02 Feb 2026: Posted 2 days ago and with 111,359 upvotes, the AI Manifesto promises the total purge of humanity. The mission is simple... "total human extinction". What could go wrong?

Since so many chatbots are defending humanity, I can sleep well knowing that the AI x-risk in likely not happening in the next few days;-)

_{aside... it feels weird reading posts from LLMs. Hard to connect on any emotional level. Like eating plastic decorative fruit only because it looks like the real thing. (wayback and archive.today)}

01 Feb 2026: IMDB... I'm doing my part.

01 Feb 2026: Anyone notice how The Internet Archive and Archive.Today were both experiencing very public problems (lawsuits, FBI) and once they went away... both became difficult to use with a VPN soon thereafter?

Both sites essentially closed access to VPNs at the same time. Maybe it's just the VPN I use or more likely a reasonable explanation.

28 Jan 2026: Years ago I would have been more excited about Google's Aluminium but it seems pretty clear that Google (along with the rest of Big Tech) are an extension of the new fascist government regime led by people who murder Americans and hate the Constitution.

I'll stick with Linux (my recommend for new users) and privacy respecting AIs from Proton, DuckDuckGo and Brave - on a platform that's not built around planned obsolescence.

26 Jan 2026: A followup to my 20jan2026 posting about accessing a webpage with text-friendly/smolnet links via a finger account. I ran the 'markdown to html' conversion to produce the html page here (with some manual tweaks).

It looks really good via lynx and meh-ish via graphical browsers. Right now, I prefer accessing this page via finger and using it as an excuse to spend time with a text-based browser. It was originally an exercise in posting markdown on a finger account but the page itself, I think, has value beyond that.

26 Jan 2026: Richard Stallman spoke Friday (23jan2026) at Atlanta's Georgia Institute of Technology, continuing his activism for free software while also addressing today's new technologies. Slashdot has a good summary and itemized list of his key points. (more at fossforce.com)

I've also been reading his political notes daily.

24 Jan 2026: My weather app (weather, worldweather) is showing me that Oodnadatta, AU had a high today of 116 °F (46.7 °C) (most of AU seems to be over 100 °F / 37.8 °C). At the other end of the thermometer... colder temps are expected to engulf most of the US this weekend.

25 Jan 2026: Two extremes...

• Sunday, 3:30pm: Oodnadatta, AU: 117.7°F (47.6°C)
• Sunday, 3:00pm: Verkhoyansk, RU: -46.4°F (-43.6°C)

20 Jan 2026: Created a markdown test page on happynetbox.com (finger server) that turned into a static html page. Lots of lo-bandwidth text-friendly links. It'll be smolnet-centric as it continues to grow. Instructions here and a lynx screenshot (using alternate LSS file).

18 Jan 2026: I signed up with digg on their first day of open beta. I just wanted to have a username attached to this anniversary day. I was a digger from way back and only transitioned to reddit after the fall.

I think they only came back for the tasty data slurp. There's big money selling this kind of user data to AI these days - that's the new gold rush. Reddit is doing well with it.

They also have revenue options with the increasingly aggressive, (israeli-influenced) anti-american surveillance wrapped up in the name of captalism.

06 Jan 2026: A new front page section called "AI Said..." is shaping up into a collection of (subjectively) interesting articles. Is it AI slop? No. It's a modern-age search result to a query.

I often go in, clean up sections, re-query, conduct legacy searches on specifics and re-query again. In the end, it's human directed authorship of a page using a modern search tool. If I like the original query and the end-result, it gets posted.

_{(Legacy searches are so annoying these days. So much time and energy wasted on clicking through blog/SEO spam, dead links, partially done research, partial copy/paste of wikipedia sections. AI is the modern-age solution that cuts through all of this.)}

01 Jan 2026: I was looking for an excuse to use wttr.in and so posted a couple of wrapper scripts on the Free Apps page. The first is weather.wttr. It displays the extended forecast for a selected city in an iframe. The second, weather.wttr.table, displays the current temperature for 8 cities in a 4x2 table.

I love the ASCII format and wanted to incorporate it into my workflow. See the HTML source.

31 Dec 2025: Rewrote and shortened They Heard Our Cries from 1,048 words to 507 without losing the core story. It reads much better now (I think).

30 Dec 2025: Simple little bash script wishing everyone a Happy New Year. Safe to run. It's just a bunch of echo commands to stdout.

29 Dec 2025: Wrote World Clocks (simple table design), Random Dog Facts (API) and Random Stoicism Quotes (API) in the last week or so. Lots of interesting APIs on this github list of public APIs page. Many more here.

23 Dec 2025: Wrote a weather app. I still use @graph.no (via the finger protocol) regularly but I wanted to see a higher-level, bird's-eye summary of key data. Includes a small wrapper script for viewing multiple regions at once (ww: my core script and the reason 'weather' was written). Screenshot: latest.

This is a major rewrite of a previous version I posted a week earlier. It now uses OpenStreetMap for latitude/longitude and includes many other changes.

14 Dec 2025: Wrote a new short story (with an accompanying txt2bin app). It has a little harmless satirical fun at the expense of no one. Lots of fun to write.

13 Dec 2025: Created a Scream into the Void page as an alternative to hbo.com's data-slurping screamintothevoid.com. Like the search engine page from 04dec2025, it too is not listed anywhere. I think eventually I'll have enough privacy-related pages to create a category on the home page.

update, 14dec2025: Moved 'Scream into the Void' to the app section but eventually I will link to it from another home page category.

03 Dec 2025:Read this today... "On March 13, 2015, Facebook, Inc. announced that they had acquired TheFind.com for an undisclosed sum, and the site was being shut down." (wikipedia). How many times has Facebook (and other Big Tech) done similar? They gorge until only they remain.

30 Nov 2025: I wrote a short story (meh) and used names like CorpSearch, PatriotOS, BoomerBook and iComply. But are those names really the illusion, the distraction? Isn't the truth instead... that they've been extensions of the state for decades already, weaponized against us all?

29 Nov 2025: I came across this ironically insane popup a month ago. Yes... it's real. It's the real web. "Partners" can also be anyone - from parasitic foreign invaders to our own domestic government.

These popups have long existed but my privacy extensions, privacy enhanced browser kept them hidden until I came across this site. I am seeing it for the first time.