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!        Writing this is a concession of intimidation limits. Being intimidated by the unknown. Limited by it. The internet is an awful place and I want to fix it. I cannot fix it alone. I wanted to write all of everything, all of it, myself. I wanted to write it in my favored language, C++. I wanted to make it work the way I feel that it should; to disregard the false needs of business and embrace the desires of private citizens. Better for the public it’ll be.

        Alas, it cannot be. There are too many things, ways to break, ways to violate, and far too many dumpster fires. I cannot continue to keep my head down, working to learn, working to fix, without having a blog. I need a method of communicating what I do, why I do it, and admitting that I’m not able to put everything up myself because I don’t want to is an awful feeling.

 I want to build a blog. I want it encrypted. Nothing exists like I want it, so I must build it.

        I want it to automatically learn, link amongst itself. To identify words, phrases, concepts. I can make it do that. I know how. I’m just stuck in the gutter trying to build the infrastructure, the pipes, the building blocks, the support. It will enable better communication of thought instead of empty petty words.

 It will show how to do what I want. It will show you how to do it for yourself. It will show you in cold hard logic. I never really was very good at words despite what this blog might exhibit. Not in real life, anyway. I stutter. Words are almost always on the very tip of my tongue. Similar words escape, instead, because the tip is just there: just out of reach.

 I want to demonstrate how to build it. I don’t trust others, so I must secure it. I must demonstrate how to build an OS from the ground up. But how do I do that? Use vagrant, a trusted adviser said. Build an OS from scratch, I’d prefer. Build an ISO to install into vagrant, to build and install into a VM, to install a physical machine.

        But how do you build a vagrant box? It’s voodoo magic. But how do you build an ISO? It’s nay-documented magic. But how do you build an OS? Why would you want to? It’s (no translation). Petty is the wrong word. Pedantic is the wrong word. Wrong wrong wrong. It’s important, but only to me. Not to the blog. Why would you want to? There are plenty enough already.

        If only there were a page which would say exactly how to acquire source code, compile, test, and build an installation medium. If only. I’m sure it’s somewhere. My google-fu isn’t good enough though. Because updating someone else’s concept is broken. Relying on someone else’s updates is a fundamentally broken concept. Don’t. You don’t need it, you don’t want it. A blog doesn’t need it. Why would it?

 I want to write software to manage my home, to manage my stuff, to show my things. I want to build an app to have running all the time with a touch-screen display for status because that seems cool.

        ...which is ironic if you’ve ever heard me rant about how touch screens are craptacular. Most of them are. It’s not always the physical screen, either. More often than not it’s the user interface. The user interface of touch screens are typically very awful. The internet of shit followed suit.

        I want to write stories. I did write stories, years ago; I was between jobs and a friend challenged me to write stories. Maybe I’ll post them; probably I won’t. But then, a thought hit me: I could write something in this LibreOffice Writer and, just maybe, it could export the document to HTML. Or text. Or something that a web browser could read and parse and display to the people I need. You know who you are. I sent this link to you. Maybe, if it could do that, then I could send this link to you.

 And you could read my story. Stories. The words that cannot escape my tongue? They come at their own pace now. In text. They are coming here. Better words if not the right ones. There is more time to write than to speak. Time is precious.

        Even this doesn’t export it to simple html. It exports it to xhtml, which would be fine, except for all the unnecessary garbage that LibreOffice added. The exported xhtml doesn’t have the struckthrough text (intimidation in the first sentence should be). Well that rather changes the whole meaning. And some of the paragraphs’ first tabs don’t work. But I’ll leave it because it adds an enunciation to my point: fucking garbage. Internet of Shit indeed; it’s not limited to stupid gadgets. I can’t even write a simple one page document without finding something that’s broken.

        So this serves as the first. It serves as the baseline. I’ll build from here. I’ll show from here. I’ll add a version control repository. But it’s a blog. It’s meant to be a personal outlet. It’s personal. If I sent you the link, great, you’re on the right track to learning more about me. Maybe you might  understanding who I am and what drives me.

        If I didn’t send you the link… well… have a look around and maybe you’ll find something useful and maybe not but I really don’t care.

The internet of shit does not have to be.

Cheers,

inetknght

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