7E1 in a 8N1 world

there are MANY types of horror and fear – at best, horror games might desensitize you to jump scares … but not a heck of a lot beyond that

(sidetrack: crontab guru helps you make sense of the first part of each crontab line)

yet

https://emojipedia.org/wilted-flower

• Codeberg
• sourcehut
• radicle
• self hosted

• -auto-orient – auto-orient will read from EXIF
• -strip – strip will remove all metadata
• WARNING: if you’ve already used -strip, then -auto-orient will do nothing

(also if you’re using Quad9 DNS – Quad9 and Catbox have an long running beef with each other)

• Rust has Redox
• Hare has Bunnix

Shuffle Demons – Spadina Bus

Vibe Coding Day 8

oh hey, a project that actually has a manual to read

the Internet and the Web are fine – Web 2.0 was where things started going wrong – the cancer that begat the parasites of Web 3.0, crypto coin, and LLMs feeding off the twitching remains

“hacked” or just used the FBI’s own backdoors?

c/womensstuff is punching up, you’re punching down

Alpine Linux 3.22 introduced the 2019 patch to use TER16x32 console font – it’s not a bad font, but yeah: fbcon=font:VGA8x16

now … how many of those were by Linus?

historical example: Sukiyaki by Kyu Sakamoto – released in Japan in 1961 under “Ue o Muite Arukō” – released in US in 1963 under “Sukiyaki” because that was about the only Japanese word Americans knew …