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Textack - 2024
16 Dec 2024 | original ↗

Last year's TextackWell, it's been a year since I last shared my tech stack, so let me show you what's changed over the last year, and some of my plans for 2025.HardwareI'm still rocking the MacBook Air M2, and I've discovered a few weird quirks of macOS that I'm not so fond of, but on the whole it's still been a far, far better experience than...

Simplicity in Software
5 Dec 2024 | original ↗

There's been a lot of products coming out recently with all these fancy new features. You have Arc (which recently got put into maintenance mode), Cursor, Zed (which I use), Dia (a new browser from the Arc team), etc. I'm sure you've seen at least some of these kinds of products around somewhere on the internets.One thing I've seen all of these...

What Happens When We Die?
4 Oct 2024 | original ↗

You opened your eyes slowly, flinching at what you saw as a bright light. Of course, it wasn't as bright for the rest of us, since we had been there for a few hours, but this was your first view of the real world. You slowly opened your eyes, and your mouth, and the most pleasurable sound I have ever heard came out, your first cry.We took care of...

Minimalism
3 Jun 2024 | original ↗

I was watching a YouTube video the other day by this content creator called Mrwhosetheboss, about how he bought all this minimalist tech. A lot of it was quite expensive, and while yes, some of it was pretty cool, I also felt like it wasn't really worth it.But that seems to be the impression that people have of minimalism, that it's expensive,...

A beginner's guide to Quantum and Particle Physics
21 Feb 2024 | original ↗

A blog about the most random things you can think of.

Love and War
15 Feb 2024 | original ↗

A New Year's partyNew Year's Eve, 1984. Earlier that year, Sarajevo (then in Yugoslavia, in modern-day Bosnia and Herzegovina) had hosted the Winter Olympics, the first to be held in a Slavic country. The year may have been ending, but for Boško Brkić and Admira Ismić, two high school students, this was the start of something new.YugoslaviaAfter...

Battle of the Browsers
22 Jan 2024 | original ↗

I've heard from many people that I should be using some browser because "Browser X is the best" or "Browser X is better than your browser". Most of the time, these people don't really have a very clear reason for why it's the best, just that it is. Now, I'm not really against people having opinions on what they think is the best, and defending...

Mozilla
20 Jan 2024 | original ↗

I have a problem with Mozilla, and there's enough here to warrant a whole post. Credits to Bryan Lunduke for the idea, and you can consider this an updated version of his post. Update: He also has a 2023 version!My Problem with MozillaI don't think Firefox is sustainable under Mozilla. They make a lot of questionable decisions with regards to the...

Textack - 2023
6 Dec 2023 | original ↗

I've learned a lot about different things over this last year, and I thought I'd share some of the tools and things I've been using, and maybe talk a little bit about what I plan to use next year, in 2024.HardwareAt the beginning of this year, I was using a Lenovo IdeaPad S340 with Fedora. I then moved to Windows around April, and finally got a...

What is this notes thing?
24 Nov 2023 | original ↗

My main blog is for well-researched topics, and I try to be generally neutral with my takes, though obviously everyone has some or the other bias. Not all of the posts over on my main blog are completely neutral, the OSes one is full of my opinions, for instance. However, I still wanted a place away from all that, just to post my own thoughts. So...

Duty of Care
15 Sept 2023 | original ↗

NOTEThe "R" in "R v ..." stands for "Regina", which is Latin for the Queen. This is because public criminal prosecutions are usually brought in the Queen's name. This case is from the UK, which is why the Queen's name is used. The equivalent in your country may be "The People", "The State", "The Commonwealth", etc.Fanny, Stone and DobinsonThe...

The Split-Brain Experiment
13 Jul 2023 | original ↗

Patient WJIn 1962, a patient was part of an experiment that had never been done before. This was Patient WJ, a 48-year-old former World War II paratrooper who had suffered a head injury, and was frequently experiencing convulsions and blackouts. One of his worst episodes was in 1953, and lasted 3 days.SeizuresConceptual definition of seizure and...

Intro to Privacy, Security and Anonymity
9 Mar 2023 | original ↗

I've really gotten into this stuff over the last 2 years or so. I probably shouldn't have, since I had a lot of (arguably) more important stuff going on during that time, and focusing on that might have been better for me and my future. But I digress.A lot of the stuff I say here might end up sounding like I live in the woods with a tinfoil hat,...

How to Make an OS
5 Feb 2023 | original ↗

DISCLAIMERSThis post is based on my own personal experience using Windows and various Linux distributions, and may not reflect your experience with it.Many of the things I talk about here might be possible to change by messing around with different configurations and system files in the OSes, but that's not something I am willing to do, and...

Be Social
31 Jan 2023 | original ↗

OriginsMost people nowadays generally remember AOL Instant Messenger and MySpace as their introduction to social media, while the newer generations probably got started on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, or another of the hundreds of social media applications. Most of these were developed relatively recently, and much of their userbase reflects...

Threat Modelling
18 Jan 2023 | original ↗

Before you start on your privacy and security journey, one of the main things you should figure out is your threat model.What is this threat model thing?Your threat model is pretty much a plan for what you're protecting and who you're protecting it from. Using that, the tools and services may you choose to use are much easier to decide,...

Messengers
18 Jan 2023 | original ↗

IntroThis post of the Privacy and Security series will talk about different messengers, their pros and cons, and what makes a good messenger good and a bad messenger bad. Turns out its not as simple as "I send message, person get message", there's a lot that goes into making a properly private and secure messaging service.For those of you that...

Google: A Misrepresented Evil
26 Nov 2022 | original ↗

Humble beginningsGoogle had its humble beginnings in 1995 as a research project by Stanford University students Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Scott Hassan. While Hassan left before the company was officially founded, the other two remained, and went on to become owners of one of the largest companies in the world.Now, the company that started out...

Collatz Conjecture
8 Nov 2022 | original ↗

Jeffery Lagarias, expert on the Collatz conjecture, mathematician at the University of MichiganThis is a really dangerous problem. People become obsessed with it and it really is impossible.Paul Erdös, the man who only loved numbersMathematics is not ready for such problems yet.Master of alliteration, meMany, many mathematicians over the months...

The Phalanx Formation
31 Jul 2022 | original ↗

The origin storyEven though the phalanx is probably most famous for being Greek, the earliest depicted phalanx formation actually comes from a Sumerian stele (a stone or wooden vertical slab, kind of like a totem) from the 25th century BCE. The soldiers there appear to have spears, helmets, and large shields covering the body, similar to the...

History of Toilet Paper
26 Dec 2021 | original ↗

Toilet paper, and the methods and tools used to clean your bum after going number 2, have been through a lot of changes, mostly for the better, until we finally reached the simple rolls that we take for granted today.This is a normal topic of discussion, and I was not out of my mind when I thought of it.PTPE (Pre Toilet Paper Era)The Ancient...

Chaos Theory
2 Dec 2021 | original ↗

The main stuffSo chaos theory is a pretty interesting topic (to a nerd like me) to talk about, especially since it pops up in so many places that most people don't know or care about. But if you're reading this, I have either forced it upon you, or you have a genuine interest in this stuff.IntroductionSo what is chaos theory? Well in scientist...

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