Donald Trump and rest of the US political establishment’s warm reception of al Qaeda terrorist Abu Mohammad al-Julani aka Ahmed al-Sharaa into Washington this week is not surprising and nothing new; it is nonetheless an act of treason and national disgrace. Any media personalities that pretend to go after Trump but have no problem with…

I wholeheartedly endorse CAIR’s petition for your institution to immediately revert any and all disciplinary action against Dr. Jonathan A.C. Brown in response to the manufactured controversy around recent statements he had made. Georgetown must not allow their disciplinary processes to be hijacked by ideological pressure campaigns or online outrage mobs. Dr. Brown’s statement explicitly…

Under pressure from US federal law, all Russian contributors have been removed from the Linux maintainers file. Read the thread here

There are many ways to check the weather on my computer but all are slightly inconvenient. I’d rather not open a browser when I don’t need to, and the very popular wttr.in includes tons of information and ASCII art that I don’t need. The following script can be called from the command line to pull…

This weekend I decided to install Linux on an early 2008 24-inch iMac (3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo). This machine was at some point upgraded to a 1TB HDD with 4 GB of RAM, but has been stuck on an outdated version of Mac OS X and thus for example limited to very outdated…

Rumble has some documentation suggesting the existence of an official API, but it appears all requests for API keys have fallen on deaf mailboxes. This is working, for now: #!/usr/bin/env bash #rts/oarion7 # Search for videos on rumble.com, returns url(s) for selected results; tab key to select multiple # Dependencies: xmllint, rlwrap, jq, fzf https://github.com/junegunn/fzf…

“There is little that unites me with those who occupied the Capitol building on Jan. 6. Their vision for America, Christian nationalism, white supremacy, blind support for Trump and embrace of reactionary fact-free conspiracy theories leaves a very wide chasm between their beliefs and mine. But that does not mean I support the judicial lynching…

The New York Times called it a “mystery,” but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret – until now. https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream

I have archived my pier and incorporated an affected opposition to Urbit as a core component of my self-marketing strategy for the remaining quarter of 2022.

Upgrading Urbit on your Linux server has finally become ridiculously easy, with two quick caveats. An upgrade for the Urbit binary, version 1.10, was released last week. Version 1.9 was the most recent release before this upgrade, and it’s the one which we documented previously. I wish it were called 1.09, but I haven’t come…