Last 50 days from the notes.
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09:27:00 +07:00 Two noticeable trends from food vendors this morning. Maniacle evil laughter from both women and men. Women vendors denying me buying food, only for a man vendor to jump in and sell me said food. Just another day in weirdland. There's always something that I'm being blamed for, every single day, a new thing that I've supposedly done wrong.
Whenever I trace it back, the escallations usually turn out to have been for something they did to me. #
18:42:00 +07:00 Feels like today has been a reasonably productive day as far as writing goes. A few links, some blog posts, and now a note :)
I've also listenned to a few interesting bitcoin podcasts, though I did have to have a mid morning nap because I didn't get that much sleep last night. #
05:26:00 +07:00 I saw a bloke a couple of days ago who had mounted a big speaker on the back of his motorbike. Microphone in hand, he was driving around seranading everyone with his singing. I'm guessing where he lives the people don't like him practicing so this was his compromise solution. You see some weird things here sometimes. #
06:58:00 +07:00 Things are shaping up to be rather dire here. I’m not sure the world is going to allow me to finish my interleaved homepage feature. It’s the same old story. It happens almost everytime I am nearly finished a major feature. Suddenly everything becomes super difficult. Things that you thought couldn’t possibly get worse, get even worse. It’s like clockwork.
Well it’s happening again, so I'm noting it here. #
16:48:00 +07:00 Dave Rupert: "People don’t know. […] Everyone’s too busy to care. You have to constantly be sharing the cool things about your thing. Your blog, your framework, your whatever. Keep advocating for the things you like […] If you like something you should talk about it. Then other people will know about it. And then it will get picked up." Shop Talk Show Ep#611. #
17:44:00 +07:00 Nat Friedman - previously CEO at Github: "AI helps with activation energy and momentum, getting started, the blank slate problem. Projects are easier to get started on." Techmeme Ride Home Podcast. #
22:00:00 +07:00 Gosh the world sure has been on an epic war path the past few days. Every location I've been to, it's pretty much the same tired old story, where I end up being blamed for everything. On the plus side I discovered I had an infinite peace flag!
It's really just an old towel. But get this, the old towel infinite peace flag beats infinite murder flag!
When all is said and done, and you've murdered the entire universe, you are still going to get beat by the infinite peace flag.
That cheered me up a bit, even if I'm tired, hungry and thirsty. #
21:40:00 +07:00 Strange day of synchronicities. The number 2 is trending bigtime. Both things that double and things that 1/2. There was a moment earlier this evening when in the space of a few minutes there was a flurry of dopplegangers and main characters all turning up one after the other. Just wanted to make a note of that here.
Several linked incidents again at food places today. One place at lunch time they took my money and tried to give the food to a short man in a white shirt. Btw, the last cold I got happened after another incident with a bloke in a white shirt at the same food place. Anyway this time, the way I reacted, motioning to give me my food was then replicated in two other places in retaliation. It's the same old tricks, they blame you for the thing they do to you, then punish you for speaking out.
The thing is, if you say nothing, they also punish you. That happened to me the day before. Either way you get blamed and mutilated.
It's difficult to describe this stuff. It's for sure co-ordinated. The later places made references to the previous incidents.
Just another day of intimidation in plain sight. Likely, based on past experience, starvation and thirsting will follow, with food and water goading, and sleep depravation. #
22:00:00 +07:00 Mysterious truck convention - The latest trend is for large trucks, smaller trailers, and even huge 16 wheelers to park directly on front of where I'm sitting. I can't tell you how unusual this is. It's been happening for about a week. The drivers often make comments directed at me. #
22:15:00 +07:00 Nose fully blocked, both nostrils ;(
Still coughing quite a lot, with flem, worse in the evenings and during the night. Right side og body still painful. More painful again in the evenings. #
10:49:00 +07:00 Bitcoin === Eurodollar?. On a recent WBD episode Danny points out that governments could potentially firk Bitcoin to create their own CBDC.It would be idential to Bitcoin except for they would control issuance, so actual Bitcoin, not controlled by any government would still be better.
It occured to me how similar this was to the current fiat systems. They are basically fiat + eurodollar. Which feels similar at least in shape to CBDC Bitcoin + OG Bitcoin. #
11:06:00 +07:00 Disapearing things. It's been a couple of weeks of things I own disapearing under mysterious circumstances. First there was my sun hat, which vanished the day after I was gifted some cakes, some toothpaste and bizarely, an old damaged baseball hat. Next was my travel coffee cup. And earlier today I noticed that 1/2 of my nail clipper has gone walk about, from a very innaccessible place in my backpack.
I very rarely have stuff like this happen to me, I'm mostly very careful with my belongings. The one thread that connects all these items is how essential they are. Without the hat, I get sunburnt when walking, that's already happened. Without the cup, a plastic recepticle with a screw on lid, I don't have any way to prepare instant noodle soup. That's a big deal, making handling starvation periods even harder than they already are. And of course without nail clippers your hands don't look presentable for very long. Did I mention there was an incident in the past few days involving a person that had very long nails? What are the chances?
It's all very unusual. The world in each case, arranged itself in very bizare and contorted configurations. I just wanted to note it here. Hopefully the nail clippers will be the last of it. #
14:39:00 +07:00 Feeling very rushed today. The world is constantly trying to swap the start with the end, at exactly the wrong moment. Not much you can do. It's like the weather. Doesn't matter what you do you'll end up at loggerheads with the world on days like today.
Ya....Woah Hurry up....blocked Up....lie Anything....oh look the thing's opposite Do this....no do that! Again and again and again It's a collection of race conditions, a traffic jam of sorts
Just another maximum cloud. Everyone can see their own maximum cloud, some don’t take notice of it though, and it’s not so easy to see other people’s maximum clouds.
It's like the system has finished all it's calculations or something and is folding back on itself. And of course it's a fractal.
It’s the weather looking at the weather, but we are the weather!
All this to say, probably not going to write much today. Help I'm being narrated again! #
08:36:00 +07:00 Okays are trending. I noticed all day yesterday that everywhere I went, there was a big trend in people saying 'Ok' whenever I responded to some harrassment. It was really noticeable. But it was also evident that there was a lot of people creating-the-problems-they-complain-about, since in order to say this they first had to provoke me.
Seems to be related to the Ok Boomer escallation. #
09:04:00 +07:00 It's kind of wild that the EU fines that are being impossed on Apple are so big that there is talk that they might just leave the EU. Apparently the EU only represents 7% of total Apple revenue and the fines are more than 7%. Apple is a business after all, at some point if it's not profitable then that's what would happen.
It would create a lot of opportunity for european startups, but brings back memories of people having to smuggle in jeans to the Soviet Union.
Perhaps the EU is being a bit too self important here? #
09:14:00 +07:00 There is a lot of talk that the EU has effectively excluded itself from the AI boom because of excessive regulation. #
10:01:00 +07:00 People that say 'you learn' when other people realise that they have stolen their stuff does not in fact make everything OK.
You can't be a thief and just pretend to be a teacher when you get caught. But this happens. Whether it's the truth or not, it's a terrible alibi.
Stealing stuff in the name of teaching someone is still stealing. #
10:55:00 +07:00 Yesterday evening in the middle of all the driveby gang stalking harrassnent, there was one that stood out:
"Ok animal!"
I guess it was a reference to my use of the term 'Ok boomer' yesterday. Well IMO that's very much a false equivalence. Ok animal is by definition literally dehumanizing, it says 'you are not even human', Ok boomer, though a bit of an insult, refers the official name for a particular generation cohort. Am I now to reprimand people for using the term Gen X?
Weird thing is that it was from a person of young adult age.
Anyway, it's just another example of the world having one set of rules for me, abd a totally different set of rules for everyone else. Everything I say is wrong. I cannot even.
Also a reminder that anyone can read your blog / RSS feed, even millenial motorbike gang stalkers.
BTW, millenials you have no idea how difficult it has been with the Boomers. #
12:28:00 +07:00 Alan Moor via Jason Louve: "Young men used to go to sea when they wanted to get away from their family, go for adventure, make something of themselves in the big wide world. Now they try to become famous." #
06:17:00 +07:00 The component overrides bug that I tracked down and fixed yesterday was a real tricky one. Glad I got that one fixed amidst all the head winds the world was throwing in my direction. Why are you so conflicted world? Why are you on the war path yet again? #
06:28:00 +07:00 One thing I've noticed recently is that some of the biggest Trump critics online are in fact very Trump-like themselves. They might have completely different political views, but their behaviour, outside of their righteous political commentary, is almost a carbon copy of Trump's playbook. I wonder do they realise? Serious question.
Perhaps it's just a high performer boomer thing. Ok boomer, let's move on.
Update: Just to be clear, I'm not making commentary on my politics, only an observation about people's behaviour. #
13:54:00 +07:00 I've updated several notes from the past week updating them to blog posts. I'm still trying to get the balance between notes and blog posts right. I want notes to be small enough they can be posted to social medias. I also want a bunch of days that have vaguely the right balance to test the interleaved homepage feature that I've been working on recently. #
14:21:00 +07:00 Something else that's super weird that keeps happening, and this one has been happening for years, but I only just thought of a good name for it. It's the end of task yah. You are busy doing something important and you finally finish whatever it is, and low and behold, a seemingly random 'Ya' materialises from your environment. I don't know how, I've got a pretty solid idea of why it happens, but I do know that it's a thing. Happens so often.
The plot thickens. The even stranger thing is that whenever it happens 99% of the time I was literally about to get out of whatever hamster wheel I find myself in. And get this, it seems to happen more when the task st hand is painful. Come on world, it's pretty obvious what you are up to here. #
19:13:00 +07:00 Two things that are extremely correlated with periods when they are starving and thirsting you are cigarettes and sexual harrasment incidents.
For the former, suddenly a huge uptick in people offering you cigarettes, or smoking right up in your face, or empty cigarette packets left everywhere you go. For the later, the massive uptick happens from both men and women, usually as a way to anger goad you. Often from men and women operating together. Also massive uptick in number of random people saying 'lie' as they walk past. Whatever do they mean?
I don't know how, only that it happens, like clockwork. #
19:41:00 +07:00 People often say Bitcoin is money for enemies. It's meant to bring to the for that it's for everyone. Well it's worth remembering that RSS is information for enemies. Hardly anyone, actually no one, said this back in the early web years, but it's worth remembering. YMMV.
You kind of just have to hope that everyone is not a veloceraptor. #
19:31:00 +07:00 Health issues suck bigtime. They seem to happen constantly here. The runny nose and sneezing I had a few days ago turned into a full on cold. The sneezing stoped yesterday, but my nose has been totally blocked with thick mucus all day. All the skin around my nose has lost it's moisture and is pealing. It's not much fun.
One thing I noticed during the previous lung infection illness was that a lot of my smelling ability returned. I'd lost much of my sense of smell a few years back after using an inhaler. Suddenly my sense of smell returned and was almost bionic. But it was bitter sweet because it was making me throwup a lot during the lung infection. I'd notice some very specific and often subtle smell and it would set me off coughing.
Now that my nose is again blocked, I can't smell anything again. I hope I haven't lost my sense of smell again. #
20:21:00 +07:00 Recently I've noticed that help from people tends to be a bit like complex numbers. There's a nice part and a malicious part. At times it all seems malicious. Is this how we want our societies to be?
Are you so certain that you will never need help again? #
09:25:00 +07:00 I'm busy updating the test suites for all my static site generator's plugins. It's to try and dig myself out of a hole at least partially caused by being blocked tidying up the code. The very thing I was worried about happening, which was the reason I was tidying up the code, actually happened when the world blocked me from tidying up the code! #
22:06:00 +07:00 I'm finding that very humid environments make my lungs worse. More coughing. Also air polution. People keep banging on about masks, and seemingly everyone wears them, especially here in HCMC. But imho they don't work!
They don't filter the air very well, because the poluted air just goes around the sides of the mask. So you inhale it anyway. And ontop of that, the air on the inside of the mask is hugely humid, because obviously the air that comes from your body is full of water vapour.
Isn't this mask theatre really just a dangerous way to avoid the air polution problem? #
06:10:00 +07:00 Another night of sleep depravation, it's the 3rd night in a row. This time it was a gang that setup a round table nearby from around 230am until 430am. Very roundy and loud. It's the second time they've done this, once again right after a day of escallations.
It's clearly part of a retaliation campaign by the folks that tried to force me to sleep in wet clothes and blanket. They are literally trying to make me ill again. Last night before the gang appeared, they sprayed water everywhere around near where I was, which made the air really damp and humid for the whole night. That caused my lungs to get sensitive, and I woke up coughing loads of flem.
Once again the world attempts to block me from getting well and actively trying to make me ill again. They are all on the war path, blaming me for a situation they caused in the first place.
Right after the sleep depravation gang left, a motorbike with 2 girls stopped and they offered me a bag full of food that would be impossible to eat because I have no hot water, a few sweats, and of course milk. This is classic war path tactics. Create a situation, ie the sleep depravation, then follow it up with anger goading malicious help. This has happened so many times I've lost count.
What will happen next? Likely more escallations everywhere I go, I'll get the blame, and I'll end up in some way mutilated, then starved and thirsted. #
12:29:00 +07:00 A statement made recently by chinese foreign minister Wong Yi refering to the US' unfair knee caping with trade restrictions struck a chord with me.
The minister said the situation was "reaching bewildering levels of unfathomable absurdity".
This is in some way similar to how I feel trapped here in Vietnam every single day. #
12:39:00 +07:00 I enjoyed listening to the recent Lex Fridman interview with Mark Cuban. Really interesting early internet entrepreueur and personality. Two things he said that I think are worth noting:
Worth listening to the whole episode, he has a load of pretty fascinating stories about the early internet. #
05:57:00 +07:00 Malicious easter help - I got gifted some dinner last night. It was a hot microwaved meal from a nearby shop. I accepted, said thanks. Ate the meal and it tasted fine. However I woke up in the middle of the night with a terrible sore throat, voice all f-ed up, it's still not right this morning.
During the night motorbike gang stalkers doing various drive-bys. One was a weedy looking bloke waving his little finger at me, in what looked like a reference to Austin Powers character Dr. Evil.
Once again the world not only won't let me get well, but is actively trying to make me sick again. The very same thing happened a few days ago. That time I found a way around the blockage. This time they poisonned me, presumaby in retaliation for escaping their previous trap.
Blaming me for the problems they caused in the first place, then mutilation me for the thing they did to me. This stuff never ends. As soon as it does, they get on the war path again and create another issue that they blame on me, and it starts all over again, wave after wave of bullying, eventually escallating to mutilation. All the while they become more and more righteous, more and more certain that everything in the entire multiverse is my fault.
Earlier in the day they put a giant pink motorbike, a sort of Harley, that had the word Victory in huge letters along the side, prominently parked on the path I was walking.. Remember they've been pink bullying me since they gifted me a black bag that has the word pink in massive letters on 3 of the 4 sides of the bag.
What a coincidence that this should all happen on Easter Sunday, probably the most important Christian festival of the year. It never ends. #
06:24:00 +07:00 Targeted goading - The gang stalkers favorite thing this morning is to goad me shouting 'lie' as they drive past, when I'm just minding my own business, not saying anything. All the poisoning thing happened hours ago, but they keep trying to dig up old graves.
It's typical war path behaviour, like when they wake you up just to tell you to go back to sleep again, or when they are starving you and they shout 'allow' as they drive past laughing like a pack of hyenas. #
06:34:00 +07:00 Ankles - Ankles are still swollen, a bit worse than yesterday. All the walking I'm having to do and standing for internet access isn't helping. #
11:43:00 +07:00 Bitcoin Mechanic (16:04): "If it’s valid, and what you are doing is appealing to a miner, because they are not slaves, they will put into the chain what they feel like putting into the chain. That’s why transaction fees exist. They don’t have to put anything in." #
11:45:00 +07:00 Bitcoin Mechanic (43:35): "Miners should be the ones constructing block templates, […], for the deeper purpose of decentralising that horribly centralised part of Bitcoin. Right now you have a dozen entities in the world that say what can get in the blockchain […]. That’s not censorship resistance.". #
11:47:00 +07:00 IMO, It’s weird that Bitcoin miners get to choose which transactions to include, but they look for signal from network nodes about what to include, especially since they can’t verify if they are getting paid properly by the mining pools, and since it's in everyone's interest to pay them as little as possible, aren’t they bound to get exploited? #
13:07:00 +07:00 Bitcoin Mechanic (2:12:00): "Most people aren't aware that their nodes filter out concensus valid transactions all the time [...]. You have to learn how your node works, and what that is, is very different to a government saying don't include coin joins or transactions that originate from iranian bitcoin exchanges." #
08:52:00 +07:00 Happy Easter - Best wishes to all for the Easter weekend :) #
09:17:00 +07:00 Eat chocolate - I heard on the latest All-In podcast that the price of the commodity cocoa has gone through the roof recently because some of the main supplier countries have had a particularly bad harvest this year. Analysts are saying this will affect the price of chocolate starting in a few weeks, and / or the size of chocolate products. Could be a good time to either stock up the freezer and eat as many chocolate easter eggs as possible. #
17:23:00 +07:00 Interleaved main page take 2 - Since I was blocked on the plugins tidy up on my static site generator development, I took another look at the previous feature I was working on. That feature is the interleaved main page, which would display all post types, blog, notes, links etc interleaved by day. This would take the place of the current latest page. I think it will be awesome.
I think I've found a much simpler way of implementing the feature. One of the reasons for the tidy up was to try and simplify things. So anyway I've made a start at getting it implemented and it's going quite well, no major show stoppers so far. Hoping to have something operational this week. #
19:27:00 +07:00 Email paradigms are trending - Just finished listening to latest Citadel Dispatch discussion all about Nostr development. They spent nearly the entire time talking about email based paradigms. I fell asleep about a quarter of the way through, when I woke up, they were still talking about inboxes and outboxes. I honestly can't tell if it's a massive piss take or not. Email paradigms seem to be trending at the minute. #
21:00:00 +07:00 Illness update - Still feeling mostly okay. No coughing, no flem, though slight strange taste in my mouth. So that's encouraging. However, ankles are still swollen despite two days of applying anti-inflamatory cream.
The other weird thing is that earlier as I got back to were I am now, about 30 metres down the road, there was a pile of seemingly random business papers thrown about the place. A4 sheets of paper, folders etc. As I passed I noticed that there was a big pile of xrays. Actual medical xrays. All the xrays were of pairs of lungs.
What the fuck is that about? Intimidation much?
This was after a day full of escallations everywhere I went, including being blocked from drying clothes and sleeping blanket.
Had I not found a way around that blockage, I quite literally would have had to sleep in wet clothes and under an actual wet blancket. This while I'm trying to recover from actual suspected pneumonia. Once again, the world is not only blocking me from getting well, but actively trying to make me ill again.
And guess what, I was later punished for getting around the blockage. Punished for saving my own life. #
07:37:00 +07:00 Big tech blocks smaller companies - One of the things that is very different during the AI revolution we are in is that the big companies are being as nimble as historically the smaller upstarts have been.
This means for the first time ever, it's not obvious that the ecosystem will turn over. Smaller companies might never again become bigger players, and the big players will always be at the top. Much of the innovation is coming frlm the big players. That's a new dynamic and quite clearly could have terrible concequences for diversity throughout society.
Do we need to redesign how all these institutions interact so the ecosystem remains healthy?
If bitcoin was designed as the business system is stuctured, 4-5 people would do all the transactions in the entire world. #
14:28:00 +07:00 Swollen ankles - The strange thing about my ankles swelling again is that after the initial round of antibiotics that I did, they didn't swell up after I stopped taking the medication. After this round of antibiotics, they started to swell up the day after finishing the course. I find that strange. #
12:16:00 +07:00 What would bitcoiners do? - With all the regulatory issues Apple is up against about it's software it's worth considering what development methodologies we want people to use. Is it still ok to build software that's good enough, or does everything have to be solved from first principles now?
What would an app store built by bitcoiners look like? What would it's layer 0 look like? #
22:22:00 +07:00 Illness update - I'm still feeling relatively okay this evening. This morning I did wake up early and coughed up a small bit of flem, but the rest of the day no couging or flem, lungs feel mostly normal.
So that's all great, almost 3 days since I finished the antibiotics and I can't feel any symptoms returning. Or at least direct symptoms. One thing I have noticed since I stopped the antibiotics both my ankles have swollen up slighlty.
That's worrying because when I was ill, the ankles got very swollen, to the point where it was difficult to walk. I had a theory it was due to liquid from the lungs accumulating in the ankles, but my lungs don't feel like they are full of anything. Like I said, they feel okay.
Maybe it's a side effect of the antibiotics and it will pass. Or perhaps it's just related to activity. I did quite a lot of walking today.
Anyway that's the update. Feeling alright but worried I'm not out of the woods yet. #
22:49:00 +07:00 Masks are dumb - I imagine this will be unpopular but anyway needs to be said. There's nothing like a lung infection, and 3 months of flem vomming, to make you paranoid about air quality. So I bought one of these specialist disposable masks that everyone is wearing. One of the tight fit ones. Until now I had a cloth mask that I washed.
Well one thing that was immediately obvious was how innefective the mask actually is. It only really works if you press it down at the top of your nose. Otherwise when you inhale, 90% of the air just comes in around the side of the mask. So you end up inhaling the anbient air anyway. It's dumb.
I don't get it. Why is everyone wearing these stupid masks if they don't filter the air? #
07:00:00 +07:00 Apple has been facing off against EU regulators recently. One of their complaints was about how Apple treats super apps. If you take the idea of mobile super apps to the extreme, don't super apps eventually become app stores?
At what point then does the OG app store require the app to actually become an app store? #
18:53:00 +07:00 Glassy food and bad water - I finished the second lot of antibiotics for my lung infection Monday morning. I'm feeling mostly quite good today, not much coughing, hardly any flem. Hopefully it will last this time and I'll be well again.
The world continues to make things difficult. Found small glass pieces in my breakfast this morning. Examined the pieces using a magnifying glass, and managed to crack the small piece into two but I had to use a metal cup. It was definitely glass. This evening a large bottle of water I bought in a shop, which was sealed and looked totally new, contained water that tasted very strange.
It's been attempted escallations everywhere I've gone today too. Everyone is on the war path. I've managed to walk around all these without reacting, giving them a wide birth and plenty of space.
Hey world, come on, allow me to get well. #
15:26:00 +07:00 There are efforts to get Linux running on Apple silicon chips. They seem to be successful. I wonder if there are any efforts to get Android running on iPhones? #
10:32:00 +07:00 Medical info wikipedia - One thing that's become apparent to me while being ill, is that getting medical information online, especially relating to medication, is a total shitshow at the minute. Try and search for a specific medication and you enter a dark world of popups, preditory advertising, and blatant misinformation. Even if you try to read scientific papers, you end up down a never ending rabbit hole. It's the last thing you are able to deal with when you actually are ill.
We need a common resource for humanity, non-profit, for medical info. You should be able to easily find illness symptons, medication descriptions. It should be easy to compare different medications. The current leave it to the open market, quite clearly does not work. #
10:43:00 +07:00 Nvidia's modern platform play - Nvidia is everywhere at the minute. Not only are they killing it in hardware, they have released a load of cloud based software. Each one very unique, tailored to future tech like AI and also spacial computing. Their spacial computing offering even includes a world wide streaming delivery network that will enable companies to stream 3D content directly to Vision Pro devices.
Their example is a digital twin car configurator. Pretty cool, but one wonders how many other 3D applications currently rendered to 2D screens will want to move to spacial computing environments.
As I wrote about last year, a lot of science and engineering companies might be interested. #
06:22:00 +07:00 Illness is back - I've mentioned this on Twitter already, but not here yet. The illness that I had since the beginning of the year. It had looked like the antibiotics I took had cleared it up, but that only lasted 2 weeks or so. I am most definitely ill again, coughing up loads of flem, pain in my right lung, flem vomming too. It's so horrible.
I got some more antibiotics. They are supposedly better than the previous antibiotics. Different brand, based on different chemistry, suppsedly is able to kill more types of bacteria, which is what we suspect has infected my lung. These ones are 10x more expensive. I took the first one last night, this morning it doesn't appear to have had any effect. In fact if anything, it's gotten worse.
Please world, work with me on this, so that I can get well again. #
11:18:00 +07:00 VMs for mobile - With all this worry about Tik Tok and what access apps have on mobile devices, doesn't it make sense to develop some form of VM for mobiles? That way you can have trusted apps on the base phone OS, and put all those 'dangerous' but fun social networking apps on a VM that you can switch to. This would be a feature I think many business executives and high net worth individuals would be very interested in.
At the very least there should be much better logging. You should be able to see exactly what data is being accessed and sent over the network. #
11:27:00 +07:00 Computer nerd humour - "Ligging". Darn it, not again, stupid auto-correct. #
15:10:00 +07:00 From an earlier blog post: "How can sending, receiving and storing money be so fucking complicated? It's literally 3 fucking features y'all. WTF crypto?"
I also mentioned in this week's newsletter that Bitcoin development reminded me of a collection of hodge podge ActivityPub protocols, that no longer fit the use case. Ironically email, I think we can all agree, has pretty much mastered send/receive/store.
In case you aren't aware ActivityPub uses an email style paradigm, with an inbox and outbox. I'm not sure what this all means apart from perhaps my analogy was a bit off I guess.
I'm wondering now if ActivityPub could be built on top of the AT protocol. Maybe email done right is actually quite involved. #
07:42:00 +07:00 Nifty npm scripts - Apparently the static site generator Jakyll has an npm post install script that automatically sets up a Github Action workflow that gives you the ability to publish your site to Github Pages. That's pretty cool. #
16:41:00 +07:00 Navigating around blockages - I've been having a terrible time doing a much needed consolidation of all my static site generator's plugins. There's some sort of bug in the Github Action library that I wanted to use to figure out if files have been modified in a specific repository folder. Necessary so I can trigger a build and deploy a plugin when I change something.
Well I think I've found another way to do the same thing. Hoping to get something working this week. It will be great to have things tidy. Sometimes it's worth slowing down so you can go faster later. #
14:11:00 +07:00 Micropayments for humans - I wrote a few days ago about an easy way to make a crypto wallet discoverable on personal websites. The use case I had in mind was AI visitors to a website. AI tools that browse and synthesize information from websites is becoming insanely popular recently. They are great but they break the web. Content creators essentially get cut completly out of the loop, so they no longer have any incentive to create content. Eventually thus there will be no human content creators online. Auto-discoverable cryptp wallets for websites could be part of a solution.
Auto-discoverable wallets could also be used for human website visitors. For example a human visitor might consume some content they like while visiting a website, and if their browser had a built in crypto wallet, theoretically they could then send a micro payment to the website in a single click. No setup required, even if they had never visited that particular website before.
There's already a protocol for it, though it doesn't appear to be very well used. I think something light-weight like this would ve very useful, both for AI and human website visitors. #
06:59:00 +07:00 Chris Dixon: - "NFTs are atomic units of ownership. A very abstract concept. They are a form of what in computer science is called encapsulation". #
07:07:00 +07:00 Websites still rule - Nilay Patel on why building your own websites still rules. #
07:29:00 +07:00 Git based blogging - One of the cool things about basing your blogging platform on git is that you can blog even when offline. I'm still battling illness, my ankles are still intermitently swelling up, which means I can't walk anywhere, including to the place where I get an internet connection, and I'm still coughing up lots of flem. But I can continue to write posts.
I create a feature branch for each day, and I add posts, notes, links etc throughout the day. In normal times the branch would automatically get merged into the main branch and the site would get rebuilt at midnight. But if I'm not able to get online for whatever reason, then I just create the next day's feature branch, merge the previous day's content on my local device. The next time I do manage to get online, all the content I wrote while offline will get published.
Okay sure it's a little jaring that a load of content appears on the site all at once in those situations, but it's still all dated correctly, with the date and time I wrote it. The point is that I can continue blogging pretty much as normal, even when I'm not able to get online.
Git is an awesome tool. Yes there's a bit of a learning curve, but for writing you only really need to learn a few features, and the workflow ends up being quite simple once you have done it a few times. And you then get the benefits of everything being version controlled. #
07:53:00 +07:00 Big infra build out done when? - We are in a very rare period of core internet infrastructure build out. The huge surge in Nvidia profits is part of this, as service providers are rushing to build out the compute necessary for the boom in AI / machine learning applications that have become runnaway successes everywhere.
I'm really curious how the infrastructure companies are estimating how much compute they will need. It's a complicated problem in normal times, but this is the age of generative AI and deep fakes. They have to lay down the infrastructure for companies that will be able to build the smartest bullshit machines ever invented.
We will probably avoid the pitfalls of the dot com crash this time, but the pitfalls in this build out seem like they could be very difficult to detect, especially when you are in the thick of it. #
08:21:00 +07:00 Website crypto wallet auto-discovery - For RSS you can add a special meta tag in the head of your web page's HTML. That can then be used by applications that read your page to auto discover the RSS feed for the page. I wonder if there is a similar standard way to define a crypto wallet associated with a website?
Such a standard could enable automatic micro payments, which in this age of AI that consume everything without a care for the creators, might be very useful. Imagine a world where, not only are creators of content rewarded for the content they are creating, but the AI could give the wallet an exact breakdown of the user query and weighted payments for all sites that were used to contruct the final answer.
There is the possibility for almost perfect transparency. #
07:46:00 +07:00 Swollen ankles - My ankles are still somewhat randomly swelling up. It can get pretty bad if I don't notice it, they can appear almost double normal size. When that happens putting on socks can get very difficult, if not impossible. I don't yet have a handle on what's causing it. It's really frustrating because it has a huge impact on my mobility. When they are swollen, I can't walk anywhere.
They definitely swell up when I walk somewhere. That much I do know. That in itself is odd, but I've also had on at least one occasion, where I didn't walk anywhere, and the next day they were swollen. It might be something simple like sitting in a position where I unknowingly put them under strain.
Whatever it is, it wasn't happening before I got ill in early January. Swollen ankles is not something I have ever had to contend with previously. I'm hoping that when the coughing / microbial infection in my respiratory system clears up, the ankles thing will disapear too.
When they do swell up, as they have done today, the only thing I can do is apply the anti-inflamation gel, put my feet up and rest. #
08:01:00 +07:00 Antibiotics - I've completed the course of antibiotics. It was 1 week. Things have cleared up considerably, but they definitely haven't cleared completely. I'm still coughing a lot, and coughing up quite a lot of flem. So I'm continuing to take the antibiotics for a few more days. Apparently taking them for more days is supposed to be fine. #
09:50:00 +07:00 Resurfacing - The last few days I've finally started feeling well enough to contemplate posting again. I've basically been completely incapacitated all of February, though I was ill most of January too. I just couldn't even think about writing or posting. Anyway, let's see how things go.
I'm still not able to get online everyday, so these posts might appear somewhat unnexpectedly, though I'm writing them at the publish time in the frontmatter.
My ankles are still periodically swelling up. I have no idea why. When that happens I have to stop walking anywhere. I'm also still coughing up flem, but much less since I started taking the antibiotics. I occasionally still feel queezy too. Keeping food down has been a challenge too, but that's improved too.
Still dealing with the pre-illness problems, having to use the internet standing up, my water access is still a trickle, other stuff I can't think of now. But I'm alive, and I'm still posting again.
Thank you to those who have helped and been kind these past few weeks. Hoping things continue to improve :) #
10:11:00 +07:00 Participating - I don't currently have the opportunity to watch films or TV series. It's been like that for a while now. I really miss it. I find myself listening to people on podcasts talking about the stuff they are watching as a sort of proxy. Instead of watching films, I listen to people talk about watching films.
It occurred to me yesterday that my experience of social media is much the same. Since I can only get online while standing up at the minute, participating in social media is very difficult. I do post but getting into conversations is next to impossible. The current thing has always passed me by the time I circle back around to read my replies and messages.
I find that I spend much of my time listening to people on podcasts talking about using social media. This isn't the internet I imagined when I first got excited about being online.
Anyway, I'm not complaining exactly, just describing how it is at the minute. I'm super happy that at least through podcasting, I can experience things even if it's often second hand. #
16:40:00 +07:00 Still very ill - This illness just doesn't want to end. Night times are horrendous, mornings are horrible, sometimes I feel a but better in the afternoon, but it all repeats. I can hardly stomach any food, everything just tastes totally overpowering and discusting. Concequencially I've got no energy most of the time. My whole body, especially my right side is in constant pain. The medication I got has to be taken after food, but I can't eat anything. I just want it all to end. #
05:28:00 +07:00 Yellow tshirt bloke - I just got approached by the yellow tshirt bloke from several days ago. Last time he was wearing a yellow tshirt, I was right in the middle of a multi day yellow goading campaign, he was super aggressive came right up in my face as he walked / marched by. This time he offered me some cigarettes. I indicated I was just about to brush my teeth, because that's exactly what I was doing. He checked a mental calling me a liar and no doubt all sorts of other nasties. I literally had the toothbrush in my hand already loaded up with toothpaste. He walked off still hurling abuse at me.
I'm writing this down because the offering cigarettes thing is some sort of pattern. I'm not sure exactly when it occurs. Feels like its often near starvatiom periods. It's like they are trying to train you to hurt yourself, and you get punished if you don't.
So that's what happened this morning.
Update: Not sure if this is related but last night I got gifted some rice. It was odd because it was literally just rice with some sort of sauce. I though maybe there would be other things mixed in, but there weren't. It was wrapped in celophane so it was shaped like a small sphere. It's a pretty odd gift. Often nearby events end up being linked, so I'm mentioning it. #
13:40:00 +07:00 Cement brick thrown directly in face - I was physically assaulted again by the motorbike gang stalkers. This time they drove past and lobbed a cement brick at me, which hit me square in the face. Back home I'm pretty sure such a thing would be considered attempted murder. I didn't see them coming, by the time I got up to look around, they were long gone. I was left with a very fat and bloody mouth, and the brick. I took some pictures, which I posted to Twitter along with a small writeup.
Right before the attack someone drove past shouting 'you learn', something that happens so frequencly, it's become almost meaningless. Weirdly I had just written a note about the young's use of the term 'you learn' earlier that day, and it got published on the daily schedule.
There's not a lot I can do about it.
This isn't the first time I've had bricks or rocks thrown at me. That's happenned many times before. I've documented each occurrence previously. I estimate it's happened 10 times at this point. I've also been assaulted with a bat several times.
I've decided to carry the brick around with me for the next few days everywhere I go, along with the bloody facemask I was wearing, so regular people can hopefully figure out what happened.
The only person that reacted particularly badly to it was the baker, who went and chucked a mental at me, telling me loudly to leave, after purposely getting my order wrong, while also chuckling to himself in between outbursts.
There are so many more details and bizare synchronicities to what happened, but listing them all here would just get things more convoluted.
At a high level, that's what happened. #
15:13:00 +07:00 Return of the softly softly murmurers - I've written about them before. They usually make an appearence at some point during an anger goading escallation. Perhaps they do the start? Anyway, they are back, impossible to do anything that requires concentration or focus. #
16:21:00 +07:00 Just a test - Feels like every single note I've written today, as soon as I've started writing it, someone has turned up, started incessantly chatting either on a phone or with a partner, then the exact moment I finish writing the note, literally the exact moment, they leave.
Well no one turned up, but 5 seconds after starting writing the note, some sort of commotion started downstairs. Now there's some kid saying 'yah' every few seconds. I wouldn't say this was a conclusive test, but it is at least a bit illustrative.
Some days the world interrupts and barges in on every darn thing I do with stupid precision. Those days suck.
Also days where you get hit in the face by a brick suck. #
18:25:00 +07:00 Flem update - Yum yum. I know, it's really gross. So it's definitely better than before, coughing up much less during the day, though it has gotten worse during the night the past few days. Right side of body is still very painful at times, but if I sit in certain positions I don't notice it that much. But I'm pretty worried about it. It feels like how you would expect it to feel if you'd gone a few rounds with Mike Tyson, which to my knowledge, I have not. Maybe it's just the side of the lung that is flemming? So gross. #
18:38:00 +07:00 Worse version of sorry - The way people here, especially the young, use the term 'you learn', which for many appears to be their favorite thing in the entire universe, is like a non-submissive version of sorry, if you were using sorry maliciously, as some people unfortunately do. As long as they say that then the malicious thing they just did to you is totally fine, because well, they helped you learn a thing you didn't know about. It's a totally acceptable thing to say at anytime to foreigners, anywhere. Oddly they even say it to each other a lot, which I find strange. Wouldn't you expect that they would say it in vietnanese? This happens with a lot of english words btw. It's really strange.
You learnt about a vulnerability you weren't aware of, and so actually they're brilliant! The fact that in an infinite universe you can never know everything, so there will always be something you'll need to learn, that's not relevant at all. Shut up foreigner, 'you learn'.
We aren't talking about small things either, some of these 'learning campaigns' which they no doubt use to refer to them, can take days or even weeks to pan out. It's like some sort of secret citizen military operation or something. Mindboggling. Such infinite proudness. #
18:22:00 +07:00 Super drained - Really really drained today. The right side of my torso still really painfull. Still coughing up enormous amounts of yellow flem.
I noticed that the gang stalkers are doing something a bit weird. Wherever I go suddenly cigarette smokers appear. An awful lot of them don't appear to be inhaling their cigarettes. Of course there are smokers, that's somewhat normal, but the amount of them feels much more than is normal. How strange that this would happen exactly when I've had an unshakeable raspy cough for over 2 weeks now.
The cough really reminds me what it was like when I was a smoker. I smoked for many years, but gave up about 5 years ago.
Anyway something feels off about it. Just putting it out there. #
05:49:00 +07:00 Sleep depravation gang stalkers are back - Kept me awake much of the night. All in all I would say it was in the hundreds of motorbike drive-by incidents. At one point the apparent gang of construction workers appeared across the street to do their usual totally bullshit, digg a whole and fill it back in again, making the most noise possible. Wacking empty tubaware, and drilling into the ground.
The color once again is yellow. This is very typical in a starvation and thirsting. They will taunt with 'allow', trying to blame everything on you, nevermind that it's them that are creating the situation in the first place. There's literally nothing you can do, as they print even more infiniti pride, that everyone will at some stage have to deal with. It's the last thing folks need. And ultimately I end up getting blamed and punished for everything, just for simply existing.
Many of the gang stalkers have started doing that thing again where the slowly drive up behind you, just out of site. They are trying to trigger a panic response, by simulating the conditions that lead up to a bat or rock attack. They have done this many times before. It's pure intimidation and they know it.
They have also been doing a huge amount of water and food goading. 'You learn' is trending big time, from old, young, men and women. It's like some sort of infinit pride appocalypse.
The taxi mafia and the security guard mafia all appear to have their fingers in this color and garbage fueled intimidation campaign.
15:30:00 +07:00 Suspected food poisoning - They have been starving and thirsting me for about 3 days. I was able to finally buy a meal from a place run by butch women. All seemed Ok, they had a whole stack of pork chops. That is until the lady that takes the money and gives you the food shouted out 'liar' twice as she put the food in a bag. Seemed at first like she was chastising the other butch woman preparing the food, but eventually it was obvious she had some sort of issue with me. I literally had said nothing, just pointed at the food I wanted.
Well a bit further up the road another thuggish butch woman walked up to me holding her gut. That's very unusual. Anyway it's several hours after eating the food now and I have all sorts of stitch type pain all down my right side. Very painful. Seems likely that it was another planned attack. I literally did nothing. They are attacking me just because they've attacked me before.
It's not just the women either, there was a gang waiting for me at the public rest room, that were clearly there to chastise me. It never ends. It's literally every single location I go to. In the shop earlier, another incident, all be it much smaller in nature, and again right now in the park, a gang of older males, intent in telling me to 'learn' and 'allow'. Hell on earth.
Another example of infiniti pride. These women print infiniti pride at will and expect everyone else to pick up the pieces. #
15:49:00 +07:00 Raspy cough update - This started a couple of weeks ago just after new year. I got quite a lot better, but then got worse again. I'm still coughing up lots of yellow flem everyday.
This moring there was a staged incident involving a man walking with a bright yellow bike, wearing a yellow top and yellow biking gloves. In the opposite direction there was a man in another yellow tshirt walking next to a large butch women wearing all black. As they crossed paths, directly on front of me, there was this really strange awkward moment where the man with the bike held up his hand making a STOP signal. All he seemed to say was hello, and he sort of stopped but then didn't. It was very strange.
They gave been yellow tsunami-ing me for days now, so I expect it's a continuation of that. Butch women wearing fluresent yellow nail polish, all sorts of yellow garbage everywhere I go. Too many other things to mention. I have absolutely nothing against nail polish, but why not just wear nail polish without bullying people?
Anyway my whole right side of my body is in a lot of pain now. Feeling very ill and low energy, following 2 weeks of righteous infiniti pride bullying. Even the bloke testing out the tannoy system in the park I'm in is insecently shouting, 'you lie', 'your lie' and 'you learn'. Some people literally want to control every single thing and movement you do, where you go, what you say, and even what you think. That's infiniti pride. #
17:34:00 +07:00 Slow walking women intimidation - The latest trend is slow walking middle aged women. They are clearly going for the prison guard look. It's been happening at the canal, it's been happening in the park. To be honest I don't actually have a problem with that per see. If you want to walk around looking like a prison guard, by all means go ahead. What I do have issues with is when it's very clearly used for intimidation and anger goading purposes.
Case in point, I'm in the park, having a bit of a snack, it's been literally days since I've been able to eat some food. They are right in the middle of a righteous starvation and thirst campaign, for a situation that they manufactured. I'm being punished for daring to walk out of yet another trap that they layed for me. How dare I.
So what just happened was tweedle di and tweedle dum slow walked directly on front of me, one brandishing quite a large almost industrial pair of scissors. Edwina scissor hands says very clearly and audibly as she passed on front of me:
"You're gay"
This is quite clearly a reference to an incident a few days ago when the food lady took exception to me asking her not to cut the pork chop into strips. The pork chop laddies from earlier today cut up the chop, I wasn't particularly fussed, I rarely go to their food place anyway. In any case the park laddies walked up the way a bit, ostensibly to prune some tiny plants, that really didn't need pruning. The park gardeners do a great job here.
It's also a reference to my PINK bag, which by the way they gifted to me. Another example of creating the problems they complain about. Such is the nature of infiniti proudness, it very often has uterly perverse chains of events and objects. It's classic bullying tactics, because the contradictions break people's brains. That's why I call it infiniti proudness. It's one of their main techniques, they think people don't notice.
They slow walked back past me again, I looked edwina in the eyes, she seemed quite annoyed about that. I calmy waited until they were 10 meters away and said relatively loudly:
"Lady, your declaration of war is gay"
I followed that up about a minute later saying loudly to all:
"Whether I say something or don't say something, either way I'm going to get mutilated. At least if I say something there's a chance some good natured folks might see and figure out what's going on."
This kind of silent bullying goes on all the time. I sincerly hope it doesn't escallate again. #
18:29:00 +07:00 More anger goading walking out of the park. A lot of folks seem to be aware of my gut issues. How can that be? The WIFI at the internet place nearby wasn't showing up initially. A motorbike was parked with it's front wheel where I usually stand. That only happens during anger goading campaigns. I started writting this note and eventually the WIFI returned, to huge amusement by the cafe locals: "Good Good" followed by evil lols. No situations is out of bounds for their infiniti pride. They will always kick you when you are down. Over and over and over. #
08:25:00 +07:00 Purple tsunami - Very low energy yesterday and today. That's what happens when they starve and thirst you. As is customary in these parts, fueled by the belief that gasoline fixes all fires, I find myself in a literal purple tsunami.
Pretty much everyone is wearing purple. Such inifini proudness has celdom been whitnessed. Not much I can to except calmy add it to the list. #
05:21:00 +07:00 Malicious gifts - Yesterday's digging up of the grave of the NYE assaults now becomes clear. Since then I've been gifted 3 items of food, from people driving by on motorbikes. Seems nice enough, until you examine the food. In each case the food item had something weird with it. Old looking bags, stained food packaging, discolored food. in each case the gifter uttered some sort of snark or mean comment. One quite large lady bowed while saying 'No!' right after giving me the gift. I was left sitting there quite confused.
Since the NYE attacks were precipitated by youths throwing garbage everywhere, my guess is that the current theme is 'food that looks like it comes from the garbage'.
As per usual the reason for this particular escallation has been long forgitten, but the bullying abd escallations continue. For the record it was the probably staged incident at the food place where I got blammed for their disorganisation.
I'll add this incident to the ever growing list if 2024. #
05:42:00 +07:00 Haha psyche! incidents are trending - If you haven't experienced these before, or you haven't noticed them before they can be a bit difficult to spot. Once you have, they are so unbelievably obvious. Basically it's people approaching you with all the movement of someone that is about to talk to you, perhaps to gift you something, but at the very last moment they course correct and walk off like it was never that at all. They often are dressed similar to someone that you previously interacted with.
Often several of these, all slightly different in nature, happen in rapid succession. The big tell sign is that if you are absolutely rigorous in directing your main focus somewhere else, something feels very off because they are paying attention to you. They are trying to see you react. Their timing is all off, and that's what you notice, that's why the situation feels strange. They will often slow down as they pass you, the mote you nove yiur attention away, the nore you can see them modifying their behaviour to see your reaction. Once you see it a few times, you wonder how it wasn't totally obvious the whole time.
This is usually part of an anger goading campaign which typically runs over mabye days. Always seems coincides with periods of starvation and thirst.
I've had this happen in a somewhat different context too. I kept noticing that the number of incidents of nearly walking into women suddenly sky rocketed. At one point I just decided that when it was about to happen, to just stop dead in place. All these women would literally walk straight into me, with force. That's what they were purposely doing, with the expectation that I would move out of the way.
Anyway, when things feel off, it's often because they are off, your peripheral vision abd pattern matching will recognise this. #
08:52:00 +07:00 All-in bell weather - To the extent that the All-in podcast is a bell weather for tech and the wider world, the latest episode left me feeling quite flat.
I'm not saying that it was a bad episode exactly, it wasn't, there were quite a few good bits, but somehow a generalised malaise permeates. I could very well be projecting my situation, but that's the case every week. For whatever reason I don't feel better about the world. A bit more informed sure, but I don't often feel low energy after listening.
I sincerly hope this isn't a bad signal about the period we are heading into, whatever that might be. #
09:09:00 +07:00 Interleaved Redesign - The more I write blog posts now that the everything feed is operational, the more it's becoming obvious how important the interleaved redesign is going to be. I highlighted previously some of the annoyances from the perspective of writing. It's really apparent to me now.
It's somewhat difficult to estimate the complexity of the move. It seems like it could be considerable, on the other hand if I were starting from scratch, I'd be quite confident because the static site generator is very flexible at this point.
What I'm considering at the minute is whether it might be worth collapsing all the seperate calendar structures into a single day based calendar structure. It's really appealing to have all of a day's content in the same folder. The big downside is not being able to easily find stuff. I won't at a glance of the filesystem be able for example to see all the blog post markdown files.
But maybe there is a way. I have ish installed so perhaps with some basic shell aliases I can get the view back that I'd lose, or something similar.
It's no longer clear cut whether to write a blog post or a note. Each has serious downsides, so you end up not being able to write anything. The current status qui just promotes stuckness.
One thing is clear, the quicker I can move away from the latest page format the better. #
12:15:00 +07:00 Incident followups - Of course there were followups to yesterdays incidents. There always are.
I walked past the food place where the woman didn't like not cutting my pork into strips. Checked in to see if they had some food. Wouldn't you know it they only had 1 pork chop left. 1 lonely looking pork chop. What are the chances? I decided to pass. I was there later than usual so I'll give her the benefit of the doubt. And even though she was a bit shouty yesterday, mostly she's okay, so perhaps she was just having a bad day.
Next I walked past the headphones place which was just up the road. As I walked past, a cigarette butt emerged flying through the air, landing right at my feet. Gee what are the chances? I don't give so much benefit of doubt to people that flick lit cigarettes at you, especially if they were previously purpusely and maliciously coughing all over the item you were trying to buy.
At the corner shop a bit further down the road I got some instant noodles. The motorbikes were parked in a strange way as I entered. In a way that forced you to enter in one of two ways. Inside, I had to rinse my noodle recepticle, so filled it with hot water from the dispensor and went back outsite. Emptied the contents after a good shake onto the street, on front of the strangely parked motorbike. Went back in to buy the noodles. On the way out guess what was placed a few centimeters next to where I emptied the hot water? Yep that's right, a still smoking cigarette butt. Gosh what are the chances? Word travels faster than the wind in this place. And you are always wrong.
The rest of the morning has been litered with similar incidents. The two big themes are stop / start / stop / start. Just when you start to do something, you get blocked. Then it's hurry up, then blocked again. It's a recurring pattern. It's usually followed by people wearing red clothes. Classic anger goading. The stop start shenanigans can literally go on for hours sometimes. The other theme is water goading. I wrote previously about my water sources being virtually cut off. Well they went even further this morning. Right after using it, the renaining water source trickle stopped. Now neither water sources work. I literally don't know what I'll do. Anyhow there's been a lot of water related goading this morning. #
13:44:00 +07:00 Punished for haggling 50 cents - As is always the case in a bullying escallation, everything you do will be used against you in some way. For me right now that appears to be the incident that occurred yesterday when buying headphones. At the time I haggled a wopping 50 cents (USD) discount. Well now manufactured incidents involving 50 cents amounts are occuring followed immediately by motorbike gang stalkers, quite clearly waiting for me, shouting 'No!' as I pass them.
They say haggling customery all across Asia. Well it is until the gang stalkers take offense, and when they do literally anything will set them off. A single neutrino out of place is enough to trigger total destruction of the multiverse, and as they pulverise everything they will remind you that it is you that is over-reacting, by simply existing.
I wish I wasn't absolutely serious. #
14:06:00 +07:00 Digging up old graves - Another pattern that re-occurs as part of anger goading is they attempt to re-surface previously settled disputes from previous bullying campaigns.
Case in point, right now in a shop cafe, I am reminded of the New Year's Eve assault by a quite aggitated chap drinking a purple soft drink, who then abruptly leaves disguarding all his garbage. Youths disguarding their garbage was what precipitated the NYE attacks. The girl who attacked me that night threw an unnopened can of drink directly at me. The can was purple.
These incidents happen so often, I detect them almost immediately. I think the idea is to trigger your fight or flight response. There will likely be more of these throughout the afternoon. Unfortunitely once they pop on the anger goading, they can't stop, eventually anything you do is interpreted as war. #
15:42:00 +07:00 Grave digging confirmed infinit % - I can't go into details right now, but my earlier suspicion that the NYE assault was being dug up was 100% correct. If past experience is anything to go by, this will result in another or many mutilation attempts on me, which if they are not successful will be blamed on me.
I'm aware that I sometimes sound a bit unhinged on these matters, but I strongly believe, if you dear reader, walked even a few miles in my shoes you would see things in a very similar way. #
09:48:00 +07:00 BBC News broken - In the past few weeks many of the BBC News' websites pages have stopped being readable in offline reading apps. In Pocket for example instead of the article you save, you end up with some sort of copyright notice. This has been working for years. What changed? #
15:40:00 +07:00 Taking someone's life === murder - I've been saying this for a while now. I know I sound crazy when I say stuff like that but I've thought about it a lot, and it's the sort of thing that though you don't have to contemplate it a lot, it absolutely can become very important. Anyway I felt a bit validated yesterday after listening to Robert Breedlove on the Bankless Podcast.
"If I take your life, that’s equivalent to murdering you, that’s to take your future freedom" - Robert Breedlove on life, liberty, and property
It's a great interview exploring the history of money, in order to lay out the critical design choices that were made when designing Bitcoin. There's an absolute ton of incredible background info about everything related to the monetary system in this episode. #
09:08:00 +07:00 Water halvening - I've written about the recent bullying campaign previously, that ultimately resulted in me getting mutilated via the medium of sickness. A horrible raspy cough to be precise. Well the bullying doesn't stop there. No no no, the end is the beginning.
What always follows a sickness mutilation, and this has happened many many times before, after you have been coughing up flem for several days, at least initially, is some small yellow goading incidents. People wearing yellow appear everywhere you go, some of them tend to be quite aggressive. The yellow goading incidents escallate until it's a full on yellow tsunami. Yellow busses, cars, delivery vehicles, large groups of people wearing all yellow outfits, bizare incidents that involve yellow colored soft drink bottles, which happen across locations. They've already been infiniti winning you for days, well they want to be even more infiniti winners.
And so your raspy cough shows signs of clearing. No doubt the bullies take some sort of credit for this, since it must obviously be their clever yellow tsunami that is fixing things. Never mind that they caused the raspy cough in the first place or that it's you that fixed it not their attrocious malicious behaviour. But I digress. So you are feeling a bit better.
But wait, you still have to be blamed for being blamed! And the very next day, your water supply which was already a trickle, has been cut in half. For it was a trickle from two sources, but now it's a trickle from one source. Your back is already in aggony from having to stand to use the internet, and for washing using the trickles, and for sleeping, that is when the sleep depravation gangs aren't active, in a position that will eventually cripple you. Well now it's even worse.
But wait there's more, in some of the key locations you go to have been poop bombed. Human feces. Multiple human feces. All these incidents are linked. It's obvious. They want to make it obvious, but you know, without it being obvious to everyone. So a woman wearing unbelievably pungeant purfume was giving you the stink eye as you left the public rest rooms earlier, which, wouldn't you know, smelt really bad today, which is actually quite unusual.
And the two butch women that always happen to walk past when you are at a particular location, have just walked past again, saying 'No!' even though you are minding your own business typing on your mobile device. One of them casually brandishing a metal rod. Is that perhaps an intimidation tactic referencing the recent bat assaults that were done to you? Seems likely.
There are many other things that happened today but that gives you a pretty accurare idea of the situation. They have already been infiniti winners for infiniti and they want / must absolutely be even more infiniti winners, even if it results in the total destruction of the multiverse, which is always what happens by the way, and then you get blamed for everything again.
I am left with the only thing I can do. Calmly and quietly say:
Shame on you Vietnam. #
10:21:00 +07:00 Injured sparrow - A small sparrow just made an appearance. I noticed as it was jumping around nearby that it was looking particularly dishevelled, dirty and even had an injury on it's neck. I felt bad for the little fellow as he was desperately trying to eat everything. I tried to lay out some water in some nearby pavement cracks, but ended up scaring him / her off. What is up with you today world? Seriously. #
17:30:00 +07:00 New RSS feeds deployed - I got the new RSS feeds working and deployed on the live website. I announced it on Twitter. You can find the latest feeds on the feeds page.
There are now per item feeds for the blog, linkblog, podcast, newsletter and notes. They are all full text feeds so include the full post. There is also the by date feeds that were there previously for the links and notes since they have a much more frequent cadence, so a summary feed still makes sense.
The cool thing is that I found a way to create an everything feed. The everything feed includes all the post types.
Over the next few weeks I'll hopefully be able to redesign the homepage to display all the posts types interleaved. I think it will be better than the latest page which often feels a bit disjointed.
Progress feels good :) #
17:55:00 +07:00 Everything is trending - I finished and deployed the everything RSS feed for the website yesterday. I had been working on the feature in one way or another, amidst all sorts of blockages and bizare synchronicities for at least 28 weeks. At least that's how many weeks the task has been active in my feature tracking system. So imagine my suprise when today on the Changelog News podcast there was a story about a recent npm incident where someone created an everything package, hilarity ensued. But seriously world what are the chances that I would hear of this less than 24 hours after deploying my long running totally unrelated everything feed feature? Gosh aren't we all so darn clever. #
05:20:00 +07:00 Tired - I've been mostly posting on Twitter the past few days. I've developped a raspy cough which is really bad at night time but mostly fine during the day. That's a bit strange. I'm not sleeping particularly well because of it, and so I'm feeling very tired. All the men at food places I go to have started bowing their head to me, which is odd. Multiple places, started the exact same time. All the woman are constantly calling me dog, and coughing all over my food clearly on purpose.
Both seem to be doing the thing where they hold the plastic bag so you slide you hand into the handles. I don't particularly care for that way of handing over food. It had this trap sort of vibe to it, so I always take the food with two hands. Anyway that really annoys some folks, particilarly the women.
Anyhow no matter what I do there is retaliation. Eventually everything escallates to some form of mutilation to me. #
05:32:00 +07:00 RSS feeds - On the plus side I've almost got the RSS feeds rendering using the same server side components I use on the website. It will mean per item feeds for each of the blog, linkblog, podcast, newsletter and notes. I'll also hsve a summary feed for the linkblog and notes sibce these have a more frequent cadence.
I think I've also managed to create an everything feed. I used a feature where I can associate custom metadata to data imports. The RSSFeed component can use that data to select the right server side component at render time. It appears to work.
There will likely be issues to figure out though. Even if I an feeling drained, the development progress is keeping me somewhat positive. #
20:01:00 +07:00 Remembering artists - I wrote yesterday about my lost mini disc collection. Today I remembered another one of the artists of the down tempo / remix genre that I listenned to loads: Kruder and Dorfmeister. They were awesome.
I wish I had the chronology. It would be really interesting to trace which bands I got into when.
There was of course Cold Cut's incredible album Journeys by DJ. I listenned to that the first time on a long train journey. I guess it was probably on the Eurostar. Amazing. Some albums are meant to be listenned to when you are traveling somewhere new, especially if the scenery is nice. #
11:24:00 +07:00 The lost mini disc collection - I've been listenning to the latest RA mix pretty much on repeat. I went through an important part of my life listening to this type of music. Before that I had only really listenned to band music, mostly heavy metal and alternative rock. I absolutely despised electronic music. Anyhow at some point I found a bridge, on the other side of that bridge was a strange but very interesting world. The journey began.
The first few years were all about down tempo, very chill music, lots of remixes, samples and what not. I had bought a mini disc player and had a load of mini discs. This was a big step up from cassette tapes. Mini discs were awesome, kind of like CDs so you could skip between tracks, and create your own copies easily. It was still the era of listening to the same 10 or 20 albums over and over. We forget that today, because we have music abundance. You became very familiar with entire albums.
Anyhow I had a load of stuff from all these artists, I forget many of the names now. Too Many DJs, Thievery Corporation, Massive Attack. There were loads more. At some point between apartments and moving to CDs then to mp3s, I lost the entire mini disc collection. I also started getting into other electronic music genres.
I wish I hadn't lost that collection. Who knows maybe my life trajectory would have been very different. Listening to the RA mix reminded me how much it was a part of my life. The ambience of it is still very much a core part of who I am, even if I've been on a lot of adventures since then. #
05:31:00 +07:00 Sexual harrassment then sleep depravation - The extreme bullying continues. Last night was visited by 2 creepy males. The first on a motorbike, stopped and said he would 'take me' while chuckling. A short while later another man on foot, wearing a black backpack stood a meter away, with his back to me, apparently having a Dom Jolly style conversation on his mobile phone, where the only phrase that was said was 'I am gay'. That was followed by the usual assortment of drive-by harrassment from motorbike gang stalkers.
This morning at the exact same time I was physically assaulted yesterday the security guards across the road turned on their radio at airoplane level loudness. That was immediately followed by several motorbike gang stalker drive-byes where they shouted 'I lied'.
The only person that lied is you Vietnam. You layed a trap for me, and when I didn't walk into it, you lashed out and assaulted me by throwing an unnopenned can of drink at me in plain sight of everyone around. You then followed that up with a drive-by assault with a bat. And you followed that up with sexual harrassment and sleep depravation from your security guard mafia.
Shame on you Vietnam. #
09:27:00 +07:00 Problems with eternity - I was listening to this SYSK podcast episode while waiting for a particularly bad spiritual storm to pass. The universe is especially confrontational this morning, with lots of cerbal harrassment, more red clothes goading which is a continuation of [yesterday's harrassment campaign], all with a backdrop of a sustained pink tsunami in every location I have been to this morning.
The red goading I expected because I am in the location I was gifted the red shirt a few days ago, that I previously mentioned. That was the start of the most recent harrassment campaign that escallated to multiple physical assaults on me. But the amounts of bizare synchronicities are off the fucking charts.
Anyway, all this to say to 'yall, that none of this is okay.
Enough.
Update 1: I noticed yesterday evening that I have quite a bad mutilation on my right hand middle knuckle. It's very itchy and swollen. Feels like some sort of insect bite. However isn't it very odd that it should happen right after one of the security guard mafia gave me the middle finger.
Update 2: As I was writting this note, a butch western woman walked past slowly examining her right hand. About 2 minutes later, 3 more westerners walked past, as they past me, one said very loudly: "you need to struggle". It's been one thing after another all morning. #
17:17:00 +07:00 Elon vs Disney - I know a lot of people really hate Musk right now. There have definitely been some of his decisions that I've though were very dubious, but I've often found myself thinking the mob is doing that thing when it over reacts bigly with enormous rightiousness, then later back tracks.
Anyhow on the Disney thing, I thought Musk's approach was awesome. He felt they were black mailing him, and he said so strongly, in public, dispite the fact they are a huge source of revenue and historically have been an american darling. You can't get much more free speech than that.
I'm puzzled by all the haters, are they on Disney's payroll? Yeah it sucks that the company is currently worth a lot less, 70% is brutal, but if he can rebuild it back up it will be much better for it long term without customers that feel they can push him around whenever it suits them. Ultimately it's better for users, even if it's a difficult period. #
03:54:00 +07:00 Physicaly assaulted again - I was physically assaulted again a few minutes ago. One of the motorbike gang stalkers drove up behind me and wacked me with a bat as they drove past. This is following several harrassnent incidents yesterday where I didn't react more than accepting the blame.
They blame me for something, bully me, and even if I accept the bullying, they are still not happy, and blame me for being blamed.
Shame on you vietnam. 2024 is definitely turning into the vietnamese year of shame. One year can turn into many. #
04:41:00 +07:00 I miss conversations - One of the things that really lacked for me in 2023 was conversations. I only had about a handfull of actual conversations during the entire year. In pretty much each case there were concequences, things I said got turned around and used against me within days. Talking to fellow foreigners is very much discouraged. I miss talking to people. #
15:50:00 +07:00 Vision Pro Pro's - Casey Liss and John Gruber discuss amoung other things Apple's soon to be released Vision Pro on the latest Talk Show episode. They mention two aspects of the device that I hadn't considered before.
Some people wonder whether the price tag is too high. It's a high price for sure, but one group of people that will fork out the cash is business travellers. These folks spend extended amounts of time on planes and trains. If the device does turn out to offer a very immersive experience similar to being at the cinema, then why wouldn't they invest in improving those long travel days?
The other aspect I hadn't considered is privacy. If the work that you do is sensitive and needs to be kept secret, then the Vision Pro is maybe the best device available because it totally cuts out the possibility of opportunistic shoulder surfers since the device is literally attached to your face. #
06:00:00 +07:00 Eye mutilation - I wish the first note of the year could be more positive. I've been subjected to lots of harrassment this past week, and it somewhat subsided yesterday. But the last few incidents involved people shouting 'no!' and 'learn' at me. Well wouldn't you know it, a few hours later, I've developed an eye infection. So far it's not too bad, but it feels weird and definitely a bit painful. It's a bit swollen and puffy. I just hope it doesn't get any worse.
This sort of thing happens at the end of almost every harrassment campaign. I've written about it many times before. Eventually in one way or another I always end up getting mutilated.
Not exactly how I'd hoped to usher in the new year. #
06:05:00 +07:00 Assaulted with projectile - In addition to the eye infection, at around 10pm last night, a small gang of late teens youths, sat nearby me, started eating food and throwing garbage all about the place. I said to not throw garbage everywhere. A short while later, they came back and tried to start an argument. A girl from the gang threatenned to call the police, I said fine call them.
A bit later the police showed up, I explained what had happened, eventually they drove off. Right after they drove off the girl threw an unnopened can of drink at me very hard from about 3 meters away. The can hit me full force on the inside of my arm. I expect it will leave some bruising as the impact was very severe.
I believe the events were pre-meditated, and part of the intimidation campaign that's been waged against me all week from anonymous gang stalkers. #
06:10:00 +07:00 More projectiles - The assaults continued through the night. At around 3am a motorbike drove past throwing both what appeared to be an empty glass bottle and a large paper cup filled with some form of soft drink. I got covered with the soft drink on my head and torso. Thankfully the glass bottle didn't hit me but it must have smashed right next to me, there was broken glass everywhere.
Five minutes later what appeared to be a police man drove past on a non-descript moped and shouted some abuse at me.
Not the best new year's I've had.
Quite a shameful way to start 2024 from vietnam in my humble opinion.
If past experience is anything to go by, this will set in motion a new harrassment campaign as I am repeatedly blamed for everything in the universe, then blamed again for being blamed. #
06:15:00 +07:00 2024: Vietnamese year of shame - Quite a lot of verbal harrassment from the new year's day early morning runners. Given yesterday evening's harrassment and assaults done to me, I'm calling 2024 the vietnamese year of shame. Don't feel like you need to participate in this, it's not like I'm planning some form of counter offensive, it's entirely meant to be symbolic.
I sincerely hope it does not escallate, though given that many of this morning's runners were wearing red tshirts with the vietnam yellow star on the front, and the number 42 on the back, I think it's fair to say that looks likely. Thankfully murdering life the universe and everything in the near future, is probably a bit optimistic on their part. #
06:20:00 +07:00 Ownership of everything - It occurs to me this morning that if one wanted at some stage to redesign the vietnamese flag for any reason, then perhaps a fitting thing to do with the old ones would be to send them all up in a space rocket and fly them into our star the sun. #
11:21:00 +07:00 Full text RSS feed - The build minutes for this month finally reset so I can build and deploy again. One of the features I've been waiting to test was full text RSS feeds. Previously the blog feed only contained the description of each item and you had to click through to the website to read the full article.
It's working for the blog, and when I tested it earlier in Feedly each item contained the full text of the article, so no need to click through anymore. Code blocks appear to be correctly formatted, though without the syntax highlighting. Glad they are at least legible. That was the reason I didn't do full text earlier, I didn't think the code blocks would display at all.
I might start writing more blog posts now and do less notes, because I don't need to write descriptions anymore. I guess we'll see over the next few weeks if and how it affects my writing. #
18:01:00 +07:00 Happy New Year - Best wishes to all of you out there for 2024! I hope it's a good year for everyone :) #
06:21:00 +07:00 Communism - The problem with communism is communism itself, for the very same thing that saves you from oblivion, the commune, also blocks you from succeeding at anything. The commune cuts both ways. Ultimately you are constantly taking two steps forward, then two steps backwards.
The people with the power, keep the power, and the people without the power, stay without any power. Everyone is stuck, and literally every single thing is a fight.
And with AI it will be even worse. Even more stuck, even more of a fight for everything. #
18:52:00 +07:00 Build minutes - Bit of a quiet day posting wise today. I've been waiting for my build minutes to get reset. I was just able to publish the notes and links that were supposed to go out this morning. #
18:58:00 +07:00 Harassment - The harassment I've been subjected to the past few days has been off the charts. Tsunami after tsunami after tsunami. I've tried not to mention it much because it's Christmas, no one wants to read about harrassment over the holidays. Anyway just wanted to mention it because there have been several of these harassment incidents, which appear to be linked, that could definitely be classified as being sexual in nature.
Very strange and uncomfortable situations too. This sort of thing has happened before, about a year ago, I think I wrote about it last time it happened too. It's my belief that it's intimidation, manufactured situations, trying to get me angry. I don't want to get into specifics, but I just want to say it's definitely not ok. #
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