Over at IM-1776, there's a post on stepping back from more immediate media [https://im1776.com/2022/01/07/return-to-the-text/] such as video, sound, and even photos, to provide some distance, to make it more difficult to be swayed by false rhetoric and propaganda. > Not only has digital technology accelerated the dissemination of news events, it has allowed higher fidelity in their transmission, achieving a realism that was lacking in the twentieth century. For these reasons, modern news cover…
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(see the updates below) I was watching the Rittenhouse trial. For those interested in commentary on the trial, I recommend you read Branca's summaries at Legal Insurrection [https://legalinsurrection.com/], look at the summaries at Viva Frei's youtube channel [https://www.youtube.com/c/VivaFrei], or, if you want all of the insight and commentary, the epic streams at Rekeita's channel [https://www.youtube.com/c/RekietaLaw/videos]. Instead, I want to point out something I think was overlooked o…
I haven't delved deep enough into the channel to recommend the entirety on the whole, but both of these videos are worth your while. The first is an in-depth look about how the most basic of fuel feed systems, the carburetor, works, complete with high speed photography. One interesting note - the throttle plastic starts to flex under the force of the gas flow. At first it's thought it may be the plastic breaking down due to contact with the gasoline (in my childhood I'd made the mistake of p…
In Part 1 I covered the basic setup to get foundry running [https://thelastredoubt.com/how-to-host-foundry/] on your own server running Ubuntu. Now, don't get me wrong. A lot of people just won't want to mess with stuff like this, or won't have/want to start a private server up. I get it. For a few bucks a month you can pay the guys at Forge [https://forge-vtt.com], punch in your license code to foundry, and get a feature set far better than Roll 20 for a lot less, in the long run, without hav…
Over at MoTW, The Didact posts some good and solid information on getting yourself protected and unplugged from as much constant monitoring by Big Tech as possible [https://www.menofthewest.net/cancelling-cancel-culture/]. It's a good start. A few notes to add once you've processed all of that. One, VPNs. I won't knock Surfshark - I haven't used it, and it seems to hold up OK review-wise. I've leaned more on NordVPN, and am seriously eyeing ProtonVPN [https://protonvpn.com] by the same guys…