Anubis Is Malware 2026-06-28 If you've been on the internet any time recently you have probably noticed this fucking thing. Anubis is malware. I asked the server to serve me a webpage and instead it ran code on my machine without my permission. That is malware. It uses the exact same method as a crypto miner, that being running a javascript "proof-of-work" solver in your browser. The only…
Optimal Microblogging 2026-06-21 You may have noticed a link in the navigation bar at the bottom of this website which says micro . I have at some point started a microblog. This began due to a particular experience. There is a person named Patricia Taxxon, who I am interested in following online. However, perse uses "social" media sites only, and ones I do not use. First it was tumblr, then after…
I Love The Ram Crisis 2026-06-21 Cheap computing power ruined everything. Smartphones only exist because of cheap compute, and smartphones are literally bad. There is only one good thing which has ever come from the existence of smartphones, and that is 異世界はスマートフォンとともに. It almost makes the invention worth it. But in fact, it would be mostly the same were it 異世界はノートパソコンとともに. Cheap hardware made…
The "Wayland.Fyi" Stack 2026-05-20 As I wrote about here , not too long ago I moved from the BSPWM window manager to SOWM. I had not even considered making the jump from x to wayland, primarily because the options available as regards wayland compositors were to put it plainly, shit. I appreciate that a wayland compositor has to do a lot more than a wm in x by virtue of x itself being massively…
We Want Like Rocks Want 2026-04-10 In STEM fields, there is a supposed metaphor which is begrudgingly used all the time. Perhaps calling it a metaphor is incorrect, maybe it would be better labelled as a "turn of phrase" or "linguistic short-hand". It also seems more prevalent in public-facing communications. It is not a technical term, it is casual speech. That turn of phrase is the notion of…
Beyond Reform or Revolution 2026-03-11 Reform Well, you should have voted harder Existing systems are for the most part good enough, but some tweaks are necessary to their operation. In other words the concept or structure remains untouched, but the execution or realisation requires changing. Messing around too much with the underlying structure could: be too risky or untested, whether or not it…
How I Lost Weight 2026-01-21 I know the internet is full of bullshit weight loss guides but I'm just going to give it to you straight with what worked for me, I lost like 15kg which is not crazy but I was never crazy overweight to begin with, just borderline. Literally just eat your veggies . That's it that's the whole thing. As long as you pile your plate high with veg, it's almost impossible to…
Life Changelog 2026-01-05 Edited Denpa Webring Pruned the Denpa webring of dead links, updated some links where the website has changed address. If I removed your site and you're mad about this, firstly you're the one that let the link rot and never told me, second, get in contact with a working link and I'll reinstate it. Changed Primary Laptop My x220 has served me well for 6 years or so, and…
Baudrillard Predicted "Lowkirkenuinely" 2025-12-26 I'm not on tiktok, but I've gathered through osmosis that there is a new meme term going around on there, "lowkirkenuinely". This is a portmanteau of "lowkenuinely" and "Charlie Kirk". Lowkenuinely is itself a portmanteau of "lowkey" and "genuinely", which was a meme of it's own. The Charlie Kirk connection requires a bit more explanation, I'll…
The Post-Logic Saga Part 3: Pure Data 2025-12-24 Well as you may have seen, I released an album recently, Peace And Love In Planet Earth . I am disappointed in myself for "giving in" and creating that album using logic, but that disappointment has filled me with determination to move beyond that software. I have often been vaguely fascinated by max msp and puredata, but it's very intimidating. If…
Peace And Love In Planet Earth 2025-12-23 Here is my new album, Peace And Love In Planet Earth. I think it's not for everyone, but personally I am quite happy with how it turned out. While I was messing around deciding which order I wanted the tracks to be in on bandcamp (for some reason I was doing this on bandcamp), I accidentally pressed "publish" instead of "save draft", and so the album is…
Permanent Favourites 2025-12-17 I've always been hesitant to make lists of my favourite media public because they are subject to change depending on my vibe. I tend to go through very strict phases, for example this year I had month-ish long periods where I was only interested in listening to jungle, then no-wave, then noise rock, then harsh noise, then black metal and so on. I get fixated on…
My new note taking system 2025-12-09 For years I have known that I needed to take more and better notes, but I haven't been bothered to move away from my very unwieldy "one giant .txt file" system. Because I was taking notes in one giant .txt file, I wasn't taking notes very often, because it was a pain to navigate and append. There was practically no organisation at all. I had no system. My…
Brazilian Drug Dealer 3 is just ok. 2025-11-24 Firstly, remember that post where I said I would no longer be making any purchases through Steam? Ok so that was a fucking lie. Look Steam is just convenient and sometimes it's the only place to access certain video games. I'm still not a huge fan of the platform but I am a big fan of the sales. That being said, if you would like to avoid Purchasing…
Unfortunately, the internet is not really a psyop 2025-11-13 It seems public sentiments around the internet as a technology have undergone a flip. Rather than being treated as a tool with liberatory potential, more and more, it seems the perception is extremely negative. I believe this can be traced back to a few events, the pandemic, the explosion of tik tok, and a particular book which I will…
Five mini-posts 2025-08-20 A collection of thoughts too short to be their own post so I compiled them together Derivative Clicker's unsatisfying ending Something I like to do from time to time is play idle / incremental / clicker games. You're probably familiar with cookie clicker , well as it turns out there are a whole lot more games in that genre. Here is a database of them , although my taste…
re: frozen 2025-08-09 I have been responded to , and I shall, in turn, respond. Regarding to the first section, on whether of not Google intentionally named their LLM Gemini to bury the gemini protocol, all I can add is a simple, "who can say", and I'll leave it at that. I'm much more interested in this second section, in which I was not-asked to "READ. DAEMON. AND. FREEDOM™." Well, I did. Well, I…
On Alternative Internet Protocols 2025-08-08 or, why this is a website. I'm going to write this post assuming you already basically know what I'm talking about. If you don't know what the hell a "gemini" or a "gopher" is, you should look them up first. Make sure to specify that you're looking for "gemini (protocol)", since google has copied the name for their LLM. Some people think they did this…
A strange story involving a Death Grips t-shirt 2025-07-18 I just randomly remembered an extremely strange thing that happened to me once that I still kind of can't believe wasn't a dream. This would have been back in maybe around 2017-2018. I was on the train, it would have been the overground somewhere near Dalston. I don't remember why I was there. Anyway, I'm on the train, and as sometimes…
String is better than wheels 2025-07-13 Obviously looking at the real history of the development of technology as if it's a tech tree in a video game is a little bit silly, but it's also a little bit fun and I'm going to do it anyway. For some reason, the invention of the wheel is considered to be the cornerstone big development in human technology when it just, wasn't? Wheels are only really…
Re: Be your own algorithm 2025-07-13 A few days ago, I watched this video: At the time when I finished it, I had a lot of possible thoughts and responses bubbling through my mind, I even recorded a video on my phone just rambling about my opinions on this video (which I did not upload anywhere). Despite what the title may suggest, this isn't just a generic "stop using twitter" video, it's a…
In an airport, my practices improved my life. 2025-07-08 I am currently in an airport operating on about 2 hours of sleep, a can of monster, and n mg of something . For some reason, I am allowed by society to operate a blog in this state. I am waiting for my gate to open. I searched the waiting area for a socket in order to charge my electricals, but alas all of the plugs were otherwise occupied,…
On Anonymous socialising. 2025-06-20 I run an anonymous BBS over at denpa-chan.org , and recently I've been thinking about the anonymous board as a concept. Most internet users aren't aware that the idea of an anonymous board pre-dates 4chan, and that 4chan and it's shitty culture is not the only available anonymous board on the internet. Even within 4chan, people aren't aware of the smaller…
No climax, no point, no meaning. 2025-05-28 Japanese fans of gay romance have the best terminology ever. Firstly, "fujoshi" and "fudanshi", rotten girl and rotten boy respectively, self label for fans of GL and BL. Secondly, the word "yaoi". Even if you don't know much about japanese pornography, you've likely heard of yaoi. You might have heard it contrasted against "yuri". But yuri means…
I will no longer make any purchases through Steam. 2025-05-09 Valve's recent shutting down of the Counter Strike: Classic Offensive fan mod has been the final nail in the coffin for me. I will still use steam to manage my game library, and I will continue to play Team Fortress 2, I may even purchase or trade for Team Fortress 2 items. However, I will not give Valve another penny. If a game is not…
Who are you people? 2025-05-03 According to neocities, this website gets like 250 visits a day. This can't possibly be right, so I'm assuming that must be mostly bots? The question of course is how many of these visitors are bots and crawlers, versus real people. Now I run into an issue with having chosen to host this site on neocities. I made that choice a long time ago, when I first made the…
In defence of inaccessibility 2025-04-27 "Keep it secret, keep it safe" - Gandalf Accessibility has a double meaning. On the one hand, it describes the necessary goal of enabling disabled people to live comfortably in the world we all share. On the other hand, it describes a broader concept, the ability of something to be accessed. I think that the first kind might be specified as disability…
The Post-Logic Saga Part 2 2025-04-25 It's been a bit longer since the previous entry into this saga, but I am happy to announce some degree of progress. Pedals When I found myself with a little extra cash left over a few months ago, I purchased 3 guitar pedals. Those pedals are: Behringer Super Fuzz Mosky Audio Black Rat Blaxx EQ I wanted these pedals to be able to do both harsh noise and distort…
Fuck artists! 2025-04-17 ‘In a communist society there are no painters, but at most men who, among other things, also paint.' - Karl Marx in The German Ideology The Artist is a landlord. They collect profit by extracting rent from their "intellectual property". The Artist has the opportunity not to be a landlord. They are free to allow their art to be free (as in freedom), by simply releasing…
Notes on web design 2025-04-11 You ever think about how yyyy-mm-dd is objectively the best date format? Anyway, this website now uses a serif font. I don't specify the font in the style tag, just font-family:serif. You could say I am now sans-sans-serif. I did this because I think it looks nice, but then I started wondering, why do I think it looks nice? I think I have associated in my mind…
Now that the dust has settled, what's going on with AI? 2025-04-10 (or: N0's opinions on AI, the blog post) A quick note on terminology before we start Honestly I don't even like calling it "AI", because the term is so vague. It's easy to justify calling a calculator artificially intelligent. Many completely different things have been and continue to be called "AI". Some people further specify by…
Short Form Video That Doesn't Suck 2025-04-06 Short form video gets a lot of shit on this side of the internet. By short form video I'm referring to tik toks, youtube shorts, instagram reels etc. I wonder, is it actually the short form video itself that sucks, or is it the technological and corporate context surrounding it? There's actually plenty of shorts that I like, for example watching the…
I deleted my twitter account (and more) 2025-01-24 As the title suggests. Yesterday I got too sick of that website and finally severed my final tie to "social" media. Not counting youtube I guess, but that's a whole different can of worms. The final nail in the coffin is being unable to escape just an endless repetition of the same exact posts about trump and elon. The same copy pasted jokes, the…
Attacking Windmills With Laser Pointers 2024-12-16 There is an event taking place in the US. Mysterious drones with flashing lights are appearing in the skies. UFOs or UAPs, even at one point resulting in the shutdown of runways at Stewart International Airport in New York. What are these UFOs? Some say the Chinese, the Russians, their own government, or, of course, aliens. I wonder if it's a…
Nature, or Environmental Flip Flop 2024-12-10 As you may be able to tell from reading some of my older posts, I have some strong opinions about ecology. I am careful to refer to such things as "ecology" rather than "the environment" or "nature". "The environment" is too vague, for example we have "the built environment" versus "the natural environment". What is the difference between "the"…
Not Just "Not Just Bikes" 2024-11-19 I live in a city with high quality public transportation, in a dense mixed use walkable neighbourhood. London is far from perfect, mainly on two points: Public transportation, while high quality, is expensive. We have the most expensive trains in Europe because our government doesn't subsidise them. Bicycle infrastructure is severely lacking. While…
How I use rating systems 2024-11-15 Rating systems are obviously dumb, it's obviously dumb to point out how obviously dumb they are. You can't actually place all art on a numerical tier list of comparison. Everyone knows this but they're too convenient to leave behind. On the one hand they're useful for the person who issued a rating as a memory-jogging device. On the other hand, they are…
I watched Cure (1997) at a cinema last night 2024-11-14 This post will contain spoilers for the movie. My friend Yung Si has a membership to a particular cult cinema in London, which means he gets tickets for £1. Because of this, we go to see late night screenings there together quite often. He's a huge film-buff, he knows everything there is to know about movies. Really an encyclopedic knowledge.…
Long Ass Post About Politics 2024-11-10 "The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t stop people from expressing themselves, but rather, force them to express themselves." - Gilles Deleuze Well I'm sorry dear reader, but right now I am going to give in…
The Deep End. 2024-11-09 I'll give you two examples in this post of communities where there's a sense of a "beginner" form, an entry point, the shallow end where new initiates are to be weaned in. I'll try to demonstrate why this process sucks. Anime First off, anime. Cowboy Bebop is the classic beginner anime. It's the go-to default when introducing someone to TV anime. Q: "Hey I want to get into…
The "Old Web" never went away! 2024-11-05 The internet has a peculiar habit of dying. Public consensus seems to be that the internet died in 2016, but I could easily see that time of death being pushed back to any number of earlier dates. 2014 (The "fappening"), 2008(launch of the iphone 3g), all the way back to the Eternal September in 1993. Most creatures can't survive dying even once, and yet…
Dear "The Website League", Stop. 2024-10-30 If you're someone who's involved with the website league project and you're reading this, I know it may come off rather harsh. I didn't want to intrude into your forums and start a flamewar, so I'm just posting it here and if it finds it's way to you, then it finds it's way to you. I'm going to do a mini re-litigation of this old post here for you. Some…
The Post-Logic Saga Part 1 2024-10-29 So in my last post , I had a bit of a spiral into strange territory where I repeated a common pattern in my life, identifying a problem and trying to find the ultimate solution that fixes everything forever right now . This approach is a great way to make sure you never manage to do anything ever. Upon closer inspection, the problem which initially appeared to…
Mac ownership, my inconvenient truth 2024-10-26 Much to my own shame, I own an Apple Computer. It is a MacBook of some kind. I don't know what kind off the top of my head and I can't be bothered to check. It's fairly recent model, with some sort of apple silicon chip. That's about as much as I know about it or care to know. I've owned it for several years. Before that, I owned a different mac. In…
Programs I use. 2024-10-23 I just wanted to do a short post where I talk you through some programs I use on my ThinkPad x220, the computer I use to write these blog posts (and lots of other things). I have included links to all software. OS: Artix linux . For a while I used arch, I decided to try out Artix just to see if I could get by without systemd, and it never caused me any real problems so I…
My Other Favourite Web Browser (Dillo) 2024-10-22 Some bastard has been setting off fireworks for the past few days. Who the fuck sets of fireworks when it's still light outside? I really hate fireworks, they're too loud and they spook me. I got so frustrated that 2 days ago I yelled out of my window to tell him to stop. I can just about see over the rows of fences enough to peep the top of this…
Living on the Small Web As a HikkiNEET 2024-10-21 Yo whaddup n0thanky0u blog readers, welcome back to another blog post. Before we get started I'd like to remind you to subscribe (via rss/atom) and thank you if you have already done so. This post is sponsored by the eternal call of the void. Have you heard it? Can you hear it? It sounds like it's getting closer. Use code "n0thanky0u" at checkout…
Yes, Pop Music is Bad. 2024-10-19 I'm not sure when it happened, but at some point, the "poptimism" movement went into a direction I could no longer comprehend. In the past, there was a distain for anything resembling pop music amongst the music press and music nerds in general. At some point, this attitude, perhaps snobbery, was replaced with "poptimism". There actually is good pop music. And…
rss sucks, but you should use it anyway 2024-10-16 or, its better than perfect, it's standardised! Rss is pretty annoying to deal with. It's kind of a pain to write by hand, so almost everybody automates their rss feed. It's supposedly "really simple syndication", but it's really not that simple. It supports a whole load of features which it's hard to see myself ever using. One thing that's become…
My new favourite web browser (Vieb) 2024-10-04 A personal history of web browsers Fun fact about me, I used vim-like keybinds in my web browser before I ever used vim itself. I can't remember if it was just before or just after I installed linux for the first time back in around 2016, but at some point I was browsing through the firefox addons store and I came accross, I think it was called…