Hey, I'm Nire. I'll add a rel-me link eventually. But I think it probably comes through in the posts c:
this site is a work in progress because I am busy and tired and forever-sick.
but for the sake of getting posts out, here it is.
these are all rough draft quality, in the spirit of blogging.
If you want to contact me, you can send me an ask on cohost, or email me at contact@ on this domain. I'll read them, though it may take me awhile to respond.
Things I Maintain
SNAKE FARM: Curse of Ramona CoR Quick Reference
Things I haven't read yet, but want to come back to
2023-08-29 Reversible Rust, Reversible Computing (Link, Haven't Read)
Terms I'm trying to bring into fashion
Xenocrates' Infinite Mountain of Garbage
Blog Posts
2023-09-02 rtx-cli activate nu, or, how to source init scripts designed for nu, with nu
2023-08-14 on punishing students for failures of professorship (cheating and chatGPT)
2023-08-12 On Green Wars
2023-08-12 US Military Propaganda is Getting Influencer Interesting
2023-08-11 Steam Proton and Wayland software cursor bug
2023-08-11 On the left and pointedly ignoring patient-led research and community care as left movements
2023-08-09 Podcasts, Iran Contra, Crack Cocaine, the CIA, and how uncovering it kickstarted a Black 'Cyber-consciousness' in the mid 90s
old Cohost reposts that are basically drafts, need categorization:
2023-08-08 Double Entry Beekeeping (title-only post)
2023-08-07 today I learned the General Council to the National Rifle Association (NRA) shot someone dead when he was 17
2023-08-06 Writing and Tight Feedback Loops
2023-08-06 thinking about how 'Knowledge-work' is much more pedagogy than knowing things, and code itself is pedagogy when you aren't trying to show off.
2023-08-05 the current wave of True Crime is not a genre, it is just another form of 'someone reads public domain wikipedia sources at you'
2023-08-05 On getting enough people to do what you want, as a political goal
2023-08-04 I never thought I'd be writing another post about Mattel but some weird misinformation ended up on my google algorithmic news thing
2023-08-02 on movements, I guess.
2023-08-02 on movements, I guess.
2023-07-29 every so often i remember that Iraq had the fourth largest military in the world for a single nation.
2023-07-28 it's worth thinking about collateral damage any time you react to things emotionally
2023-07-26 On unions and delivery logistics
2023-07-23 That thing where you lose ND4ND relationships because you can't prompt conversation if you don't know their interests well
2023-07-22 on blogging, the act of Writing A Blog, and the process of learning any skill (Even if you don't realize it is one)
2023-07-21 thinking about how we're probably about to enter another cool zone
2023-07-20 Failing Mindfully
2023-07-20 a lack of resources to deal with unions for employers who actually want them
2023-07-19 tears of the kingdom, gaming, and trying to shape things into what you want, instead of what they are
2023-07-08 the relationship between business and university
2023-07-07 on people often misunderstanding the purpose of messages in art
2023-07-04 you cannot be invested in 'breaking cycles of abuse' if you engage in proportional response
2023-07-04 it feels like there really needs to be a 'so your web of trust had a propagating error, what do'
2023-06-23 On the nature of websites
2023-06-22 sci hub and hobby communities
2023-06-21 on my web browser layout
2023-06-16 On Objects of Moderate Mass, and the Slinging Thereof
2023-06-05 On pride and taking the offensive
2023-06-03 on 'mindfulness' being decontextualized
2023-05-23 a thing to understand about post-80s corporations, even multinational ones, is that their ideal is a monopoly
2023-05-01 how do you balance exponential growth with doing things right?
2023-03-20 idle thoughts on Open Source and the Labor-Alienation of Users
2023-02-27 On Writing and Holding Attention
2023-02-26 I had to figure out how to make telegram on windows not have arbitrary window size minimums
2023-02-24 How to Resize Discord App on Windows
2023-02-23 On how consumer protections are often opposed to labor protections
2023-02-21 Put Down The Gun, Get Out of the Bucket, and Realize You Aren't A Crab - On Cohost and Posting Nicely
2023-02-21 On the conflict between Professionalism and Readability
2023-02-21 On Everyone Not Having Much Cash to Pass Around, and How That Stifles Movements, and Leveraging the Media
2023-02-21 On Doctors and Specialists Never Knowing Things Outside Their Specialty
2023-02-08 On the people who post a vicious reply to attack a straw man
2023-02-06 the thing about polarization
2023-02-04 Forum moderation tip
2023-01-31 I want to be able to mirror my machines' state or at least desktop-app-state across each other
2023-01-25 On writing things down when you go off the edge of a guide or tutorial
2023-01-23 The thing about RSS, and many things of the era of the dominance of the third party client
2023-01-20 I want McMaster-Carr but for related software libraries
2023-01-10 it's good to not think about vtubers as 'furries and anime nerds'
2023-01-04 On Pizza Price Economics and what it reveals
2023-01-04 I wonder what art academia will talk about in five years, with AI art clarifying things
2022-12-29 Concrete Spalling, and the US' crumbling infrastructure, and property owners not even thinking about maintenence cost when they buy things anymore
2022-11-30 I think that there needs to be more thinking and discussion on anti-cheat, game hacking, and accessibility
2022-11-30 'The Purpose of a System is What it Does' is a thought terminating cliche
Links I'm Reading
2023-11-25
https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/effective-obfuscation
2023-11-24
https://gizmodo.com/landfill-mining-metal-recovery-trash-recycling-ewaste-1850151569
title: "Why Isn’t Landfill Mining More Popular?"
image: "https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fill,h_675,pg_1,q_80,w_1200/7cf368fc88f4663176ec4a6eff116606.png"
description: "Our garbage heaps are rich in metals and other materials, but landfill mining is rare."
url: "https://gizmodo.com/landfill-mining-metal-recovery-trash-recycling-ewaste-1850151569"
title: "How a Lens Creates an Image."
image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/SS2AbZVdk2A/maxresdefault.jpg"
description: "Contents:0:00 Introducing “rays”2:14 Light is a wave4:00 Nils reached one thousand!4:43 Effect of Numerical Aperture6:46 About “Critical Dimension”7:40 Effec…"
url: "https://youtu.be/SS2AbZVdk2A"