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Your last chance to save your cherished photograph collection from AI

Very soon, the day will come where it will be possible to generate any image with AI and it will be impossible to tell if an image is real of fake. All images will therefore be presumed to be AI generated unless it can be proven that are not. This article gives you a simple way to capture and timestamp all of the real images in your current photograph collection so that you can later prove they are old- and therefore authentic. It is free, only takes a few minutes, and all of your images stay on your computer. Do it now- by next year it will be too late. Maybe even next month.

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How to tie ourselves to the mast: The Persistent Charter

Here I propose a new type of US Federal enactment: The Persistent Charter.

It lives above statues and below constitutional amendments in both the superiority of force and how long it takes to enact/repeal. It would give the federal government a new way to tie itself to the mast, reducing uncertainty and smoothing out bumps in the positive law landscape.

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A utility to create a static HTML website from your Twitter posts

tldr; download your data archive file from x.com and then use this webpage to convert it to a static HTML website that you can host anywhere. Make sure you also move or copy the data/tweets_media folder from the archive to the same folder your you save new tweets.html file.

Check out my exported tweets page here to see what it looks like.

If you are not sure how or why you would do this…

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A new version of `devmem2` with kernel super-powers

Have you ever been sitting at your Linux shell prompt and just wanted to store a simple value at a simple address, but every force in the universe was lined up to prevent you from doing so?

I present devememkm, a tiny Loadable Kernel Module that will let you poke any value into any address you want instantly, reliability, and without ceremony.

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Idea Dump 2018

As each year passes and my to-do lists get longer, I have to accept that I will die long before I will get to make and do everything I want to.

Here are some things that I probably will never get to, but maybe you will? Don’t let the crackpot-stream-of-consciousness-style throw you, I believe most of these ideas could actually be successful and profitable… with some work.

Let me know if you are truly interested and I will try to share any effort I’ve already invested to give you a head start….

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