Overview We live in an age of software as a service (SaaS). For a monthly fee, these software give their users access to the conveniences of their product. Services like Netflix and Spotify give their users access to petabytes of content without the struggle of hosting or carrying that content themselves. The convenience is undeniable, but not without their concerns. Focusing on Spotify, their revenue stream for their artists isn’t small artist friendly, mainly benefitting labels and popular artists. Read more...

This year the guys and I decided to hike the perimeter of Frontenac Provincial Park! This was our trip. Route Here is a map of our route. It was a total distance of 46.6 km. This was the route we followed with the campsites we stayed at We stayed at the following campsites: 1a North Buck Lake 10b Devil Lake 7c Birch Lake The nice thing about Frontenac is that all the campsites had a firepit, picnic benches, bear boxes and dedicated areas for tents. Read more...

One thing took me a while to get running was qBittorent with a VPN on TrueNAS Scale. The community application of qBittorrent doesn’t have that functionality, so the solution is to manually install it instead. This is how I did that! Overview Regardless of what you want to torrent, its probably a good idea to run it through a VPN. It masks your IP address so that way it shouldn’t be linked back to your usage. Read more...

The guys in the lab and I started a book club together and the first book we read was Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan. Here’s the cover from Wikipedia Summary The story follows Takeshi Kovacs, an ex-private military, now-turned-investigator hired to solve the mystery behind someone’s suicide (or murder?). It takes place in the future, where humans have the ability to upload our consciousness to chips called stacks. Since the mind can be separated from the body, bodies are referred to as sleeves. Read more...

I was at dinner with my girlfriend and she picked the restaurant based on a TikTok video. We couldn’t decide what we wanted from the menu, so we looked at the reviews on Google to see what dishes other people recommended. After we picked our food, I started to think about how much volunteerism there is on the internet. A lot of the participation on the internet is thankless and without reward. Read more...

In May of 2024, 3 friends and I hiked the Presidential Traverse in New Hampshire! Route Our route! This route is slightly off. We started at the Mount Webster Trailhead and added Mount Jackson to our hike! We hiked somewhere between 7-15kms a day! Gear This is the gear I packed: Clothes Shorts Shirts Underwear Socks Sweater Rain Jacket Rain Pants Hiking Boots Hat Sunglasses Hygiene - (I don’t think specifics are necessary for these) Toothbrush/Toothpaste Deodorant Hand Sanitizer Sunscreen Toilet Paper Wet wipes Bug spray Equipment Tent Sleeping Bag Sleeping Pad Headlamp Stove Fuel Spork Camp soap Rope Dry Bag Compression Sack First Aid Kit Water filter Water bottles Multitool Electronics (battery bank, phone, etc) We carried 2 tents for the 4 of us (1 two-person and 1 four-person), but we had an issue with the two-person one, so everyone added up sleeping in the four-person one. Read more...

Last Updated: 2025-05-23 5 Friend and I hiked through 40ish km of the Western Uplands hike in August of 2024! This was my first time planning a hiking trip and I wanted to document my experience. Route This was the route we followed. Each colour is a different day We stayed at the following campsites: Islet 2 Tern 2 Ishkuday 1 Overall, the route was good! Most of the campsites were fine, but I wouldn’t recommend Ishkuday 1. Read more...