Bit-breaker working in cybersecurity/IT. Only languages I know are English and Programming ones.

Sometimes I write things about technology.


If I told you the SHA256 for this sentence starts with 'c, 5, four, a, and a', would you believe me?

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Cake day: March 12th, 2022

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  • I cannot believe that was actually said by a United States representative, where it is and has been codified in the nations constitution, that freedom of religion is a right of the people via the first amendment. Freedom of religion means any religion, but also, freedom from religion.

    to wit: The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext, infringed.






  • Lynx is awesome but not really suited for modern web pages. I’ve used lynx, elinks, browsh, and w3m. Tried chawan and brow6el. I really like browsh, but it uses a headless firefox though, so not really CLI/TUI. This is the newest CLI based browser I found, but I suppose it’s not a true CLI either; using chromium blob under the hood.



  • I did. I have an s22 flip. Not fully “dumb”, it runs android mobile. But so lacking on resources it is basically a dumb phone, with Spotify and maps. Fits my use case fine and much less distractions and constant gamifiyijng. I Miss NFC payments the most and my banking app won’t even run on it, but it does the job of being a communications device just fine.


  • A couple I use (concept of not exact), that I haven’t seen in the thread yet:

    Using grep as diff: grep -Fxnvf orig.file copy.file

    Using xargs -

    xargs reads items from the standard input, delimited by blanks (which can be protected with double or single quotes or a backslash) or newlines, and executes the command (default is /bin/echo) one or more times with any initial-arguments followed by items read from standard input.

    EG: $ find ~/Pictures -name "*.png" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 tar -cvzf images.tar.gz





  • Conventions I have are:

    • Downloads folder is ephemeral, don’t store/keep things in there I might want
    • ~/scripts - personal scripts and one offs
    • ~/Documents/projects/[subdir] - any tech project I may be working on, gets homed here
    • /tmp - always mount it noexec

    I also start off allocating ~ 50GB to / (root) volumegroup. Wine and proton have been taking up nearly the full space though, may need to expand it on my desktop soon.