# rss_item

guid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24374092
title: The social and economic costs borne by young people without offices
author: RickJWagner
url: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/10/career-costs-working-from-home/615472/
feedurl: https://hnrss.org/frontpage
content:
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/10/career-costs-working-from-home/615472/">https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/10/career-costs-working-from-home/615472/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24374092">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24374092</a></p>
<p>Points: 124</p>
<p># Comments: 90</p>


guid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24374570
title: Snake in a QR Code
author: phit_
url: https://itsmattkc.com/etc/snakeqr/
feedurl: https://hnrss.org/frontpage
content:
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://itsmattkc.com/etc/snakeqr/">https://itsmattkc.com/etc/snakeqr/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24374570">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24374570</a></p>
<p>Points: 235</p>
<p># Comments: 76</p>


guid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24374602
title: Guide to the Many Meanings of Quantum Mechanics
author: dnetesn
url: http://nautil.us/blog/your-guide-to-the-many-meanings-of-quantum-mechanics
feedurl: https://hnrss.org/frontpage
content:
<p>Article URL: <a href="http://nautil.us/blog/your-guide-to-the-many-meanings-of-quantum-mechanics">http://nautil.us/blog/your-guide-to-the-many-meanings-of-quantum-mechanics</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24374602">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24374602</a></p>
<p>Points: 23</p>
<p># Comments: 2</p>


guid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24375011
title: Standards for Gloves
author: brudgers
url: https://guidegloves.com/en/knowledge/standards
feedurl: https://hnrss.org/frontpage
content:
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://guidegloves.com/en/knowledge/standards">https://guidegloves.com/en/knowledge/standards</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24375011">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24375011</a></p>
<p>Points: 48</p>
<p># Comments: 16</p>


guid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24375351
title: SoftBank unmasked as ‘Nasdaq whale’ that stoked tech rally
author: xoxoy
url: https://www.ft.com/content/75587aa6-1f1f-4e9d-b334-3ff866753fa2
feedurl: https://hnrss.org/frontpage
content:
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/75587aa6-1f1f-4e9d-b334-3ff866753fa2">https://www.ft.com/content/75587aa6-1f1f-4e9d-b334-3ff866753fa2</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24375351">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24375351</a></p>
<p>Points: 523</p>
<p># Comments: 379</p>


guid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24375527
title: Rocket Helicopter (2010)
author: jeffreyrogers
url: https://www.tecaeromex.com/ingles/RH-i.htm
feedurl: https://hnrss.org/frontpage
content:
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.tecaeromex.com/ingles/RH-i.htm">https://www.tecaeromex.com/ingles/RH-i.htm</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24375527">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24375527</a></p>
<p>Points: 116</p>
<p># Comments: 90</p>


guid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24376162
title: Bullfrog After Populous
author: doppp
url: https://www.filfre.net/2020/09/bullfrog-after-populous/
feedurl: https://hnrss.org/frontpage
content:
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.filfre.net/2020/09/bullfrog-after-populous/">https://www.filfre.net/2020/09/bullfrog-after-populous/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24376162">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24376162</a></p>
<p>Points: 246</p>
<p># Comments: 126</p>


guid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24376622
title: Massacring C Pointers (2018)
author: pcr910303
url: https://wozniak.ca/blog/2018/06/25/1/index.html
feedurl: https://hnrss.org/frontpage
content:
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://wozniak.ca/blog/2018/06/25/1/index.html">https://wozniak.ca/blog/2018/06/25/1/index.html</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24376622">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24376622</a></p>
<p>Points: 70</p>
<p># Comments: 32</p>


guid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24376790
title: Grounded Language Learning Fast and Slow
author: mr_tyzic
url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.01719
feedurl: https://hnrss.org/frontpage
content:
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.01719">https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.01719</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24376790">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24376790</a></p>
<p>Points: 37</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>


guid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24376990
title: Show HN: AnyLeaf – PH Sensor for Microcontrollers
author: the__alchemist
url: https://www.anyleaf.org/ph-module
feedurl: https://hnrss.org/frontpage
content:
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.anyleaf.org/ph-module">https://www.anyleaf.org/ph-module</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24376990">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24376990</a></p>
<p>Points: 70</p>
<p># Comments: 44</p>


guid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24377725
title: Soteris (YC S19), ML to price insurance, is hiring employees #3 and #4
author: sultan1919
url: https://www.soteris.co/#careers
feedurl: https://hnrss.org/frontpage
content:
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.soteris.co/#careers">https://www.soteris.co/#careers</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24377725">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24377725</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>


guid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24378055
title: What Satoshi Did Not Know (2015) [pdf]
author: MrXOR
url: https://www.ifca.ai/pub/fc15/89750001.pdf
feedurl: https://hnrss.org/frontpage
content:
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.ifca.ai/pub/fc15/89750001.pdf">https://www.ifca.ai/pub/fc15/89750001.pdf</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24378055">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24378055</a></p>
<p>Points: 102</p>
<p># Comments: 96</p>


guid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24378107
title: Dupes and Duplicity
author: ca98am79
url: https://www.damninteresting.com/dupes-and-duplicity/
feedurl: https://hnrss.org/frontpage
content:
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.damninteresting.com/dupes-and-duplicity/">https://www.damninteresting.com/dupes-and-duplicity/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24378107">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24378107</a></p>
<p>Points: 15</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>


guid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24378617
title: We didn't encrypt your password, we hashed it
author: mrzool
url: https://www.troyhunt.com/we-didnt-encrypt-your-password-we-hashed-it-heres-what-that-means/
feedurl: https://hnrss.org/frontpage
content:
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.troyhunt.com/we-didnt-encrypt-your-password-we-hashed-it-heres-what-that-means/">https://www.troyhunt.com/we-didnt-encrypt-your-password-we-hashed-it-heres-what-that-means/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24378617">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24378617</a></p>
<p>Points: 229</p>
<p># Comments: 232</p>


guid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24378758
title: PicoRio Linux RISC-V SBC is an open-source alternative to Raspberry Pi board
author: hippospark
feedurl: https://hnrss.org/frontpage
url:
https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/09/04/picorio-linux-risc-v-sbc-is-an-open-source-alternative-to-raspberry-pi-board/

content:
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/09/04/picorio-linux-risc-v-sbc-is-an-open-source-alternative-to-raspberry-pi-board/">https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/09/04/picorio-linux-risc-v-sbc-is-an-open-source-alternative-to-raspberry-pi-board/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24378758">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24378758</a></p>
<p>Points: 147</p>
<p># Comments: 88</p>


guid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24378906
title: Restream: Stream live to many social platforms at once
author: dgudkov
url: https://restream.io/
feedurl: https://hnrss.org/frontpage
content:
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://restream.io/">https://restream.io/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24378906">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24378906</a></p>
<p>Points: 38</p>
<p># Comments: 18</p>


guid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24379210
title: FBI examined Google records to see if anyone had knowledge of Guccifer persona
author: DyslexicAtheist
url: https://nitter.net/kpoulsen/status/1255593138934013952#m
feedurl: https://hnrss.org/frontpage
content:
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://nitter.net/kpoulsen/status/1255593138934013952#m">https://nitter.net/kpoulsen/status/1255593138934013952#m</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24379210">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24379210</a></p>
<p>Points: 179</p>
<p># Comments: 137</p>


guid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24380511
title: Dickheads (2015)
author: agronaut
url: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/dickheads
feedurl: https://hnrss.org/frontpage
content:
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://thebaffler.com/salvos/dickheads">https://thebaffler.com/salvos/dickheads</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24380511">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24380511</a></p>
<p>Points: 18</p>
<p># Comments: 4</p>


guid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24380587
title: Chekhov invented the modern short story
author: swibbler
url: https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2020/08/how-chekhov-invented-modern-short-story
feedurl: https://hnrss.org/frontpage
content:
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2020/08/how-chekhov-invented-modern-short-story">https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2020/08/how-chekhov-invented-modern-short-story</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24380587">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24380587</a></p>
<p>Points: 46</p>
<p># Comments: 15</p>


guid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24380969
title: Show HN: Linux sysadmin course, eight years on
author: snori74
url: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24380969
feedurl: https://hnrss.org/frontpage
content:
<p>Almost eight years ago I launched an online “Linux sysadmin course for newbies” here at HN.<p>It was a side-project that went well, but never generated enough money to allow me to fully commit to leaving the Day Job. After surviving the Big C, and getting made redundant I thought I might improve and relaunch it commercially – but my doctors are a pessimistic bunch, so it looked like I didn’t have the time.<p>Instead, I rejigged/relaunched it via a Reddit forum this February as free and open - and have now gathered a team of helpers to ensure that it keeps going each month even after I can’t be involved any longer.<p>It’s a month-long course which restarts each month, so “Day 1” of September is this coming Monday.<p>It would be great if you could pass the word on to anyone you know who may be the target market of those who: “...aspire to get Linux-related jobs in industry - junior Linux sysadmin, devops-related work and similar”.<p>[0] http://www.linuxupskillchallenge.org/<p>[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxupskillchallenge/<p>[2] http://snori74.blogspot.com/2020/04/health-status.html</p>
<hr>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24380969">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24380969</a></p>
<p>Points: 65</p>
<p># Comments: 9</p>


guid: 5000subs
title: 5,000 subscribers mark and returning home
url: https://youtube.com/c/LukeSmithxyz
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
It looks like I've hit 5,000 subscribers several days ago. I haven't been able to add new videos recently, due to some summer travels and me taking a general break. I'll be returnung to Arizona within the week though, and will add some more videos then. Possibily a 5,000 subs celebration vid in the meantime...


guid: first
title: New RSS feed
url: http://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
I'm starting this RSS feed to aggregate all my updates on different sites. I figure this is one of the more robust ways of publising content, despite the fact that only oldfags might actually use this.


guid: gopro5000
title: How to Go Pro on YouTube!
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g66Jhxi-gg0
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
For the 5,000 subscribers mark. I also think I'll use this as a channel greeter for non-subscribed users. Next in terms of actual content, I'm thinking of a video detailing ffmpeg and possibly a partially satirical video on distros.


guid: corelibre
title: Corebooting/Librebooting Soon
url: https://paypal.me/LukeMSmith
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
I've settled back home after an abnormally long trek across country. Now that I have, I've started to accumulate the tools I'll need to begin Librebooting or Corebooting machines via Rasberry Pi.<p>

Some materials are still shipping, and I'm not 100% sure how long it will take for preparation, but I'm hoping to have at least a video Corebooting my X220 up by the time our classes begin this time next month. 


guid: wallpapers
title: Wallpapers now public
url: https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/wallpapers
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
After a lot of requests, I've decided to upload all of my wallpapers into a Github repository. Check out the link for the full deal.


guid: donei3
title: Am I *done* configuring i3?
url: https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/voidrice
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
I've push some minor changes and cleaning up to my i3 configs. Several months ago, I was always making huge changes all the time, but now I daresay that I've nearly *perfected* what I'm aiming at...

<p>Changes will still come, but only trickle in as they come to me. By in large, I feel like I've converge on what I've been looking for when I started ricing.

<p>Expect a video on my i3 configs soon. There will be overlap with previous vids, but I feel like this one is much more refined now.


guid: battle1
title: Battlestation Video (Part 1)!
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np5rFh0FcfU
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
New video up on my computer setup in my current appartment. I go over all the basics, but no so much the books or my other computers. I'lll do that in Part 2, which I'll release next month when I move into my new place.


guid: i3wmchad
title: i3wm video is out!
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BOW61luzF4
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
Here it is, new i3 video, going over my revamping of my configs and other notes, especially for new subscribers.


guid: calcurse
title: Video on calcurse, also news to come
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvc-pHjbhdE
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
New video out on calcurse, expect actually more content soon. I'm hoping at least two videos per week.

<p>Probably today or tomorrow I'm going to be putting out a video on recent events in my life. Long story short: I was fired. I'm going to be posting a Patreon link to make up for some of the lost money, but leaving the (((university))) is a long-overdue development.


guid: vidme
title: Finally using Vid.Me, lol
url: https://vid.me/LukeSmith
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
I've had some backups of earlier videos on <a href="https://vid.me/LukeSmith">Vid.Me</a> for a while, but with all the ZUCCing going on with Google and YouTube, I figure it's best to keep more recent back ups as well.

		<p>Thankfully, Vid.Me always for pretty easy migration of YouTube videos, without me having to reentrer metadata, so it should be pretty easy to upkeep everything.


guid: masteringwebsite
title: Mastering my website
url: http://lukesmith.xyz/
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
You can't see any changes on my actual website, but I've just implemented a totally new paradigm for editing and updating it.</p>

		<p>I hate the internet. I like not being connected. But I pretty often have ideas for what to add to my website when I'm outside of the WWW.</p>

		<p>Traditionally, I just had to remember what I wanted to change and do it when I came back into the realm of wifi, but now I'm just keeping an entire "repository" of my website on my computer here.</p>

		<p>I can edit it offline, and when I get back to a reliable connection, I "push" the changes with rsync via ssh.</p>

		<p>There are other huge advantages to this as well. I don't have to worry about maintaining another vimrc on the serverside, and I don't have to worry about the lag common over ssh. Plus, I have an extra little backup in case of disaster with Host Gator.</p>

		<p>All in all, a good development.</p>


guid: managewebsite
title: Video out on how I manage my website
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azkWYxyqh3Y
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>Check out the link for details. I talk about my new paradigm for editing my website. I do plan on writing up a guide for newbies about how to start their own websites. There'll be an accompanying video too, since that's what people watch.</p>


guid: muhrss
title: Muh RSS
url: http://lukesmith.xyz/
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've been neglecting my RSS feed recently, considering it's a pretty robust syndication platform, I plan on remedying that.</p>
		<p>This might take the form of me starting a formal blog... I haven't yet, but I already have a WP server configured and might be employing it soon.</p>


guid: 2yearwointernet
title: Why I Went 2 Years with No Internet at Home
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiMcX3Fa2Us
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>A lot of people have asked about this on some of my videos... from 2015 to a month ago, I lived without internet at my home. This video is on why I recommend it.</p>


guid: mpdncmpcpp
title: My mpd/ncmpcpp Setup
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZIEdI9TS2U
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>A brief overview of mpd and ncmpcpp and my setup with them.</p>
		<p>As always, dotfiles are on Github.</p>


guid: websitebackend
title: Reworking the website backend
url: http://lukesmith.xyz/
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I had some free time this afternoon, so I decided to optimize by website backend. I've started to compile my website offline with a bash script that preemptively loads the required php commands. That's a marginal economy on the server-side, but mostly just an excuse to get something done.</p>


guid: imminentplans
title: Some busy work and imminent plans
url: https://youtube.com/c/LukeSmithxyz
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I have some real-world work to do this week, I have to finish writing a website and have to do some data analysis for a study, probably in R. If that ends up being interesting, I might actually just post a stream of it.</p>
		<p>Otherwise, this week I'll probably put up a Battlestation video, and possibly the first of a linguistics-themed podcast.</p>


guid: newlarbssoon
title: Automatic Ricing Script Part 2. (COMING SOON)
url: http://lukesmith.xyz/
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've decided to remake install scripts for Arch/Parabola since they were pretty popular last time, and I've made some pretty big changes since then.</p>
		<p>Expect them sometime this week. It actually saves me a lot of time doing this, and is a lot of fun making the documentation [autism intensifies].


guid: norel1
title: No Relation! EP1: Noam Chomsky Joins Us in Hell (Arizona)
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SPD35ETwuk
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>Starting a new podcast with my colleague Ryan Smith (no relation).</p>
		<p>To christen our first episode, we discuss Noam Chosmky joining us at the University of Arizona and our general disenchantment with the generative program.</p>


guid: outoftownlarbs
title: Out of Town: LARBS coming soon
url: https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/LARBS
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I'll be out of town for the weekend on personal reason, away from my microphone, etc. So don't expect videos until Tuesday! Around then, I will probably be finishing up the LARBS (see link) which I plan on releasing then. That will make a lot of things easier for a lot of people (including me).</p>


guid: podcast
title: The Podcast is Really Happening
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SPD35ETwuk
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>Last month, my colleague Ryan and I put out a brief introductory podcast episode, planning a series on academic affairs. We never planned out how frequent these would come out, and due to a series of life effects, it might look like it was a one time thing.</p>
		<p>The feedback we got though was overwhelming and encouraging, especially given how little most of my subscribers probably cared about the issues before hand. I also had a lot of grad students in the field email glowingly. Even better was the "negative" attention we got, mostly from the Old Guard and the typical pearl-clutchers in our department. The very gall of us to serve as faces to the universal discontentment.</p>
		<p>Ryan was witness to a particularly embarrassing encounter with a certaie professor absolutely apoplectic about the podcast, and recounted it to me with much gusto, variegated with uncontrollable laughter.</p>
		<p>Needless to say, the more episodes are in the tubes. We're enjoying where this is going already.</p>


guid: housecleaning
title: Housecleaning...
url: http://lukesmith.xyz/videos.html
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>YouTube does a bad job of making older content on your channel accesible to new viewers. To partially counteract that, I've decided to put a gallery of all my YouTube videos (with thumbnails) on my website for browsing, indexed by topic.</p>


guid: 10000subs
title: 10,000 subscribers!
url: https://youtube.com/c/lukesmithxyz
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>A big day! I've hit 10,000 subscribers. I had no idea that anyone outside of a couple weebs on 4chan would ever actually see my channel...</p>
		<p>I've come a long way. My two most popular videos (distrohopping and Apple/Mac) were both made before I had <em>100</em> subscribers, now I have a hundred times that, and both those videos are individually at over 130,000 views.</p>
		<p>Looking back at my system of a year ago I can't help shaking my head either; I've improved so much and have brought a lot of people with me on this year-long (but ongoing) journey!</p>


guid: lukegoldenage
title: Luke on Golden Age
url: http://www.socialmatter.net/2017/10/23/golden-age-episode-4-software-freedom/
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've made an appearance on Social Matter's podcast "The Golden Age".</p>
		<p>Host Michael Perilloux and I talk about software freedom, decentralization and privacy in the context of the Restoration and Neoreactionary politics.</p>
		<p>Check the podcast out <a href="http://www.socialmatter.net/2017/10/23/golden-age-episode-4-software-freedom/">here</a>, and then <a href="http://socialmatter.net">SocialMatter.net</a> for even more.</p>


guid: blockadsporn
title: Block Ads, Tracking, Porn and whatever else with /etc/hosts
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPfpCVW7ZvM
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>New video up on creating your own firewall with /etc/hosts. An extremely easy way to limit the potentially malicious IPs your machine can connect to.</p>


guid: libraryhtml
title: My book library: the autistic thing I've done this weekend...
url: http://lukesmith.xyz/library.html
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I created a catalogue of all of my books for online viewing, for those who want to see them for reviews. This is also sort of a personal thing, so I can have records before my collection becomes too large.</p>


guid: purismlaptops
title: On Purism Laptops
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwcOpf30SfY
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I give my 2 cents on Purism laptops. My subscribers give their 2 cents on my now shaved head.</p>


guid: limitationscause
title: Limitations cause greatness!
url: http://lukesmith.xyz/
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>Alright, it's that time of year where I have to start finalizing my research projects, which means I'll be really hard-pressed for time. If that means anything, it's that I'll probably be producing <em>more</em> content than usual.</p>

		<p>I'm the kind of person who when in a pinch goes the extra mile, which is good now just because I've been putting out a whole lot less content than I had wanted this semester. Good news is (a) I now have the will to do more hardcore video editing and (b) I found a way to cheat!</p>

		<p>That said, I do have a lot of personal work to finish, two qualifying papers, a paper on the evolution of rationality, a corpus of Latin and probably some other stuff I've forgotten. For me that just means more limitations, and thus more motivation for output I'll probably also put out videos on my academic projects, but only as a little bonus.</p>

		<p>First things first, I have a series on de-Googling coming soon, with a couple videos coming out next week.</p>


guid: eoma68on
title: On EOMA68 comuters
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvHUDHqSeuM
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>Since people have expressed interest, I did a little video on the EOMA68 to advertise the thing. You can get one that ships out next summer.</p>
		<p>It's one of the few computers with actual innovation behind it, and really propose a decntralized alternative.</p>


guid: pandocpres
title: Markdown and Pandoc for Easy Presentations...
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dum7q6UXiCE
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've started to use Markdown and Pandoc to get my briefer presentations done. I strongly recommend it.</p>
		<p>You can avoid the main of LibreOffice and the encumbering syntax of LaTeX/Beamer all in one.</p>


guid: decentralized
title: Make the Internet Decentralized Again!
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mtkicw97zSo
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I'm reuploading some portions of my interview with Michael Perilloux. They'll be popping up over the rest of the week. In this segment, we talk about efforts to decentralize the internet again.</p>


guid: thinkpadweek
title: ThinkPad week is on!
url: https://youtube.com/c/LukeSmithxyz
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I teased doing a series on ThinkPads a couple weeks ago, but other work bogged me down. Now that classes and end of the semester administrivia are over, I'm going to have a big lump of videos coming out in the next couple days&mdash;Expect them! And it's not just ThinkPads!</p>


guid: shortcut2
title: Shortcut sync for bash, ranger and qutebrowser
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxlJAGiRY0o
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>See the link; I had come up with the idea for a script a while ago, but I figured it was worth redoing and making a little more robust. The idea is to keep the same aliases across qutebrowser, ranger and bash for cding to or moving/downloading files to certain directories. Check out the video or the Github repository for more info.</p>


guid: whichthinkpad
title: "Which ThinkPad Should I Get?"
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La3sb5y7e-k
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>New video up on ThinkPads: the different kinds, what's popular, what's free and what's a meme.</p>


guid: t420
title: ThinkPad T420 Overview
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPOLYXi2tGg
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>A brief overview of the ThinkPad T420, one of the best ThinkPads for new ThinkPad users. Sturdy, modern yet still with the classic design.</p>


guid: sc-im1
title: sc-im: A Vim-inspired Excel replacement!
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_8_gazN7h0
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>Thanks to a viewer, Michael Novella for showing me this! It's a pretty sweet terminal spreadsheet editor with vim-like bindings. Lots of fun and a good potential replacement for LibreOffice calc.</p>


guid: netneut
title: Video on Net Neutrality
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgbeB79Dss0
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>Well, my check from Comcast cleared a little late, but now I've finally taken to defending Pajeet Pai's "corporate takeover of the internet". Reddit-friends on suicide watch.</p>


guid: vimspell
title: Yup! Vim has a spell-checker. (VIDEO)
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez1XBUqbS68
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>A video on vim's built-in spellchecker, along with all the default bindings and possibilities, and how to use dictionaries from other languages, etc.</p>


guid: linguisticsvids
title: Linguistics Videos! (Coming Whether I like it or not!)
url: http://lukesmith.xyz/
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've been rehired by the linguistics department (so I'm now working for both them and Information Sciences) and part of my assignment next semester will be making video lectures for an introductory lingusitics course.</p>
		<p>One of the reasons I got this assignment is my history on YouTube, and given that, I'm going to <em>actually</em> end up making the linguistics videos I've been promising here and there.</p>
		<p>The initial content will probably be very introductory, but if I get momentum in making the videos, I'll probably expand the range past what my assignment is.</p>


guid: urxvt
title: URXVT, Basics and Configuration (VIDEO)
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaBf_yFHps8
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>A video on urxvt, including the basics, transparency with i3 and perl scripts that do all of the magic for you.</p>


guid: returningarizona
title: Returning to Arizona
url: http://lukesmith.xyz/
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I'll be returning to Arizona and all my equipment tomorrow and hopefully will be fully cured of the flu I've had the past week. After that, I'll have more videos coming out, probably in the typical 'spree' release schedule.</p>


guid: chadrmarkdown
title: The Virgin LaTeX vs. the CHAD R Markdown (Video)
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWScm5WI3fo
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've been using R markdown as a general document formatting paradigm. It has all the perks of LaTeX but is much more manageable and with much more transparent syntax.</p>
		<p>I'll be putting up another video on it soon!</p>


guid: rmarkdownintro
title: An Intro to R Markdown (video)
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J5a0JWIF-0
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>A brief intro R markdown. I talk about what it does and how to compile it in vim, with a lot of its features like inline code and different output formats..</p>


guid: st
title: st: suckless's Simple Terminal (video)
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJmm7wl4JUI
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I actually got a worthwhile suckless terminal configuration going. Check out the video, and also <a href="https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/st">my git repo</a> with my particular build.</p>
		<p>It has transparency and scrollback, and a lot of helpful bindings, but also all the typical perks of st: excellent unicode compatibility and general non-bugginess.</p>


guid: hardreset
title: Hard Reset on the Voidrice Repository
url: https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/voidrice
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>After several months and 70-something commits, I decided to hard reset and recommit my voidrice repository. Nothing's gone of course, there are a lot of forks and mirrors out there and I'm recommiting the files as they are today.</p>
		<p>This might sound like a strange thing to do, but the repo files were getting huge (around 20MB for a repo for less than 2MB of files). I tried all the typical options, garbage collecting, even tree filtering, but couldn't reduce the size, and a small size is what I need for LARBS.</p>
		<p>The main reason it got so big was when I naïvely included an enormous font system with the repo a while back to make it more accessible to Parabola users. I didn't realize how much of a pain it would be to deal with for its ease.</p>
		<p>I'm planning a bigger, fuller release of LARBS, so I want to have everything clean and accessible. I may upload the old bloated repository as well on Github, maybe a "voidrice classic" and keep it as it is now, but there's a lot I've learned about system management so I like the clean feeling.</p>


guid: rintro
title: Stats in R: Basics of a Beefy Calculatory (video)
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlCWQrKQQI4
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>Here's the first in a series on R, the mathematical/statistical programming language!</p>

<p>Here I talk about the basics: the arithmetic, variables and the logic of vectors in R, and how R differs from typical programming languages.</p>


guid: rdataframes
title: Dataframes in R: Columns subsets and more! (video)
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDzVtu24dbk
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>A video on how to create modify and extract data from columns and rows in R. We talk about some of the more extensible functions that are like advanced loops in one command!</p>


guid: programsiuse
title: What programs do I use?
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/programs.html
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I get a lot of questions about what particular programs I use for this or that. For people who don't want to troll every video of mine to find the answers, I put up a little page on my website (in link) that lists all the main stuff I use.</p>


guid: https
title: RSS readers: You can now use HTTPS!
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>Just as a note, you can feel free to use https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml as the feed URL in your feed reader as I've finally gotten SSL/HTTPS for my website.</p>


guid: larbssoon
title: LARBS preparing for release
url: https://larbs.xyz/
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>If you track my Github, you may've noticed I've been making some bigger changes to my LARBS and voidrice repositories, preparing for a re-release of LARBS with more fanfare, and more tutorial videos to go along with it (I've also updated https://larbs.xyz to HTTPS since that's a more legit concern).</p>

<p>There have been a lot of little improvements, and I'm hoping to have a lot of the small kinks worked out before then.</p>

<p>There is one thing I'd really like and don't know if it exists, and that is a kind of mutt config generator or wizard, that will automatically detect your email provider's servers and set the more annoying settings by itself. I've put some documentation up about how to configure mutt so far, but I really wish there were a way to make it easier for users.</p>


guid: forumrss
title: Forum is now open to public (but only YOU know!)
url: https://forum.lukesmith.xyz/
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I mentioned making a forum for subscribers and I've been working on it a little for the past few days. The link is at <a href="https://forum.lukesmith.xyz/">https://forum.lukesmith.xyz/</a>. I haven't posted this on YouTube or Twitter yet, but I'll go ahead and tell all of you who follow my RSS feed now.</p>

<p>Registration should be free and open and you should be able to post on the boards I've made so far, so feel free to, if fact, please do and go ahead and find any bugs, start dialogue etc. If everything works out, I'll probably announce it on the channel next week.</p>


guid: torx
title: Mac Users: Don't Say T*rx on My Channel (T*rxroaches BTFO!) (video)
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUCuMqBlSqE
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I banned the word "torx" on my comment section to clean up some mess. Why? Watch to find out!</p>


guid: i3webcams
title: i3: Managing Windows and Webcams for screencasting
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkqxYZ7-sQM
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>A little vid on window management in i3wm, where I show how I manage my webcam and keep it with the properties I want.</p>


guid: forumvid
title: We Have a Forum! (and on the Future!)
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MC3wR63FHs
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I hope you enjoyed the brief week of no newfriends on the forum. In this video I announce the forum to the wider channel and talk about some of my plans in the near future.</p>


guid: muttwiznot
title: Working on a mutt wizard
url: https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/mutt-wizard
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I think I'll put a video up on this tomorrow, but I'm starting to put together an ncurses script that will automatically configure mutt, offlineIMAP, notmuch, and everything else you need for a fully featured offline terminal email service, all with basically no user effort beyond putting in their email and password.</p>

<p>If you're a mutt user, you can help me by sending me your email server settings if they're not already in the autoconf/domains.csv file.</p>


guid: muttwiz
title: Now You Can Auto-Configure Mutt and OfflineIMAP! (video)
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsEJz9f9VMQ
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>Video out on the now completed mutt/offlineIMAP wizard. Try it yourself! It will give a fully featured terminal email setup with offline backups for offline browsering and safe password storage.</p>

<p>I also put out a brief video on how to generate a public/private key pair in GnuPG <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMGIlj7u7Eo">here</a>, which is needed for the auto-confige script.</p>


guid: autistic
title: You're not "Autistic." You're normal. (video)
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAsxztU189k
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I wanted to talk about a mindset I get a lot from some of my subscribers. Sure, a lot of it is just making fun, but some people get hard on themselves for having hobbies or not socializing how they think they should be. I address this in this video.</p>


guid: sucklesssent
title: Easy, No BS Slide Presentations with SENT! (suckless) (video)
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCLCl96eNaI
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've been playing around with sent recently, which is a good way to immediately make slide presentations. Check it out!</p>


guid: destx220
title: BRAINLET Luke Destroys his ThinkPad X220!!! (Press F) (video)
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X1LUlnhIAI
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>Check the video out! When fixing my X220 I made some bad electrical contact and fried the screen connector. What does this mean for the channel? Let's find out!</p>


guid: tripcode
title: NEWS: Arch Linux Install and Config; and X220 Repair (video)
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ke9ZNC9a5k
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>tripcode!Q/7, who also makes YouTube videos, volunteered to try to fix my X220, so I'll be sending it to him next week. Also, two major Patreon incentives were met last month: the Arch Linux install and the Arch Linux graphical environment setup! Expect those within a week or so!</p>


guid: arch2para
title: From Arch Linux to Parabola: How-To and System Management! (video)
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jx-5Zp28VQ
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>In this video I go through how to migrate an Arch Linux install to Parabola GNU/Linux-libre, which is a 100% free software distribution! Check it out!</p>


guid: funandgames
title: Quantifier Scope Is All Just Fun and Games! (video)
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w_PMpQiGL0
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>A presentation I gave a couple weeks back to prospective graduate students on a recent linguistics project. I argued that quantifier scope is extra-linguistic, not determined by the narrow syntax and am building, with some colleagues a general account of quantifier scope in Game Theoretic terms.</p>


guid: rssfeedclean
title: Clean out your RSS feed cache!
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've cleaned up and added all the frills to my RSS feed to maximize the compatibility with different readings. The temporary downside is that long-time users will probably have to clean out their RSS cache for my feed, otherwise you'll see lots of duplicate entries!</p>

<p>Don't be afraid, everything will still be here, but you can fee free to clean out your RSS cache and reload to clean everything up!</p>


guid: muttwizsync
title: mutt-wizard Now Has an Autosync and Notification Option!
url: https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/mutt-wizard
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've added a new options to the mutt-wizard which will automatically add a cronjob that runs a script that smartly syncs offlineimap at the interval you want if there's an internet connection.</p>

<p>It also checks to see if new mail has been downloaded, and if it has, will provide a brief little notification ding! Enjoy!</p>


guid: archisameme
title: Arch Linux: Is it a meme? (video)
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO9R_WFs9Zc
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>Here I talk about some misunderstandings about Arch Linux and some reasons it's worth using. It's not the best distro (there is none), but I keep coming back to Arch for a couple reasons.</p>


guid: sentvideos
title: Suckless sent of video creation?
url: https://tools.suckless.org/sent/
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>A little bit ago I talked about how I've been using suckless <a href="https://tools.suckless.org/sent/">sent</a>, which is a minimalist presentation format. It lacks features aside from the basics: text on slides (which is automatically sized for each one) and the ability to have images (only one per slide, again, autosized).</p>

<p>I've always looked for a more effective way to make meme videos, by which I mean the videos like my distro-hopping or Mac videos, where I more or less narrate a stream of memes and some text. Traditionally I did this in Blender, but that could be very time consuming, taking several days of constant work to put out a 10 minute video.</p>

<p>It actually hit me that sent would be a very good replacement for Blender (strangely enough), in that I can just write a presentation, put in images, etc., load it in sent, and record my screen while narrating. I.e., no video editing/tweaking/compiling or work time other than assembling my "script" for the video, in the different memes and text I'll be talking about.</p>

<p>I think I'll try this out pretty soon. Hopefully I can get in a place where I can put videos like that out relatively commonly.</p>


guid: deusexinstall
title: I've been unironically playing the best game ever again: Deus Ex
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I installed Deus Ex (yes, of course the original) on my Arch Desktop, just for laughs and because I wanted to quickly replay and get tired of it. Installation on Linux wasn't too difficult since there's an OpenGL renderer from the Mac port, and aside from that all I needed to install was some lib32 pulseaudio/alsa things. It runs really smooth and clean on a Linux machine if it means anything.</p>

<p>Don't expect me to end up becoming a game streamer, especially with (&gt;proprietary software), but it was fairly refreshing to play a game with genuinely good storyline and development again. Obviously it lacks the features of a modern game, but back then video games were far enough away from real life so that you could rely on your imagination to fill in the gaps, which arguably makes for a better experience.</p>


guid: larbscoming
title: New LARBS format; 2.0 coming soon.
url: https://github.com/lukesmithxyz/larbs
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've developed a more robust framework for implementing LARBS that will make it considerably easier and more elegant to manage packages. Now all packages are read in one single csv file and are processed based on whether the user chose their package group and whether the package is in the main repos or only in the AUR (this detection is now done automatically).</p>

<p>There's also now a (mostly) ncurses based interface during installation and, if it means anything, I've considerably reduced the size of the script seeing that the deployment method is now less <i>ad hoc</i>.</p>

<p>I'm hoping to "officially" re-release the scripts very soon, in fact, after this they may not actually change much at all until I do, all is needed is a little testing. You're welcome to try it yourself now and see the results.</p>


guid: paninisimin
title: Linguistics Isn't 60 Years Old!:Pāṇinian Approaches to Language
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yZ91YUdRfY
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>A guest lecture I gave in Simin Karimi's "Major Works in Syntax" class, a very brief talk about the Indian/Paninian tradition in linguistics. She expressed interest in having me again, so there might be a Part 2 to this focusing on mostly Medieval European thought.</p>


guid: meetnoam
title: Luke Smith and Noam Chomsky (and my position in the field)
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>Noam Chomsky and I finally formally met this evening at Simin Karimi's Noruz Party. We've run into each other in the halls from time to time, but this was the first time we officially spoke. This sounds like a somewhat bloggish thing to mention, and knowing me, I felt no overwhelming need to speak with him, but Tom Bever insisted on introducing us.</p>

<p>Tom introduced me in too glowing terms, a nice, yet not so meaningful gesture considering Noam is more than half deaf nowadays, especially in the bustle of the party. People had actually be lining up to see him; it looked sort of like people paying respect to a mafia don, but Tom unceremoniously pushed aside everyone else and invited me to talk to Noam directly.</p>

<p>We spoke a bit about my projects on prosodically driven syntax and the quantifier scope project, and he entreated me to talk to him later to get more in depth. He didn't divulge if he knew about me, granted, he's definitely heard of me from Tom and others in the department and we've spoken on email chains, but I'm not sure what or if he could've been expected to remember considering that he's less involved than the other faculty.</p>

<p>I still don't plan on going into the field, but there was an aura of momentousness to the event. A couple people were taking pictures of us and I got a couple comments afterward that remarked on the potential significance of our first meeting.</p>

<p>Either way it is sort of funny. Someone mentioned to me a bit ago that a lot of the grad students in the field know Arizona as "the place where Luke Smith is", which is hilarious for many reasons, and would probably be upsetting for a lot of the syntacticians here, but most strange now that Noam is here (a lot of people assume he's still at MIT since it's only been a year or so). I've never been plugged into academic politics, I don't actually plan on publishing before I leave the field and I've never even been to the LSA, but between the YouTube channel and targeted pressure from several people, I have a level of notoriety unexpected by me.</p>

<p>So the disaster scenario for "some people out there" is that something comes of this: that I become in the popular eye "the Linguist" that at least some normal people know about, or even worse, some kind of next logical step from Chomsky, catapulted to prominence in a way similar to how Noam's political rabble-rousing popularized him. And of course the elephant in the room is the political differences: there's a huge irony in some kind of mantle being passed from a Jewish anarcho-communist who grew up on a kibbutz to a goyish low-church Borderer who voted for Trump and has only barely managed to slip into the cracks of academia given his political disposition. If I were to obtain a well-known position in academia, I would be doing a lot of good for the re-enfranchisement of the White Right in the opinion-molding class.</p>

<p>That's not to say that my ascendancy in the field is even probable if I do stay, but the mere fact there's greater than a 2% chance of it would certainly have surprised me 15, 10, 5 or even 2 years ago. The only question is what aspects of my life am I willing to give up to continue to stoke the fires of this potentiality, or if I can continue to tolerate this lifestyle. On one hand, I've put up with every lie, manipulation, character assassination and "technicality" that could be thrown at me from this department, mostly without flinching, and my detractors are starting to sound like boys-who-cried-wolfs. On the other hand, a cabin for my family in the woods generally sounds like a better lifestyle.</p>


guid: liberapay
title: LiberaPay now added (It's better than Paypal and Patreon)
url: https://liberapay.com/LukeSmith
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>A lot of people said that they'd like to fund the channel/me, but are (understandably) nervous about Patreon and Paypal. I've now added a <a href="https://liberapay.com/LukeSmith">LiberaPay account</a>, which is a much freer and privacy respecting platform, which also doesn't take a slice off the top fo every transfer.</p>

<p>If you don't trust Patreon or Paypal (which you shouldn't really), throw your support in via LiberaPay. It'd honestly be better generally to get channel funding there anyway!</p>


guid: oralssoon
title: Oral defense next week
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've been preparing for my oral defense in my doctoral program and some other things recently, adding up to one of the more full months I've had in a while. (So if you're curious why I haven't been putting up as much as usual, that's why). For those who don't know what this means, I wrote two qualifying papers as required for my PhD, and afterwards, our department requires an oral defense of both of them, in front of a committee of my choosing from the department.</p>

<p>For those who want to know, my committee is Mike Hammond, Tom Bever, Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini, Simin Karimi and Robert Henderson. The only one who non-linguists may be familiar with is Massimo, notorious for his book "What Darwin Got Wrong" with Jerry Fodor, but a couple of the others might have a Wikipedia article or talks on YouTUbe if anyone is interested.</p>

<p>Anyway, after passing this, I'll be officially allowed to start on my dissertation (and after finishing that, I'll be doing another defense of that). I was sort of thinking of recording this defense for public consumption, although I don't think I'm strictly speaking allowed to, as the event is supposed to be private. (I think this has traditionally been just for the privacy of the defender, which I obviously don't care about).</p>

<p>After this is over, I'll the ABD (all but dissertation, as they say) and will have more time on my hands.</p>


guid: dmenu1
title: dmenu is more than an "application launcher"! (video)
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9m723tAurA
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've been playing around with dmenu a little recently, and the way it was intended to be used! In this video, I show some little scripts that exploit dmenu's extensibility to get a lot of functionality out of this little suckless program.</p>


guid: newsboat
title: Video on newsboat and RSS feed (video)
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUFCRqs822w
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>A little video on newsboat and RSS feeds. Welcome, if you're just now getting into RSS feeds!</p>


guid: arch2
title: Arch Install Part 2: Setting up a graphical environment and users (video)
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSHOb8YU9Gw
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>A follow up on the Arch install video, talking about how to install a graphical environment and other basic setup tips.</p>


guid: vimsublimeslave
title: Some tips in a vim project (video)
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hraHAZ1-RaM
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>A little vid on some vim tips and how to customize a workflow for your particular tasks. The content is mostly on how I turned raw file names into easily adjustable links for a personal task.</p>


guid: i3blocks
title: Playing around with i3 blocks (video)
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7_9Xdbsem4
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've had some wanderlust for having a more configurable status bar, so I got back into i3blocks. I manages to create some custom blocks, including one for unread emails and one for a weather report. Check it out and maybe you'll get some ideas yourself.</p>


guid: vpsmove
title: Moving to a VPS, some downtime
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I'm in the process of moving the entire website/LARBS/the forum to a VPS, due to the annoying practices of my former host, HostGator. Expect some downtime or certificate errors. My main website and this feed should be done (that's the easy part).</p>

<p>Hopefully I'll have LARBS.xyz finished today as well, but the forum might take another day, just because I have to go through the rigmarole of installing myBB manually on my new server which I haven't done before. That said, I managed to figure out how to install/run/configure an Apache server this morning so I figure myBB can't be much more difficult.</p>


guid: transfernamecheap
title: Updates on downtime and server transfer/email
url: https://forum.lukesmith.xyz/thread-537.html
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>The link is to a forum thread on the topic. I've had a lot of trouble configuring email manually, so I'm going to get a VPS + email server from namecheap instead. I should be able to receive email alright at the time being and the forum will be up.</p>


guid: timewaste
title: What a waste of time!
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>Welp I've spent about a week moving my websites to a VPS (several attempts at different services actually). I've only just now finally had some success. I originally was going to try Digital Ocean, but they don't offer good email service. I tried setting up an email server myself, but the amount of work and number of details needed to get everything to work is an order of magnitude more than just running a web server.</p>

<p>So I'm actually using a Namecheap VPS now, which is the registrar of my domains anyway. I thought this would make transferring my hosting easy (It wasn't). Namecheap has atrocious documentation and their site is extremely slow and non-responsive (thankfully their hosting servers/VPSs aren't). Regardless, I've gotten my website working (with https) and my email with their email service after several days of making DNS changes blindly and checking the results on update 24 hours later.</p>

<p>On a side note, SSL is one of the more difficult things to configure manually. While there are tools like Let's Encrypt, they can often be a pain to get working with different hosts and especially when you're like me and want wildcard certificates for your multiple sites. I really do not understand why hosts don't automate this process for most use cases (actually I do, because most of them get money off of selling partial automation).</p>

<p>Anyway, the looming issue is the forum. Host Gator automatically installed the (outdated) myBB backend for the forum, so I've never done the process myself manually. I'm going to have to figure that out soon enough, which will require me to get some mySQL database up and running (again, I've never done this before).</p>


guid: linuxfestintro
title: I'll be at Linux Fest Southeast next month. Come and see me!
url: http://www.southeastlinuxfest.org/
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I mentioned this in a video or two, but I'll be presenting at Southeast Linuxfest in Charlotte, NC on June 9. Feel free to come if you're in the Southeast. There are actually going to be a lot of talks all weekend, but mine is currently slated for June 9th (Saturday), the last talk of the day.</p>

<p>I should be in town for the full duration of the conference though. I'll also probably be recording the talk as well. I think the conference managers have recorded them in the past, but I want to be sure of the audio quality. Either way, it'll end up on YouTube. That said, for those in neighboring or nearby states, I think it'd be worth your time to come, not just for me, but for all the talks, tutorials, sessions and groups there to choose from. Check out their website for more: <a href="http://www.southeastlinuxfest.org/">http://www.southeastlinuxfest.org/</a></p>


guid: vimmouse
title: Why Vim Doesn't Need a Mouse (video)
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQCRVkSFFEc
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>A brief video on why vim doesn't use the mouse, and how to do "mouse-like" things like selection and movement.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#new-turbo-minimalist-site
title: New turbo-minimalist site
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#new-turbo-minimalist-site
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've decided to severely trim down my website, not in content, but in frills. We'll see how this works out, and if it does, I plan on keeping it this way with maybe minor beautification.</p>

<p>At a surface level, my site is just going to be two main HTML pages: the <a target="_blank" href="http://lukesmith.xyz/index.html">main page</a> and <a href="https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html">a blog/updates page</a> which I have made automatically (This also includes RSS updates).</p>

<p>One of the other things I've made use of is an Apache server's capability to display directory contents in and index page. You've probably seen things like this, see one of mine at <a target="_blank" href="http://lukesmith.xyz/talks/">talks/</a>. You can also give these pages CSS and descriptions for the files, which I've decided to take advantage of. It seems like a much better way of organizing files on your website and making them accessible than doing it manually in HTML.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#on-my-new-blog-system
title: On my new blog system
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#on-my-new-blog-system
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>For the past day or so, I've been "writing" a blog "system". Really it's only about 100 lines in shell script, which sure as hell beats installing WordPress and having huge databases on the server.</p>

<p>I want to have one rolling blog page, automatic RSS feed updates and maybe even standalone pages, so that's what I wrote. I also want to be able to link to individual blog entries on the rolling page, so I have it automatically label each header for the use of interior urls.</p>

<p>If you're reading this, wherever you're reading it, it's been successfuly.</p>

<p>Really all the script does is let you write a HTML draft entry, and when you're done, it appends it to the rolling page and converts its information into an RSS feed entry and appends it to your RSS feed. "Append" is probably the wrong word though, since it's not being added to the end, but in front of other entries.</p>

<p>Anyway, I hope to be able to have a fully functioning and synced blog and RSS feed, without the hassle or bloat, now I'm pretty confident that I'm right about at it. The only thing I haven't implemented (and might not) is the ability to change and delete posts from the RSS/rolling blog/standalone page directory. I'm the kind of person who doesn't believe in revision though, so maybe I'll slide without that.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#new-forum-up-and-under-preparation
title: New Forum Up and Under Preparation
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#new-forum-up-and-under-preparation
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>My subscriberbase has been pretty consistently dogging me to put the forum up. I figured I might as well just start a new forum with updated myBB software now. The old forum was a good trial run, but with newer software and now on my own server, there are more possibilities for a longterm forum.</p>

<p>So check out <a target="_blank" href="http://forum.lukesmith.xyz">forum.lukesmith.xyz</a> and go ahead and register the name you want and start posting if you'd like. As a minor warning, I don't have https for the forum yet, but that will come pretty soon.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#excuse-the-rss-mess
title: Excuse the RSS mess!
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#excuse-the-rss-mess
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>As I said, in a post before, I'm figuring out a new blogging and RSS feed paradigm which has been 95% done for several days, barring those little annoyances. I've been moving things around, including the GUIDs for RSS entires, so you may be seeing double, triple or quadruple entries in your RSS feed reader.</p>

<p>Feel free to purge your RSS feed cache to fix this. You won't lose anything since I have everything on my RSS feed (I'm not one of those people who has a rolling 15 entry RSS feed).</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#check-github-for-the-blog-system
title: Check Github for the blog system
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#check-github-for-the-blog-system
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I put my new blog system on Github. Again, just a little 70-ish line script that generates HTML and RSS/XML code automatically from a post; it'll get me a lot for very little, and obviously doesn't involve any silly databases.</p>

<p>Check out the link at <a href="https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/lb">https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/lb</a>. Play around with it if you're interested in it for your own purposes. I might do a video on it in a bit, and I'll be refining it as needed.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#more-tinkering-today
title: More tinkering today
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#more-tinkering-today
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I'm changing a couple lines in the blog script (<code>lb</code>) that beautify the standalone pages, giving them UTF-8 encoding, actual titles and the website's stylesheet. While the standalone pages were originally an afterthought, I'm sure someone will like using them. I'll also probably put a video up about the blog system anyway<p>

<p>I've also been working on the forum today, and I'll also be putting up an update to the mutt-wizard which will hopefully fix compatibility with certain sites. Originally, I made the apparently improper and pessimistic assumption that some providers don't use +INBOX as the inbox location, encouraging me to writing a very skiddie line in grep to filter out all non-inbox boxes to smartly guess the true inbox. This caused the system to detect people's "Contacts" or "SMS" folders as their inbox in some cases.</p>

<p>I'll be fixing this soon so that it always just assumes that "+INBOX" is the real thing, which I think will lessen the errors people have.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#guests-now-allowed-on-forum-perks-for-supporters.
title: Guests now allowed on forum; Perks for supporters.
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#guests-now-allowed-on-forum-perks-for-supporters.
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>Now that the forum is being reborn, I've openned up one of the subforums, the <a target="_blank" href="http://forum.lukesmith.xyz/forumdisplay.php?fid=5">tech support</a> one to non-registered posters. This makes it so people without an account can come and ask questions.</p>

<p>Additionally, I'm going to give perks to people who support me/the channel on Patreon. For now, it's going to be for anyone who gives any ammount of money, but I make increase the required input in a bit. Perks will include a gold-plated name, access to a private forum, and possibly other abilities like bigger avatar size and such (that's not implemented yet).</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#video-on-the-blog-system
title: Video on the blog system
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#video-on-the-blog-system
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I just put up the video on the blog system, if you're interested. Check it out <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIfAdzGmhik">here</a>.</p>

<p>Again, the link to the Github repo is <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/lukesmithxyz/lb">here</a>. Enjoy!</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#how-i-write-accent-marks-and-ipa-characters-in-vim
title: How I Write Accent Marks and IPA Characters in Vim
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#how-i-write-accent-marks-and-ipa-characters-in-vim
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I just released a brief video on <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPvvOEiiF28">how I put special characters into vim.</a>. There is a built in system (with control-k) for inputting special characters, but it's not as manipulatable as I'd like. Instead, I have two little vim files that coin functions to enable/disable deadkeys (for diacritics) or extra shortcuts for characters in the International Phonetic Alphabet.</p>

<p>The deadkey function turns ', ", :, ` and other symbols into deadkeys that place diacritics onto different characters. The IPA function is similar, but allows a sequence of semicolon plus two letters to correspond to an IPA symbol. E.g., if I want to type 'ʃ', I just type ';sh.</p>

<p>The links are in the video description (the files are in the voidrice repository as usual). The system is pretty customizable, and you can easily add whatever characters you need, potentially imitating the toggling commands I have there already.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#forum-now-has-http--ssl-lunduke-btfo-once-again
title: Forum now has HTTP & SSL (Lunduke BTFO once again)
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#forum-now-has-http--ssl-lunduke-btfo-once-again
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've finally put HTTPS on <a href="https://forum.lukesmith.xyz">the forum</a> for security's sake. I appreciate that people have been signing up already anyway. I'll probably reannounce it on the channel when I do a live stream probably tomorrow.</p>

<p>You may've noticed that there was also some server downtime, that was actually relevant to the SLL upgrade. I stupidly miswrote something and broke my Apache server for a minute or two. All fixed now though.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#stream-soon
title: Stream soon
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#stream-soon
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I'll be doing a stream in a bit, probably within the hour. Keep your eyes peeled on YouTube.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#series-on-old-norse-and-language-learning
title: Series on Old Norse and Language Learning?
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#series-on-old-norse-and-language-learning
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>One request I get a whole lot is to talk about how to learn a language, or one harder, a language using only a book. I could just "talk" about it, but I figure doing it real time might be a lot better. I taught myself Latin this way nearly 10 years ago, and now use my Latin knowledge all the time academically. Part of my knowledge of Chinese also comes from my particular method of learning.</p>

<p>Anyway, I want to record myself going through an introductory language-learning book, verbally externalize my thoughts to make it clear how I interpret what I see. Obviously I have a lot of initial knowledge about languages generally, but as it comes up, I'll mention and explain all the needed concept  and why they're relevant.</p>

<p>The language I've chosen to learn is Old Norse/Old Icelandic, which, as it happens, is very close and mutually intelligible with modern Icelandic with some minor differences. WhyOld Norse? (1) It's an ancient language that can be useful for my own understanding of historical linguistics, and the development of Germanic languages, (2) it still has some older linguistic properties that will keep viewers informed of a more highly inflected language, but (3) it also has a vocabulary similar to English, which will minimize the rote memorization aspect of learning it.</p>

<p>The book I'll probably be going through is <em>Old Icelandic: An Introductory Course</em> by Valfells and Cathey. I'll either have a physical copy or a pdf of it, which ever ismore convenient for recording. If you have any other suggestions, feel free to give me them! Again, the point of the series isn't supposed to be just on Old Norse/Icelandic, but on language learning generally, so everyone is welcome to watch! ;-)</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#whomst-lives-in-georgia
title: Whomst lives in Georgia?
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#whomst-lives-in-georgia
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>Friendship ended with Arizona; now Georgia is my best friend.</p>

<p>I just finished my move from Arizona, which is more relieving than I can possibly express. Classwork is done, and the only possible reason I'll ever be returning to that quite literal hell-hole is for when I defend my dissertation and my graduation ceremony.</p>

<p>The thing is, while I've moved from Arizona, I haven't really moved anywhere in particular; I'll be living with family and friends until I decided where I want to live exactly. Here are my options:</p>

<ul>
    <li>Just go full innawoods right now, buy land (in Georgia or Tennessee) with my money and get started. The disadvantage is that I don't have as much money as I'd like to get a choice parcel, and this would also interfere with my dissertation (perhaps it doesn't matter of course).</li>
    <li>Partial innawoods. I have some family in Florida with remote land and farmhouses. I could ask to live their and watch the property, maybe practice for real innawoods hours in the meantime. No money required other than my food, unless the relevant family member wants nominal rent.</li>
    <li>Move to an apartment in a practical place to work on my dissertation. This would probably mean a college town where they have a library and bus system (probably Athens, where the University of Georgia is, where I've lived before and have friends, but I don't particularly like the place). Work on the dissertation and finish in a year, then go elsewhere.</li>
    <li>Move into Atlanta, get an internship at an NGO, become a bugman (joke choice).</li>
</ul>

<p>Other data:</p>

<ul>
    <li>I don't own a car anymore and don't want to buy one unless I go innawoods. I'll need a truck if I do. Having a car while living in a city is a waste.</li>
    <li>I'll <em>possibly</em> still be getting some amount of money from the University of Arizona for online work. This means that I'll have an income stream. I want to treat this income as going directly into the innawoods fund though.</li>
    <li>If I actually ever get monetized (it's been 5 months of "review"), I might actually be making workable money on YouTube (possibly enough for rent somewhere). Patreon/Paypal is small now, but a lot more than nothing and sort of pays for my groceries and such.</li>
</ul>

<p>Anyway, the title of the post is "Whomst lives in Georgia?" because I'm curious. I know some subscribers live in Athens, and if there are a lot there, or a lot in Kennesaw or another college town, that might be a reason to move there, so we can have IRL meetups or stuff or I can do stuff at university events, etc. Feel free to respond to <a target="_blank" href="https://forum.lukesmith.xyz/showthread.php?tid=82">the thread on this on the forum</a> or if you don't want to dox yourself, just mail me (<a href="mailto:luke@lukesmith.xyz">luke@lukesmith.xyz</a>). </p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#exile-in-suburbia
title: Exile in Suburbia
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#exile-in-suburbia
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>While I'm looking for a new apartment or land to live on, I've been living in the Atlanta suburbs (or 'boondocks' in some people's definitions) again. After a couple days of rest after the grueling move/drive across country, I'm getting used to the 40 minute walk to the closest town and the extreme lack of people of my demographics (both age and race).</p>

<p>I found a local bookstore today and bought a copy of Cochran and Harpending's <em>The 10,000 Year Explosion</em>, a book I had read a while ago, but never bought. It's actually my style to only buy books after reading them and liking them at libraries. I'm rereading it now.</p>

<p>I've also been going thru A.J. Ayer's <em>Language, Truth and Logic</em>, which was largely one of the key books in spreading Logical Positivism to the English-speaking work. Intellectually-subtle viewers may know that I'm not a big fan of Logical Positivism&mdash;in fact I'm sort of reading it to have a strawman to attack in my dissertation. You never know though; I find it very difficult to enunciate my distaste of it. The vocabulary isn't quite out there to do so with a popular (or un-popular) audience.</p>

<p>Since I plan on my dissertation being in large part philosophy of science and then some, I'll have to overcome this lack of vocabulary, and might do so partially with the aid of my YouTube channel.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#lol-linuxfest
title: Lol Linuxfest
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#lol-linuxfest
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've been at Southeast Linuxfest the past two days. I'll probably do a full review later, but here are some highlights so far.</p>

<ul>
<li>My subscribers are not nearly as weird as I anticipated, and seem to be actually less weird than the average Linux user.</li>
<li>There actually were some girls Linuxfest (although no obvious <font color="green">&gt;girls</font>).</li>
<li>My talk was pretty crowded; standing room only. It also generated a lot of good discussion. I polled the audience and about half of them knew me (usually the younger ones).</li>
<li>Some boomer guy began to unironically "Interject" to my use of the term "Linux" as I used it in the talk ;-)</li>
<li>I even had a very young fan (as in utterly prepubescent fan) besting even Pewdiepie's fans in youth. He asked for an autograph and picture.</li>
<li>Linuxfest was generally well-organized but there were some huge oversights. The rooms were only equipped to handle HDMI inputs. This basically ruined Michael Tunnell's presentation which was right before mine (and probably others) since they couldn't record from his laptop. Poor guy had to use some useless Chromebook (which its distinct lack of keys) to try to preview kdenlive. They couldn't record from mine either, but I'm not going to let that happen, so I just went Harambe Mindframe and connected to the screen VGA input, bypassing their recording rig and recorded the talk on my own machine. This is something that the speakers should not have to be worrying about.</li>
<li>People got a little peeved by the organizer's keynote, because it went way, way over on time, and then was followed by another talk that ruffled some vocal SJW feathers (basically a critique of witch-hunting codes of conduct). This is just what I gleamed from people, all of whom were really tired after a long day, because I sat these talks out.</li>
</ul>

<p>Anyway, it's been nice meeting all of you who have/had come! Again, I might do a video update after the whole thing is over.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#the-secrets-in-hamlets-mill
title: The Secrets in Hamlet's Mill
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#the-secrets-in-hamlets-mill
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>A week or so ago, I heard about, for the first time, the book <em>Hamlet's Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge and Its Transmission Through Myth</em>. The subtitle should communicate the gist. After ordering it online, it arrived this afternoon and I've gotten five chapters in (barely a fifth of the way through the whole thing).</p>

<p>I was attracted to the book as part of my general sympathy for the idea that pre-classical and primeval knowledge and myth is, to use a silly word <em>scientific</em>, or at least true in a astronomical or quasi-metaphorical level. That's certainly the intended argument of the book, but it certainly labors under that Moldbuggian tendency to beat around the bush quietly, hoping that the deeper argument will eventually sneak up and hit its reader on the head. While the book is definitely designed to be a slow burn, one positive aspect is authors' repeated insistence of the imperfectness of translating early writings and myths, partially on linguistic grounds, but even more so due to the severely underestimated difference between the modern and primeval mindset.</p>

<p>I'll also say that in addition to this book, I've also bought <em>Pandora's Seed</em> (Spencer Wells) and the notable <em>Forbidden Archaeology</em> (Michael Cremo), both of which I'll hopefully be going through this week. The latter book I bought with not too much expectation of seriousness, but out of raw curiosity. It argues an extremely ancient origin of mankind based on reinterpretation of archaeological evidence, its author being what could be described as a Vedic Creationist. I don't expect to be convinced or even unannoyed by the book, but I'm always interested in circumstantial evidence for an earlier date for human evolution, especially given the constant pushing back of the accepted date.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#syncthing-video-also-patreon-changes
title: Syncthing video, also Patreon changes
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#syncthing-video-also-patreon-changes
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>New video out on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bHdcfVzrgk">Syncthing</a> for keeping files in sync.</p>

<p>I've said this on Patreon already, but I'm going to be moving to a "per creation" payout on Patreon rather than the "per month" payout. I figure that'd (1) be more fair to people when I go another month like the last one where I don't put much out and (2) give some incentive for me to put stuff out regularly when I'm not moving cross-country or something. I'll treat all contentful videos as "paid" videos, meaning that I won't charge patrons for meta-videos or personal updates. For example, I'll be putting one out today or tomorrow on Liunxfest, etc.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#linuxfest-2018-review
title: Linuxfest 2018 review
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#linuxfest-2018-review
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>A brief video on my experience at Southeast Linuxfest, check it out <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhwSoZAHo-c">here</a>.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#linux-is-the-wild-west-talk-is-now-out
title: Linux is the Wild West! Talk is now out
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<p>I've uploaded my <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnCXJn2cRf4">Linuxfest talk at this link</a>. Check it out. Southeast Linuxfest sends their apologies for not recording my face, but luckily I brought all the equipment for recording on my own machine.</p>

<p>Again, the talk was pretty packed with a lot of standers, especially considering the late time; it was great presenting and meeting all the people I did. I might be going next year as well if I have the time and hope to see all of you again (with many others).</p>

<p>Linuxfest also had set tables for lesser donnors to advertise their wares. At least one group was livestreaming throughout the event, and I figure that might be an option for me in the future. (I've also thought about merch, but it always strikes me as contrived and a little too consumerist.) I'm not actually sure how much they charge for the tables, but it's crossed my mind to crowdfund the money. That's probably something to think about in the future though.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#consciousness-bicamerality-and-book-reviews
title: Consciousness, bicamerality and book reviews
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<p>After a good bit more reading, I've given up on <em>Hamlet's Mill</em>, and not lightly. I usually view it as a kind of shame to stop reading a book before finishing, but I frankly don't feel like it's worth it at this point. The book is far too circumambulative to actually communicate its deeper point, but I get the feeling that it's that way out of a desire on the authors' part to avoid criticism with lack of clarity.</p>

<p>From what I can gather (after reading several hundred pages of deep, dank, quasi-poetic prose), it's a general argument that many classic mythological stories (those stories in different cultures that <em>Hamlet</em> is based on) are a kind of folkloric embedding of knowledge of axial procession (the fact that the earth's axis wobbles every several tens of thousands of years). This point is only alluded to or barely said, and only very circumstantial arguments are made for it, at the request of readers to squint their eyes to blurry the argument to make it sound more convincing than it really is.</p>

<p>Instead, I've started reading Julian Jaynes' <em>The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind</em> for the third time. It's one of my favorite reads, no so much because I find it so convincing, but because it's that pleasurable mix of ancient aliens-tier imagination and speculation with at least passable science, neurology, linguistics and other research. This was an enjoyment I hoped to replicate in reading <em>Hamlet's Mill</em> actually.</p>

<p>I've been hinted that I might start doing book reviews at the request of many subscribers, and I might pick <em>Bicameral Mind</em> to be the first candidate after I finish it again. I put up a poll of commonly requested books on the forum, and Taleb's <em>Antifragile</em>, Herrnstein and Murray <em>Bell Curve</em> and an unspecified book by Nietzsche got the most votes, but I'll probably end up doing everything on the poll anyway.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#video-on-gimp-basics
title: Video on GIMP basics
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<p>I've put up a video on the basics of GIMP, which you can see <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m8Oaz8XWVI">here</a>.</p>

<p>I may do more in the future, but even better, I'm going to be doing some videos on Imagemagick (I already have one recorded which I'll release over the weekend). For those who don't know, Imagemagick is a core system for image creating and editing that accessible on the command line. It's hard to full express how useful IM is, so the first video will be just on one of my implementations of it.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#updates-about-money-and-patreon
title: Updates about Money and Patreon
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<p>First, as a reminder, I do indeed have <a target="_blank" href="https://patreon.com/lukesmith">a Patreon</a> and encourage people to join. As stiff of a veneer I pretend to have when it comes to money, I won't pretend that there is a great psychological effect to getting new patrons and bigger pledges. Now that I'm dissertating, if I can start making decent money on YouTube, it will affect a lot how much free time I'll have if I can live with on part-time work. If you don't like Patreon as a platform, donate via <a target="_blank" href="https://liberapay.com/LukeSmith">Liberapay</a> or <a target="_blank" href="https://paypal.me/lukemsmith">Paypal</a>.</p>

<p>I said so a couple days ago in a part of another post, but I'm switching my Patreon to being based "by creation" rather than "by month" so people get charged by content rather than time. As longer viewers know, sometimes I have to take several weeks off, while other times, I'm making videos every day.
<b>If you're already a patron on Patreon, you might want to change your settings.</b>
Specifically, everyone has been grandfathered in from the monthly donation scheme with those settings.
If you want to pledge by creation now, you'll have to adjust the per unit donation and your maximum.  </p>

<p>Of course <a target="_blank" href="https://liberapay.com/LukeSmith">my Liberapay</a> is, by its nature set to on a weekly basis, so if you want a clearer time-based donation system, try them out. Liberapay, unlike Patreon, does not skim money off the top for themselves, so if you're thinking about using one of them for time-based donations and don't have any account yet, go with Liberapay.</p>

<p>By the way, Patreon says I'm making $180 per video, which isn't accurate. It's really more like $180 per month plus about $10 or so for the first few videos; it simply adds in the monthly donators to that number. If I could actually make near $200 per video or more, I could basically retire and do this full time ;-).</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#first-imagemagick-videos
title: First Imagemagick Videos
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<p>I've put up two videos on imagemagick today and yesterday covering some of the basics from making canvases and composites and basic effects. You can check the first out <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETumamLjFbg">here</a> and the second <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbXHbHrfrIs">here</a>. Imagemagick is one of the most useful programs out there, and can be a huge boon for automated imageprocessing and also making little modifications (like resizing and minor adjustment).</p>

<p>I'll be doing more like this just because of imagemagick being such a huge and useful world. Specific ideas are welcome.</p>


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title: A Journey to Athens
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<p>I've still been looking for apartments in Georgia or thereabout and yesterday I took a full-day trip back to Athens (Georgia of course) to scout out apartments. After a full day and after seeing about a dozen places, I have to admit that I didn't find anywhere too much up to snuff, even given the fact that I don't need to be particularly close to the university.</p>

<p>I may be back there again within a week or so, but I'll concede that I was debating whether I actually want to live there again.
I'm really not in the mood to put down a year's rent anywhere, even if it's only $5000 or so, unless I can get a really great place, but I suppose the real problem is a change in my mindset.</p>

<p>In brief, I don't feel like I want to put down money for something that isn't going to last; the bugmanhood of renting an apartment is extremely unappealing.
The better alternative now seems like just buying a parcel of land with the little money I've saved up.
My goal is 5+ semi-remote acres for less than $20,000, which is doable. I have a couple placing I'm looking at now, but am always looking for more.
I just want land that I am extremely free in building restrictions and zoning (preferable none), and that I can have a permanent setup on: possible growing and self-sustaining utilities.
I've done a lot of math and think that I can get a decent cabin built (my myself) for less than $5,000, probably closer to $3,000, but maybe with $2,000 of unforeseen costs ;-)</p>

<p>The other thing on the ledger would be me buying a car (or more likely, a pick-up) because I haven't needed a car since honestly 10 years (my old car finally died about two years ago).
Granted, if anyone reading this around Georgia has a used pickup truck in good shape they're willing to get rid of, feel free to contact me ;-)
Don't rip me off though, I have a YouTube channel!
</p>


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title: Redesign of Website
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<p>I've reformatted <a href="https://lukesmith.xyz/">my personal website</a> a bit, and I've readded <a href="https://lukesmith.xyz/videos.html">the video gallery</a> page which I had on my last site.
YouTube is terrible about showing older videos to users, so it's nice having <em>my own</em> archive of things displayed logically.
If I don't do that, I literally get oblvious questions all the time asking me to do a video on things I did a video on last week.
I can hardly even blame summerfriends for that since if you're a new viewer, you have no good way of knowing what kind of stuff I've made videos on on YouTube because they never recommend non-recent videos and they have no good UI for looking someone's video history.</p>

<p>That's actually one of the ironies about YouTube.
For all they complain about there being a drought of advertisers, they put out all the incentives for people to put out more and more junk videos constantly.
It's easy to see from my side the enormous bias YouTube gives to videos that are 72 hours old, but after those 72 hours, very few people will ever see any given video unless it absolutely goes viral.</p>


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title: Monetized with Super Chats
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<p>I took a long (several hour) walk to clear my head this morning, and came back to a pleasant surprise: YouTube has finally (after five or six months of review) monetized my channel.
I don't have the slightest idea how much money I'll actually end up getting from this, but I hope it's decent enough.
</p>

<p>
Of course, my studious core of viewers all will be using ad-blockers. The one I usually recommend is <a href="https://adnauseam.io/">Ad Nauseam</a>, which is not just a blocker, but a dazzler. If you don't like ads, don't feel like you need to permit them from my channel to get me more revenue. I'm sure there are plenty other who will be watching them without.
I only monetized after polling my audience at the old forum (some 80% just told me to monetize) and if you're part of that remaining 20%, just block them as you usually would.
</p>

<p>The other nice detail is that I can now allow "Super Chats" in livestreams.
If you don't know, that's when users can pay money to have their chat message plastered prominently in the chat window for a period proprtional to their donation.
I think chats in my livestreams are off decent enough size that people would be willing to get some of these.
But then again, now doing le bloodsports seems like a much more appealling prospect. Any takers?
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#i3blocks-reloaded
title: i3blocks reloaded
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<p>I've put up a video expanding on my <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKumet6b-WY">i3blocks status bar</a>, partially in preparation for the LARBS tutorial videos.</p>

<p>I've implemented many new features, including signaling for a lower footprint bar, and some other bells and whistles. I also go through where everything is in the system for people using my configs.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#video-on-copying-and-pasting-from-vim
title: Video on copying and pasting from Vim
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<p>A quick little video on <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_rbfQqrm7g">how to copy and pasting using the system clipboard</a> in Vim. It's simple enough, but people ask me about this a whole lot. Some brief instructions about registers generally as well.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#in-defense-of-pseudoscience
title: In Defense of "Pseudoscience"
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<p>If you keep up with my random asides in videos and elsewhere, you might know that I'm extremely disappointed with the current state of institutionalized science.
The post-war era was a disaster for scientific epistemology, in fact, epistemology and science commentary mostly became an exercise to exclude one's enemies by technicality.
Academia became an enormous state-funded enterprise, and the best way to ensure that your research program got funding before your rivals was to develop advanced reasoning to exclude their methodology altogether from science.
</p>

<p>Thus the term "pseudoscience".
In former centuries, there was no such division between "science" and "pseudoscience".
Researchers wrote tomes on subjects which were amalgams of hard analysis and what we would now consider baseless or unwarranted speculation.
Each were understood for what they were, all ideas were on the table for analysis.
</p>

<p>The thing is, all academics&mdash;at least all remotely intelligent ones&mdash;quietly harbor fringe beliefs.
If you push any of them in private, or with vindicating evidence, they'll quickly bounce to support their deeper intuition.
One example that comes to mind is geologist Robert Schoch, who after a little empirical prodding, became a vocal supporter of the idea of a prehistoric dating of the Sphinx, and then later other Mesolithic civilizations.
Nowadays he brushes shoulders even with the ancient aliens crowd, and why shouldn't he?
Once you've earned the designation of "pseudoscientist", you might as well go full-bore and have fun.
</p>

<p>The other best-kept secret is that by definition, "pseudoscience" drives advancement in "real science".
All new ideas start out as baseless speculation&mdash;Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift, based on the trivial and child-like realization that South America sort of fits into Africa, was mocked as pseudoscientific by Americans for decades. Now it's science.
I wouldn't doubt if Schoch's Sphinx water erosion hypothesis will be similarly vindicated, partially by the many Mesolithic constructions found since then.
</p>

<p>
In linguistics and archeology, we have a recent "pseudoscientist" in Marija Gimbutas.
Gimbutas unearthed many female idols/dolls from pre-Indo-European Europe and jumped to far-reaching, "pseudoscientific" conclusions: Old Europe was a feminist utopia, there was no violence and complete harmony, etc.
Because Gimutas's politics were socially unassailable, you don't hear "pseudoscientist" around her much, but that's certainly the word on everyone's lips.
If pseudoscience is what Schoch is doing, it's certainly what she was doing.
Regardless, this pushed her into making specific claims about the origin of Indo-Europeans, that they originated from the Kurgan (Yamnaya) culture, a claim that has now become consensus due to further archeological, linguistic and nowadays even genetic research.
</p>

<p>
I've seen first hand that there are really two types of personalities in science.
On one had, there's the conventional and petty academic who is "detail-oriented" and "rigorous" in some sense that means religiously adherent to theoretical priors.
These people will only truly fight for something when they're on the side of consensus or when the issue is of no social importance.
On the other side are the "pseudoscientists", or in other words, the people who actually have something interesting to say.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#new-st-patches-xresources-and-pywal-compatibility
title: New st patches: Xresources and pywal compatibility
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<p>When I did <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJmm7wl4JUI">my original video on st</a>, AKA the suckless <a target="_blank" href="https://st.suckless.org/">simple terminal</a>, a lot of other people decided to migrate over, but there are a couple of features that I hadn't added to my build, or people were confused how to add. Now, partially in preparation for LARBS, I've added some more features, including the fact that the terminal colors now use your Xresources colors by default, enabling the use of <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/dylanaraps/pywal">wal/pywal</a> for creating universal colorschemes. (If you don't know what this is, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es79N_9BblE">I did a video on it a couple months ago</a>.)</p>

<p>You can now check out my patched version of st <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/st">right here</a>, and it will have all the best patches applied by default now.</p>

<p>I think it's at the point where I consider st just about the best possible terminal for me (and probably for most all people). I occationally get requests to submit by build to the AUR, which I might do, but I can definitely say that you can safely use my build and get all the features you expect from a terminal while it still being bugless and minimal as any good suckless software should be.</p>

<p>Well actually, on bugs, there is one little, minor annoyance in the program and that's that ranger image previews disappear when you mouse away from the given window.
While there is a patch for st 0.7 which gives it sixel compatibility, due to its *le bloat* it hasn't been accepted into the program, and aside from that, I don't think ranger is built to work with sixel itself either so far.
Either way, I still consider st largely "the best", but being able to patch in something like this would make it closer to "perfect". With the features and bindings I have in my build, I find it a little sad when I have to use another terminal.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#macs-pcs-and-the-power-of-public-relations
title: Macs, "PCs" and the Power of Public Relations
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<p>One of the strangest turns-of-phrase that Apple has tried to hoist on the public is the term "PC" to mean all non-Apple computers.
Even without delving much deeper, this is one of the most bizarre choices; Apple Mac computers are not just PCs, but they were arguably <em>the first</em> PCs&mdash;you would think that Apple would be proud of more or less inventing the idea of a Personal Computer.</p>

<p>Regardless, what is the <em>point</em> of the term PC to Apple advertising? Why did they run that classic series of commercials contrasting Macs and "PCs"?
At a basic level, PC is just a catch-all exonym, that is, a term for all computers outside of a designated group.
In reality, there's really nothing common to computers made by Lenovo, Dell, Asus and every other company that aren't also held in common with Apple computers.
The only thing in common, at least, is the <em>lack</em> of the characteristic Apple weirdness (no other company is going to get rid of all their computers' important ports, for example).</p>

<p>Regardless, I noticed the actual public relations use of the term "PC" after I did my video on Macs&mdash;this term works wonders in the mind of an Mac fan.
That is, nearly every dogmatic Apple user would call me a "PC fanboy"!
<em>PC fanboy...</em> what could that possibly mean?</p>

<p>At first I thought most hate mail was coming from people who didn't watch 10 or so seconds in when I said that I used Linux (deliberately to avoid inane comments like this).
I assumed that "PC" meant "a machine running Windows", which is clearly not what Mac-users thought the term to mean: it was <em>all</em> non-Mac computers. I'd guess that my old TI-84 calculator is a "PC" by that metric.
This is a total inversion of what the term "fanboy" means of course. You can be a Mac fanboy: Apple Mac products, while sometimes different, all share the exact same design principles and are all owned by one company notorious for its quasi-cult like public relations.</p>

<p>While on the other hand, "PC fanboy" doesn't really mean anything&mdash;there's no common denominator or design or principle behind all non-Apple computers (again, aside from the fact that they don't do the manifestly stupid things that Apple does).
A "PC fanboy" in practice just means someone who doesn't like Macs, but that's where the magic is for Apple advertising&mdash;Mac users have always been lampooned as cult members, but the term PC is an attempt redirect the claims of irrational devotion backwards.
It doesn't have to make sense generally, but it makes sense in the head of an Apple fanboy: non-Mac computers are all the same and if you don't like Macs, you must just have some terrible emotional problem with them for no reason (this is the gist of most of the hatemail I get on this anyway).</p>

<p>Since I made my video on Macs, I don't dislike Macs any more than I did before, but I am continually losing respect for Mac users.
I could've just as easily done a video on why I don't use Windows, but God knows that Windows users don't have the same genre of pathological attachment to the brand they use.
That's not to imply that all comments from Mac users even disagreed with me, but the vocal members of the hivemind have certainly put a smug anime girl face on me from time to time.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#download-any-academic-article-free-a-one-liner
title: Download any Academic Article Free: A One-Liner
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<p>You may know of <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub">Sci-Hub</a>, an excellent service by Alexandra Elbakyan that opens pay-walled academic articles for free public use.</p>

<p>The typical use of the service is to go to the main site (right now <a target="_blank" href="http://sci-hub.tw">http://sci-hub.tw</a>, it changes often due to piracy accusations), give it a link to an academic article and it will pop up a new window allowing you to download it.</p>

<p>This is way too much keypressing and clicking for me, and I want an browser-free way of doing this. Instead I made a line like the following to put in your <code>bashrc</code> to run a link through sci-hub and automatically download it.</p>

<code>
shdl() { curl -O $(curl -s http://sci-hub.tw/"$@" | grep location.href | grep -o http.*pdf) ;}
</code>

<p>Then you can simply download an article by passing the link of its preview or abstract, e.g.: <code>shdl https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs40806-017-0133-5</code> and it will download to your current directory.</p>

<p>I have this as part of my <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/voidrice/blob/master/.scripts/linkhandler">linkhandler</a> script, which I have my RSS reader newsboat run on desired entries in my RSS feeds. Specifically, I subscribe to many RSS feeds for academic journals, and now with this script, if I see an article I want to read, I can just run my linkhandler script and download them immediately without laboriously having to open the browser to copy the url and then paste it into sci-hub, etc. Note that in my linkhandler script, I have it detect if the link is of an academic publisher (which is a modifiable variable) and that the Sci-Hub link is also a separate variable because, as I said, it occasionally changes and I want it to be distinct.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#how-let-your-root-user-use-your-main-dotfiles
title: How let your root user use your main dotfiles
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<p>When you have a single-user system, or one with only one user with sudoer access, I always used to hate that every time I became root, I'd lose the settings set in my bashrc and aliases, my vimrc and preferred directory shortcuts.
About 6 months ago, I had the crazy idea to change the root user's home directory from <code>/root</code> to <code>/home/luke</code> so root would look in my main directory for all its dotfiles.</p>

<p>I was initially worried that this could cause some vulnerabilities, it might still, but I have to say that it's been <b>hugely</b> convenient and hasn't given me any problems in all these months, so I recommend trying it out. All you have to do is open <code>/etc/passwd</code> and change the directory on the line starting with <code>root:</code> to your typical home directory.</p>

<p>So whenever you log in as root, you'll still have access to all your rc settings, and will be in your familiar home folder.
I didn't think of it before, but you'll also have fewer log files to have to sort through.
For example, if I once worked out a compilcated shell command and am trying to look it up in my <code>.bash_history</code>, I used to have to check <code>/home/luke/.bash_history</code> <em>and</em> <code>/root/.bash_history</code> if I couldn't remember if I ran it as myself or root.
Now, however, both accounts use the same history file for bash, and also other programs.</p>

<p>So anyway, I recommend trying it out. I'm sure I'll get a couple emails about how it could be potentially dangerous, but the convenience has been huge and I've had no problems, although I might not recommend doing this on your webserver to hedge against unknown vulnerabilities.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#scripting-in-action
title: Scripting in action
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<p>At the request of viewers, I might be putting out a series of videos on shell scripting in the wild. You can see the first video of this <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOpeXETS2z0">here</a>. I cover a small script I use for mounting USB drives on Linux, as opposed to using some fancy (bloated?) daemon or other service.</p>

<p>It's probably part of my sense to not trust anything I didn't write myself ;-)</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#larbs-is-about-done
title: LARBS is about done
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<p>Holy crap, I've probably installed and reinstalled LARBS 50 times in the past couple days as I've ironed out the last kinks. I've totally rewritten <code>larbs.sh</code> twice (arguably three times) this week, but the result is fantastic.
The script runs smoother than ever on the user side (a full installation takes less than 10 minutes now) and I've autistically separated the code into functions for portability and customizeability.</p>

<p>And boy is it.
Aside from the script now being composed of easy to manipulate functions, <code>larbs.sh</code> now reads in a separate programs file (in .csv format) and can take a custom dotfiles repo as well.
You can feed it a .csv like <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/LARBS/blob/master/progs.csv">this one</a> and it can parse the list and install the programs in whatever way it needs to.
E.g. in the setup now, untagged programs are in the main repo, programs tagged with <code>A</code> are AUR programs and <code>G</code> programs are git repositories installable with <code>make &amp;&amp; sudo make install</code>. Depending on the tag, LARBS will run a different install command as needed.
Note that the last column (which is a description of the program in a verb phrase) appears at runtime to describe the program while it's installed.
A nice little addition.
</p>

<p>So you can easily setup a your own LARBS now.
Since I said I was going to do real-life videos on bash scripts, I might do an explainer on this one, since I'm sure it might be generally edifying, but also very useful for people who want to extend the scripts.
</p>

<p>Check it out: <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/LARBS">LARBS on Github</a>.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#video-on-cronjobs-for-managing-my-system
title: Video on cronjobs for managing my system
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#video-on-cronjobs-for-managing-my-system
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I just released <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgSxYvFWjUY">a brief video on cronjobs</a>, how to make them for new users, including the syntax, but also some of the jobs that I have run on my machine (also about the minor annoyance of specifying displays for some graphical commands).</p>

<p>I didn't start using cronjobs until only a couple months ago, but now I've fully integrated them into my system. As I state in the video, I do my updating via cron by havine a <code>pacman -Syuw --noconfirm</code> command run every two hours to check for and download package updates (it also gives me a preview of the number of updateable packages on my i3blocks bar). I then finalize the update when I want, but don't have to watch the downloading happen. If you want, you could just as easily remove the <code>-w</code> and have the updating done all automatically if you don't feel like you need to see what's new.</p>

<p>Any suggestions on new cronjobs are welcome!</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#minor-hack-pausing-all-mpv-videos-on-any-screen
title: Minor hack: Pausing all mpv videos on any screen
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#minor-hack-pausing-all-mpv-videos-on-any-screen
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>For a while I had been looking for a command to pause all mpv video instances on my computer. I have a lock script which, while locking, automatically pauses the audio from my mpd, but I had wanted a way to pause all mpv instances as well, otherwise I would have to do the potentially annoying task of getting to the right workspace and hitting pause manually. I could find a lot more "complicated" solutions where you have to start mpv on a particular socket, but I ran across a much easier and universal possibility:</p>

<code>xdotool search --class mpv | xargs -I % xdotool key --window % comma</code>

<p>Which is a pretty funny command, but works exactly how I want. If you're not familiar with xdotool, this one-liner just searchs for all <code>mpv</code> instances and sends the key <code>,</code> to each of them, which by default moves the video back by a frame and pauses it.
So now I've just added this line to my lock script, so if I ever am watching something and want to leave my computer and lock it, I don't have to worry about manually pausing mpv which may be on another screeen.
Also, while I've always had <code>Super+p</code> mapped to "pause/unpause mpd audio", I've mapped <code>Super+Shift+P</code> to "pause mpd and all mpv instances", running this one-liner along with the true mpd pause command.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#dont-be-a-bash-brainlet
title: Don't be a Bash BRAINLET!
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#dont-be-a-bash-brainlet
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>In a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkgeFi4PwOg">new vid</a>, I talk about the importance of good design, and what that means in your typical shell script. I take the example of the <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/voidrice/blob/master/.scripts/shortcuts.sh">shortcut-sync script</a> I use to keep my bash, ranger and qutebrowser aliases synced and autogenerated. Originally when I wrote it, it was terribly designed, looping through a file and outputting to files six different times per line, adding up for a staggeringly long 1.5 second runtime for a 45 line script! The newer, better version (see the above link to Github), uses streams in the proper way to produce nearly instantaneous completion.</p>

<p>It's a pretty good example of how good (or bad) design principles can add up hugely on a system. It's almost mind-boggling to think about the difference that well-written and efficient code can make even for typical users as you add up the hundres of thousand or millions of lines of code we end up running every day.</p>

<p>A lot of people will repeat the typical mantra that we "need more programmers" for the modern economy. I have to say I've always hugely disagreed with this. A lot of the effort spent in the industry is maintaining the unmaintainable and playing whack-a-mole with the problems that bad design creates. We'd be better off with a smaller contingency of programmers and tweakers mindful of efficiency and machine resources. This is definitely something I've realized directly while I've started using UNIX operating systems.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#now-this-is-bash-autism
title: Now THIS is Bash AUTISM!
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#now-this-is-bash-autism
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/LbSBVf46lG0">A new brief video</a> and follow-up to the last video. I correctly prophesied that there were more decent optimizations to the script from <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkgeFi4PwOg">the last video</a>. Specifically, I briefly talk about <code>tee</code>, a UNIX utility which is lesser-used, but allows us to take an input and output it to multiple places, potentially performing further modifications on each of the separate streams. We save DOZENS of milliseconds in our unrelenting autismal quest for efficiency.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#podcast-series-to-begin-shortly
title: Podcast series to begin shortly
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#podcast-series-to-begin-shortly
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've been contemplating for a while to do a podcast series, partially at the desires of viewers and I think it's now going to happen. The general format is going to be on weekly topics, at the beginning focusing on particular books of political, scientific or other note. I originally was searching around for a co-host, but honestly couldn't find anyone I particularly liked for the job. I'm open to one in the future, but I think I'm setting myself on a detailed monologue format for now.</p>

<p>I've gotten specific requests for books and topics, but it's going to follow only my own instincts in the beginning, focusing mostly on unsung but potent works. The first week, I've pretty much settled on Julian Haynes' <em>The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind</em> followed by (in no particular order) Schumpeter's <em>Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy</em>, Feyerabend's <em>Against Method</em>, Hutton's <em>Race and the Third Reich</em> and Nassim Taleb's growing corpus, typically called <em>Incerto</em>.</p>

<p>I'm also open to having non-book based topics or perhaps talking about fiction works. Say, the works of Lovecraft or Dick or Borgres.
Now this isn't supposed to be a bookclub, or a learning experience for me though. I want to focus on works and topics I've been familiar with for years, otherwise it would be pretty silly to put out content.
It would sort of like those people who do "distro" reviews after playing around on a Linux distro for 10 minutes.</p>

<p>Anyway, I'm still divided on what to call the podcast, but I might just call it <em>No Relation</em> as a joke and allusion to the now famous <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SPD35ETwuk">one episode podcast my roomate and I did</a> last year, and considering it has <em>No Relation</em> to the original.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#minor-blog-addition
title: Minor blog addition
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#minor-blog-addition
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>As an experiment, I've added to my blog system (<a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/lb">lb</a>) an extra element, only amounting to a small edition of code. This is an additional (more traditional) blog index page, which you can see <a target="_blank" href="https://lukesmith.xyz/blogindex.html">here</a>.</p>

<p>It's pretty simple and really just prepends new entries to the top just like the rest of the blog system does for your RSS feed and the <a href="https://lukesmith.xyz/blog.html">rolling blog file</a>. The titling by month is not automatic, so each month, you'd have to add a new heading though. Not sure if I want to bother automating that.</p>

<p>It does add the date to the title as well, which is automatic, but I didn't add it to older entries since I revising that would be a little more difficult.</p>

<p>I've pushed these changes to the Github, but they're still liable to change a little bit. You can feel free to update your local repo or not, as it won't affect the rest of the system whether you use this feature or not.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#ive-deleted-my-twitter
title: I've deleted my Twitter
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#ive-deleted-my-twitter
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've deleted my Twitter. Even when I had originally joined the site, it was considerably past its prime, mainly due to its voluntary amputation of all accounts worth following,  but it's now become intolerable to even browse.
The site is now a wasteland ravaged by the Eternal Bluecheck, that self-gaslighting conspiracy theorist constantly amped up by the Boomer left media and on the prowl for pearls to clutch and evens to can't.
An engineered monster, now laying waste to their allotted space.
</p>

<p>
This could be fun for trolls, which I'm not anyway, but even trolling these untouchable elites is now "hate speech" and thus immediately banable.
There's an esoteric insurgency on Twitter, as esotericism is the only possible cloak to protect against the now routine purges, but it's not enough for me to continue on the site which is utterly useless.
Twitter is simply a dead site run by jesters in suits and there's no reason to even stave off its collapse by getting them any hits.
I encourage every one else to delete their account if, for some reason, you're still on it. You can use <a target="_blank" href="https://twitrss.me">twitrss.me</a> to get an RSS feed for a Twitter account you want to follow it and get its updates in newsboat or your own RSS reader. This is actually always how I've "followed" accounts so Twitter doesn't know who I'm actually following.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#intro-podcast-episode-up-and-rss-feed-available.
title: Intro podcast episode up and RSS feed available.
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#intro-podcast-episode-up-and-rss-feed-available.
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>i've put out a preliminary episode for the podcast, you can go ahead and subscribe to the RSS feed at <a target="_blank" href="http://notrelated.libsyn.com/rss">http://notrelated.libsyn.com/rss</a>.</p>

<p>I'll also be mirroring the episodes on YouTube and the first one is out <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4fR8BQUYsQ">here</a>. Obviously I suggest using the RSS feed though just because I'
ve gone through all the trouble of setting up a system to logically tag all the files for all you autistes who just have to have it that way ;-).</p>

<p>I'm using Libsyn to syndicate my podcasts as you can see by the links. I have a very high opinion of libsyn, especially compared to other platforms like YouTube, as libsyn has a relatively unblemished record of non-censorship. It will cost me money to upload on it monthly, so if you enjoy the show, please feel free to donate or the money will have to come out of my pocket.</p>

<p>If you have a good sense of what I'm shooting for in this podcast and have recommendation of your own, feel free to say so! As I say in this 0th episode, I plan on answering emails in the middle of the show and reading PayPal donations.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#mfw-soydevs-would-use-php-for-this
title: Mfw soydevs would use PHP for this
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#mfw-soydevs-would-use-php-for-this
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>If you check my website regularly, you may've noticed that I added a "Recent blog entries" subheading on the main page. Each time I add a new blog entry, it'll be updated to show only the most recent five. I was asked how I do this, given that my site is static, but honestly it's the easiest thing in the world, but I'll give you a hint in case it isn't obvious.</p>

<p>
As background, I edit my website by keeping a mirror offline on my computer, then I use rsync commands (via scripts or bash aliases) to either update individually changed files, or all files. The script that updates all files also checks for other things. For example, if my CV which is in another folder has been updated, it will copy the new udpate to the website directory before uploading everything.
</p>

<p>The "Recent blog entries" part is also handled by this "update all script". Using a <code>grep</code> command, I search my blog list file for the first five blog headers, which will be the most recent entries, and I change the formatting into a list (which is actually a single line of HTML for ease) with a <code>sed</code> command. Then, with <code>sed</code> again, I search for the previously created line, delete it and replace it with the new five entries.</p>

<p>As for the specific commands, you can figure them out yourself ;-). Point is, a lot of people have this domain-dependent thinking when approaching web-based file management as if core utils are unusable and we have to rely on server-side scripts even to do basic things. This is a bad mindset that causes incalculable harm on the web. Obviously core utils aren't going to get you true dynamically generated sites, but you can get most use cases out of plain HTML and should try to do so whenever possible.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#full-msmtprc-support-added-to-mutt-wizard
title: Full MSMTPRC support added to Mutt Wizard
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#full-msmtprc-support-added-to-mutt-wizard
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>
After a recent commit, <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/mutt-wizard">mutt-wizard</a> will now also generate an msmtprc file based on your settings. While mutt-wizard has had partial, expandable msmtp compatibility, it now all comes by default. This will increase some compatibility with some accounts and will give you more options in sending mail if you want to set personal msmtp settings. Remember to install the relevant msmtp package on your distro before sending mail!
</p>

<p>
Obviously the wizard will safely store your password and decrypt it only when necessary, just like with offlineimap.
If you want msmtp compatibility but you've already run mutt-wizard, I recommend removing your old accounts in the dialog menu and readding them (this <em>won't</em> delete you offline email so you won't have to redownload it so long as you keep the email's account name the same).
I encourage you to try it, partially because if there are errors, I'd like to find out soon! ;-)
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#the-real-bronze-age-mindset
title: The Real Bronze-Age Mindset!
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#the-real-bronze-age-mindset
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>Be sure to subscribe to the podcast RSS feed: <a target="_blank" href="http://notrelated.libsyn.com/rss">http://notrelated.libsyn.com</a> and you can check out the automatic blog <a target="_blank" href="http://notrelated.libsyn.com">here</a>. I'll be posting podcast updates on my personal RSS feed regardless just for completeness sake, but will gradually keep them to their own magisterium.
</p>

<p>The newest podcast episode (direct link <a target="_blank" href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/notrelated/S01E01_-_The_Origin_of_Consciousness_in_the_Breakdown_of_the_Bicameral_Mind.mp3">here</a>) is on the <em>true</em> Bronze-Age Mindset, well, sort of. It's on <b>Julian Jaynes</b>' theory of the <b>"Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind"</b>, which amounts to arguing that humans before the Bronze Age Collapse were, in fact, not conscious among many other wild, yet surprisingly justifiable things.</p>

<p>
I'll also have a YT video equivalent of the podcast, which will be available tomorrow morning at <a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/lgnMyF-o0sQ">https://youtu.be/lgnMyF-o0sQ</a>.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#cell-phones-and-the-bronze-age-collapse-1177-bc
title: Cell Phones and the Bronze Age Collapse (1177 BC)
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#cell-phones-and-the-bronze-age-collapse-1177-bc
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>First off, I put up a brief video talking about <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fv7hN5q1N0">why I don't like using cell phones</a>, it seems it's already gotten some good feedback, so check it out if you haven't already. Cell phones are devices that encourage a kind of superficiality of mind and habit, and are not nearly as useful as we think they are. Having a truly free-as=in-freedom and privacy-respecting cell phone is, by large part, impossible.</p>

<p>There's also been a lot of great feedback on the first episode of <a target="_blank" href="https://lukesmith.xyz/notrelated">,Not Related</a>, which I'll go over in the next episode. I've got my prep mostly ready, I don't want to divulge the exact topic, yet. I think I'll let each episode be a surprise. I've also bought <a target="_blank" href="http://notrelated.xyz">NotRelated.xyz</a>, but as of now it will just direct to my own homepage.</p>

<p>By the way, since the first podcast, there was a book I mentioned in passing, Eric Cline's <em>1177 B.C.: The year Civilization Collapsed</em>. It popped in my head while recording, so I mentioned it, because I had heard very good things about it, but I decided it'd be a little hypocritical to even name-drop it without reading it ;-), so in the time since the episode, I got and read through in full and a half.</p>

<p>I'll say it's definitely good and worth reading. A little repetitive, but in a way that facilitates retention. If you're interesting in the period or want to get a wider view of it after the <a target="_blank" href="http://notrelated.libsyn.com/website/the-origin-of-consciousness-in-the-breakdown-of-the-bicameral-mind">Bicameral Mind</a> episode, it might be a good starting point for a historical view. There's an audiobook of it floating out there too.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#capitalism-socialism-and-democracy-up
title: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy UP
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#capitalism-socialism-and-democracy-up
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>New episode of the podcat out: check out <a target="_blank" href="notrelated">the website</a> and subscribe to the <a target="_blank" href="nrrss">the RSS feed</a> if you haven't already.</p>

<p>This episode is on Joseph Schumpeter's classic book <em>Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy</em>. I cover about 4/5ths of the books content, all of it expect Schumpeter's takes on democracy, but that part I'm thinking to include in an episode on democracy generally (along with yet another biggeder-braned and more recent book on democracy (don't ask which, you'll find out)) either later this week or next week!</p>

<p>I give two potential time slots because there's another book which, due to recent events in the e-celeb world, I want to cover and get out there ASAP (not tellin' which yet!). But this book itself is a sizeable tome of 900 or so pages, which I've of course read before, but want to reread for good prep! The order in which I finish prep for one or the other episode will determine to order of release ;-)</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#my-diet-following-the-memes
title: My diet following the memes
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#my-diet-following-the-memes
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>Abiding by an ideological "diet" is pure autism. It's peak dystopian, actually. Identifying with some meme diet you've become rationally convinced of is like identifying by the music you listen to or some autistically-differentiated political label. It's something people only do in a bugman society when they've been deprived of their real identity.</p>

<p>
Nonetheless, I occasionally get questions about what I eat and as I go on, my functional diet changes, but interesting patterns emerge.
Nowadays you've had meme diets from Atkins to Paleo to this new keto meme; all of them circulate around the idea that the food pyramid is a lie, and meats and fats are severely underrated.
In my experience, I'm very inclined to agree.
In fact, one of the realities of nutrition "science" is that a lot of the jack-booting, tone-setting and "advocacy" has always been done by either Jehovah's Witnesses or vegetarians, two parties who have ideological motivations to downplay the good of meat and to overplay the good of "slave foods" like cereals and starchy staples.
I'm not bothered by their ethical pretenses, but it's a whole nother thing to pretend that they're based in the reality of what's good for humans aside from pietisms.
</p>

<p>
First, for my younger viewers, you'll realize as you get "old" (as you leave puberty at least around 25), your digestive abilities and metabolism change.
The young digestive system is much more plastic and durable than someone in the late 20s and on. You've probably heard that you'll put on weight more easier if you eat pizza, true for most people, but for me, I've found that it's increasingly difficult even to properly <em>digest</em> greasy pizza, junk food, sugars and everything processed and terrible about the modern world.
As you get a little older, you really can <em>feel</em> the debilitatingly negative hormonal effects of carbo-loading. You get acid-reflux and indigestion more too. Domino's is a one-way ticket to diarrhea.
Hell, a couple weeks ago in a silly attempt to put on empty weight, I bought and ate a meek-and-mild <em>Cheerios</em> knock-off and let's just say that came out looking about the same as they went in.
</p>

<p>
Don't worry, I'm not falling apart. The solution has been easy.
Stop eating processed foods. Stop eating sugar. And Stop eating the Virgin Bottom-of-the-Food-Pyramid. Just eat meat.
</p>

<p>
I don't eat <em>only</em> meat now, but I abandoned the pretense and can acknowledge that meals are nothing more than a serving of meat with some other mostly decorative foods.
I have some vegetables and fruits here and there, and I do go out to eat and get a sandwich (with bread of course) every once in a while.
I'll say that I've realized that I can detect a little digestive difference between meat treated with antibiotics and that without. Might be confirmation bias, but I prefer untreated or organic meat and will buy it if it's not too much more expensive. Typical meals include:
</p>

<ul>
<li>Chicken thighs/legs covered in garlic powder, garlic salt, thyme and rosemary. 20 minutes on oiled tray in a 425F oven.</li>
<li>Steak. Rare, duh. Cooked on the range with an entire diced onion (which becomes caramelized) and about a third of a green pepper. Occasionally topped with cheese that I grate (yup, I use cheese blocks because I'm an artiste)</li>
<li>Whole chicken, decorated internally and externally with shards of onions, garlic and sometimes potatoes. Washed with egg white. Thyme, rosemary. Covered with foil and ovened for maybe 40 minutes.</li>
</ul>

<p>Oh and I use olive oil for all of these. None of that Cucknola oil BS. I'm also not big on salt.</p>

<p>And by the way, stop believing Nutrition Facts autism.
The reality of nutrition "science" is that the body is a machine far more complex than we understand.
The idea that our body needs precisely that 100% of all of those substances that the American government proclaimed back in the 70s is ridiculous.
For the same reason, sorry, but eating something with another random protein (like le soy) isn't a substitute for the actual nourishment of meat. My scientific proof is the diminished physical and hormonal state of vegans.
Some people will tell them they need B12 or something else, but it's far beyond that.
Regardless "diet" foods/sodas are the same. They only exist so they look good on the nutrition facts. They produce equivalent tastes and fill your stomach with things that you're body can't digest and turn into calories/energy. In a sane society, that would be identified as being something way worse than the thing they're supposed to be replacing.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#notrelatedxyz-website-is-now-up
title: NotRelated.xyz Website is now up!
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#notrelatedxyz-website-is-now-up
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>The podcast now has its own domain at <a target="_blank" href="http://notrelated.xyz">notrelated.xyz</a>, which is a bit easier to remember than the libsyn subdomain for those who aren't familiar with libsyn.
</p>

<p>
For people who care, <a target="_blank" href="http://notrelated.xyz">notrelated.xyz</a> does <em>not</em> have SSL/https and I probably won't set it up because, frankly, I don't see it as necessary (I mean I have it for my main domain, but I don't even see <em>that</em> as very necessary). If I change my mind on this, I'll tell you.
Of course if you just have to have SSL/https, you can still use the libsyn address to access either the podcast webpage at <a target="_blank" href="https://notrelated.libsyn.com">https://notrelated.libsyn.com</a> or the RSS feed at <a target="_blank" href="https://notrelated.libsyn.com/rss">https://notrelated.libsyn.com/rss</a>.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#alex-jones-increasingly-based-now-even-more-banned-from-everything
title: Alex Jones, increasingly BASED, now even more banned from everything
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#alex-jones-increasingly-based-now-even-more-banned-from-everything
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>Well-known and loved water-filter merchant Alex Jones was banned from Twitter, in a move that shocked no one.
After a sustained campaign of harassment from Bluechecks, Twitter finally gave in and banned him and his site <a target="_blank" href="https://infowars.com">InfoWars.com</a>, thus depriving Twitter of Super Male Vitality and other high-energy supplements.</p>

<p>Thankfully, the straw that broke the camel's back was absolutely based.
The rationalization for the ban was the fact that yesterday Alex posted videos haranguing a CNN journalist who had worked tirelessly to get him and others banned and deplatformed.
The journalist was shook to say the least, visibly timid and obviously wishing he was a turtle so he could retract his head into his shell.
After several minutes of straight roasting (peppered with some attempted "comebacks" from the journo), Chuck Johnson (the guy noted for being banned from Twitter back when no one got banned) joined in as well, the video later ending with a close up of the journalist's eyes, tearing up and silently distraught.
</p>

<p>
Journo-bugmen and pseudo-intellects in universities have been subjecting Americans to a non-stop humiliation-fest and struggle session since at least the 1960s.
These people are literally paid by corporations and government organizations to demean, destroy and "deconstruct" the lives of the people that pay their bills.
They circulate baseless folklore and conspiracy theories about non-bugmen.
They live obliviously and smugly sit and design what they want the world of others to look like.
They talk tough and snidely on news stations and in university, but as soon as you shine the light on them, they curl up in shame.
Their pretenses only exist in their isolated world where they can't be debated, made fun of, humiliated or held accountable.
They're also just dumb.
</p>

<p>Alex's unpardonable sin is subjecting one of these chosen beings, one of these Excelsites to mockery.
Alex deserves a lot of credit for making this joker tear up.
Hopefully you're going to see a lot more of it too from more people.
If rational debate worked, Someone like Charles Murray would've won it for us decades ago. It doesn't, and now everyone hates Charles Murray. Even people on the real right.
The real solution is Chad Nationalism, Day of the Swirly, all that.
Buglibs are not serious people. Don't take them seriously. Bugmen only exist because we allow that psychological type to fester.
One might want to reread Uncle Ted's section on "the Psychology of Modern Leftism" as a reminder.
</p>

<p>As it comes to Infowars, of course, using platforms and social media is for brainlets anyways. Big-branes always subscribe directly to RSS feeds. Here are Infowars'; slap them in your RSS feed reader:</p>

<ul>
<li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.infowars.com/feed/custom_feed_rss">https://www.infowars.com/feed/custom_feed_rss</a> (Articles)</li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://xml.nfowars.net/Alex.rss">http://xml.nfowars.net/Alex.rss</a> (Alex Jones's show)</li>
</ul>

<p>I'm too woke for Infowars myself, but when they were originally banned from YouTube and everything else, the first thing I did was put these feeds into newsboat in raw solidarity. I'll read an article or two that sound funny and not too Boomer-con. Of course I mean no disrespect to Alex's highly esoteric (essentially Gnostic) understanding of the elite's cosmology and eschatology, which is actually unironically spot on.</p>

<p>The greatest part is that for the shitlib hivemind, it's just not enough!
Bugman brainlets are not scREEEsching about Alex being even allowed on the site in the first place.
</p>

<p>By the way, <b>stop using Twitter!</b>
Twitter, more than any other social media company is on the verge of financial ruin. Do your part and don't use the site unless via RSS feeds.
There are a couple of okay people on Twitter, but most everyone worth following has left or been banned a long time ago.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#we-need-to-start-studying-npcs-scientifically
title: We need to start studying NPCs scientifically
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#we-need-to-start-studying-npcs-scientifically
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>
The talk of the meme-o-sphere recently has been on NPCs (non-player characters), not in video games, but in real life.
Originally, "NPC" arose as a term of abuse approximating "normie" or "brainlet", but there have been some who are realizing that it might have more truth to it than anticipated.
</p>

<p>
For a while now, a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/3yrw2i/i_never_thought_with_language_until_now_this_is/">post from le Reddit</a> has been circulating from a somewhat disturbed user divulged that he only recently began thinking in language, saying that his life before "mindless" and "soul-less" and described himself as "barely even conscious".
One might also be reminded of the quip of James Huneker on Chopin's &Eacute;tude Op. 25, Num. 11 (better known nowadays by being quoted by Douglass Hofstadter in G&ouml;del, Escher, Bach) that "small-souled men, no matter how agile their fingers, should avoid it".
Of course, listeners of the biggest-braned podcast <a target="_blank" href="http://notrelated.xyz">Not Related!</a> will remember in <a target="_blank" href="http://notrelated.xyz/the-origin-of-consciousness-in-the-breakdown-of-the-bicameral-mind">the episode on the Bicameral Mind</a>, we talked on Julian Jaynes's theory of consciousness, in which consciousness is not something inherent to our biological inventory, but a kind of mental habit we develop, partially based on the metaphors of language and our need in society.
Different societies and cultures are liable to create different levels of consciousness in people.
</p>

<p>
There seems to be circumstantial evidence everywhere that the internal worlds of others just are not quite the same as ours.
There's a huge scientific and epistemological problem though: how can we empirically and objectively verify the nature consciousness, an aspect of mental life which is by its nature accessible only subjectively?
</p>

<p>
I dont think this question is answerable in the scientific mindset we currently have.
More interesting as a hint would be a deeper understanding, albeit indirect of what other people's inner worlds are like.
I'm sort of curious to hear what <b>your</b> inner life is like, and how you experience "thinking" if it's something unique.
</p>

<p>
I'll do my part and share with others my mental life.
I do have internal speech and am not an NPC and am indeed conscious.
My internal speech is a little bit different from how I hear others describe theirs.
Sometimes, usually when I'm thinking very slowly and deliberately, I think at only slightly faster than enunciated English in real life.
Most of the time, the "speech" is quite different: the best way I can describe the experience is as if you "hummed" the intonation of English to yourself without opening your mouth (this is not something I literally do, but how I experience it in my head). This mild humming occurs at a speed significantly faster than normal speech and though it provokes the same "meaning" and cognitive scaffolding as language does. It's not an annoying or abrasive humming, I should say: it's more like if someone is gently (though quickly) talking in the other room.
This hummed speech "feels" like English, but when I slow it down because it just gave me a great idea that I want to write down, I realize that there sometimes aren't actually English words or English syntax that directly capture what I was thinking.
</p>

<p>I should say, when I say that it "feels" like English, I mean that, as someone who knows a lot of different languages and has an intuitive grasp of etymology, I have distinct, almost synesthetic feelings that correspond to words of different origins. When I experience what linguists call "tip of the tongue phenomena" (when you forgot a word but can remember what it means and how it starts), I also can recall the approximate etymology. What I mean is that this humming speech has the same feeling as English words do.
</p>

<p>
I'd probably say that most of my mental time does <em>not</em> use this kind of internal speech.
It's not that I'm unconscious, but because I usually think about more abstract and non-linear things with interlocking, organic shapes.
This is a little closer to how some savants describe their mental life, but I suspect it's a lot more common than that, not just because I have it, but it seems to be the kind of thing that people would take for granted.
The typical description is that invisible shapes of different "meanings" come together and connect, or hydraulic organic machinery interacts in such a way to give you the correct answers to math problems or some advanced mental decision whose actual mechanism is opaque to you.
The thing is, while I experience this, it's something I'm only an observer of, and while I say that the shapes have "meanings", that's sort of my assumption, because if you could display my cognitive theater on a screen, I couldn't point out what is what with my conscious mind.
I think this is some kind of felt vision into the structure of intuition more than anything else.
</p>

<p>As a minor detail, I also have no cognitive "me". Or at least not unless I want one.
What I mean by that is that people will often describe themselves in their imaginations as seeing in the first person, or seeing themselves in third person (as if watching themselves on TV).
These are sometimes called the "I" and "me".
I can easily imagine myself, say, taking a walk and seeing myself walking from above, but that's not something I regularly do without prodding.
Whenever I imagine myself doing something, I see everything from my own eyes unless deliberately trying to do otherwise.
</p>

<p>
Anyway, in the future, as I read more of the literature, I might be interested in doing an episode on "NPC" and people's inner lifes.
If you have a mental life that is notable or distinct, feel free to email me a brief explanation. I'm curious to see what's out there.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#terry-davis-has-died
title: Terry Davis has died.
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#terry-davis-has-died
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>You may have heard already, but it appears that Terry Davis is confirmed to have died last month in what seems to have been a suicide. I just put up a brief video on this <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs_fEkU8Qco">here</a>.</p>

<p>You can still go to his site at <a target="_blank" href="http://templeos.org">TempleOS.org</a> which has the downloads to Temple OS and a brief update after his death.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#thicc-podcast-episode-coming
title: THICC podcast episode coming
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#thicc-podcast-episode-coming
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've been unofficially aiming to release a <em>Not Related</em> episode every week at the end of week, but the THICC book I'm covering this time required a lot of prep, and it's not out yet as you can see! It will be out tomorrow.</p>

<p>I've already recorded <em>an hour and twenty minutes</em>, which requires a lot of stopping and rerecording and audio fixes.
As I'm still acclimating to recording this takes a lot of time, but as I improve my process, I'm hoping to record episodes in one run without splicing necessary.
</p>

<p>Anyway, just saying this because I haven't forgotten about it and I've been working a lot. I'll have yet another episode out later in the week.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#le-purityspiral-nationalism
title: Le Purity-Spiral Nationalism
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#le-purityspiral-nationalism
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://notrelated.xyz/albions-seed-and-an-ethnic-history-of-america">New episode of Not Related!</a> out on <em>Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America</em>.</p>

<p>
The general argument of the book is that America, as it exists ethno-culturally has never been one unit, but four loosely competitive and highly distinct cultures, directly rooted in particular British origins.
On the surface this book is a dense and well-researched ethnography, but deeper than that, it has a lot of hot take-aways for American socio-political life.
It was a fascination back when it was published, but as people are beginning to be more real about the position of racial and cultural identity in politics, it's a book and argument that you're starting to here about more and more.
</p>

<p>
I say so a couple times in the podcast, but this is a book far more expansive than what I can sum up in a measly 90 minutes for you, so if the podcast piques your interest, check the book out yourself! You'll get a good mind for it in the episode, but this is one of those books that transcends one simple thesis statement in scope.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#ssl-cert-failures-with-gmail-accounts-muttwizard
title: SSL cert failures with Gmail accounts (mutt-wizard)
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#ssl-cert-failures-with-gmail-accounts-muttwizard
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>This actually isn't a mutt-wizard-specific problem, but I've been getting a lot of questions about it since mutt-wizard relies on offlineimap and ergo OpenSSL. Long story short, if you have updated Arch Linux recently, your new version of offlineimap/OpenSSL might give you a certificate error when attempting to sync with a Gmail account.</p>

<p>To solve this, do one of the following:</p>

<ul>
	<li>Downgrade to an earlier version of offlineimap/OpenSSL</li>
	<li>Add <code>ssl_version=tls1_2</code> to the remote Gmail repository in <code>~/.offlineimaprc</code>.</li>
	<li>Sit and wait for a fix.</li>
	<li>Stop using Gmail :varg: (my favorite ;-))</li>
</ul>

<p>See the <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/mutt-wizard/issues/85">Github Issue</a> that GrimKriegor opened on the mutt-wizard repo about this, with links to the relevant sources.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#yes-im-doing-a-video-on-it
title: Yes, I'm doing a video on it...
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#yes-im-doing-a-video-on-it
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've been getting non-stop emails about the Linux Code of Conduct thing and Linus leaving the project. A video on it is uploading (will take a while, many GB).</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#rip-lincucks-some-comments-on-recent-events
title: R.I.P. Lincucks! Some comments on recent events
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#rip-lincucks-some-comments-on-recent-events
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwn3gIipCjU">A video on the recent Linux code of conduct controversy.</a></p>

<p>Next episode of <em>Not Related!</em> will be recorded tomorrow.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#democracy-the-rule-of-npcs
title: Democracy: The Rule of NPCs
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#democracy-the-rule-of-npcs
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>
<a target="_blank" href="http://notrelated.libsyn.com/democracy-rule-of-the-npcs">New episode of Not Related!</a> out. Entitled "Democracy: Rule of the NPCs". Link to the RSS feed: <a target="_blank" href="https://notrelated.libsyn.com/rss">https://notrelated.libsyn.com/rss</a>.
</p>


<p>In addition to talking about Schumpeter's previously mentioned book, we also talk about Bryan Caplan's <em>The Myth of the Rational Voter</em> and James Burnham's <em>The Machiavellians: The Defenders of Freedom</em>.</p>


title: Any Paleo-Anthropologists or geneticists reading? On the Toba Population Bottleneck
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guid:
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url:
https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#any-paleoanthropologists-or-geneticists-reading-on-the-toba-population-bottleneck

content:
<p>
There's an often repeated idea out there that humans went through a population bottleneck about 70,000 years ago, shrinking to a group of only several thousands. This bottleneck is typically attributed to the Toba Eruption.
This is something you've probably heard <em>ad nauseam</em> in every popular science depiction of human prehistory, I sure have.
I won't give specifics because I don't want to bias you, but in doing research for a future podcast episode, I began to doubt this idea and tried to pry into its actual origins to see what the actual evidence of it was.
</p>

<p>
I was surprised to learn that the idea didn't actually come from some scholarly consensus, but is a still very controversial idea originally posited by a journalist Ann Gibbons of <i>Science</i>.
Now anyone who knows me knows that I am the absolutely last to write off an idea or theory because it's posited by a lay(wo)man out of the academic system, but in the case of a <em>journalist</em> (that class of people whose ratios of what-they-know to what-they-think-they-know are extremely low), my initial doubt feels a little vindicated.
</p>

<p>
I've been groping through some scientific literature on the subject, there are indeed some mainstream supporters, but from what I can tell, the evidence for it is very scant, at least far too scant to warrant its commonplace presentation in popular science.
As well, it seems that a lot of people in other fields base some of their assumptions on this idea, not knowing its non-universality, thus giving their theories a shaky foundation.
</p>

<p>I bring this up because I'm curious if anyone reading has had specific, semi-direct knowledge or experience with the feeling in the field.
As I said, I'm gradually reading the literature on it already, but I'm curious to know an insider's view (or at least the view of someone well-informed on it).
Is this idea well-accepted?
Is the circumstantial evidence for it considered up to snuff?
Are there good reasons to think it's <em>not</em> true?
Email me what you think.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#break-week
title: Break week
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#break-week
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've been taking a week off from some things, including <a href="http://notrelated.xyz">Not Related!</a> to do some reading and research and maybe even bulk up. I'll have a new episode of the podcast (mostly planned out) out next week and I think I'll do a screencast over the weekend.</p>

<p>
You may've noticed I haven't done a livestream in a while, but I'm thinking to start again.
I'm not entirely sure how my internet up connection is here, but I might be doing a stream next Tuesday or Wednesday around midday around Amerimutt time.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#video-up-on-bash-settings-and-aliases
title: Video up on Bash settings and aliases
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#video-up-on-bash-settings-and-aliases
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>New video up on what kind of settings and aliases I use and don't use for my bashrc/profile: check it out <a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/_UrDsbs0-OE">here</a>.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#not-related-episode-will-be-up-soon
title: Not Related! episode will be up soon
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#not-related-episode-will-be-up-soon
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>A note for those waiting patiently. I've been unexpectedly busy this week after my break week and while I've recorded an hour of content for <em>Not Related!</em>, I had to stop in the midst for something else. Hopefully I'll have it done and up either later tonight or tomorrow. I'm already working on another episode that I want to finish early next week as well.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#episode-on-the-10000-year-explosion-and-pandoras-seed
title: Episode on the 10,000 Year Explosion and Pandora's Seed
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#episode-on-the-10000-year-explosion-and-pandoras-seed
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>New <em>Not Related!</em> episode out: <a target="_blank" href="https://notrelated.libsyn.com/the-agricultural-revolution-has-been-a-disaster-for-the-human-race">"The Agricultural Revolution Has Been a Disaster for the Human Race"</a>. <a href="https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/notrelated/S01E05_-_The_Agricultural_Revolution_Has_Been_a_Disaster_for_the_Human_Race.mp3">Direct download link.</a></p>

<p>
We talk about a lot of things, mainly how agriculture and economic modernization has made us soyboys and brainlets, but get ready for the red-pills on mouth-breathing, child mortality, IQ, mutational load and much more.
</p>

<p>Remember to add <a href="https://notrelated.libsyn.com/rss">the RSS link</a> if you haven't already.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#trip-up-country-and-looking-for-land
title: Trip up Country and Looking for Land
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#trip-up-country-and-looking-for-land
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>
This coming weekend, I'll be taking a partially-family-related-partially-personal trip up to Indiana with some crucial stops on the way.
The only complication is that I don't own a car, so my four-state trip will be mediated by bus, meaning I'll be paying much less than I would be for gas or a plane and I'll have plenty of time for uninterrupted reading and work. I've also bought a ThinkPad slice battery that I'll be picking up right before, so I can try that out as well.
</p>

<p>
Anyway, why I'm going to Indiana isn't important for you, but as many of you know, I've been in the market for land recently, and have been planning on buying a remote plot for building a large cabin or small house for a long-term home or short-term place for vacation and storage.
On my way back from my trip, I'll be stopping in Tennessee to look at some parcels.
I don't want to spend more than $20,000 for land, and I'd like to get at least 5 acres for that (ideally less and more of course).
I'm already doing the math for how much it will cost to build a house to my specifications, but a lot is going to be a function of what kind of land I can get
</p>

<p>
I've picked Tennessee because it's still relatively close to my family, but is politically and regulatorily much better than Georgia.
There's low property tax, no state income tax, relatively free homeschooling and apparently less zoning/building restrictions in most places.
Georgia on the other hand is literally a 56% state nowadays (well according to Wikipedia, 55.9% actually), which means sooner or later it will be a blue state.
Of course, even if blue in a presidential election, it would probably only be a generation later before this filters down into local elections, which realistically means over-regulation and extreme managerial state is still fairly distant. Still, since I have the choice of where to put roots down, it's an easy one. I have thought of places further north: Kentucky or West Virginia, but the proximity to Georgia is still a minor plus for me. I don't know how the situation is going to be in Tennessee by the time my children have to think about this, but I'll be working for it to be good.
</p>

<p>
I'll also enjoy the milder climate in Tennessee. I honestly just want to be where I don't need an air-conditioner for most of the year.</p>

<p>Anyway, if everything works out, there might be a house-building, property-maintenance and bushcraft portion of my channel before too long. I can't say when, but if I find something good, I might be moving into the area and renting a place while I work on my new home. Another hopeful result of this would be reducing my economic needs to nearly nothing by self-sufficiency, enough that I could even life exclusively off my online income... or less.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#livestream-for-those-who-missed-it
title: Livestream for those who missed it
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#livestream-for-those-who-missed-it
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>We had an actually somewhat long <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhmP8j3qAmk">livestream</a> last night, as I had nothing much to do in my hotel room.
Thanks to all the Super Chatters (I totally forgot I had super chats now, so I should do streams more often to git some money...). Here are the top d'nators:
</p>

<ul>
	<li>$29 Opinion discarded</li>
	<li>$10 Apocalypse Lemon</li>
	<li>$10 Robert Smith</li>
	<li>$10 Nate Edwards</li>
	<li>$5 Dominick Allen</li>
	<li>$4 Yawning Gull</li>
	<li>£2 Dink Dinkleberg</li>
	<li>€1 Daniel Gómez Bellido</li>
	<li>$2 YouTube</li>
	<li>$2 LibertarianBot</li>
</ul>

<p>Come to think about it, I might start actually doing topical serious streams on things related to the podcast, or respond to feedback in them. We'll see about this.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#looking-for-land-for-uncle-lukes-cabin
title: Looking for Land for Uncle Luke's Cabin
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#looking-for-land-for-uncle-lukes-cabin
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I just put out <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Tp-UWFnp8">a brief video</a> talking about my recent progress/process in looking for rural land in southern Tennessee. For all those interesting in my goal of self-sufficiency and the recurring battle against bugman-hood, check it out.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#video-review-and-overview-of-the-slice-battery-for-thinkpads
title: Video review and overview of the Slice Battery for ThinkPads
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#video-review-and-overview-of-the-slice-battery-for-thinkpads
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I recently bought a Slice Battery for my ThinkPad X220, which is a pretty useful tool for all-day cordless use of your ThinkPad. You can get one of these new for around 100 USD, but check out<a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cruhiZD2Unw">my video on it</a> for the physical and practical specifics.</p>

<p>It can definitely be useful for many potential workflows and has been very useful for myself so far, but I don't see myself using it every day. I talk about what I do and don't like about it in the video, so check it out.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#when-i-bring-back-the-forum-what-should-its-name-be
title: When I bring back the forum, what should its name be?
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#when-i-bring-back-the-forum-what-should-its-name-be
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>
Some people have already noticed that I revitalized <a target="_blank" href="https://forum.lukesmith.xyz">forum.lukesmith.xyz</a>.
They've noticed because there are people who are periodically F5ing it still.
Yes. The forum is coming back. I've actually already put a lot of preparation and elegant features into it already that I'll talk about when its fully open.
Right now, it's not yet open to the public, but it will be soon.
I'll update you when that happens via RSS, and might even put up a video.
</p>

<p>
A more pressing matter is what I should call the forum. Here are a couple of options, feel free to email your suggestions to me or your opinions on one:
</p>

<ul>
	<li><b>Luke's GNU/Forum</b> (the tried-and-true old name)</li>
	<li><b>Uncle Luke's Cabin</b> (sounds somewhat ghey, but I think most people get the proper reference)</li>
	<li><b>Uncle Luke's GNU/Cabin</b> (combo of those two, I'm leaning to this right now)</li>
	<li>Some kind of play on <em>Not Related!</em>, although I don't mean to imply the forum will be about just it.</li>
</ul>

<p>
Note that the URL is still forum.lukesmith.xyz and unless I get a totally brilliant name for a new name that's worthy of a separate domain, I don't see that changing.
I might link forum.notrelated.xyz to it though.
</p>

<p>
I will say I plan on branding the site with my name.
Some people suggested in the past I should give the forum a generic /g/ related name to make it accessible to people outside of my channel.
Frankly here's no point in pretending it isn't anything my <em>my</em> forum, especially since the topics unified under that might have little relationship with each other except in the sublimated way that the topics on my channel are related at a sublimated level.
I'm not against rebranding it without my name in the future, but at the beginning, the unifying force between all my users is me and it wouldn't make sense to base the branding on something that only a subset of the users have in common.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#grofftroff-when-latex-and-pandoc-are-bloat
title: groff/troff: When LaTeX and Pandoc are bloat
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#grofftroff-when-latex-and-pandoc-are-bloat
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>
I've just put up a video, the first of several on groff/troff. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8EKH_fjmXA">Check it out here.</a>
troff (groff is the GNU version) is a unix utility for document formatting and type-setting which is built into your system and substantially faster, more minimal, and more manipulatible on the command line than TeX or compiling via R markdown or pandoc.
</p>

<p>
I've been playing around with it for a while now and am continually impressed with how easy it is.
Its adherence to UNIX principles makes extending it extremely easy, and in future videos I'll talk about the many ways you can extend it (again, already bulit into your system), including adding images, tables, and refernces in a way similar to Bibtex.
</p>

<p>
I hope the video piques your interest and there will be extensions coming out very soon. ;-)
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#macros-in-groff-and-troff-and-other-basic-formatting
title: Macros in groff and troff and other basic formatting
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feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've put up <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ_TXZB4Gm4">another video on groff/troff</a> where I briefly talk about more basic formatting with the ms macros, but also how to create and implement macros of your own.</p>

<p>
Since it's hard to get good documentation on groff/troff, I'll also provide some links: check out <a target="_blank" href="https://www.troff.org/">https://www.troff.org/</a> for general information. A user also posted <a target="_blank" href="https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/utp/UnixTextProcessing.pdf">a very useful .pdf</a> which is a general guide to Unix test processing, but contains decent chapters not just on groff/troff, but also on its preprocessor programs like <code>eqn</code> (equivalent of math mode in LaTeX) and <code>pic</code> (equivalent of tikx).
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#easy-emoji-use-with-dmenu
title: Easy emoji use with dmenu
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#easy-emoji-use-with-dmenu
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've just put out <a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/UCEXY46t3OA">a video on some dmenu tips</a>, including a simple system for inputting emojis.
Check it out, and if you have any dmenu/fzf hacks of your own feel free to share.
</p>

<p>
Incidentally, this post also serves as a test of <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/lukesmithxyz/lb">my blog system</a> to see if it can handle titles with emojis in it. Let's find out!
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#new-addresses-for-crypto-ethereum-litecoin-and-dash
title: New addresses for Crypto: Ethereum, Litecoin and Dash
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#new-addresses-for-crypto-ethereum-litecoin-and-dash
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've had some requests to put up some addresses for other cryptocurrencies, so on my <a href="https://lukesmith.xyz/crypto.html">donate Crypto page</a>, you'll now see addresses for Ethereum, Litecoin and Dash in addition to the typical Bitcoin.
</p>

<p>
Due to some changes in how I do my crypto, there's actually a different Bitcoin address there too and I'll be moving all the old funds to the new address. You can donate to either, but I'm only including the new address on the page.
</p>

<p>
I might put up some QR codes for each address later if some people have to have them.
</p>


title: LaTeX OWNED EPIC STYLE by LOGICAL UNIX COMPLIANCE of groff and refer
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guid:
https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#latex-owned-epic-style-by-logical-unix-compliance-of-groff-and-refer

url:
https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#latex-owned-epic-style-by-logical-unix-compliance-of-groff-and-refer

content:
<p>
I just put up <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfOwRYmb5bQ">a brief video</a> comparing the efficiency of formatting a document with references in LaTeX via biber vs. using groff/troff via <code>refer</code>.
</p>

<p>
Check it out yourself, but needless to say, groff gets the job done just as well in a small sliver of the time LaTeX takes.
<code>refer</code> as a preprocessor, simply reads a groff file, checking for inserts of <code>refer</code> syntax and edits the stream adding the bibliography details from a database file that groff can read.
As expected in stream manipulation, it all happens basically instantaneously, much faster than TeX's method of puking out build files to be read by subsequent commands.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#accented-and-other-unicode-characters-in-grofftroff
title: Accented and other unicode characters in groff/troff
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#accented-and-other-unicode-characters-in-grofftroff
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've already gotten a lot of questions about this, and while I might do a video on it later, I might as well put the answer here for those who are interested.</p>

<p>By default groff and troff have no such compatibility with accented characters, which, if you had the misfortune of being born to a language besides the glorious American tongue, makes writing quite documents in groff difficult.</p>

<p>Obviously there are many ways of bridging this gap, some you could easily invent on your own, but there are indeed built in escape sequences for most characters needed for other languages in the Latin alphabet.</p>

<p>Check out the documentation <a target="_blank" href="https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/manual/html_node/ms-Strings-and-Special-Characters.html#ms-Strings-and-Special-Characters">here in the GNU manuals</a> on escape sequences not only for adding accents to characters, but also for needed symbols in other languages like the German ß, the Spanish ¿ or Icelandic/Old English þ and ð.</p>

<p>If you're like me and you don't want to bother typing such silly escape sequences out, you could always automate their appearance in vim whenever you type the corresponding character. Below I have the lines for the acute characters.</p>

<code>
autocmd Filetype groff inoremap á \*[']a</br>
autocmd Filetype groff inoremap Á \*[']A</br>
autocmd Filetype groff inoremap é \*[']e</br>
autocmd Filetype groff inoremap É \*[']E</br>
autocmd Filetype groff inoremap í \*[']i</br>
autocmd Filetype groff inoremap Í \*[']I</br>
autocmd Filetype groff inoremap ó \*[']o</br>
autocmd Filetype groff inoremap Ó \*[']O</br>
autocmd Filetype groff inoremap ú \*[']u</br>
autocmd Filetype groff inoremap Ú \*[']U</br>
</code>

<p>You can add what you want.</p>

<p>
Be also sure that vim is properly detecting your filetype, adding <code>autocmd BufRead,BufNewFile *.ms,*.me,*.mom set filetype=groff</code> beforehand will do the trick for .ms, .me and .mom files.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#looking-for-larbs-user-submissions-
title: Looking for LARBS-user submissions!
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#looking-for-larbs-user-submissions-
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I'm bringing back the official LARBS website: <a target="_blank" href="https://larbs.xyz">LARBS.xyz</a>, which for the past few months has only redirected to my main site, with one pitiful informational page.
LARBS.xyz proper is now up again, and I'm going to be beautifying it and adding content.
</p>

<p>
As you may know, a recurring joke on the channel is this constant torrent of new users constantly asking "how did you get your computer to look like that".
While a lot of you use LARBS, I'd guess that most of the people flippantly subscribed to the channel don't know about it, despite it being the answer to most of their questions.
</p>

<p>
In an effort to redo the LARBS website for me to advertise it, <b>I'm looking for LARBS users to send me screenshots of them using my dotfiles, or any derivatives of them to put as examples on the site</b>.
Maybe you've kept the dotfiles mostly the same, maybe you've switched out the status bar, redone the colors and bindings, use your own fork of LARBS to deploy your own dotfiles, it all works.
I want people to have an idea of how LARBS has positively affected users' setups regardless.
</p>

<p>
So send me (<a target="_blank" href="mailto:luke@lukesmith.xyz">luke@lukesmith.xyz</a>) a simple scrot shot, but also <b>feel free to send a "testamonial"</b> if you'd like, even a meme-tier one.
I just want stuff that will give people an idea of what they're getting into in using LARBS.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#okay--now-this-is-epic---groff-correction-
title: Okay, now THIS is epic. (groff correction)
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#okay--now-this-is-epic---groff-correction-
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>Feel free to ignore the post about groff that I made a bit ago about escape sequences for accented characters in groff! Ends up in reality, it's even easier and /comfier/!</p>

<p>
One of you emailed me soon after noting that you can simply give groff the <code>-k</code> option which will automatically run the file through <code>preconv</code>, a program that automatically converts unicode characters to code readable by groff/troff with no extra work and no ugly formatting!
Now THIS is ebin.
Thanks again, Efe, for this emendation.
You still can do it in the way I mentioned, but would you really want to when its this easy?
<p>

<p>
Remember also, that while I'm doing videos on groff, I'm probably one of only several dozen who have tried to navigate the scant groff/troff documentation in the past decade.
That means if you go reading either the man or the much more copious documentation in a book or hard-to-find online information, you'll very quickly find or notice something I (or anyone else) <em>hasn't</em>.
Feel free to post whatever you find or email me about it, chances are, I might be just as pleasantly surprised as you.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#bibliographies-and-references-automatically-with-refer-in-groff
title: Bibliographies and references automatically with refer in groff
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#bibliographies-and-references-automatically-with-refer-in-groff
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>
New video up on how to automatically format references in groff/troff, using <code>refer</code>. <a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/yTQbi_E_Gys">Check it out here!</a>
You now should be able to get your term papers done in groff pretty easily! 😉
</p>

<p>As we talked about <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfOwRYmb5bQ">in the last video</a>, <code>refer</code> is considerably faster than formatting your references with biber in LaTeX.
<code>refer</code> is pretty well customizeable on the command line and in-text, but there's a lot more to the program than is just in the man; feel free to share what things you run across.
</p>

<p>
I don't think I said so in the video, but <code>refer</code> is mostly intended to work with the <code>ms</code> and <code>me</code> macro set.
I haven't tried it on others, but it may have some level of functionality, despite being intended for papers and such.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#possible-email-downage-today
title: Possible email downage today
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#possible-email-downage-today
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I'm reconfiguring some DNS and server settings involving email today and it might result in emails not making it to me or getting lost.
If everything goes right, there should be no downtime, but otherwise, you might have to resend your email tomorrow. Assume everything will be fixed by then.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#some-potentially-relevant-changes-in-larbs-today
title: Some potentially relevant changes in LARBS today
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#some-potentially-relevant-changes-in-larbs-today
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've been cleaning out a whole lot of old crud on my computer, and some of this is making its way into my dotfiles.
To make sure you know what I'm moving around, I'll put a notice here. Especially if you fetch or pull the new changes, be away of what's below so you don't get confused.</p>

<ul>
	<li><code>~/.scripts/shortcuts.sh</code> has now lost the <code>.sh</code> to keep with the style of the other scripts. It also no longer downloads template files if not present (this was a holdover of when it was part of its own repo).</li>
	<li>Similarly, the <code>~/.scripts/folders</code> and <code>~/.scripts/configs</code> files that the script used have moved to the home directory, to <code>~/.key_directories</code> and <code>~/.key_files</code>. The name change of the later reflects that I now use this file and the shortcut script to just to text documents I'm working on, not just config files. In the short future, I'll have other scripts reading these files as well. I haven't really added any lines to the public copies though, as I still expect them to be very user-dependent.</li>
	<li>The <code>dmenuunicode</code> script I showcased in <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCEXY46t3OA">a recent video</a> has undergone a small addition that will also copy the unicode character's code value to primary selection while the character itself is copied to the clipboard. There are times when this can be very useful when it's necessary to get code. The input file for this script has also been moved to <code>~/.emojis</code> and now was many more emojis, including flags 🇺🇸.</li>
	<li><b>Importantly, I am also cleaning out now unused configs files that I do not maintain.</b> Since this is a git repo, obiovusly nothing is lost to time, but the dotfiles for polybar, qutebrowser, rofi and other programs I don't use anymore won't be there by default on LARBS unless I hear an outcrying to the contrary. I know I got many people using polybar and qutebrowser, but qb's settings are constantly changing, so I can't be expected to keep up and polybar has always been riddled with compilation problems. (Since users need to compile it anyway, it's been a thorn in my side for LARBS as well in the past.)</li>
</ul>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#big-reshuffling-of-scripts-in-larbs-dotfiles
title: Big reshuffling of scripts in LARBS dotfiles
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#big-reshuffling-of-scripts-in-larbs-dotfiles
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>In addition to the changes I mentioned yesterday to LARBS,
I've also just pushed some changes to the repository that sort all of the scripts into new directories for organizational purpose: a subdirectory for statusbar scripts (<code>statusbar/</code>), one for crons (<code>cron/</code>), etc.
All of these directories are now added automatically to the path with this line in <code>~/.profile</code>:
</p>

<p><code>
export PATH="$(du $HOME/.scripts/ | cut -f2 | tr '
' ':')$PATH"
</code></p>

<p>
These changes shouldn't cause any problem so long as this line is added, but be sure to tell me if you get these changes and something breaks for you. I've been running it with these changes and have been without any hiccups.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#-live-streams-coming-back-
title: "Live"streams coming back!
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#-live-streams-coming-back-
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I just put up <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npht_ISGL0g">a video on this</a>, but I'll put it in text for anyone who prefers it.</p>

<p>After a lot of requests, I'm going to start doing livestreams again.
Problem is, until next January, I won't have consistent internet at my home to make that possible.
So we can manage a little workaround:
</p>

<p>
I'm now, right now, taking "Super Chats" or donations from <a target="_blank" href="https://paypal.me/lukemsmith">PayPal</a> or <a target="_blank" href="crypto.html">different crypto currencies</a>.
I'll record full responses to questions in the same way I would do a livestream.
I'll probably also come with other content prepared.
</p>

<p>
Then, that full video, the length and style of a livestream will be uploaded to YouTube using the new "Premiere" feature, which allows a set release time and a chatroom just like in livestreams.
Everyone can watch it together then, talking in the chat.
Obviously I'll be in the chatroom as it plays for everyone simultaneously.
</p>

<p>I'm planning to release this video <b>Sunday afternoon</b>.</p>

<p>That means if you want to donate to ask a question or pose a comment or point of discussion, donate (using the links about) ASAP.
I'm not entirely sure when I'm going to be recording the video, but I suspect sometime Saturday.
If you miss that window though, I'll read your donation and talk about what you want next time, so no problem.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#quick-tutorial-on-generating-qr-codes
title: Quick tutorial on generating QR codes
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#quick-tutorial-on-generating-qr-codes
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>
I've just put up a brief video on <a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/2WTljV8_9S8">making your own QR codes</a>.
I guess everyone has <em>seen</em> QR codes, but not everyone has used them, but they're quite useful! I give a brief explanation in the vid.
</p>

<p>
For some reason, a lot of people use services on other people's computers to do this when you really just have to install <code>qrencode</code>, which is a pretty simple program to use.
I illustrate it in the video for those of you too intelligent to just run <code>qrencode -h</code>.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#not-quite-livestream-in-preparation
title: Not-Quite-Livestream in preparation
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#not-quite-livestream-in-preparation
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I'm preparing/uploading the Not-Quite-Livestream right now.
I believe you can access the <a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/K-FmqXbPpFQ">chatroom right now</a>!
I'm in the chatroom myself now and I'll answer questions so long as it isn't TL;DR.
Once the video has finished uploading and processing, it should play for everyone.
</p>

<p>
Hope you enjoy the experiment!
I'm hoping to do real livestreams soon with my neighbor's wifi lmao.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#mutt-wizard-protonmail-bridge-compatibility
title: mutt-wizard ProtonMail Bridge compatibility
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#mutt-wizard-protonmail-bridge-compatibility
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>
I've had a lot of people ask if mutt-wizard can work with ProtonMail's encypted mail.
The old answer was "No", but as <a target="_blank" href="https://protonmail.com/bridge/">ProtonMail Bridge</a> has become a thing, it's now possible to have your mail from ProtonMail offline, including in mutt.
</p>

<p>
<em>ProtonMail Bridge</em> requires a paid account to use, but if you have one, I encourage you to try it with mutt.
I've just push a commit that <em>should</em> give mutt-wizard compatibility with ProtonMail and PM Bridge.
Since I don't have an account with them, I can't test it, but I invite everyone who does to try it once you have Bridge set up and tell me if it works as expected ;-)
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#not-related---when-you-re-too-rational-to-be-rational-
title: Not Related!: When You're Too Rational to Be Rational!
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#not-related---when-you-re-too-rational-to-be-rational-
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've just uploaded the newest episode of <em>Not Related!</em> which you can get <a href="https://notrelated.libsyn.com/when-youre-too-rational-to-be-rational">here</a>!</p>

<p>
The topic is the reality of what is actually "logical" in the brain and in human action.
In your intro psychology classes, you'll likely be inundated with stories of the cognitive glitches that humans suffer from, most of which stemming from the prying research of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in the so-called <em>Heuristics and Biases</em> program.
</p>

<p>
But in this episode we briefly review this perspective, but also the rejoinder to it in the school of thought typically termed <em>Ecological Rationality</em>, specifically as described in Gerd Gigerenzer's <em>Rationality for Mortals: How People Cope with Uncertainty</em>.
From this perspective, many very human tendencies which will appear "irrational" in terms of formal logic are very reasonable in real life, and humans are equiped with an Adaptive Toolbox of mental heuristics to deal with complex problems.
</p>

<p>Hear the twists and turns in this episode, and remember to subscribe to the <a target="_blank" href="https://notrelated.libsyn.com/rss">RSS feed for the podcast!</a></p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#video-on-eqn--formatting-math-and-statistics-in-groff-and-troff
title: Video on eqn: Formatting Math and Statistics in groff and troff
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#video-on-eqn--formatting-math-and-statistics-in-groff-and-troff
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp0qgpeG6EY">New video out on eqn</a>, which is a groff/troff preprocessor that automatically formats mathematical expressions. It can be compared to LaTeX's math mode, but I actually enjoy the syntax much more.</p>

<p>In the vid, we go from basic math to square roots, summation, integrals, defining <code>eqn</code> macros and doing inline code.</p>

<p>You can get more info on the kinds of things you can get done with <code>eqn</code> with the cornucopia of documentation here: <a target="_blank" href="https://troff.org/papers.html#eqn">https://troff.org/papers.html#eqn</a>.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#how-do-you-do-urls-or-hyperlinks-in-a-groff-or-troff-document-
title: How do you do URLs or hyperlinks in a groff or troff document?
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#how-do-you-do-urls-or-hyperlinks-in-a-groff-or-troff-document-
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>A question for groff/troff veterans whose knowledge extends beyond mine. Subject explains it all.</p>

<p>
I want to have typical clickable hyperlinks in a pdf document generated by groff, but I haven't found a way of doing this so far.
If you know, your help is appreciated!
Email here: <a href="mailto:luke@lukesmith.xyz">luke@lukesmith.xyz</a>!
</p>

<p>
The use case is that I'm rewriting the LARBS guide (originally in R markdown) to groff so it can be easily an quickly built and updated a LARBS install
(R is not installed by default and I don't want to have it and R markdown as a hard dependency just to build one document).
I've had to recompile the R markdown .pdf every time I update the guide, thus causing for a pretty bloated git history, but making it recomile quickly on startup on each user's machine would be much better not just to make the git repo cleaner, but allows a quicker update in response to changes to the text source.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#not-related--site-under-construction
title: Not Related! Site under construction
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#not-related--site-under-construction
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>
I've decided to reengineer <a target="_blank" href="https://NotRelated.xyz">NotRelated.xyz</a> since I'm not the biggest fan of the slow-loading web page Libsyn generates by default. You can still get to it at the standard Libsyn address (<a target="_blank" href="https://notrelated.libsyn.com">https://notrelated.libsyn.com</a>, but I'd rather keep the main domain to my own making.
Plus, Libsyn is a pain for dealing with SSL/HTTPS despite charging me an extra $2 a month just to have an external site.
Thanks, nnnnguys, but I think I'll do it myself now.
HTTPS is now active on NotRelated.xyz (free of course) thanks to <a target="_blank" href="https://certbot.eff.org/">certbot</a> (fekkin BASTE).
</p>

<p>
Only trouble now is I'm still deciding exactly what to do for the new site or how... ;-)
Right now it's a semi-clone of my website format with relevant links, but that will change soon.
I think I'll post user questions on a page, responding to them in text, even if I'm unable to respond to them in the podcast.
I'll want to have a rolling index of podcast episodes, but I'm just racking my brain of how to do it automatically linking to the Libsyn podcast downloads or players.
</p>

<p>
<a target="_blank" href="https://notrelated.xyz">Visit the site now</a> and you'll see that I've linked some sites that <em>Not Related!</em> will be automatically syndicated on.
This might not mean anything for my core subscribers who do everything by RSS and newsboat, but for normalfriends and Pajeets, there are links to Google Play, Soundcloud, the YouTube playlist, etc. where episodes will automatically appear.
Gloria Deo that I don't have to do any of that manually.
Syndication on Spotify and iHeartRadio is also underway.
I'll probably even add it to iTunes next time I: (1) have access to a Mac computer (2) install iTunes (3) open up iTunes (which takes several days itself) and (4) configure it all.
"It just werks" in action boys.
If anyone has any clue how to add a podcast to iTunes just via the browser like a normal service, please tell me, but to my understanding, this isn't possible.
Maccucks will still, unironically and unabashedly defend this.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#adobe-reader-is-literally-hitler
title: Adobe Reader is LITERALLY Hitler
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#adobe-reader-is-literally-hitler
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>Happy Thanksgiving Amerimutts!</p>

<p>I had just released a video entitled <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=158bJFTETRI">Adobe Reader is LITERALLY Hitler.</a> Subject matter is self explanitory. ;-) Check it out! I talk about the worst computer program ever written.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#battlestation-repair-video-
title: Battlestation repair video!
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#battlestation-repair-video-
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>
I believe I mentioned in the most recent livestream that I'd be refinishing the top of my enormous workdesk, which has sustained substantial damage over the years.
I've now put <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0a7GegepvI">the video of me doing just that up</a>.
You can look at it as a kind of tutorial, but I was sort of learning as I went myself.
</p>

<p>
The whole process of refinishing, even my amateurish job, made the old desk look like new and I recommend you try it on your own degraded wooden furniture.
It's a quite easy process.
It really amounts to sanding the thing down with increasing grits of sandpaper, then spraying several coats of lacquer staggered by drying times.
The end result is quite impressive given how disgusting the original was.
</p>


title: Video up on zathura for reading pdfs, djvus, epubs and everything else
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
guid:
https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#video-up-on-zathura-for-reading-pdfs--djvus--epubs-and-everything-else

url:
https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#video-up-on-zathura-for-reading-pdfs--djvus--epubs-and-everything-else

content:
<p>
A lot of people asked for a video on <em>zathura</em> the document reader after I mentioned I used in <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=158bJFTETRI">in a recent video where I complained about the acursed Adobe Reader</a>.
</p>

<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_Iz4zdyRM4">Here it is!</a></p>

<p>Zathura is great because:</p>

<ul>
	<li>It's vim-based and the shortcuts can be easily configured.</li>
	<li>It is very small, modular and a very quick load and quite responsive.</li>
	<li>It provides keyboard access to zooming, bookmarking, indexes and everything in between.</li>
	<li>It autodetects changes in currently open files.</li>
	<li>It can read standard input, which I discuss a recent use case of mine.</li>
	<li>It can also function modally for giving presentations and other things.</li>
	<li>It's modular and can be easily expanded to read pdfs, djvus, postscript files, epubs, comic books, etc.</li>
</ul>

<p>Check the video, and the program out!</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#podcast-syndicated-on-spotify
title: Podcast syndicated on Spotify
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#podcast-syndicated-on-spotify
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>
Just in case there are actually any subsribers of mine who use the DRM-content-restriction manager Spotify, you can now get my podcast on it, see <a target="_blank" href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6uiBcDPySNPQGRVOXb88sR">this link</a>!
Obviously I don't condone using Spotify, but if you already use it and have clever rationalizations as for why you just have to ;-), you can now get the podcast through it as syndicating it there is costless and effortless to me.
</p>

<p>
There are, of course, better ways of getting the podcast, including RSS on the podcast website: <a target="_blank" href="https://notrelated.xyz">https://notrelated.xyz</a>
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#how-to-find-minimalist-programs
title: How to find minimalist programs
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#how-to-find-minimalist-programs
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I just put out <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-06a36HsrI">a video on how to find some minimalist programs</a>.</p>

<p>Pretty simple, but I'll repeat the url recommendations here, some of which I'm sure you've seen:</p>

<ul>
<li><a target="_blank" href="https://lukesmith.xyz/programs">My own list of programs that I use.</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="https://suckless.org/rocks/">The suckless website of programs that "rock"</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/mayfrost/guides/blob/master/ALTERNATIVES.md">A more comprehensive (and gradient) list of minimalist software</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/">"Harmful" and "less harmful" programs from cat -v</a></li>
<li><a target="_blank" href="https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/List_of_recommended_GNU/Linux_software">Install Gentoo wiki recommendations</a></li>
</ul>


title: Please be on the lookout for this phenomenon among pretentious Zoomers
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
guid:
https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#please-be-on-the-lookout-for-this-phenomenon-among-pretentious-zoomers

url:
https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#please-be-on-the-lookout-for-this-phenomenon-among-pretentious-zoomers

content:
<p>
I've noticed an as-of-yet undescribed linguistic habit among Zoomers (born from late 1990's) who fancy themselves big-braned.
If you know the first thing about Labovian sociolinguistics, people who are similar in identity subtly pick up and standardize similar linguistic habits, often without noticing them.
</p>

<p>
To put it succinctly, some pretentious Zoomer males (of which there are many on YouTube) have a way of talking that I can only describe as sounding like they're talking with their mouths semi-full...
It's some unique way of posturing their mouth, but I can't say what exactly this is articulatorily.
</p>

<p>
I want to compile more examples of this.
I actually don't want to link specific examples of this because I'm curious first if other people have noticed this in certain personalities.
If so, I recommend sending me links to ensure I'm not going crazy in noticing it; I've already compiled a small list of big-braned Zoomers with this style of talking.
Full report later.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#i-dab-on-all-you-nerds
title: I DAB ON ALL YOU NERDS
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#i-dab-on-all-you-nerds
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>New video up of the Boomer rants genre: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj7uMb662GM">Check it out</a>!</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#note-to-newfriends--don-t-share-my-content-on-4chan-
title: Note to newfriends: Don't share my content on 4chan!
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#note-to-newfriends--don-t-share-my-content-on-4chan-
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>
Hi there! It appears you're new to 4chan.
</p>

<p>
Maybe you heard about it on Reddit or one of the other Content Aggregation sites you frequent.
Since you're new, let me let you in on a little secret...
You see, 4chan doesn't work like other sites.
You don't get upvotes for sharing content and no 4chan user cares about e-celebs.
</p>

<p>
You see, maybe you really like the videos I put out on YouTube.
Maybe they've really changed your life even.
That's great!
Unfortunately, it is not polite to share my videos on 4chan!
Not polite to me, nor to 4chan users!
</p>

<p>
You see, on 4chan, anonymity is paramount and e-celebrities are frowned upon.
Linking to my content unsolicited looks like an extremely cringey advertisement!
If someone specifically asks for something that I have covered, this would be an appropriate time to link to one of my videos on 4chan, albeit without fanfare or specific personal glorification of me.
However, uninvited links to my content, especially saying "Wow look what Luke Smith did" when no one asks is the highest form of faux pas.
</p>

<p>
Since 4chan is an anonymous message board, you also make me look bad because people might think I, in sheer desperation for views, am the one linking by videos for consumption on the board.
I am very ashamed when I see my personality brought up my a cringey fan on 4chan.
As I've become more popular, this evokes stronger and stronger feelings of jealousy among 4chan users.
Thus sharing my content is not appropriate behavior there, although on other sites it might be fine!
</p>

<p>
Remember that everyone who matters on /g/ already watches my channel.
Those who don't know about it could easily find my tutorials and other content on any topic by searching for them if needed.
On 4chan, respecting other users' <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politeness_theory#Positive_and_negative_face">Negative Face</a> is a high priority unless you are simply shitposting, so please do not be overbearing, especially with respect to people with public internet presences like myself.
</p>
<p>
Or as they user to say in the old days: lurk moar.
Or at least go back to Reddit where you belong!
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#gdp-and-income-is-a-measure-of-fragility
title: GDP and income is a measure of fragility
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#gdp-and-income-is-a-measure-of-fragility
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>
The common way of looking at Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is that it's a metric of economic success: more GDP is more wealth.
Wealth is good. "Poverty" (meaning low <em>per capita</em> GDP) is bad.
Nowadays, pretty much everyone talks about "economics" like this as if this truism was scribbled on the back walls of the cosmos.
</p>

<p>
This is just looking at one side of the ledger in a kind of global double-entry accounting book.
A logically equivalent way of looking at it is that <b>GDP is the metric of economic exchange required for survival in society as it exists</b>.
You can say that some area "produced" $1B USD of output (sounds good), but you can just as easily say that $1B USD was required for that area to sustain itself (sounds bad).
These two are simply logically equivalent.
</p>

<p>
Let's dive into the Gestalt: when you hear that a family of eight lives on less than a dollar per day (PPP adjusted), you might wonder how they manage!
To <em>actually</em> do such a thing would require buying large bags of rice for the whole family, eat only that and live in free cardboard boxes.
The reality is that that often uttered phrase means that they use less than $1 a day in the general economy, while the rest of their livelihood is "off-the-grid" or self-sufficient.
They may grow food in a family farm, hunt for food, and most of their daily needs from cooking oils, to plates, to pottery, to soap are often made at home as well.
There is still "an economy" but often one that is barter based or <em>socialist</em> in the real pre-socialist sense of the word: mediated by direct face-to-face social tit-for-tat between neighbors and friends, none of this mediated by currency being exchanged, thus it is not part of the GDP.
</p>

<p>
If you read about some Bangladeshi village where the only product is "textiles", that doesn't mean that everyone there makes textiles all day and, without a textile company, everyone would've starved to death.
It means that the only on-paper, measurable global industry practiced there is textile manufacturing.
Other villagers might farm, hunt, even do some kind of gathering in some places.
They will produce the arts and crafts and live the way people live when you leave them alone.
If your view of the world is mediated by GDP, you're only seeing the extremely small sliver that pops into existence when people exchange something involving legal tender.
</p>

<p>
This is extremely difficult for us modern bugpeople to understand because to be a bugman in a large city is to produce absolutely nothing on one's own and buy literally everything you need from the store.
To us non-productive people, GDP means income which means survival.
But the further out of Bugmanville you go, the clearer the vacuousness of GDP becomes.
</p>

<p>
A minor example.
We had a large Thanksgiving feast near my uncle's house in very rural Florida.
As it got cold in the night, we had a fire in a repurposed old sugar cane cooking vat artfully standing on used symmetrical cinderblock pieces.
A bugman hipster might pay two hundred dollars or more for a similar looking "authentic" piece of equipment. Those $200 would be counted in the GDP.
A bugman hipster might have also bought or rented chairs for the event, "contributing" more to the GDP, but my uncle, as part of the local wholesome church community, simply borrowed some from the church.
Thus our event produced basically no GDP output in goods or services, despite being functionally equivalent to some similar but expensive and ergo "productive" "Friendsgiving" practiced by urbanites.
In reality <em>we</em> are richer than the bugmen hipsters who blew hundreds of dollars on a faux-folksy party.
In this case, we owned the firepit and had easy access and permission to the chairs, thus we are more economically flexible than they are.
That GDP that they produced/expended is evidence of deeper reliance on the economic system.
That GDP output is a marker of <em>fragility</em>, reliance on the conditions of the outside economy in the same way that a village of Bangladeshis who abandon their traditional way of lives to work on textiles are more fragile, despite being able to save up for iPhones.
</p>

<p>
Much of the increase in GDP across the world is simply the movement from local partially-social partially-under-the-table economies to economies mediated by taxable currency.
An economically self-sufficient village with close social relationships and a barter economy has 0 GDP.
A township of entrepreneurs and artisans you partially barter and partially use currency which they don't report has 0 GDP.
All of these people are "in poverty" and "earn less than a dollar a day".
And if you want to be truly self-sufficient, that means having a personal GDP of zero.
</p>

<p>
More than that, pretty much everywhere, GDP is a strong indicator of social upheaval.
If you think that GDP is some eternal goodness, remember that <em>everything "good" about industrialization shows up in the GDP</em>, while at the same time, <em>everything bad about it will not show up</em>.
Or, sometimes bad things are registered as positive economic growth: urbanization has caused mass-disease, and if that means a market for new medical services and pharmaceuticals, great!
The GDP just went up!
The Ganges is polluted due to the textile plant? That just means more opportunities for local entrepreneurs to sell bottled water!
The GDP just went up!
Are people being pushed out of fishing or other subsistence occupations because of it? Even better! Now they have no choice but to contribute to the GDP!
With every passing year, in fact, more and more of the GDP is produced by dealing with the problems that our higher level of GDP have caused.
</p>

<p>
To be clear, I am not saying that (a) GDP is utterly useless and means nothing nor (b) that having 0 GDP and thus everyone is totally self-sufficient in a barter economy is best.
I'm also not specifically arguing that industrialization is generally bad (I do think that, but my point here is irrelevant to it).
Simply put, I'm sick of big-braned moderates posting basic-ass comments on my videos about how "X is good because it increases the GDP", or worse, "the GDP has been going up, so our ever increasing level of bugmanism is good".
GDP is a bad justification for Whig history, and in areas of personal independence, it's not a good indicator.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#github-dotfiles-and-new-i3-video-soon
title: Github Dotfiles and New i3 Video Soon
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#github-dotfiles-and-new-i3-video-soon
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>In <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/voidrice">my Github dotfiles repo</a>, in the interest of repo size, I've removed the history of some "binary" files (.pdfs, etc.) from the repo history with <code>git filter-branch</code>.
The repo used to be 20-40MB, but now it's down to about a tenth of that after that and some garbage collection.
</p>

<p>
One side effect has been that this has screwed up the (only two) pull requests on Github, but I assume it has had pretty radical effects if you're adjusting your fork "downstream" if you do something like that.
I'm not a big Git n*rd ;-) so I may've been able to do this cleaner, but since it's my own personal dotfiles repo, I'm sure you'll forgive me.
</p>

<p>
Either way, I'll probably be doing a review of my dotfiles in i3 soon.
It feels like I <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BOW61luzF4">just did my last video of that type</a>, but it's been over a year with significant changes (some of which I've showcased in other videos).
More importantly, I have thousands and thousands of new subscribers still continuing to ask the kinds of questions that that kind of video would answer.
An unfortunate fact of YouTube is that it only recommends very recent videos, so people scarcely see videos past a certain age, despite how relevant they may be.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#looking-for-a-new-colorscheme-for-my-terminal--recommendations-
title: Looking for a new colorscheme for my terminal. Recommendations?
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#looking-for-a-new-colorscheme-for-my-terminal--recommendations-
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>
My st build now uses Xresources colors (including those set my pywal ofcourse) if available, but otherwise, it defaults to <a target="_blank" href="https://ethanschoonover.com/solarized/">solarized colors</a>.
For a default theme, the solarized colors are actually sort of wearing on me, and I'm looking for another sufficiently distinct, but also mostly generic colorscheme to use as a default.
</p>

<p>
If you have any suggestions, email me or <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/st/issues/23">post them here</a> in the Github issue I just made for it.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#lazy-sunday-video-on-cpu--temperature-and-memory-for-general-use
title: Lazy Sunday video on CPU, Temperature and Memory for general use
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#lazy-sunday-video-on-cpu--temperature-and-memory-for-general-use
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>This morning I recorded myself writing two brief status bar scripts that illustrate how to get, awk and sort basic Memory and CPU data on the Linux command line.
I use just basic commands like <code>ps</code>, <code>awk</code> and others, but it might be useful for either newbies or those looking for ideas.
You can see the video <a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/MNwpdqD_I8Y">here</a>.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#video-on-my-vimrc-and-vim-plug-ins-i-use
title: Video on my vimrc and Vim Plug-Ins I use
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#video-on-my-vimrc-and-vim-plug-ins-i-use
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/cTBgtN-s2Zw">I've put up a video going over some of the things I use in my vimrc.</a>
When I put up that video yesterday, I got a lot of questions about different plug-ins and such, so I figure we're a little overdue for an actual video on my vimrc.
</p>

<p>Check out some of my older now hidden videos on vim topics as well, some of which I mentioned in this video:</p>

<ul>
	<li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez1XBUqbS68">Checking spelling in vim</a></li>
	<li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_rbfQqrm7g">Copying and pasting in vim</a></li>
	<li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4I_Ft-VLAg">Making vim snippets to write out syntax easily</a></li>
	<li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRFEBw02aT8">Creating and using vim macros</a></li>
</ul>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#you-can-now-donate-bitcoin
title: You can now donate Bitcoin!
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#you-can-now-donate-bitcoin
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've finally taken the basic step of setting up a Bitcoin wallet, etc. after many requests from users.
So you can donate Bitcoin using the address below:
</p>

<p>1FjpZkeujhXLJM2FBQpusysALKoZHjbsmk</p>

<p>You can go to my <a href="https://lukesmith.xyz/bitcoin.html">Bitcoin page</a> to see a QR code for it if you want.</p>

<p>If you want to donate "publicly" to be read out on the podcast, just send me a notification email with your name, comment and the donation amount for confirmation.</p>
</body>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#new-video-on-i3-configuration-and-tiling-window-managers
title: New video on i3 configuration and tiling window managers
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#new-video-on-i3-configuration-and-tiling-window-managers
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>Check out <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKviflL9XeI">this new video</a> where I talk about tiling window management for newbs, but I also talk about some of the additions to my dotfiles I've added in the past year and a half since I did <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BOW61luzF4">my last video on i3</a>.</p>

<p>Additions include:</p>

<ul>
	<li>Several dmenu interfaces for USB mounting, display selection, emoji insertion and more</li>
	<li>More documentation for other users, including clickable statusbar info and a more complete Super+F1 guide</li>
	<li>Better backends for dropdown terminals</li>
</ul>

<p>And more...</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#my-public-blog-script-lb-is-now-much-improved
title: My public blog script, `lb` is now much improved
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#my-public-blog-script-lb-is-now-much-improved
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I know a couple of you guys out there use <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/lb">my blog script, lb,</a> for your personal blogs.
Advertised as a "Blog &amp; RSS system in less than 100 lines of shell script". It's minimal, easy to customize and I've been using it for months now.
If you didn't see <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIfAdzGmhik">the original video</a>, there's the link.
</p>

<p>The script allows you to write blog posts that are then automatically syndicated in several locations of your choosing:</p>

<ul>
	<li>A rolling blog page: <a target="_blank" href="https://lukesmith.xyz/blog.html">lukesmith.xyz/blog.html</a></li>
	<li>A blog index page (can be placed in your index if desired): <a target="_blank" href="https://lukesmith.xyz/blogindex.html">lukesmith.xyz/blogindex.html</a></li>
	<li>All posts appear in the <a target="_blank" href="https://lukesmith.xyz/blog">blog/</a> directory, which can be accessible via Apache settings.</li>
	<li>RSS entries, containing the full blog post are added to your RSS feed of choice (e.g. <a target="_blank" href="https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml">lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml</a>)</li>
</ul>

<p>
But yesterday I rewrote the script, actually making it shorter while adding some nice features.
</p>

<ul>
	<li>The ability to revise already published articles</li>
	<li>Smarter URL creation. The old script made somewhat dumb urls.</li>
	<li>Use of the <code>.htaccess</code> file as a database to store filename-title correspondences and now publishing dates</li>
	<li>In the editing mode, only the text content, not the header or footer will appear in your editor. This is a side-effect of the fact above, since before, I had used the magic of script-kiddery to read from the buffer on publishing to determine the post's title. Now it's stored in <code>.htaccess</code> so that's not necessary.</li>
</ul>

<p>
The script is backwards compatible with the old script, although the commands have slightly changed (just run the command and it will tell you how) and if you've been working on unpublished drafts in lb 1.0, you must still publish them with lb 1.0.
This backwards compatibility means that you can also revise old published blog entries without much of a problem.
The only hiccup is the fact that if you revise a blog entry published with lb 1.0, when republished it will appear only with the new date.
This should not be true of articles published by this lb 2.0.
</p>

<p>To "install" the blog script, simply download it to the wanted blog directory and change the variables in it to seek the correct files (the RSS feed, blog file, blog index).
You must add a comment line that looks exactly like this:
</p>

<pre><code>&lt;!-- LB --&gt;</code></pre>

<p>to each file. That line is the point in the document after which new articles/RSS entries/list entries will be added.
See the source files of my above linked pages for examples!</p>


title: New st build additions: link handling and Xresources and pywal compatibility
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
guid:
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url:
https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#new-st-build-additions-link-handling-and-xresources-and-pywal-compatibility

content:
<p>Since people don't austistically check my Github commits, I get a lot of questions about st (the simple terminal by suckless), my build and feature requests.
Actually, a lot of people seem to think I'm still using urxvt...</p>

<p>Anyway, I've put up <a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/9H75enWM22k">a new video on st here</a>, which is a complement to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJmm7wl4JUI">my original video</a>.
I talk about some of the additional features I've patched in, like reading variables, including font and colors from Xresources, more intuitive vim-like binds, and a binding that reads all urls on the screen and feeds them to dmenu for selection.
The last feature can largely replace using <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgzpAjFgbCw">urlview</a> or urlscan, although it requires xurls (and dmenu).</p>

<p>To be clear, reading Xresources does make st compatible with automatic pywal colorschemes (if you don't know what wal/pywal is, I did a video on it <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es79N_9BblE">here!</a>).
I've actually had this in my st build for a while now, but I still get requests for this feature!
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#video-up-on-sed-and-regular-expressions
title: Video up on sed and regular expressions
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#video-up-on-sed-and-regular-expressions
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>New video up on <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaGhpqRll_k">sed and regular expressions</a>.</p>
<p>
To introduce people or get them a little deeper into sed,
I showcase a use case of my own: a simple sed command to trim a document instantly of all comments and blanklines for further processing.
</p>
<p>
I also show my i3 status torrent module, which is just a sed command writ a little larger, replacing matches with emojis.
If you want more basic Unix commands/bash videos, smash that MF like button and say so, because people have been asking for this kind of stuff and I'm curious how wanted it is!
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#download-any-of-my-thumbnails-easily
title: Download any of my thumbnails easily
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#download-any-of-my-thumbnails-easily
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>Hi everyone. You could always use <code>youtube-dl</code> to download my videos and thumbnails, but out of sheer why-not, I've added a link to the fullsize thumbnail of every one of my videos into <a href="https://lukesmith.xyz/videos.html">my video gallery</a>.</p>

<p>Just click on the "🖼" next to the video title and you'll get the thumbnail.</p>

<p>Also, I released a contentless video <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpzwIArBjyc">here</a> if you want to see it. Just because I've been doing videos pretty consistently the past few days and didn't want to break the pattern despite being very busy today.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#are-you-thirsty-for-some-social-media-upcummies
title: Are you thirsty for some Social Media Upcummies?
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#are-you-thirsty-for-some-social-media-upcummies
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>New video up on the pervasiveness of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjbyDU0WzYI">upcummies on social media</a>. Don't know what an upcummy is? Watch the video and find out!</p>

<p>Social media isn't just a waste of time, but makes everyone around you mediocre. Drawn in by a slow trickle of pseudo-information and statistical noise, you constantly have the feeling that you're accomplishing something despite spendings Onaninist hours being conditioned and advertised to.</p>

<p>You can easily go without social media. I, as you may know, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiMcX3Fa2Us">went without direct internet access for 2 years</a>, and this YouTube channel is a partial product of that. Restricting your exposure to the hivemind will always make you more clear minded and make your time connected to the hivemind more productive.</p>

<p>Remember to smash that upcummy button too! ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#my-rss-feed-is-getting-too-big
title: My RSS feed is getting too big!
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#my-rss-feed-is-getting-too-big
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I'm a completionist, so I've been in a habit of putting everything out there in full form.
One of these things is my RSS feed, where I've never bothered to purge old entries.
This was inevitable, but it's getting too big! Over 200 entries since last summer when I started it!</p>

<p>So pretty soon, probably today, I'll be removing old entries from the feed and backing them up somewhere else.
I'll probably have a backup for the old RSS feed though.
Of course, you'll still have everything if your RSS reader keeps a cache and you don't need to change the address or anything else.
I just wanted to make this note, before I trim it down. It's about 215K now! Considering how many people access it and how often it's way too much of a bandwidth hog.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#physiognomy-is-real-a-request
title: Physiognomy is real! (A request)
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#physiognomy-is-real-a-request
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>
You may've heard of <em>physiognomy</em>, which is the study of how people's
physical appearances or faces relate to their psychology or personality.
Physiognomy is interesting because it was one of those many fields brushed
aside as "pseudo-scientific" ironically enough my the early 20th century bugman
scientists who lacked the tools to study it (and were also afraid of something
that could be perceived as wacist).  Nowadays, however, with better
experimental techniques and sometimes even the aid of artificial intelligence,
there have arisen a lot of different experimental studies finding that
physiognomy is very real as a correlation between body/facial structure and
personality, but also that people are very good at judging other peoples'
personalities from that structure.
</p>

<p>
This often trickles into the news media when we hear about faces being "gay" or
"racist". We hear about how political persuasion correlates with body strength
or religious zeal being readable from one's face.  There are more subtle
things, like a person's index to ring finger ratio that are registers of
prenatal testosterone, thus correlating with all manners of things. And then
there's left-handedness.
</p>

<p>
This shouldn't be a surprise for anyone.
The nerd and the chad have separate personalities, but their different bodies and dispositions reflect them.
One might cause the other, or be related for other reasons, but the correlations are there and everyone knows and recognizes them.
</p>

<p>
Anyway, for the podcast <a target="_blank" href="https://notrelated.xyz">NotRelated.xyz</a>, I'm planning on doing an episode on physiognomy.
Yes, I know I haven't put out an episode in around month, but I've been unable to record due to factors out of my control ;-).
I have this and two (sort of three) other episodes under construction and I think once I move to my new place January, I'll have <em>much</em> more recording time.
</p>

<p>
<b>I'm saying all this because I'm curious if people reading have any physiognomy data or even anecdotes.</b> I've compiled a lot of studies on this kind of stuff over time, but feel free to send me what you have.
There's a big and speculative field out there, so I'd like to cover what people have found interesting even if I haven't found it myself.
Do <b>not</b> send me news media links. Send me links to the papers that they're based on.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#grug-like-new-notrelated-episode
title: grug like new notrelated episode
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#grug-like-new-notrelated-episode
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>New episode of <em>Not Related!</em> on the new perspectives in early human evolution, downloadable <a target="_blank" href="https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/notrelated/S01E07_-_Human_Evolution_Revised_Timelines_and_Multiregionalism.mp3">here</a>!</p>

<p>Topics covered:</p>

<ul>
	<li>The constantly deeper origin of humankind in time (and why this will continue)</li>
	<li>A review of (a lot of) very recent scientific literature on the genetics and archeological cultures of early humans</li>
	<li>Out-of-Africa vs. Multiregionalism</li>
	<li>How much like us are Neanderthals?</li>
</ul>

<p>Here is a list of the papers cited or alluded to:</p>

<ul>
	<li>Smith et al. 2018. Humans trived in South Africa through the Toba eruption about 74,000 years ago. Nature 555.7697. Pages 511-515.</li>
	<li>Richter et al. 2017. The age of the hominin fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, and the origins of the Middle Stone Age. Nature 546.7657. Pages 293-29.</li>
	<li>Schlebusch et al. 2017. South African ancient genomes estimate modern human divergence 350,000 to 260,000 years ago. Science 358.6363. Pages 652-655.</li>
	<li>Hodgson et a. 2014. Early Back-to-Africa Migration into the Horn of Africa. PLOS ONE 10.6.</li>
	<li>Groucutt et al. 2018. Homo sapiens in Arabia by 85,000 years. Nature Ecology and Evolution 2.5. Pages 800-809.</li>
	<li>Demeter et al. 2015. Early Modern Humans and Morphological Variation in Southeast Asia: Fossil Evidence from Tam Pa Ling, Laos. PLOS ONE 10.4.</li>
	<li>Westaway et al. 2017. An early modern human presence in Sumatra 73,000-63,000 years ago. Nature 548.7667. Pages 322-325.</li>
	<li>Pringle, Heather. 2011. Texas Site Confirms Pre-Clovis Settlement of the Americas. Science, New Series 331.6024. Page 1512.</li>
	<li>Raghavan et al. 2015. Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans. Nature 505.7481. Pages 87-91.</li>
	<li>Skoglund et al. 2015. Genetic evidence for two founding populations of the Americas. Nature.</li>
	<li>Ferentinos et al. 2012. Early seafaring activity in the southern Ionian Islands, Mediterranean Sea. Journal of Archaeological Science 39. 2167-2176.</li>
	<li>Jaubert et al. 2016. Early Neanderthal constructions deep in Bruniquel Cave in southwestern France. Nature 111.534. 111-114.</li>
	<li>Coop et al. 2008. The Timing of Selection at the Human FOXP2 Gene. Molecular Biology and Evolution 25.7. Pages 1257-1259.</li>
</ul>

<p>
Also, check out the new and improved simple HTML <em>Not Related.xyz</em> website <a target="_blank" href="https://notrelated.xyz">here</a>!
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#luke-smith-in-1080p
title: Luke Smith in 1080p!
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#luke-smith-in-1080p
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I want to thank again Henok S. for getting me and the channel the simple yet elegant ThinkVision T2224D monitor!
I showcase it <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfwerXTCb1c">here in a new video</a>!
This is less of a gift to me than a gift to everyone who watches my channel because it means that my screencasts will be recorded in full wide 1080p HD, and not the awkward 1680x1050 resolution of the fatt TV monitor I used to use and then mutilated by the resolution requirements of YouTube into 1152x720!
</p>

<p>
You can see from the video (probably if you're watching in 1080p or even less) that the screen and webcam should be a good bit crisper since it's no longer going through that awkward conversion.
On my side, the color of the monitor is also fantastic.
Obviously you can't really see it, but it definitely makes a difference for me.
</p>

<p>
I deliberately also got an IPS panel and it looks great (I had to read up on screen technology a little when shopping around).
I have an IPS on my X220 and had always noticed the much more vivid colors compared to other screens. It made me <em>prefer</em> to use the smaller laptop screen on occasions.
The IPS panel is seriously great looking. It doesn't come over in photos how good it looks, so I can't directly show you, but it is very comfortable.
I had to read up on different options, but it seems that IPS is pretty much the best unless you want more Hertz for video-gayming. I definitely love it.
</p>

<p>
The monitor I got was on the cheap side, a little over $100.
There are more expensive equivalents, including other made by Lenovo, that often come with either speakers, USB ports, more ports for displays and other options, sometimes even webcams.
I just wanted a monitor that was a monitor (and didn't want to make my benefactor feel obliged to buy an extortionate item ;-)).
If I want to "expand" later, I can get a dual display with a fancier thing, but what I have is already great, and much better than before!
</p>

<p>So again, you can look foward to seeing my screencasts in 1080p and can thank Henok for that!</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#transparencychroma-keys-in-mpv-or-vlc
title: Transparency/chroma keys in mpv or vlc?
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#transparencychroma-keys-in-mpv-or-vlc
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>As you may know, when I screencast, I record the entrety of my screen and when I have my face in the bottom right, it is a literal floating mpv window on my desktop.
I don't use either video editing or OBS to produce this effect.
</p>

<p>
There is a little feature I've been thinking to add to this though, and that is using a green screen and chroma keying out the background, leaving only me.
I don't know of a way to do this in mpv (or the commonly used alternative vlc), but I was curious if anyone had any experience automatically keying out some color in a video stream as that's sort of what I want to do.
</p>

<p>
This isn't necessary, and if I <em>really</em> wanted it, I could just use OBS, but I'm curious if there's an established way to do this.
Email me at <a href="mailto:luke@lukesmith.xyz">luke@lukesmith.xyz</a> if you have a solution for this.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#do-you-hate-patreon-and-paypal
title: Do you hate Patreon and PayPal?
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#do-you-hate-patreon-and-paypal
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>Most people do. Luckily, for all the complaining, there is a simple replacement for it that cuts out the middle man altogether and transfers money directly and immediately between bank accounts.</p>

<p>You probably haven't heard of it, but there is a new money transfer system that most banks in the United States maintain called <b>Zelle</b>.
It's really just a protocol for transferring money directly from account to account with just an email, so it works pretty much with the ease of PayPal.
It is actually a service offered for free (no fees at all) by most American banks.
</p>

<p><b>If you have any bank account in the United States, you probably already have Zelle and don't know it.</b></p>

<p>So for all those who want to donate to the channel but don't want to be bothered to use Paypal/Patreon, here's how to use it:</p>

<ul>
	<li>Log on to your online banking for whatever bank you have.</li>
	<li>Search for a "transfer money" or "Zelle" section.</li>
	<li>(You may have to confirm your email, but "setup" is automatic.)</li>
	<li>When asked for a recipient, just put in my email address: <big>luke@lukesmith.xyz</big></li>
</ul>

<p>Benefits of Zelle:</p>

<ul>
	<li>It's managed by banks as a free tool for their customers, so it doesn't skim some money off the top of your donation.</li>
	<li>You don't need to sign up and create an account on some new website.</li>
	<li>You can send a single lump-sum donation if you hate PayPal, or set up recurring donations if you hate Patreon.</li>
	<li>Zelle, being owned by banks regulated up the wazoo is less likely to ZUCC you. I've never heard of anyone being ZUCCed by them in fact.</li>
</ul>

<p>Again, you can donate <em>directly</em> to me, no charge using Zelle and my email:</p>

<p><big>luke@lukesmith.xyz</big></p>

<p>I'll be adding these directions <a target="_blank" href="https://lukesmith.xyz/zelle.html">here</a> for reference.</p>

<p>I might actually do a video on this, just so more people know.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#im-going-to-use-the-nnn-file-browser
title: I'M GOING TO USE THE NNN FILE BROWSER
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#im-going-to-use-the-nnn-file-browser
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2n5aGqou9E">New video out on nnn</a>, which is a much lighter and faster equivalent of ranger for browsing files on the terminal.</p>

<p>nnn is quite speedy and has a design that will be somewhat unfamiliar to some, using only environmental variables for configuration, instead of either traditional dotfiles or suckless-like <code>config.h</code> with the intent of recompilation.
Nonetheless, nnn has all the basics you need, lacking the bloat of ranger.
I'll still be using ranger, as I've fallen into some of its more specific features, but nnn will probably be the best for some of you out there.
</p>

<p>Source code is <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/jarun/nnn">here</a>, although it should be in the Arch default repos.</p>

<p>Also, check out <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6Vu7WPkoJo">my video on ranger</a>. I still always get the most questions about what ranger is, so here's the link again ;-)</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#running-commands-whenever-a-file-is-changed-with-entr
title: Running commands whenever a file is changed with entr
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#running-commands-whenever-a-file-is-changed-with-entr
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>New video up on <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KAp_zWeI34">entr</a>, which is a very handy command that will monitor whatever files you give it on standard input and will run a requested command on them whenever they are saved/changed. While it's not a core utility, it's almost a must have for system administration and for those interested in autocompilation or automating other aspects of your system or development environment.</p>

<p>
The main website of the project is <a target="_blank" href="http://eradman.com/entrproject/">here</a> which actually gives some pretty salient use cases, but I detail some I've used in the video a bit.
I'm sure for a lot of people this is "what they've always been looking for" because it's a task not perfectly filled by the typical programs.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#boomer-rants-in-woods-series
title: 'Boomer Rants in Woods' series
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#boomer-rants-in-woods-series
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've officially created a new playlist for a certain genre of my videos: the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-p5XmQHB_JRlxgcaj-WxkAylXFuE0gyk">"30-year-old Boomer Rants in Woods"</a> series.</p>

<p>
Title self explanatory, although the Boomer-ranting-in-woods should be understood as a Gestalt that might include some videos that are not, strictly speaking, <em>rants</em>, some scenes that are not actually in <em>the woods</em> and additionally, I'm neither <em>actually</em> a Boomer nor 30-years-old.</p>

<p>For those of you who use YouTube playlists, you may now enjoy this one.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#what-is-the-best-linux-distro
title: What is 'the best' Linux distro?
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#what-is-the-best-linux-distro
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bsNIdYw5Ak">New video out: "The TOP 1 LINUX DISTROS for 2019".</a></p>

<p>I've long found conversations about different Linux distributions tedious and meangingless.
For people familiar enough with *nix systems, the superficial differences between distributions can be easily erradicated or changed by any basic system knowledge.
"Distros are not desktop environments", as some people have started to say.
I sort of got this ball rolling on YouTube at the start of my channel when I put out my <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zpgQpdy_fI">How to Choose a Linux distro: Stop Thinking!</a> video and it was the first result for any "Linux" search for a while.
</p>

<p>
I certainly don't take any of it back, but as time has gone on, I'm starting to think that the distribution I've been using for all this time might be "the best" in some sense.
It doesn't do anything <em>particularly good</em>, but avoids all the hassles that most distributions do not.
It also puts users in a place where they can more competently deal with system problems in an intelligent way.
</p>

<p>
What distro am I talking about? Well, you probably already know, but <em>let's find out!</em> 👉
<a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bsNIdYw5Ak">The TOP 1 LINUX DISTROS for 2019</a>
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#merry-christmas-and-bitchute-update
title: Merry Christmas! and Bitchute Update
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#merry-christmas-and-bitchute-update
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>While most of my family is napping after the Christmas dinner, I'm taking some time to back-up some videos on <a target="_blank" href="https://www.bitchute.com/channel/lukesmith/">my Bitchute channel</a> (feel free to subscribe). Yes, I have a Bitchute channel. Stop telling me to get one. I've had one for over a year now. If you had looked you would've found it!</p>

<p>If you don't know, Bitchute is a video channel based on the bit torrent protocol, meaning that while it is still a niche video site, it has the potentiality to <em>improve</em> quality and bandwidth with more viewership while traditional sites would rely on buying up a huge server farm.
Bitchute also has a relatively firm commitment to non-censorship, a commitment which has cost them much, including access to PayPal, but they have never renegged.
</p>

<p>
Anyway, Bitchute automatically mirrors any new video on my YouTube channel, so it has all the videos I've put up since I started it, but is lacking those I made in early 2017, so I'm in the process of manually uploading them. If anyone knows an automatic upload system, feel free to tell me, but Bitchute's channel UI tends to lack those kinds of perks.
</p>

<p>So anyway, you'll see some old (but new) videos popping up on my Bitchute, if you haven't seen them, now's your chance. Again, the link is: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.bitchute.com/channel/lukesmith/">https://www.bitchute.com/channel/lukesmith/</></p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#year-reviewend-of-year-livestream-incoming
title: Year Review-End of Year Livestream Incoming!
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#year-reviewend-of-year-livestream-incoming
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I'm in the process of moving into a place with much better internet, and as such, I'll be able to do livestreams! <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqCdd3z6R0U">As I say briefly in this video</a>, I'll be having an end-of-year livestream which will have the functionality of a typical livestream, but with some prep in the <code>/var</code> as well: a review of all the content and happenings on the channel in the last year along with topical meme videos.</p>

<p>I'll announce the exact time(zone) later on this feed. You can also feel free to send in suggestion videos as well.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#the-new-years-livestream-will-be-on-atlantis-time
title: The New Year's Livestream will be on Atlantis time
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#the-new-years-livestream-will-be-on-atlantis-time
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>The New Year's livestream will be treating a timezone out in the middle of the Atlantic (UTC -2) as the "real New Year".
That is, <b>we will be on the time of <a target="_blank" href="https://time.is/South_Georgia_and_South_Sandwich_Islands">South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands</a></b>.
This is most convenient for me, but also pretty much avoids any personal conflicts most people will have with the climax of the New Year.
I might start as early as 3 hours beforehand, or probably will at least open up the chat while preparing, so these are the times you can come in at:
</p>

<ul>
	<li>For the Eastern US, that is 6PM to 9PM.</li>
	<li>For the Western US, that is 3PM to 6PM.</li>
	<li>Britain/Portugal: 10PM to 1AM.</li>
	<li>Most of Western Europe: 11PM to 2AM.</li>
	<li>For East Australia: 9AM to noon.</li>
	<li>Etc. etc. Just refer to the link above for the time I'm looking at. Don't trust my math.</li>
</ul>

<p>I have no huge plans for the actual moment of the New Year, so feel free to come and leave whenever.
I'll probably open up the chatroom relatively early.
As I said, I'll probably mostly be reviewing the peak moments of 2018 on the channel, playing short meme videos and responding to viewer supercummies and such (<a target="_blank" href="https://lukesmith.xyz/support.html">gibs info here</a>).
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#livestream-now-scheduled-on-youtube-and-video-requests
title: Livestream now scheduled on YouTube and video requests?
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#livestream-now-scheduled-on-youtube-and-video-requests
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've set up the livestream <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgKQSLmvyB0">link here</a>.
It should go live in around 6 hours: 6:30 EST.
You might be able to use the chatroom in the meantime; I'm not sure myself, but you can try it out.
</p>

<p>
As I mentioned, I'll be playing some short, mostly inane meme videos during the stream on occasions.
If you have any you'd like to recommend, send them to me now! Any topic, so long as they're <em>short</em> (3 minutes is really pushing it) and <em>actually entertaining</em>.
</p>

<p>Send them via email without delay: <a target="_blank" href="mailto:luke@lukesmith.xyz">luke@lukesmith.xyz</a></p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#new-year-and-new-plans
title: New Year and New Plans
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2018.html#new-year-and-new-plans
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>Hi everyone! I want to thank all who showed up for the New Years livestream, especially those who donated.</p>

<p>If I occasionally sound burnt out on making videos, I have to say that that's mostly illusion or temporary and I'm very glad with the success the channel has had in the past year.
I hope to go a lot further, while not fundamentally altering the quality or realness of the channel.
No irrelevant sponsors or special production team.
</p>

<p>I forgot to say until deep into the stream, but the thing I have my eye on getting for the channel next is an <a target="_blank" href="https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop">EOMA68 computer card</a> and casing.
This is an upcoming and experimental kind of privacy/freedom-respecting computer that appeals to my non-consumerism and sense of efficiency: it's modular, utterly free/libre from the bottom up and designed with a mostly 3D printable case.
I talked about the EOMA68 <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvHUDHqSeuM">in a video</a>, but haven't yet gotten my hands on one, despite thinking that it represents very positive movements in computer construction.
Obviously I plan on testing and reviewing it for all of you; I'm optimistic about it.
</p>

<p>
The "actual computer" part is a severable card that is supposed to be hosted in different ports: a laptop shell or a desktop shell, etc.
This reduces redundancy and easily separates the outward shell from the computer itself, both of which can be easily replaced if damaged or obsolete.
The computer card itself actually has pretty unimpressive specs, but this early in the game, that's part of the fun.
It is also lacking some typical ports (last time I did research on it, I don't believe there was an ethernet port, so you'd either need an ethernet adapter or wifi dongle).
These deficiencies are related to the adherence to strict open hardware standards from what I can glean.
</p>

<p>
In the livestream, I raised enough money for the computer card itself (I'll be getting one with Parabola GNU/Linux), but also for the desktop casing and then some.
I'll be buying these soon (together they are $120 and then taxes, etc.).
I'd also like to buy the laptop casing which is either $450-500 depending on whether I can 3D print the parts myself, but we didn't quite raise that much.
If you'd like to see me review the laptop casing as well, <a target="_blank" href="https://lukesmith.xyz/donate">please donate</a> and I'll order it too!
Honestly, I'd sort of like to start a crowd funding account just so people can see where there money is going to, I might do that.
Either way, I'll be getting the desktop casing and the computer card before they ship out on February 1st.
</p>

<p>Of course if you or someone you know is involved with the EOMA68, you could always send me a freebie and that money can go to the project next on the list. 😉</p>

<p>Anyway, I can't tell you what's next for my channel because part of it has always been its non-planned nature (otherwise it would be lame), but remember to keep tabs on <a target="_blank" href="https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml">the RSS feed</a>.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#a-hacking-wishlist
title: A Hacking Wishlist
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#a-hacking-wishlist
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've decided to put up a <a target="_blank" href="https://lukesmith.xyz/wishlist.html">"Hacking Wishlist"</a>, which will be a running list of all the things I need or would like to know how to do, but don't yet know.
I've started it with two big problems I've had for a while and am looking for any clues as to how to solve them.
<a target="_blank" href="https://lukesmith.xyz/wishlist.html">Check out the list!</a>
</p>

<p>The first I need to solve is to make LARBS's pausing system and lock screen better, and the second I really want for mutt-wizard to make it easier for users to add new mail accounts.</p>

<p>
I'll post updates as I add more entries to the list or me or someone else solves one.
You can, of course, email your solutions to <a href="mailto:luke@lukesmith.xyz">luke@lukesmith.xyz</a>.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#i-fell-ior-the-suckless-meme-in-image-viewers-too-sxiv
title: i fell Ior the suckless meme in image viewers too: sxiv
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<p>I just put up <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYW9i_u5PYs">a video on sxiv</a>, "the simple X image viewer".
I've switched from feh to it for several reasons:
</p>

<ul>
	<li>You can designate arbitrary commands to run on images via a custom script. I set up commands to make images the wallpaper, move or copy them to directories and run imagemagick commands on them.</li>
	<li>.gif animations are supported, which feh can't do.</li>
	<li>It comes with a free thumbnail view as well, which can be very handy for sorting through images. I'm moving away from using ranger with its single image previews and this is a big plus.</li>
	<li>It can read from and write to standard input/output. As I say in the video, I don't quite know what to use this for yet, but it can be very handy in user scripts to provide a dmenu-like menu for selecting images for other commands.</li>
</ul>

<p>
I also mention that I <em>don't</em> know yet if sxiv can be used to set backgrounds.
feh can, hence I still have it installed and use it for that, but if anyone knows how to make sxiv do the same, please tell me so I can save a dependency in LARBS. ;-)
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#why-i-dont-use-polybar-anymore-and-on-ricing
title: Why I don't use polybar anymore? (And on ricing)
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#why-i-dont-use-polybar-anymore-and-on-ricing
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<p>I occasionally get asked why I use my <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKumet6b-WY">"ugly" status bar</a> which is a simple i3blocks with gaudy emojis rather than the more elegant polybar which I used in earlier videos, like say, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BOW61luzF4">this one</a>, or bumblebee-status, which I used even earlier <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U3vRbF7v5A">here</a>.</p>

<p>First, right off the bat, I know a lot of people think of me as a desktop "ricer", i.e. someone who makes substantial changes to their computers for aesthetic purposes, but this really isn't the case. The only sense in which I care about my computer's appearance is its ability to present important things very obviously and the speed with which I can do whatever thing I'm doing on a computer. "Ricing" a term that comes from the automobile-modification world meaning "Race-Inspired Cosmetic Enhancement". A true ricer is all about making his computer elegant. I'm not. I care about efficiency and do have some minor aesthetic things (like transparency), but these are only to keep me from getting bored out of my mind. I even used solarized colors for a while which shows obviously I don't care <em>that much</em> about how a computer looks.</p>

<p>If you want a very good example of real ricing, I recommend you check out <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vQCiSOcYrI">this recent video by iBSD</a>, where he shows a AwesomeWM configuration theming it to Game of Thrones. That might sound absurd and pure flex, but check it out; it's very impressive.</p>

<p>But anyway, there are a couple specific reasons I don't use "the pretty" polybar:</p>

<ul>
	<li>On Arch Linux, there is no polybar binary and you must compile it from the AUR. No big deal for a user, but since I maintain <a target="_blank" href="https://larbs.xyz">LARBS</a> and have hundreds of people weekly (sometimes daily) installing my system, this constant compiling of a system basic component on many different computers leads to <em>a lot</em> of problems, many of which I can't troubleshoot.</li>
	<li>Related to the above, polybar has a bad tendency to break on the updating/renaming of a library. It's the only package I know of that does this regularly.</li>
	<li>Polybar is <em>different</em> from and independent from the typical i3bar and lacks some of its abilities. Honestly one of the things that was the straw that broke the camel's back for me was the fact that you can't easily run a command to toggle/hide polybar. Additionally, you have to get use to restarting polybar on screen refresh and having an extra script for generating in the way you want on multiple monitors. Some of that is <em>good</em> in that it means customizeability on different monitors, but since I'm not a big fan of multi-monitor setups, it doesn't mean much to me.</li>
	<li>I do sort of enjoy the "ugliness" of </li>
</ul>

<p>My reasons for bumblebee-status anymore are somewhat similar (with the additional fact that it's written in Python and tended to eat up system resources).</p>

<p>Anyway. I only write all this because I am sort of thinking of configuring a "prettier" statusbar, but since people ask about my previous choices I want to make it clear what I care about in system configuration.
If you have any suggestions of a status bar that...
</p>

<ul>
	<li>...exists in the main Arch repos,</li>
	<li>is configurable,</li>
	<li>light on system resources,</li>
	<li>has few (or no) dependencies,</li>
	<li>can be easily togged,</li>
	<li>and still can be made very pretty...</li>
</ul>

<p>Please tell me.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#nassim-taleb-on-iq-and-what-is-iq-anyway
title: Nassim Taleb on IQ, and what is IQ anyway?
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#nassim-taleb-on-iq-and-what-is-iq-anyway
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<p>I've been asked by several people to opine on Nassim Taleb's recent Twitter war against IQ as a concept.
You can read a preliminary write up of his critiques on <a target="_blank" href="https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle-f131c101ba39">a Medium article he wrote</a>.
Not too refined, but if you listen you get the point.
I'll see if I can sum some of the ideas up:
</p>

<ul>
	<li>IQ is a very effective measure of outcome... on the dumb side of the distribution, but not the "intelligent" side. People of measured IQs of 70 are well predicted to not get far in life. The difference between 70s and 100s is massive, but the difference between 100s and 130s is not on average.</li>
	<li>Because of the above, many very strong correlations between IQ and other things are spurious because IQ isn't really so predictive/causative at all levels.</li>
	<li>Thus, IQ tests are pretty much effective in that they can detect utter morons fairly well, but so can any other arbitrarily defined test; the IQ test isn't especially effective or some grand discovery.</li>
	<li>IQ tests have been designed to award a particular type of abstract thinking that is <em>not</em> generally helpful and can lead people to be oblivious, na&iuml;ve, boring and dangerous. The Talebian <a target="_blank" href="https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e2d0577">IYI</a>.</li>
</ul>

<p>
On that last point, you might want to listen to <a target="_blank" href="https://notrelated.libsyn.com/when-youre-too-rational-to-be-rational">the podcast I did on Gerd Gigerenzer's work</a>, which is related: we, especially psychologists, have this fetish for cargo-cult rationality, often when it leads us to be dumber/bigger chumps IRL.
Taleb is also keenly aware of the sociological aspect of academia, the replication crisis, the wishful thinking and confirmation bias ubiquitous in the soft (i.e. non-) sciences.
Many people will correctly call IQ or <em>g</em> "the most successful" finding of psychological sciences in the 20th century.
I say "correctly" because everything else psychological "sciences" have found is either totally non-reproduceable or the result of smoke-and-mirrors, so, sure IQ is number 1 in a field of continual failure.
</p>

<p>
Anyway, on the topic, a lot of Boomers will deny any potential reality of IQ/g or any other kinds of cognitive tests out of a deep-seated faith in total human cognitive uniformity (otherwise that would make them literally Hitler).
This isn't really Taleb's motivation: his, if I my psychoanalyze for a moment, amounts to a disappointment with the pseudo-rationalist "funcionary" thought-patterns that an IQ test favors being celebrated as a cognitive ideal, when in reality these mental habits aren't really so correlated with success outside of bureaucracy.
Taleb certainly loves to dab on n*rds and I support his efforts.
That and a conviction to sound understanding of statistics drive him.
</p>

<p>
Is "IQ" <em>utterly meaningless</em>?
No I don't think so, nor do I think Taleb thinks so, but it's only a clumsy and introductory mosaic used to approach human cognitive differences and we shouldn't necessarily treat it as a mentalistic holon without careful caveats.
As he puts it in the above Medium article:
</p>

<blockquote>
"If you renamed IQ, from "Intelligent Quotient" to FQ "Functionary Quotient" or SQ "Salaryperson Quotient", then some of the stuff will be true. It measures best the ability to be a good slave. "IQ" is good for @davidgraeber's "BS jobs"."
</blockquote>

<p>
"Autism Quotient" might be another candidate.
IQ shows <em>something</em>, but I think a lot of Taleb's critique comes down to assumption that "high IQ" tendencies are not necessarily either good or indicative of intelligence in a meaningful sense.
I think there is a strong correlation between IQ what we intuitively think of as "intelligence", but you must take that with Taleb's qualifiers mentioned above and the fact that for some cultural reasons (and pity), we think of autistic shut-ins and losers in high-school as being "intelligent" (thus the concept of IQ has affected what we think of as being smart).
In the past, autistic shut-ins were understood to be utter morons and the ideal intelligent person might be an outgoing, socially-aware, but "irrationally" cautious, high-agency person with little attention to detail.
If "IQ" measured <em>that</em> kind of person, which we could easily do, we would likely find some of the same correlations since like our "IQ" it rules out the extremely dull, but such a test might be likely to have better life-performance correlations as well.
</p>


<p>
To sum up, I mostly concur with what Taleb says, but I also don't particularly mind using the term "IQ" in the way it's conventionally understood so long as it's not understood as some eternal metric of goodness.
I did speak somewhat about the selection of cognitive ability, measured by IQ in <a target="_blank" href="http://notrelated.libsyn.com/the-agricultural-revolution-has-been-a-disaster-for-the-human-race">one of my other podcasts</a>, but my editorial stance was that that selection was not necessarily "good".
Like Taleb says in the quote above, a person with a high IQ tends to be a good functionary, a good cog in the system. Perhaps to slavishly obey social orders one does necessitate some level of real intelligence, but that servile and autistic mentality not what true intelligence causes <em>per se</em>, nor should we celebrate than kind of mindset.
</p>

<p>
If anything Taleb says sounds like gibberish, I recommend you either to read his books (<em>Skin in the Game</em>, <em>Antifragile</em>, etc. etc.) or wait for his next inevitable book which I'm sure will include the IQ discussion.
Taleb has a tendency to put things in superficially coarse phrasing online, but his books are lucid beyond comprehension.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#why-i-dont-do-gnulinux-evangelism
title: Why I don't do GNU/Linux 'evangelism'
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#why-i-dont-do-gnulinux-evangelism
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content:
<p>I just released a video talking about <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWGptIBApQo">why I don't do Linux "evangelism"</a>.
This is part of the ever growing <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-p5XmQHB_JRlxgcaj-WxkAylXFuE0gyk">"Boomer Rants in Woods"</a> series.
</p>

<p>
I detail why in the video, but it ammounts to two main points:
</p>

<ul>
	<li>People are egotistically attached to what operating system they use and treat you trying to convince them what to use as a personal insult. Trying to convince people usually ammounts to making them less open to change.</li>
	<li>Even when you can convince people that using Linux is "good" in an abstract sense, <em>they don't know how to</em> and usually end up trying to replicate their behavior on Windows/Mac OSX and become disappointed that they can't perfectly do so. I use my example of foobar2000 in the video.</li>
</ul>

<p>
The "solution" to these constraints is simple: if you want to get people to be more open to Linux, <em>show them what you can actually do on it</em>.
This solves both problems.
</p>

<p>While I certainly don't have my channel for Linux evangelism, I do feel like the channel has approached doing just that as time has gone on.
I don't talk conceptually about Linux or *nix generally unless it's after showcasing some feature or explaining the efficiency of a design.
This encourages people to actually understand Linux, how it's different from their common experience and encourages them that they might benefit from using it.
</p>


title: Adding transparency and removing whitespace from images automatically with imagemagick
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url:
https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#adding-transparency-and-removing-whitespace-from-images-automatically-with-imagemagick

content:
<p>I've put up <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8pcvkRsx1g">a new imagemagick video</a>, where I briefly talk about how to quickly trim junk from images with the <code>-trim</code> option and basic usage of the <code>-transparent</code> option, which allows you to automatically choose a color to treat as transparent. Just a brief topic, but you can get a whole lot out of these little tools in terms of making image modification way faster.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#contemplating-a-brief-series-on-creating-a-website
title: Contemplating a brief series on creating a website
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#contemplating-a-brief-series-on-creating-a-website
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've been contemplating doing a series on creating and maintaining your own website.
The motivation is simple: too few people have their own platforms on the internet and are increasingly at the technical and frankly emotional mercy of social media sites, begging not to be "deplatformed".
I talk about this <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYDwep9yI8A">in a new video</a>.
</p>

<p>
I'm already starting to think through how I want the series to look, it might only be two somewhat long videos, but I'll probably show people the kind of setup that I have with a VPS.
Suggestions are welcome, so long as they are... reasonable.
Also, in the process of making this video, I will probably be using real life hosts/registrars:
<b>If anyone has anything bad or good to say about a registrar or host service, feel free to tell me</b>.
I say this because if I use or bring up Namecheap (my VPS host) as an example in the video, that will probably bring new users/customers to them.
I don't want to positively or even neutrally mention any host/registrar that has a bad record (for example, GoDaddy is a terrible host and I'll probably specifically note it).
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#hacking-wishlist-addition-moving-all-before-a-match-to-end-of-file
title: Hacking wishlist addition: Moving all before a match to end of file!
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#hacking-wishlist-addition-moving-all-before-a-match-to-end-of-file
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've added <a href="https://lukesmith.xyz/wishlist.html#sortmatchfirst">a new entry to the Hacking Wishlist</a>.
This one I was racking my brain a little on last night, but couldn't find an elegant solution. It's probably obvious though.
</p>

<p>
I want a sed/awk command (probably awk, actually) that can take a stream and a regular expression and move all the lines before that regular expression to the end of the file.
Sounds simple, but for whatever reason, I haven't developed a solution!
I need to brush up my awk skills!
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#anyone-want-the-domain-name-currentyearnet-looking-to-sell
title: Anyone want the domain name `currentyear.net`? Looking to sell.
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#anyone-want-the-domain-name-currentyearnet-looking-to-sell
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>A couple years ago, I bought <a target="_blank" href="http://currentyear.net">currentyear.net</a> with the idea of turning it into a meme news site for fun.
I obviously didn't end up doing it, so I'm thinking about parting with the domain name to anyone who thinks they might be able to put it to good use!</p>

<p>
If anyone wants it, name a price and I'll sell it to you relatively cheap as far as domains go.
If there are no takers within a couple of days, I'll probably put it on sale publicly with Namecheap for a good bit more than I'd settle for now.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#suck-on-this-blackpillers
title: Suck on this, black-pillers!
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#suck-on-this-blackpillers
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>New <em>Boomer Rants</em> video on why <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQIcUBd-5fk">Pessimism is *literally* for losers.</a> ;-)</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#anyone-want-to-redo-the-css-for-my-website
title: Anyone want to redo the CSS for my website?
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#anyone-want-to-redo-the-css-for-my-website
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I'm not a big color person and whenever I have to pick a theme for a website, it sort of annoys me.
I don't like the current theme of my website, in fact, I've never liked <em>any</em> of the themes I've used so I was curious, before I start manually start retinkering with it until I find another scheme I tepidly can approve of,
I was curious if anyone out there who has a knack for design would like to offer me a new .css stylesheet with a better colorscheme and other possible tweaks.
</p>

<p>
The current stylesheet is at <a target="_blank" href="https://lukesmith.xyz/style.css">https://lukesmith.xyz/style.css</a>.
I've added a couple of comments to make clear what novel thing is what.
Feel free to send me new colors for everything, although I want a dark theme.
Be sure that everything still werks, including the rolling blog page. I'll give it a couple days before I pick "a winner" unless I get one really quickly that's just perfect.
</p>

<p>
Do <b>not</b> offer to redo my website, especially if that means rewriting it with javascript code everywhere!
I also do not want to have to move anything around unless there's just the best reason to: .css changes only.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#luke-steps-on-the-python-snek
title: Luke steps on the Python snek
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#luke-steps-on-the-python-snek
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ5qYVGkxhc">New video up on Python</a>, talking about computer language speed and abstraction, but also why I don't use Python for scripting or much of anything.</p>

<p>This is partially in response to some responses I got when I committed microaggressions against Python the language <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2n5aGqou9E">in this video</a>.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#recent-work
title: Recent work
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#recent-work
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I neglected to mention on the RSS feed yesterday, but I put up <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JP0Jx41v7M">a new video</a> just talking about some channel progress and workflow.</p>

<p>I've actually already recording one of the videos for the "make your own website" series and I may have another done soon. Expect them some time next week.</p>

<p>I've also started putting together a review of my new <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pckeyboard.com/page/category/EnduraPro">Unicomp Endurapro keyboard</a>. There are actually a lot of things I want to put into it to give people a full view of it. I might finish this video either today or tomorrow.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#the-horrors-of-the-linux-terminal
title: The 'Horrors' of the Linux Terminal...
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#the-horrors-of-the-linux-terminal
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've put up a video briefly explaining the benefits, dare I say, <em>superiorities</em> of command line management as oppose to flopping around like a fish in GUIs.
A lot of novice users are strangely afraid of the terminal, but as I say in the video, it's a much more efficient and direct way of getting things done on a computer, similar to giving orders to a Siri.
Here are the video links:
</p>
<ul>
	<li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYDYSSOA2f8">YouTube</a></li>
	<li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/gYDYSSOA2f8/">Bitchute</a></li>
</ul>

<p>Recorded another video in the website series today. Putting the pieces together. Now two videos done and will probably be released next week.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#anyone-got-ueberzug-image-previews-working-in-vifm
title: Anyone got ueberzug image previews working in vifm?
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#anyone-got-ueberzug-image-previews-working-in-vifm
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I was playing around with <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/seebye/ueberzug">ueberzug</a>, which is a possbly more consistent replacement for the w3m image preview.
Give it an images and a location/dimensions for it and it will print it to the terminal.
The preview will survive after multiple resizing, mouse away and anything else.
Much more robust than w3mimg.
</p>

<p>A brief example in bash. I recommend installing ueberzug via pip to ensure all the right dependencies.</p>

<pre><code>source "`ueberzug library`"
ImageLayer
declare -A command=([path]="pix/image.png" [identifier]="name" [action]="add" [x]="0" [y]="0" [max_width]="400" [height]="400")</code></pre>

<p>The above will print <code>pix/image.png</code> in the top left (0x0) and ensure it fits within 400x400 by resizing it.
If you spawn a bunch more windows and move it around, the image is very consistent.
</p>

<p>Now vifm does provide some built-in arguments for the size of the preview window and location, but despite a little tinkering, I couldn't actually get any previews to pop up.
I tried in my build of st, urxvt and alacritty and none worked in vifm.
</p>

<p>
I could toy around with it a little more and figure it out, but if any of you guys have already done it, feel free to share your script/command to do it.
Ideally I'd like vifm previews, but also an independent script that could simply print out an image argument to the command line.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#a-showcase-video-on-fish-as-a-shell
title: A showcase video on fish as a shell
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#a-showcase-video-on-fish-as-a-shell
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've put up a brief video on fish (the Friendly Interactive SHell).
I'm not too opinionated about shells, I use vanilla bash myself, but there are definitely some things to really like or hate about fish.
</p>

<ul>
	<li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2a7jJTh3kU">YouTube</a></li>
	<li><a target="_blank" href="https://bitchute.com/video/C2a7jJTh3kU">Bitchute</a></li>
</ul>

<p>I talk about fish's idiosyncratic (and not very POSIX) syntax, but also its perks: syntax highlighting, autocompletion of commands an command options, abbreviations and more.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#unaboomergeocities-livestream-soon
title: Unaboomer/Geocities Livestream SOON
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#unaboomergeocities-livestream-soon
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>As the kick off to the creating-a-website series, I'm going to be having what was originally going to be an "HTML/CSS tutorial", but since everyone already knows HTML and CSS, it's going to be a light-heared Geocities-themed livestream where I construct an early-ninties-style webpage.
</p>

<p>Typical livestream behavior expected as well.</p>

<p>For you Zoomers out there, Geocities was... oh well you'll figure it out. Just come to the livestream. I'll probably start in less than 30 minutes... We'll see.</p>

<p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPXVR4FkHPc">LINK HERE. CHAT IS OPEN NOW!</a></p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#audio-problem-fixed-stream-active-immanently
title: Audio problem fixed. Stream active immanently.
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#audio-problem-fixed-stream-active-immanently
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've fixed the audio problem in the original stream attempt. I'll go live in less than 30 minutes at the bottom of the hour.</p>

<p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5KKrAEiNC0">New link.</a></p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#some-entry-tips-to-using-suckless-programs
title: Some entry tips to using suckless programs
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#some-entry-tips-to-using-suckless-programs
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've just put up a video on some general tips I have for people who are looking to use suckless programs. </p>

<ul>
	<li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C6saSpX4KQ">YouTube</a></li>
	<li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/3C6saSpX4KQ/">Bitchute</a></li>
</ul>

<p>This is in response to a lot of the complaints I hear about suckless from people who are trolling their minds for reasons not to use it.
I also saw that Distrotube had put out a video talking about trying suckless utilities out, so I wanted to give my personal recommendations.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#do-you-know-the-via-negativa
title: Do you know the Via Negativa?
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#do-you-know-the-via-negativa
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>New video up on <em>Via Negativa</em>, which is about the closest I'll ever get to offering "self-help" advise.
NEETs won't want to hear it anyway.
</p>
<ul>
	<li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjBIqnTC1nk">YouTube</a></li>
	<li><a target="_blank" href="https://bitchute.com/video/WjBIqnTC1nk/">Bitchute</a></li>
</ul>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#how-to-get-a-domain-name-for-cheap-or-free
title: How to Get a Domain Name for Cheap or Free
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#how-to-get-a-domain-name-for-cheap-or-free
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>Check out the new video out on how to get a domain name.
I list out a couple different registrars in the description, feel free to recommend others if you'd like.
Here's the vid:
</p>

<ul>
	<li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkV1-BuRrpE">YouTube</a></li>
	<li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.bitchute.com/video/tkV1-BuRrpE/">BitChute</a></li>
</ul>

<p>By the way, you may've noticed that I haven't been releasing RSS posts as quickly as I used to when I put out new videos (and even missing some).
There are some practical reasons for this, but in the future, I <em>might</em> go without posting video releases on the blog/RSS, unless I specifically feel like it.
This blog is, after all, supposed to be just a blog.
</p>

<p>
I'm not sure, but to be extra careful, I recommend subscribing to my YouTube channel's RSS feed here: (<a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC2eYFnH61tmytImy1mTYvhA">https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC2eYFnH61tmytImy1mTYvhA</a>).
Entry links will be the direct video links.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#one-week-in-nowhere
title: One week in nowhere
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#one-week-in-nowhere
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>As I mentioned in my last livestream, I'm spending this coming week in a remote, undiscolsed location with minimal internet connection.
Earlier today I was Booming as usual back home, but I took a long drive to a family area several hundred miles away where I'll probably be for the next week.
If you're reading this on or shortly after the 15th, it means I at least had the cell service to update the blog, but don't expect any videos this week (although I will be recording some for later release).
</p>

<p>
I decided to leave town because I can, and  because I'd like to have free time to work on whatever strikes me.
I always recommend building a "schedule" which is purposefully mostly empty: only then can you truly end up doing what matters.
Perhaps I'll make some videos or record podcasts or work on my dissertations.
We'll see.
</p>

<p>
You often forget, even when you live in a pretty small city what exactly true silence sounds like.
Back where I live now, there is still the constant nightly buzz of Zoomers at the club listening to that damned Kanye/Lil Pump song 6 million times a night.
Here during nightime, however, at first you hear nothing, and only after long exposure do you hear the distant packs of wolves and wild dogs howling at each other, or the bleating of a boar.
When in non-rural areas usually most of what you hear is drowned out as the unimportant mess it is, if you go for a midnight stroll in a dark forest, every sound becomes meaningful, if not alarming. Even as I write this on the porch of the isolated house, a larger animal is rummaging gently in the bush just out of my field of view.
I'm a little unnerved as it seems to be working its way slowly to me, perhaps trying to figure out the clacking of a ThinkPad keyboard and the brightness of the accompanying ThinkLight.
</p>

<p>
I thought about soiling an earlier night walk by recording a video, but while your eyes adjust to the only light, the moon, a cell phone can hardly make the adjustment and capture the actual appearance of anything, not least by blaring its electronic luminescene on everything.
Anyway, I'm going to try to upload at least this post and turn of what remaining electronics I have here.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#some-riverfront-surveying
title: Some riverfront surveying
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#some-riverfront-surveying
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>Today was my first full day of my weeklong outing, and I spent a lot of the time walking through the pines and on firelanes.
I went to visit some family land by the river, which had been partially flooded with some residual marshland.
There's a non-negligible chance that in the future I might be building a house on that parcel, albeit much further away from the river for fear of the occasional hurricane-based flooding.
</p>

<p>I also visited the church cemetary where many of my ancestors are buried.</p>

<p>I did have the chance to record some material for videos, but I won't be able to upload it until I either get back or drive quite a while to get to an area with public internet.
Out here, the main way people even have an internet connection is via satillite.
Dial-up was common relatively recently.
</p>

<p>
I didn't mention it yesterday, but the "urbanization" of the area is somewhat jarring.
I mean "urbanization" in the loosest sense (I'm not quite sure what to call it, perhaps "commercialization"), but a lot of the small towns in the area have started to produce Subways, McDonalds, chain gas stations and even a couple of Walmarts.
The essence of the area hasn't changed that much, but it could mean the beginning of a potentially irreversable process.
Still, where I am is imminently rural, without the hint of even a non-chain restaurant or a grocery store for miles and miles.
</p>

<p>
When I was young, my grandfather used to arrange for gasoline to be shipped to a tank on our property, but that was a long time ago.
If you wanted to go "shopping", you'd have to drive more than an hour to get to Valdosta, which in the grand scheme of things is still a relatively small college town, although I much confess that that city has balooned in size and business in the 10 years since I did my first year of college there in 2008-2009.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#you-dont-choose-who-you-are
title: You don't choose who you are
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#you-dont-choose-who-you-are
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I put up a brief "Lunchtime with Luke" video earlier today. Links below.</p>

<ul>
	<li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdRJMuOFO88">YouTube</a></li>
	<li><a target="_blank" href="https://bitchute.com/video/vdRJMuOFO88/">BitChite</a></li>
</ul>

<p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-p5XmQHB_JQBsNCDz048KDs52XrhmrZf">Lunchtime with Luke</a> is now an official playlist.</p>

<p>In this video, I talk about the term "Bugman" and give a brief Gestalt of what it means.</p>

<p>Really the deeper point I was making was the non-arbitrariness of identity.
There are now forces overwhelming in society pushing people to disconnect from and reject their families, religions, traditions, culture and even their countries.
</p>

<p>
One of the falsest notions now common in modernity is the idea that "identity" is something chosen by unaffected personal whim.
To the Bugman, "identity" is something chosen like a favorite color, and it offends their programmed ego to be told that they were born how and where and in the social context that they were, and all of that is immutable.
</p>

<p>In reality, an "identity" that is chosen is not an identity at all, but a coping mechanism for those people who have lost touch.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#boomer-larps-in-woods
title: Boomer LARPs in Woods
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#boomer-larps-in-woods
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I recorded some videos while I was gone last week and now that I have internet again, I'll be uploading the vacation.
There are several screencasts and many new episodes of "Boomer Rants in Woods" and "Lunchtime with Luke".
I'll probably be releasing one a day for a while.
</p>

<p>
First, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJzuJM0h3Zo">29-year-old Boomer LARPs in Woods</a>. I walk through some family land through the river just for exploration. There's a chance in the future I might build something there or maybe move to this area. I'll talk more of my trip later.
</p>

<p>By the way, due to some changes YouTube made to how videos are uploaded, my videos will not automatically be appearing on Bitchute for a bit. Hopefully Bitchute will adjust to the changes soon.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#why-you-should-learn-latin
title: Why you should learn Latin
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#why-you-should-learn-latin
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>There's nothing essentially magical about Latin, but I've recommended a lot of people learning it because for many different reasons, it straddles easiness and rigor, and opens fairly unexpected opportunities.
<a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d-YsD8zN88">Watch the video here.</a>
</p>

<p>I also talk about some of Latin's particular benefits to me, even aside from just learning other languages, but also give some recommendations as to how to learn it effectively.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#fuzzy-finder-fzf-a-dmenu-for-the-terminal
title: Fuzzy finder (fzf), a 'dmenu' for the terminal
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#fuzzy-finder-fzf-a-dmenu-for-the-terminal
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I'm sure some of you have run across this before, but after getting a lot of questions about it, I figured it might be worth it to do <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt33Hp-4RXg">a video on fuzzy finder (fzf)</a>.
For long-time channel subscribers, fzf can be thought of as a dmenu-like program for the terminal, you can pipe an input and it allows the user to select one of those input lines by typing, then it prints it to standard output.
</p>

<p>
That opens up a world of possibilities, so I show some of my minor implementations in the video.
Check the fzf website for a couple more suggestions, but I think you can come up with a lot on your own as well.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#new-git-repo-greek-septuagintnew-testament-on-the-command-line
title: New Git repo: Greek Septuagint/New Testament on the command line
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#new-git-repo-greek-septuagintnew-testament-on-the-command-line
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I got an email this morning from a subscriber asking about command-line tools for Biblical textual criticism/study, specifically in Greek or Hebrew.
Most of you know I'm terrible with email due to the sheer quantity I get, but for whatever reason, I saw this and was a little inspired to actually work it out.
</p>

<p>
Before this morning are were some good English tools, like <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/bontibon/kjv">this one on Github</a> (<code>kjv-git</code> in the AUR), but no to my knowledge, nothing really in the original language.
<code>kjv-git</code> can return any (English) King James Version Bible verse, series of verses or whole book at your command, but there is no obvious equivalent in Greek or Hebrew.
This is an annoyance because for anyone like me who occasionally needs a Bible verse or the original wording of a passage, you have to open up a browser and search for it in a bloated website written by a Soydev.
</p>

<p>
Anyway, this morning since I was skipping church for highly justified reasons, I forked the repository and painstakingly found and rearranged a plaintext Greek Septuagint (i.e. the Old Testament) and the SBL Greek New Testament so that they could be read by the same system.
Took a lot of regexing, but you can get it for yourself here: <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/grb">https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/grb</a>.
Many Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books are included if you like the Bible: Expanded Universe.
</p>

<p>I'll probably eventually record a video on it, but I'm travelling and didn't bring by mic/webcam to record, so I might do it next week.
Before then, I recommend you check it out and find any glitches if there are any.
</p>


title: Wow what a bad day for Fedorafriends! (Luke Smith BTFOS Logic MLG Epic Style)
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
guid:
https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#wow-what-a-bad-day-for-fedorafriends-luke-smith-btfos-logic-mlg-epic-style

url:
https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#wow-what-a-bad-day-for-fedorafriends-luke-smith-btfos-logic-mlg-epic-style

content:
<p>You know what, I released yet another video today, this one on <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1czUp-MvWvE">"""rationality"""</a> or at least on how the term is clumsily understood.
</p>

<p>
I have a lot of videos slated for release soon and I honestly forgot about this one today, I suppose in conjunction with <a target="_blank" href="https://lukesmith.xyz/blog/new-git-repo-greek-septuagintnew-testament-on-the-command-line.html">my last post</a>, this constitutes a bad day for all Reddit-tier fedorafriends out there!
</p>

<p>I talk about the limits to how people commonly misunderstand rationality and how we often find ourselves in destructive logical holes when we too blindly assume that the straight-jacket of formal logic corresponds to the world out there.</p>

<p>To go a little more in depth, check out <a target="_blank" href="https://notrelated.libsyn.com/when-youre-too-rational-to-be-rational">one of my recent podcast episodes on the same topic</a>.
There I talk about Kahneman and Tversky's Heuristics and Biases program and Ecological Rationality &agrave;la Gigerenzer.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#the-downsides-of-bloated-software-r-markdown-and-latex
title: The downsides of bloated software: R Markdown and LaTeX
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#the-downsides-of-bloated-software-r-markdown-and-latex
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I just released <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS2Iiql9nqo">a new video talking about the downsides to bloated software</a>.
It's not just about lines of code or dependencies, but about potentiality for breakage and frustration.
</p>

<p>
Nowadays, the standard modus operandi for many """devs""" is to write programs to substrate over previous ones.
Sounds sensible, but when everyone is doing it, we have nothing but an ever increasing mound of mutually-dependent programs for which even the most minor error can cause everything to come crashing down.
</p>

<p>In the video above, give a particular recent example in my life, involving writing a book in R Markdown (compiled with a LaTeX engine), comparing that to the less bloated <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-p5XmQHB_JRe2YeaMjPTKXSc5FqJZ_km">groff/troff</a>.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#thinking-about-getting-a-document-camera-any-suggestions
title: Thinking about getting a document camera: Any suggestions?
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#thinking-about-getting-a-document-camera-any-suggestions
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I'm thinking about getting a document camera for recording videos in the future that require writing on paper.
I'd like it to have a USB interface that I can connect to my computer an screencast directly as if it were another webcam.
</p>

<p>
I honestly don't know what's out there, so if anyone is familiar with anything recommendable and not too expensive (I don't want to spend more than a hundred dollars or so), feel free to tell me your experience with any particular model.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#pacman-for-package-management-on-arch-all-the-basics-and-more
title: Pacman for package management on Arch: All the basics and more
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#pacman-for-package-management-on-arch-all-the-basics-and-more
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>
<a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dEuXTMzRKs">New video up on pacman, the Arch Linux package manager.</a>
</p>

<p>
One of the weird things that has happened since I <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PBqpX0_UOc">put out my video on installing Arch Linux</a> and since I release <a target="_blank" href="https://larbs.xyz">LARBS</a> is that I get a lot of people who install Arch and LARBS without knowing anything about it!
I suppose that's a good thing, but I've begun to get very basic questions from people who don't know the absolute basics of pacman.
</p>

<p>The video above is a response to this.
It covers installing, updating, searching for, listing and manpulating packages and other pacman settings, some of which maybe even veteran users might not be familiar with.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#college-tour-livestream-soon
title: College tour livestream soon
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#college-tour-livestream-soon
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>
<a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DJA42plup4">I'll be starting a Livestream within the hour, linked here.</a> Will start 5PM East Coast US time.
</p>

<p>
I'll talk about the possibility of a college tour (or a tour outside of colleges) and some other things that I may be doing soon.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#college-stream-starting-now
title: College stream starting now
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#college-stream-starting-now
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DJA42plup4">Livestream starting now.</a></p>

<p>
Donations, <a target="_blank" href="donate.html">which you can give here</a>, will be read out on the stream.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#boomer-forest-larp-episode-22
title: Boomer forest LARP episode 2/2
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#boomer-forest-larp-episode-22
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>Part 2/2 of my forest LARP has been released. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnwByyneWOc">See it here.</a></p>

<p>
There are actually still a couple more contentful videos from my vacation that will be coming out in the next couple of days.
I'll probably do a review of my experience there too.
I've noted it to those I know IRL, but I'm thinking about moving down to the place I visited for some different reasons. I'll discuss them soon.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#new-latin-vulgate-bible-repository
title: New Latin Vulgate Bible repository
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#new-latin-vulgate-bible-repository
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>A couple days ago, I put up <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/grb">this repository (https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/vul)</a> which is a command-line interface to the Greek Bible (the Septuagint and SBL New Testament).</p>

<p>Since I had gone ahead and done that, I decided I'd make and put up two other related repositories:
</p>

<ul>
	<li>A fork of the original King James Version Bible interface that the repo above is based on. <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/lukesmithxyz/kjv">Get it here.</a> My repo, compared to <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/bontibon/kjv">the original it's forked from</a> is the same, but with the Apocrypha also included.</li>
	<li>A similar program, but for the Latin Vulage Bible. <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/vul">Get it here.</a></li>
</ul>

<p>I'll put up a video on these in a while so my non-blog/RSS viewers will know about them.</p>

<p>Enjoy!</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#a-visit-to-the-georgia-guidestones
title: A visit to the Georgia Guidestones
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#a-visit-to-the-georgia-guidestones
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>A couple days ago, I went by Elberton, Georgia, home of the notorious Georgia Guidestones.
Just for fun, I filmed <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHHRibortwE">a brief video there</a>.
Check it out!
</p>

<p>The Guidestones are a mysterious monument built only a couple of decades ago by unknown persons with inscriptions in several modern and ancient languages, also including astrological guides.
They've often been attributed to the Rosicrucians, Luciferians or some other clandestine groups and have popped up in numerous conspiracy documentaries and commentaries.
</p>

<p>As I mention in the video, I have a somewhat indirect connection to the monument, as a former professor of mine at the University of Georgia was hired to give the Greek and Sanskrit translations.
I believe other UGA professors provided the other translations as well, but they were all commissioned by a unknown "Mr. Christian" to do so and no one really knows what's behind these stones.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#plumbing-in-linux-plan-9-from-bell-labs-style
title: Plumbing in Linux, Plan 9 from Bell Labs style
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#plumbing-in-linux-plan-9-from-bell-labs-style
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I usually abstain from using the mouse, but I've noticed a lot of interest in <em>plumbing</em> recently, and have got a lot of emails about it.
Plan 9 is a highly unique operating system, integrating the mouse directly into the most basic UI, and the right click importantly can "plumb" selected text.
This can mean various things from opening or running the file corresponding to the text or something else, but as a design feature, plumbing is something worth playing around with on other operating systems.
</p>

<p><a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/RlMxbQmMz_4">I've put out a video here on my current plumbing script.</a> It's part of my dotfiles now, mapped to <code>Super + C</code> since that's one of the lone leftover keys. I'm sure you could bind it to one of your many mouse buttons as well if you have one of those meme mouses.</p>

<p>
Of course, this kind of plumbing is piecemeal compared to the Plan 9 orignal: it really is a kind of text handler mediated by dmenu, but it gets at part of the functionality. It can open files whose text is displayed on the terminal, it can search for text in the browser or on eBay or on OpenStreetMaps, or generate QR codes for text.
You're welcome to suggest elegant ways to improve the script on <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/lukesmithxyz/voidrice">the git repository</a>.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#my-repos-are-now-on-gitlab-and-will-be-updated-there-as-well
title: My repos are now on Gitlab and will be updated there as well
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#my-repos-are-now-on-gitlab-and-will-be-updated-there-as-well
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've actually had a Gitlab since Github was bought by Microsoft, but I had never bothered using it and simply had it mirror my main repos.
Since a lot of people actually do use it now, and some exclusively, I will actually be pushing all of my changes that I push to Github to Gitlab as well.
I'll also be watching Gitlab for Issues and PRs, for those of you who use Gitlab and Gitlab only, so feel free to abstain from using Github entirely to communicate with me and my repos.
</p>

<p>Subscribe to the RSS feed of my Gitlab events here: <code><a target="_blank" href="https://gitlab.com/LukeSmithxyz.atom">https://gitlab.com/LukeSmithxyz.atom</a></code> Or follow me?? I don't actually know if there's following on Gitlab. Sorry, Boomer here when it comes to technology. You might know that I never follow/subscribe to anyone on any site as a rule myself so I never keep track...</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#yanggangus-website-building-livestream-at-400-est
title: YangGang.us Website building livestream at 4:00 EST
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#yanggangus-website-building-livestream-at-400-est
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>You may've already seen that I'll be having a livestream at 4:00 EST. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRp59nDsOz8">The link is here.</a>.</p>

<p>Since the Unaboomer website building stream didn't go public, I've decided to do another basic 1990's-tier plain HTML website stream, this one making <a target="_blank" href="http://yanggang.us">YangGang.us</a>, which will be a classic repository of YangGang memes.
</p>

<p>
Presidential candidate Andrew Yang is the newest, hottest meme as in our increasingly degenerate country, as he has abandoned all pretense and merely promised to give everyone $1,000 a month if elected president.
This has inspired hope among the black-pilled and a $1,000 stipend can go a long way for NEETs and those who choose an /innawoods/ lifestyle.
How can Orange Man even compete?
</p>

<p>Send me any good YangGang memes you run across. Chances are I already have them, but send them just in case.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#larbs-update-to-vifmuberzug-may-require-manual-intervention
title: LARBS update to vifm/überzug may require manual intervention
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#larbs-update-to-vifmuberzug-may-require-manual-intervention
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've just pushed updates to the voidrice and LARBS repos that officially change the default file browser from ranger to vifm.</p>

<p>If you update via git, you might also need to manually run <code>yay -S python-ueberzug</code> to install &uuml;berzug from the AUR, otherwise image previews may stall and (obviously) not work.</p>

<p>
I mentioned &uuml;berzug's ability to preview images <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bocb8diNJA8">in this video</a>, but I've found a solution to getting them to work in vifm and it is now default in LARBS.
</p>

<p>
I'll probably be doing a video on vifm sometime soon now, but if you want an explanation of the script which was written by the developer of &uuml;berzug, I believe, Distrotube has talked about it <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgxsduCO1pE">in this video last week</a>.
</p>

<p>My video will probably cover this, basic info, colorschemes and more. It might be a somewhat long video, but people have been asking for it for a while.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#livestream-starting-in-less-than-30-minutes
title: Livestream starting in less than 30 minutes
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#livestream-starting-in-less-than-30-minutes
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>YangGang website building stream is starting in less than 30 minutes.</p>

<p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRp59nDsOz8">The link is here.</a></p>

<p>Send any last-minute Yang memes to <a href="mailto:luke@lukesmith.xyz">luke@lukesmith.xyz</a>.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#in-defense-of-pseudoscience-in-video-form
title: In defense of 'Pseudo-science' in video form...
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#in-defense-of-pseudoscience-in-video-form
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've put up a video entitled <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eoN7EqZWW4">"In Defense of Pseudoscience"</a>, a new episode of "Lunchtime with Luke".
</p>

<p>
A couple months ago, I wrote a brief blogpost to this effect, but in general, I've always rejected the entire invented problem of "the demarkation problem" which was the fuss of a lot of philosophers in the early 20th century.
It was an attempt to formally specify what constitutes true "science" versus non-science or "pseudoscience".
</p>

<p>I explain precisely why in the video, and provide some example of how "pseudoscience" is often the only real drive of scientific development.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#the-bible-on-the-command-line-tutorial
title: The Bible on the command line (tutorial)
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#the-bible-on-the-command-line-tutorial
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've put up <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCiJO8BaSSk">a video on getting/reading/searching the Bible, in English, Greek or Latin, on the command line</a>.
I mentioned this on the blog a week or so ago, but I had forked <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/bontibon/kjv">this repository</a>, which included a very economical sh/awk script that can parse and interface with a tsv file to give you a very intuitive and light interface to the Bible or any other versified text you need.
</p>

<p>My personal repos on this are below:</p>

<ul>
	<li><a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/kjv">A fork of `kjv` including the Apocrypha</a></li>
	<li><a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/grb">The Greek Bible with the Septuagint for the Old Testament and the SBL for the New</a></li>
	<li><a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/vul">The Clementine Vulgate Bible (Latin)</a></li>
</ul>

<p>Of course, this system isn't just useful for religious texts, but anything that is divided into books, chapters and verse.
Feel free to implement the system in whatever way you like.
</p>

<p>By the way, yesterday, I put out a idle video on <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyEljFoPnpU">a trip I made to George L. Smith Park</a>, nothing too deep, but I figured I might record and put it up.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#not-related-live-coming-soon-tomorrow
title: Not Related! (LIVE) Coming soon (tomorrow?)...
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#not-related-live-coming-soon-tomorrow
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>As <em><a target="_blank" href="https://notrelated.xyz">Not Related!</a></em> fans will know well, I haven't made an episode in several months!
This is for a variety of reasons, but I've decided to switch it up for an episode tomorrow by recording LIVE, streaming on YouTube.
</p>

<p>The link will be <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IP5FrJghk8">HERE</a>. The chatroom will be open until then. I might stop in every so often in the wait.
I've scheduled it for 2PM New York time tomorrow, but I <em>might</em> change that by an hour or two if I need to. Check back at that link for updates.
</p>

<p>Here's how it's going to work:</p>

<ul>
	<li><em>Not Related!</em> episodes I typical arrange as 30 minutes of depthy content, followed by a brief break and donation reading, followed by another 30 minutes of content. The beginning of the stream will work like this.</li>
	<li>The podcast is still audio and will still be released as such. I might occasionally use a minor visual aid, but nothing that will make consuming the content via audio diminished. I'll probably just have the topic and a webcam in the video.</li>
	<li>Chat will be live, but I will not be actively reading it until the break and it will not appear on the video (it will, as all YouTube streams, appear on the edge).</li>
	<li>Related/serious donation will be answered in that in-between break time. Non-serious/meme/joke or just unrelated donations will be answered at the very end (this will not be included in the audio version of the podcast, unless I deem it high-quality discussion).</li>
</ul>

<p>In this arrangement, we can have all the typical glory of a <em>Not Related!</em> episode while still "devolving" into a general purpose stream as time goes on. Obviously it can be interactive at the same time.</p>

<p><strong>The starting topic of the episode/stream:</strong></p>

<p>This episode/stream will be on the absolute(ly terrible) state of "statistics" as it is used in the "soft" sciences: psychology, neuroscience, medicine, econometrics, here in linguistics and many others.
All of these disciplines are in hot water.
A lot of people are aware that there is flimsy knowledge of statistics in a lot of non-specialist fields, but in this episode, I go to an even deeper problem: the "Null Ritual" (Gerd Gigerenzer's term), a statistical analysis procedure that is essentially required for publication, but is also a historical misunderstanding and mistake that has produced entire fields of people running statistical tests of unclear scientific and epistemological meaning, while also abiding by totally arbitrary conventions (p &lt; 0.05 and more).
</p>

<p>
I'll go into the original history of modern statistics, as expounded by Ronald Fisher and his "adversaries" Neyman and Pearson.
Their competing theories were motivated in entirely different ways, but have been distorted and confused over the decades, resulting in the hybridized "null ritual" we see today.
</p>

<p>I'll also talk about how this contributed to the "replication problem", reminding one of Ioannidis's now well-known 2005 paper: "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False."</p>

<p><b>Do not read Wikipedia or even a textbook on anything related to this before the podcast! You will be misinformed!</b> Refer to Gigerenzer's 2004 article "Mindless Statistics" and the ensuing literature, but I should say that there is a very big gap between this specialist literature and the mostly cargo-cult understanding of the statistical methods that filter into textbooks and then into public repositories like Wikipedia, etc. This is why I think this topic is highly important to get out there!</p>


title: Not Related! LIVE: The Problem with Academic Statistics (in 1 hour; 2PM EDT)
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url:
https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#not-related-live-the-problem-with-academic-statistics-in-1-hour-2pm-edt

content:
<p>Reminder that <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IP5FrJghk8">there will be a live stream of <em>Not Related!</em> in an hour</a>. That's 2PM EDT (New York City time).</p>

<p>
Related donations will be read at the midway point and at the end, then other donations will be read in a livestream portion not to be included in the audio episode that will be released.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#dont-document-software-if-you-want-to-avoid-pain
title: Don't document software! (If you want to avoid pain!)
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#dont-document-software-if-you-want-to-avoid-pain
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imrBnf94E78">New video up.</a></p>

<p>One irony of making things more clearly documented and sometimes even hand-holding is that it actually tends to increase the stress you go through!</p>

<p>I talk about this in this video, and my own experience for everyone, and especially those interested in making software and interacting with the people who use it.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#gnuesotericism-stream-in-an-hour
title: GNU/Esotericism Stream in an hour...
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#gnuesotericism-stream-in-an-hour
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>Stream <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEnPA0qMazk">here</a> in an hour. Chatroom should be live now.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#clear-your-rss-cache-error-fix
title: Clear your RSS cache; error fix
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#clear-your-rss-cache-error-fix
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>It was only just reported to me that the GUIDs generated by my RSS feeds weren't directly correctly, and haven't been for a while. I've fixed the problem in the <code>lb</code> repository in the future, but to fix it retroactively, I've changed the problematic GUIDs of my previous blog entries.</p>

<p>So this probably means that many, many of my previous blog posts are now duplicated in your RSS reader. Clean out your RSS reader's cache to fix this.</p>


<p>If you've been using <code>lb</code> and have noticed the same problem, just run this on your RSS feed to fix it in the same way:</p>

<pre><code>sed -i "s/\.html&lt;\/guid/&lt;\/guid/" yourrssfeed.xml</code></pre>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#minor-dunst-uglinessbreakage-on-update-in-larbs
title: Minor dunst ugliness/breakage on update in LARBS
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#minor-dunst-uglinessbreakage-on-update-in-larbs
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>If you're using LARBS/my dotfiles and noticed that some of the statusbar info pages (accessible on right-click) are not properly parsing markup as bold, and thus are showing tags like &lt;b&gt;, etc., this is because a new update to dunst.</p>

<p>If it annoys you, it can be easily fixed by updating the dotfiles to some changes I just pushed to the <a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/lukesmithxyz/voidrice">voidrice</a> repo.</p>

<p>Both the dunst config file and the statusbar scripts have been adjusted to the new changed.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#boomer-rants-in-woods-about-koding-these-days
title: Boomer rants in woods about koding these days
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#boomer-rants-in-woods-about-koding-these-days
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>New video up <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7lG4bont7g">here</a>, I talk about the Soydev problem, and how the evermore superficial general standard of programming knowlede among "devs" is counteracting developments in processing power.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#using-shuf-and-random-for-randomization-in-the-command-line
title: Using shuf and $RANDOM for randomization in the command line
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#using-shuf-and-random-for-randomization-in-the-command-line
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I put out a video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwJBCfpFT_E" target="_blank">here</a> on getting random numbers and randomizing files in the Linux command line. I talk about:</p>

<ul>
	<li>/dev/urandom/</li>
	<li><code>$RANDOM</code> in bash</li>
	<li><code>shuf</code> in GNU/Linux</li>
</ul>

<p>Check it out! I don't think I mentioned it, but <code>shuf</code> can also take standard input!</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#boomer-vs-doomer-livestream-starting-imminently
title: Boomer vs. Doomer Livestream Starting Imminently!
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#boomer-vs-doomer-livestream-starting-imminently
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>
I'm doing a stream with <a href="http://www.rudyghill.com">Rudy Hill</a>, we'll be starting soon!
</p>

<p>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP8AqU9XyI4">The Link Is Here!</a>
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#blocking-links-from-certain-websites-on-an-apache-web-server
title: Blocking links from certain websites on an Apache web server?
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#blocking-links-from-certain-websites-on-an-apache-web-server
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>
This might be a strange request, but I was looking for an elegant way to block or redirect traffic to my website from certain websites.
I'm running an Apache webserver.
</p>

<p>
I've been playing around with the documentation for htaccess etc., but can't find anything exactly like what I'm looking for.
</p>

<p>
As an example, let's say I want to ban all traffic from R*ddit or 4gag and redirect links from those sites to an error page. How would I go about doing this?
I'm not sure if it's possible without resorting to Soydet-tier server-side scripts, but I might be wrong.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#before-i-get-to-deep-into-this-does-this-exist-already
title: Before I get to deep into this... Does this exist already?
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#before-i-get-to-deep-into-this-does-this-exist-already
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I'm going to start giving perks, extra videos, personal vlogs and reviews and Mumble server access to people who support me monetarily.
I do have <a href="https://www.patreon.com/lukesmith" target="_blank">a Patreon</a>, which you can support me on, but I've never really done much more than start one, only posted for a brief period and just sort not delete it.
I've never made a fuss about it and I've been at the same level of support for more than a year which is basically just some monthy groecery income, which is nice, but I'd like to start earning more and I have some stuff to offer now.
Obviously I'm not a big fan of Patreon's past behavior, I will use them if needbe, but I was curious about a server-side equivalent.
</p>

<p>
I'd like this: a service I can host on my own website that allows users to log in and will verify that they've donated X ammount in the last month by Zelle or Paypal or whatever.
If so, it will give them access to extra content.
As far as I'm concerned, this would be <em>better</em> than Patreon just because it cuts out the Middle Man.
</p>

<p>It isn't too difficult to make password-protected content on a webserver, nor is it too hard to create usernames and passwords for people.
I'm more thinking of if there is a service that can verify a payment.
</p>

<p>If there's nothing quite like this and I can't come across a quick way to do it myself, I'll just end up using Patreon.</p>

<p>By the way, thanks to all of you who answered my previous question about redirecting traffic from a particular source.
Apparently you can refer to a <code>%{HTTP_REFERER}</code> in a RewriteCond. I knew it was something obvious!</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#starting-a-mumble-server-and-unaboomer-cabin-series
title: Starting a Mumble server and 'Unaboomer Cabin' series
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#starting-a-mumble-server-and-unaboomer-cabin-series
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I'm going to start offering elite stuff to donators:
<ul>

	<li>I've started a Mumble server, which allows people to talk to me directly via audio and text. People who donate $10 a month will get access to it.</li>
	<li>I'll be starting a "Dispatches from the Unaboomer's Cabin" series, covering my ongoing quest to move /innawoods/. The first episode(s) will go up at least by early next week. Donate $25 in a month to see the updates.</li>
	<li>People who are chad enough to donate $50 a month will get all that stuff, and also an invitation onto the livestream. So we can talk live on air and you can move the discussion without me brushing aside your $2 superchat ;-).</li>
	<li>There are many unreleased videos I've had over the years or other content that is more private or just not necessarily YouTube material. I'll be making a lot of one-off stuff available to different tiers.</li>
</ul>

<p>
<a href="https://www.patreon.com/lukesmith" target="_blank">Go to Patreon to join now.</a> The Mumble passwords will be up in a couple days (actually maybe later today if everything goes right).
</p>

<p>
If you don't have or don't want to get a Patreon, if you say you want one of the perks in the comment of a Paypal or Zelle donation (be sure to include your email too), I will give you that month's password.
<a href="https://lukesmith.xyz/donate.html">All donation methods are listed here.</a>
That's a little more work for me though, so Patreon is preferred at this point.
</p>

<p>I'll also say what I did in the Patreon post: I am looking at some open source equivalents to Patreon that can be run on my own server.
In the future, I might switch to one of these if I can get them to do everything I need, but if I do, everything on Patreon will carry over, so don't sweat it.
</p>

<p>I'll probably do a video saying all this tomorrow or the next day when I have the chance, but I wanted to offer it to RSS chads first of course.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#exclusive-boomers-only-content
title: Exclusive Boomers Only Content!
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#exclusive-boomers-only-content
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've just put out a brief video talking about <a href="https://www.patreon.com/lukesmith" target="_blank">the new chad-tier content levels on my Patreon</a>.
Note that if you refuse to use Patreon, you can still get the perks by donating and providing your email.
</p>

<ul>
	<li>Soydev level: Will be able to see some behind the scenes vids and if I bring back the forum, you'll be invited</li>
	<li>Zoomer level: Same as above, but also get access to my Mumble server and be able to chat with me and others there.</li>
	<li>Boomer level: Mumble access and the "Dispatches from the Unaboomer's Cabin" series, on my on-going process of going /innawoods/ (series starts April 15th)</li>
	<li>Chad leve: Mumble access, "Dispatches" series, and the ability to come onto livestreams and direct discussion</li>
</ul>

<p>
See the video <a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/ulciVZ-XbhM">here</a>!
</p>


title: Bibliographical references for LaTeX, groff and pandoc without the effort
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url:
https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#bibliographical-references-for-latex-groff-and-pandoc-without-the-effort

content:
<p> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksAfmJfdub0" target="_blank">New video out on how I autocreate bibliographic citations.</a>
I like to abstrain from writing out references, not just for fear of error, but because with some multi-author papers, it can take forever.
In this video, I show how to use an article's DOI to get its full citation perfectly from an online database.
</p>

<p>
I'll also link <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO4T8JDNYG0" target="_blank">this video</a> that I mention (by Conner McDaniel) from which I lifted the idea of using Crossref's APIs to get bibtex citations.
The links to the script in question are in the video description (too lazy to paste here :-)).
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#tagging-ogg-or-opus-files
title: Tagging Ogg or Opus files?
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#tagging-ogg-or-opus-files
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I actually mentioned this on the last stream with Rudy, but despite .ogg and .opus audio files being generally very compressed, while retaining good audio quality, I don't know of any simple command line tools for tagging them.
If anyone does, keep me posted about them! I've tried most of the stuff in the Arch repos and the AUR, and I can't find something that doesn't require some GUI that loads the required library, or requires you to tag while encoding.
</p>

<p>As I think Rudy said, ncmpcpp doesn't have the ability to tag these files either, and I suppose some other library is either required or unintigrated into it.</p>

<p>I've put this on <a href="https://lukesmith.xyz/wishlist.html#oggtag" target="_blank">the Hacking Wishlist</a>, but hopefully the solution is something simple and obvious.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#why-prefer-free-and-open-source-software
title: Why prefer free and open source software?
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#why-prefer-free-and-open-source-software
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've put up <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btHano6wHgA" target="_blank">this video</a>, where I answer a common question I get: Why should a normal person care about free/libre and open source software?</p>

<p>I put it as a response to an email I got, which makes some seemingly good points for not caring about the difference, so I state give a rejoinder and explanation.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#pretty-funny-clip-of-alex-jones-harrassed-by-boomer-liberal
title: Pretty funny clip of Alex Jones harrassed by Boomer liberal
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#pretty-funny-clip-of-alex-jones-harrassed-by-boomer-liberal
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>
As you may know, I occasionally listen to Coast to Coast AM, which is an American late-night conspiracy and paranormal radio show.
Alex Jones was interviewed a couple days ago, and he got a pretty funny call-in listener harrass him.
</p>

<p>
It's pretty short. I uploaded it so you can check it out <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjVdvIVF_HY" target="_blank">here</a>.
</p>

<p>
Coast to Coast viewers can be pretty crazy, but this is definitely the craziest one I ever remember hearing!
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#how-to-mount-and-access-android-phones-on-linux-computers
title: How to mount and access Android phones on Linux computers
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#how-to-mount-and-access-android-phones-on-linux-computers
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>Short video out today, but one on a commonly asked question: how do you mount, access and sync an Android phone on Linux?</p>

<p>Check out the video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcmJg4OfKzs" target="_blank">here</a>. I'll show you how I use <code>simple-mtpfs</code>, and how I automate the process with dmenu.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#video-on-basic-configuration-of-muttneomutt
title: Video on basic configuration of mutt/neomutt
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#video-on-basic-configuration-of-muttneomutt
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jMInHnpNfQ" target="_blank">New video on setting up mutt/neomutt.</a></p>

<p>I've actually done several mutt-related videos in the past, but none detailing the basics of how you actually go about configuring it from step 1.
I might make some related videos in the future, mainly about using isync to backup email offline.</p>

<p>If you want to use mutt, but don't have the time to bother with it, I've made a mutt-wizard which I've actually been revising recently.
</p>
<ul>
	<li><a href="https://gitlab.com/LukeSmithxyz/mutt-wizard">https://gitlab.com/LukeSmithxyz/mutt-wizard</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/mutt-wizard">https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/mutt-wizard</a></li>
</ul>

<p>The Gitlab version is more recent, and uses <code>isync</code> as a backend with many improvements.
The Github version I'll be taking out of commission soon, but it's better tested as of now.
Check the README for information and try it out for yourself!</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#is-the-terminal-just-for-hipsters-also-livestream-soon
title: Is the terminal just for hipsters? Also, livestream soon.
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#is-the-terminal-just-for-hipsters-also-livestream-soon
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I put up <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4g-du1MIas" target="_blank">this video</a> an hour or so ago, answering some user questions on the terminal usage is so important, and why I often give instructionals for mostly cli/tui/terminal program.</p>

<p>I'll also be having <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl9JEsTSWwM" target="_blank">a livestream</a> at the top of the next hour! (about 45 minutes from when I'm writing this). Tune in!</p>

<p>I'll probably be having Rudy on the stream again. You can donate or send messages during the stream or whenever <a href="https://lukesmith.xyz/donate.html" target="_blank">by going here</a>.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#get-all-your-email-offline-for-archiving-mutt-etc-using-isync
title: Get all your email offline for archiving, mutt, etc: Using isync
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#get-all-your-email-offline-for-archiving-mutt-etc-using-isync
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>New video up <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR9zk3xz5SA" target="_blank">here</a>, where I talk about how to use isync (mbsync), which is a extensible program for downloading mail from any mail server or host to your computer.
</p>

<p>I use isync in my daily email workflow to read mail locally with mutt (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4g-du1MIas" target="_blank">as I talked about in the video on terminal applications yesterday</a>).
This not only acts as a backup, but allows email to be loaded and modified instantaneously, and I can run typical Unix commands on the mail directories that it creates.
My mail module in my status bar, which displays unread mail is based on this for example.
</p>

<p>In the video, I also briefly mention how to set up mutt to read this mail.
It's actually as easily as setting the <code>folder</code> variable to the mail directory.</p>


title: 'The Right Side of History' is a Spook. On Whig History and Self-deception.
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
guid:
https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#the-right-side-of-history-is-a-spook-on-whig-history-and-selfdeception

url:
https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#the-right-side-of-history-is-a-spook-on-whig-history-and-selfdeception

content:
<p>I've put up <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybWUK1dGRm8" target="_blank">a new Lunchtime with Luke episode</a>, this one on the (dumb) idea that there is a natural and unavoidable trend to history.</p>

<p>Every ideology convinces itself of its inevitability.
In this video, I talk about the myth of inevitability: in the Third Reich with Rosenberg's <em>Myth of the Twentieth Century</em>, in Marxism, in the "End of History" in Liberal Democracy and more.
Check it out!</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#muttwizard-20-release-everything-is-better-and-easier
title: mutt-wizard 2.0 release (everything is better and easier)
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#muttwizard-20-release-everything-is-better-and-easier
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>Some of you had already tried out the new version of mutt-wizard on Gitlab, but I've now <a href="https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/mutt-wizard" target="_blank">release it on the Github repository as well</a>. mutt-wizard has always be able to:</p>

<ul>
	<li>Access your mail on the command line without having to set anything up. It looks pretty and has sensible default settings.</li>
	<li>Optionally download, store and sync your email offline, so you can browse your email with no latency and read and write replies while offline.</li>
	<li>Securely encrypt all your passwords with GPG so you don't have dangerous plaintext floating around or to avoid typing your passwords in constantly.</li>
	<li>Configs for neomutt, isync and msmtp automatically generated based on your server settings, which in many cases, mutt-wizard already knows.</li>
</ul>

<p>Here are some of the biggest changes in mutt-wizard that make it much better now:</p>

<ul>
	<li>The original mutt-wizard required three annoying steps for each account: (1) data input, then (2) the user manually running offlineimap and then (3) running the script again to finalize boxes. Wow that was dumb. <b>isync now enables all the configuration to happen in one quick sitting as fast as you can type your info in.</b></li>
	<li>You now have the option of <strong>not</strong> keeping mail offline, in case you don't want that.</li>
	<li>Passwords are now saved with <code>pass</code>, which avoids some headaches.</li>
	<li><code>dialog</code> is no longer used as user-interface.</li>
	<li>More error handling, but also less errors.</li>
</ul>

<p>Check the link above to get it. Be sure to read the README for how to use it.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#acshually-some-even-better-muttwizard-changes
title: ACSHUALLY... Some even better mutt-wizard changes!
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#acshually-some-even-better-muttwizard-changes
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've actually just revised the mutt-wizard in another important respect; this isn't much on the backend, but actually makes it a lot easier to use and install.</p>

<p>Instead of being a script you just have to keep in your mutt folder along with companion files, you can now just clone the repo and permanently <code>sudo make install</code> it.</p>

<p>Instead of being an interactive loop, it's now a command you run like this: <code>mw init</code> once to initialize the files, then <code>mw add</code> to add an email account, etc. etc. That official mutt-wizard script, <code>mw</code>, is installed in your path now, along with <code>mailsync</code> allowing you to easily run them wherever and treat them like noraml programs.</p>

<p>Also, the template muttrc, mailcap and the domains.csv are held in <code>/usr/share/mutt-wizard</code> so you don't have to worry about them cluttering your personal mutt folder proper.</p>

<p>Not quite sure why I didn't do this before, but now it should be even easier.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#layin-down-pipes-like-a-unix-chad
title: Layin' down Pipes like a Unix Chad
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#layin-down-pipes-like-a-unix-chad
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>New video up today: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E8sUNHdzG8" target="_blank">"Layin' down Pippes like a Unix Chad"</a>.</p>

<p>It's a simple demonstration of the elegance of pipe-based commands and drawing userinterface from them: using a single line of shell script, I produce a list of all manuals on the system, ask the user to choose one and pop up a pdf rendering of that manual page.</p>

<p>The specific use-case might be useful to some, but that's actually not the importance of the video. It's really an attempt to make the usefulness and intuitiveness of editing text streams clear.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#everything-i-want-to-do-is-illegal-also-another-chadpiping-video
title: Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal (also another Chad-piping video)
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#everything-i-want-to-do-is-illegal-also-another-chadpiping-video
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>Late yesterday I put up a follow-up video to Friday's video on piping: the update is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_37upFE-qw">here</a>. I give a pratical example of two of the biggest pitfalls for cli newbies: problems with spacing and understanding streams. We write a command that gives you a choice of all videos in a directory from which you can select and watch one.</p>


<p>I also just released a video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRNKjQg6y-c">"Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal"</a> on the book by Joel Salatin by the same name.
Superficially, it might not sound too relevant to too many of my subscribers' interests, but I think you'll find it pretty important.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#luke-digest-for-this-week
title: Luke 'Digest' for this week
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#luke-digest-for-this-week
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I haven't been puttin up RSS feed links for my new releases in a couple days, but there have been several!
If you've missed any of these episodes, be sure to check them out:
</p>

<ul>
	<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpYbJCqpPS4" target="_blank">A video on my torrenting setup with transmission</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ent5g6_gnik" target="_blank">"Why All Teaching Is Ineffective", self-explanitory</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCVdCS0t46I" target="_blank">A video on common misunderstandings of the "Chinese Room Experiment" as it's used to talk about problems of consciousness and cognition in humans and potentially machines</a></li>
</ul>

<p>I will also <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKkIqzvsdDY" target="_blank">be starting a stream at 9AM my time</a>. That's in about an hour of when I'm writing this. Not quite sure how long it will last, but we'll say it's to 'celebrate' the achievement of 50,000 subscribers.</a>


title: Looking for a comprehensive book on gardening and planting (best if #Lindy too)
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
guid:
https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#looking-for-a-comprehensive-book-on-gardening-and-planting-best-if-lindy-too

url:
https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#looking-for-a-comprehensive-book-on-gardening-and-planting-best-if-lindy-too

content:
<p>Come June, I'll be moving to a rural environment with plenty of space, and as soon as possible, I'll be starting a garden that will hopefully be able to produce all the produce I need in perpetuity, although I obviously expect a lot of set-up time and effort.</p>

<p>
The thing is, there are a lot of ins-and-outs and details that I just don't know about growing a garden: what is best to plant when, what plants reinforce others, how long does a plant take to get to maturity.
I'd like a physical book reference with all the major details for growing the most common fruits and vegetables, possibly along with other information that I don't even know that I don't know.
</p>

<p>
I'm curious if there is "that book" out there for gardening and planting. If anyone has any ideas, feel free to email me it (luke@lukesmith.xyz).
It would be extremely handy to have such a book to leaf through and use as a reference.
</p>

<p>I suspect that there is one out there, probably a very #Lindy book too.
That is, don't send me some meme book published two years ago by a quirky gardening YouTuber with a glossed and plastic cover printed by Amazon, send me what that tried-and-true dusty manual is loved by old pre-Boomers.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#send-me-all-your-suckless-surf-hacks
title: Send me all your suckless surf hacks!
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#send-me-all-your-suckless-surf-hacks
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I'm going to probably be doing a video on suckless sent relatively soon, showing it off and some of the patches on suckless's website.
If you use surf, or have had any smart ideas in your own build of it, feel free to go ahead and mention them to me and I might give you a shoutout!</p>

<p>Usually I do a video on something, and obviously afterwards people will volunteer their ideas for the program, but this time, I want to be ahead of the curve. ;-)</p>

<p>luke@lukesmith.xyz</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#who-needs-a-mouse-to-copy-output-the-extensibility-of-st
title: Who needs a mouse to copy output? The extensibility of st
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#who-needs-a-mouse-to-copy-output-the-extensibility-of-st
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>Check out <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E9bO5ZURcs" target="_blank">this new video</a>. It could change everything ;-).</p>

<p>Jaywalker suggested adding a new ability to my st build: let the user choose a previously run command via dmenu and copy its output to the clipboard.
This is something that you often want to do, but I never thought could be easily added to a terminal. He suggested using <a href="https://st.suckless.org/patches/externalpipe/" target="_blank">externalpipe</a>, which outputs all the visible text, which I already use to follow url links on the command line.</p>

<p>We worked on it a bit last night and this morning and came up with a little script that when run from st, will give you a dmenu prompt of all commands run, and once you choose one, xclip will copy that command and all its output to your clipboard to easily paste anywhere else for troubleshooting, sharing or for anything else.</p>

<p><a href="https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/st">Get my st build here.</a> It has all this built into it.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#stream-with-kris-occhipinti
title: Stream with Kris Occhipinti
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#stream-with-kris-occhipinti
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>Me and <a href="https://filmsbykris.com">Kris Occhipinti</a> are doing a stream around now. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njkfK4iq9N8">Here's the link!</a></p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#technology-meme-review-stream
title: Technology meme review stream
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#technology-meme-review-stream
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>A the (potentially last) one of my streams before leaving my stable internet connection, I'll be doing a stream with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZrrEuHiQjN2CUo84g5tk7w">tripcode!Q/7</a>.</p>

<p>We will be leafing through a folder of technology memes are reviewing and responding to them.</p>

<p>Don't even ask, I'm not uploading them!</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#lukes-digest-mid-may
title: Luke's Digest: Mid May
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#lukes-digest-mid-may
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>Here's a brief list of updates in case you missed them:</p>

<ul>
	<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnbmwxYi18I">"Bash is Bloated!"</a>: What's the difference between bash and POSIX sh and why is important for everyone serious about scripting and systems administration?</li>
	<li>/g/eaboos are SEETHING: cringe and blue-pilled Boomer defends known NSA honeypot systemd: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IglXPVJ98t0">first video in the woods</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ljfOCiP0XM">second more detailed video indoors</a>.</li>
	<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ClckQzJTlk">How to bind keys in Linux univerrsally, independent of your WM/DE.</a> This is the first (public) video I've ever recorded in dwm. (<a href="https://patreon.com/lukesmith">Boomer patrons</a> will have access to the true first...</a>)</li>
	<li>I did a meme review live stream with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZrrEuHiQjN2CUo84g5tk7w">tripcode!Q/7</a>; Parts <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3srWoHZ9hU8">1</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn1hL5SKvgU">2</a></li>
	<li>In other news, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ayb1-4jeBw">YouTube retroactively marks <em>every</em> post with the word "cuck" in it as spam</a>. I've had to manually approve hundreds of comments from years ago dabbing on Wordcucks... The change is still ongoing and more and more comments are being flagged as spam.</li>
</ul>

<p>In other news, I've deleted the section on my <a href="https://lukesmith.xyz/programs.html">programs page</a> on my website talking about why I don't use dwm...</a>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#larbs-is-going-throught-significant-changes
title: LARBS is going throught significant changes
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#larbs-is-going-throught-significant-changes
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I'm making significant changes to my dotfiles repos and LARBS, so I wanted to give people a heads up about it.
It's possible (probable?) that there will be some breakage (now and soon) because there are a lot of moving pieces that have moved around.
Here are the changes coming soon:</p>

<ul>
	<li>There will be a new version of LARBS, which will eventually be the default if everything works smoothly.
		I will maintain the current version for Arch Linux using i3-gaps, but I will be adding another version for <strong>Void Linux that runs dwm</strong>.
	</li>
	<li>Reflecting some of the movements to mutal compatibility I moved keybinds from the main i3 config to <code>~/.config/sxhkd/sxhkdrc</code> (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ClckQzJTlk">as I discussed in my video today</a>) and moved some startup scripts to <code>~/.xinitrc</code>.</li>
	<li><code>~/.scripts/</code> in the repo is now <code>~/.local/bin/</code> to be XDG compliant and save you one extra element in your home directory.</li>
	<li>I've moved things around in <a href="https://github.com/lukesmithxyz/larbs">the LARBS repository</a> as well, and this could interfere with the <a href="https://larbs.xyz">LARBS website</a> and how it redirects requests, but everything seems to be in order.</li>
</ul>

<p>So every one of these developments bode well, but all can cause temporary breakage!
If you run into a problem install LARBS, you will not be bothering me to email it to me.
I would appreciate people to test it if you have a spare machine/VM as well, but I'm a little burdened right now.
I'll be testing in a bit.</p>

<p>Note that the Void Linux/dwm version of LARBS is not supposed to be working yet. I'm still on the basic level with that. The Arch/i3 version hopefully should be still fine though.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#possible-mail-downage-today
title: Possible mail downage today
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#possible-mail-downage-today
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I'm messing around with my email setup today, so there's a possibility that if you sent me a mail today, it might get lost. Be aware.
Everything should be back to normal by tomorrrow.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#email-is-still-down
title: Email is still down
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#email-is-still-down
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>My email adjustments are lasting longer than expected. Right now, if you send an email to me, it will be sucked up into oblivion without an error message.</p>

<p>I am, as you may be able to guess, moving to a new (personal) email server. For a part of late yesterday everything was finally working, but there are some other components I'm working to add in that will again, make my email inaccessible.
As anyone who has done a mail server before knows, there are a lot of annoying moving pieces that go into one, some I'm making sure that everything is just as I need it.</p>

<p>I'll give a public blog post when I'm done with everything just in case someone needs something. If you really need to contact me, you can contact me via my University of Arizona email (lukesmith@email.arizona.edu).</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#a-script-that-automatically-sets-up-your-personal-mail-server
title: A script that automatically sets up your personal mail server
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#a-script-that-automatically-sets-up-your-personal-mail-server
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>My email should be back in commission as I've fully worked the kinks out of my new personal email server.</p>

<p>I have at least something to show for it that might be useful to people.</p>

<p>Long story short, after running into some nagging problems getting all the pieces to come together, I wrote a script in parallel that configured a Debian email server from the vanilla install with all the settings a normal human would need for personal email use.
It installs and configures Postfix (SMTP), Dovecot (IMAP), Spam Assassin and OpenKDIM (so you don't get spammed yourself).
Check it out on Github:</p>

<p><a href="https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/emailwiz">https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/emailwiz</a></p>

<p>So now my email is working and in the end, I configured it without manually editing a single file!</p>

<p>Check the readme, but I encourage you to follow the steps and try it out on your own server if you've been looking to host your own email.
The requirements are listed.
I might do a video on this, maybe even tomorrow, so if anyone wants to get ahead of the curve and try it out and see if it works, feel free to give me feedback.</p>

<p>I suspect it will work on Ubuntu as well, but I don't have a server to try it out on.
Even if it doesn't I'll be adding more documentation and comments to the script to make it a useful instructional to read.</p>

<p>Work with mutt-wizard obviously too and that's my new email setup.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#you-have-1-unread-mail-from-the-unaboomers-cabin
title: You have 1 unread mail from the Unaboomer's cabin
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#you-have-1-unread-mail-from-the-unaboomers-cabin
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>As I said in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWpf4ZSAHBo">my most recent video several days ago</a>, I am moving (and now am completing moving) into a very rural place to a house/putative homestead which has due to memes been colloquially referred to as "the Unaboomer's Cabin". As I always say, it's not a cabin, but a full house, but this does mean pretty significant lifestyle changes for me and a new page for the channel as well. As I said in the video, I might not be able to easily upload videos for a short while until I get settled, but here are some updates:</p>

<ul>
	<li>I've moved my stuff to the house and am now going through a life's worth of papers, tools, books, furniture and everything else trying to decorate my house. In addition to my own stuff, there's a lot of furniture and other accouterments that came with the house and there is even more that my dad has been keeping in a nearby shed for extra storage. I'm collocating and organizing all of this</li>
	<li>I have more room than I've ever had, as you would hope. I have three (or depending on how you count four) bedrooms, one of which I'll be using as an office/studio. It will be nice for insomnia's sake to keep my electronics (which are internetless anyway) away from being a distraction in bed!</li>
	<li>I also have lots of land that I need to fully assess. My relative who lived here before didn't have so much of a garden, but did plant and maintain several useful plants (although some I don't even know!). There are definitely unattended grape plants/vines and some fruit-bearing trees.?</li>
	<li>It will be a day or two more before I'm done sorting all my stuff indoors and in the garage/workshop, but after that, the priority is making a garden. Many, including many of you suggested using raised beds, and I think I've decided to try them. It might be late to plant some things, but the growing season this far south is long, so I'll be consulting with some of my growing guides and people around for best practices.</li>
	<li>My internet is truly bad! I haven't even tried to upload videos yet, but text-based and (small) image based browsing is okay. Videos will buffer and will take a bit with youtube-dl. Luckily, I've designed my computer usage over minimizing bandwidth use for a day like this, but I still need to upload videos. I'll figure out the best way to do this soon. I also am going to need to get into the crawlspace to run an ethernet cord to my new office.</li>
	<li>I get no cell service in my house, and am further thinking of getting rid of my cell phone forever. There are other providers with better coverage here though, but I think I might go max-Boomer and just get a landline which obviously is infinitely more reliable.</li>
	<li>It was sad leaving my friends in Statesboro, but I will be going back at some point soon (there of course are things I left behind ;-) and other chores to do). It is nice all the things I do avoid here: like Zoomers blasting that Kanye/Lil Pump song every night at the club across the street. Won't miss that.</p>
</ul>

<p>More updates and a video soon! I'm answering email a little more consistently now though due to the better workflow I have here though. I only have logged on maybe once or twice today though just for a bit because I'm still very busy.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#new-crypto-currency-addresses
title: New crypto currency addresses
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#new-crypto-currency-addresses
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>As a note, I've changed by cryptocurrency donation addresses. You can see them on <a href="https://lukesmith.xyz/donate.html#crypto">my crypto donation page</a>, but in short, they're now:</p>

<ul>
	<li>Bitcoin: 39Z2PRPXCiB7eFWQJPaoWChbAgmjmZYKRC</li>
	<li>Ethereum: 0x2f3D63580028b618f3204F01d156AB6A3E3470dB</li>
	<li>Litecoin: MSzeXUaBTAEdf6YEFK8NuFGcbbUvRqugUD</li>
</ul>

<p>There are QR codes on <a href="https://lukesmith.xyz/donate.html#crypto">the donate page</a> as well if you want to scan them visually.</p>

<p>I was just changing wallets for some optimization reasons. I've never bought any crypto myself, but I have accepted donations with it, but only a small handful.
It was a little surprising to check them to see a significant rally: last time I checked several months ago, all my crypto wallets totalled to maybe $50, now they're $250+.
We'll see how long that lasts though.
</p>

<p>
Either way, if you think crypto is going to rally or fall or do nothing, feel free to donate at any of the above addresses.
If you want to donate with another currency, just say so and I'll add an address.
I might list out a lot of them on that page in a bit because I do have other addresses, but I just haven't used them yet.
</p>

<p>
More big news soon though...
Been working on some new projects, one of which I mentioned on Patreon earlier.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#the-stallman-stuff-is-cringe
title: The Stallman stuff is cringe.
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#the-stallman-stuff-is-cringe
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>
I put up <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWV3eC3Dr1Y">a new video</a> here about the Richard Stallman silliness.
It probably means the end of the FSF in multiple tangible ways, although I suspect the organization will live on.
If you know my view on things, I doubt it will seriously change things for better or worse.
</p>

<p>
As I say in the video, people who out of one mouth whine about the "SJW" takeover of technology, but have also have piled on Stallman are hypocritical.
I don't really have any sympathy for Stallman either.
If you live by leftist degeneracy, they'll be coming for you too eventually, and I'll be lolling.
Stallman is just another guy who tried to "be reasonable" with people who are motivated singularly by <em>winning</em> and <em>getting what they want</em> in the public socio-political theater rather than by honesty and thinking things through.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#video-on-the-zsh-or-z-shell-whatever-the-z-stands-for
title: Video on the zsh or z shell, whatever the z stands for...
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#video-on-the-zsh-or-z-shell-whatever-the-z-stands-for
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>New video on zsh, as many have long requested.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLEo4OQ-cuQ">Watch/download it here.</a>
</p>

<p>
<a href="https://gist.githubusercontent.com/LukeSmithxyz/e62f26e55ea8b0ed41a65912fbebbe52/raw/2a93cca1ea82cecfc2bd6dcd2eff700a95c7581e/zshrc">Get my current zshrc here.</a>
</p>

<p>I talk about some unique features of zsh that make it preferrable to bash (syntax highlighting and coloring, better tab completion), but also <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2a7jJTh3kU">fish</a> and other shells.
</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#little-neomutt-fix-for-muttwizard-users
title: Little neomutt fix for mutt-wizard users
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#little-neomutt-fix-for-muttwizard-users
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>A recent update to neomutt is causing a warning message when neomutt is opened if you have used my <a href="https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/mutt-wizard">mutt-wizard</a> to set up your mail.
I've already pushed a change that will fix it for new accounts, but you will have to manually make a change for accounts you have already added.</a>

<p>You should be able to fix the problem on installed accounts by running this:</p>

<pre><code>sed -i "s/^mailboxes =\w* =\\+ /mailboxes /" ~/.config/mutt/accounts/*</code></pre>

<p>The issue is that mutt-wizard has historically added "fake" mailboxes to mutt to make the account name appear in the corner of mutt.
Due to an update, this is no longer possible. The above line deleted all those fake mailboxes in your config files. GNU utilities required.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#im-back-6-new-videos-out-and-more-coming
title: I'm back! 6 new videos out and more coming...
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#im-back-6-new-videos-out-and-more-coming
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I took advantage of my weeklong Thanksgiving break to get back in the loop of making some videos I've meant to for a while.
In case you're too intelligent to use YouTube's subscribe feature, I'll link them all here.</p>

<p>Oh course, you can follow my YouTube feed directly with your RSS feed reader (i.e. without having to use YouTube subscription) via the url: <code>https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC2eYFnH61tmytImy1mTYvhA</code>, but you knew that already ;).</p>

<ul>
	<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACeQjDPOdDY">I DISAVOW the "Boomer" Meme (&amp; LARBS Updates</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUQx72j9Q3Y">HELP! LINUX NERDS keep BULLYING ME!!!</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH1GGI2Jpbs">Doing some real-world work in VIM!</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxA9Gyyu6Rg">Old ThinkPads are Computing Perfection (don't @ me)</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50p0Ao06cD0">Truly Great Black Friday for a Boomer Consoomer!</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82NBMvx6vFY">Only Linux Brainlets CAT into GREP!!!</a></li>
</ul>

<p>I'll have more coming soon. K, keep yourself posted.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#two-more-videos-and-important-larbs-problem
title: Two more videos and important LARBS problem
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#two-more-videos-and-important-larbs-problem
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've put up two more videos in the past two days:</p>

<ul>
	<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMSByvFHOro">Terminal vs. Bash vs. Command line vs. Prompt</a></li>
	<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NJIj47Tusw">"Keep Politics out of Technology!" t. Boomer</a></li>
</ul>

<p>Also, I've been unable to fix LARBS installs in the past several days for general business reasons and I need to test some things with respect to fonts.
The main emoji font used by LARBS, ttf-symbola, has had its license changed and that is an upstream problem I need to find an alternative for.
This is especially a problem because if unicode characters aren't rendering correctly, st especially has a tendency to crash when rendering them.
If you install LARBS, run into this kind of problem and want to fix it, you'll have to find an alternative font yourself until I get the chance to find a permanent solution.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#im-thinking-about-using-bspwm
title: I'm thinking about using bspwm
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#im-thinking-about-using-bspwm
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>Well my anprim internet just ruined another upload of a 3GB video... ;-) So I might as well give this little update to RSS/blog followers before I'm able to upload vids from a more stable location.</p>

<p>As I've said before, I saw thinking of making LARBS compatible with both i3-gaps and dwm.
Both of them have their advantages: i3 is much more easy for newbs (and non-newbs, and non-weebs for that matter) to customize, while dwm's master and slave layout is pretty hard for me to give up despite the fact that its default statusbar is atrocious and comes with the non-unfounded fragility of some suckless applications.</p>

<p>On a whim, I decided to play around with bspwm over this weekend, and I've got to say that it has a lot of both... or really, it is so customizable that it can be extended to both.</p>

<p>
If you don't know anything about bspwm,
I'll direct you to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLZbk1-wwVA">a video by Wolfgang on bspwm, specifically comparing it with i3</a>
(Although my informants tell me he is a GNOME-cuck or something nowadays or something ;-)&mdash;maybe I should try that?)
</p>

<p>bspwm, unlike i3 and dwm is just a raw window manager (WM): it does not even have a unique status bar or keybinding system: you are expected to use a modular bar of your own choosing and a binding program like sxhkd to map what you need.</p>

<p>My setup is modular enough, in that I already have sxhkd for most my binds, including many scripts and even statusbar scripts that the change-over has been pretty quick.
If I feel like bspwm is more stable and can get everything I want from i3 and everything I want for dwm, I might use it for good.
</p>

<p>I've also dusted off the old polybar config, which I had barely modified before... and I've begun to add new modules, like those I made for i3blocks (which again is a pretty simple process due to the modularity of both).
People always liked polybar more and many have been asking for it back, despite the fact that I did a post earlier this year or so on why I had stopped using it for LARBS' sake.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#merry-christmas-to-all-and-a-vid-from-the-archives
title: Merry Christmas to all and a vid from the archives
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2019.html#merry-christmas-to-all-and-a-vid-from-the-archives
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've been on break for a while and am with family (and without my microphone and equipment), so I won't be putting out a video until after Christmas.</p>



<p>
If you want to consoom some classic Luke Smith products in your downtime, YouTube, as is randomly does, has been re-recommending <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiMcX3Fa2Us">the video I put out quite some time ago on my experience living 2 full years without internet at home</a>.
Come to think of it, I recommend you to watch it if you haven't, or haven't in a while.
It touches on some themes we've been talking about recently on the channel.</p>

<p>
Another older video you might want to see if you haven't is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjbyDU0WzYI">this one, on "upcummies" and the effects of social media</a>.
</p>

<p>Anyway, I'm in Atlanta and will be back home probably the day after Christmas.</p>

<p>Merry Christmas to all, even (especially) to <a href="https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268">the haters and losers</a>!</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2020.html#new-video-on-new-books
title: New video on new books
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2020.html#new-video-on-new-books
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I did <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9cBFNbihFU">a video covering every book I got in 2019</a>.</p>

<p>Check it out, as
some people often ask me what kind of books I tend to get.</p>

<p>You can also check out
<a href="https://lukesmith.xyz/library.html">my library page</a>
at my website for a full inventory of my library if you have interest in that.</p>


title: New/old episode of Not Related! out: Every scientific paper you've read is wrong
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
guid:
https://lukesmith.xyz/2020.html#newold-episode-of-not-related-out-every-scientific-paper-youve-read-is-wrong

url:
https://lukesmith.xyz/2020.html#newold-episode-of-not-related-out-every-scientific-paper-youve-read-is-wrong

content:
<p>That's only slightly a hyperbole.</p>

<p>I'm thinking about bringing back the podcast; it's probably the only old content I get <em>constant</em> requests to bring back. I'm already compiling stuff for a few new episodes for Season 2, which might actually include some joint episodes with people you may or may not know... We'll see!</p>

<p>Anyway, I finally finished and put up an episode I did in a stream months ago:
<a href="https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/notrelated/S01E08_-_The_Flaws_of_Academic_Statistics_the_Null_Ritual.mp3">The Flaws of Academic Statistics: the Null Ritual</a> which you can see
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an0RFLzJ5Yo&list=PL-p5XmQHB_JQTeUxtGBI7sHCOOuY4qT-B&index=2&t=0s">on YouTube</a> as well.
This episode is talks about some of the fundamental and acknowledged issues in how statistics is used in nearly all sciences.
Nearly every science paper you've heard of in the popular press and in academia is built on flawed statistical footing.
</p>

<p><a href="https://notrelated.xyz/rss">Add the podcast's RSS feed to your RSS reader!</a> You can also go to the podcast's webpage <a href="https://notrelated.xyz">https://notrelated.xyz</a> to get links to other services to get the episodes from (Spotify and Google if for some reason you do that stuff (just use RSS)).</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2020.html#big-fix-for-the-stsuckless-crashonemoji-error
title: Big fix for the st/suckless 'Crash-On-Emoji' error
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2020.html#big-fix-for-the-stsuckless-crashonemoji-error
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>Suckless software has long been burdened by a peculiar error that causes crashes whenever trying to load a colored emoji.
This has meant extreme annoyance for me and confusion for people who use my dotfiles.
The only band-aid for this error has been just installing a font with good unicode coverage and hoping that monospace fonts dare not to print out colored emojis, and making a fontconfig that keeps it that way.</p>

<p>Recently, however, a fix has been posted to the AUR in the <code>libxft-bgra</code> package, which will hopefully become part of the Xft upstream soon.
This will avoid the error, and allows unpatched st to view colored emojis without a problem.</p>

<p>I do a video on this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9qNXV01yzg">here</a>.</p>

<p>For those who use my dotfiles, update <em>everything</em>: the st build, the dwmblocks build if you use it, the dotfiles, etc. and install <code>libxft-bgra</code>.
I had variously patched software to avoid these problems, but those patches have now been reverted to allow color emojis if you want them.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2020.html#ill-be-at-linuxfest-southeast-june-1214-in-charlotte-nc
title: I'll be at Linuxfest Southeast June 12-14 in Charlotte, NC
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2020.html#ill-be-at-linuxfest-southeast-june-1214-in-charlotte-nc
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I'll be at Linuxfest Southeast June 12-14, 2020 in Charlotte, NC. (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6JXNZQwoYE">vid</a>).
I'll probably be making some presentations as well.
Although I missed the 2019 conference, I had gone in 2018 and it was a good experience.
</p>

<p>If you're in the region, I recommend you come.
I'll be commuting from a distance, but I expect it will be worth it.
I met a lot of subscribers in 2018 (and there were many more who were too awkward to come up and greet me 😉).
</p>

<p>Anyway, check out their website at <a href="https://southeastlinuxfest.org/">southeastlinuxfest.org</a>.
I don't think they've opened sing-up for attendence, but I expect it to be in a month or so.</p>

<p>By the way, if you want to see my talk at the 2018 Linuxfest <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnCXJn2cRf4">the link is here: Linux Is the Wild West! And let it be that way!</a>.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2020.html#what-should-be-the-default-browser-for-larbs
title: What should be the default browser for LARBS?
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2020.html#what-should-be-the-default-browser-for-larbs
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I'll probably record a video on this tomorrow, but I might as well ask my blog audience first, <b>What should be the default web browser in LARBS?</b></p>

<p>Right now it's Brave, since that's what I do and it comes with a lot of features I consider basic already built in.
The problem with nearly all web browsers is that it's pretty hard and annoying to put together "dotfiles" for them, a default profile that has sensible defaults.
</p>

<p>
Brave is especially nice because it comes with add-ons that block adds, redirect to HTTPS and add Tor and torrenting capabilities.
But while sometimes Brave will prompt the user on first run for their preferred start engine, on some systems after running LARBS, it will just assume Google, which I absolutely want to avoid.
</p>

<p>I'm sure you all have the agency to change your search engine to something more sensible, most use DuckduckGo (I prefer Searx), but when it comes to the default, the sileny majority is going to continue with the default idly, and I don't want to set them on the wrong path.
Why even use Linux if you're just going to send everything straight to Google anyways?
</p>

<h2>Possible browsers</h2>

<ul>
<li>Brave &ndash; Again, great defaults, but Google might end up as the default search engine.</li>
<li>Ungoogled-chromium &ndash; Possibly the safest bet, no cringe branding or bad policies, but it doesn't look like it has any search engine by default... That will be a big annoyance to novices.</li>
<li>Palemoon &ndash; Manjaro i3 uses it, fast, good-looking, but it has an incestuous development team which has made... odd choices (`~/.moonchild productions/` makes me want to kms whenever I `ls -a`), but okay on privacy (weird startup screen, but could be worse). Bad/limited add-ons/extensions.</li>
<li>Icecat &ndash; I'll admit it, two years, Icecat was absolutely unusable on pretty much all sites, but it looks like it's evened most everything out. Probably the best browser for raw privacy, but still probably the least usable since users have to keep in mind if they need to turn some script blocker off for a site, etc.</li>
<li>qutebrowser &ndash; I haven't used it in years and I don't know if I want to get back into figuring it out for the third time, lol. I don't know where it is nowadays, but if I'm making normies use it, it's going to have to be able to play YouTube videos and without 400% CPU usage. qutebrowser does have the _massive_ advantage of __actually having dotfiles__ so I can easily change defaults.</li>
<li>Waterfox &ndash; Well, a better form of Firefox on most fronts, but Bing is the default search engine.</li>
</ul>

<h2>Premptive 'no' to the following</h2>
<ul>
<li>surf &ndash; Too much work for an individual, let alone managing one build to rule them all. There are cool suckless things you can do with it, but it's also just slow.</li>
<li>Browsers I'm not familiar with (uzbl, luakit). I hear they're really cool, but for me to install it on other peoples' computers, I need to be organicly familiar with it. You'd have to convince me to use them individually first.</li>
</ul>

<p>I'll also say, and I had never heard this take until I did my video on Brave, I obviously have no qualms about using a chromium-based browser. Apparently there are people out there who have the idea that source code is just magically evil if it was written by Google, even if it is 100% free and open source and well-audited.
Anyway, share your opinions! What did I miss?</p>

<p>Email me what you think at <a href="mailto:luke@lukesmith.xyz">luke@lukesmith.xyz</a> and you might influence me before I record the video tomorrow morning.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2020.html#font-gone-crazy-in-larbs
title: Font gone crazy in LARBS?
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2020.html#font-gone-crazy-in-larbs
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>An Arch update to <code>ttf-inconsolata</code> has temporarily broken the font.
If you're a member of an Arch forum or IRC, I recommend notifying them/the developer of this.
I don't have an account there.</p>

<p>
Since Inconsolata is the default monospace in LARBS, I've been getting a lot of emails as to how to fix or patch this.
Just change your default monospace font in <code>~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf</code> to another install monospace font.
If you don't know what monospace fonts you have installed, list them with <code>fc-list | grep -i mono</code>.
See our Github issue.
</p>

<p><a href="https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/LARBS/issues/186">https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/LARBS/issues/186</a></p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2020.html#lincucks-fest-has-been-canceled
title: Lincucks Fest has been canceled!
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2020.html#lincucks-fest-has-been-canceled
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<P>Although I said around a month ago that I would be in Charlotte this year for Southeast Linuxfest, it looks like they have decided to cancel it! Sad!</p>

<p>If the world continues existence until 2021, I will still probably plan on going then.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2020.html#check-out-my-dwm-and-dwmblocks-builds-and-say-goodbye-to-i3
title: Check out my dwm and dwmblocks builds (and say goodbye to i3)!
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2020.html#check-out-my-dwm-and-dwmblocks-builds-and-say-goodbye-to-i3
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>Firstly, I haven't actually really been updating my website and blog, maybe I will with some personal stuff that doesn't warrant a Boomer-Rant or two.</p>

<p>Anyway, after literally a year of using it, I've finally got a dwm build that I'm pretty happy with, <a href="https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/dwm">get it here</a>, and I also have <a href="https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/dwmblocks">a build of dwmblocks</a> which is a modular status bar which now basically has all the features of i3blocks for i3.</p>

<p>I encourage my blog/RSS-reading elite to check them out first to find any obvious lacunae before I do a video on them.</p>

<p>dwm is a way better experience than i3. I'll do a video on why I've been so happy with it.
I know I just said I've been playing around with it for <em>a year</em>, but really I've always had a good build, now it's just notable enough to talk about.</p>

<p>Here are some traits/features:</p>

<ul>
	<li>The LARBS/dwm manual in pdf form is now actually just built into the dwm build. Just press <code>super+F1</code> when in dwm. You'll need zathura installed with a pdf module for it to appear.</li>
	<li>The statusbar now has color characters/emoji due to the libxft fix out there. Great! I always hated fontawesome...</li>
	<li>The statusbar is clickable now thanks to a streamlined version of the statuscmd patch by Daniel Bylinka &lt;daniel.bylinka@gmail.com&gt;. He actually contacted me himself suggesting the patch (which I was aware of), but quickly responded to my feedback, producing two new patches for dwm and dwmblocks (<a href="https://gist.github.com/danbyl/54f7c1d57fc6507242a95b71c3d8fdea">here</a>).</li>
	<li>I'm making the binds both usable and "logical" in a way. Maybe I'll mention this in the video. I'm also trying to add new binds by slimming down unnecessary ones.</li>
	<li>I've added only those layouts that I actually find most useful. There are a lot of meme-tier layouts on dwm which might be interesting, but I think are so practical. I've settled on 8 (bound to four keys) that I like, but I might slim that down or replace them if I find even better ones. I also have the fullscreen mode as well.</li>
	<li>Xresources/pywal compatibility</li>
	<li>A million other little things: gaps, a scrachpad, sticky windows... etc. etc.</li>
</ul>

<p>Note that you will absolutely want to install <code>libxft-bgra</code> from the AUR to be able to run my build, since it allows color characters. If you aren't using an Arch distro, just install one and then get it from the AUR!</p>

<p>You'll also need the <a href="https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/voidrice/tree/master/.local/bin/statusbar">my statusbar scripts</a> for them to appear in the bar. These are the same that are used for i3blocks and as I said, they are just as clickable.</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2020.html#new-website-setup-also-a-statusbar-module-for-network-traffic
title: New website setup, also a statusbar module for network traffic
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2020.html#new-website-setup-also-a-statusbar-module-for-network-traffic
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>I've actually decided to change my website's index page, <a href="https://lukesmith.xyz">check it out</a>.
I made it a bit more autobiographical and visual. Maybe I missed something important? Feel free to remind me.
</p>

<p>
There are images on the mainpage now, which means a little more bandwith used, but it's nowhere close to the odious things that soydevs do with massive 8MB background images.
Even a really slow internet like mine should be able to load it all in a fraction of a second.
</p>

<p>I want to move step-by-step back to the old simple days of the early internet, where personal webpages were actual webpages, not two lines of links to social media profiles over off-white bacgrounds and massive javascript to make sure the site load sufficiently slowly. Sooner or later, I'm going to make a LARBS-like thing for setting up a VPS with a good weserver. Already did it for an <a href="https://github.com/lukesmithxyz/emailwiz">email server</a>.</p>

<p>I haven't wanted to upload videos recently. I don't fake it.
I will want to overview in a video all of the chages and features I've integrrated into dwm, but I'm not totally sure that I'm all the way done.
Most of the binds on the middle and lower rows under the left hand I'm just not sure about!</p>

<p>By the way, yesterday or so I add an optional <a href="https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/voidrice/blob/master/.local/bin/statusbar/nettraf">network traffic module</a> to my statusbar scripts.
I think I wrote it about as efficiently as it could be written (and no dependencies), but I was knew to figuring out how RX/TX info appears in a Unix system.
Check it out and see if it can be improved.
</p>

<p>
Also, I'm thinking about, since I can make it clickable, adding some kind of network monitoring TUI program, ideally one that either gives visual information about network traffic over time, <em>or</em> (maybe better if it's done well) an application that lists connections made to different sites/IP addresses.
If anyone has any recommendations, let me know,
</p>

<p>EDIT: Oh and by the way, if my website looks funky right now, refresh your browser's cache (specifically of the stylesheet (style.css) on my site).</p>


guid: https://lukesmith.xyz/2020.html#why-do-i-so-rarely-talk-about-politics-on-my-channel
title: Why do I so rarely talk about politics on my channel?
url: https://lukesmith.xyz/2020.html#why-do-i-so-rarely-talk-about-politics-on-my-channel
feedurl: https://lukesmith.xyz/rss.xml
content:
<p>
It's not a huge secret that I'm somewhere in the high echelons of the red-pill, however you define it.
I'll openly talk about pretty any topic that people organically bring up in streams, or that I'm asked about, but I've never really made any kind of political content on my channel, aside from jokes and memes.
That might be surprising because especially three years ago before the mass-bans and algoritm tampering, right wing political channels were a dime-a-dozen and an easily way to get views.
<b>There are two main reasons</b> I never took part.
Arguably "fear of being ZUCCed from YouTube" could be a possible third, but I have a kind intransigence that makes me relish me being banned.
I'm also pretty tired of YouTube, and am increasingly questioning if using it is even a reasonable compromise...
</p>

<p>
So why do I not do political videos?
Why do I not have a set list of deep facts that will blow you away and red-pill you?
The two reasons:
</p>

<ul>
	<li>Reason one: 道可道，非常道。名可名，非常名。</li>
	<li>Reason two: You will need politics less than you think.</li>
</ul>

<p>Okay, reason one there is just the first line of the Daode Jing.
The Daode Jing is the basic book of Daoism (Taoism), and <em>Dao</em> (literally "Way") is an amorphous concept in Chinese thought that could be crudely comparable to Western concepts of "natural order/law" or maybe even "spontaneous order."
<b>"Sounds gay,"</b> you say.
So what does this famous first line mean and how is it relevant to why I don't talk about how to get red-pilled?
I <em>would</em> say it's hard to translate, but even saying that would sound even more pretentious as if I actually know classical Chinese as a native language, but here's a rendering.
</p>

<blockquote><em>The <em>Dao</em> (way) that you can follow isn't the true eternal <em>Dao</em>. A name that you speak, isn't its true name.</em></blockquote>

<p>An aside, it should be a capital offense to translate classical Chinese.
It is so perfect and terse and everything autisitically limited to four elegant syllables that it's just criminal to mutilate it into another language, but we'll forgive it this time.</p>

<p>So what do I mean by quoting this?
I mean that the journey to getting red-pilled is not something that can be explained.
If I could just explain it, tell it to you, it wouldn't be the true story.
It is a varied, and in each case, personal journey, that one goes on.
</p>

<p>
Although you've been lied to, it's not the lies that's the problem.
As an adult, you can a lot of the times tell when the media is manipulating you, especially in the last past decade it's gotten so obvious even a Boomer could see it.
But what you don't see is how when you were lied to (or told selective truths) as a child, you didn't have the same BS-detector, and that allowed a lot of deep-seated impressions about the world to be formed.
So a lot of people who don't believe anything the media says now (rightly) are still mind-cucked.
They accept the programming and differ on the details.
</p>

<p>
I will give you this hint.
Basically all of your programmed emotional responses are your enemies.
There was an old Moldbug blog post where he talked about even far after "awaking from his dogmatic slumber," he still was surprised that if he saw a group of Nazi LARPers, he would reflexively have a pang of emotional stress, but if he saw Stalinist LARPers, he wouldn't have the same kind of emotional reaction.
I think everyone raised in the West has that same programmed reaction.
You might know with your head that the communist death count is supposed to be higher and the suppression wider, but it doesn't click because you weren't made sensitive to it.
</p>

<p>
A good heuristic is whenever you see one of these emotional responses, especially an emotional response to a political term: democracy, equality, racism, feminism, literally all of them actually, <strong>your Pavlovian conditioning is telling you to avoid an intellectual area specifically because it is the ideological weak spot of the background propaganda of modernism.</strong>
If it was not a weak spot, there would be no harm in you being allowed to calmly investigate it.
People's thoughts are regulated in liberal democracy not by laws, but by psychological programming that goes off when someone is tempted to evaluate an idea they're not supposed to.
Okay, actually I guess in Europe they're regulated by that and laws, and it's coming to America very, very soon now.
</p>

<p>
All of this is to say that breaking out of this programming is not so much of an issue of me or anyone else explaining a series of facts to you.
道可道，非常道。
That's what Laozi said.
As cringe as it sounds, it is primarily a battle against yourself, or at least the part of yourself that has eaten up the tacit assumptions of modernism.
<strong>Before you own the libs, you must own yourself.</strong>
Laozi said that too.
</p>

<p>
In case quoting classical Chinese and talking in floating, general terms isn't getting across, I'll say that getting red-pilled is sort of mystical... literally.
Of course, "mystical" in the old, original Greek sense.
A "mystic" in Greek is just a synonym for an "initiate."
Many cultic religions of two millennia ago where like modern Freemasonry: not a ideology one could just go and read about on Wikipedia, but one where people were slowly initiated in the thought and mindset of the religion over time.
While people were born into Paganism, they were <em>initiated</em> into Gnosticism, Hermeticism or even early Christianity.
The only difference is that you are being initiated <em>out</em> of the cultural bubble of modernism.
Into what? It can vary person to person, experience to experience.
You'll always be in some bubble, so don't be arrogant, but you will be out of the big bubble that's going to pop everywhere and is dominated by liberal cat-ladies, professors, sanctimonious NGO-members and journalists.
</p>

<p>
All of this is to say that it is simply impossible for me to provide you direct direction.
Even direction might sound stupid before or after.
Maybe I can lay out some random disorganized recommendations.
</p>

<ul>
	<li>
Years ago as young college student, I remember reading <a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/steven+pinker+blank+slate">Steven Pinker's <em>Blank Slate</em></a> (<a href="http://gen.lib.rus.ec/search.php?req=blank+slate+steven+pinker">dl</a>) and thinking I was finally red-pilled.
Now I think Steven Pinker is a moron (that book and only that book of his is good, the rest is beyond garbage).
I've actually met many people for whom this book was the first step away from basic boomer-tier progressivism.
I suspect that Pinker almost regrets writing this book because he's actually very basic in politics.
He wrote it back before the elite recognized any threat of a resurgence of energy on the right.
	</li>
	<li>
I think everyone knows that <a href="https://lukesmith.xyz/files/unabomber.pdf">Uncle Ted's manifesto</a> is another favorite on my channel.
I never read it until long after I needed it, but since it's a meme now I should recommend it explicitly.
	</li>
	<li>
		If you're prepped for harder stuff <a href="https://radishmag.wordpress.com/archive/">Radishmag</a> has it. This one <em>tries</em> to evoke that programmed emotional response in a devilish way, but it might be exactly the next step with plenty of actual original sources on historical articles to follow up with.
	</li>
	<li>
		Everything <a href="https://www.ebay.com/sch/nassim%20taleb">Nassim Taleb</a> has written is good.
		He might be the only living author worth reading now in fact, which isn't saying <em>that</em> much considering our age, but Taleb is pretty based and has attracted a constellation of non-retarded people who employ the very useful concepts he's popularized: antifragile, Lindy, buttercuck... (okay maybe the last one he didn't coin himself, but I'm buttercucked and proud).
		Read his books before you even look up videos of him or shadow him on social media.
		His books are lucid, but you won't get it based on mere social media.
		He also has no patience for brainlets.
	</li>
</ul>

<p>
Also, you can be red-pilled too quickly and end up like that guy in the Matrix who looks like me and betrays his friends so he can be put back in the matrix to have nice juicy steaks again.
Did he make an appearance in Runescape as well?
</p>

<p>Anyway, I wrote more of this than I thought I was going to, and <strong>I never got to reason two!</strong>
I'll write it tomorrow after church.
You can read it once you get back from church providing it isn't banned where you live.</p>

<p>
Speaking of church, for those interested in early Christian theology, or frankly Greek philosophy generally, notice how similar 名 <em>name/word</em> "m&iacute;ng" in the Chinese above is equivalent to <em>logos</em>.
In fact, 名 is even used both in the particular sense "the name that you speak" as I render it, and in the universal abstract sense of <em>logos</em>.
This pun, which doesn't exist in English without some explanation, does exist in both classical Chinese and Greek.
More on that later.
</p>


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<p>Now onto the second point I didn't get to <a href="https://lukesmith.xyz/2020.html#why-do-i-so-rarely-talk-about-politics-on-my-channel">in my post yesterday</a>: politics only matters so much when you're a slave. Or as I put it there, "You will need politics less than you think."</p>

<p>
That is to say that if you live in a city where your every action is watched, if you use proprietary software and communicate only via social media services, if you have no marketable skills because you have some inert degree and questionably productive and definitely replaceable job and a large company, you need politics quite a great deal.
</p>

<p>
Your entire existence in the system is based on being a good boy within the established boundaries of what is deemed by the mass media to be socio-politically appropriate.
<em>Maybe</em> you've gone into debt, but you <em>definitely</em> rely the whole "system" for all the basics.
If you don't think you do, just ask yourself whether your life has changed for the better after the Coronachan Panic of 2020.
</p>

<p>
What's the alternative?
Well, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRVmfx4EWI0">boomer rants viewers might see some of this coming</a>...
</p>

<p>
The fact of the matter is that both the daily ins-and-outs of politics and the overarching trends of politics matter very little the more independent your are of the system.
Earlier, I always mumbled about how conservaboomers seemed a little too apathetic about the cultural changes being forced on them.
This social engineering still is the most serious problem in all technologically-complex mass-media societies, but I must admit for people who choose personal independence and independence for their families and local communities, it is much less of a problem.
</p>

<p>
When I was plugged into the system, minorly red-pilled and generally peeved because I actually paid attention to the media as something other than to laugh at, I found the idea of Political "Exit" pretty cucky.
How much sense does it make to leave the "political process" altogether?
Sounds like giving up.
</p>

<p>
It sounds like giving up because the "political process" is something internal to the media system at large.
That's why even when the political process does something the media doesn't like (like electing the Orange Boomer, for example), its actions are immediately rendered inert by fakery.
</p>

<p>
The actual solution is creating and participating in organic society, which still very much exists outside the purview of the media and NGOs and the like.
People still need plumbers.
No one is going to fire a plumber because he says trannies are mentally ill men in dresses&mdash;otherwise there'd be no plumbers. Or electricians, or builders or anyone who actually does anything productive.
It'd just be HR, journalists and professors left...
and some open source developers who write more codes of conducts than they do software.
Do you think they'll be able to feed you?
</p>

<p>
Exiting the system is actually the opposite of surrender.
Why would you think the solution is something like voting or even "owning the libs" or something publicly advertised as a solution?
The actual solution is building an alternative.
Or maybe <em>rebuilding</em> the alternative.
</p>

<p>
Do you really want to make your boss rich if you think he'd turn around and betray you because of a media witchhunt?
It's better for you to be doxxed and fired now rather than wait 20 years for it, getting more ensconced in the insanity.
Start becoming more independent now.
</p>

<p>
A lot of people LARP about what they're going to do when they take over "the system" by revolution.
Revolution, the idea of abrupt enforced change, however, is fundamentally their idea and if you buy it, you're going to keep running your head into a wall.
</p>

<p>
Being independent, living out of the city and the Matrix, however, is simultaneously like transporting yourself back in time to when things were saner, but at the same time, transporting yourself into the future where "the system" has already collapsed and we're already rebuilding.
Be a part of it now rather than later.
</p>


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<p>I haven't been using my RSS feed to annouce videos recently, but I feel like I should be... 🤔</p>

<p>Anyway, I've released a video showcasing dwm <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnREqY-oyzM">here</a>. If you're reading this post right as I'm releasing it, it's been set as a premiere on YouTube to release at the top of the hour.</p>

<p>The title is naturally self-aware clickbait, the video is just a brief, updated explanation of the logic of dwm, similar to my original video a year or so ago on it, albeit catered to my build.</p>

<p>I also go into some of the stuff I've added recently that make it a drop in improvement over my old i3 dotfiles.</p>

<p>The dwm build is <a href="https://github.com/lukesmithxyz/dwm">here</a>, the status bar, which I'll do an idividual video on later is
<a href="https://github.com/lukesmithxyz/dwmblocks">here</a>, and remeber that you'll need to install <code>libxft-bgra</code> for it to render color characters without crashing.</p>


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<p>Just put up a video on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP2QpHmcgyk">dwmblocks</a> which I've been using for a statusbar for a while now.</p>

<p>Get the build <a href="https://github.com/lukesmithxyz/dwmblocks">here</a>.</p>

<p>It has probably three main advantages over other paradigms for doing statusbars, especially in dwm:</p>

<ul>
	<li>It is fully modular and can use independent scripts.</li>
	<li>It doesn't just constantly update: while you can tell a module to update every 5 seconds, you can also tell it only to rerun a script when the program receives and external signal.</li>
	<li>It's clickable. I have each modular run different commands, programs, help panes, etc. for each kind of click.</li>
</ul>

<p>On the last point, you can pretty arbitrarily add in new click sequences in your dwm build as well.
I mention in the video that I have it so if I hold shift while left clicking, the an instance of vim with the module script opens up so you can edit it.</p>


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<p>Check out my <a href="https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/voidrice/tree/master/.local/bin">scripts folder</a> for two new uploads today (although I made them quite a bit ago).</p>

<p>First is <code>tag</code>, a simple wrapper for <code>opustags</code> and <code>vorbiscomment</code> that gives a easier interface for manually tagging .opus and .ogg files.</p>

<p>More notable, however is <code>booksplit</code>, which uses the script above to take a long audio file and a list of timecodes and automatically splits that file up into tracks/chapter files.</p>

<p>I use this when I can only find some audio content on YouTube and want to convert it to typical music files for listening offline, all with appropriate tags.</p>

<p>I just put up a video on all of this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_CcQhbwINU">here</a>.</p>


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<p>At the top of the next hour, I'll be releasing <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8XtNXutVto">a full-length video commentary and instructional on vim</a>.
I decided to record this yesterday somewhat flippantly: I got through the entirety of vimtutor adding extra information and tips along with commentary.
The whole thing ended up being one cut and slighty longer than an hour!
I'm releasing it as a premiere.</p>

<p>Note also I did a video yesterday talking about <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5UEuWMlqRI">the ever-expanding ways</a> you can be monitored with cell phones and software.</p>


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<p>The YouTube premiere for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8XtNXutVto">the Vimtutor Let's Play</a> just ended successfully.
It's a long vid, so if you want to see something specific, I made timecodes which I'll put here, but if you go to the video above, they'll be clickable in the description.</p>

<pre><code>0:00 Vim Diesel Let's Play Introduction
0:46 Playing stupid in movement/WASD for gamers!
1:46 Soydevs learn to exit vim with ZZ and ZQ.
3:44 Noob way to delete stuff and move around
4:34 zz, zt and zb to move the screen
5:25 i for insertion
6:07 Insert mode vs. Normal mode: The Magic of Vim
7:01 Most important tip of mapping caps lock as escape
7:49 How to go SANIC fast in vim with xset hacking! 🏃
9:33 Moving by paragraphs with {}
10:12 a, A and I for inserting text in different ways
12:22 Saving and exiting
14:20 Literally sorting every line in vimtutor alphabetically for no reasons (based!)
15:36 Deleting by text objects; operators and motions
20:48 Counts for motions
25:17 Deleting around and inside and () {} [], etc.
28:28 LITERALLY TIME-TRAVELING IN VIM 😮
31:45 put or paste deleted text
33:26 Using the system clipboard in vim or really neovim to copy and paste with other programs
34:40 Replace command (mostly useless, lol)
35:34 c to actually replace things the right way
39:18 File status, using percentages to jump through the file, and gg and G
40:45 Searching for text with / and ? (for it backwards)
42:31 Using % to jump from parenthis and bracket pairs
44:00 Substitute strings like with sed
48:44 External commands and I learned vim on Windows lol
49:54 Captain Kirk and learning visual mode
52:52 THE MOST USEFUL VIM COMMAND: .!!! (PERIOD)
55:40 NO WAIT, THIS ONE IS THE MOST USEFUL
56:40 Replace mode
58:30 vim does have a spellchecker!
1:00:29 Now we learn copying and yanking
1:01:54 Setting variables
1:04:30 How a vimrc works and how to configure vim on startup, tab completion?
1:05:38 WE DID IT REDDIT!

DONATE NOW: https://lukesmith.xyz/donate 💰😎👌💯
WEBSITE: https://lukesmith.xyz 🌐❓🔎</code></pre>

<p>Enjoy! And thank you Kenneth for the Vim Diesel thumbnail!
He said it cost him a C- in art class, lol.</p>


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<p>I've thankfully developed a tendency to make side remarks about things in videos that I'm not sure or don't know about because often times people will fill me in on them.</p>

<p>Yesterday I complained about having to use a cell phone to do Two Factor Authentication (2FA) and asked for another way.
As it ends up, using a cell phone for 2FA is apparently just a bad, normie-friendly way to do it.
And we aren't normie friendly, anyway are we?</p>

<p>Many informed me that SMS protocol (i.e. texting) is actually a highly insecure way to do Two Factor Authentication.
I did also know that there are authenticator apps, but these are often talked about as if they are always cell phone applications.
Very not true.</p>

<p>In fact, <code>pass</code>, the password manager that I use (and I also require it for <a href="https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/mutt-wizard">mutt-wizard</a>) has an installable module <code>pass-otp</code> in most repositories that does just this without the need for a celular monitoring device and service, etc.</p>

<p>Install it, and let's say I want it to manage my <a href="https://www.coinbase.com/join/smith_5to1">coinbase</a> 2FA.
Well, go to Coinbase's website and click the option to add/change an authenticator app.
They'll give you a QR which you can download (I'll assume it's called 'download.png' here).
Then, use <code>zbar</code> (which you may need to install) to read the QR code image and pipe it into this <code>pass</code> command.
</p>

<pre><code>zbarimg -q --raw download.png | pass otp insert coinbase</code></pre>

<p>Now, whenever you run <code>pass otp coinbase</code>, you will get a 6-digit 2FA code.
After a few seconds, of course, it will change to another 6-digit code like other 2FA applications.</p>

<p>So this is pretty dope.
You could also start using this for scripting/API access if you know what you're doing.
One more thing I don't have to use my cell phone for.
I feel like a boomer for not knowing this before...
</p>

<p>Now the other thing I'd really want is the ability to access SMS protocol on a computer to receive text messages without (a) a cell phone and (b) cell phone service at my location.
The big issue for me is that I have no mobile service in my house (I have to walk out to the north side of my property to get texts). I don't have wifi-calling either.
Some people have submitted some suggestions and I'm still going through them, but we'll see.
I just wish normies could send me a message at a number they <em>think</em> is a normal cell phone, but I can receive on my computer without a cell signal.</p>


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<p>I'm <b>not</b> deleting any of the i3-related config files, I'll just be doing the following:</p>

<ul>
	<li>Removing i3, i3blocks and other i3-only programs from the install list.</li>
	<li>Removing the visual i3 option on the LARBS script that changed <code>~/.xinitrc</code> for you.</li>
	<li>Consolidating the config files, mainly profile files to make things a little more elegant. I am also adding in a custom <code>dwm.desktop</code> file so GUI-cucks can log into dwm with their log-in screens.</li>
</ul>

<p>That last point might cause breakage in i3 builds that people keep up to date with git.
In case it hasn't been clear for the past year, I really want to move past i3. I haven't used it in months and am not reliable to troubleshoot problems on it.
</p>


<p>If you still want to use my i3 setup, you can still:</p>

<ol>
	<li>Run LARBS.</li>
	<li>Manually install i3/i3blocks afterwards.</li>
	<li>Manually change what WM <code>~/.xinitrc</code> starts (if you don't use a login screen/display manager).</li>
</ol>

<p>I have basically not been maintaining i3 for months.
I accept PRs and fixes if offered, but not much more.</p>

<p>I might add a little extra i3 script to be run after LARBS that makes the changes necessary for i3... maybe.
I really recommend moving on to dwm though.</p>


