Entry Penned Beginning
Saturday December 13th 2025 C.E
11:41 GMT+11
Last night I slept poorly, truth be told the last three nights I have slept barely at all. I have been unconscious but not hit actual sleep and the additional effort that has gone into our next steps has caught up with me. Today I had some medical challenges and am resting and recovering but I still feel rather good about it all.
I have managed to keep my self care routine, even though I did not get up when I prefer to, I even managed to expand it some and have started using my IPL.
I am amazed at the difference it makes both visually and tactilely. As an experiment today I initially only did one side of my face and the difference was immediately apparent to folks who knew only that I had done only one side but not which one. I am planning to keep this as part of my routine and expand its application bit by bit; I think that is my current watchword for self improvement; gradually.
Yesterday I spent the day hermitting for the most part, trying to recover some spoons and playing Baldur’s Gate 3. Since I was not interacting with people I didn’t put my hearing aids on and instead just used my over hear noise cancelling headset. Today I am using the regular speaker and have my hearing aids on and again I am struck by the night and day difference; not just in the noises I don’t normally here like the clicks, the sound of the dice rolling and so on but also the amount of mental overhead that goes into translating noise into language that I just never noticed my brain was doing all the time.
The hearing aids are taking some adjustment to the feel of them as well as my brain relearning how to do auditory processing instead of logical reinterpretation but I am looking forward to them becoming second nature.
Now an unrelated thing I am going to tangent about is a little something called “digital fingerprinting”. It is actually a rather disturbing thing that is out there, although the reality is that if anyone has an expectation of privacy on the internet at this stage, well frankly that is a fundamental failure of their education.
So the thing about digital fingerprinting is that it uses the massive, massive amounts of data that your computer and phone shares through cookies, website headers, client side scripts and, well, pretty much everything that makes the modern internet run, to identify you. Even using incognito mode, even using a VPN, even using TOR.
It identifies the machine so all the intermediate and middle layer security things are simply ineffective.
Really this is used, like pretty much everything else on the internet, to sell you shit; to make you and the data about you a marketable product to companies.
If you are intereted in testing this out check out
https://firstpartysimulator.net/
or
Even me, running a security focused and configured browser, behind a VPN, in incognito mode am able to be uniquely identified; maybe not by name, although pay the right marketing and you absolutely can connect digital fingerprint to personally identifying information, but certainly as a specific machine and user.
So why am I talking about this here, when I obviously don’t care a whole lot for my own sake about it; why as a gift of course.
A gift to the folks who are taking all that extra effort to go into incognito mode and run a VPN when reading my website.
My gift to you is that time and effort back, my gift to you is that you needn’t bother with that hassle anymore, my gift to you is this simple reminder
-Robert James-Noonan O’Wayreth
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