My name is Dilan Gilluly and welcome to my site. By day I’m a tier 2/3 tech support representative and by night I like to tinker with technology, exercise, and read.
The projects that I work on and wish to make public are available on Github here.
On top of being handy in a technological sense, I am a Christian and engage in theological discussions sometimes. For those who maybe reading this and want to know what Christianity is about, check out the downloadable PTL I can offer you at PTL.org.
Some content I post will be available here on this site, so feel free to browse around.
What do I stand for
A list of the following causes that I stand for:
- Right to Repair
- Likely the only hill I’ll die on politically, but I believe that people should have a right to repair what they want, however they want to as long as it doesn’t pose a danger to others.
- Security and Privacy
- I feel that people should have some expectation of privacy when doing things on their computers or devices when it doesn’t involve posting publicly on the internet.
- Censorship
- Unless something is objectively harmful, I don’t believe that it should be censored from the internet.
- Liberty
- I believe that adults should be able to do what they want to do as long as they’re not objectively harming others. This includes both physical activities and those conducted online. As well as choosing what device you want to use. I am not a device supremacist, nor do I try to “recruit” others to use the same devices I do unless I have a good reason to do so (like if someone asks for a recommendation)
Donations
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2025 Jun 22 at 01:00PM
One of the reasons why I get frustrated reading the tech news is that there are often wild inaccuracies in a lot of different articles, usually on the account of sponsorships. It’s both a blessing and a curse to know as much as I do about technology. Well, in this case it’s more on the curse side.
And now a lot of the inaccuracy I spot in the advent of the newly publicized 16-billion leak is half-truths spun up and over emphasized to sell more subscriptions.
Read More2025 Jun 16 at 05:42PM
As of April 29th, 2025, Microsoft has bragged about “as much as 30%” of their code is written in AI. And in the scope of things, I’m not sure if it’s something they should be bragging about.
Read More2025 May 03 at 03:15PM
This post is to introduce my new tariff calculator web app, a small project I just created in an hour or two, to practice what I have been learning about web-app development.
One of the reasons I made it is to correct a couple of pitfalls I have seen with tariff calculators thus far:
- Distribution Factor: Calling it this for now because I’m not sure if this already has a technical name. But this is a percentage of the price that accounts for USA-side costs and profit margins; including but not limited to:
- Final assembly: Some products may source parts or assemblies from the origin country, but the entire product’s final assembly may take place here in the USA (I’m a citizen of the USA).
- Transportation: Naturally, some of the cost of transporting the item to the warehouse from the port is built into the retail price of an item.
- Profit Margins: Importers typically build a profit margin into the final retail price of an item.
- Total Cost: While it’s a disclaimer for now (I may play around with toggling it), at some point in the future retailers will build tariffs into the retail price. While the tariff cost result of this calculator will still be somewhat accurate, you can disregard the total price if the tariff is already included in the price of the item.
Feel free to comment and correct me if I’m wrong about any of this. I’ll issue corrections when I have time.
Read More2025 Mar 29 at 08:40PM
In recent news, Microsoft is removing bypassnro from its new Windows 11 images moving forward. A move that will effect users of Windows 11 Home mostly.
Read More2025 Jan 24 at 02:22PM
The TikTok ban is something that is difficult to even follow the history of even for some of us who follow technology news.
So I’ll try to highlight the important parts of the whole process in this article.
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