Hacker, dad, pilot, amateur radio operator, activist, guy that is susceptible to new hobbies. Former president of Software in the Public Interest.
I live miles from the nearest paved road in #Kansas.
Interests: #rust #debian #linux #pilot #flying #hamradio #emacs #orgmode #kansas #floss #kansas #raspberrypi #programming #parenting #retrocomputing
SRE at Google. I do not speak for my employer; views expressed here are my own.
Joined: 2020-11-19
Highlights of my past posts (thread)
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2024-11-29 jgoerzen ┃ 2👤 1💬 ┃ RE: jgoerzen
@ajroach42 @manu Since then, the advent of video calling has been nice.
The times of peak hope for the Internet for me were: the 1990s as ISPs were just starting to be a thing, and the Flash […]
2024-11-29 jgoerzen ┃ 2👤 1💬 ┃ RE: jgoerzen
@ajroach42 @manu OTOH, the early 2000s also brought broadband (1.5Mbps ish) to the masses for the first time. Always-on, faster than dialup - that was a change. Wifi started to be available […]
2024-11-29 jgoerzen ┃ 2👤 1💬 ┃ RE: jgoerzen
@ajroach42 @manu Already by the early 2000s I longed for what online life was just 5-10 years earlier. Usenet was always chaotic, but there was one place for all the forums, rather than a […]
2024-11-29 jgoerzen ┃ 2👤 1💬 ┃ RE: jgoerzen
@ajroach42 @manu I remember the thrill of live audio with RealAudio and later RealVideo. Cable was never available where I lived, so that was the first sort of live news other than the network […]
2024-11-29 jgoerzen ┃ 1👤 1💬 ┃ RE: ajroach42
@ajroach42 @manu I may have experienced it worse because I was running Linux on Alpha, so none of the proprietary plugins or browsers (Netscape was proprietary originally!) worked for me. I […]
2024-11-29 jgoerzen ┃ 2👤 1💬 ┃ RE: ?
@manu @ajroach42 I was there back then. Microsoft was a big problem. Using Linux on the Internet was difficult; proprietary browsers, especially IE, ruled. ActiveX and Flash were often […]
2024-11-29 jgoerzen ┃ 1👤 ┃ RE: ?
@alex I never really got to participate in conversations on Reddit. By the time they'd show up in my feed, they were hours old and nobody was paying attention anymore. So mostly nobody ever saw […]
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2024-11-22 jgoerzen ┃ RE: jgoerzen
BBSs were an important way I got connect with others outside my small town in my younger years. Ward will be missed.
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2024-11-22 jgoerzen ┃ 1🔗 1💬 ┃ RE: jgoerzen
Ward passed away this week: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/1…
I got to meet him at Vintage Computer Festival Midwest last year, where he was volunteering with the Build-A-Blinkie nonprofit, an […]
2024-11-22 jgoerzen ┃ 3🔗 4#️ 1👤 1💬
#WardChristiansen was one of the unkown pioneers. He, along with his friend Randy Seuss, founding the first computer #BBS in Chicago due to a snowstorm. You can read more about Ward […]
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2024-11-12 jgoerzen ┃ 2🔗 1👤 ┃ RE: ?
@kyonshi I like these ideas! You might also be interested in Scuttlebutt / Manyverse scuttlebutt.nz/ / manyver.se/ . Warning though, the links on scuttlebutt.nz mostly are to unmaintained […]
2024-11-12 jgoerzen ┃ 1👤 ┃ RE: ?
@kyonshi Ahh, my apologies, I am notoriously bad with remembering names. Well, welcome again and I am still glad to visit with you 🙂
2024-11-12 jgoerzen ┃ 2🔗 1👤 ┃ RE: jgoerzen
@kyonshi complete.org/ideas-for-nncp-pr… talks about some of the things I do with NNCP. Airgapped backups is one huge area; I think a lot of people have poorly-resilient backups (it seems like […]
2024-11-12 jgoerzen ┃ 4#️ 1👤 1💬 ┃ RE: ?
@kyonshi This is one reason that I mostly use #NNCP instead of #UUCP these days. There are some use cases where UUCP is *perfect*. For instance, long-distance, low-power, low-speed radios […]
2024-11-12 jgoerzen ┃ 2🔗 2#️ 1👤 ┃ RE: ?
@kyonshi Welcome! I was sort of half-consciously scrolling along, and then all of a sudden my brain went, "Wait, what? Did I see #UUCP in that list? Why yes I did!" Hello, fello human that […]
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2024-11-11 jgoerzen ┃ 1👤 ┃ RE: ?
@RL_Dane Thank you!
If you are looking for peace today, here's this, from the middle of rural #Kansas. One of the most deeply moving songs for a moment I've ever experienced. Being in the choir this morning -- […]
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2024-11-08 jgoerzen ┃ 2👤 ┃ RE: jgoerzen
@Vidmo @anildash Even slightly worse than his first term is really bad for many Americans, too.
2024-11-08 jgoerzen ┃ 2👤 1💬 ┃ RE: ?
@Vidmo @anildash I'm not that young. We know the next 4 years will be bad. How bad, we don't know. We could see something a little worse than his first term, a crippling hunger-causing […]
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2024-11-07 jgoerzen ┃ 1👤 ┃ RE: ?
@Remittancegirl I get that. It's the flattery from Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy (CEO of Amazon) that is so creepy. They're doing it for the same reason: they want something. But what they want […]
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2024-11-06 jgoerzen ┃ 1🔗 1👤 ┃ RE: ?
@dangillmor Thank you, Dan. You are one of the few that hasn't already acquiesced. I can remember pretty clearly the downfall of my previously-favored media. NPR, who "both-sidesed" its own […]
2024-11-06 jgoerzen ┃ 2👤 ┃ RE: ?
@amyedge @GottaLaff Ahh, today I learned. Well that does explain things.
I was just reflecting - the most egregious example of his not knowing what to do was around the filibuster. I wonder […]
2024-11-06 jgoerzen ┃ 2👤 ┃ RE: ?
@amyedge @GottaLaff That is really insightful, and rings true. I think it also describes Biden - while not a lawyer, he was very much a person that found his strength in "working the system" […]
2024-11-06 jgoerzen ┃ 2👤 ┃ RE: jgoerzen
@GottaLaff @amyedge I remain frustrated, maybe even angry, that Biden and Garland did not take the fascist threat as seriously as it deserved. It left a vacuum for someone to look like a […]
2024-11-06 jgoerzen ┃ 2👤 1💬 ┃ RE: jgoerzen
@GottaLaff @amyedge Obama struck me as a fighter. I had hopes for Harris too. Biden got some great stuff done but he and Schumer never gave off the vibe of being continually in the trenches […]
2024-11-06 jgoerzen ┃ 2👤 1💬 ┃ RE: ?
@GottaLaff @amyedge Progressive in a rural red state here. I could go on about this. Quick thoughts. 1) Many farmers are quite intelligent; they run businesses, are deeply tied to financial […]
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2024-11-05 jgoerzen ┃ 1👤 ┃ RE: ?
@Kilian Thank goodness. I've been saying this for years. What really drove it home for me was flying a plane with a Garmin GTN-750 nav system. Try precisely operating a touch screen in […]
2024-11-05 jgoerzen ┃ 1👤 ┃ RE: ?
@raven Yep, I have always wanted to tip the wait staff at sit-down restaurants well because I know they make subminimum wages otherwise in most states. (Agreed with you on your thoughts there […]
2024-11-05 jgoerzen ┃ 1👤 ┃ RE: ?
@piebob No, I think they all do take cash, just it's not as common as card. I've never tried with cash at some of them that have no tip jar but do have a tipping flow as part of card payment.
2024-11-05 jgoerzen ┃ 1👤 ┃ RE: jgoerzen
@piebob About the only thing that is consistent is that you can still tip at a sit-down restaurant. Everything else has gone all weird and inconsistent. There also seem to be a big difference […]
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