thoughts on philosophy and science

1. implementation: innate vs adaptive
   a.) mediated (cell) vs non-mediated (humoral)
   b.) cell mediated (eg phagocytosis, interferons) vs system mediated (fever, skin, hair, mucus, acid/base, complement); inflammation is kind of both
2. material: alive vs not alive
3. location: surface vs internal
   a.) internal: intra-cell vs inter-cell
   b.) surface: skin vs everything else
4. type: direct (attack) vs indirect (interference)

Brainstorming different vectors for achieving independence during time of war.

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