LLM benchmarks · legal battles · VPN protocols · soap chemistry · 1984 · browser chaos · AI personalities · business plans · poems & biology
⚡ 17+ topics — a single weird, wonderful collection
First systematic review of 283 LLM benchmarks (general, domain-specific, target-specific). Highlights data contamination, cultural bias, and lack of dynamic evaluation. Calls for “process credibility” and ongoing pressure campaign detection.
Complaint: Joshua Aaron sued AG Bondi, DHS, ICE after Apple removed ICEBlock (crowdsourced ICE agent sightings). Alleged coercion, viewpoint discrimination, retaliation.
Motion to dismiss: Gov argues Apple acted independently, no “ongoing coercion”, plaintiffs lack standing. Key test of Murthy & Vullo.
Kernel-based VPN (layer 3) with 4k lines of code – replaces IPsec/OpenVPN. Cryptokey routing, NoiseIK handshake, roaming, ChaCha20Poly1305, DoS cookies. “Silence is a virtue” – no response to unauthenticated packets.
Adds authentication to local Ollama (LLM server) via Nginx reverse proxy. Two methods: HTTP Basic Auth (.htpasswd) or Bearer token (API key). Uses Docker Compose; recommends HTTPS to protect credentials.
Hetzner: low-cost VPS, dedicated CPU, block storage, 1TB egress allowance. Vast.ai: GPU marketplace (10k+ GPUs), pay-per-second, spot/reserved instances, SOC2 certified. $0.02/hr starting vs $0.34/hr.
Classic industrial guide: tallow, cocoanut oil, palm oil, cold process / full boiled. Glycerine recovery, Twitchell process, analytical methods (titer, free fatty acids). 283 pages of lye, fat, and fragrance.
Winston Smith vs. Big Brother, telescreens, Thought Police, Newspeak, doublethink, Room 101. “WAR IS PEACE / FREEDOM IS SLAVERY / IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH”. The Party’s ultimate weapon: rewriting the past.
From Arc, Brave, Chrome, Firefox, to niche: BadWolf, Agregore, Pissandshittium, Nyxt, Otter, Pale Moon, Ladybird. Lists underlying engines (Blink, Gecko, WebKit, Goanna, Electron). A chaotic atlas of the web.
User Hannah notes: Claude = teacher, ChatGPT = therapist, Gemini/Copilot = “friends who ate Wikipedia”, DeepSeek/Qwen = neutral & machine-like. Explanation: RLHF guidelines, cultural context (Chinese models emphasize factual restraint), brand positioning. Grok = intentionally “insane”.
Tuta email ($5/mo, custom domains, green energy). Self-hosted + Shopify Buy ($9/mo). Meta ads (hyper-targeted). Free socials: Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky, Mastodon (bridged via fed.brid.gy). Community-first yarn strategy.
33 tracks: “Sacrifices Must Be Made”, “The Fine Print”, “Wool Over Our Eyes”, “DOOM DOOM DOOM”, “Vault Number 76”. Minecraft, Fallout, Satisfactory – nerdcore anthems for the working class.
Air enters nose → tiny hairs filter dust → trachea → bronchi → lungs. Mucus traps bacteria. Oxygen passes into blood. Respiratory & circulatory systems work together. Used ~20,000 times/day.
Chewing → tongue pushes down esophagus → stomach acid & enzymes break food into water‑soluble particles (4h avg, steak up to 18h). Small intestine absorbs nutrients; liver sends enzymes; large intestine processes waste.
600 muscles → 40% body weight. Skeletal (voluntary, bundles), smooth (sheets, involuntary), cardiac (heart). Tendons attach muscle to bone. It takes 43 muscles to frown, only 17 to smile. Smallest muscle = ear; largest = gluteus maximus.
“Potato’s” – they are yuck.
“Discus Fish” – cool colours, live at my house.
“Macca’s” – love it, good for health (irony).
“Autumn Leaves” – pretty, many colours.
Alliterations: “Intelligent Isaac has incredible iPads”, “Amazing aliens attack alligators”.
Onomatopoeia page.
Python script that scans Markdown files, extracts URL from frontmatter (link: or source:), parses domain, then moves each file into a folder named after the domain. Used to organize web clippings by source (e.g., github.com/, wikipedia.org/).
Plaintiffs added detail: Apple removed app same day Bondi “demanded”, AG said “hope they continue to comply”. Defendants’ reply: no ongoing pressure, subjective chill insufficient, Apple acted on safety information. Key precedent: Murthy & Media Matters.
✨ This page mashes together academic research, a federal lawsuit, VPN internals, DIY LLM security, cloud pricing, a century-old soap guide, Orwell’s nightmare, a sprawling browser list, AI alignment philosophy, small business budgeting, nerdcore rap, human biology, and a child’s poetry book. Welcome to the knowledge collage.