Notices by Thor, the Norseman has moved! (thor@snabeltann.no), page 2

Ah, fuck, I think KeePass Touch is the app that keeps deleting the file attachments. It doesn't seem to support them. Now why the hell is it deleting chunks it doesn't understand? It should be preserving them.

It's always really hard to find good software when you have very specific needs.

I need a password manager that has apps for desktop and mobile, doesn't require an account on the vendor's site, can reliably sync between multiple devices, secures its data with a passphrase and supports attaching custom strings and files to password entries.

The closest I've gotten is KeePassXC, KeePass Touch and Keepass2Android, synced over Dropbox, but the "reliably sync" part keeps breaking...

5) Nobody's here to read this right now, but it needs to be said. Got school age kids? I'll bet my left arm that at least one of them has been at least complicit in bullying without intervening, and that they don't even count it as bullying, "because that guy/chick is dumb anyway and he/she deserves it". See, kids don't count it as bullying if it's someone nobody likes. BUT THAT'S EXACTLY IT! That's the classic victim. That's how they justify it.

4) Being bullied makes you question the sanity of your fellow human beings HARD. You can't help but become a skeptic and a cynic. You've felt the physical and psychological harm that perfectly ordinary people are capable of inflicting, and you begin to fear all people. You're worried that they'll turn on you. That any minute now, your office colleagues will rudely remind you of which caste you belong to. They look as normal as your classmates did, and they fucked you up, and so can anyone else.

3) Ever seen a movie where the hero is bullied as a kid? It's bullshit. The movies portray it wrong. It's more like the Indian caste system. You are an inferior being and the popular kids in your school see it as their job to humiliate you and put you in your place, and even the "middle" students join in, because they follow the leader, and that's when you lose all faith in humanity. "Either I'm a piece of shit, or these people are all evil motherfuckers."

2) People don't understand what it's like. They don't get how shitty it makes your life. And the ones who did it? They don't even fucking remember what they did. That's how insignificant you were to them. Enormous pain inflicted and wounds that are still healing, and they have forgotten it. Treated like dirt. Whenever I read about a bullying victim committing suicide, I feel the rage boiling up. The unfairness of it all. The inept adults. The cruel nightmarish children.

Ugh. Every bullying case is the same. The kid being bullied is focused on as the cause of the problem and none of the guilty kids suffer any consequences. If there is any acknowledgment of the fault being with anyone else than the bullied kid, it takes the shape of a "conflict between" the kids, as if all parties are at fault. I was bullied and it was like that. It's terrible to say, but I can almost sympathise a bit with those school shooters; the heat of a thousand suns boiling inside of you.

From time to time, I like to pull up this map; the Carta Marina from 1539. It's the first map of the Nordic countries to give details and place names. I particularly like it for including Finmarchia/Lappia (home of the Lapps a.k.a. the Finns a.k.a. the Sami people); a region I'm intimately familiar with because I grew up there. Even today, the area is remote and sparsely populated, so it's incredible that the mapmaker knew enough about it to even map it.

3) Social media and comment sections isn't how they recruit. They just use that to stay in the same filter bubble. They recruit by talking their friends into it. It's a form of subversion where you kind of take someone aside and reveal the "truth" to them. It's the same old tricks you see depicted in old WWII and Cold War educational films warning you about Nazi/Soviet agents. I thought we were beyond such obvious tricks. The only thing we learn from history is that we don't learn from history.

2) This isn't the normal cynicism we all sometimes feel about "the nonsense they write in the papers". This is different. The guy at the barbecue, a husband of my cousin, went around asking people if one really could believe the news media. I wonder if this is how it grows. They get you wondering and then offer up "the truth" and send you to websites that "won't lie to you".

July 22nd, 2011. Alt-right terrorist Anders Behring Breivik attacked the AUF summer camp at Utøya and the government offices in Oslo. The alt-right wasn't known at the time, but he was arguably one of them.

Since then, people holding views not unlike his have cropped up in the comment sections of Norwegian news sites. Several of my relatives have joined the sect. They were at our family barbecue the other day, sounding skeptical of the mainstream media.