Sat 09 December 2023

Last night, I re-watched The KGB, the Computer, and Me, a 1990 episode of NOVΛ chronicling Cliff Stoll's efforts to catch a West German hacker who was using the Lawrence Berkeley Labs' computer systems to hack into military computers in the late 1980s.

I say re-watched, because I …

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Sun 06 August 2023

I was watching yesterday's video from The Linux Cast on PeerTube, and I really liked how he broke down the various (arche)types of Linux users into seven categories:

• "The Greybeards" - those who have used Linux since the early days, and have a lot of experience. The Linux Gandalfs.
• "I …

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Fri 21 July 2023

I was watching The Linux Experiment's latest video entitled "Sometimes, I get tired of Linux," and I realized how similar the issues that he mentioned are to the classic "Last Mile Problem."

First of all, mad props to folks like Nick (a.k.a. "The Linux Experiment"), Veronica Explains, The …

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Sat 28 January 2023

PeerTube and the future of federated online media

Category: Ethics Tagged: 100DaysToOffload Computing Federated Services FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Non-religious post PeerTube Video