Cult of the Dead Cow book signing, 22 June 2019.
If you were part of the hacker scene in the 1980's or 90's (or you played a certain tradition in Mage: The Ascension around that time) you undoubtedly have come across the weird, wonderful,...
View ArticlePictures from my trip to San Diego, summer 2019.ev
Last summer my day job sent me down to San Diego, CA to attend the Linux Security Summit and report back. Unfortunately just about all of the content there intersected in no way, shape, or form with...
View ArticleRetro-futurist museum exhibit, SFO, 2019
A common feature at the main terminal of SFO is a museum exhibit of some kind. My last time through that particular airport they had a retro-futurist display of artifacts that dated back to the Space...
View ArticleWell, there's your problem...
UPDATE: 20191230 - Uploaded a copy to my Peertube account. From time to time I carp about how generally lousy our bandwidth is out here. Verizon (our CLEC in the Bay Area) has all but given up on...
View ArticleNeologism: Evolving situation
evolving situation - noun phrase - A situation where, if all hell hasn't broken loose yet it's well on its way.
View Article2020.ev
Well, Happy New Year, everyone. It's now 2020.ev, we're into the third decade of the twenty-first century. I'm not sure what we're supposed to do now. Hell, I'm not even sure of what to do with...
View ArticleThe overall state of telecommunications.
I'm writing this article well before the year 2020.ev starts, mostly due to the fact that Twitter's search function is possibly the worst I've ever seen and this is probably my last chance to find the...
View ArticleNeologism: Tumbleweed mode
tumbleweed mode - noun phrase - The phenomenon in which all official support forums for something are either abandoned (no activity for a protected period of time), or any posts that aren't lowball...
View ArticleRigging up Raspbian Buster to run on a Pi-Top
It doesn't seem that long ago that I put together a Pi-Top and started tricking it out to use as a backup system. It was problematic in some important ways (the keyboard's a bit wonky), but most of...
View ArticleNeologism: Clandestine institutional knowledge
clandestine institutional knowledge - The phenomenon in which everybody knows the documentation is wrong and people are so pissed off at said documentation that they don't ever bother to try to fix...
View ArticleSetting up a private Matrix server.
A couple of years ago I spent some time trying to set up Matrix, a self-hosted instant messaging and chat system that works a little like Jabber, a little like IRC, a little like Discord and a little...
View ArticleNeologism: Quantum documentation inconsistency principle
quantum documentation inconsistency principle - An axiom of corporate life in which there will always be more than one piece of documentation for something, all of the documentation will be measurably...
View ArticleAnother .plan file update.
The latest updates to my .plan file have been pushed. The usual warnings apply.
View ArticleConverting a Matrix server to use Postgres.
In my last post about the Matrix network I covered how to set up a public Synapse server as well as a web-based client called Riot. In so doing I left out a part of the process for the sake of...
View ArticleMaking a Matrix server STUN-enabled.
Previously in this series I showed you how to migrate a Matrix server to use Postgres, a database server designed for busy workloads, such as those of a busy chat server. This time around I'll...
View ArticleIntegrating Huginn with a Matrix server.
Throughout this series I've shown you how to set up a Matrix server and client using Synapse and Riot, and make it much more robust as a service by integrating a database server and a mechanism for...
View ArticleSculpting castles in the sands of Time.
I'm sitting in yet another coffee shop as I write this. Once again it's my birthday and I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing with my life and where I'm going. I've just turned 42 which, as...
View ArticleThe Doctor's joint care regimen.
Obligatory disclaimer: This is not medical advice. Consult your regular physician. Use at your own risk. Empty one envelope of vitamin C supplement powder (I like Emergen-C) and one envelope of Knox...
View ArticleNeologism: Quantum veracity
quantum veracity - When you're not sure if somebody's full of shit or not, so you act polite until you can find out one way or the other, while simultaneously leaving yourself an escape route.
View ArticleUsing Nginx to spoof HTTP Host headers.
EDIT: s/alice.bob.com/alice.example.com/ to fix part of the backstory. Let's say that you have a server (like Prosody) that has one or more subsystems (like BOSH and Websockets). You want to stick...
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