April 20, 2022 Update: I'm noticing a bit of traffic for this post. Two corrections need to be made to the text below. The emissions contract for Ergo is sent to be changed so it extends emissions out a few decades. This will change the total Ergo in circulation to about half in this time … Continue reading Forecasting a Cryptocurrency’s Price
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bash: TOTP From the Terminal With oathtool
TOTP is Time-based One Time Password. Most people use applications on their phone for TOTP, such as andOTP, Google Authenticator, and related apps. But, as we move from using a phone as a second factor for what we are doing on a computer to a phone being the primary way we interact with the Internet, … Continue reading bash: TOTP From the Terminal With oathtool
Revisiting “A China Prediction”
...there’s going to be a reckoning, and the funny thing is that reckoning is going to begin in China and then eventually spread to the rest of the world. Whether it will happen in close proximity to the end of the COVID-19 pandemic remains to be seen, but there is definitely a short term correction … Continue reading Revisiting “A China Prediction”
Amazon’s Censorship of Devil Daddy
"Censorship is alive and well over at Amazon Kindle. Last time it was our scholarly edition of the rare 1881 Victorian gay text Sins of the Cities of the Plain, which they banned for several years. Now they've banned the ebook of John Blackburn's 1972 horror novel Devil Daddy, while refusing to explain why. At … Continue reading Amazon’s Censorship of Devil Daddy
Is/Ought Fallacy: Exhibit A
"Crypto is gambling, and you should never gamble more than you can afford to lose, right? So the only people who held onto their bitcoin when it was worth $100,000 dollars were:* People who could afford to lose $100,000 * People who couldn’t afford to lose it and were therefore making a very, very stupid … Continue reading Is/Ought Fallacy: Exhibit A
When Reality Leads to Legal Realism
"If courts don’t have to defend their decisions, then they’re just acts of will, of power."—Adam Liptak, "Missing From Supreme Court’s Election Cases: Reasons for Its Rulings." The New York Times. October 26, 2020. At base, Legal Realism, when you get past all the philosophical talk about natural science, is simple, "The law is what … Continue reading When Reality Leads to Legal Realism
You Have My Deepest Sympathy
A year? Are you sure you aren't a masochist?
U2: We Are the People [Making Next Level Shite]
I try to avoid highlighting things that are bad here, just as one tries to avoid stepping in poop. But, holy shit, the Euro 2021 theme song We Are The People is terrible. I somehow keep hearing it, despite being quite comfortable living the rest of my life and never hearing it again. Curious. Does … Continue reading U2: We Are the People [Making Next Level Shite]
Chances of Dying From an In-Hospital Medical Error
"Errors in medicine include wrong diagnoses, drug dosage miscalculations, and treatment delays. These errors are likely to be underestimated because studies tend to focus exclusively on hospitals and not on the rest of the healthcare system; because some errors may only have debilitating effects years down the road for a patient and are thus harder … Continue reading Chances of Dying From an In-Hospital Medical Error
Military Mind & What Matters
Weird episode of the day. I walk most places. I walk to the grocery store. It's just over 2 miles from where I live. Because it is a ways, I bring my military sea bag, so I can carry all the groceries back home. I'm walking away from the grocery store, and someone behind me … Continue reading Military Mind & What Matters
Identity: Obscurity, Anonymity & Fuckwadary
The history of The Residents is shrouded in obscurity and aptly covered elsewhere (we recommend Ian Shirley’s definitive text and Don Hardy’s Theory of Obscurity as starting points). We should also point out that there will be no discussion here speculating on the band’s identities. Who they may be is irrelevant to the sweeping vision … Continue reading Identity: Obscurity, Anonymity & Fuckwadary
Mutt: Viewing Attachments / HTML via .mailcap and a Custom Fortune as a Signature in Mutt
It's funny how small, trivial things can lead you to make radical changes in the tools you use. As regular readers of this blog know, I collect sayings that I publish every month. I then compile these sayings into a custom fortune file that displays one saying every time I login to my computer or … Continue reading Mutt: Viewing Attachments / HTML via .mailcap and a Custom Fortune as a Signature in Mutt
Facebook Directs Your Eyes
"What this means is that even more than it is in the advertising business, Facebook is in the surveillance business. Facebook, in fact, is the biggest surveillance-based enterprise in the history of mankind. It knows far, far more about you than the most intrusive government has ever known about its citizens. It’s amazing that people … Continue reading Facebook Directs Your Eyes
Do The Easy Bits First
"As soon as you've done the easy bit, everything around it becomes easier. This is the way we solve the puzzle.This is also the way we fix the world......If I run into a problem I can't solve yet, or I encounter a subject that's too hard for me, I go "Huh, interesting", and save it … Continue reading Do The Easy Bits First
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