You’d think that whatever these unknown numbers are calling me would stop after they realize I don’t speak English. I mean, I do, but not if I don’t recognize your phone number.

I keep getting a referral from one particular URL and I kinda wish I could figure out what they were linking. They’re an emacs blog, but they’ve never shown up on the same day as an emacs post was made. It’s weird xD

Y’know, after hearing someone saying that people are saying they’ll just do lavender marriages if gay marriage gets repealed, I had the idea of writing a fictionalized version of the life of someone who I met when I was young. 700 words, and many tears later, I have decided this …

TIL that China uses a blacklist not a whitelist for their internet filter? I’d never looked into it, and just assumed they used a whitelist

There are many reasons we block ads and tracker, but 31.16% of your internet traffic being that, as a deflated number, is certainly one of them. This number doesn’t include anything I block because I have the same list in my /etc/hosts file, so it’s just my room mate’s blocks …

Alrght, my emacs config is back up on the blog! I doubt it’s super readable because of the colors, but I’ll work on that later

Okay I knew The Offspring was good, but I didn’t realize they were “The lead singer’s work was heavily cited in the vaccine for COVID, and the current AIDS work is based on his research” what????

Re: Org-social—It is hilarious to me that someone has made a social network exclusively for emacs people. I might join it. Esp if I can find a way to automate pushing posts here to org-mode, which is a possibility

I’m working on a YouTube alternative article for reasons, and I wanted to know if anyone knows anything on the environmental impact of LBRY? It’s there, but it does have baked in crypto stuff, I’m just not sure how bad this implementation is given it seems to be based on …

So for anyone else who’s weird about privacy, there’s an adblock list that you can use in your linux hosts file. It also works for things like AdAway and Pihole, but I’m just shocked they made a host file version. Either way, here it is: https://github.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists?tab=readme-ov-file#ultimate

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