police Brutality https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/03/15/police.html #programming #project #devjournal
Bookmarking this to read over a few more times. https://dave.cheney.net/practical-go/presentations/qcon-china.html #practical #GO
Bookmarking this to read over a few more times. https://dave.cheney.net/practical-go/presentations/qcon-china.html #practical #GO
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — The Spiraling Web, Part 3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/03/13/spiraling3.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, And the Children Shall Lead https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/03/11/children.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
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Plan 9 is GSoC! 🎉🐇 I've missed participating this program. https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Ta35cde1382617430-M32af07f289087f227189b74f/plan-9-in-summer-of-code
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We welcome prospective students to submit their own ideas, but we’ve got a page full of suggestions: http://p9f.org/wiki/gsoc-2021-ideas/index.html
On the blog: Developer Journal, International Women’s Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/03/08/women.html #programming #project #devjournal
On the blog: Superheroes and Race https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/03/07/super.html #rant #superhero
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — The Spiraling Web, Part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/03/06/spiraling2.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Tweets from 03/01 to 03/05 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/03/05/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Paradise Syndrome https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/03/04/syndrome.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On the blog: Developer Journal, Self-Injury Awareness Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/03/01/injury.html #programming #project #devjournal
On the blog: Explaining Gender to the Biased https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/02/28/genders.html #quora #rant #politics
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — The Spiraling Web, Part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/02/27/spiraling1.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Tweets from 02/22 to 02/26 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/02/26/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Enterprise Incident https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/02/25/incident.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On the blog: Developer Journal, Northwest States Anniversary https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/02/22/northwest.html #programming #project #devjournal
On the blog: Daily Nonogram https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/02/21/nonogram.html #announcement #puzzle
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Phill from GCHQ https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/02/20/phill.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Tweets from 02/15 to 02/19 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/02/19/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Spock’s Brain https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/02/18/brain.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On the blog: Developer Journal, Presidents’ Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/02/15/president.html #programming #project #devjournal
interesting RFC dated April 1st, 1998: Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0):
looking at the date this was published, i think the authors originally meant this as an apil’s fool joke/prank.
funny because now we have IOTs and this is somewhat a reality today :P
My silly Plan 9 rc twtxt client now has a web page: http://txtpunk.com/tw/index.html
On the blog: An Unexpected Case for Reparations https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/02/14/reparations.html #politics #rant #community
We Want Our 4 Causes Back!
We Want Our 4 Causes Back!Aristotle, in his Physics argued that there are four causes behind everything that exists.
These causes answer the question of “How” or “Why” something is the way it is.
The Material CauseThe material from which something is made.
E.g. the stone of a statue.The Efficient CauseThe external force that causes something to be made.
E.g. the artisan and his tools who make a statue.The Formal CauseThe f … ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — The Wanderers’ Library https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/02/13/wanderers.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Tweets from 02/08 to 02/12 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/02/12/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
Wanna learn LaTeX?
Wanna learn LaTeX? What is LaTeX?Basically, it’s how big boys write and format documents.
Every public brief, scientific article, book, cryptocurrency whitepaper or even outline written by people who know what they’re doing is written in LaTeX.
If you want to see examples of documents made with LaTeX, you can see my Master’s thesis here or another paper here that shows some diagrams and other features you can have in LaTe … ⌘ Read more
Veganism is the Pinnacle of Bugmanism
“Veganism is the Pinnacle of Bugmanism”by Luke Smith
People have quoted me as saying that.
I forget where it comes from, probably a livestream, but I definitely stand by it.
Since a lot of people labor under the assumption that my channel is about “Linux,” I’ve accumulated a lot of subscribers that are variously nerds, furries, degenerates, coomers, libertarians, communists, trannies and among them are vegans.
Some of them (I assume) are go … ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Season 2 Summary https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/02/11/season2.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On the blog: Developer Journal, Mendeleev’s Birthday https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/02/08/mendeleev.html #programming #project #devjournal
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Uncle Nagy’s House https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/02/06/nagy.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Tweets from 02/01 to 02/05 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/02/05/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Assignment∶ Earth https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/02/04/earth.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
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@prologic@twtxt.net deedum for android.
Kristall for OS X
Elaho for iOS
though I can only vouch for the first two.
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@prologic@twtxt.net deedum for android.
Kristall for OS X
Elaho for iOS
though I can only vouch for the first two.
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lextwt branch. There's a noticeable ~2x increase in CPU usage across the board since I deployed this at ~16.30pm (AEST).
@prologic@twtxt.net That is strange.. i wonder if there is another change that is causing it. Benchmarks are thinking the other way :|
BenchmarkAll/retwt-16 1 4940172200 ns/op 587319376 B/op 2587159 allocs/op
BenchmarkAll/lextwt-16 1 775764020 ns/op 9223088 B/op 197557 allocs/op
BenchmarkParse/retwt-16 1 591158277 ns/op 67539096 B/op 230841 allocs/op
BenchmarkParse/lextwt-16 1 716961837 ns/op 5450448 B/op 130290 allocs/op
BenchmarkOutput/retwt-html-16 1 8358103017 ns/op 918709168 B/op 4692292 allocs/op
BenchmarkOutput/lextwt-html-16 1 822033267 ns/op 14280112 B/op 261795 allocs/op
BenchmarkOutput/retwt-markdown-16 1 8114225415 ns/op 929928384 B/op 4693004 allocs/op
BenchmarkOutput/lextwt-markdown-16 1 806554306 ns/op 14332608 B/op 270905 allocs/op
BenchmarkOutput/retwt-text-16 1 8098215897 ns/op 923862192 B/op 4684739 allocs/op
BenchmarkOutput/lextwt-text-16 1 745064673 ns/op 12689784 B/op 252476 allocs/op
BenchmarkOutput/retwt-literal-16 1 4068799822 ns/op 409517880 B/op 2372471 allocs/op
BenchmarkOutput/lextwt-literal-16 1 754793627 ns/op 9834520 B/op 214931 allocs/op