Anyone who knows me knows I love decentralized IT. I heart P2P theory, I can talk your ear off about microkernel OS’s (for your own sake, never ever let me get on this subject in conversation; I am being utterly serious here), I even have a soft spot for bitcoin (although I don’t take it very seriously). As such, I was very ready to be a fan of Freenet. Alas, it was not to be.
Everyone knows sugary cereal is sugary. Your mom and dad have used it as an excuse to not buy anything that doesn’t taste like corrugated bran puffs for years. But how sugary is it, really?
1st rule of internet protocols: don’t use internet protocol rules as Fight Club jokes.
(This rule is pretty meta)
2nd rule: if you’re making a new protocol, and it’s not already famous as heck, it should probably end in “P” for protocol.
Thus, HALP, or Host Address List Protocol. It’s a project that will hopefully aid in the standardization of decentralized networking. With HALP, you can set up peer-finding in a simple way for your application using simple tools. It uses port 3451 and sits on top of TCP, although nothing’s stopping you from using UDP for such one-shot operations.
I have a history of pranks that are ill-conceived at best, and this one was a doozy. The concept was to pretend to be a lady, engage a guy in cyber on Omegle, and then drop the bomb that I expect to get pregnant IRL and that’s what I want (and bring up child support and stuff) and generally derail everything.
An index card I found while packing stuff up for moving. It’s amazing the kind of bizarre nonsense you find when you do that.
I think I may be artificially ranked lower because I forgot to give it a genre, but I was pretty much tired out of my mind last night when I posted it. Next time I’ll have a music video I hope, for What If We Have it Backwards.
For those of you who don’t know, Cambria is my secret project - a source-based Linux distro that uses Elementary for graphics, JACK for audio, and a utility layer just above repositories as a package management. That last bit is the part that sells it - all your packages are stored as source in a local clone of a repo, be it git, bazaar or subversion, and Cambria uses the repository’s commands to update and remake your software!
Cubeheads
So, yeah, I finally got wacom4linux to mostly work. Still no pressure sensitivity yet, but I still wanted to play around with it and do stupid stuff. So I made an unfunny comic. Hooray! But seriously, why do so many guys on the internet have to be chauvinist pricks? If I can be a nice guy, then how freaking hard can it be to represent your gender with a little dignity and self respect?
Something just hit me as I was washing dishes today. Just about every pot handle I’ve ever seen that I can think of consists of a handle part and 2 screws securing it to the pot or pan.
Now, there is probably a really valid structural/manufacturing reason for this setup being so universal, but it feeds my paranoia much better to think that there is an entire secret society devoted to making everybody touch dick-shaped objects without knowing it, and this is their contribution to the cooking industry. Makes me wonder what other “handles” we’re handling without comprehending the devious subtext.
I’m a little sleep-deprived and I’m formulating my thoughts as I write, so bear with me if I sound a little stupid and I haven’t edited the stupid out. I believe there’s some kind of vaguely-defined value to be theoretically gleaned from reading a stream-of-consciousness path of thought, and hopefully by sharing the way we think we can grow in that much more of a well-adjusted way.
This is a rant on the War on Terror.
