If I ever get dementia I want to wake up every day convinced I’m an intergalactic Time Lord in my latest regeneration aboard the Starship Enterprise on an away mission. If I start to notice my cognitive abilities slipping I’m going to do everything I can to prevent it, but just in case I’m also gonna start sleeping with self-hypnosis tapes to help ensure that Future Me is the coolest damn space cadet with dementia anyone’s ever met.

SOILWORK - Follow the Hollow YT #Soilwork #Music

Imagine if people did this with human corpses, or disrespected puppy and kitten corpses like that. Would it still be funny if it were your baby, your mother, your friend? This is not survival, this is a mockery. View quoted note → #IKITAO #AnimalRights

Bare Metal #IKITAO

It is so nice to once again be able to torrent over VPN while keeping a clear channel to work through, spinning up disposable VMs, routing multiple app qubes through different countries' VPN servers, and accessing Tor through Whonix… all at the same time on one device. Setting QubesOS up from scratch after a brief hiatus gave me the chance to correct the foundational mistakes I made when I first installed it years ago and improve my OPSEC workflow. Who needs DistroBox or Proxmox when you can do it better—with less unwanted commingling—in Qubes. #IKITAO #QubesOS #OPSEC #INFOSEC

You have more vintage hartt in your truck?! 😆 YT

Drivin' N' Cryin' - Straight To Hell YT #DrivinNCryin #Music

As an animal rights vegan—it's a vegetarian kind of day. These eggs are from our chickens; they are not fertilized, they're treated with respect, and they will not be murdered for food. The mayonnaise is plant-based, the dressing is vegan, and it is delicious 😋 #IKITAO

As someone with Native American blood, I can’t support the origins of Thanksgiving and the whitewashing of history... but I do appreciate any day where people choose gratitude, presence, and sharing what they have with others. HAPPY GRATITUDE DAY. #IKITAO

SOILWORK - Nous Sommes La Guerre YT #Soilwork #Music

Soilwork - Shadowchild YT #Soilwork #Music

My Chemical Romance - Helena YT #MCR #MyChemicalRomance #Music

First thing I do on a fresh QubesOS install is keep the foundation clean. Anything that touches the system—sys-net, sys-firewall, sys-usb, sys-whonix, all the service qubes—stays minimal. I don’t install a thing into the templates attached to those qubes. Same goes for the default DVM. Clean base, minimal attack surface. When I need to install apps, I don’t contaminate the original templates. I clone the template, rename it, and point my daily App Qubes (personal, work, etc.) to the clone. So if Fedora ships as fedora-41-xfce, mine becomes fedora-41-xfce-custom, and that’s where the apps I need get installed. If I’m building a sensitive qube—banking, crypto, whatever—I’ll clone the untouched template again and keep that one lean too. Only install what I need. Nothing more. And this applies to everything in Qubes: Fedora, Debian, Whonix, Arch, Kali… whatever template you bring in. The rule is simple—keep the base template pristine, do your work in cloned templates, and let compartmentalization actually mean something. Keeping things minimal, isolated, and compartmentalized is one of the cleanest OPSEC habits you can build in QubesOS. #IKITAO #QubesOS #OPSEC #INFOSEC

Hello, old friend... It's good to have you back. View quoted note →