ttt + computer

Some time back (years) I wrote of Tila Tequila, a generally awful person.

I said (and still say) she was the precursor, the prophetic figurehead, of social media, and it's effects on people.

Start MySpace: she gets real famous. Most Friends on the service, more than Tom! Very social, approachable, engaging – a liked person.

Her success then leads to MTV's A Shot of Love with Tila Tequila. MySpace fades in popularity, but she doesn't.

Then Twitter, she becomes highly controversial, starts to ostracize people who disagree with her in front of her millions of followers. #TilaArmy is born. As is cancel culture (as it turns to out to be). Piling up on an unsuspecting Twitter account with millions of people because of a disagreement pre-Retweet button? Talent (sarcasm)

Then more controversy. More “leaked” videos. More Nazi-ism (a bit worse than the leaked videos). Heralding despots past. Banned from all social media.

She still had a YouTube channel, though. She had kids, and now describes the most bizarre fiction that she believes to be reality. Delusional, despicable, de-throwned from her once-popular state of celebrity.

And all before COVID, even.

A “what's to come” of the platforms in some ways, or at least with some people who get hooked on them, lose their minds (and reputation)

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Watching a Livestream (recording) from DistroTube about a custom OS he made. It plays on the side while I watch a slow COM[] chat scroll by.

In the back of my mind, I think of configs for the G3 machine. When I get back to Farmington, I will make sure I have a proper Internet connection (1 Gbps Ethernet) and then re-reinstall Debian 12. This will give me a full install and not just TTY.

This puts me on a 256gb SSD, and then the 128gb SSD on the gaming laptop. Will I swap? (if I can), no. I'm overdue for a larger SSD on my main machine. That means file transfers, re-customizing the GNOME Desktop, replicating Tweaks and Extensions I have on the laptop. Then on with the show.

Plans beyond what I do on the daily – likely none. I was going to self-host OpenVPN, which would be worth it as OpenVPN is great at staying connected on Android, and I can opt for Always On VPN and experience no issues. As where ProtonVPN I can choose “Fastest”, or “Secure Core”, or/and Always On VPN and sure as the sun rises, it will lose connectivity at some random time within the hour, and make no effort to reconnect. Never an issue with OpenVPN.

That's one piece of software I am willing to host. A site, no. This one, and that's all I need. I have ttt2600 on SDF as well as ~loghead on Ctrl-c which are static pages simply because I am active on those servers.

A lot of possibilities. But I'll keep it lite, simple, manageable.

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The French press arrived. Allowing for regular coffee. I enjoy it outside, the aroma of fresh wood planks fill the surrounding area. The deck is new, and half complete. I make a 40 mile trek to Farmington later, where an air purifier and my day-to-day abode awaits. I anticipate the move back here (South County) deeply in my mind, emotions. June 6 is but a month away.

Birds chirp in the backyard of unknown breed. Woodpeckers. At night, owls. I listen to their song, smoke cigarettes, enjoy dense coffee – I feel I am coming out ahead here.

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A sea online A sea of sites A sea of writing A sea of words Some images, videos

But a sea

Me? In/of the sea

In form and function of writing. Letters to myself, notes, journals, prose and sometimes short fiction. Offline or online, writing for fun. For me.

A sea I churn and indulge in, waves forming to my whim. A sea I see for me.

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Ok, blogging

Where to start...

News, askewed views, and me in the stew

I started in 2006. Celebrity gossip. Started, got traffic (by “luck”) right away, kept with it, invigorated every morning to write, and write well, get views, make (some) money, hammer away, always progression – month after month.

2010, bye to “profitable” blogging.

I jump to Tumblr, a prerequisite of what I ended up doing (more of) on write.as years later. Journals. With prose. Many a day. 2014 I don't think a day went by where I wasn't actively writing, preparing to write, or just finished writing something.

2017, Write.as. At this point, blogging “was dead”, along with RSS. Had been dead, but not for long. Mastodon reinvigorated a lot of bloggers. Brought along new bloggers. By 2020, blogging everywhere all the time – numbers higher now.

I, needed a break in 2022. I felt I had just went through, and wrote through “an era”. Like my own thoughts and typing filled the gap (if not for some or many – at least for myself) of lack of online indie content.

And that's why I had to take a break. It was like “ok, something's gotta give”. It was a health decision.

Now I do ttt.computer, and happy with this here

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Sitting here at 2:40 AM, just woke up, coffee, frosted donuts, chatting on COM[]. Google Keyboard is being mentioned, then I think of security-centric apps for Android, then thoughts drift to the “breaking up” of core Google products.

Chrome, sold off to smaller co's (no MS or other mega co's allowed, as mandated by DoJ). The Chrome sale(s) are likely soon.

Internal advertising infra at Google – dismantled or/and sold off, incl AdWords/AdSense – their Web advertising/advertiser monopoly.

Android dominance – I assume these sales, or open-sourcification (I like that term) will come as “open phone standards”. A lot of what Android is, and can do, will simply become a sort of functional “base” – an (open) standard, and vanguard, as to “how” XYZ works on a smartphone. Surprisingly, a lot of features and functions of a modern day smartphone do not have “set” ways of doing things. iPhone/Android both require either App Store or Google Play Store (+ Google Play Services) to function, update securely, etc.

And then my oh-so-innocent mind drifts to Google, their engineers, their many, many layoffs they are having on a regular basis, and what they (Google) were, what they are no longer, and I think to myself: “I bet there is a hell of a (hush hush) Scuttlebutt with engineers in that company thinking “how can they get proximity to the companies and maintainers of some of the sold-off services, only to consolidate then again later.” E.g corporate espionage, basically.

Likely won't happen, as it would be difficult to pull off (and would also undermine US law), but I am sure conversations like this are being had in Mountain View right now.

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For a week, I have been lurking SDF COM[] chat, in the aNONradio room. I just started to tune it. First with VLC player, but now an app for Android called aNON, made by a fellow SDF'er.

I am also discussing random radio bits on SDF chat and other places

The typical radio.garden gets brought up by me, as usual. Surprised how many haven't heard of that service. And also MyTuner Radio for those without physical/analog radio. I myself need to buy a small AM/FM/NOAA unit for the desk.

Someone in SDF chat (IRC) mentioned a lofi aeronautical station lofiatc. As well as tilde.radio, though I haven't tuned in there, yet.

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hey

6:30 AM

Coffee had, and being had

Scallycap arrived in the mail yesterday – the “Punk”

Been on/off aNONradio on SDF (that is, the chat – no broadcasting here (yet)). COM[] is usually busy on the SDF server, always nice. I am now an Arpa member, and will upgrade to MetaArpa in 30 days.

If I broadcast on aNON, I will call it ttt station. I have ambient 90s music downloaded via YouTube (all of it remixed/covered by AlienCake).

With the word “meta” on the mind, that co is taking mega grief from congress. The antitrust hearing(s) are going terribly for the Harvard Dorm Room Founded Startup (:wink:). Zuck stood and faced the victims of self harm whom fell victim to Instagram's algorithmic manipulation, half-apologizing to the desperate and hurt rows of eyes making up the backdrop of the scene. He did this, when it was asked, and near demanded, of him by Hawley, who was grilling Zuckerberg into pure dust over Zuckerberg's evidenced acknowledgement of some of the most immoral (“business”) decisions one could make.

A prediction? Instagram and WhatsApp are removed from under the Meta umbrella, Meta can try to circle back and make Facebook the core product, but without any significant advertisers or daily active users, they'll need to, and try, to make their AI efforts not only successful, but WIN the whole AI competition from all the mega co's of today. That, too, is a lost cause on the part of all these businesses – it's why Altman/OpenAI still have such a strong public/independent stance at Microsoft: MS wants to make sure everyone knows who is being cut loose and who is to blame when the AI smoke becomes noxious and the mirrors shatter.

So all of this will stir the markets, of course. Putting it very gently for no reason whatsoever. Until then, I'll keep eyes on stockanalysis.com (not an ad? (obviously)) and watch all the tech co's sink by several percentage points a day, as well as the DOW drop by 1000+ points per day, as has been my Web browsing tradition for close to a month now.

And COM[]. And IRC. And e-mail.

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In my world, having survived a difficult time (twice, in 2005, and again in 2022 – avoiding the S word), I come to, only to know I will never be again. A ghost, Cotard's Syndrome, nothing to make of anything.

The only message I believe I may put into the world, and that the world has for me, is akin to that of Mono No Aware – things are as they are, the world spins with or without me, The Pathos of All Things.

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Where am I?

Words and wordsmithing, finding the thoughts to de-filter to editor. Hell, bypass the filter – just make it a thought-to-finger-movement bit. A manner of hitting the right keys in order and quickly – there's a damn writing “method”.

Despite cognition, what else falls with the rain this stormy Saturday?

My apartment is clean, mostly decluttered, more to go to trash.

Coffee is nice. Instant. And instantly nice.

I heard of the new S10-like Amazon truck. Electric, compact, designed for DIY mods (manufactured by Harley-Davidson), and $25k.

..where did I place those royalty checks?

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