What crazy year 2015 turned out to be. A year where I turned 29. A year where terrorism hit very close to home. A year where first world feminists gave a speech in front of the United Nations, advocating for internet censorship, simply because people call them out on their bullshit. A year where a […]
The fictitious Hollywood movie started showing in theaters this weekend. One benefit that this movie brings is that it shows the entire world, the horrific drug fueled violence taking place in Mexico for the last eight years, as if over 100,000 dead and 30,000 people missing weren’t enough for the rest of the world open […]
So I decided to create a website that catalogs all of my books, music and video games. Additionally, I also opted to put in there any other interesting stuff that I own or collect. So lo and behold, shit.alpha01.org was born.
So it is the eve of my 29th birthday, and what has been a normal day, as I enjoy and will always enjoy being just like any other normal day. I’ve always utterly despised doing special activities on my birthday, ie cakes, gifts and all of that non-sense. Since in my point of view everyday […]
Interesting interview with OpenBSD founder Theo de Raddt. Theo opinions on mitigations, managing the OpenBSD project, it’s current challenges, and future. As well as full disclusure, breaking backwards compatibility, and 64-bit. Behind OpenBSD, Windows comes in second with operating system exploit mitigations enabled. FreeBSD doesn’t have any active auditing of their source tree. Everyone uses […]
I’m very glad to see John Oliver bring up our absurd legal patent system in his Television program. Anyone with a brain should be against the notion of software patents. Not only does it stop innovation, it literally hurts our economy as whole. To put it into perspective, recently Apple who themselves are one of […]
Words of wisdom from the man that makes Edgar Allan Poe look like a shitty 19th century poet. In Remembrance of Charles Bowden. from Brink on Vimeo.
(Original ad placed in a $2.99 paperback AutoTrader Magazine. June 2004) It was exactly ten years ago that I purchased my beloved 98 Toyota Tacoma pickup truck. Accident free (knock on wood), and having been stranded only two times these ten years due to a busted starter and alternator, respectively. I must say she has […]