The Changelog
Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years (and working with a decades-old C codebase)
Artificial Intelligence: Shades of Gray
Screen Power Saving in the Linux Console
A Mail Delivery Mystery: Exim, systemd, setuid, and Docker, oh my!
I’m Not Very Popular, Thankfully. That Makes The Internet Fun Again
A Twisty Maze of Ill-Behaved Bots
Running an Accurate 80×25 DOS-Style Console on Modern Linux Is Possible After All
Installing and Using Debian With My Decades-Old Genuine DEC vt510 Serial Terminal
I just want an 80×25 console, but that’s no longer possible
Performant Full-Disk Encryption on a Raspberry Pi, but Foiled by Twisty UARTs
ARM is great, ARM is terrible (and so is RISC-V)
btrfs on a Raspberry Pi
Dreams of Late Summer
I Learned We All Have Linux Seats, and I’m Not Entirely Pleased
How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys
Memoirs of the Early Internet
NNCPNET Can Optionally Exchange Internet Email
Announcing the NNCPNET Email Network
Why You Should (Still) Use Signal As Much As Possible
Censorship Is Complicated: What Internet History Says about Meta/Facebook
Review of Reputable, Functional, and Secure Email Service
Photographic comparison: Is the Kobo Libra Colour display worse than the Kobo Libra 2?
Facebook is Censoring Stories about Climate Change and Illegal Raid in Marion, Kansas
The xz Issue Isn’t About Open Source
Live Migrating from Raspberry Pi OS bullseye to Debian bookworm
Consider Security First
The Grumpy Cricket (And Other Enormous Creatures)
It’s More Important To Recognize What Direction People Are Moving Than Where They Are
How Gapped is Your Air?
A Maze of Twisty Little Pixels, All Tiny
For the First Time In Years, I’m Excited By My Computer Purchase
Try the Last Internet Kermit Server
Backing Up and Archiving to Removable Media: dar vs. git-annex
Using dar for Data Archiving
Using git-annex for Data Archiving
Recommendations for Tools for Backing Up and Archiving to Removable Media
Martha the Pilot
Easily Accessing All Your Stuff with a Zero-Trust Mesh VPN
Using Yggdrasil As an Automatic Mesh Fabric to Connect All Your Docker Containers, VMs, and Servers
Music Playing: Both Whole-House and Mobile
Building an Asynchronous, Internet-Optional Instant Messaging System
Flying Joy
Dead USB Drives Are Fine: Building a Reliable Sneakernet
The PC & Internet Revolution in Rural America
The Joy of Easy Personal Radio: FRS, GMRS, and Motorola DLR/DTR
I Finally Found a Solid Debian Tablet: The Surface Go 2
Lessons of Social Media from BBSs
Pipe Issue Likely a Kernel Bug
Pipes, deadlocks, and strace annoyingly fixing them
Really Enjoyed Jason Scott’s BBS Documentary
Visiting Germany: Reflections on Schloss Charlottenburg
Fast, Ordered Unixy Queues over NNCP and Syncthing with Filespooler
Tools for Communicating Offline and in Difficult Circumstances
KDE: A Nice Tiling Envieonment and a Surprisingly Awesome DE
Make the Internet Yours Again With an Instant Mesh Network