Absurd

20231025   Kernel 6.5   ⇢  

It will come as little surprise to long time readers of either of my sites that I use Slackware. Currently, I am running Slackware64 15, and I have been on and off since its release. I recently decided to try the PF kernel with version 6.5 and it seems to

20230310   An Introduction to Linux   ⇢  

In the 1990s, Linux was available on store shelves in big boxes. These were complete with thick manuals covering a wide variety of the software included in a given Linux distribution. After the dot com bust, this practice largely stopped. Many Linux distr

20230224   Cool News   ⇢  

There's a new fab company! Sam Zeloof is a rather amazing guy. At 17, he built a small fab in his parents’ garage. This resulted in the first (that anyone is aware of) homemade lithographically fabricated microchip, the Z1, in 2018. A follow up chip, the

20221105   Vaultwarden on an RPi   ⇢  

So, there are plenty of reasons to self-host your password manager, and very few reasons not to do so. In my own case, there were essentially zero reasons not to run my own password manager as I had the hardware available, and I have a domain over at Clou

20220730   KDE3 on Slackware 15   ⇢  

Slackware 7, in the second half of 1999, shipped with KDE1. For KDE’s part, KDE 1 was released in July of 1998. The UNIX landscape at this time was still largely proprietary, and CDE was dominant. Linux is, and has been from day one, a mix of different so

20220630   An Introduction to GNU Screen   ⇢  

Terminal multiplexers allow you to have multiple fake TTYs on a single TTY. This is like a window manager for the UNIX/Linux shell. In my case, the shell is bash, and most of the applications I actually use are applications for the CUI (character user

20220625   RISC-V Toolchain for M1 Macintosh   ⇢  

In the Spring of 2017, I built a very impressive workstation that saw active use until 2022. This machine was a Ryzen ThreadRipper 1950X (16 cores, 32 threads), 32GB of DDR4 RAM, a Vega 64 GPU, 500GB NVMe SSD (later another 1TB was added), 802.11 AC W

20220618   Review of the ClockworkPi DevTerm R01   ⇢  

To most people, the thought of a small slab with an under-powered CPU, limited RAM, no dedicated GPU, abnormal keyboard layout, slow storage, zero USB 3, and a small ultra-wide display is horrifying. Who would want such a computer? For sure, it’s a strang