From 62e8467e59d7d30d7cbda080f6b5f1d37a17d905 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mjfernez Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:44:00 -0400 Subject: 2026 Touch up, mostly FAQ --- .md/about/faq.md | 16 -- .md/about/whereami.md | 10 +- .md/about/whoami.md | 4 +- .md/thoughts/.description | 2 +- .../society/social-media-human-experimentation.md | 67 +++++++ .md/tutorials/splunk/.description | 2 +- .md/tutorials/splunk/how-to-debug-a-splunk-app.md | 0 about/faq.html | 50 ++--- about/howami.html | 14 +- about/whatami.html | 14 +- about/whereami.html | 32 ++-- about/whoami.html | 20 +- about/whyami.html | 14 +- thoughts/.description | 2 +- thoughts/syntax/my-worst-habit.html | 14 +- thoughts/syntax/random-python-idiosyncrasies.html | 38 ++-- .../common-gfx-card-installation-woes.html | 36 ++-- tutorials/splunk/.description | 2 +- .../i-found-out-splunk-macros-are-awesome.html | 14 +- .../tor/how-to-host-a-tor-hidden-service.html | 27 +-- ...how-to-fix-neovim-nerdtree-rendering-issue.html | 26 +-- tutorials/www/how-to-make-this-site.html | 62 +++--- tutorials/www/quick-intro-html-css.html | 211 ++++++++++----------- 23 files changed, 293 insertions(+), 384 deletions(-) create mode 100644 .md/thoughts/society/social-media-human-experimentation.md delete mode 100644 .md/tutorials/splunk/how-to-debug-a-splunk-app.md diff --git a/.md/about/faq.md b/.md/about/faq.md index c99a722..4bd201b 100644 --- a/.md/about/faq.md +++ b/.md/about/faq.md @@ -34,22 +34,6 @@ vim for editing. Mostly because it's easy to edit consistently across servers and because I just spend so much of my time in the terminal lately that I'm used to it. -### *Why OpenBSD?* - -Honestly, I though the fish was cool. - -![](/static/media/puffy.gif) - -I don't know the artist of that one unfortunately, I just found it on a -forum. - -Besides I've installed Debian lots of times so I figured, why not try -something different? It's pretty cool as a server OS. Just a lot of -homework. I'm sure it's good as a desktop/laptop one too, but it's not -different enough for me to move all my data. - -For what it's worth, I use Debian sid for a daily driver. - ### *Why bother making your site from scratch? It looks like crap* Eh. I feel like if what I say isn't interesting, prettying it up won't diff --git a/.md/about/whereami.md b/.md/about/whereami.md index 01d0809..3aed3c3 100644 --- a/.md/about/whereami.md +++ b/.md/about/whereami.md @@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ stuff. *You're on the Internet*. Known to some as a [series of tubes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes), -but in reality much more complicated than it has to be. In basic sense, your +but in reality much more complicated than it has to be. Like a phone call, your computer called mine, and mine answered with directory full of pages. The way you get here is through a device you have at home called a router, -which literally does what the name implies--it routes signals to where they +which literally does what the name implies: it routes signals to where they need to go to make things go beep. In the 60s and 70s, routers tended to be people-based and would require workers spend their time plugging cables into and out of ports so calls could connect. @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ and porn sites. I'm getting lost on your question though, so where are we exactly? -Precisely speaking, you are in a chrooted web server running on rented virtual +Precisely speaking, you are in a web server running on rented virtual machine in a server farm located roughly in New Jersey browsing the "about" directory on the "whereami.html" page. @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ besides host some private servers for you and your friends and family. But maybe most importantly, you've reached a webpage owned by another human being. Well mostly... I don't own the hardware. But the place is -mine; not a corporation's, or a bot's, or a government's. +mine. Not a corporation's, or a bot's, or a government's. All these files were loving crafted by yours truly in markdown, using vim, and converted with pandoc to HTML because of laziness. @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ time, used to be filled with places like this. "Homepages" were a thing, or were just starting to be at least. But as soon as it started it all got sucked up and commodified into -social media; we somehow got coerced into profiles, templates, and +social media. We somehow got coerced into profiles, templates, and standards to make us easier for ad companies to study. And even I really liked it for a while, but over time, it got fake. I got fake. diff --git a/.md/about/whoami.md b/.md/about/whoami.md index 55c9cc2..b60a717 100644 --- a/.md/about/whoami.md +++ b/.md/about/whoami.md @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ cynical. But all in all, not anyone in particular really.* When I first came up with a writing a page with this title, it devolved into a kind of personal essay. The kind of unwelcome nonsense you no doubt encounter (and I no doubt supplied) in comment sections on the -Internet or the paginated newsfeeds written by faceless names or in +Internet or in the paginated newsfeeds written by faceless names or in the rambling profiles that start with birth and forget where they're going around college. It seems to come easy to a lot of us. @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ things that probably help for context's sake: I still find time to make some lights blink. - I spend a lot of time on the Internet lost. And in the process, - sometimes find useful things; though I largely find nonsense, which + sometimes find useful things: though I largely find nonsense, which has it's own value, but it's separate. Here is as close to home as I'll get for now. diff --git a/.md/thoughts/.description b/.md/thoughts/.description index 3bbad41..ef8826e 100644 --- a/.md/thoughts/.description +++ b/.md/thoughts/.description @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ Things I am less qualified to write about, but persist nonetheless. -Thoughts on the internet, web, programming, self-improvement +Thoughts on the internet, programming, self-improvement diff --git a/.md/thoughts/society/social-media-human-experimentation.md b/.md/thoughts/society/social-media-human-experimentation.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1cb35fe --- /dev/null +++ b/.md/thoughts/society/social-media-human-experimentation.md @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +This document contains references to all instances of unethical human +experimentation committed by social media companies. The credit for this +of course goes to the respective authors who have done the real work of +documenting these crimes against humanity. + +So there is no confusion, I define "unethical human experimentation" by +the ten points of the Nuremberg Code (emphasis my own). + +Content is directly from: +https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Code#The_ten_points_of_the_Nuremberg_Code + + + +1. *The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.* + This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to + give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free + power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, + fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of + constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and + comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to + enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision. This + latter element requires that before the acceptance of an affirmative + decision by the experimental subject there *should be made known to + him the nature, duration, and purpose of the experiment*; the method + and means by which it is to be conducted; all inconveniences and + hazards reasonably to be expected; and the effects upon his health or + person which may possibly come from his participation in the + experiment. The duty and responsibility for ascertaining the quality + of the consent rests upon each individual who initiates, directs, or + engages in the experiment. It is a personal duty and responsibility + which may not be delegated to another with impunity. +2. The experiment should be such as to yield *fruitful results for the + good of society*, unprocurable by other methods or means of study, and + not random and unnecessary in nature. +3. The experiment should be so designed and based on the results of + animal experimentation and a knowledge of the natural history of the + disease or other problem under study that the anticipated results + will justify the performance of the experiment. +4. The experiment should be so conducted as to **avoid all unnecessary + physical and mental suffering and injury**. +5. No experiment should be conducted where there is an a priori reason + to believe that death or disabling injury will occur; except, + perhaps, in those experiments where the experimental physicians also + serve as subjects. +6. The degree of risk to be taken should never exceed that determined by + the humanitarian importance of the problem to be solved by the + experiment. +7. **Proper preparations should be made and adequate facilities provided + to protect the experimental subject against even remote possibilities + of injury, disability, or death.** +8. *The experiment should be conducted only by scientifically qualified + persons*. The highest degree of skill and care should be required + through all stages of the experiment of those who conduct or engage + in the experiment. +9. **During the course of the experiment the human subject should be at + liberty to bring the experiment to an end if he has reached the + physical or mental state where continuation of the experiment seems + to him to be impossible.** +10. During the course of the experiment the scientist in charge must be + prepared to terminate the experiment at any stage, if he has + probable cause to believe, in the exercise of the good faith, + superior skill and careful judgment required of him that a + continuation of the experiment is likely to result in injury, + disability, or death to the experimental subject. + + +## INSTAGRAM (META) diff --git a/.md/tutorials/splunk/.description b/.md/tutorials/splunk/.description index 699b696..9857874 100644 --- a/.md/tutorials/splunk/.description +++ b/.md/tutorials/splunk/.description @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ I use splunk a whole lot at work. As far as docs go they're not bad -but sometimes you just gotta learn trhough comment sections. For +but sometimes you just gotta learn through comment sections. For questions that might not have a comment section, those answers are here diff --git a/.md/tutorials/splunk/how-to-debug-a-splunk-app.md b/.md/tutorials/splunk/how-to-debug-a-splunk-app.md deleted file mode 100644 index e69de29..0000000 diff --git a/about/faq.html b/about/faq.html index 0564d22..55da809 100644 --- a/about/faq.html +++ b/about/faq.html @@ -8,18 +8,10 @@ @@ -28,26 +20,24 @@