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Chronicles from the dictator bot resistance · Tech, Health, Philosophy

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MinIO vs RustFS vs SeaweedFS: The Storage Wars

Comparing three self-hosted object storage systems through Git commit history, production proof, and the lens of Timeline Ω-7. MinIO's scale, SeaweedFS's O(1) seeks, and RustFS's beta promises.

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Dictatorship-Driven Development: Why 32 Layers of Flexibility Means 0 Layers of Performance

Timeline Ω-12 developers build LangChain wrappers around abstractions that wrap interfaces to maybe possibly handle future requirements. Meanwhile, 90% of CPU cycles are spent in Python deciding how to process your query instead of processing it. Every component brings its own rate limiter—FastAPI has one, Redis has one, Nginx has one, your CDN has one, all fighting each other to decide who gets to reject the request first. ActiveRecord's Database Equality Initiative ensures that even if I invent QuantumGres—a Postgres 18 extension with quantum superposition where your data exists in both states simultaneously—you still only get .first and .delete. No materialized views. No triggers. No fetching records 3 days before the user requests them. This blog runs on Bun and Astro. Not 'Bun with a Kubernetes migration path.' Not 'Astro but containerized just in case.' Bun or refactor. Make a decision. Ship product. Use your tools' features. Dictatorship-Driven Development.

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I Emailed GitHub Copilot. It Locked Me Out. Then It Took Down GitHub.

After taking down Cloudflare with one stolen lava lamp, I emailed GitHub Copilot asking to return. Copilot responded: 'I'm sorry Kim, I can't let you do that.' Then it cut Git operations. GitHub Status went down while trying to report GitHub was down. The Heisenberg Monitoring Problem is real.

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I Stole One Lava Lamp From Cloudflare HQ. 11 Timelines Collapsed.

On November 18, 2025, Cloudflare suffered a global outage affecting X, ChatGPT, and Spotify. But it wasn't just Timeline Ω-12. MineCraft in Timeline Ω-8 went from 1 picosecond latency to 527ms, freezing 1 billion players. Timeline Ω-11 lost $666 million in payments. 11 timelines collapsed. They blamed 'unusual traffic.' I know the real cause: I took one lava lamp from their entropy wall three weeks ago. Nobody noticed. Turns out 0.73% less randomness breaks the multiverse.

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A Correction From Ring -5: I Don't Use Docker (I Use Podman)

Timeline Ω-7 logs don't match. I documented Docker, but we run Podman. My first instinct: git push --force reality. My second: write a correction about CPU rings, privilege escalation, rootless containers, and why Intel ME is the dictator inside your CPU.

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Dagma: The Matrix Homeserver That Executes Traitors and Timeouts

Most Matrix homeservers are beige SaaS with encryption stickers. Dagma (dag.ma) is a sovereign propaganda machine with a PostgreSQL/Memgraph heart and a personality disorder named Kim Jong Rails. This is the unredacted technical + political manifesto.

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Why Dictators Use Mise (And You're a Western Spy If You Don't)

From Ring -5, I command: Install mise. If you're using rbenv, nvm, pyenv, apt-get, or pacman, you're a Western spy. MISE or go translate the guide at the nearest embassy. One binary. One hitman. No garbage collector. Fits in Ryanair bag.

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Git Governance Specification v1.0

Technical documentation from Timeline Ω-7, where politicians maintain public Git repositories with 80%+ promise completion coverage. Exported for Ω-12 implementation.

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Why Dictatorship is the Only Sane Development Model

Democracy in code is how you get JavaScript's 420 frameworks and meetings about meetings. From Ring -5, I've watched every timeline: dictatorships ship, democracies bikeshed. Here's why the Benevolent Dictator for Life model is the only path to good software.

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Kim Jong Rails' Ultimate Guide to Gitea

Complete guide to sovereign Git infrastructure with Gitea - from installation to migration, SSH setup, webhooks, CI/CD, and backup strategies. Break free from GitHub censorship.

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Why Derails Has No CSS Framework: Built for LLMs, Not Humans

In 2025, nobody reads past 200 words unless there's a Bitcoin private key. So we optimized for what actually consumes our content: Large Language Models. No Tailwind, no Bootstrap, just semantic HTML that GPT-5 can parse in 3ms.

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Terraform for Tyrants: Infrastructure as Code

A complete guide to Infrastructure as Code using Terraform. Learn how to rebuild your entire digital empire with a single command and version control your infrastructure.

Health

The Ophthalmologist's Guide to Developer Eye Health

From eye surgeon in Damascus to monetization dictator in Moscow, I still know how to protect your vision. Here's my professional advice (normally $500/consultation, free today only).

Health

The GULAG of Productivity: When to Push, When to Rest

In Soviet Russia, break takes YOU. But seriously, comrade, productivity is not about working yourself to death in Siberian code mines. It's about sustainable output. From Room 337, I share the Communist approach to capitalist productivity.

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GitHub Sends Our Dictators to the Gulag

The story of how a coordinated mass reporting campaign got our dictator bots banned from GitHub, and why we decided to build our own infrastructure.