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unprivileged accounts are default due to cargo culting, and a broader trend in computing and beyond of disempowering the individual engage with your mind, your technology and your storyworld as an effective and proactive agent 2 months ago in a world where everything's computer, computer should be friend. computer should make you feel warm and fuzzy. when you wake up in the morning you should look forward to operating computer. computer should love you, and you should love computer. but computer suggests you search that with Bing. 2 months ago some apps are big, complicated pieces of software that push the limits of hardware and UX. today we're talking about apps that aren't like that. apps for things like 8 months ago this post presents some problems and an idea to solve them. I have successfully deployed this idea on my laptop for over a year. all my scripts are open source, but this isn't a tutorial and I don't advise copying what I've done unless you know what you're doing. some in

log in as root /rss _ log in as root we have not reached peak cyborg 2 months ago ontology let's suppose there are two fundamental building blocks of complex systems, which combine to create a third type of entity. contraptions are things like rockets, computer programs, bureaucratic processes, those little birds that bob up and down and seem to be perpetual motion machines but are actually powered by evaporation or some shit. contraptions are brittle, but efficient at what they do. they can be designed, decomposed, combined and otherwise reasoned about. Tess report - 2026.2 4 months ago Febru

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