Hello, web-surfer! I am Luke and this is my webpage.
Check these out:
| YouTube | My YouTube channel. |
| Videos | All my YouTube videos and more on my a PeerTube server running free and privacy-respecting software. |
| Library | A list of all the books I own. |
| Programs | The computer programs I use and recommend. |
| About | Fun info about me. |
| Links | Links to other interesting sites on the internet. |
My Websites and Projects
| Not Related! | Podcast. Rarely new episodes, but every one is unique and impactful. |
| Landchad.net | Build your own website. Host your own services, easily. This site teaches you how. |
| Based.Cooking | A distraction-less, ad-less, junk-less recipe site with public domain code and content, with contributions from my followers. |
| LARBS | My script for autoinstalling my personal GNU/Linux configuration. |
| MuttWizard | Terminal-based email, fast with offline, indexed mail. Sets up neomutt, isync, notmuch and more instantly. |
| EmailWiz | Deploy an email server instantly. Includes spamassassin, OpenDKIM and fail2ban for security. |
| My Github profile | Assorted libre software projects. |
Fun Stuff
| Churches | List of every church I've been to. |
| Countries | List of every country (and American state) I've been to. |
| Academic | Snippets from my past life in academia. |
| Credit Cards | The credit card setup I use to back great cashback. |
| Don'ts! | A list of things I refuse to do! |
| Contact Me | My contact information. |
My writings:
- Can AI ever really be "Open Source?"
- Science of the Gaps
- Miracles and Black Swans
- A miraclulous way to 'prove' miracles don't happen is just to assume they don't.
- John Searle and Daniel Dennett on Consciousness
- Consciousness and Materialism
- Why I Won't Go to Restaurants in 2023
- Blockchain Blasphemy and the Technological Antichrist
- Some want to enslave mindkind because it would be fun to design our chains.
- Basically Everyone Should Be Avoiding Docker
- Why I don't do tutorials on the odious containerization system Docker.
- 'Based' Paganism vs. Christianity
- Don't jump from the True Faith to an invented one because it looks cool in internet memes.
- Minimizing Liabilities Is Making It.
- You don't need to earn big to live very well.
- The hardest technical solutions are right in front of your face.
- True technological advancement is mostly about seeing the obvious and accessible.
- Never Trust Custodial Crypto
- Luke gets an email from a crypto exchange wanting your info.
- On the "Hate Speech" Psy-op
- Why they call everything "Hate" and why it has been an effective technique.
- Not Even Libertarians Believe in Libertarianism
- It was really cool and fun while it lasted, but libertarianism needs a post mortem!
- Obscenities are symptoms of weak minds.
- Every Web Browser Absolutely Sucks.
- Matrix vs. XMPP
- You want to have encrypted, self-hosted and free software chat? Which standard should you use?
- Modern "Freedom" Means Being a Slave to Impulses
- Our political liberties always conspire to make us automata moving from pleasure to pleasure.
- Conspiratorial Thinking and "Multiple Outs"
- Is everything preplanned by the (((Elites)))? Or is there just another reason they appear so omnipotnent?
- Monero and Other Privacy Coins
- Monero Maximalism: Or, How Bitcoin Is a 💩coin
- We Want Our 4 Causes Back!
- Can we really have "science" without teleology and something like a final cause?
- Wanna Learn LaTeX?
- Veganism Is the Pinnacle of Bugmanism
- Why It's Bad to Have High GDP
- Sometimes the quality of life is directly inverse to "economic" indicators.
- Advice on Some Other Languages
- Command Line Bibles
- Learn Chinese
- Learn Latin
- Learning European Languages (Michel Thomas)
- Making Free Money off Credit Cards
- Notes on Learning Languages
- Only Use Old Computers!
- Reviews of All Linux Distros (That Matter)
- My commentary on different GNU/Linux distros in one place.
- Science vs. Soyence
- "Science" is not tidbits for a new lifestyle to look smart on the internet.
- The Fragility of Physics
- Our hard-fought scientific vision of the universe is always on a knife’s edge.
- The Parable of Alien Chess
- Against Logical Positivism. Science should be about truth, not about data collection and analysis---not about short-term prediction.
- Why I Use the GPL and Not Cuck Licenses
- Undermining the copyright system is seriously important and copyleft licenese do the needful.
- Politics matters most to slaves.
- Why do I so rarely talk about politics on my channel?
- Everything is political, so why am I not constantly doing political commentary?
- In Defense of "Pseudoscience"
- The Problems with Utilitarianism
- Thinking twice about the Enlightenment's default view of social value.
- "I Have Nothing to Hide" and Comments on Totalitarianism
- Technology has made violations of privacy invisible and seem inevitable.
- Why People Do or Do Not Leave Religion
- What really drives the orientation of one's life?
- Why Modern Art Is So Awful
- The very word "art" makes people's eyes roll. Why is this?