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All posts published during 2023.

Ubuntu 5.10, archive.org, and .torrent files | 2023-12-21 | storage | closet-librarian | archive | ubuntu | linux | protocols

I'm ready to say goodbye to my copy of Ubuntu 5.10 for i386 on CD, after nearly 2 decades of keeping it as a combination keepsake and software supply chain anchor.
walk-n-talk? | 2023-11-18 | collaboration | dogs | mobile | KC

walk-n-talk? That's short for: would you like to talk with me as I take my dog on a walk? When the pandemic hit, I traded in my...
Office Hours: Patterns of Cooperation without Vulnerability | 2023-11-18 | collaboration | mentoring | training | learning | programming | capabilities

One of my favorite patterns of cooperation is Office Hours. I open my office, virtually, and welcome questions and other open...
Toward capabilities all the way down with Genode on a Thinkpad | 2023-01-03 | capabilities | security | vm | storage | pc | hardware | osdev

In this year's holiday lull, I got closer to a "capabilities all the way down" workstation using Genode, an OS framework with...
Divesting from Flickr in the Annual File Purge | 2023-01-03 | photos | storage | backup | python | jupyter

I spent much of this year's annual file purge recovering from Flickr going back on their 1TB storage offer. While tinkering with...