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LoRa is essentially an SMS-based CB Radio for nerds. Saved you the read.

Sometimes, you gotta get out. Touch grass. Walk around downtown. Hang out at your local coffeehouse while hipsters come up to you asking for money. Offer them your still-wrapped chocolate muffins if they publicly state that the B-52s are and always will be a terrible band, only for the profanities to fly as they storm out of the shop in a fit of rage. When in reality, they could've just complied, eaten the muffin, and resended his statement. But during all this, I've gotten into a cheap electronic hobby of LoRa, which is low (as in 900-915Mhz in the States) frequency radio hunting. For those who aren't feeling like getting into my diatribes. It's like a cross between Citizen-Band Radio mixed with instant messaging. Oh, and you can encrypt your messages, which somehow scares the shit out of universities, as it could promote "Anarchy" or some bullshit like that. Saved you a fuckload of time. Read on to continue downward the spiral.

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The little browser is back.

Although they are now on version 3.2.0, Version 3.1.0 of Dillo was brought back to life by a developer by the name of Rodrigo Arias Mallo in 2024, with the first release adding SSL support to this browser. Dillo was born in 1999, which is right at the Dot-com explosion of browsers and ways for people to access the internet. Dillo was ultra-lightweight and had minimalistic features that, at the time, were not required on the internet. In fact, back when we were playing with Red Hat Linux. Dillo was included in distros because we were loading it on old machines, like a 486, as an example. And for as limited as that may be to launch a browser on a 25MHz CPU. Dillo responded very well back in its day.

Want to check it out yourself? The actual website is here at https://dillo-browser.github.io/ . Would you like to know more?

Read onwards into the downward spiral!

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No, not dead.

For starters. Happy New Year out there. We didn't do anything extravagant like go to a garage filled with video games or go to Illinois to visit a group of people that resent me. Nah! We just stayed home and played a little bit of System Shock. Be told how we're terrible people by a fictional AI named "Shodan". The article was originally supposed to come out in October but kinda stopped mid-writing on this.

I'd find a picture with Lesbians holding Guns. But we think us just saying it is enough to freak out the AI content filters. Beyond this, a lot of background work has been happening throughout my site. For starters:

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We're unsure how we feel about the name "PINEcil." But sure let's review this!

This is for readers who want the TLDR version. It's a nice portable soldering iron, and so far, there have been no complaints. We'll update you as we use it.

Would you like to know more? Read onwards for my half-baked review!

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We may be a bit late to the party.

But we decided to investigate OpenNIC which appeared on Webrings early when I joined some of them in 2022. What is OpenNIC you ask? Well, regular top-level domain (TLD) names such as .COM/.NET/.ORG used to be run by the US government but eventually, ICANN took over. OpenNIC gives people the possibility of running their top-level domain and access to people wanting to get domains within those top-level domains. It's like a training/sandbox ground for people who want to try their hand at running a top-level domain without spending a shit-ton of money to go through the bureaucratic process of introducing it officially.

We have enough in our lives to NOT want to run a top-level domain. But out of interest in blogging about technology and USING that technology. I did make myself a domain on one of the primary openNIC TLDs.

HTTP://www.s-config.geek

Kindly note the link WILL NOT WORK work unless you use an OpenNIC DNS server which we will explain later in this article.

We feel like this is a good space to learn/understand how DNS works. But don't think it's really going to go much further than that.

Would you like to know more? Read on!

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If Google de-lists you. Why continue to 'Think' with Google?

First, there was Google's parent project which purchased "YouTube". This brought forth the word "Demonetization." Which was effectively telling content creators to play nice or else they make no money. Now, Google uses the "Don't be evil" Motto their developers once had and print it on the toilet paper in each bathroom stall. Alphabet/Google is not a search company anymore. They are an advertisement company (remember AOL? They were just an advertisement company too!).

This becomes more and more relevant as Google AI is deployed keeping you on the search engine instead of investigating the website itself. Or having calculative tools on Google's site instead of going to the person that made the calculator such as "millimeters to inches" as just one example. Or worse, having a Google side-project known as AMP just straight up content steal your entire site and stores it on one of their content distributed networks (CDN for short.) The next wave will affect the searchability of your favorite websites. Which is "de-listing" webmasters of low priority and content quality. Because either you're not important enough or you're not marketable enough. Or simply put. Google is panicking because the AI they used on others to perfect their search engine is being used on them by turning content into an endless array of smoke and mirrors.

Read on if you want to know more.

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Hanneke Faber, CEO of Logitech wants to sell YOU a "Forever Mouse" that YOU pay... Forever!

This whole process reminded us of another concept that the crypto-bros came up with "Unstoppable-Domains" in which MayVaneDay covered this article exceptionally well. But that's not the same as "Forever" you ask? Well! there are forever domains too! Which is the same scam as Unstoppable. So, there you go!

For the TLDR crowd - Logitech wants to switch to a subscription model for their Drivers. And the reality is NOTHING is forever! Forever violates the laws of life itself. We are self-aware of this so why isn't Logitech? One day this site will be obliterated to ash. After our biological death, the servers will run out of funds and the VPS and DNS will datarot and 404 itself into the sunset. Even our beloved archival services will be attacked by politics or greed and those libraries of Alexandria will burn as well. Then hundreds of years later the next generations of humanity will look upon us as arrogant violent apes laughing at us and then in turn doing the same process all over. Prove us wrong Humanity!

If we interviewed Hanneke Faber, we're pretty darn sure she would walk out or disconnect after 5-10 minutes. Tops.

Read on if you wish to hear more of my diatribes!

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We were born into this.

As we say this, putting on our best English-men Bane impression from Batman.  To us dark-mode was a statement hearkening back to the year-2000 style hacker sites serving as a warning. Simply put, don't trust the internet. Don't trust this site, and especially don't trust any company sites that want their hand out for money.

Like Malwarebytes. A website that profits off of humanities unwillingness to educate themselves. But in this example of a banner ad; For a person who got 'schooled' by hackers in a phishing scheme. Karen over there sure is smiling! We think that this is less of a software issue and more of a management issue. Maybe Karen is "only human" for committing industrial espionage, perhaps? Perhaps Karen realized how much of a group of souless monsters she works for. So when someone called claiming to be Microsoft tech support, she said the following:

No problem. In fact, can you hold for a second? I think I can you the CEOs password he puts underneath his keyboard. Oh no! It's not a problem for me! Afterall if he followed the security protocols his IT department told him repeativly then I shouldn't find it right? Right!  Your Microsoft tech support. You should know this anyways.. Hold on... Ahh! Yes, it's "123456" Yup, he totally pulled a spaceballs on this one. - Karen"

And then she posed like this at your cubicle. Waiting for the reign of terror to fall all around her. Her schooling is certainly paying off now! Who's the monster NOW, Karen?!?!?

But we're falling a little off track. There's apparently another statement about going 'dark' on your website. That it apparently is environmentally friendly.

Read on if you want to know more.

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