Paramdeo Singh @oedmarap@fosstodon.org

#psychedelics

https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/3/3/1332 is making the usual rounds but also #TIL "Tags, unlike branch names, are a global namespace in git."

Also tangential but "swap partitions > swap files" as expounded on by Linus in the same thread.

"Everything happens for a reason" is the quintessence of bullshit.

You are in control of your destiny. Your actions have consequences, and the choices you make define the path you take.

So choose wisely; don't leave anything to fate. Fate is someone else making choices for you.

Finally got around to putting some of my amateur #photography in one place: https://suffu.se

Afternoon mood: #StillCorners

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPRlCBII-fE

The rise of #NFT:

Adults — with allegedly functioning brains — are acting like impulsive teenagers hooked on an MMORPG; placing consensual "value" in computer bytes that make up an exclusive skin for one of their characters.

Crypto will slowly eat the first world, and it's resources with it.

*Superior NGINX laughter* 😈

With Cameo, Only Fans, and now Twitter's Super Follows; it seems that Big Tech is augmenting their advertising system with another monetization dynamic that reframes "you are the product" to "some of you produce value by virtue of your own existence, while the rest of you consume your own kind, and we are the market peddling those invisible social goods."

I have no opinion on the merits or drawbacks as any introduction of supply will lead to demand; but it's intriguing to observe nonetheless.

Finally got around to adding a dark color scheme to my site via the "prefers-color-scheme" CSS media feature; for browsers that have dark mode enabled.

I based the colors off of Ayu, which is the VS Code theme that I use (and love!).

This is probably the only time I'll support #Facebook (not the company, just the precedent that's being set), but the Government of #Australia's recent stance that websites have to pay publishers in order to hyperlink to their content is an affront to the principles that the Internet was founded upon. It's nothing short of ludicrous.

Armchair Dystopian Prediction: Next they'll introduce legislation coining the term "hypolink" as a form of sanctioned syndication.

Two years and counting... Hope. Faith. Longing. 😄

Have to break the habit of typing 2021 as 20201 since my brain seems perfectly fine with repeating this mistake for the rest of the year.

The ISO 8601 date format will be the death of me.

#Infrastructure? I separate concerns the way BigTech separates ethics.

The anti-censorship community sets a few things straight, and gives their own views as it relates to the #Signal debacle (ironically because Signal is refusing to openly discuss it).

https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/63

Pretty cool, the IEEE's manufacturer list of hardware addresses: http://standards-oui.ieee.org/oui/oui.txt

Now I know that my ASUS runs an "AzureWave" Wi-Fi card, but also now I can spoof the first three bytes of my MAC to show up as an Apple, Blackberry, or even a Cray device to captive portals and networks.

Refactored my "curated quotes" side project to give it a mobile-first facelift from the old layout.

https://quollated.com

My computer gets more polyphasic sleep than I ever will.