Breaking Bad, European edition

unfortunately, iCloud's "hide my mail" available for as low as $1.19/mo is the best email aliases service. Why? Because those addresses have no discernible pattern, and, most importantly, end with @icloud-dot-com.

a lot of services nowadays think aliases are for scammers, so they reject well-known alias domains like those proton has. but no one rejects icloud ones.

they can't wrap their head around that people like me use aliases, one alias per service, to have control over the spam you send us. unsubscribe buttons in emails often don't work, or unsubscribe you from some super-niche "segment" that one email belonged to, but because you bitches have a lot of those segments, you just carry on spamming.

major dicks that aren't concerned with email deliverability rating, like microsoft — because their emails get delivered no matter what, they're microsoft after all — think they can just not allow people to unsubscribe from their spam. when I needed to create a ms account, thank god I used an alias. I got bombarded with their spam, and lo and behold, not a single email had an unsubscribe button. Instead, the bottom of each email said "this email is a part of mandatory onboarding" or some shit like that, despite just being advertisement. no option to unsubscribe from that bs in their "dashboard" either.

so I just disabled that alias. despite what all of you stupid fucks want, it's my computer, and on it, the computing happens on my terms. when I need a confirmation email, I enable the alias, get the email and then disable it.

I have no mics and no cameras. I pay cash. I don't borrow money from banks. I don't have a credit card. when I receive crypto, I exchange it for cash directly in a physical crypto exchange that doesn't require my passport. I have headphones with built-in mic that I use exclusively for calls, but when I plug them out, no mic for ya. my next phone won't have a sim (and no eSIM either), I will disassemble it and take the front-facing cam, as well as mics, out of the phone, and then cover the back camera with velcro that I'll undo every time I need to take a pic. it will also run graphene os and be held inside a faraday cage when not in use. I have a separate dumb phone for calls that has its removable battery disconnected at all times when I don't use it. no matter if you're corpo or government, no matter all zero-days and backdoors, if there is physically no mic and no cam to be found, trying to access them is futile.

no use trying to profile me or get any kind of info from me unless I want you to — I'll just strangle you and your systems. my info sphere is a fortress surrounded by a bottomless tarpit. you'll drown in it should you try to violate me. if you so much as touch it, it will suck you in. I'll stream your drowning on youtube.

even irl, I try to dress, walk and move as weirdly as possible. during my morning walk, I be straight up walk as if I was rabid. when our eyes meet, I'll smile creepily, just to communicate that don't fucking touch me you fucking degenerate. don't even think about talking to me. just walk away you bitch before I pin you to the ground and bite your ear off. if you're bigger than me, you'll just get tased.

only those I trust deserve open, kind, validating, beautiful, well dressed and good smelling kiki.

you know what? I'm gonna say the n-word whenever I feel like it. Of 88 English-speaking territories, exactly one did import people from Africa to enslave them. My home country wasn't doing that. I don't work in the US of A, I don't live there, so fuck off with your US defaultism. US of A's "culture" is not the default/main culture of the world.

You cry freedom of speech, then ban some words based on someone's skin color. If that's not racism and hypocrisy, I don't know what is.

I won't say it on devRant because I'm not anonymous, and I don't want some job to not hire me because of this stupid shit. I'm not afraid to admit it. Also, devRant is an american platform, so yeah.

If I came to the US of A, I wouldn't have been saying the n-word there, because when you're a guest, you gotta respect the rules of the house that hosts you. My problem with a certain one house is that this house thinks its borders end nowhere, so everyone must obey their rules wherever they live. Miss me with that shit.

Howlin' Wolf, Dolores O'Riordan, Siouxsie Sioux had the best singing voices ever.

imagine dying of a makeshift drone's strike, and, as you lay down in shock with your arms and legs blown off while rapidly losing blood, the drone's speaker says “Your killing was powered by DJI”.

turns out DJI handed drone purchasing discounts in exchange for “augmented” drone firmware that did this.

What did a roman legionaire said after finishing crucifying jesus christ? Nailed it!

If a male has a tendency to slush his south, there is nothing you can do to stop him.

Top fiction writers:
3. William Shakespeare
2. Religious scholars
1. Corporate accountants

Free Luigi

This is Alvin, a small sub that is 60 years old, been to the Titanic wreckage many, many times. Still in active service.

This is the difference between the real engineering and the kind of "engineering" done by so-called "disruptors" that say "move fast and break things".

You're not an engineer — you're a douche that appropriates the engineering culture. You didn't make an "OS for productivity", you made a worse version of Lotus 1-2-3 from 1983. You didn't "reverse-engineer" anything — you copied and pasted funny letters and symbols put together by a language model that is as clueless as you are.

Do not cite the deep magic to me, bitch. I was there when it was written.

JS, the language that can never change because websites from 20 years ago have to work somehow, has a historic quirk: JS bad
Linux, the OS that has like 2 million distros you can use, all vastly different in their design, all unconstrained by compatibility problems, has a historic quirk: skill issue

linux rant number 23094823094

Linux is a marvel of modern engineering. Well, at least in a sense that it somehow manages to work despite its design.

Basic commands like ls, grep, rm, cp (think busybox) do work predictably. Given that some of them are older than you and me combined (grep is 51 years old), it would've been weird if they didn't.

Yet, when comes the time to configure linux itself, there is no right way to do it — there are 5 or 6 wrong ones.
The wrong way number 1 to configure linux is to use predictable commands and their combinations. You know, cat + grep some config files, then awk to change them… If you do it, you will instantly break your system to the point that you'll have to back up your data, reinstall everything and put your data back.

All the other wrong ways are wrong because each of them will break your system in their own unique way. All of them kinda-sorta do what you want, at the expense of messing up some other things that have nothing to do with what you were trying to fix. The worst way to use them is combining one wrong way with some other one, like configuring xorg directly and then using ubuntu-specific userland config tools. This will instantly break your system too.

You'll have to google/chatgpt your way through historic quirks that are somehow still there in 2025. Remember: the worse the shell command looks, the more likely it is that it's the right way (or at least the least wrong way) to do things in linux.

Some minimal distros like alpine is a notable exception, in a way that they're more predictable, but they will become useless the moment you try to get some actual work done. I've used alpine as my desktop os for quite a while. I know what I'm talking about.

If you want so much as to install a browser, you'll have to use flatpak. But flatpak will only bail you out so many times. Your colleagues, and people that write tools that your colleagues use, are using macos, windows or ubuntu. You'll have to use whatever they're using, and if it uses glibc/is not in flatpak, well, tough cookies.

sudo apt install fuse breaks ubuntu instantly — it won't boot into graphical desktop anymore until you reinstall everything, including systemd, and do initramfs. Why does it do that in 2025? who knows.

Female assets and their hornification value:
- tits: 10 points
- butt: 20 points
- face: 25 points
- brain: 200 points
- dick: 9999 points

A woman without a dick is like an angel without wings.

If you use Ubuntu, if you go into the terminal right now and enter “sudo apt install fuse”, it will delete Nautilus. Don’t be fooled though: in fact, it will delete a lot more than that, and if you reboot, you ain’t gonna see any graphical environment at all.

Tried Cursor. It's "Agent" thing have given me the whole new appreciation for my existing codebase. For how every line of code and every micro-decision I make is deliberate. Though it did it in the worst way possible — by "optimizing" my code that I didn't request to be optimized.

I feel like I delegated a surgeon's work to a lawnmower roomba. Yes, both of them do cut stuff, but are they interchangeable?

Cursor's autocomplete is stellar though. Because of how consistent my code is, it almost never fails. It baffles me that the codebase that is consistent enough for the AI autocomplete to never fail somehow causes the same AI, but acting as an agent instead, to completely shit the bed.

My code is consistent because I copy and paste a lot. But, because of how expressive it is (thanks to my zero-framework approach), I only ever need to copy and paste ten lines or so max to do what I need. When I say that I "copy and paste code", what comes to mind? I bet it's acres of boilerplate. Not here.

I'm now applying Orwellian newspeak rules to my naming. For a distinct entity, I create the shortest possible name and try to carry it everywhere I go. Yes, short names will run out, but naming entities differently to avoid conflicts is the job for future me. Premature optimization is the root of all evil, and thinking about variable names in advance is premature optimization too.

For example, if the user entity in the database has lastName field, its variable in imperative code will be the same, and the form input name will be lastName too. Why use "userLastName" and "lastNameInput" or "lastNameField", or even "userLastNameField"? YAGNI.

I'm inching closer and closer to a universal gray goo architecture that can absorb anything. Wait till I replace what I copy and paste with brand new keywords and create a new language. I've already started doing that with the way I write util functions.

Here's a task for you: design a bearing that can operate deep in saltwater/on the ocean floor under heavy load with little to no maintenance for a very long time. Durability is more important than precision.

I have the correct answer in the first comment. Compare your design to the established one and see if it's any different! Share your design in comments!

In 2027, Trump will amend the constitution to allow himself to be re-elected again in 2028.

In 2031, sex offender registry will be shut down. Every pedophile will be pardoned. Trump administration will establish "Pedo Pride WorldWide" event, which will have overwhelming success. Then, Trump will introduce the Pedo Medal of Honor that will look just like the regular Medal of Honor, with brown band instead of blue, with the outline of the Epstein island instead of stars, and the golden profile of Donald Trump instead of the medal. After one year of daily awarding, the US of A will run out of gold.

Then, Victor Orban and Olaf Scholz will migrate to the US of A using the new Pedo Green Card, talking all their friends with them.

Then, trump will re-elect himself (sic) again and lower the age of consent to twelve for girls and ten for boys.

Today, my wife switched from an Android smartphone to a Nokia 5228 she took from my phone collection. It runs Symbian, so it's as good as a dumb phone now. Yesterday she told me that her phone and the magnetizing power of infinitely scrollable feeds were sucking the life out of her. Let's see how it goes.

Kiki’s workplace

Hitchhiking as a man: Ori and the wild forest
Hitchhiking as a woman: Silent Hill
Hitchhiking as a trans person: Dark Souls

I didn’t know my dad was alive, let alone writing the rules of dating me!

There was one more plane in WTC attacks that struck a skyscraper in Newark. It didn't collapse all the way, but instead collapsed halfway while tilting sideways. It stood like this with power still on when Kim Dotcom bought it. He named it The Darthmaker. Because it was winter, he made it an extreme snowboarding course.

Many people perished there, losing their balance and falling into the rebar pit. Also, still working Commodore terminals were littered around, with their tape data storage cabinets transformed into washing machines that washed corpses.

Experiencing The Darthmaker made most of its visitors insane. This is why in 2006 it was leveled for good. A dilapidated yellow Commodore chiclet keyboard from one of the terminals is still on display in the museum in the United Paper Island.

Dotty, I’m sorry. Will never say a single bad thing to you.

roguelike counter strike

counter strike but with v.a.t.s. system from fallout

mandatory cashier competitions organized by walmart where cashiers can win unpaid time off

Here’s why I pirate music:
1. 90% of my playlist is made by dead people. I’ll never pay for anything whose creator is dead.
2. 9% of the music I listen to is very obscure — it’s not on streaming services. There is no way to contact creators, let alone pay them.
3. The remaining 1% I bought directly from creators on Bandcamp or elsewhere.

Also, when I used Apple Music, at all times many of the songs in my library were unavailable in my region. Songs pop in and out of this state based on some ongoing, never ending legal BS perpetrated by those who had no hand in creating the music itself. Miss me with that shit. I want my entire library available to me at all times.

Right now my brain tries to devour both 80s and 90s pop culture, digest them and turn them into succinct and potent… pods? Capsules with info?

The problem is that those two cultures are incompatible in my head, yet both mean a lot to me. I’m a big aesthetics geek.

It feels like when Alec Steele tried to forge tungsten. It doesn’t work. But I lost control over my thoughts, so I’m kinda bad-tripping/daydreaming without drugs as my brain drags my mind through this tunnel where words have no meaning and walls are made of broken glass and spent syringe needles.

Let it end, but also make it never end, as I’ll lose myself should I be robbed of those weird experiences. Sometimes you want your food spicy, your transmission manual, your bike fixed gear, and your sex bdsm. Just don’t strangle or drown me while playing with me, my dear brain. We need each other to survive.

Eschew clever rules.

Sex trafficking and racketeering charges DROPPED against diddy. now dig up my post that said that trump will pardon him. TOLD you.