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Walled Gardens Galore

A robot sits at a desk in front of a window

100% agree with jwz here, https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/11/psa-do-not-use-services-that-hate-the-internet/ All the social networks I'm on are considered old, dinosaurs, or archaic. All this may be true, but IRC, XMPP, email lists, and the like are still around decades…

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Possible Fediverse Futures

A federated universe of equals

As the world+dog is discovering Mastodon, I think about possible futures available to us to build a new "social" space on the Internet. What people are really discovering is the Fediverse. It's not one thing,…

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Parsing DNS Query Logs to find CAs

I wrote a Julia program to parse 4,196,368 lines of DNS queries, lookup the certificate authority (CA) tied to each, and dump the results into a CSV file. All of this runs on a Pine64 RockPro64 just…

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AsciiDoc Convert

a gold fountain pen

Over the years, I find myself writing in Markdown and LaTeX more often than anything else. Markdown is quick and easy to write out ideas, letters, and the like without having to think much about…

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