Peacefulz

Just sharing my reflection post on writer's block. If it's not evident, I'm no professional writer. I'm hardly an amateur writer. I like to write though, and I hope these reminders serve others that like to write as well.

Oh you haven't seen the all-white decals on white cruisers with no top lights? Or the decals that are visible only when you're directly in line with the cruiser? There was an undercover Mitsubishi Lancer back in my home town. They aren't always so up front.

I'm back in to collecting physical media as well. I get my wife to use her Facebook account to find stuff on marketplace. Lightly used bundles can get movies down to like a dollar per.

I wanted to give the propensity of gathering sycophants to you, as that is key to him skirting the law, but I don't think he can even be given that attribute. Being a useful idiot to the real powers may augment reach and impact, but only so long as that power values what the useful idiot makes possible, be it through policy, idiocy, or anywhere in between.

The money finds him useful, and that manifests as plot armor essentially as the puppeteers exert their will on society.

I want to touch on the for decades thing too, but I think I'm at my run-on sentence limit. Hard agree, though. John Trump had his hands up the right asses to make that a reality. It's never been Don. He's a child king.

I could not care less about a single thing that the current admin thinks or feels. The quality of those opinions are the same for the local crackheads in my community. There is not a single topic, idea or concept that Donald Trump has the capacity to be an authority of.

> "Everyone leaves their phones at the door"...

— watches, calculators, discrete technological devices. I've seen kids encode text as patterns of dashes on their desks, sharing the cipher solution with their desk mates in other periods.

The problem isn't skirting the effort. The problem is systemic. Why does the system reward taking shortcuts? I think it's because most areas are focused on short horizon tasks, min-maxing effort:output. It's not a problem with those technical fields. It's a problem with the current crop of the C-Suite across the entire occupational plane. They're short sighted.

We are going to be reinstalling GrapheneOS on the phones shipping with it.

I'm hopeful for the Motorola partnership, as well. I'm following grapheneOS wherever it ends up.

I'm making some graphics for my personal site, and while searching for assets for my THPS theme, I couldn't find any complete libraries of images. I have Tony Hawk's Underground 2 installed on my PC, so I decided to point Claude at it while I was preoccupied. The result is a seemingly complete dump of all game assets, including videos. I treasure this game, so I thought someone here might like to see them as well.

I haven't thought about it, but it's not a bad idea! The subject matter overall is a bit eclectic, but if I value something, surely someone else who hasn't yet found it will too!

I'm searching for them harder than ever. Ironically, I have agents crawl for independent bloggers so I can add more people to my ever-growing RSS feed.

One of my favorite books is "The Cuckoo's Egg". I read it at least yearly. Cliff Stoll has had an incredible impact on my interests. I'm happy to see him doing talks.

Just wanted to share my 88x31 badge maker utility. I noticed that there aren't a ton of tools out there that support frame-by-frame animation. This tool is exportable and runs entirely in the browser. Feel free to save and/or distribute copies to your friends and family.

Finally. I've been stuck with my onboard selections for a year now due to lack of motivation to deal with windows. Definitely gonna be checking this out.

I don't know how I missed such a cool redirector back in Web1.0.

The Old Web was, as most people here state, left behind in favor of the Walled Gardens of social media. The barrier to the watering hole was so low. I don't blame technical people for following their friends and family into these places. It kinda sucks that they let their marks on the web fade and expire.

That didn't have to happen. My personal site is going to live on the web as long as I do, and hopefully further if I can manage it. I don't care how much traffic I generate.

I've moved between three managers in the past two years and all of them supported importing and exporting your full lists. That could be a recent development, though. I admit, I haven't used an apple product in a long time, so you could be right. I don't trust SMS, because I don't trust cleartext over the air. Too many people have too much time on their hands and information is too readily available.

I suggest exporting your password manager && your topt keychain onto an encrypted flash drive. I went through the horrors of having a phone die on me after migrating my topt to a local solution. Having a valid login cookie on bitwarden on my laptop was the only thing that saved me.

The Socials doc is creepy. You'd think an organic local movement wouldn't require what amounts to a Turf doc.

If getting it out there in the world is more important to you than stamping your name on it, pass it out to a friend who can publish it. Continue any related development in private. They can't stop you from distributing something they don't know you're developing.

As I age, my desire for friends for friends' sake diminishes. If someone doesn't offer something to my life that I value, I'll have a hard time putting energy into them.

It was so easy to make strong bonds as a kid, captive with other kids in a building most of the time. Now there is a cost:benefit I have to weigh a persons worth to me against.

Hmm. No mention of a need for subpoena on the google end... Wonder why that is? Is that rubber stamp just public knowledge at this point? Google and Apple both are appendages of the State.

I love bobdahackers work. Always a treat to see.

An aggressor state doesn't get to cry foul play. I don't care what Ukraine has to resort to so they can defend their sovereignty. If Russia doesn't like how the game is being played, they can take their ball and go home.

I agree with your stance mostly. I get the sentiment, but both of your examples seem civil to me. Both of those situations can and ideally should be resolved out of the courts, and neither carry social weight.

If one entity is injured by another, and subsequently made whole, however the two parties define that, then it is none of my business.

I got shut off for seeding Wrestlemania. No warnings or letters. Just a disconnect. AT&T fiber, I believe.

I reached support who told me the reasoning. I fed that tech a line saying I let a house-sitter use my computer while out of town and they reinstatated me.

I got kind of disproportionately agitated decided to learn networking/security, so I can figure out just how much they (the ISP) knows, are able to know, and how I can mitigate it. Now, here we are.

I decided that rather than let my Bearblog account rot, I would repurpose it into a text-based adventure. The platform is surprisingly good at accommodating this use case.

This is an impulsive prompt on Claude Fable 5. I have a terrible imagination.