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Bioethics: Covertly Architecting Your Future (Totally Safe and Effective!) 
 Bioethics is the multi-disciplinary study of ethical issues related to health. At first glance, it appears to be a philosophical and ethical pursuit for the betterment of man-kind, exploring the best and most moral means of medical intervention and public health. The intersection of philosophy with the medical…
How To: Karaoke At Home 
 I friggen love karaoke. While I am happy to do it at a bar in front of people, I much more prefer the Japanese style of renting a room and going crazy with your friends. It is surprisingly easy to emulate a karaoke room at your home and you probably have a majority of the equipment needed. I will outline how to set it up, provide the cheapest options as well as some…
Truth From Dialog 
 This article employs the term “dialog” as the exchange of opinion between two or more people with the goal of discerning reality or truth. Truth and reality are synonymous. As we experience reality, we experience truth. Our perception of truth is filtered through the re-presentation of reality which occurs in our mind. These re-presentations are subjective by…
How To Stream Global Television With VLC Media Player 
 A quick how to article to supplement my previous post How To Remove Ads From Youtube on All Devices . When I offer free media alternatives, particularly to boomers, I am often confronted with the question: “Well how am I going to watch [Insert whatever slop that is shown on television]?” Obviously people are not hosting…
Tips from a DIY Electronics Noob 
 I have been doing DIY electronics (building modular synths) on and off for 3 years and have learned a bunch of small tricks along the way. Because I am completely untrained, have never taken a class or read an electronics book, a lot of these tricks took me a while to learn on my own. 
 1. From Schematic to Stripboard 
 Everything I build comes from…
[SYNTH DIY] Custom Power Cables: Ribbons, Dupont, and XH 
 After a period of burnout after failing multiple times trying to build the erica synth edu snare drum –in which I just figured out today while trying to build the hihat module from the same set that my issue was that I was not using switched jacks (me not reading the manual properly)–I am back at it! I have built a few…
Why I Switched to (neo)VIM as my Primary IDE 
 * I am going to use VIM and neovim interchangeably in this article. I use neovim as a daily driver. 
 I have been cringing pretty hard at the onslaught of “I Switched to Linux” or “10 VIM Tricks for Noobs” videos on YouTube. However, upon reflecting on this knee jerk reaction, I realized that the sudden influx of more…
Fix PulseAudio and Connman Issues on Artix OpenRC 
 For clarity, My current set up is: 
 
 Operating System: Artix 
 Init System: OpenRC 
 Display Server: XLibre 
 Desktop Environment: i3wm 
 Wifi: Connman 
 
 PulseAudio Not Starting on Boot 
 I was running into issues with PulseAudio (sound server) not starting automatically after boot. When you read the…
How To Actually Learn a Language 
 After dedicating a large portion of my life to language acquisition, I have become quite opinionated on learning methodology. Fads, phone-apps and novel techniques have come and gone, but most people that I have met who use these methods have not actually acquired a second language. First I will dispel some of these ineffectual methods, then provide the path…
PLAY IT HERE 
 
 You gotta play the new game I coded! It is called sokobanya; it is an attractive sokoban port I wrote for a fun weekend project. 
 PLAY IT HERE
I got tired of seeing the boring homepages offered by search engines and browsers so I set out to create a custom homepage for myself. I wanted multiple background options that persisted across browser instances and tabs and customizable links that can be navigated to with keybindings. I am trying to stop using the mouse as much as I can and this makes it easy to reach my most commonly used sites.…
After three years of work, the first shrinkin-minkin album , “Tyrannizing Harmonics”, has been released. A majority of that time was spent looking for musicians who could play the parts that I wrote and drilling the songs until they were perfect; the last 6 months or so was spent recording, mixing and mastering the album. If you know me, it should come to no surprise that I DIY’d…
I am sick of my friends and family trying to show me a video on their phone, computer or TV and forcing me to watch an advertisement on YouTube. I am also annoyed that my band’s album (which is coming out June 13th) has ads on it when listened to on YouTube. I am not even getting any of that revenue, so there is no reason for people to be watching it with ads. G**ogle already makes enough…
Help! “Artists” are at risk! Chatbots are taking our jobs! Let’s form a union. 
 There seems to be a general fear among “artists” that chatbots (what is currently known as “AI”) will somehow influence their artistic output because technology can generate slop faster than they can. I say “seems to be” because I have only ever heard this…
I recently wanted to get away from the default bash theme, so I tried looking around for themes online and it seems like SEO tends to recommend things like OhMyZsh and OhMyBash . I really liked the zork theme that OhMyBash provided, so I broke one of my rules and installed OhMyBash–which the creator claims “comes with a sh*t load of plugins to take advantage of”–despite…
Atheism is a mind virus that grips our generation. I was infected for more than half of my life. 
 As a critical thinker, I have spent my whole life grappling with Religion, philosophy and atheism.
At age eight the fear that God was not real struck me, causing me to run into my room and quickly
begin writing out my thoughts on the existence of God. I wish I still had that sheet of…
tl;dr: Play my terminal port of the rogue-lite card game Scoundrel 
 My coworker introduced me to this game Balatro and I got pretty addicted to it for a few days. I still play it once daily and have stopped playing pokemmo because of it. Balatro is a deck-building rogue-lite poker game where you soup up your deck of playing cards to defeat increasing levels of blinds. I highly recommend it.…
We have moved into the digital age! Wait, already? While I am going to continue
prioritizing analog circuits for the sake of learning, digital is very enticing
due to the low part count, lower price point, smaller footprint, and that fact that
I am a software developer and can modify the code to suit my needs. I do have a few
ideas for my own digital synth designs, but I plan on…
I souped up Benjie Jiao’s Mini Delay with CV control on the wet & time controls.
I forewent adding it to feedback to save space as well as not seeing a practical
reason to control feedback that way. I know he has a full delay module with CV here but
he did not have a schematic for it published so I just used the mini delay schematic. 
 If you are going to add CV control, you…
I recently built Juanito Moore’s 808 Kick drum module.
This gave me significantly less issues than the VCO that I made last time! I am pretty sure
it worked right away! 
 The only thing I changed in the design was adding a 470k potentiometer between legs 1 and 3
on the Decay potentiometer in order to lessen the range (I think by about half). Without this
I was hitting…
For the past few years I have been trying to learn electrical engineering well enough
to build my own modular synth. To put it lightly, it has been a struggle. Whenever I
have put my mind to something in the past
(learning multiple foreign languages, instruments, coding)
I always picked it up with ease. But EE was always failure after failure.
I am committed to becoming…
Although I have not posted in a while, I have still been busy creating new things. Other than recording
shrinkin-minkin’s first album and learning electrical engineering, I have created 2 new tools that
I would like to share. 
 Chordtone 
 This web app allows you to select multiple chords and map the chord tones on a fretboard.
Beneficial for improvising or writing…

	
When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer.

 
 
		 
 
 George Orwell
 
		 
	 
 
 
 You have no idea what the title of this blog post means, right? Good. You shouldn’t. it says “Numeronyms are Lame”. I am sure that outside of the tech-sphere, the usage of numeronyms are uncommon (so…
Despite everyone being glued to a screen, I have found that most people have
no idea how a computer works. This is true for both the older and younger generations
as they did not have a chance to experience the old-way of using a computer. There were
no apps or app-stores. Productivity happened outside the web browser and the challenges
that this posed taught those using a computer…
I needed to get fastcgi running on my artix server with OpenRC and ran into issues with the
fastcgi-openrc package from pacman. installing the spawn-fcgi package and creating a custom
rc file solved my issue. Sharing that config here in case anyone is at their wit’s end and has
exhausted all search-engine links other than this page. 
 #!/usr/bin/openrc-run
 
 name =…
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Download Robert Bruce’s New Energy Ways v.2 Here 
 I am not sure if I would classify the action of controlling your body’s energy an actual
sixth sense or simply a bodily function; However, it is clear that, regardless of classification,
Robert Bruce has provided a path to re-awakening (what I assume is) a long forgotten physical
ability. A physical ability that has…
I received a knock on my door from the JCP&L (Jersey Central Power and Light) man last week. He told me he is just letting me know that he will be replacing
my current electrical utility meter with a sMaRt MeTeR. I immediately explained that I was not interested in that. I am
not interested in any SMART device in my home. It is bad enough I have a smart-phone. And sure, maybe a smart meter…
Information moves fast and gets memory-holed even faster. I have been trying to download everything that I can. I know
absolutely nothing when it comes to the truth of what really happened, I am just archiving what I have seen so far. 
 Video of Assassination Attempt 
 
 
 
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 📝 UPDATE (07/09/2024) - The job market is bad and seems to be getting worse. The “AI” hype is totally overblown.
You should re-assess whether this is what you really want to do simply because it is so hard to find a job right now.
I have 3 people from different background looking for a new job at the moment, I will update this when I get a…
This document is intended to be a brief overview of Manchu grammar. Of course, the example that is provided does not contain all of the components of Manchu grammar, but it does contain what you need to begin reading. Please utilize this text as a quick reference when you are unsure of a noun case or verb form. For an in depth analysis, please view Grammatical Points , starting on page 355 of…
Shards of Depravity was my first attempt at translating short stories. It contains three selections from Dazai Osamu 太宰治 including: “Vow Fulfillment” 満願, “Morning” 朝, and “Cherries” 桜桃. It is probably my most “complete” translation work, despite it being completed during my naive undergraduate years. Regardless, this document will always be held dear…

 
 📝 INFO I have waited around 6 years to post this publicly. I have read it over and over again and I just do not see
why I should not be able to post it at this point.
I have obfuscated real names. Every time I read this I relive the
trauma of losing over 10 years of work in academia. But every time I reflect, I realize how happy I am that all of this
happened.…
Leave a Tip: 
 If you have enjoyed any of the music I have written, software I developed, games I have created,
or just got a chuckle from a blog post; Feel free to donate below. Everything digital I create is free.
I love to share my art with no strings attached, and I write Free and Open Source Software. 
 All donations will either go to music equipment, my band, my server, or…
Before we started doom-scrolling, people made their own websites and linked to each other. 
 Tech Stuff: 
 
 https://lukesmith.xyz/ (Based Linux Guy Luke Smith) 
 https://landchad.net/ (Useful Server Tutorials) 
 https://lunduke.com/ (Centrist Tech Blogger who is considered a Nazi) 
 http://cs.gettysburg.edu/~duncjo01/archive/ (Old web resources) 
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◌͗ Thoughts & Hallucinations ◌͗ 
 Thought experiments. My beliefs are irrelevant and should not be considered here. These are ideas that I have either
synthesized or regurgitated from other sources. 
 
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 The (scientific) Enlightenment is a false englightening. It is a light that was meant to drown out
the spiritual light that we all experience and have access to.…