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I’ve started work on a new website: 
 The American Tribunal - Justice After The End of MAGA 
 The title says it all - check it out. 
 Search engines tend to need to be knocked across the noggin to get them to index a new website, here is a link to the sitemap.
Garlic bread is a common accompanyment to pastas with a tomato based sauce. 
 However, it is often not very good. 
 So I came up with my own recipe.
Comments on NTIA’s proposed “Performance Measures for BEAD Last-Mile Networks” 
 NTIA URL: https://www.ntia.gov/funding-programs/internet-all/broadband-equity-access-and-deployment-bead-program/program-documentation/draft-performance-measures-bead-last-mile-networks-policy-notice-public-comment 
 From:	Karl Auerbach 
CEO/CTO InterWorking Labs 
Scotts Valley, California 
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The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has become a corrupt body. It is dismembering the most fundamental principles of our Constitution and Declaration of Independence. SCOTUS appears to be fixed upon a course to transform the United States into a monarchy of kings and courtiers, under a national evangelical church. 
 SCOTUS’ five conservative members range from merely being…
These make great finger-food, appetizers for gatherings. 
 Around our house they vanish fairly quickly. 
 They are fairly easy to make.
I am a human, I am not an AI.
I wrote this piece to reflect on the testing of Internet protocols, in
particular through the use of devices that tickle the flow of packets
going back and forth between devices that speak those protocols. 
 The term “network emulator” is ambiguous. 
 Does it refer to a device that affects actual packet traffic or is it
a…
Latkes are for many of us one of the ultimate comfort foods. 
 This recipe is derived from several sources. 
 First, it is related to another (perhaps not yet posted) for hash browns that
I built on a recipie from the Ad Hoc At Home cookbook by Thomas Keller. 
 Second are various websites about Latkes, most particularly
 Great Grandmother’s Potato Pancakes Recipe at…
Cheeseburgers are a not hard to make but they do deserve good quality ingredients. 
 These burgers have a fairly strong pepper quality. 
 The Pickapeppa sauce - https://www.pickapeppa.com/about adds both additional pepper and some sweetness. 
 I learned about Pickapeppa sauce from the old Hippo restaurant on Van Ness in San Francisco. And I picked up the idea for the thyme in the spice…
I live far from Washington DC, and my practice in law has never
required me to bring a matter before SCOTUS. So, for me, membership
in the SCOTUS bar would be a bauble, a nice certificate to add to my
office wall. 
 I used to consider the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) to
be an institution with honor and integrity. 
 I no longer hold that opinion. 
 I used…
Boregs are from Armenia. All are made by wrapping phyllo (or pastry) dough around a filling. 
 The filling in this recipe is a combination of cheeses and herbs. Some recipes use filings that contain meat, typically lamb. 
 I also came up with a lemon-honey glaze that resembles a glaze from the old, and now long gone, Max and Son restaurant in Daly City, California - a rather unique place…

 
 
 
 The Internet has become a lifeline grade utility.[1] 
 Our health, safety, and financial security depend on reliable and consistent availability of Internet services. 
 Yet over the years we have given relatively little consideration to actually having a reliable and consistently available Internet. 
 We are to a large extent flying the Internet on good luck and…
It seems as if certain states of the USA and certain right-wing political “leaders” are trying to control what people can read, watch, or listen to. 
 This is often a practice of conservative elements, particularly those espousing fundamentalist or Puritan religious beliefs or advocating neo-apartheid goals. 
 This kind of thing has been attempted in the past. It has not…
Permanent URL: https://www.cavebear.com/cavebear-blog/nanog-keynote-as-spoken/ Revised: March 3, 2023 
 I gave one of the two keynote presentations at NANOG (North American Network Operators’ Group) in the fall of 2019. 
 There were two parts to the talk. 
 The first part deals with the responsibilities, obligations, and
liabilities of being an operator of parts of an…
(For the most recent version of this page, go to https://www.cavebear.com/about/karl-cv-long/ ) 
 Karl Auerbach has been creating and extending Internet and operating system technology since the early 1970s. He has worked at all levels, from hardware to protocols to applications to legal policy. 
 In addition to his technical work, Mr. Auerbach has been an attorney in California since…
I grew up in LA with black and white cookies. When I moved north (to the San Francisco and Monterey Bay areas) I couldn’t find the. 
 So I had to make my own. 
 These contain a lot of sugar.
Joe Everyman, Mr. Corporate, and Ms. Lawfirm walk into a voting precinct. Each gets a ballot, each marks his/her choices, and each puts the marked ballot into the voting box. 
 Joe Everyman, believing in the principle of one-man, one-vote, leaves. 
 But Mr. Corporate and Ms. Lawfirm each walk outside, put a sock puppet onto each of their hands, re-enter the precinct and use ventriloquist…
Throughout our country people are talking about the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS). 
 There are few alive today who have experienced a more conservative Supreme Court. 
 And there are few objective observers who would deny that on today’s court that legal principle is often subordinated to fundamentalist religious views, libertarian biases against the Federal government, or…
Permanent URL: https://www.cavebear.com/cavebear-blog/jayhoffman/ Revised: Nobember 23, 2021 
 My oldest friend died this morning. 
 Alzheimers. 
 Jay Nova Hoffman. 
 I’ve known him since we met one morning at Hazeltine Elementary School in Van Nuys (California) waiting to get into the first day of Mr. Stone’s 4th grade class. 
 I doubt that any of us thought that our teacher,…

 
 
 The Titan Kronos (Saturn) ate his children. 
 Modern software developers are doing the same. 
 Kronos was afraid being overthrown by his sons. So he eliminated them. 
 Many modern software developers seem hell bent on devouring the past. But they have less reason to do so than did Kronos. 
 Few of us remember mainframe computers (although they still exist). During…
These are really good, with a smooth texture. 
 I often adorn these with some bittersweet or semisweet chocolate that I’ve melted in a double boiler with some corn syrup, and then, before the chocolate hardens, I push some mint leaves onto the still-liquid chocolate. 
 Copied from Ultimate Strawberry Popsicles Recipe
A true bagel can be hard to find — they are not to be found in most supermarkets. Many restaurant “bagels” are simply round bread — boring. And real bagels are boiled — that is not something that is up for debate. 
 This recipe can be easily be modified to make plain (water), sesame, garlic, or other flavored bagels: just change-out the onion. Note, however, that after being boiled…
I use this mostly on tri-tip roasts.
To: The Commissioners of the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission (RTC) 
 On May 6, 2021 the RTC Commissioners will once again be voting on the Transit Corridor Alternatives Analysis and Rail Network Integration Study (TCAA/RNIS) Business plan. 
 That Business Plan deserves your approval. 
 Santa Cruz County has a traffic problem, a large traffic problem.
Most…
Permanent URL: https://www.cavebear.com/cavebear-blog/rubber-rooms/ Revised: September 22, 2020 
 Ruth Bader Ginsburg died last Friday. 
 Already, many are talking about adding new justices to the Supreme Court to overcome the political imbalance that is likely to occur when a new Justice is confirmed to fill her now vacant seat. 
 However, this article is not about the Supreme Court…
Permanent URL: https://www.cavebear.com/cavebear-blog/executive-amendment/ Revised: September 23, 2020 
 The Trump presidency has been a Constitutional disaster for the United States. Presidential power, which already had been growing at an alarming rate in prior administrations, has exploded to dictatorial levels under Trump. 
 It is not reasonable to expect that future presidents will…
I’m working on this to send to my congress critters as a request for legislation. This is a first draft… 
 H. R. _ 
 To ensure that United States Treasury funds are not expended for certain purposes of personal aggrandizement or self promotion. 
 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
 November 8, 2018 
 A BILL 
 To ensure that United States Treasury funds are not…
(This was originally posted on Oct 14, 2011.) 
 Proposed Amendment to the United States Constitution To Redress the Increasing Distortion of Elections and Political Speech by Corporations and Other Aggregate Forms 
 Proposed Text 
 Corporate and other aggregate forms of organization are neither Persons nor Citizens under this
Constitution and shall have neither protections, rights,…
There is no doubt that many of our communities need safe, clean, accessible, and inexpensive housing. 
 This note does not dispute that need. Rather, this article, questions whether “Tiny Houses” are among the better answer or whether there are better approaches. 
 Many communities are under pressure by advocates for increased housing for the homeless to consider adopting…
Prologue 
 The internet has changed and evolved ever since it’s ancestors first came to life in the late 1960’s. Some technology fades away and is forgotten; other aspects continue but are overlaid, like geological sediments, so that they are now longer visible but are still present under the surface. 
 The Domain Name System - both the technology of DNS and the deployed naming…
Saturday, 29 January 2017 
 This is an easy recipe to create a flavorful chicken: citrus and tangy. It takes about an hour.
The PC-Engines APU2 is a very nice board when you need a lot more horsepower than a Raspberry Pi but still want low power, small form factor, and no moving parts. 
 Among the many features of the The APU2 are three LEDs and one mode button/switch. 
 I needed a device driver so that my code could control the LEDs and read whether the button is pushed. 
 I wrote one. It is up and…

 Articles, blogs, and
meetings about the internet of the future are
filled with happy, positive words like 'global', 'uniform', and 'open'.
 The future internet is described in ways that seem as if taken from a late 1960’s Utopian
sci-fi novel: the internet is seen as overcoming petty rivalries between countries,
dissolving social rank, equalizing wealth, and…
I have reworked the old, Joomla based, CaveBear website.
It took a lot of work.
A lot of URLs got changed, thus breaking external links.
And I am sure that a lot of small adjustments remain to be done. 
 The old one was not broken. 
 So why did I break a perfectly good website? 
 Well, I’ll tell you why. 
 It all begins with the idea that much of the content of…
If you are looking for a short bio then click here. 
 So, I bet the first thing you want to know is what I look like. The photo on the left is nearly a decade old, but I like it. The vicissitudes of Internet politics, life at startups, and life in general have left me with a bit more gray around the edges. 
 Some people have said "Karl is a crock".
And I’m here to say that they…
Who or what is CaveBear? The "where" part is easy: 37° 00’ 02 North by 122° 00’ 59 West - which just so happens to be in the City of Santa Cruz in the State of California. 
 CaveBear was formed by me, (Karl Auerbach) in Mid 1994. 
 CaveBear is an organization for research, consulting, product development, and other matters related to the internet. CaveBear explores new ways of…
(This is a reduced version of the the full, long CV - https://www.cavebear.com/about/karl-cv-long/ ) 
 Mr. Auerbach is the Chief Technology Officer at InterWorking Labs (IWL) in Scotts Valley, California. 
 Mr. Auerbach was the first (and only) North American publicly elected member of the Board of Directors of ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. 
 Karl…
Proposed Amendment to the United States Constitution To Redress the Increasing Distortion of Elections and Political Speech by Corporations and Other Aggregate Forms 
 Karl Auerbach ─ October 14, 2011 ─ Version 1.04 
 Proposed Text: 
 
 Corporate and other aggregate forms of organization are neither Persons nor Citizens under this Constitution and shall have neither protections,…
Monday, 21 April 2008 16:25 
 It used to be that people who drive with the windows open or the top down could identify two kinds of vehicles from their smell, even at long distances: Ford diesel pickups, both old and new, and old diesel Peugeots. 
 The ranks of the stinkers have been supplemented by biodiesel conversions of cars and trucks that should have been scrapped long ago. 
 And…
Sunday, 20 April 2008 17:00 
 So far none of the candidates for president has answered some of the questions I would like to hear answered: 
 
 Will, and when, will the candidate initiate a review with the purpose of repudiating Bush’s excessive signing statements? 
 Will the candidate promise not to use signing statements except to identify ambiguities and difficulties so…
Saturday, 09 February 2008 16:59 
 It’s pretty obvious that the Republican party is going to try to paint Democratic candidates for US Federal offices (President, Senate, and House) as wimps who are going to hand the country over to “terrorists”. 
 That, of course, is utter and vacuous nonsense. 
 The real issue for fall 2008 is this: 
 Are we Citizens or…
Wednesday, 03 October 2007 18:36 
 I’m getting pretty disgusted with the way that Congress does the dance of the neutered wimps around the president’s increasingly egregious claims of executive power. 
 GWB is playing a game of chicken with Congress and Congress ought to call his bluff. 
 The House and Senate ought to begin by sanctioning those government contractors who…
Sunday, 23 September 2007 18:00 
 I just got a new toy - We just added solar panels to our house. 
 Every hour or every time the sun changes I dash up to the garage to check the output and then race out to the power meter to watch it spin backwards. 
 It is somewhat ironic that as a result we are going to have to trim the crowns of several trees that impinge on our solar horizon. 
…
Saturday, 15 September 2007 17:02 
 Mr. President, I offer you a toast. 
 May you have a long life; may your mind remain lucid. 
 May you live to see the nation and history repudiate everything you have done and everything you stand for. 
 My you live to understand how you perverted your oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. 
 May you live…
Tuesday, 04 September 2007 18:32 
 I’ve been rather busy of late; I’ve been writing a lot of code in pursuit of my long developing ideas about self-healing networks and network troubleshooting (these may seem disjoint, but they are two ends of a spectrum.) 
  
I needed a break, so this last weekend I fired up…
Tuesday, 12 June 2007 18:18 
 These are extremely easy to make. 
 They have a robust flavor - not at all your wimpy, just lie-there-on-the-plate, kind of tomatoes. I’ve found these to go well with lamb, beef, and strong fish (like salmon.) 
 I have found momotaro tomatoes to be by far the best variety for this. The momotaro is a solid tomato that has good flavor, can be carved…
Saturday, 09 June 2007 07:31 
 I use this glaze roasting a chicken or turkey. It is rather sweet and thick. 
 It tends to burn, so it has to be and watched and sometimes covered with aluminum foil (it will stick to cheesecloth.)
Saturday, 09 June 2007 05:11 
 These yams have an intense flavor. I’ve used them alone (as an item to bring to a potluck dinner). They work very well with turkey.
Saturday, 09 June 2007 07:15 
 I tend to make this with the ricotta pancakes.
This is great for a summer gathering.
Friday, 08 June 2007 18:01 
 I bake these for Thanksgiving and holiday dinners. These rolls and butter seem to to particularly well with turkey. And given the long preparation time, these are best done when one is expecting a long day in the kitchen. 
 These are not "light and flaky" rolls; these are solid stock. 
 Don’t expect these rolls to keep for very long; and the butter…