Last year, I spent the spring and summer largely on motorcycle tour, which is why I did not publish more. Words do not do it justice. I was one with the wind, and the bike almost never failed me. And then I was so busted up I spent most of …
NNCP and the Road Warrior
I've been banging my head against NNCP trying to create a "floating node" that can keep its configs and data synced across a laptop or two and a desktop. I am slowly coming to the conclusion that this is the wrong approach, that using my laptop as a "desktop" as …
Noblesse Oblige
Democrats basically see white people as the aristocracy, which white Dems hate themselves for. All the racecom stuff is soothing their feelings of guilt, which would be a lot more tolerable if it wasn't enshrined in law. This actually explains why D billionaires splash funding around and R billionaires want …
Moria
Today I sent over my first payment for a little datacenter of my very own. I'm not running a business or anything, I just need cheaper power and heat/noise isolation so I can't run all my servers at home. If one day in the far future it does make …
Motorcycle Combat Drone Operations
Preface
The Ukraine War has introduced COTS micro-drones for ISR/kamikaze/grenade-dropping duties in a way that has fundamentally changed the nature of warfare. Poor Man's Air Force by Don Shift is a thorough look forward at how this will play out for SHTF/WROL scenarios in the US as …
Chicagopunk
The cyberpunk genre has traditionally been rooted in the rainy cities of the Pacific Rim, whether due to 1980s fears of Japan taking over the world as rendered in Neuromancer and Blade Runner, or as just blind mimicry of those two seminal works. This, however, doesn't make a lot of …
Ascending to a Higher Plane of Existence
When I was living in California, I was constantly fighting respiratory issues due to the pollution, and rode my bicycle when I wanted to go hang out somewhere outside of home. Now I'm breathing free and clear even in pollen season and I have a motorcycle I can lean off …
Bagholding Our Way to the Stars
"Bag holder" is one of the most vicious insults among people who trade stocks or cryptocurrency these days. It's short for "guy who was left holding the bag after a pump and dump", and implies the bagholder was a dupe, a sucker, and somehow kept believing in the promise of …
Accidental Road Warrior
If you had told me ten years ago I'd be able to do my six figure Linux sysadmin (they call it something else but I'm a sysadmin) job from my dad's house for a week by walking into Best Buy, purchasing a preinstalled Gentoo-based Linux laptop, and using a combination …
Emacs as Typewriter, Kindle as Paper
I wanted to write more, I wanted to read more long form stuff, I wanted a device that's fanless, runs GNU/Linux or Android, and has a mechanical keyboard. The Nexdock's keyboard was just not cutting the mustard anymore; as much as I like it as a fuck-around laptop when …