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As George Costanza used to say, "You know, we're living in a society!", but just
in case we don't, remember this website has a mirror on the Tor network, so
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“SOME STATISTICS” ABOUT SIZEOF(CAT)'S FEED LIST

April 8, 2024    Guest post    1315 words    7 mins read
I write (mostly) purely technical articles interlaced with opinion and
philosophy. I like simplicity and pragmatism. Privacy and anonymity are hard
dependencies for liberty. Worse is better. Most of my stuff is about BSD and
Linux. There is always a half baked project in the works. I click through all
the SSL warnings and error messages. 0x19 anon, as guest poster on sizeof.cat

In direct response to the Personal feedlist and update post.

> Now, if only there was someone willing to generate some statistics on the
> contents of the OPML file, like how many Wordpress or Hugo websites, author
> nationality, what web server software, how many are behind Cancerflare, etc.

This took me about 4 hours. The easy part is fingerprinting servers. The hard
part is cleaning the resulting data which is always 95% garbage.

This was written for sizeof(cat)’s “guest posting”. Thanks for hosting!

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PERSONAL FEEDLIST AND UPDATE

April 7, 2024    Article    510 words    3 mins read

I’ve been asked a lot via email for my personal feedlist (the stuff I keep in my
RSS reader and read voraciously), and after careful consideration I decided to
reveal it to the world. It’s not the whole document (for Opsex…Opsec reasons,
obviously) but it’s definitely the most important part. It’s an OPML file in XML
format, ready to be imported into your favorite RSS reader (whether it be
NetNewsWire, Reeder, sfeed, newsboat, etc). Some of the links are also present
in my links repository, but not as feeds, hence le raison d’être of this
article.


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The outline categories in the OPML document are as following:

 * The People section is comprised by … people, you know, the “things” big
   corporations are trying to convince us they don’t really exist. But they do.
   Some of them participated in my I’ll read it project (actually, it was Manuel
   Moreale’s project), others I have encountered during my extensive web
   browsing sessions. They are good people and their opinions are worth reading.
 * The Friends section is a bit fuzzy, some are acquaintances but I feel like I
   have a special connection with them. Mostly because I annoy them on IRC (yes,
   IRC is not dead).
 * In the Others section you’ll find magazines, news, some stuff that I enjoy
   massively to read about (people living off-the-grid, agriculture, boats).

Now, if only there was someone willing to generate some statistics on the
contents of the OPML file, like how many Wordpress or Hugo websites, author
nationality, what web server software, how many are behind Cancerflare, etc.

If you want to share your feedlist with me, please send me an e-mail.

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MISSES

April 1, 2024    Article    558 words    3 mins read

You didn’t want to be loved. You hated touching people and being touched. When
someone hugged you I saw you make a face. You hated being complimented, and you
tried to ignore it when it happened. When someone put time and effort into doing
something for you, you were grateful but I could tell by your expression and
your tone that you wished they hadn’t bothered. Sometimes I would see you turn
down invitations or offers to hang out with people. Other times I’d notice that
you tried to prevent others from getting close to you, or sabotaged
relationships with them deliberately.

When you had problems you never reached out to anyone. You hated the idea of
burdening someone with your issues and chose to bottle everything up instead. A
couple times you slipped up and I caught you with a little red around your eyes
and you would try to play it off like you were tired. You would lock your door
and turn your lights off and stay in there for hours, alone.

There were times when you would go for a drive or for a walk because you wanted
to get away from everyone and there were times when you wouldn’t speak to anyone
for days. I know you always believed in God deep down, but you never went to
church, and I think that was because deep down you also couldn’t believe that
you deserved to be saved. That you were worthy of love. That you were lovable.

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HUMAN CONNECTION IN GUY DEBORD'S SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE

March 28, 2024    Bookmark   
https://www.steelsnowflake.org/post/debord-spectacle

> In today’s spectacleverse, think of constant online entertainments and
> distractions spent with eyes and ears locked onto electronic images and
> sounds, all centered around the mediating wall of the screen: i.e. television,
> video games, streaming video, and social media. To put it in reductively
> Debordian terms, spectators spectate in spectacles. In addition, spectacles
> condition passivity. After all, to spectate is merely to watch what you are
> being shown by someone else.
> 
> This state of conditioned passivity is one of Debord’s key points. Speaking in
> today’s parlance, we also call this consuming content, giving it the facade of
> doing something. But there’s more to it. Content consumers themselves become
> commodities to be exploited, letting this happen by locking their attention
> onto a neverending series of spectacles.
> 
> Consider the YouTube rabbit holes people go down, or worse, how one vapid
> TikTok video seamlessly transitions into another, and another, and another, or
> how Netflix will graciously load the next episode automatically.
> 
> You need do nothing but watch. Just sit back and let it happen. That next
> video is loading in four…three…two…one. Your eyeballs are paying the culture
> industry’s bills with your attention even if your money is not.
> 
> Paul D. Wilke


RIP

March 23, 2024    Article    15 words    1 min read



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THE WORLD STOPS WHEN A KIND PERSON DIES

March 17, 2024    Bookmark   
https://www.annahavron.com/blog/the-world-stops-when-a-kind-person-dies

> The world stops when a kind person dies.
> 
> You might fly three thousand miles across the country during a pandemic to
> visit a dying woman in the hospital, because she was the mother you never had;
> and the grandmother your kids got to have.
> 
> You might drive six hours one way and book a hotel room to attend the funeral
> of the man who gave you a second chance at a job you would have lost from any
> other manager. A job that was the first — but not the last — job you were able
> to keep, because the man then started coaching you in the life skills you’d
> missed.
> 
> You might take leave without pay to attend the funeral of a woman, who, when
> you were drowning in your teens, always kept a place open at her family’s
> dinner table. For you.
> 
> Anna Havron

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