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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