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quoting d-von:
And to your point, every teenager I knew was either apolitical or a bit left in a superficial Rage Against the Machine sorta way. The kids these days, I tell ya.
I was a bit left in a superficial Queensryche way. I still find excuses to quote Operation: Mindcrime in online political arguments.
This bit from "Spreading the Disease" is still relevant, unfortunately.
quoting :
Religion and sex are power plays Manipulate the people for the money they pay Selling skin, selling God The numbers look the same on their credit cards Politicians say no to drugs While we get paid for wars in South America Fighting fire with empty words while the banks get fat And the poor stay poor and the rich get rich And the cops get paid to look away As the one percent rules America
posted 3/13/2024, 2:40 pm
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I just pushed a new version of my website to https://starbreaker.org. It was originally staged at https://new.starbreaker.org but that's now a temporary alias.
@Eternity had given me some advice by email back in January that I ended up taking.
posted 3/18/2024, 4:24 am
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quoting d-von:
Cool. Glad to see you're moving forward. @Eternity seems to have turned himself into the personal web avatar or something.
I think he's been a personal web advocate for as long as I've been acquainted with him.
quoting d-von:
Incidentally, your original plan to fragment content caused an above average level of discussion on Blue Dwarf.
I had noticed that. I ended up recreating my account there (I must have deleted it by mistake.) to drop a follow-up in the comments in case anybody goes digging through the backlog.
quoting the-syreth-clan:
I wonder where he disappeared to.
I've seen him on the 32bit Cafe forum under another name. Also, isn't he a teacher? He might not have much time to post right now.
quoting the-syreth-clan:
I also have this problem of splitting my website like that. Worse yet I have a bad urge of making them all a 'marketable'. This is not necessarily a bad thing, if the project is separate and big enough to warrant its own sub-site — like BuKnight — I will do it, but what about more vague topics like technology in the general sense?
In my case, I want to be able to post spicy takes and fiction without them being easily discoverable by people who think they know me because we work for the same bunch of overprivileged assholes. Granted, that cat is already well out of the bag, but I'm hoping that bitrot and linkrot will eventually work in my favor, and that Google will eventually die from its autocoprophagy (eating its own shit).
edited 3/18/2024, 3:14 pm
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quoting orchids:
the not wanting to doxx yourself is totally a valid argument for having separate sites (even though you said you're fine with people finding out your name), but I think for separating out content, I would definitely lean towards a unified experience as well.
I'm probably pretty thoroughly doxxed anyway. I used my real name on the old version of my site, which I'll keep archived on the "old." subdomain for at least a year in case there's something I forgot to port over.
quoting orchids:
I obviously don't speak for everyone, but a big way I like to consume blog content is through bearblog's discover page because I get to see a lot of different stuff and skip over the posts that I have no interest in. I see a lot of people write blogs about this issue from a writing perspective, but as a reader, I'd rather have the option to skip over a post, rather than just never see it because I'm not visiting someone's alt site.
Well, if Firefox still displayed that clickable RSS icon in the URL bar (there are extensions for that now) you could click it on starbreaker.org and see almost a dozen feeds because they're listed in <head>:
all posts
all headlines
recent posts
recommended posts
writing
tech
deep links
entertainment
personal
miscellaneous
rants (sometimes NSFW)
lewd (always NSFW)
My blog page also provides topic indexes. This way, if I wanted to write a review of a porno like Leather Gear Solid 2: Sons of Libertines, I could stick it in /blog/lewd/ and people who aren't into lewd posts can just not look at that index.
Though I should change my grep command for all posts so that I get everything but the lewd stuff, and then change the descriptions to "(almost) all".
edited 3/19/2024, 1:43 pm
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quoting orchids:
i wrote about one of my fav musicians right now, Rosie Tucker:
https://basementcommunity.bearblog.dev/rosie-tucker/
literally have had her on repeat since being locked in the house. her music is nuts
I just gave Tucker a listen. Doesn't really do it for me, but maybe my tastes have been warped by overindulgence in Euro-metal.
I've been into Scarlet Dorn since I discovered her via Lord of the Lost about a year ago; Dorn was a guest singer on a Lord of the Lost track.
posted 3/26/2024, 2:02 am
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Added this for the March IndieWeb carnival.
https://starbreaker.org/blog/tech/personal-web-accessibility-march-2024/index.html
quoting :
I think there’s more to accessibility than implementing WCAG AA or AAA guidelines, or complying with Section 508 if you operate in the USA so that you don’t get sued. It’s important that my website be inclusive to people with disabilities, if only because I might need such accommodations myself someday, but I think the emphasis on accommodating disability ultimately limits our thinking of what accessibility is and what it’s for.
Consider, for example, a personal website that is explicitly designed to be viewed on a desktop or laptop. Its operator has every right to decide that supporting mobile devices, especially smartphones, isn’t worth their time and effort. It’s their website, after all. But in a world where most people access the Web via smartphones, is such a website truly accessible?
posted 3/28/2024, 4:39 pm
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quoting the-syreth-clan:
Assorted Random Anime Ramblings (2023.03.27) In which I gather all anime I ever watched properly that I could think about and give a few thoughts on them. Rate my taste... or lack of thereof.
I'm not going to comment on your taste because I haven't seen any of these.
posted 3/28/2024, 11:10 pm
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quoting divsel:
I can relate to this a lot. I would explain how so but I don't necessarily want to reveal that much about myself at this juncture. But yeah.
Sounds like you've got a similar story, but it's yours to tell or not at your discretion. No pressure.
posted 3/29/2024, 5:58 am
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Sounds like you're trying to say that all three characters are assholes.
The guy "on the left" is self-righteous and more concerned about how a sentiment is expressed than the sentiment itself.
The guy "in the middle" seems to have his heart in the right place even if some people find his language offensive, but he seems to abandon any principle of tolerance he might have as soon as the guy "on the left" starts in on the speech policing.
The guy on the right only needs an AK because he either makes too many enemies or can't aim for shit.
posted 3/29/2024, 6:41 am
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quoting divsel:
very good observation about person number 2. We definitely don't want to be like him.
Person number 2 seems to be what sociologists used to call other-directed. He'd rather be wrong than lonely.
posted 3/29/2024, 1:20 pm
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quoting divsel:
But I suppose if you ask me what the moral of the pseudo-comic strip is, it would be that creating a culture of nitpicking, elitism, and and constant superiority tripping over idealogical things -- whether based in good intention or not -- radicalizes people who are not the perfect beacon of the idealogy in the opposite direction.
These assholes didn't push me to the right. I've always been a dirty pinko atheist with a gun. I have always been for civil liberties and against letting corporations and billionaires do as they please. And I've never had patience for identity politics. It was obnoxious bullshit in the 1990s and it's still obnoxious bullshit today.
posted 4/1/2024, 2:33 am
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A couple of posts this week.
Ideal Breakfast?: I doubt mine is anybody's ideal, but it works for me.
Things to Do in April 2024: Here’s a todo list for my website; will I get to do it all?
posted 4/4/2024, 10:10 pm
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Dropped this a few days ago.
https://starbreaker.org/blog/personal/good-enough-april-2024/index.html
Work just hard enough to earn your pay. Don’t go above and beyond. Don’t work unpaid overtime. Don’t let your bosses bully you into commuting to an open-plan office to do work you can do at home. Don’t buy any rhetoric about collaboration, purpose, gratitude, or community from your bosses; always assume they’re trying to manipulate you. Don’t let your bosses con you into thinking the corporate culture is a real culture. Don’t attend corporate social events after hours unless it’s your union. Rent out your intellect, but don’t sell your soul or give away your heart. You’re there to earn a living, nothing more or less. So act your wage, and reserve the best of yourself and your greatest efforts for real life, your life outside of work.
edited 4/24/2024, 8:37 pm
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quoting the-syreth-clan:
I would rather die a NEET than live a serf.
If I was a bachelor and didn't have expensive tastes I'd feel the same.
posted 4/25/2024, 1:11 pm
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quoting orchids:
just wrote this guide on everything I personally do when spinning up a new server. Looking for some feedback on it to see if I missed anything important:
Just wanted to mention that while Windows has a command prompt, it doesn't come with SSH. For that you'd want to either set up WSL, or install an app like PuTTY.
Also, why does certbot have a dependency on snapd? Are you using Ubuntu in your example?
posted 4/30/2024, 3:18 pm
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quoting orchids:
nice thanks for that. I knew about WSL but never messed around it enough to speak intelligently on it in a post like this, but I'll add that disclaimer.
No worries.
quoting orchids:
And yeah. It's not super clear but I use Debian. I had a note towards the top of the blog about apt-get:
apt-get will work if you're on Ubuntu or Debian but other operating systems have different commands for upgrading. You can find your appropriate command here
but I should probably add a top-level note about that fact that the commands might need to be tweaked for a different distro
And it looks like the certbot devs themselves are pushing snap to make sure people have a current version of certbot since Debian stable tends to only update biannually, you don't run Sid on prod, and the Debian security team isn't keeping up with critical patches to certbot.
posted 4/30/2024, 6:36 pm
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quoting the-syreth-clan:
Good old (old) Debian, up with its usual antics I see.
"${DISTRO}" gonna "${DISTRO}". Every one of them has their quirks. For example, if I want a current Emacs on Slackware I've got to compile it from source. Luckily, Slackware is set up correctly so that /usr/local/bin takes precedence over /usr/bin in $PATH so as long as I set $PREFIX when building everything turns out fine.
The only thing you can do is embrace the jank, because jank is inevitable, and distro-hop until you find a distro whose jankiness you find congenial.
posted 5/1/2024, 2:27 pm
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Just a little bit about ad blockers. I use one for the same reason I wear condoms. It isn't safe to bareback strangers or their websites.
edited 5/8/2024, 1:08 pm
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quoting Eternity:
Top-shelf post, but on a slightly unrelated note: I've always preferred referring to them as coats. And I feel that euphemism should be more popular!
As in raincoats? I've heard that one before, but I remember "No Glove, No Love" as an HIV-prevention slogan from the 1980s.
posted 5/9/2024, 1:52 pm
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I had posted this a few days ago and forgot to share it. Been reading some old sf.
edited 5/9/2024, 5:27 pm
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Here's another one for you. Kind of a downer since I'm griping about electoral politics in the USA.
https://starbreaker.org/blog/personal/indecision-2024/index.html
posted 5/10/2024, 9:29 pm
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Spent Saturday night thinking about consciously choosing to believe, and how ridiculous it is that some people think that reading the Bible can lead somebody to faith when it led me away from it -- especially when Christianity is so frequently misused in the US as an apologetics for tyranny.
posted 5/13/2024, 4:00 pm
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quoting the-syreth-clan:
I think that is what caused me to realize, like Nietzsche said, my belief in the christian god has become unbelievable. My muses — Martina and Erika — are entities I interact with on a daily basis. I know exactly what they look like, what their voices sound like, their favorite color, their tastes and aspirations, their sense of humor (or lack of thereof if you ask me). I treat them like I would treat a person because for me, they are.
Exactly. They're real to you. I've never met them, but then again I've never met you either. And, given that I also write fiction, I'm no stranger to the notion of other people living in the back of my head. Hard part is getting 'em to pay rent.
quoting the-syreth-clan:
But that is not what I see with most Christians. Instead, I see them treating of their god as a cudgel, or a gachapon machine, or medicine, or a money printer, or a political billboard. I see them go into these elaborate buildings to conduct these abstract rituals as if their god was so distant, so out of reach that divine inspiration was an extreme outlier and you probably was just a 'false prophet' if you claimed you experienced it. I cannot believe any of those people truly have faith. They want to believe, but they just can not.
Frankly, they're not even real Christians. Their churches care more about the Pentateuch and the Epistles of Paul than they do the teachings of Jesus Christ. They're Paulines, or maybe just the sort of Pharisees who would demand of Pilate, "Give us Barabbas!" Show me a church that uses the Jefferson Bible and I'll consider attending.
And, frankly, I'd prefer Martina or Erika over the demon Yahweh. As far as I know your muses have no interest in my sex life.
posted 5/14/2024, 3:04 pm
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quoting the-syreth-clan:
Not my post but something I saw on sizeof.cat.
I find this quite funny given Wani released this year. Someone in /freak/ is spinning up an idea for his own male VTuber with the feedback of other anons. People are still active in /dig/ and posting their illustrations and giving feedback too (I saw a cute goblin). As much as I would love to see 4chan becoming a dump where trying to find a community is futile, it still has some neat nooks one just cannot find elsewhere.
I'm not sure that sizeof.cat ever understood that 4chan -- like Twitter -- has always been a shithole, the sort of wretched virtual hive of scum and villainy that made Mos Eisley look classy. Maybe it wasn't the internet equivalent of a sacrifice zone to them because for a time they felt like they belonged there. And now they no longer do.
And 4chan has always had porn: /s/, /e/, and /h/ are among its oldest and most active boards. So I'm not sure sizeof.cat knows WTF they're on about.
posted 5/20/2024, 8:25 pm
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Reminds me of the Agora Road forum.
posted 6/13/2024, 2:16 pm