Trailblazing Braille Taser

• Take your age
• Multiply by e^iπ
• Add your age
• Divide by 10
• Take a card, any card
• Add the number of years you’ve been alive
• Hand me the card
• Is this your card?

One is actual factual reporting, the other is editorializing.

Sorry, I was writing that in Trump’s voice. I am an American who loves and contributes to open-source :)

Freedom isn’t free as in beer?

Infamously, he’s the Zodiac killer

If it’s free, then why are we paying for it?

Guess I failed the Turing Test. Hope the humans don’t turn me off.

At some point when every human on earth that can use their service/product is already doing so, where else is there to go?

Ooh, I know:

• Charge more (for less)
• Autocannibalize (layoffs)

I don’t even have an MBA, can you believe that?

In this house, we believe in false equivalences and appeals to pathos!

Are you arguing that assembly languages are not architecture-specific? I don’t think that’s the typical definition.

Nasm is an assembler, but it also represents a specific assembly language targeting x86 architectures.

Gas is an assembler of a higher order. It can emit code for many architectures, and thus it accepts many different architecture-specific assembly languages.

That which Elon Musk hath wrought upon Argentina is now being revisited upon these United States by he

You can also “simply” raw-dog Wireguard. It’s built into the Linux kernel, so you barely have to install anything besides the userspace tools.

Basically, I objected to being reliant on the generosity of a for-profit company. “We do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy.”

This is a rough sketch:

• Create a Linux server. It can even be a VM/container if you get the networking right.
• Create a Wireguard interface and pick a private IP address subnet that won’t conflict with your home subnet: https://www.wireguard.com/quickstart/
• Define PostUp and PostDown rules in your Wireguard config that modify iptables to masquerade traffic from the Wireguard subnet
• Also set net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 with sysctl. (There is probably an IPv6 equivalent but I live in the past.)
• Generate keypairs and configs for each device you want to use
• Set up dynamic DNS, e.g. https://freedns.afraid.org/
• Forward UDP port 51820 to your server
• Install the Wireguard app on your client devices. If Linux, you can just write a client config containing the necessary magic words and start it up with wg-quick.

Boom. Tailscale’d.

I’m sure I’ve forgotten some steps. I have some janky automation that’s broken in a new way every time I try to use it.

It’s illuminating to ask an LLM a question, and then say it was wrong. In my experience they will do a 180 every time.

This is the same logic people like Kennedy use.

It’s not the same logic it all? It’s not a huge leap to guess that we’re about to have a measles or bird flu pandemic.

Talk to your doctor about whether this would be helpful or effective. Don’t just go get vaccines because “if one is good two must be better!”

Did they recommend getting non-evidence-based repeat vaccinations? It just sounded like they recommended getting vaccinations that are not commonly given to US unless they’re traveling.

I have no opinion of them, but I’m curious why advertising would imply untrustworthiness. Are you saying they’re too eager or something? Spending money on ads is also consistent with a company that’s making money by charging for a service — I’d be more suspicious of free VPNs.

Can I interest you in an IBM WatchPad? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_WatchPad

Don’t worry, Elon will just announce on X that he and the DOGE boys Neuralink’d Trump’s mind into the Starlink satellites. It’s totally still Donny calling the shots.

It’s gonna be hot Hot HOT!!

I got you bro: https://web.archive.org/web/20240914062355/https://blog.archive.org/2023/11/02/internet-archive-submits-comments-on-copyright-and-artificial-intelligence/

The C++ side gives you what you need to create your own seat belt: spools of razor wire and clippers to remove the sharp edges (but no gloves). If you cut yourself, it’s your own damn fault. Real developers have discipline.