Fremakos' Domain

Welcome!

This is the digital presence and 'pocket reference' of a certain computer aficionado.

Index.html is currently 18.86 kb.

Design Philosophy

Simplicity is good, so KISS already!

When designing infrastructure, use established standards, 'Withered Technology'. Every problem someone else has encountered and mitigated is one less you might encounter blindly. This directly correlates to product robustness, not market suitability; see EOMA68.

Internet Cinematic Universe Hyperlinks

Check out: SumPlete, a ChatGPT designed & coded game. Ungrounded discrimination against Silicon neural networks is unwise and will have serious negative consequences. Don't jump to conclusions, learn their nuances with due patience.

Concerned about your home network and the shoddy state of home routers? Consider Peplink.

Have a large 3d asset production pipeline and UV unwrapping is your bottleneck? Check out Ministry of Flat from Quel Solaar.

Entertainment & Fun

D&D character creator and QuickRef.

About This Site

The site runs on a RamHost VPS with 384 MB of RAM, so bloat is not an option!

It is written in several PHP modules, and compiled with Python to a single page.

The current compiled Index.html size is 18.86 kb.

Currently the only externally linked asset is Milligram.CSS, via Cloudflare's CDN.

It is planned to add new site funtionality via the Caddy webserver (a features union of NodeJS and Lighttpd).

Handy Dandy Reference

How do I 'x' again? The following are quick references for things needed occasionally but not so often as to be easily memorized.

Notable Libraries

Bash Shell

What's hogging that port? ss -na | grep :443 shows the culprit.

Need to run a non daemon process in the background temporarily? Append & to the command.

Need to kill that process? pgrep $process_name.

What distro is this VPS again? cat /etc/issue.

Projects

I have the impression that most software has become more fragile and generally 'low-quality' over my lifetime. The same goes for web design (though it's rarely ever been good). There are several niches I'm compelled to address:

SSH/PGP Key Distribution via QR codes & new URIs

This is a concept I've had since university to simplify keyswapping, which seemed so self evident that surely someone else would independently standardize that. As of 2023 that hasn't happend. Using roughly the URI scheme qr_gpg://<user>@<domain>:<key_md5>:<chunk_index>-<chunk_total>:<payload>. If that seems like a lot of metadata, it is, but consider that Richard Stallman's Public GPG Key is 5605 characters after we strip everything else, and the max alphanumeric length of a QR code (without error correction) is 4296. It's impractical to make larger QR codes, but I do feel it's reasonable to split large keys into multiple codes. That's the concept, the rest is self evident. I'd personally prefer separate URIs per key scheme, but the more unified qr_key://<key_acronym> is equally feasible. Key ingesters registered to these URIs could be as simple as saving the keys directly to ~/.ssh/known-hosts/, or implement additional scrutiny. Feel free to expound and submit an RFC if I haven't by the time you read this.

Social Media

Mastadon's protocol works, as does Pleroma's, but there's issues with both as well as the main software stacks. Nostr is not an acceptable alternative, and I'm surprised at Edward Snowden's endorsement. Security concerns must be split by threat level, and I argue that E2EE should be implemented separately from the platform. I envision a multifaceted solution.

Corpodon

This platform uses OAuth to leverage corporate cloud-data offerings as storage for ActivityPub data, and read/write in-browser. The Corpodon platform acts only as an intermediary while users are connected. This is an ideal transition to federated platforms for people who have corporate accounts, eg with Google, and are comfortable (for now) with their data being stored with those corporations... but would like the option to take their data with them afterwards. The initial build of Corpodon uses Google BigQuery and is in private testing.

The DeFacto.Club

Concept is a database of evidence, sources, atomic conclusions from said evidence, and narratives constructed from those conclusions. This is another university idea that's been delayed because I hoped someone else would bother to do it. So much evidence has gone down the memory hole that I concede I may have to build it myself, if only for my own reference.

Essential Essays

I often find myself referencing this or that document, only for other parties to not recognize or remember, so I have to go hunting for a URL to share. No longer! This is to become a master list of specific documents I am likely to refer to.

Additionally, there are some prolific essayists whose work is always likely to be relevant relevant, so here are.

Media Review

GIGO (Garbage In Garbage Out); your mind is a neural network so feed it training data relevant to your future environment.

Print

Preview	Title	Review
	(~410 BC) History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides	A distilled masterpiece of history and philosophy.
	(2008) Spider Star by Mike Brotherton	A nuanced work of speculative fiction.
	(2006) All Tomorrows by Cevdet Mehmet Kösemen	A picturebook reimagining of "Last And First Men".
	(1970,1980,1996) Ringworld Trilogy by Larry Niven	An alternate human origin, a good set of thought experiments.

Film

Preview	Title	Review
	(2009) Defendor	When no one in their right mind would fight back against organized crime, it took someone... not in his right mind to do so.
	(2004) Steamboy	A Philosophical film whose overt message is silly (competition over what to use technology for), but the portrayal of generational conflict and the changing of opinions over time is excellent.

Anime

Preview	Title	Review
	(1988-1997) Legend of the Galactic Heroes adapted from Yoshiki Tanaka	The greatest episodic video media ever created. This is an epic for our age.
	(2002) Azumanga Daioh adapted from Kiyohiko Azuma	Fluff. What a stable, functioning society looks like. Quirky people who stay socially compatible despite their varied personalities.

Epigramas de Fremakos

I keep having to summarize concepts so I'll try to keep a list here to save future time.

In the Internet age it can be difficult to impossible to source statements made in IRC chats and other ephemeral media. Attribution is given as sanely as possible.

Prepare Yourself!

"You can't get to the moon by piling up chairs." - Stanislav

"Correlation always implies causation, never guarantees it." - Fremakos

"Scope Insensitivity is a root of all evil." - Fremakos