I'm utterly done with Gnome. Been running 44, and just a few days ago on the same version, I was able to, albeit by running wayland, hide the titlebars on my windows. The offense of forcing everyone to tolerate their poop brown new dark theme with Apple inspired, insipid, alternately dark and light windows needs to end now, ok, just stop it. Also, fuck gnome. Did :I mention, fuck gnome? Because fuck gnome.

Something that people are quickly going to learn is that too much of a thing makes it less valuable. Every time I see AI generated art and text, I'm like, yawn, oh look, someone spent 5 minutes making that.

When I was migrating my android stuff to another device, I saw some crazy shit saying that some people don't like using cables. For migrating data from one phone to another? Insane, the USB C cables can do 10gbit. Best you gonna see on a wireless connection peer to peer is about 300mbit. Literally 30x slower. Anyone who prefers to move their data from one phone to another over wireless can suck my balls. And it was extraordinarily complicated to do. In fact, it only migrated the app data, I still had to re-download the apps, even though it could have transferred them as well. "pHoNeS aRe UsEfUl ToOlS bRo, WhY dOn'T yOu LoVe ThEm LiKe A nOrMaL pErSoN?" Go fuck yourself. GFY, doo de doo. If it was a computer I could have done the job completely in under an hour, but it took me about 5 hours in total because of how retarded Google is. These people have got so full of themselves on their lobby-conomics that they aren't paying any attention to making their stuff technically adequate anymore, it's degrading into utter garbage and normies will notice this soon too. I'm just a canary in the coal mine here.

The sheer amount of bullshit regulation going on these days around taxes and banking is getting to the point where a lot of people are at risk of becoming unbanked if they happen to lose documents and anyone who is in transit is very much at risk. Meanwhile, even my Wallet of Satoshi was easy to migrate to a new phone, and they DGAF where I live. If they did, I wouldn't use it any further. I'm applying that razor to everything now. The only thing that I'm gonna make any effort in this direction is banking and for now, that's no problem. But I can see how it might soon be the case that the only way for me to get cash is via Western Union or other laborious transfer method, if this shit keeps up. The compliance cost is gonna make people really pissed off soon. I can see how merchant adoption of Lightning is going to be an easy sell really soon. The banks have the axes out on the limb they are sitting on. I hope they all fall into a hole in the ground and get covered in water.

I am in one of the most retarded time zones in the world. At this time of year, just on 1 week past the autumn equinox, the sun should be rising and setting at what should be half way to midnight/noon. Here, the sun rises and sets at 8, fully 2 hours ahead of the real solar time. It fucks with my ability to calculate what I should be doing. So, I am setting my timezone on my computer to what reflects the nearest thing to the actual time, fully 2 hours behind. On my big angry walk 2 days ago, I observed that the last bus service in my area passed me at just past midnight. I was scratching my head, thinking, how is it that this is normal, to be awake until midnight on a regular basis? Ah yeah, 2 hours behind that would be 10pm by the sun, and that's pretty much normal. 9-10pm is the natural time for a human to go to sleep. With 8 hours sleep, one then will be rising at around sunrise. That's basically what people do here. I used to think it was weird how a similar thing happened when I was in eastern europe, why everything seemed like it opens and closes an hour later than I thought it should by the clock. It's because the stubborn slavs also refuse to obey fiat time and after the government changes the clock to be an hour ahead, they changed their working hours to be an hour ahead, thus nullifying the problem. This is a perfect illustration of the real results of everything that is imposed on people that is contrary to nature. The healthy, strong and stubborn humans just ignore it and do what is natural instead. I mean, you seriously can't do this DST regime at all if people's clocks were sundials. What, you gonna tell everyone to rotate their sundial anticlockwise 30 degrees last sunday of march and october? Those who submit to it, and who run their day as though this clock was the sun, are harmed and their health is reduced by this. Those who can't tolerate it, but have to conform, wind up drinking coffee and alcohol to disrupt their natural endocrine system's arousal timetable, and this causes untold health problems. Fiat time, fiat food, fiat radio pollution. These things all disconnect us from our nature and make us into slaves. Fuck fiat anything. I am not complying with any of it anymore. I do have to remember to step outside my little enclave to see the time that people will give me when I need to do things, or the maps showing the opening hours of things, remember that my pc is showing me the sun's position not their fiat bullshit. But it's just one more thing that minimises my cognitive dissonance, and my health is going to be much better as a result of it.

I've been having a fairly epic couple of days. I think this is day 4 since I flushed my half jar of coffee down the drain after having a total b0rk - I had my system all perfect affter 3 days not sleeping enough and trying to get the bastard just right. I deleted the files at the root `rm -rf *` and even though it only wiped out /etc /boot /dev /efi these are critical to booting the system and it wasn't gonna boot after that, and I basically totally broke it. Tried to fix it up, but being so fatigued I couldn't get anything working. Then the next day, my internet had ran out of allocation and was on shaped, and for whatever reason, the hotspot suddenly stopped giving me internet access, and I was freaking out. I ended up chucking a hissy fit, after my first day no caf, and proceeded to walk 20km in a huff, saying all kinds of somewhat retarded things to my friends. Suffice it to say that it obviously was the withdrawals. No, I didn't really get any headache, but I still am not quite right since the weekend, and yeah it's friday now so that's how long it's been - 4 days. I'm feeling way better today. Walking 40km in one day is pretty hard work, especially when the slopes are often up to 14% probably average around 8% either up or down, and I'm wearing barefoot shoes so it's a little harder on the foosies than usual. No matter, it's good training, and I got a little sunburnt in the process, and saw lots of new places I hadn't seen along the way.f So, the upshot of all this is I am now fully on zero drugs of any kind, and shunning all forms of sugar and that includes alcohol. Except for what is naturally in fruit, which I am eating for the fibre mainly. I feel amazing, like I can conquer the world from this starting point. I have started a diet regime, based on the experiments I have been making recently, and it's pretty much 3L of milk, a bit of greek yoghurt, about 200g of 100% chocolate and fruit - at the moment, 2 oranges a day. Chocolate makes my skin feel amazing. Beef dripping also is amazing but the whole world has turned insane and it can't be had from anywhere. If you make stewed beef, and keep the broth, it rises to the top and when it cools down separates like butter. This stuff is the ultimate human dietary fat. Chocolate is a second option that is nearly as good. I have tried pig fat before, but it makes my skin kinda get this sheen about it that isn't as nice as what chocolate/beef dripping does. I suppose it's related to the composition of the fats, and all that stearic acid, which obviously is being primarily diverted out of the usual food production systems to be isolated for drugs. It's a common tablet compounding ingredient, as it forms a nice shiny hard wax, and especially good for the coating, as this makes it somewhat resistant to dissolving in the stomach and waits until the bile where it then is degraded by the sodium carbonate. Or, idk wtf. Milk is amazingly hard to get in a decent form too. Seems like the majority of people are drinking half fat milk or skim milk. And a lot seem to be drinking skim milk with the lactose removed. I think there has been an intentional campaign against both beef fat and milk fat because these two foods are some of the most important for your health, and without this in your diet, you are gonna get all kinds of diseases, and have a weak mind and generally be easy to manipulate, and your intelligence degraded. Anyhow, it's not impossible to get fresh, but pasteurised milk, it's just that in the biggest supermarkets I can find, there's like 6 litres sitting there in the fridge and a whole aisle of garbage UHT with most of the goodness removed. Ok, I will just have to hunt it out, and I get UHT whole milk when I can't find the un-cooked version. I do kinda envy you americans that you can even get raw milk at all. But where I live now, is perfect for keeping goats, so that will be a good one anyway. And I'm really disturbed about what the smell of stewed beef is too. Always, smells like friggin corn. Who the FUCK thinks it's rational or sane to feed cattle food that is at best ok for pigs??? What on earth happens inside a cow's guts when it eats such starchy crap? The natural diet of ruminants is leaves and grass. Their guts are giant multi stage fermenters that are designed to break down cellulose into sugars, and with this high starch diet, who knows what the fuck happens in there instead. It's just not natural. Anyway, it's enough for now that I can get pasteurised whole milk most of the time, and eat pure chocolate. This is a far better diet than what most people eat, and all this walking I've been doing lately, it's really acutely obvious to me, comparing to what people looked like when I was a kid, that everyone is sick as a dog now. Modern industrial diet is pure cancer and heart attacks. If you still have carbohydrates in your diet not bound into a matrix of fibre and shitloads of antioxidant chemicals, you are killing yourself. If you think I'm crazy, I don't give a fuck. I'm still gonna be here in 100 years time and still look healthy, better than any 90 year old, and you all are gonna be dead, and spent the last 50 years of your life in pain and suffering for no reason other than you can't be bothered to try to think.

Today will be my first full day sans caffeine in years. I know I am gonna probably suffer some headache but it's gonna be worth it. Gonna be drinking salty broth from stewed beef neck (including sections of spine) a lot for a few days, that should help. I got a really bad cramp this morning in my right calf muscle. Once it settled I immediately went to the kitchen to have half a teaspoon of sea salt washed down with water. Caffeine metabolises to uric acid in the blood, and this thickens the blood and makes it prone to getting slow and congested and causing conditions like gout. I had gout at one time. One of the difficulties of recovering from alcoholism is that it messes up your kidneys normal elimination triggering. Increasing salt intake helps a lot. It's one of the things that I think caffeine keeps its hooks in people who are alcoholics, because it compensates for the messing up of the natural diuretic process by artificially forcing it. I'm sure that this broth will help a lot. After I've chugged through all of it I suppose I'll be dicing up the stewed beef and frying it in butter. The broth is covered with dripping as well. I am starting to really love beef dripping, it makes my skin soft, my hair soft, it tastes damn good... But I'm pretty much off all forms of carbs now. I probably will eat potato chips once in a while, hand cut and fried in beef dripping, but it's not a good food anyway. Better to just eat the beef and be happy.

There is a whole world of difference between ostracising a person based on race, and ostracising them based on the nature of their character. To say I don't want to see children or openly parading perversion on the street is the same as racism is patently false. The only distinction that I make between homosexuality and kleptomania of r other forms of perversion is this: For the most part, those who are afflicted do not seek to make others like themselves, they simply want to be left to it in their own privacy. The sick people whose joy comes from causing error in the world, and watching people suffer, on the other hand, do. These are the same people who in the first place are prowling the beats and grooming preteen boys to join their club. The majority of those who do, are not going around grooming young ones to induct into the "game". They don't deserve orstracism, but they rightly earn suspicion from those, especially who have children who these predators might target. Having grown up in a family with sexual abuse going on, as well as psychological abuse, I just want to make it clear that I don't hate on homosexuality from a position of being isolated from it. Not only did I live with the trauma of a psychopath in my childhood, as a result of this I became vulnerable to the approaches of others, and being like this also made me a social outcast, no different to these others. And just like the homosexuals, of which many I have personally known, and even experimented with it, even I worked as a rent boy for a while in 1998, I worked for the director of the sex industry lobby in Australia, Eros Foundation, I know from direct personal experience that these are people of a qualitatively similar personal history. That is, they also showed signs of having been tampered with by psychopaths who get pleasure out of the confused instinctive reaction of their victims to their torment. Protect the victims, but put the perpetrators to death, is my position on it. I have not been any closer to a definite sexual pervert psychopath other than my father, but I have heard of them and seen them around and seen the fallout of their depravity in the social circles I was in. I don't draw any distinction between people who torment others for fun. It's the same, no matter whether it's a troll on the internet, shoplifters, serial rioters, thieves, burglars, murderers, rapists or whatever. There is no such thing as being born homosexual, and if there was, such individuals would be very rare because they would not choose to reproduce. It may well be that psychopaths are predisposed to become this way, but it's not genetic either, it's always the product of specific kinds of traumatic treatment of prevocal infants that leads to it, and this is a disease of the mind, and it's not just about one form of its expression, it is fundamental and core to the function of the human brain. Psychopaths have a very important early circuit in their brains messed up, by the treatment of those psychopaths who inflicted this on them. Those who have it, and are born into wealth, have very good genetics, but that's not what makes them psychopaths. The reason why the royalty was incestuous was because they need the good genetics in order to be able to do what they do, while more easily hiding the dark taint inside them. The rest of us, yes, we can do cruel things at times ,but we don't revel in it. Those who have been tormented later in life, whose time of vulnerability passed before a psychopath got involved, and inflicted the trauma that bakes the psychopathy in, are varying degrees of neurosis and psychosis. This vulnerability to behaving like this increases when the victim's endocrine system is messed up. That's why fluoride, that's why vaccines, that's why refined, high carbohydrate low mineral low vitamin diets, and why their penultimate vulnerability causing diet fad is veganism. Vegans have less capacity to resist being persuaded to act out the will of the psychopaths who seek to control society. That's just a few elements, I'm sure once you understand what I'm saying, you understand just how badly we are as a society on the edge of total collapse. Psychopathy is the inversion of the human brain's mimicry circuit. Just as monkeys and apes copy what they see, sympathy and empathy are behaviours that come from this mimicry. Psychopaths don't get pleasure when they see someone having pleasure, they get pain. Healthy human beings enjoy seeing others having pleasure, and want to join in. None of this is rocket science, but if you understand that the entire scientific apparatus and system has been coopted by psychopaths, then you see it obviously is going to be one of the subjects they want the least understood about. In every way which they can, they hide their true nature, but behind closed doors, they revel in it. That's why the Fabian Socialists emblem is a wolf in sheep's clothing and why humiliation is a ritual of this club. The pedophiles are just one chapter of a very wide range of psychopaths, the other categories I'm sure you will be familiar with - mafias, political lobbies, politicians, anyone with privilege to be around children is in a position to promote psychopathic behaviour.

Some worry that AI WiLl TaKe OvEr ThE wOrLd... just like the morons who are putting all their cantillionwealth into it want you to believe, and tremble. But it's just round 2. And I'm sure the same psychopaths are behind this new fad. It will rise like a lead balloon, the same as their first big foray into machine intelligence.

Artsy

The Life and Death of Microsoft Clippy, the Paper Clip the World Loved to Hate

He began as an animated assistant who just wanted to help. What can Clippy's brief existence teach us about the relationships we have with our comp...

I personally can't wait for everyone's tolerance of being nudged and persuaded to run out. It will come, and the backlash will be epic.

TIL that manjaro linux's packages (the main binaries accessible via pacman) are quite substantially out of date compared to the parent disttro Arch linux. The difference is like night and day, I HATE manjaro. Nothing of my hardware works right with it and the stuff that I get from Arch is smooth as butter. I just gotta iron out my data retention policies so I don't wipe out all of them at the same time like I did this morning. I have fast reflexes and fast fingers but SSDs are even faster. It zapped most of the important files for booting the system and the only way to get back to it is to install arch. Putting manjaro on it all of the libraries were out of date, the pacman database had duplicated entries... I just challenge anyone who had assumed there was no real difference between Arch and Manjaro. You will almost certainly agree manjaro is second rate in comparison.

The total supply limit of Bitcoin could be expressed as 2.1 Petasats, 2.1*10^15

People wonder why I have at times got really worked up about shitty software installations and irritating crap in operating systems. Most of you all don't even know that for decades the X window system has had a secondary copy buffer that automatically fills every time you make a text selection with your mouse. This buffer is pasted at the mouse location when you press the middle button. Hell, most of you don't even realise it is also a button, and was originally only a button. Most of the GUIs now built for X are starting to eschew this feature, and it's a total red line for me. The biggest reason why I hate using windows is having to right click, select copy, place cursor, right click, select paste. I'm used to select, point at paste location, middle click. It's literally twice the actions. So it takes me twice the time to deal with a task that I do about every 30 seconds. There is high time preference, and then there is clumsy interfaces. I refuse to accept that I need to accept a clumsy interface in this day and age, just because the majority of computer users, and, sadly, programmers, even on linux, don't know such an elementary interface model that is a huge time saver for programmers especially, but if more people knew it, and cared, it would be universal. That's why the X window system designers made it. It's because of Apple with their "one button is enough" and microsoft with their "a menu for everything, and everything for a menu" solutions to every problem that really don't fit the text editing use case. That's just the first gripe I have to deal with. Then there is the endless problem of configuration systems breaking. Gnome used to be a terrible offender at this, but now it's getting a bit better. But I still have it happen from time to time. Intellij, my preferred IDE has a habit of breaking. Just last night I was trying to get settled back into my workflow for programming, and install Goland on my shiny new Arch Linux installation, and every single time I try to open a project, BOOM segfault. WTF is this??? Well, it turns out that in the latest version Jetbrains have totally cocked up the JRE, it is doing bad things to memory, and my system's security hardened kernel reacts with a process kill. Solution turned out to be pleasant. Firstly, no need to manually install Goland from an archive any more. It's available from the AUR. Secondly, the problem is the default provided JRE. It is in a highly unstable state because they are trying to keep up with the joneses by adding Client Side Decorations to their New UI. Ok, I admit, the new UI is nice, minimalistic and tidy, helps me focus. But the CSD isn't that important. Another whole can of worms I won't go into is Gnome. In 2021 they made this Gnome 4, aka Gnome 40 bullcrap, and not only have they broken the theming system, leading to me having 3 different window styles on my usual apps, they keep breaking a simple functionality that has been created, and fixed, and recreated in the extensions - something that even Canonical seems to have given up on by abandoning their unity UI. This eliminates the wasted space in the top bar by merging window titlebar functionality into it. Now, at the same time, since Gnome 3, there is this nice feature called Headerbars, and this is clever because it can replace the titlebar, or it can be in addition to it. So the interface is cleaner and more consistent. But for the most part, unless it's really done well, it was better without it. I had to switch back to the default, pig of a window/composition manager, Wayland, in order to get the extensions working that hide normal, useless, space consuming title bars. Now, I have a full inch of extra space at the top of my FHD monitors. For the moment, there is peace in my world, and I am going to be really really resistant to upgrading anything at all at this point. Discovering my preferred ad blocker has been infected with malware, and having my system break in a weird way that I couldn't rule out the malware escaping from the browser sandbox and messing with my system, not just my own files but the SYSTEM, raised the subject, of all these little grumbles because it literally stopped me from being able to do any work at all. It has been an exhausting 3 days, with about a sum of 7 hours sleep, to get all this shit so it isn't obstructing me viciously. Everything is beautiful now, and it's gonna stay that way, and IDGAF what else is on in the world, when my workspace is unbearable, that's the only thing that matters to me.

The word free really is a modifier, and should not be used without a qualifier. It is used so much these days because they want people to confuse gratis and absence with freedom. Freedom is very clear. The word basically means without a king. Really, it's a synonym for anarchy or liberty.

This is why one needs a VPN

When a person assumes consent, they deserve to be punched in the face.

I find this expression "muting" very weird. When I first became familiar with the expression, it was a button on TV remote controls to silence the sound. Any time I was watching TV, and there was a remote, I was on that mute button every time, and I liked to look away and talk to the human beings around me. In fact, that was part of the point of it, when it was muted, the deeply interested persons in the room were ok with me talking. To me, muting isn't stopping something, it's just diminishing its sensory impact. You all people have got so used to actually PAYING for your advertising with cable TV that it seems logical that muting doesn't often actually cause the irritating crap to be removed from the display. Just as muting the TV doesn't stop the irritating visuals. Of course, just like the people who were sitting watching their ad-riddled "Pay TV" they didn't get why I didn't like it. The most common term for it is hyperacuity. A genetic feature (not a bug) that I inherited from my mother. Advertising was like a smack in the face every time, because they either deliberately made the program quieter, or, as they were forced to do later by "laws", they used compression filters on the audio. The same nerve-exhausting effect that makes listening to most popular music these days absolute torture. I'm not here for the advertising, nor the trolls and GMs and GNs. I'm especially not interested in people telling me that there's something wrong with me because I am not "normal". GFY. Why do you all think that expression is popular in the Bitcoin online culture? Ah yeah, because most of us are sensitive, and I don't mean by that irritable dominators, but meek, and simply wanting some peace and reasonableness in our existence, while all around us is noise and haste and insanity and violence.