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Technology Writings

Documenting things that may have been good to know 20 years ago.™

Mostly this is about computers or moreso software and in particular unix software of a decidedly OpenBSD slant. Or, old man yells at Linux cloud. I mean, what is up with those Linux frankensteins not installing ed(1), and then linking vi to the ClunkMaster3000 that is nano, or once you get vim installed the terminal looks like a unicorn's ass was rubbed all over it? Yes, I disable colors by default.

=> https://www.rfc-editor.org/old/EOLstory.txt | bloat.gmi | buffering.gmi | debugging.gmi | control+c.gmi | daemon-exec-self.gmi | dns/ | encoding.gmi | entry.pdf | ex.gmi | exit-status-word.gmi | flags.gmi | forth/ | gemini/ | git.gmi | latency.gmi | ldap.gmi | lisp/ | network/ | openbsd/

	12:37 < jfcaron_> Poll: what operating system do you use?
	12:40 < ssm_> jfcaron_: openbsd
	12:41 < jfcaron_> dang, that's hardcore
	12:44 < jfcaron_> I'm on Linux Mint MATE 21
	12:47 < thrig> openbsd

Some of us never got the memo that IRC died. None of the purported replacements look in any way compelling, though. Acid test: does the source for the client software compile on OpenBSD, and run in a terminal? Discord scores an impressive zero of three.

=> mutt-gmail.gmi | no-repl.gmi | rpm-a-directory.gmi

On the plus side, it's been a few years since I've had to support RedHat, or even Linux.

=> rsync-clean-shell.gmi | ssh-commands.gmi | ssl/ | sed.gmi | shell-elimination.gmi | subshells.gmi | tcpdump.gmi | tmux.gmi | troff-quickstart.gmi | a DNS server | /var is 100% full | vi.gmi | webssh.gmi | windows.gmi | wireguard/

Weird Terminology

=> attack-surface.gmi | norway-problem.gmi | orange-site.gmi | redmond-barrows.gmi | regex.gmi | tuit.gmi | yagni.gmi

That Modern Web

=> https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/01/27/whatsapp-and-the-domestication-of-users/