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    <updated>2024-02-28T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
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        <title>Admins Can Read Your DMs</title>
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        <published>2024-05-09T00:00:00+00:00</published>
        <updated>2024-05-09T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
        <summary>Yes, the admins of your fediverse server can read your DMs. No, that's not actually a problem.</summary>
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    <entry>
        <title>Building a Completely Normal Server</title>
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        <published>2024-02-28T00:00:00+00:00</published>
        <updated>2024-02-28T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
        <summary>I spent the past few months making full use of all my physical engineering talents to build a NAS that is completely normal, and not weird at all, and involved an amount of 3D modeling, 3D printing, and hacksawing that is entirely typical of most home computer builds, all in the name of reusing an old laptop.</summary>
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    <entry>
        <title>My Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Distro Hop</title>
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        <published>2024-02-25T00:00:00+00:00</published>
        <updated>2024-07-06T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
        <summary>A chronicle of my brief journey from EndeavourOS to Fedora to back to EndeavourOS, and wrestling with a VPN client that sees itself as above such trifling matters as "functioning".</summary>
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    <entry>
        <title>How to Make Youtube Videos Buffer All The Way Like The Old Days (In Firefox)</title>
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        <published>2024-02-13T00:00:00+00:00</published>
        <updated>2024-03-18T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
        <summary>Alternate title: Common Firefox W</summary>
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    <entry>
        <title>I Don't Like AI Art</title>
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        <published>2024-01-03T00:00:00+00:00</published>
        <updated>2024-01-03T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
        <summary>My actual thoughts on AI, in case seeing an AI-generated article in your RSS feed didn't get the vibe across.</summary>
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        <category term="chatgpt"/>
        <category term="capitalism"/>
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    <entry>
        <title>The Invaluable Contributions of AI Tools to Humanity: A Look at the Unparalleled Benefits</title>
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        <published>2024-01-02T00:00:00+00:00</published>
        <updated>2024-01-02T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
        <summary>AI tools offer unparalleled benefits to humanity, enhancing efficiency, healthcare, education, environmental sustainability, customer experiences, scientific research, and social accessibility. Despite ethical concerns, responsible development ensures that the positive impact of AI far outweighs potential downsides.</summary>
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    <entry>
        <title>The Unity Runtime Fee and Proprietary Software</title>
        <id>unity_runtime_fee_and_proprietary_software</id>
        <link rel="alternate" href="https://isopod.cool/blog/posts/unity_runtime_fee_and_proprietary_software/" type="html" title="The Unity Runtime Fee and Proprietary Software"></link>
        <published>2023-09-15T00:00:00+00:00</published>
        <updated>2023-09-23T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
        <summary>Unity's new Runtime Fee is yet another data point on the pile against ever trusting for-profit software companies.</summary>
        <category term="unity"/>
        <category term="capitalism"/>
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    <entry>
        <title>Blacklisting Websites in SearXNG</title>
        <id>guide_blacklist_websites_searxng</id>
        <link rel="alternate" href="https://isopod.cool/blog/posts/guide_blacklist_websites_searxng/" type="html" title="Blacklisting Websites in SearXNG"></link>
        <published>2023-09-02T00:00:00+00:00</published>
        <updated>2023-09-02T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
        <summary>How to permanently banish geeksforgeeks.org from your search results in the event you're using a self-hosted SearXNG instance and can't just install uBlacklist.</summary>
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    <entry>
        <title>Stop Using Chromium</title>
        <id>stop_using_chromium</id>
        <link rel="alternate" href="https://chrome.bathynomus.xyz/" type="html" title="Stop Using Chromium"></link>
        <published>2023-08-16T00:00:00+00:00</published>
        <updated>2023-08-16T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
        <summary>An article about why you should quit using Chromium-based browsers, published as a standalone website for the purpose of automatically redirecting Chromium users to it.</summary>
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        <category term="google"/>
        <category term="capitalism"/>
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    <entry>
        <title>Discord - So Your Favourite Chat App Sucks Now</title>
        <id>discord</id>
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        <published>2023-06-28T00:00:00+00:00</published>
        <updated>2024-04-27T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
        <summary>Why Discord sucks, and how to find something that doesn't.</summary>
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        <category term="capitalism"/>
        <category term="privacy"/>
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    <entry>
        <title>How to Automount Drives On Boot in Linux</title>
        <id>guide_how_to_automount_drives_on_boot_in_linux</id>
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        <published>2023-04-26T00:00:00+00:00</published>
        <updated>2023-04-26T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
        <summary>How to configure a Linux system to automatically mount drives on boot by editing /etc/fstab.</summary>
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        <category term="linux"/>
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    <entry>
        <title>How to Block User Agents With Nginx</title>
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        <published>2023-02-23T00:00:00+00:00</published>
        <updated>2023-02-23T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
        <summary>How to configure Nginx to tell Cloudflare and their shitty centralized Fediverse server to go fuck themselves. And other unwelcome stuff too, I guess.</summary>
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    <entry>
        <title>Things I Keep Having To Google</title>
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        <published>2023-01-12T00:00:00+00:00</published>
        <updated>2023-01-12T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
        <summary>A continually updating personal reference of random information I keep needing but keep forgetting.</summary>
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        <category term="linux"/>
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    <entry>
        <title>deeptwisty.com 2nd anniversary - A History of This Bullshit</title>
        <id>deeptwistycom_2nd_anniversary_-_a_history_of_this_bullshit</id>
        <link rel="alternate" href="https://isopod.cool/blog/posts/deeptwistycom_2nd_anniversary_-_a_history_of_this_bullshit/" type="html" title="deeptwisty.com 2nd anniversary - A History of This Bullshit"></link>
        <published>2022-09-19T00:00:00+00:00</published>
        <updated>2024-07-06T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
        <summary>An abridged history of my presence on the World Wide Web, from my first customized Tumblr pages to now.</summary>
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        <title>Self-Host Safely with WireGuard</title>
        <id>guide_self_host_safely_with_wireguard</id>
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        <published>2022-08-25T00:00:00+00:00</published>
        <updated>2022-08-25T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
        <summary>A basic guide on connecting two Linux servers via WireGuard to make one publically accessible through the other.</summary>
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    <entry>
        <title>Late May Updates</title>
        <id>Late_May_Updates</id>
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        <published>2022-05-21T00:00:00+00:00</published>
        <updated>2022-05-21T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
        <summary>In which I discuss my evolving understanding of my sexuality, among other miscellaneous updates.</summary>
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    <entry>
        <title>Second</title>
        <id>Second</id>
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        <published>2022-04-25T00:00:00+00:00</published>
        <updated>2022-04-25T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
        <summary>A rant about the world's worst game that I think you should play.</summary>
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        <category term="gaming"/>
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    <entry>
        <title>First</title>
        <id>First</id>
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        <published>2022-04-13T00:00:00+00:00</published>
        <updated>2022-04-13T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
        <summary>I've got a blog now!</summary>
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