Blog
This is the page which links to my ramblings, thoughts, updates, or other ideas in general which depend on date. They are listed below with their own grid items.
Dead Internet Theory
Dead internet theory is a theory that the internet as we had gotten to know it is starting to die out. Some consider it a conspiracy theory due to them not noticing some signs that it could be true. It is safe to say that after the last couple of months, I’ve noticed enough signs to be a believer myself. Here’s why:Posted at 2025 Jan 03 at 10:03AM
In Memory of Butterscotch
I wrote this a little bit later but decided to post this on my website as well. On December 2nd, 2024; I lost my beloved Butterscotch to chronic kidney disease. She will be missed. This article is for her memory.Posted at 2024 Dec 03 at 04:28PM
Transferring Firefox Bookmarks
So you recently exchange someone’s computer, then get asked to transfer their Firefox bookmarks, there is no Sync account setup so they’re on the person’s old computer. What’s your plan of action? For me, at least for a while, it was to pull the files off of the computer, and fetch them using MozBackup. Well, that was a no go this time around because of obvious reasons.Posted at 2024 Sep 07 at 09:16PM
Let them have Kei cars
In recent news, another state joins the odd movement of banning Kei cars, Massachusetts. More in this article on ArsTechnica.com .Posted at 2024 Aug 19 at 11:00AM
Crowdstrike Outage: Technician's Explanation
One of the things that was big in the news was the CrowdStrike global outage which effected Windows computers which were running CrowdStrike’s Falcon sensor. News article here . Linux heads, you’re not impervious to issues like this as this article here points out.Posted at 2024 Jul 28 at 12:19PM
Ticket Auction Manager becoming more crossplatform
Now that I’ve primarly switched over to Linux, I have been working on another Python version of Ticket Auction Manager. This time under my dbob16/tam-py repo. Because Python is more flexible as a programming language, it has one extra feature compared to the Access-based versions prior. The ability to add new tablesets, i.e different types of tickets and items, on the fly.Posted at 2024 Jun 28 at 11:13AM
Well... That Was Quick
In recent news, Microsoft rolls out a new AI feature which will be available and possibly on by default for devices labelled with the “Copilot+” badging, called Recall. Which saves screenshots every few seconds and uses AI-backed optical character recognition as well as AI identification of images to save descriptors of said activities. The following linked video is by Eric Parker, where he plays around with the current implementation of Recall, and confirmed some findings by security researchers.Posted at 2024 Jun 02 at 11:36PM
I wrote this a little bit later but decided to post this on my website as well. On December 2nd, 2024; I lost my beloved Butterscotch to chronic kidney disease. She will be missed. This article is for her memory.