Learn Latin
Latin was the first language I learned and has probably been the most useful. Here I’ll talk about some of the things it’s gotten me and some recommendations for how to learn it well.
What I’ve gotten out of learning Latin You get multiple languages for one.Latin, as you probably know is the ancestor of Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, etc. Once you know Latin, it is quite literally downhill learning any of these. In college … ⌘ Read more
Command Line Bibles
I’ve made a couple very useful command-line accessible Bibles for a quick and scriptable lookup of Bible verses and passages. They exist not only in English, but for Latin and Greek as well.
- English King James Version (including Apocrypha) —Github, Gitlab, Local git server
- Latin Vulgate —[Github](https://github. … ⌘ Read more
Why It’s Bad to Have High GDP
To put it in other words…The common way of looking at Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is that it’s a metric of economic success: more GDP is more wealth.Wealth is good. “Poverty” (meaning low per capita GDP) is bad.Nowadays, pretty much everyone talks about “economics” like this as if this truism was scribbled on the back walls of the cosmos.
This is just looking at one side of the ledger in a kind of global double-entry accounting book.A logically equivale … ⌘ Read more
Science vs. Soyence
There’s nothing necessarily wrong with science, reason, knowledge etc. To some degree, they’re fundamental for survival in this world in one way or another. But one of the more worrisome problems which have arisen since the Enlightenment, and especially in the past several years, is the fact that whenever scientific knowledge has increased, human arrogance has accelerated even faster. This isn’t a metaphysical, moral arrogance; it’s one that is more and mor … ⌘ Read more
Hedonism, Asceticism and the Hermetic Answer
The modern world more or less gives you the philosophical choice of either Hedonism or Asceticism.You never really hear it in those terms, but that’s how it is.
Hedonism living for pleasure. Your default lifestyle is eating whatever, watching Netflix and playing video games irrespective of how late it is.You watch porn, masturbate, have sex as much as you can and any consequences of any of this are just facts of life which you view a … ⌘ Read more
Veganism Is the Pinnacle of Bugmanism
People have quoted me as saying that.I forget where it comes from, probably a livestream, but I definitely stand by it.Since a lot of people labor under the assumption that my channel is about “Linux,” I’ve accumulated a lot of subscribers that are variously nerds, furries, degenerates, coomers, libertarians, communists, trannies and among them are vegans.Some of them (I assume) are good people.
There’s a stereotype about vegans that they are annoyin … ⌘ Read more
Learn Chinese
Chinese is the hardest language to learn according to normies who have never tried to learn it.
In reality, Chinese is really easy. It has literally no complex morphology: no tense, plurals, gender. It doesn’t have irregular verbs or nouns because it has no verb and noun endings whatsoever. It’s almost difficult to explain how easy Chinese is.
The only different thing is the writing system which is I hesitate to say anachronistic. The Chinese character system i … ⌘ Read more
The Parable of Alien Chess
A parable on the Logical Postivist “interpretation” of scientific models.
Suppose an alien race comes to Earth and wants to observe our games.They are very interested in chess, despite the fact that they have eyes with properties that make it impossible to make out what actually happens on a chess board.(The whites and blacks and squares all blur together.)
They can still learn about … ⌘ Read more
We Want Our 4 Causes Back!
Aristotle, in his Physics argued that there are four causes behind everything that exists. These causes answer the question of “How” or “Why” something is the way it is.
The Material CauseThe material from which something is made. E.g. the stone of a statue.The Efficient CauseThe external force that causes something to be made. E.g. the artisan and his tools who make a statue.The Formal Cause … ⌘ Read more
I like and use the Brave Browser.It’s a free and open source browser with features like:
- Ad-blocking by default.
- Tracker-blocking by default.
- Anti-fingerprinting mechanisms to prevent you from being monitored.
- Built-in Tor windows.
- Run by a based Christian and not furry leftists.
As far as I’m concerned, Brave is indisputably the best general-purpose browser out there.There are other okay brows … ⌘ Read more
PstViewer Pro 2021 version 9.0 is Released. ⌘ Read more…
On the blog: Developer Journal, Patriots’ Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/04/19/patriot.html #programming #project #devjournal
Trying out an early web look for my homepage ⌘ Read more…
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Moses und Aron, ch 1-3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/04/17/moses1.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Tweets from 04/12 to 04/16 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/04/16/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
A month ago, /twtxt.html was the largest page on mckinley.cc. I split it into several files and now the January-April page is the same size.
On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Tholian Web https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/04/15/tholian.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On the blog: Developer Journal, Yuri’s Night https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/04/12/yuri.html #programming #project #devjournal
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — The Fellowship of Heroes https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/04/10/fellowship.html #freeculture #bookclub
Peter Saint-Andre: Bach on Bass #4: Instrumental Solution ⌘ Read more…
On the blog: Tweets from 04/05 to 04/09 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/04/09/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, For the World Is Hollow (etc.) https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/04/08/hollow.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
Peter Saint-Andre: Holding Fewer Opinions ⌘ Read more…
On the blog: Developer Journal, National Library Week https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/04/05/library.html #programming #project #devjournal
On the blog: (Finally) Cutting the Cord https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/04/04/cord-cut.html #media #television #nonfree #ethics
Bringing back blog system.
For the benefit of RSS users, I’m going to bring back the blog feature
on my website, which is done with lb,
a minor script I wrote a while ago.
This is where I’ll be posting updates. Old blog entries, while not on the RSS feed
still exist via their permalinks and can be accessed
from lukesmith.xyz/blog. ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — A Dark Room https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/04/03/darkroom.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Tweets from 03/29 to 04/02 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/04/02/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
Dont use build tags for integration tests ⌘ Read more…
On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Day of the Dove https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/04/01/dove.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
the ‘magic circle’ sine wave algorithm: [[https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/pasp/Digital_Sinusoid_Generators.html]] #links
Webgears: I’ll get your HTML/Javascript and your little dog Toto too ⌘ Read more…
On the blog: Developer Journal, National Doctors’ Eve https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/03/29/doctors.html #programming #project #devjournal
On the blog: Calafia, Queen of California https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/03/28/calafia.html #fiction #publicdomain
Urban Fish Ponds: Low-tech Sewage Treatment for Towns and Cities
In the mid 20th century, whole cities’ sewage systems safely and successfully used fish to treat and purify their water. Waste-fed fish ponds are a low-tech, cheap, and sustainable alternative to deal with our own shit — and to obtain high protein food in the process. ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — Valkaama https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/03/27/valkaama.html #freeculture #bookclub
Peter Saint-Andre: Politically Independent ⌘ Read more…
On the blog: Tweets from 03/22 to 03/26 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/03/26/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
YouTube Channel Deletion (updated) ⌘ Read more…
YouTube Channel Deletion (updated)
For info, I’ve added a list of the striked videos so you can see how innocuous they are. ⌘ Read more
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YouTube Channel Deletion
YouTube Channel Deletionby Luke Smith
Google is prepping to delete my YouTube channel.
As of today (March 26, 2021), I now cannot post for another two weeks.
YouTube “strikes” which are functionally unappealable (automatically rejected) last for 3 months.
If they give thee concurrent strikes, you channel is permanently deleted.
If YouTube Jannies delete my YouTube channel, remember that
**100% of my videos are still easily viewable, includi … ⌘ Read more
APT Encounters of the Third Kind ⌘ Read more…
On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Spectre of the Gun https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/03/25/spectre.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On the blog: Assembling a Dark Mode https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/03/24/darkmode.html #techtips #programming #javascript #rails
On the blog: Developer Journal, World Water Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/03/22/water.html #programming #project #devjournal
Arnaud Joset: Using Prosody with a HTTP Reverse Proxy ⌘ Read more…
On the blog: Asian Women in Fiction https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/03/21/asian.html #politics #harm #media
On the blog: Free Culture Book Club — The Spiraling Web, Part 4 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/03/20/spiraling4.html #freeculture #bookclub
On the blog: Tweets from 03/15 to 03/19 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/03/19/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump