Third Wednesday in September is probably the most generic and “nothing” date of the whole year. Summer is gone, holidays are still far away. 🤷‍♂️ September and October are two months for just getting stuff done. So what is everyone getting done? 🤔

Interesting.

I find it very difficult to comprehend Jefferson’s level of prescience here. View quoted note →

I wonder how many European atheists realise there is no god in Buddhism?

🚨 Fun Idea 🚨 Strikes me that TCP/IP is a compromised system in plain sight because IP addresses are all pre-known and centrally allocated by IANA, RIR’s and ISP’s. Everything is premapped and crystallised thereafter, thus traceable and identifiable. Would it not be much more robust if addresses were generated as keypairs by network nodes and submitted by the nodes to public listing servers? Bottom up addresses allocation, rather than top down. 1). Every device would generate a public-private keypair when joining the network. 2). Public address listings (relays), each devices public key becomes its address and consolidated lists of addresses are stored and accessed from simple relays, anyone can create an address relay (public or private) and there would likely be some big ones. 3). When A send to B it always encrypts with B’s key and sends to B’s address. No man-in-the-middle attacks. 4). All of IP/TCP remains unchanged except for the IPv4 and IPv6 origin/destination addresses which are simply replaced with locally generated pubkeys (long enough to avoid collisions), rather than centrally allocated IP addresses. Seems like this would result in an entirely secure and decentralised internet? Thoughts?

WTF is this?

Thunderbolt 4 USB‑C Pro Cable 3 m - Apple

Apple Store Search Results

“Apple have invented a new supercharged USB with a thoughtfully contoured profile, is lighter weight and satisfyingly, mates in poly-orientation. Once again Apple bring stunningly deep innovation, enabling users to unleash their creativity and enrich the everyday experience with industry-first features.” - Or words to that effect.

A big part of getting stuck in a rut (with any aspect of your life), is when you accidentally normalise stuff that isn’t normal. Everyone does this from time to time, we are all just sort of blind to it. The only way to get out of it is to unormalise the stuff that you accidentally normalised. The challenge though is that the corrective action will feel extreme to you (not normal!), even though it’s probably pretty normal. Humans can normalise anything, so from time to time it’s good to make some extreme decisions that are directionally positive for you, ie violate your bad habits, and make some sacrifices to hit on some good ones. Over 30-40 years these tiny nudges massively compound to your advantage. Most people just flutter along through life stochastically normalising weird and unhelpful stuff.

TIL the UK has only been an island since 4,200 BC. People had developed writing in Mesopotamia before the England was an island. Yet some people today think that if the sea level rises by 1 meter, it will mean the end of life on earth. People will believe whatever they are told to believe by their designated authority.