Something to think about: The general perception is that time flows or moves "from" the past and "to" the future. It's not clear what this "motion" actually is, though. At least, I think, we can all agree that "the place memories represent" is the past (and the "from", if anything is,) and that "the place plans represent" is the future (and the "to", if anything is). Some hold that "causality" …
Blanket anti-hacking laws
I am not a lawyer, much less a cyber lawyer, but I was recently wondering “are there any laws—especially federal ones—that cover just plain old Hacking per se?” Say someone breaks into your blog, maybe they look at your drafts, maybe they deface the front page… is that, in and of itself, a crime no matter where in the United States your attacker is? The answer is—Yes! 18 USC …
[DRAFT] "PROTON_USE_WINED3D" explained
You might have seen many people online talking about how entering the following infamous Steam launch option boosted their game's framerate: PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command% I'll answer the following questions What does this environment variable do? Do I need to apply it to my system? Why is it needed at all? What does PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 do? It signals to Proton to use Wine's Direct3D driver instead of its own. (If you're not …
Transcript: Vanessa Vokey Livestream Jan '22
Livestream by Canadian radical feminist Vanessa Vokey (YouTube) on January 19th, 2022. Transcribed from youtube.com/v/vHITa3W2gTY. Selected live chat messages will be 「angle-quoted」. I am archiving this here because I saw some online trolls trying to take down the video with a brigade of false reports, and the author does not seem to mirror live-streams to her Odysee account. By no means take my obsessive archival as an endorsement of …
Basic "while" loop in Elixir
Given this Python code: def f(k): n = 2 << k q = 2 i = 1 while q != n: i *= q q <<= 1 return i The Elixir translation is roughly the following: def f(k) do n = 2 <<< k # Remember to add "use Bitwise" at the top of the module q = 2 i = 1 # (Storing the output into a tuple …
X25519 original specification
Adapted from the original specification
[DRAFT] WHOIS: look up ASN from the command-line
Since Marco d'Itri's whois(1) v5.5.0 released in July 2019, most sysadmins no longer need to do trial-and-error or detectivework to guess which of the 5 RIRs controls the IP attacking you and then hunt down the appropriate WHOIS server—the -I flag will now do that annoying accounting on your behalf
[DRAFT] U.S. Obscenity Ban: Name & Blame
An 1873 federal bill to ban smut, abortion pamphlets, and sex toys was never found unconstitutional; instead, only the clauses that meaningfully impacted the ability of the American public to be sexually promiscuous were overturned, piecemeal, under the banner of "civil rights". I will attempt to give a breakdown (including partisan affiliation) of the people behind this bill's tortured history.
Transcript: Dr. Ryan Cole on Vitamin D and COVID
Transcribed from 0:52–24:13 of the Week 8 recording at lgo.idaho.gov/capitol-clarity/
Javascript: getElementByXPath
function getElementByXPath(path, context=null, _document=undefined) {
if( _document === undefined ) _document = document;
let res = document.evaluate(path, _document, context, XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE);
if( !res ) return null;
return res.singleNodeValue;
}