The dead of the old Internet

• RARBG is down.

  • The BitTorrent protocol isn’t going anywhere. Farewell, Saint of Sharing Indexes. F.

• Reddit is down.

  • Taken down by the administrative class that as always has great disdain for the value of the users and the employees. Decreasing the value of a human being till acquiring them becomes profitable.

• Twitter is … Twitter.

  • People forget how damaging the short text restriction is for nuanced and deep conversations. This site doesn’t do anything special. Mentions and the easiness of reach are its biggest strengths.

• APIs are a paid luxury now.

  • Big tech companies forget they depend on user-made content to populate their platforms and have anything to offer. This will increase the resentment of the creative class.

• The bot’s have gotten hyper-interactive.

  • Large Language Models and Stable Diffusion models can get you horny or can make you inflict damage on yourself.
  • Not everything that speaks is intelligent is the new normal.

I Foresaw the Coming of Machine Learning Models and Their Impact

For over 10 years, I stopped uploading my photos to social media. Everyone told me I was paranoid and that I shouldn’t worry about anything. But I knew that eventually, all that data would be used for something over which we would have no control.

How to Fix Macbook Pro 8,2 Late 2011 Wifi on Ubuntu 23.04

My most recent hobby project has been installing Ubuntu 23.04 to my Macbook Pro from late 2011 which I use just as a side device. It’s been using Pop!_OS that honestly had been working great but I wanted to upgrade the SSD for a faster and bigger one.

I popped in a Samsung 850 Evo in there with around 500 GB. but I kept the previous ssd inside in a sata2 port as a backup system. The bootloader in that system broke when I re-installed Grub on Ubuntu but it seems it’s fixable.

My Software Stack

I will keep updating this list in the future. At this moment 2023-04-15 these are what I use the most.