Owning vs. Having
https://twitter.com/JuliusGoat/status/1650145537683759104?s=20 I enjoyed this quite a bit, also available as a Substack article.
Gold by Chet Faker
Whonix in VirtualBox
I found these articles on Choosing Your Desktop Linux Distribution and Desktop Linux Hardening to both be interesting. At the bottom, you'll see that they recommend using Whonix. Pretty clear Whonix is designed to be used within VirtualBox. When I tried installing straight to Virtualbox using the Virtualbox instructions, it took about five minutes on … Continue reading Whonix in VirtualBox
Security, Threat Profiles and Risk
"It’s very easy to come away from [Lockpicking Lawyer's] LPL’s [YouTube] channel with a frigid jolt of fear: the realization (whether new or renewed) that so much of what we think is secure is unsafe, that our sense of day-to-day wellbeing depends heavily on what are ultimately poor assessments of what is risky and what … Continue reading Security, Threat Profiles and Risk
Employment Society
"Healthcare in the United States is in the midst of a massive wave of consolidation. For example, fifty years ago, virtually all non-academic, non-government U.S. physicians had an ownership interest in their practices. Today, approximately 70% of U.S. physicians are employed by hospitals or other corporate entities. Likewise, mergers and acquisitions have landed more than … Continue reading Employment Society
Brief Comments on Consensual Hostility
"Once consent becomes the only value by which an individual can assess sex to be good or bad and justify their assessment to their partner or anyone else, all that’s left of seduction is contract negotiation fueled by whatever mix of horniness and loneliness brought the two parties together. There’s an alternative. As Srinivasan herself … Continue reading Brief Comments on Consensual Hostility
For the Love of Reading
"Today, children are being introduced to books and stories one paragraph at a time. They might be reading something as wonderful as Peggy Parish's Amelia Bedelia, but when you have to stop and answer questions, in detail, often word-for-word, about random paragraphs, there's no way you can learn to care about the characters or the … Continue reading For the Love of Reading
Spit of You by Sam Fender
NixOS for the Impatient
"NixOS is a Linux distribution configured using Nix. It is declarative, meaning that the entire system state can be defined in a single .nix file; and reproducible, meaning you can have multiple computers set up identically. If this sounds like a bullshit timesink like Arch or Gentoo: it’s not. There was a time when the idea of spending … Continue reading NixOS for the Impatient
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