Things that make me avoid a blog

The news of this slipped me by last year, but I just saw OpenWrt has their own hardware now, based on the BananaPi: OpenWrt One is based on the MediaTek Filogic 820 SoC and has WiFi 6, dual-band, 3×3/2×2, 1x 2.5Gbit WAN, 1x 1Gbit LAN, 1GB DDR4 RAM, 256 MiB NAND, 16 MiB NOR (for recovery), M.2 SSD, USB-C Serial console and USB 2.0. You can buy the...

Surely it can’t be that bad: $ find ./drafts/ -type f | wc -l ==> 11987 Womp womp! Admittedlly, that folder is also now twenty years old. Most of those drafts are also just a title or a topic sentence. Some are full-blown posts, with images, diagrams, and regret, while others are simply not timely anymore, are perhaps NSFW/blue in some way, or I...

Early posts on this blog—at least, the technical ones—were spent writing about my adventures getting my ideal graphical desktop going on FreeBSD and Fedora. This is as opposed to the non-technical posts, which tended to be written about adventures not involving getting my ideal graphical desktop going on FreeBSD and Fedora. Thanks Ruben, once...

You know that quip about there being ten types of people in this world: those who understand binary, and those who are sick of this joke? Well I have some additional classifiers. For example, there are people who like crunchy peanut butter, and there are those who like extra crunchy. There are early risers and late risers. There are people who...

Cory Doctorow: A rigged ballot that’s always won by the people with the thickest wallet. By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2025-01-17.