For those who are keeping score, I’m a dumbass. So, I have a file server at my home that’s running FreeNAS, which is based on FreeBSD, a popular Unix distribution. I have around 7.4 terabytes of storage capacity across 5 disks; that’s a lot of personal files. I bought a single 8TB disk for the …
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Mobile Power Project: Ham Radio On the Go!
Intent: It seems minor, but installing the power cables for a ham radio in a car is a major project if you want it done right. After months of thoughts and tactics, I made good on my plan to install a 25 Amp circuit into my car to power my portable amateur radio equipment. I’ve …
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The Datacenter, Humanity’s Marketplace
So just what are the Holy Algorithms? They are the automatic schemes of man, human plans to model human behavior and optimize for some potential profit, either monetary gain or behavioral control. Humans make the algorithms for use on humans. Never forget that. Computers are only the agents of mass scale. How to resist? Simply …
Clicktease
It’s apparent to me now: the modern web is designed to give us just enough of what we’re looking for to require us to make an action to find out more. We’re being teased into providing input into the system. Did someone post an image? Guess what: that image will be cropped with just enough …
In Praise of the Holy Algorithm
It seems that I am, that we are, irredeemably under the thumb of the Facebook algorithm as far as getting any messages out. A week ago, I was having a particularly bad night, emotionally, and I posted a short message that could have been construed as a cry for help. What I got was absolutely …