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Safe(ish) Server Encryption So the global rise in awareness of authoritarian police tactics finally has you encrypting your devices, huh? You saw a fella get hit with a felony for using his duress password recently and figured "if it's encrypted you don't have to hit the duress". It's been like this for a long time but for some reason the news actually reports on it now. Personal carry devices are…
Giving NASA's "Cosmic Cycles" A Proper Release Punkto.org Release Group is proud to announce a new album for teh scene: Cosmic Cycles: A Space Symphony , by NASA . If you don't want to read the whole thing then just download the zip file here . Legal Credits I created none of the music and did only very minor graphic work for this. All credit belongs to: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Wade…
Automating Ubuntu 26.04 Installs This post, like all posts on this site, was written by good old fingers made of meat and bone. That's why it took so long to get out and also why there are typoes and stylistic inconsistencies. It is also the longest post on the whole website. Maybe now I can stop talking about Subiquity for a while. This is the Hollywood 4K remaster of this blogpost . It is also…
Notetaking Is Life Changing The first section of this blogpost is on the topic of maintaining a personal knowledgebase in general, and the second section is about my personal setup for information retention and organization. You can skip ahead to my technical details by clicking here . Write It Down It is imperative that you write it down . The importance of writing it down cannot be overstated.…
SeaGL 2025 Absolutely Rocked I attended SeaGL , the Seattle GNU/Linux conference, this year. It ran on Nov 7th and 8th of 2025. This blogpost is a retrospective / review of this year's conference. I've been to SeaGL many times before, and I've even contributed some volunteer labor to the event in the past. This year's conference was the best SeaGL that I've ever been to, and quite likely the best…
Hosting An STK Server This blogpost details a bit of my personal history with the game, some recent (at the time of writing) news in the game's development, and how you can go about setting up your own dedicated STK server. When people ask about free software videogames, SuperTuxKart is one of the most frequently cited examples of a fully funcitonal game that you can play. Before Steam came to…
Language Controls Thought The words that you use influence the way that you think about things, which in turn influence the language that you use. This creates a feedback loop that you can intentionally break out of if you choose to do so. If the above sentence rings true for you then you might want to just skip this whole post. It's a lot of paragraphs to say 3 words. This Is An Abnormal Post…
Sakura Con 2025 These images were originally published on a now-defunct Telegram channel and this blogpost has been backdated to be at the correct time in history. I've taken this opportunity to better select the images to share for telling the story and conveying the experience, and I've written much more explanation than I originally did when it was a late-night post to a Telegram channel after…
The DOS Rule This blogpost is why I get invited to all the parties. Background DOS is a card game released by Mattel in 2018 as a "sequel" to the popular card game UNO. Similarities between the two games are obviously apparent. In 2022, Mattel released a 2nd Edition of the game DOS with some updated rules and a slightly different set of cards. I own the 1st Edition of the game and play it somewhat…
4 Days In Playa Del Carmen These images were originally published on a now-defunct Telegram channel and this blogpost has been backdated to be at the correct time in history. I've taken this opportunity to better select the images to share for telling the story and conveying the experience, and I've written much more explanation than I originally did when it was a late-night post to a Telegram…
CAnada, CAlifornia, and a CAve These images were originally published on a now-defunct Telegram channel and this blogpost has been backdated to be at the correct time in history. I've taken this opportunity to better select the images to share for telling the story and conveying the experience, and I've written much more explanation than I originally did when it was a late-night post to a Telegram…
A Long Journey This Blogpost Is Different Than The Others Most of the blogposts on my website have been technical writeups. This post is not a technical writeup, it is more of a travelogue interspersed with self-reflection. Between 4/26/24 and 5/13/24, I travelled across the US and back, from one coast to the other. Summing up the miles (7662), I travelled nearly 1/3 the circumference of the…
Imposter Syndrome I have been full-time a Linux user for about 10 years now, and a professional Linux user for most of that time. I say "professional Linux user" because I feel it is more descriptive then the long list of different job titles that I've held where the responsibilities basically boil down to being really good at the commandline. One thing that I have noticed is that a lot of people…
GPL Praxis: How To Get OpenProject 13 Enterprise Edition (For Free) CLICK HERE TO GO TO INSTRUCTIONS CLICK HERE TO GO TO INSTRUCTIONS CLICK HERE TO GO TO INSTRUCTIONS CLICK HERE TO GO TO INSTRUCTIONS CLICK HERE TO GO TO INSTRUCTIONS OpenProject is a Libre project management application. The primary interface for the application is through the web browser, but a terminal client is under active…
Zonerender: An RSS Feed Generator For Zonelet Sites I have written a tool which takes in a Zonelets site and spits out an RSS feed. This is a feature that is unfortunately missing from the stock Zonelets installation, although it is mentioned in the FAQ : Can my Zonelet have an RSS feed? Sort of. Neocities offers a very basic RSS feed that notifies followers when your site is updated. It doesn't…
PXE Booting And Autobuilding Ubuntu 22.04 At the end of this blogpost you will be able to network-boot a fresh server and wind up with an auto-built Ubuntu Server box. I use Ubuntu Server on a lot of systems. It is my go-to, primarily because I use Xubuntu on the desktop and having the same stuff everywhere is very comfy and reduces the overhead of things that I have to remember. I only need to…
The Surprising Depth of Turtleneck And Chain The song Turtleneck and Chain was released by the band The Lonely Island in 2011 on their album under the same name. The song features a guest appearance by Snoop Dogg. The group is made up of three friends who met in middle school: Akiva Schaffer, Andy Samberg, and Jorma Taccone. These three all attended college to acquire various degrees in creative…
Fixing Twitter Syndrome On The Web I Paid For All The Pixels, I'm Gonna Use All The Pixels I recently purchased a 2560x2880 monitor, which has exasperated problems that I have had with the modern web for a while now, particularly (but not exclusively) with blogs. Behold, Julia Evans's blog . This website is extremely narrow. I have a hidpi display, and on my screen the main content of this page…
Broken CSS Styling In Chrome, But Works Fine In Firefox I built this website yesterday, and I wanted to show it off, so I sent it to a friend and I showed it to my girlfriend. They were both supportive, but to my dismay, the navbox up at the top of the page didn't render properly for anyone but me. I had done all of the design work and the site was fine moments earlier when I had walked out of my…
I Have A Website Oh, hello. THIS IS A WEBSITE . Platform I built out this website so that I could have a platform to express myself which does not fall under the purview of any of the public-square arbiters that have come to dominate our society. If I were to use Twitter, people without Twitter accounts would not be able to see what I post. If I were to use Facebook, people without Facebook…