Normies are everywhere in this world, and I hate it. Their sheer incompetence and lack of understanding of the technology that they use every day is enough to make you want to pull your +
Normies are everywhere in this world, and I hate it. Their sheer incompetence and lack of understanding of the technology that they use every day is enough to make you want to pull your
hair out and kill yourself. Always flexing the fact that they have a new shiny piece of proprietary tech in their hands, or the fact that they have an instagram, facebook, tiktok, etc.,
fucking proprietary cucks. No one gives a single shit about your accounts on some proprietary service. And another thing, the next time someone comes up to me and says that all these
companies that are part of big tech care about the user, i'm going to slap them silly. It's honestly infuriating and disgusting how little normies know about the monster that is big
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Stop feeding into the stupid "content creator" dream. Whenever I hear someone say the words "content creator", I physically cringe in disgust. All content creators do is feed into the +
Stop feeding into the stupid "content creator" dream. Whenever I hear someone say the words "content creator", I physically cringe in disgust. All content creators do is feed into the
conSoomE culture that is so deeply embeded in today's world. Endless fucking consuming of content that just never stops, leaving you preoccupied, and leaving you tired and stoopider
than before you began your endless binge. The question I ask myself over and over again is "Why?", "Why do this?". Consooming content for hours on end does nothing for you, and
contributes zero to your life. Its counterproductive, and in my opinion a very stupid use of your time. I also hate it when I hear people say that they want to become a "YouTuber" or
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Normies always seem to be complaining about how elitist GNU/Linux users are, but honestly that doesn't offend me in any way. In fact, I take it as a compliment. I just can't help but +
Normies always seem to be complaining about how elitist GNU/Linux users are, but honestly that doesn't offend me in any way. In fact, I take it as a compliment. I just can't help but
look down on the world around me, looking at how stoopid and dumb everyone is. It may seem like a very mean and narcisistic way of viewing the individuals that are a part of this so
called "world", but it's true. I honestly feel like i'm one of the few "smart" individuals left in the sea of idiots all around me, strapped down by the chains of big tech and big
government. As you stay further and further away from what is considered common concensus, you feel more isolated, and you feel more and more out of place. I do have to say though, that
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It's that time of year again, where big corporations voice their support for the queer community and change their social media account profile pictures to rainbow! But before you voice +
It's that time of year again, where big corporations voice their support for the queer community and change their social media account profile pictures to rainbow! But before you voice
your praise for them for supporting pride month, really think about why they're doing it. It's all too often I see people saying how they love *insert big corporation name here* for
"supporting" the queer community. In reality, this is far from true, and the only reason that these corporations are pretending to support the queer community is because it's good for
public relations (PR). All they want to do is gain your loyatly, and get you to spend your money on their products. The end goal is not to genuinely support the queer community, but
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Cell phones are nothing but proprietary, mobile surveillance devices. I fucking hate them with all of my heart. They do nothing but send your location to your carrier, and other third +
Cell phones are nothing but proprietary, mobile surveillance devices. I fucking hate them with all of my heart. They do nothing but send your location to your carrier, and other third
parties. Unfortunately, I have to carry around one of these pieces of shit because my mother HAS to know where her daughter is. If it was up to me, I wouldn't carry around a cell phone
AT ALL. When I get my own place of residence, I am going to set up a landline, and have that be my primary number. If i'm not home, anyone whos calling can leave a message and i'll get
back to them later. Landlines tend to be WAY less expensive than spyware cellular service anyway (at least in "freedom" land, aka the US), so I think it's a better option for a person
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Believe it or not, I used to be your typical normie apple shill, with products such as the iphone, ipad, macbook air, and so on and so forth. At this point in time I didn't really care +
Believe it or not, I used to be your typical normie apple shill, with products such as the iphone, ipad, macbook air, and so on and so forth. At this point in time I didn't really care
about free software, or computer security in the slightest. I basically had a blindfold over my eyes. I was actually sold on the marketing point that apple actually cared about user
privacy and security, how pathetic. As time went on, I started seeing the holes in apple's siren song. I "wised up" if you will. I started seeing apple's claims for what they really
were, absolute lies. The whole apple ecosystem started to fall apart in front of my face, and I was kind of lost on what to do about it. Lucky for me, a friend of mine who goes by the
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I see so many people on popular social media platforms these days, such as facebook, twitter, instagram, tiktok, etc. I find this very disturbing because I believe that mainstream +
I see so many people on popular social media platforms these days, such as facebook, twitter, instagram, tiktok, etc. I find this very disturbing because I believe that mainstream
social media is nothing but an instrument of unjust power over its users, social control. On all popular social media platforms, there is always an algorithm that controls what users
see and don't see, what political views are shown or hidden, etc. And guess who controls those various algorithms on these platforms? Big tech, thats who. This is particularly dangerous
because it allows for mass censorship online of anyone who doesn't agree with the same ideals as big tech and the masses. It also allows for specific big tech approved ideals to be
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I once was a normie, who didn't care about privacy and security, and that used apple products. But, this changed when I became aware of the evils of proprietary, non-free software, and +
I once was a normie, who didn't care about privacy and security, and that used apple products. But, this changed when I became aware of the evils of proprietary, non-free software, and
the significant risks that come with using them. I then discovered the free software movement, and have been trying to limit the amount of non-free software I use in my day to day life.
Free software is important to me because, the chances of free software being malware and doing nasty things are significantly lower compared to non-free, proprietary software. This is
because, for a piece of software to be considered free software, the source code (the human readable form of software that programmers edit to make changes to the software) has to be
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I was looking into what the 2013 Edward Snowden NSA leaks revealed, and it revealed quite a lot about the kind of information that the NSA is collecting from users of big tech giants +
I was looking into what the 2013 Edward Snowden NSA leaks revealed, and it revealed quite a lot about the kind of information that the NSA is collecting from users of big tech giants
services, such as Google and Microsoft, through their "PRISM" mass surveilence program. This data includes, but is not limited to: emails, chat logs, videos, "cloud" storage data, phone
call records, etc. All of this without a warrant or other legally justifying document, mind you. This is highly invasive for end users, and is absolutely appalling. The worst part of it
all is that it's not just data from other countries outside of the US, but the US itself too. That means that the NSA is SPYING on it's OWN CITIZENS, all in the name of
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I hate google classroom for many reasons, including, but not limited to:
1. The fact that it injects 20+ privacy violating cookies into your browser, just like every other frigging google service on the web.
2. The fact that it runs proprietary, non-free javascript code in my browser that's responsible for injecting those 20+ privacy violating cookies I just mentioned.
3. The fact that it provides a convenient excuse for teachers to make assignments due during the weekend and during after school hours on weekdays.
My school uses google classroom as it's assignment and class information distribution platform, so I unfortunately have no other choice but to swallow my (very valid) reasons for hating shitgle classroom and use it. It bothers me so much that even when there are libre alternatives to platforms like google classroom (such as moodle, just to name one off the top of my head), schools still end up using the proprietary, non-free solution because it's "convenient". I'm so sick and tired of people not caring about how disgusting proprietary, non-free software is, especially when it affects others. If you don't care about your own freedom and privacy, then fine, but don't sacrifice other people's freedom and privacy for your own convenience.
I hate google classroom for many reasons, including, but not limited to:
1. The fact that it injects 20+ privacy violating cookies into your browser, just like every other frigging google service on the web.
2. The fact that it runs proprietary, non-free javascript code in my browser that's responsible for injecting those 20+ privacy violating cookies I just mentioned.
3. The fact that it provides a convenient excuse for teachers to make assignments due during the weekend and during after school hours on weekdays.
My school uses google classroom as it's assignment and class information distribution platform, so I unfortunately have no other choice but to swallow my (very valid) reasons for hating shitgle classroom and use it. It bothers me so much that even when there are libre alternatives to platforms like google classroom (such as moodle, just to name one off the top of my head), schools still end up using the proprietary, non-free solution because it's "convenient". I'm so sick and tired of people not caring about how disgusting proprietary, non-free software is, especially when it affects others. If you don't care about your own freedom and privacy, then fine, but don't sacrifice other people's freedom and privacy for your own convenience.
Signed,
Lilium_Snow (Primrose)
diff --git a/posts/post-11/index.html b/posts/post-11/index.html index 82803ae..ccf8ca1 100644 --- a/posts/post-11/index.html +++ b/posts/post-11/index.html @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@My school was making preparations for an event this month, and as part of those preparations, asked that students pick what group they'd like to be placed in for a certain activity. Students submitted a survey online with that information, and they were placed into groups shortly after. This is where things get absolutely stupid however, as someone in charge of the planning for this event thought it would be a great idea to publish student group placements on the school's public facing website. They embedded a spreadsheet onto a page which contained 440 students first and last names, grades, and school email addresses. That's right, a nice little fucking doxx by the people you'd expect to doxx you the least. Whoever published those changes onto the school website should lose their job, because if students personal information is in the hands of someone like that, I fear for what their next little "fuck up" might bring. As far as I know, students were too stupid to realize the severity of the situation, and parents did not see, only because I let school administators know of this little "fuck up" early on. That's right, a student, me, let them know of their mistake, not a staff member. What a joke.
[2022-10-16] UPDATE: I have spoken with a few invididuals, and it has come to my attention that the person responsible for this error was the only one working on this big event. I no longer believe that she deserves to lose her job, and I no longer believe she deserves 100% of the blame for this incident. I believe my school's upper administration deserves some, if not most of the blame for this error for it's poor coordination in preparing a team for the event in question.
My school was making preparations for an event this month, and as part of those preparations, asked that students pick what group they'd like to be placed in for a certain activity. Students submitted a survey online with that information, and they were placed into groups shortly after. This is where things get absolutely stupid however, as someone in charge of the planning for this event thought it would be a great idea to publish student group placements on the school's public facing website. They embedded a spreadsheet onto a page which contained 440 students first and last names, grades, and school email addresses. That's right, a nice little fucking doxx by the people you'd expect to doxx you the least. Whoever published those changes onto the school website should lose their job, because if students personal information is in the hands of someone like that, I fear for what their next little "fuck up" might bring. As far as I know, students were too stupid to realize the severity of the situation, and parents did not see, only because I let school administators know of this little "fuck up" early on. That's right, a student, me, let them know of their mistake, not a staff member. What a joke.
[2022-10-16] UPDATE: I have spoken with a few invididuals, and it has come to my attention that the person responsible for this error was the only one working on this big event. I no longer believe that she deserves to lose her job, and I no longer believe she deserves 100% of the blame for this incident. I believe my school's upper administration deserves some, if not most of the blame for this error for it's poor coordination in preparing a team for the event in question.
Signed,
Lilium_Snow (Primrose)
diff --git a/posts/post-12/index.html b/posts/post-12/index.html index 2353d5c..7664856 100644 --- a/posts/post-12/index.html +++ b/posts/post-12/index.html @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@I hate ISP provided routers with a passion. They're always locked down, bloated, and always allow the ISP to remote into my fucking gateway. I know that this is mainly for remotely assisting with any issues a customer may encounter, or for remotely upgrading firmware on the router, as my ISP does. For most people, especially residential customers, this is a very good thing. But, as someone who knows more than her fair share of networking stuff, this has become an annoying pain to deal with. What makes this worse for me is that I don't have a static IP address at home, nor do I have an option to as a residential customer, so when my ISP decides to remote into my router, upgrade it's firmware, and reboot it, I get an entirely new WAN IP address, which is a pain in the ass, because since I host a web server from home, it means that I have to go into my registrar's DNS configuration and update my A record, which can be really annoying once you've had to do it enough (I know that you can use things like dynamic DNS to ease this issue, but my stupid ISP router doesn't support custom dynamic DNS providers, and I don't want to use any of the ones that are pre-selected for me in the web interface). Hell, I can't even close off the ports that are used for remoting into my gateway, since the firewall is very basic and only allows for custom allow inbound rules, not deny rules. As a network administrator at home, i'm just not okay with my ISP having remote access to my gateway, arguably one of the most crucial parts of my network. I'll be rectifying this issue soon enough though, so stay tuned.
+I hate ISP provided routers with a passion. They're always locked down, bloated, and always allow the ISP to remote into my fucking gateway. I know that this is mainly for remotely assisting with any issues a customer may encounter, or for remotely upgrading firmware on the router, as my ISP does. For most people, especially residential customers, this is a very good thing. But, as someone who knows more than her fair share of networking stuff, this has become an annoying pain to deal with. What makes this worse for me is that I don't have a static IP address at home, nor do I have an option to as a residential customer, so when my ISP decides to remote into my router, upgrade it's firmware, and reboot it, I get an entirely new WAN IP address, which is a pain in the ass, because since I host a web server from home, it means that I have to go into my registrar's DNS configuration and update my A record, which can be really annoying once you've had to do it enough (I know that you can use things like dynamic DNS to ease this issue, but my stupid ISP router doesn't support custom dynamic DNS providers, and I don't want to use any of the ones that are pre-selected for me in the web interface). Hell, I can't even close off the ports that are used for remoting into my gateway, since the firewall is very basic and only allows for custom allow inbound rules, not deny rules. As a network administrator at home, i'm just not okay with my ISP having remote access to my gateway, arguably one of the most crucial parts of my network. I'll be rectifying this issue soon enough though, so stay tuned.
Signed,
Lilium_Snow (Primrose)
diff --git a/posts/post-13/index.html b/posts/post-13/index.html index 2e693a0..d54f4fe 100644 --- a/posts/post-13/index.html +++ b/posts/post-13/index.html @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@Yeah yeah, I know what you're all thinking, "BUT LILIUM_SNOW, DIDN'T YOU RANT ABOUT HOW MUCH YOU HATED CELL PHONES SIX MONTHS AGO IN POST #05?!?!?!?", but hear me out. I spent serveral months without a cell phone, and for a while, it was fine. But not having a phone number was starting to get to me. I don't have a landline, nor can I get one at this point in time. I wanted to be able to make phone calls again, and be able to have a cell phone for two factor authentication and OTP 2FA for some of the online services that I use for extra security. Overall, not having a cell phone was pretty livable for some time, but it's not realistic in this day in age. As much as I HATE cell phones, I have to admit that having one is a necessity for most people at this point in time, unfortunately. I still value privacy and freedom very much, so no, I will not be using a shitty apple iphone like I did before. I have ordered a google pixel 6a, and will be rooting it to install an operating system that respects my privacy and freedom, such as CalyxOS or GrapheneOS. There is no way in hell I am using stock android with all of its stupid google dependencies and spyware. As much as I like to throw shade at google for their shitty business practices, i'll give them credit where it's due. As far as I can see, they make really good cell phones for rooting and modifying. Unfortunately, I'll still have to deal with inherently flawed cellular technlogy giving my cellular provider the ability to triangulate my location, but i'll probably keep my cell phone at home most of the time anyway. I'll be picking up the google pixel 6a soon, so stay tuned for more I guess.
+Yeah yeah, I know what you're all thinking, "BUT LILIUM_SNOW, DIDN'T YOU RANT ABOUT HOW MUCH YOU HATED CELL PHONES SIX MONTHS AGO IN POST #05?!?!?!?", but hear me out. I spent serveral months without a cell phone, and for a while, it was fine. But not having a phone number was starting to get to me. I don't have a landline, nor can I get one at this point in time. I wanted to be able to make phone calls again, and be able to have a cell phone for two factor authentication and OTP 2FA for some of the online services that I use for extra security. Overall, not having a cell phone was pretty livable for some time, but it's not realistic in this day in age. As much as I HATE cell phones, I have to admit that having one is a necessity for most people at this point in time, unfortunately. I still value privacy and freedom very much, so no, I will not be using a shitty apple iphone like I did before. I have ordered a google pixel 6a, and will be rooting it to install an operating system that respects my privacy and freedom, such as CalyxOS or GrapheneOS. There is no way in hell I am using stock android with all of its stupid google dependencies and spyware. As much as I like to throw shade at google for their shitty business practices, i'll give them credit where it's due. As far as I can see, they make really good cell phones for rooting and modifying. Unfortunately, I'll still have to deal with inherently flawed cellular technlogy giving my cellular provider the ability to triangulate my location, but i'll probably keep my cell phone at home most of the time anyway. I'll be picking up the google pixel 6a soon, so stay tuned for more I guess.
Signed,
Lilium_Snow (Primrose)