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2026-01-12 04:44:43 UTC

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With #NNCP, we break the tyranny of online with delay-tolerant networking. https://www.complete.org/nncp/ The new #NNCPNET is an email network running atop it -- with bridges to the public Internet. https://salsa.debian.org/jgoerzen/docker-nncpnet-mailnode/-/wikis/home
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2026-01-12 04:43:02 UTC

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I'm doing a lot with free software projects! With @npub1ej5…f6k2 we can communicate with each other, over radios, without any cell phone or other infrastructure. @npub1sh9…r3ez also has things in that direction!
With #Yggdrasil , we have a decentralized, encrypted, network atop the regular Internet -- or even just access points. https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/
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2025-09-17 12:59:16 UTC

Last night, I successfully installed #Debian using a decades-old #DEC #vt510 #serial #terminal. And then, of course, set it up for daily use. My blog post at https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10886-installing-and-using-debian-using-my-decades-old-genuine-dec-vt510-serial-terminal explains how.
https://cdn.masto.host/floss/media_attachments/files/115/219/754/206/538/761/original/c14778f7087ab6a5.jpg

2025-08-08 03:45:04 UTC

Just updated one of my ancient Raspberry Pis to #Debian #trixie (the REAL Debian, NOT Raspberry Pi OS or Raspbian). It drives speakers for my whole-house audio system using snapcast.
Rebooted.
System came back up perfectly.
Total RAM in use: 70MB.
That's WITH an active ssh session, systemd, exim4, unattended-upgrades, etc.
I am impressed!
Reasonable software still exists in 2025.
This Pi has only 512MB RAM and I've never bothered to provision any swap.

2025-08-02 01:25:43 UTC

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Small things that annoy me, a lighthearted rant/
Every machine asks me for a tip.
Like really? This person that just handed me a can of Sprite from the counter needs a tip but the person at the grocery store next door doesn't?
Look, I want to pay workers a living wage.
Just make that the price and stop harassing me about tips for things that nobody ever tipped for ever until 5 years ago when y'all went nuts with your terminals.

2025-08-02 01:20:13 UTC

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Small things that annoy me, a lighthearted rant/
"Please allow cookies so we can share with our carefully-curated list of select partners."
<clicks the "details" button>
"758 advertising partners"
HOW DO YOU EVEN MANAGE TO SHARE MY DATA WITH 758 PARTNERS? GOOD GRIEF PEOPLE, HOW DESPERATE ARE YOU?

2025-08-02 01:16:26 UTC

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Small things that annoy me, a lighthearted rant/
Videos of landscapes that are vertical.
TURN YOUR PHONE ON ITS SIDE. LIKE THE SHAPE OF THE SCENE, RIGHT? THERE. WAS THAT SO HARD?
It's a lot easier than turning your 65" 4K TV on its side when you want to look at it with friends.

2025-08-02 01:15:20 UTC

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Small things that annoy me, a lighthearted rant/
"You must use the app."
YOU'RE A PHOTO-SHARING SITE, I HAVE A 32" HIDPI SCREEN HERE, AND I'M SUPPOSED TO SQUINT AT A 4" SCREEN TO VIEW LANDSCAPES?
I spend most of my day near a large screen. I only use the phone when a large screen isn't practical for some reason. NO I DO NOT WANT A 90% DOWNGRADE JUST TO USE YOUR STUPID APP.

2025-08-02 01:06:30 UTC

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Small things that annoy me, a lighthearted rant/
STOP IT WITH THE NOTIFICATIONS.
I do not want my day to be interrupted by a device chiming because you have a sale, your partners have a sale, your computers are feeling lonely because I haven't visited them today and would like some attention (looking at you, #Facebook), you have some new feature I will never use because it's annoying.
Every time I get a new phone, I spend a couple days disabling bunches of notifications. LEAVE ME ALONE!

2025-08-02 01:04:00 UTC

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Small things that annoy me, a lighthearted rant/
I recently got an Amber Alert on my phone. It contained a link to x.com, which is even more desperate for you to log on than the newspapers are.
NO THANKS PEOPLE, HOW ABOUT A LINK TO A REAL WEBSITE? LIKE, YOU KNOW, A GOVERNMENT ONE THAT YOU RUN?

2025-08-02 01:01:36 UTC

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Small things that annoy me, a lighthearted rant/
Why do so many phone menus now use the worst text-to-speech system I've heard since 1993? Your bakery menu isn't changing, why not have a human record it? Instead, it's like "Press... ONEifyouwant... CUPcakes..."
The worst-voiced person on your staff will sound better and more professional than that swill.
Half the time when I get something like that, I think I've dialed a wrong number and got a scammer instead.

2025-08-02 00:59:23 UTC

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Small things that annoy me, a lighthearted rant/
Videos with those annoying captions that flash with every word.
WTF IS THIS FOR? Watching the bubbly captions of a guy talking on a muted video is called READING. Make me an article.
Or at least do proper subtitles that aren't so distracting. And make them optional so that those that need them can have them.
Or... maybe... if the entire video is just somebody reading something, MAKE IT AS A BLOG POST INSTEAD SO I CAN READ IT MYSELF!

2025-08-02 00:57:49 UTC

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Small things that annoy me, a lighthearted rant/
Newspapers: "We'll show this content for free if you tell us your email address."
Oh yeah? What do you need my email address for then? Some sort of tracking? Gonna sell it to spammers?
No thanks. I'd rather subscribe than get into that hive of wretched villainy.

2025-08-02 00:56:22 UTC

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Small things that annoy me, a lighthearted rant/
Websites that time out a session when there was no need for one.
Airlines and rail sites, I'm looking at you. I'm just checking the train status. Hit reload, "I'm sorry, but your session has timed out" and I have to fill it in again.
WHAT WERE YOU TRACKING A SESSION FOR? IT'S JUST A SIMPLE FORM!

2025-08-02 00:55:18 UTC

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Small things that annoy me, a lighthearted rant/
Why is it that the most important sites/apps are the crappiest? Every airline on earth has more bugs than a piece of raw meat that's been sitting in the sun for 3 days. American: "It's time to check in online." App: "We can't check you in online." United: rejected logins if you use uppercase usernames LIKE THEY WRITE THEM. British Airways: "Check in with our partner airline." Partner airline: "Check in with BA."
IT'S 2025 PEOPLE!

2025-08-02 00:52:27 UTC

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Small things that annoy me, a lighthearted rant/
How many emails a week do I get asking for feedback?
As if it's somehow my responsibility to feed data into your massive spreadsheet just to be ignored.
I stayed at a hotel recently. A COUPLE LITERALLY WAS TRAPPED IN THE ELEVATOR WHEN WE GOT THERE. "Please rate the quality of the facilities." 0. Explain. I did. Some PR type asked me to give them another chance.
FIX THE DAMN ELEVATOR FIRST, PEOPLE!

2025-08-02 00:50:27 UTC

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Small things that annoy me, a rant/
Today I tried to call the pharmacy. "Please tell me what you're calling about." It clearly had no idea how to route my call. "Did you want hours?" "NO I DID NOT, YOU STUPID MACHINE"
Eventually I got to someone.
Twist: there were about 8 menu options, none of them relevant to my query, but only 2 people working there.
IVR PROGRAMMERS: IF MY QUESTION WAS EASY, I WOULD HAVE USED THE $#@#$ WEBSITE!

2025-08-02 00:48:41 UTC

Small things that annoy me, a rant/
There are a lot of serious things in the world that bother me.
Today, I present, a good, old-fashioned, Lewis Black-style rant about some of the small things in the world that annoy me.
Please join in. This is the one time Caps Lock makes sense. 1/

2025-04-04 16:57:22 UTC

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I'm now ready to announce #NNCPNET, the #NNCP-based email network. https://salsa.debian.org/jgoerzen/docker-nncpnet-mailnode/-/wikis/home
It is open to all. It can route email across the Internet or USB stick. You can run a full, real mail server without a public IP, port forwarding, or even Internet access. It's a friend-of-a-friend network; mail delivery is automatic, but adding people is done by humans.
It uses all the tools that you're used to with Internet email, but is the opposite of it. Enjoy!

2025-03-28 03:02:23 UTC

It is really important for everyone to increase their messaging security these days.
That's why I wrote "Why You Should (Still) Use #Signal As Much As Possible" -- see https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10762-why-you-should-still-use-signal-as-much-as-possible .
#SignalGate wasn't because of a problem with Signal. It was because people were using it for things they weren't supposed to be using it for, and made sloppy mistakes in the process.
My article is designed to be something you can hand to a non-technical friend and explain why Signal is useful.

2025-03-25 23:34:26 UTC

I am thinking the time is right to implement a #NNCP-based email network.
Anyone interested?

2025-03-21 01:25:54 UTC

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I'm the original author of pygopherd, so I use it. It supports a number of different annotation formats. I use UMN-style .cap, .Links, etc. Mainly because nothing else existed when I set it up, but also because I host mirrors of sites that ran UMN-style. pygopherd also supports gophermap. See the manual at https://github.com/michael-lazar/pygopherd/blob/master/doc/pygopherd.pdf . Section 5.9 documents UMN-style links, and there are links to the gophermap spec as well.

2024-11-11 03:46:38 UTC

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Thank you!

2024-08-12 19:45:49 UTC

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OK folks, #Debian developer -- and author of non-Debian FLOSS here.
All this dogpiling on volunteer developers that produce a quality distribution is unkind. And wrong.
Just because YOU don't find a use case compelling, doesn't mean NOBODY does.
Because #Debian is #stable in the sense of "remains the same from day to day", this is tremendously useful in a lot of use cases. I'm going to lay some out here. 1/