thoughts on philosophy and science

I host web services (for fun) which receive essentially zero attention from the public (which is fine). Consequently most of the traffic to my host are bots. I have limited upstream bandwidth and so I would like to understand and (where necessary) filter that traffic.

Setting up (from scratch) an OPNsense router in a SOHO setting.

Protecting yourself at the network level.

Thoughts on fear using the "Litany Against Fear".

Or is a 4k display good enough?

Vim is a complex and powerful app that requires a lot of memorization.

Corporations are powerful, useful and fascinating inventions full of the trappings of humans and are the embodiment of some of the tensions of what it is to be a person. They can be safe. They can be ruthless. Some people bristle at the thought of a cube farm and I think some people prefer the safety of a corporate environment.

A list of rhetoric topics to master

The original Drake equation is essentially correct but it might be more useful if it were broken down into finer steps. Each step being achievable and measurable as we learn more about the universe.

Work in progress Architectonic.