Robert "Grip"

I'm just gonna come out and admit it... I don't actually understand Zettelkasten, but it would benefit me somehow...? I've watched some video tutorials and some guides and I'm still... *shrugs*

Once again on this, the superior daylight savings, I ask that we just stop here and not increase my risk of heart attack in the spring? Please and thanks for your attention to this matter.

Cute chubby cheeks are often just (still) cute weak chins without the benefit of a beard.

And yes, I am being a little tongue in cheek. While dealing with angular frequency I do know I already use tau as the time constant of RC. But I think RC can live without this?? I hear Engineers are an adaptive lot? They already use j not i in vectors so as not to mistake for current? /s

Speak of the devil. I just had to calculate angular frequency which is ω = 2πf. That could have just been ω = τf (I found the greek symbols). I’ve already used tau twice today and it isn’t even lunch yet.

Did I just become a Tauist??

If I remember correctly tau is just 2π? (Well one point for π is I can easily type it but not tau. But thinking about it, it immediately makes all the sense. Off the top of my head I use 2π way more than I use π. 🤷‍♂️

What ever happened to those people trying to replace pi with tau? Were they ever taken seriously? I vaguely remember the movement but not the argument. Blast from the internet past.

I don't care about nostalgia anymore. My best years are ahead of me.

I’m so thoroughly bored with the internet that I might have to stop consuming and start writing again. Shake off a decade+ of cobwebs and just write random shit for my own gratification. I feel like I could maybe get into creative non-fiction this time. Or just whatever. I’ve come full circle.

Fun fact, my youtube account which was created in 2007 using an old gmail account established in 2006 (so literally 18 and 19 years old) has just been restricted because Google can't verify I'm not under age... Truly brilliant AI systems they have. Thankfully it's my trash account that I don't need.

If only we were all like this, problem solved overnight.

Microsoft will never stop because you spew mad hate for every single version of Windows and then complain endlessly for every upgrade. From their standpoint you all just complain and then “love” the one going end of life. I remember the Windows 10 hate. Now y’all crying. Want them to change? Leave!

I think I regret choosing proxmox... I'm not sure yet. But I'm definitely not happy with the whole setup. Perhaps it's time to nuke it all and re-architect my home lab.

Andrew Ng: "AI is the new electricity!"

Cory Doctorow: "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations."

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...)

You know you’re reading litrpg when everything is “inexorable” and all will is “indomitable”. Like they’re all reading the same thesaurus. And they’re only using “inexorable” properly half the time.

The Manly Naming Department of the Combat Forces of The Department of War!

That’s what you sound like with this shit.

"US Space Force Combat Forces Command"… because we are led by 11 year olds

Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ One Google exec recently said the web is “thriving.”

Here: www.theverge.com/news/773928/...

With google admitting the open web is rapidly in decline, I must once again implore everyone to carve out their own little corner of it. Learn to host your own little thing. Bring back blogs. Join decentralized and federated services. Revisit the old greats like irc. Pirate (but support creators).

Ninjas would make poor bodyguards 🤷🏿‍♂️

Deceit is a legitimate tool of a statecraft, however unfortunate that may be. Or so I'm told.

I knew LastPass would be on that list as both completely vulnerable and having not mitigated it yet or indicated at all whether they would. I don't know why people still use them.

It’s okay to admit both that the members of the applied rationality movement have many useful tools you should adopt, and that they should be thrown off a cliff for everyone’s sake.

No. Look, I'll make a deal. If you remove the crypto and get-rich-quick scam ads and the literal malware, maybe I'll consider it. If you want people to not use adblock, moderate your fucking advertisements.

Until you do, no dice, the adblock is staying on.

Bungie: "Damnit, we're not a one trick pony. We can't spend our whole lives making Halo."

Also Bungie: *proceeds to make Destiny for the rest of their lives*

The lack of differentiation between trusted and untrusted state and input is endlessly devilish in trying to secure this technology. It completely violates all security paradigms we've tried to enforce for coming on half a century

“…looked like a giant single-headed Hydra.” So… a dragon. Some authors do the most for no reason. (The fact that they gave no further description implies it looked like the classic image of a Hydra).

It Looks Like a School Vape Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Become an Audio Bug The Halo 3C is a vape detector installed in schools and public housing. A young hacker found it contains microphones and that it can be turned into an audio bug, raising privacy concerns.

New: a brand of vape detectors is in schools and public housing. A young hacker took it apart, found it contained microphones. They then demonstrated how to turn it into an audio bug. Brings up concerns of surveillance in peoples' own homes www.404media.co/it-looks-lik...

Reading about the mint feels like reading some deep fantasy novel.

The pyx-jury arose. “Now begins the trial of the pyx!”

New Linux backdoor Plague bypasses auth via malicious PAM module A stealthy Linux backdoor named Plague, hidden as a malicious PAM module, allows attackers to bypass auth and maintain persistent SSH access.

Fascinating.

securityaffairs.com/180701/malwa...