Random news for week 3, 2025

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.

Speaking of social media and feeds, a new site launched that’s honestly one of the more surreal things I’ve ever seen: Bluesky is an opportunity to shake up the status quo. They have built scaffolding for a new kind of social web. One where we all have more say, choice and control. But it will take independent funding and governance to turn...

This is the third post in my A-Z Toobox series, in which I’m listing tools I use down the alphabet for no logical reason. The letter C has the certbot utility which automatically provisions, allocates, and installs TLS certificates using Let’s Encrypt that you can run via cron. Speaking of cron, there’s cron and crontab, the age-old system...