Luke Smith's Webpage

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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 Sites with tutorials for creating and maintaining small-scale websites and services like email, private chat, federated social media and more.
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 Wizard for a fast, indexed and extensible neomutt email client with email stored offline with isync.
EmailWiz A script to setup a fully-functioning postfix/dovecot email server with OpenDKIM, Spamassassin and fail2ban.
My Github profile Assorted libre software projects.

Fun Stuff

Don'ts! A list of things I refuse to do!
Years Pictures of me from every year of my life.
Churches List of every church I've been to.
Countries List of every country (and American state) I've been to.
Credit Cards The credit card setup I use to back great cashback.
Contact Me My contact information.

My writings:

Elon Musk vs. a German Woman
When will Europe break free of American Influence?
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
Hating Brave is Cool!
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?
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?