All of the general blogs at once!
The general stream of consciousness fills your brain tubes! This is every blog posted on this site unfiltered and sorted by date. Have fun reading and thank you very much for checking out this very blog! If you would prefer a more filtered approach to reading you can check out BLOG.TXT for more information. As always, if anything goes wrong in terms of the web itself you can always contact us.
Server protect you.
This is for readers who want the TLDR version. It's a nice portable soldering iron, and so far, there have been no complaints. We'll update you as we use it.
Would you like to know more? Read onwards for my half-baked review!
But we decided to investigate OpenNIC which appeared on Webrings early when I joined some of them in 2022. What is OpenNIC you ask? Well, regular top-level domain (TLD) names such as .COM/.NET/.ORG used to be run by the US government but eventually, ICANN took over. OpenNIC gives people the possibility of running their top-level domain and access to people wanting to get domains within those top-level domains. It's like a training/sandbox ground for people who want to try their hand at running a top-level domain without spending a shit-ton of money to go through the bureaucratic process of introducing it officially.
We have enough in our lives to NOT want to run a top-level domain. But out of interest in blogging about technology and USING that technology. I did make myself a domain on one of the primary openNIC TLDs.
Kindly note the link WILL NOT WORK work unless you use an OpenNIC DNS server which we will explain later in this article.
We feel like this is a good space to learn/understand how DNS works. But don't think it's really going to go much further than that.
Would you like to know more? Read on!
First, there was Google's parent project which purchased "YouTube". This brought forth the word "Demonetization." Which was effectively telling content creators to play nice or else they make no money. Now, Google uses the "Don't be evil" Motto their developers once had and print it on the toilet paper in each bathroom stall. Alphabet/Google is not a search company anymore. They are an advertisement company (remember AOL? They were just an advertisement company too!).
This becomes more and more relevant as Google AI is deployed keeping you on the search engine instead of investigating the website itself. Or having calculative tools on Google's site instead of going to the person that made the calculator such as "millimeters to inches" as just one example. Or worse, having a Google side-project known as AMP just straight up content steal your entire site and stores it on one of their content distributed networks (CDN for short.) The next wave will affect the searchability of your favorite websites. Which is "de-listing" webmasters of low priority and content quality. Because either you're not important enough or you're not marketable enough. Or simply put. Google is panicking because the AI they used on others to perfect their search engine is being used on them by turning content into an endless array of smoke and mirrors.
Read on if you want to know more.
This whole process reminded us of another concept that the crypto-bros came up with "Unstoppable-Domains" in which MayVaneDay covered this article exceptionally well. But that's not the same as "Forever" you ask? Well! there are forever domains too! Which is the same scam as Unstoppable. So, there you go!
For the TLDR crowd - Logitech wants to switch to a subscription model for their Drivers. And the reality is NOTHING is forever! Forever violates the laws of life itself. We are self-aware of this so why isn't Logitech? One day this site will be obliterated to ash. After our biological death, the servers will run out of funds and the VPS and DNS will datarot and 404 itself into the sunset. Even our beloved archival services will be attacked by politics or greed and those libraries of Alexandria will burn as well. Then hundreds of years later the next generations of humanity will look upon us as arrogant violent apes laughing at us and then in turn doing the same process all over. Prove us wrong Humanity!
If we interviewed Hanneke Faber, we're pretty darn sure she would walk out or disconnect after 5-10 minutes. Tops.
Read on if you wish to hear more of my diatribes!
Outside of becoming the old man that shouts at the clouds. Or listening to the wind, like grandma told you never to do. The OTHER thing we like to do when we can is help readers during these times. Where enshittification is magnified due to companies getting way too thirsty for their own good.
*Puts on shitty YouTuber impersonation*
LET'S JUMP INTO IIIIIIt*cough-coughcough*
As we say this, putting on our best English-men Bane impression from Batman. To us dark-mode was a statement hearkening back to the year-2000 style hacker sites serving as a warning. Simply put, don't trust the internet. Don't trust this site, and especially don't trust any company sites that want their hand out for money.
Like Malwarebytes. A website that profits off of humanities unwillingness to educate themselves. But in this example of a banner ad; For a person who got 'schooled' by hackers in a phishing scheme. Karen over there sure is smiling! We think that this is less of a software issue and more of a management issue. Maybe Karen is "only human" for committing industrial espionage, perhaps? Perhaps Karen realized how much of a group of souless monsters she works for. So when someone called claiming to be Microsoft tech support, she said the following:
No problem. In fact, can you hold for a second? I think I can you the CEOs password he puts underneath his keyboard. Oh no! It's not a problem for me! Afterall if he followed the security protocols his IT department told him repeativly then I shouldn't find it right? Right! Your Microsoft tech support. You should know this anyways.. Hold on... Ahh! Yes, it's "123456" Yup, he totally pulled a spaceballs on this one. - Karen"
And then she posed like this at your cubicle. Waiting for the reign of terror to fall all around her. Her schooling is certainly paying off now! Who's the monster NOW, Karen?!?!?
But we're falling a little off track. There's apparently another statement about going 'dark' on your website. That it apparently is environmentally friendly.
Read on if you want to know more.
It's June 2024, I'm doing okay! Just because we were silent didn't mean we were doing nothing at all. Some items on this site were quietly being moved around and worked on. Let's go through a few of them. The title of nostalgia. What's up with that title picture you ask? Well, during one of ... Read more
We sometimes eat dirt when learning this lesson. We are not perfect nor absolute. Just a node of server. Corrective action. A blog article has been removed over the subject of a collapsing internet. The concept that eventually you can sum up the entire internet to a handful of social networks and products from a ... Read more
Although late to the party. Here's to 2024! This New Year's Eve we spent at home and by ourselves. It was super uneventful really. Didn't go to the Barcade like the year prior. Nor did we go to the lakeshore. Or to a warehouse listening to speed metal cooking 36lbs of meat in a 55-gallon ... Read more
This post is considered a mass-response to the endless deluge of e-mails from supposed "SEO Experts" and chances are they will never read this response. Or, perhaps, for those who don't run a blog like we do. This will allow you a peak into an aspect of web design that no one frankly knows because the goal-post of getting to the 'top' of any search engine on the clear-net is perpetually moved by design. This leaves people holding onto standards that either are meaningless or are absolutely dangerous to follow.
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is this supposed pseudo-science of cleaning up a website to make it more searchable for robots. Under the beleif there's 'experts' in the field that if you just open your wallets your site can bask in the glory of being on the top of the mountain of shit.
Keep in mind, a lot of these e-mails we get are so cookie-cutter template designed that even AI generated e-mails about SEO sound the same. Which makes it easier for us to answer these burning questions they may have about our site. Also understand the best way to handle these e-mails coming at you is to simply not reply to the levels where they think you as a human are dead. If everyone is a bot to them, then bots can give out Paypal payments for doing almost nothing.
To all of my friends on Tor and I2P. Be glad the network is small enough to not have to put up with this level of horse shit that the clear-net tries on the daily.
Would you like to know more? Read on for continued diatribes.