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Technology Writings

Documenting things that may have been good to know 20 years ago.™

Mostly this is about computers or moreso software and in particular unix software of a decidedly OpenBSD slant. Or, old man yells at Linux cloud. I mean, what is up with those Linux frankensteins not installing ed(1), and then linking vi to the ClunkMaster3000 that is nano, or once you get vim installed the terminal looks like a unicorn's ass was rubbed all over it? Yes, I disable colors by default.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/old/EOLstory.txt

	12:37 < jfcaron_> Poll: what operating system do you use?
	12:40 < ssm_> jfcaron_: openbsd
	12:41 < jfcaron_> dang, that's hardcore
	12:44 < jfcaron_> I'm on Linux Mint MATE 21
	12:47 < thrig> openbsd

Some of us never got the memo that IRC died. None of the purported replacements look in any way compelling, though. Acid test: does the source for the client software compile on OpenBSD, and run in a terminal? Discord scores an impressive zero of three.

mutt-gmail.gmi

no-repl.gmi

rpm-a-directory.gmi

On the plus side, it's been a few years since I've had to support RedHat, or even Linux.

rsync-clean-shell.gmi

ssh-commands.gmi

ssl/

sed.gmi

shell-elimination.gmi

tcpdump.gmi

tmux.gmi

troff-quickstart.gmi