Author: Shovas

With just a USB drive, PortableApps, and VeraCrypt, you have what you need to create a portable, encrypted file and password manager that works on Windows and Linux using simple plain-text files. PortableApps provides a Start Menu-like GUI interface and selection of apps that can be installed. PortableApps is a convenient way to carry the rest of the apps with you, usually on a usb stick, that are used to create and use your own portable file and password manager. While I’m also referring to it as a ‘password manager’, it’s just a file system with files and folders and, so, with VeraCrypt or other encryption you can create a password manager or secure anything else you’d prefer.

Steve McQueen’s Le Mans (1971) was a commercial disaster and, by all standard interpretation, an objectively bad film. It’s slow, self-indulgent, woodenly acted, sparse in dialog, and even sparser in character development. And, yet, I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of movies I’ve watched more than once and McQueen’s Le…

I crafted the thought below as an poetic experiment to understand illustrate how generations affect subsequent generations and to provide an illustration of how it is we got to this point.

Woke is 2 + 2 = 5: A poetic attempt to understand and illustrate the vices and excesses of woke.

A surprisingly well-written and deep look at cyberpunk and its origins in sci-fi and its growth into its own. From short stories to books to movies and video games, it’s all here. And perhaps, most importantly, the meaningful, existential ideas and questions that cyberpunk surfaces also get attention throughout.

Here’s some festive videos I’ve enjoyed over the year. I hope you enjoy them, too! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!