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.-------- .--' o . .-' . O . .-'@ @@@@@@@ . @ /@@@ @@@@@@@@@@@ @@@ ./ o @@@@@@@@@@@ @@@ /@@ o @@@@@@@@@@@. @@@ /@@@@ . @@@@@@@o @@@@ |@@@@@ . @@@@@ /@@@@@ O `.-./ . @@@@ Full Moon + | @@@@ --`-' o @ 6 11:20:47 |@ @@@ ` o . Last Quarter - | @@ @ .-. 1 10:41:34 \ . @ @@@ `-' . | @@ @@@@@ . \ @@@@ @\@@ / . O \ o @@ \ \ / `\ . .\.-.___ . \ `-' `-. o / | o `-. / . `--. . `-------- 2026-03-10

  \   /     Sunny
   .-.      +82(80) °F
― (   ) ―   ↑ 8 mph
   `-’      9 mi
  /   \     0.0 in

11:20:03

I ran out of money and was living on the street. Luckily, There is a Christian organization called Room at the Inn. They have a winter shelter where local churches offer their facilities to about 12 homeless men at a time. They give you a warm dinner and a bed.The only difficult thing with the program is that there are limited beds and so they’ve had to institute a lottery. The lottery means you are really only guaranteed a bed every other night. I’m very lucky that people donated money for me to get a cheap motel the nights I didn’t have a bed at the Inn. The amount of donation money that was spent on me is really incredible.

I got a very bad flu and had to stay in a motel for several days. I had the flu for over a week and I’m still hacking up stuff as I’m writing this. I got really fed up with it all and stressing over having a flu and not having a bed that I messaged the bishop who ordained me and, in a few lines explained my situation. Without hesitation he offered me to stay at his monastery. That’s where I am now.

11:34:45

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-------. . . `--. . . `-. . @@@@@ `-. @@@@@@@ . \ @@@@@@@ . \. @@@@@@@ O \ @@@@@@@@@@ @@@ \ @@@@@@@@@@@@@ o @@@@| @@@@@@@@@@@@ @@ \ New Moon + @@@@@@@@ @@@@ | 7 3:06:42 . @@ . @@@@@@@ | First Quarter - -. @@@ @@@@@@@ | 0 5:48:23 -' . @@@@ @@@@ o / @@ . | . O . o . / . . / . . .-. /' `-' / o O . .-' . .-' . .--' -------' 2026-01-26

     \  /       Partly cloudy
   _ /"".-.     19(8) °F
     \_(   ).   ↘ 9 mph
     /(___(__)  9 mi
                0.0 in

11:45:01

I’m writing this from the cheapest motel in Nashville, TN. I was kicked out of my parent’s house and left to be homeless. We had a major storm that left a few inches of snow on on the ground on Saturday and then Sunday turned the snow into ice with frozen rain. The next few days are subzero but the storm was pretty mild here. I’m very grateful and lucky to have been given the money for this motel during the storm.

It would have been a very terrible experience without the generosity of friends and also strangers from Twitter.

20:59:51

How to change TTL on macOS 12 and newer

Changing the TTL value may be useful. Especially, for those whose carrier restricts sharing Internet access through their personal hotspot. If you found this guide, I don’t think you need any explanation on what TTL is. This guide allows you to change the TTL value forever.

Step 1. Open Terminal. You can do this either by using Spotlight or through Launchpad.

Step 2. In the terminal window enter the following command:

sudo nano /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.startup.sysctl.plist

This command creates a file that will be launched on every boot up of your Mac. The file is empty right now, so we need to enter the instructions for the Mac to execute.

Step 3. The instructions themselves is the following text:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.startup.sysctl</string>
    <key>LaunchOnlyOnce</key>
    <true/>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/usr/sbin/sysctl</string>
        <string>net.inet.ip.ttl=65</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

After pasting this into the file, press ^X combination to exit the file. When it asks to save the file choose “Yes”, then hit the Return key.

Step 4. The next thing we need to do is enter the following commands in Terminal:

chown root:wheel /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.startup.sysctl.plist
sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.startup.sysctl.plist

Step 5. Restart your Mac.

Step 6. Open Terminal again and check if everything was done correctly with this command:

ping 127.0.0.1

If you see the TTL=65, then you’ve done everything correctly. If not, repeat the process again.

In case something went wrong or you just want to revert the changes, you can just delete the file. To delete it, enter the following command in Terminal:

sudo rm /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.startup.sysctl.plist

yoinked from https://medium.com/@arciomsavucin/how-to-change-ttl-on-macos-monterey-990aa714be1d

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                Fog
   _ - _ - _ -  37 °F
    _ - _ - _   ← 2 mph
   _ - _ - _ -  0 mi
                0.0 in

03:53:10

I found the album the guy who plays Steven Harrington from Stranger Things made. It’s not terrible. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd8W-283kUR8cyVH4OK2iA-hH3qNyDm5M&si=Ouu8cgs3c8Cnsr9O

03:56:44

I transcoded the flac files in my music library to opus 160k vbr to save space. My library went from 116GB to about 40GB. I can’t tell the difference so why waste space?

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.--- .--' .-' . .-'@ @ /@@@ @@ ./ o @@ /@@ o @ /@@@@ . |@@@@@ /@@@@@ O Last Quarter + | @@@@ - 3 7:10:45 |@ @@@ New Moon - | @@ 4 20:53:17 \ . @ | @@ \ @@@@ \ o @@ `\ . \ `-. o `-. / `--. `--- 2026-01-14

                Mist
   _ - _ - _ -  +37(35) °F
    _ - _ - _   ↓ 2 mph
   _ - _ - _ -  1 mi
                0.0 in

02:46:44

I’m trying to figure out how to make the journal site better. I can easily put all the posts on one page. I played around with that last night.

Yesterday, I went to the local Assyrian bakery. The croissant was good. I look like a hobo and they seemed like they didn’t want me there. It’s weird how if a person looks like a crazy hobo they probably are a crazy person, but if someone looks like a well put together person they could be a crazy person too. Normal people don’t try to make themselves look like crazy people but crazy people try to make themselves look like normal people.

03:06:20

It’s 3 am and I had to close the window because of a strong perfume coming in. Who the fuck is up 3 am and what are they doing that would make such a strong smell that the neighbors have to shut their windows?

04:36:12

Looks like they are going all in with AI. Pete Hegseth want to use it for the Department of War https://youtu.be/37rV4AJvaxk?si=4tuTRZTdNcdRT28n This is not good. They want to put Grok in the military.

05:22:11

Perl Cheat Sheet:

CONTEXTS  SIGILS  ref        ARRAYS        HASHES
void      $scalar SCALAR     @array        %hash
scalar    @array  ARRAY      @array[0, 2]  @hash{'a', 'b'}
list      %hash   HASH       $array[0]     $hash{'a'}
          &sub    CODE
          *glob   GLOB       SCALAR VALUES
                  FORMAT     number, string, ref, glob, undef
REFERENCES
\      reference       $$foo[1]       aka $foo->[1]
$@%&*  dereference     $$foo{bar}     aka $foo->{bar}
[]     anon. arrayref  ${$$foo[1]}[2] aka $foo->[1]->[2]
{}     anon. hashref   ${$$foo[1]}[2] aka $foo->[1][2]
\()    list of refs
                       SYNTAX
OPERATOR PRECEDENCE    foreach (LIST) { }     for (a;b;c) { }
->                     while   (e) { }        until (e)   { }
++ --                  if      (e) { } elsif (e) { } else { }
**                     unless  (e) { } elsif (e) { } else { }
! ~ \ u+ u-            given   (e) { when (e) {} default {} }
=~ !~
* / % x                 NUMBERS vs STRINGS  FALSE vs TRUE
+ - .                   =          =        undef, "", 0, "0"
<< >>                   +          .        anything else
named uops              == !=      eq ne
< > <= >= lt gt le ge   < > <= >=  lt gt le ge
== != <=> eq ne cmp ~~  <=>        cmp
&
| ^             REGEX MODIFIERS       REGEX METACHARS
&&              /i case insensitive   ^      string begin
|| //           /m line based ^$      $      str end (bfr \n)
.. ...          /s . includes \n      +      one or more
?:              /x /xx ign. wh.space  *      zero or more
= += last goto  /p preserve           ?      zero or one
, =>            /a ASCII    /aa safe  {3,7}  repeat in range
list ops        /l locale   /d  dual  |      alternation
not             /u Unicode            []     character class
and             /e evaluate /ee rpts  \b     boundary
or xor          /g global             \z     string end
                /o compile pat once   (p)    capture
DEBUG                                 (?:p)  no capture
-MO=Deparse     REGEX CHARCLASSES     (?#t)  comment
-MO=Terse       .   [^\n]             (?=p)  ZW pos ahead
-D##            \s  whitespace        (?!p)  ZW neg ahead
-d:Trace        \w  word chars        (?<=p) ZW pos behind \K
                \d  digits            (?<!p) ZW neg behind
CONFIGURATION   \pP named property    (?>p)  no backtrack
perl -V:ivsize  \h  horiz.wh.space    (?|p|p)branch reset
                \R  linebreak         (?<n>p)named capture
                \S \W \D \H negate    \g{n}  ref to named cap
                                      \K     keep left part
FUNCTION RETURN LISTS
stat      localtime    caller         SPECIAL VARIABLES
 0 dev    0 second      0 package     $_    default variable
 1 ino    1 minute      1 filename    $0    program name
 2 mode   2 hour        2 line        $/    input separator
 3 nlink  3 day         3 subroutine  $\    output separator
 4 uid    4 month-1     4 hasargs     $|    autoflush
 5 gid    5 year-1900   5 wantarray   $!    sys/libcall error
 6 rdev   6 weekday     6 evaltext    $@    eval error
 7 size   7 yearday     7 is_require  $$    process ID
 8 atime  8 is_dst      8 hints       $.    line number
 9 mtime                9 bitmask     @ARGV command line args
10 ctime               10 hinthash    @INC  include paths
11 blksz               3..10 only     @_    subroutine args
12 blcks               with EXPR      %ENV  environment

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.---- .--' o .-' . .-'@ @@@@ /@@@ @@@@@ ./ o @@@@@ /@@ o @@@@ /@@@@ . @@ |@@@@@ /@@@@@ O `.- Last Quarter + | @@@@ --`- 2 7:10:45 |@ @@@ New Moon - | @@ @ 5 20:53:17 \ . @ | @@ @@ \ @@@@ @\ \ o @@ `\ . . \ `-. o / `-. / `--. `---- 2026-01-13

                Mist
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    _ - _ - _   ↘ 4 mph
   _ - _ - _ -  1 mi
                0.0 in

01:55:13

 _______________________________________
/ Anyone want to start a cult with me?  \
| Joining a cult kind of suck but       |
| starting one seems like a pretty good |
\ gig.                                  /
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        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
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Watched a video about the Church of the SubGenius. I always forget about how weird that is.

Listening to https://www.slackradio.org/ right now. It’s part of the SubGenius church stuff.

06:18:13

I think I got the journal to stop overflowing text and changed the font to IBM Plex Mono. I also fixed a bug where nb doesn’t list all the entries.

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.----- .--' o .-' . O .-'@ @@@@@@@ /@@@ @@@@@@@@@ ./ o @@@@@@@@ /@@ o @@@@@@@@ /@@@@ . @@@@@@ |@@@@@ /@@@@@ O `.-./ Last Quarter + | @@@@ --`-' 1 7:10:45 |@ @@@ ` New Moon - | @@ @ 6 20:53:17 \ . @ @@@ | @@ @@@@@ \ @@@@ @\@@ \ o @@ \ \ `\ . .\.- \ `-' `-. o / | `-. / `--. `----- 2026-01-12

                Mist
   _ - _ - _ -  37 °F
    _ - _ - _   ↘ 2 mph
   _ - _ - _ -  1 mi
                0.0 in

01:47:36

I think I fixed the journal script when it creates a new file for the day. I turned the weather ascii art into a stand alone script so I can use it directly.

I’m starting to use markdown in these files instead of the original plain text since they are primarily being viewed from html. I need to figure out how to make the pages searchable. My first idea is to render a single page version that can be ’Ctrl + F’ed in the browser. There’s probably a more sophisticated way to do it but I kind of like the site being just html pages.

03:11:40

To move panes around in tmux + { (up) or } (down) or left or right depending on the layout.

To change the pane layout + space.

06:44:36

I fixed an off by one bug in the comment banner script

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07:01:32

I need to remember to move all the scripts that are required to use this journal and put them all in the repo so I can reproduce the setup.

I also need to mark down all the dependencies for the same reason.

22:12:00

This is useful: https://nekocalc.com/px-to-rem-converter