This week Qntra published 13 pieces of which 10 came from myself, one came from nicoleci, two came from shinohai. Thimbronion was struck by the flu after presenting some article ideas, but he did leave a comment with a point he had considered fleshing out into an article before being struck by the flu. Read the rest of this entry »
Week 6 2020 Review - With Some Reflections On The Subject Of Feedback And Encountering Bots Blogging For Bots Nest
February 9th, 2020Photos From The Archives - January 20, 2011
February 6th, 2020Back in 2011 when I was at the University of Missouri, the campus was hit by several profound snowstorms. These photos are from one of intermediate magnitude that still managed shut down the campus for about a week as best as I can recall. As I can recall is what we are left with because the professional and intentional student journalists of the era seem to have their accounts of the event lacked behind paywalls or buried in unstable online archives. Read the rest of this entry »
Week 5 2020 Review - A Start To A Start
February 2nd, 2020Since last week, the number of contributors other than myself published on Qntra in recent memory increased from zero to three. I greatly appreciate the work done by those rallying to Make Qntra Great Again. On my part, I'm not counting this as a whole start for me as only one new byline was added to the database, but it is a start to a start for me. I've still got to push harder on the outreach until it's become something easy that I want to do, and then I've got to keep pushing it. Read the rest of this entry »
An Onramp For Contributing To Qntra - On Qntra
January 27th, 2020Qntra's top menu and side bar now feature links to a page descriptively titled Write For Qntra! This page contains complete, up to date information on how to contribute to Qntra. This means Mircea Popescu's 2015 style guide is linked and blockquoted as it is still the best style guide produced for any web publication to my knowledge. Read the rest of this entry »
Week 4 2020 Review - Turning To Qntra
January 26th, 2020Qntra
Daily article production continued. Mircea Popescu issued a wake up call on the need to grow the active Qntra authorship pool beyond myself and improve circulation. Read the rest of this entry »
Week 3 - Minding Fatlogic
January 19th, 2020Mircea Popescu made a decision in the mike_c case favorable to my client, and my performance in the early going leaves me unsatisfied with my own performance. I started sloppy by taking side questions on the principle first when what needed to be done was getting the MPEx stat to qualify my client's case before doing anything else. Logistics of getting my client paid remains to be done. Read the rest of this entry »
Argentina Getting Pissy With Uruguay Envy
January 15th, 2020The return of Kirchnerism to Argentina's government means that tensions between Uruguay and Argentina are starting to ratchet up. I feel very comfortable taking Mircea Popescu's 2014 observation that:
Argentina is in no sense a country friendly to the United States.
and going further to say that Argentina, especially the Kirchner-Peronists, run a country in no sense friendly to the world. It's not just that the Argentines aren't friendly to the US government, it's not just that they aren't friendly to other governments generally. It's the full on Obamatard rejection that anyone outside their particular annoited socialist circle could possibly have anything to say about how the world works. Read the rest of this entry »
Week 2 2020 Review - A Very Qntra Week
January 13th, 2020This was a very heavy Qntra week with 8 pieces produced. Most notably Trump very nearly made the late Hussein Bahamas relatively competent. There was also the very lulzy leak concerning how little US "Big" anything actually controls their own shit. Read the rest of this entry »
Week 1 2020 Review - Wrestling With NSD After Standing Up TRB Nodes
January 5th, 2020Daily Qntra production continued as I've been wrestling with the NSD name server daemon. With two of the four servers still getting loaded with blockchain, I brought the nameserving orchestra online New Years Eve. Five boxes, the 'anyserver' hosting Qntra alongside a number of aligned blogs was joined by four other servers spread around doing the Bitcoin node thing and other tasks to be determined were all gloriously serving Qntra DNS for two days. Then they stopped, and reversion to the prior setup that didn't shit the bed was done. Read the rest of this entry »
Data Protection Journey Part 2: Add More Heat
January 4th, 2020Last we visited the aluminum hard disk platters they had been soaked, boiled, soaked some more, and boiled some more in Coca Cola Black, an excellent etching agent available at retailers near you. It was time consuming and visible changes to the platters beyond fouling during the initial tomato sauce boil and sanding were unimpressive. Here's a video of something faster: Read the rest of this entry »