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7693 words in 6 posts (out of 94 total) between 2022-02-11 and 2025-08-23 (3 years, 27 weeks, 4 days)
3043 words by attila written on 2025-03-04, last edit: 2025-04-07, tags: anticap, anticorp, google, offline, privacy, search, web
The idea is simple: if your search drops no logs it is perfectly private. What Google wants above all else are the logs of what everyone is searching for... Google and every other commercial search outfit.
I should preface this all by saying I worked at the first commercially ... read more
494 words by attila written on 2025-08-23, last edit: 2026-01-22, tags: cobol, hacking, history, lisp, me, pdp11, personal, vax
originally posted on LinkedIn and yes I feel shame
I started on PDP-11s and VAXen the occasional PDP-1 dialed into the ARPAnet with my trusty modem and ADM3A I miss it . I loved LISP was befuddled and amazed by MDL and BLISS but it was ... read more
CONTENT WARNING (CUSSING)
1181 words by attila written on 2022-11-21, last edit: 2025-03-17, tags: ai, corp, dystopia, privacy, writing
The C-suite at ShinyPants.Fart just paid a $boatload of money to install a new AI and tweak its models to perfection.
The AI designed by ubusters.hope an Israeli firm is designed to maintain churn at the low-to-mid level employees for corporates of any ... read more
1493 words by attila written on 2023-01-04, last edit: 2023-02-03, tags: carpaltunnel, karate, martialarts, personal, taichi, writing
On the surface all martial arts might look like the same thing more or less: fight choreography and knowledge transmitted down the ages by various means evolved and influenced and mutated over time like everything else we do. Philosophically though I don't think they are ... read more
1105 words by attila written on 2024-01-23, last edit: 2024-03-19, tags: emacs, hacking, personal, vi, vim, vimboi
Big news I'm sure the whole world over: I've ditched EMACS and run into the waiting open arms of vim.
It happened suddenly one night after mistyping M-C-S-t x i one too many times...
You know that one right? Sure sure... LITTLE BABIES know that ... read more
377 words by attila written on 2022-02-11, last edit: 2025-03-17, tags: blm, ftp, pigs
Black Lives Matter. You cannot be anti-fascist and support the police. You cannot be progressive without at least understanding and sitting with abolitionist thinking and the true history of the evil thing called Amerika. Defund the police is not just a slogan ... read more
2100 words in 4 posts (out of 94 total) between 2022-02-11 and 2026-03-22 (4 years, 5 weeks, 4 days)
468 words by attila written on 2026-03-22, last edit: 2026-03-22, tags: growth, gybat, home, soc, wilderness
I just did some pruning aka killing and yeah I know that's a bad attitude. A wrong one even.
I am in every way unsuited to this task. I keep imagining that all these these little limbs Want To Live Damnit And this is wrong thinking. And ... read more
349 words by attila written on 2026-02-27, last edit: 2026-02-27, tags: chronological, doc, markdown, microformat, revchron
I think this is enough of a thing to be noted: there is a subformat or microformat or whatever that is using markdown to maintain a sequence of items in reverse chronological order latest to first. If you maintain files of any size like this you come to realize a few things: ... read more
455 words by attila written on 2025-06-09, last edit: 2025-06-27, tags: bsky, networks, palestine, racism, scaling, socialmedia, zionism
The number of followers that appears on an account in BlueSky will not include deleted accounts. This becomes problematic in various contexts such as their wholesale deletion of Palestinian accounts that is a direct consequence of their racist moderation policies biased towards ... read more
CONTENT WARNING (LANGUAGE)
828 words by attila written on 2022-02-11, last edit: 2026-01-22, tags: outage, telmex, writing
ssh has been red for 8 minutes 45 seconds. a little red square that says: ssh 8m45s in the middle of it. like some castaway or prisoner yeah better prisoner: let me be played by john casavetes please ranting but slowly ranting and raving and ... read more
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