The Changelog

Let me start with a hypothesis: For human developers, using coding LLMs magnifies their difference in skill levels.

1981 was a different time for computing.

AI sure is a hot topic right now, and I see a lot of people arguing about it.

I just made up a Debian trixie setup that has no need for a GUI.

On mail.quux, a node of NNCPNET (the NNCP-based peer-to-peer email network), I started noticing emails not being delivered.

“Like and subscribe!”

Like many, bot traffic has been causing significant issues for my hosted server recently.

Here, in classic Goerzen deep dive fashion, is more information than you knew you wanted about a topic you’ve probably never thought of.

Six years ago, I was inspired to buy a DEC serial terminal.

Update 2025-09-18: I figured out how to do this, at least for many non-laptop screens.

In my post yesterday, ARM is great, ARM is terrible (and so is RISC-V), I described my desire to find ARM hardware with AES instructions to support full-disk encryption, and the poor state of the OS ecosystem around the newer ARM boards.

I’ve long been interested in new and different platforms.

I’m something of a filesystem geek, I guess.

Here on a summer night in the grass and lilac smell Drunk on the crickets and the starry sky, Oh what fine stories we could tell With this moonlight to tell them by.

I recently wrote about How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys, which I now use on almost all of my machines.

For many years now, I’ve been using an old YubiKey along with the free tier of Duo Security to add a second factor to my SSH logins.

The Internet is an amazing place, and occasionally you can find things on the web that have somehow lingered online for decades longer than you might expect.

A few days ago, I announced NNCPNET, the email network based atop NNCP.

From 1995 to 2019, I ran my own mail server.

As I write this in March 2025, there is a lot of confusion about Signal messenger due to the recent news of people using Signal in government, and subsequent leaks.

In light of this week’s announcement by Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc), I have been pondering this question: Why am I, a person that has long been a staunch advocate of free speech and encryption, leery of sites that talk about being free speech…

I last reviewed email services in 2019.

I’ve been using E Ink-based ereaders for quite a number of years now.

It is, sadly, not entirely surprising that Facebook is censoring articles critical of Meta.

You’ve probably heard of the recent backdoor in xz.

I’ve been getting annoyed with Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian) for years now.

I write this in the context of my decision to ditch Raspberry Pi OS and move everything I possibly can, including my Raspberry Pi devices, to Debian.

This Christmas, one of my gifts to my kids was a text adventure (interactive fiction) game for them.

I recently read a post on social media that went something like this (paraphrased): “If you buy an EV, you’re part of the problem.

Sometimes we want better-than-firewall security for things.

Two years ago, I wrote Managing an External Display on Linux Shouldn’t Be This Hard.

Some decades back, when I’d buy a new PC, it would unlock new capabilities.

$ grep kermit /etc/services kermit 1649/tcp What is this mysterious protocol?

This is the fourth in a series about archiving to removable media (optical discs such as BD-Rs and DVD+Rs or portable hard drives).

This is the third post in a series about data archiving to removable media (optical discs and hard drives).

In my recent post about data archiving to removable media, I laid out the difference between backing up and archiving, and also said I’d evaluate git-annex and dar.

I have several TB worth of family photos, videos, and other data.

Martha, now 5, can’t remember a time when she didn’t fly periodically.

Probably everyone is familiar with a regular VPN.

Update 2023-04: The version of this page on my public website has some important updates, including how to use broadcast detection in Docker, Yggdrasil zero-config for ephemeral containers, and more.

It’s been nearly 8 years since I last made choices about music playing.

I loaded up this title with buzzwords.

Wisdom from my 5-year-old: When flying in a small plane, it is important to give your dolls a headset and let them see out the window, too!

“OK,” you’re probably thinking.

Inspired by several others (such as Alex Schroeder’s post and Szczeżuja’s prompt), as well as a desire to get this down for my kids, I figure it’s time to write a bit about living through the PC and Internet revolution where I did: outside a tiny town in…

Most of us carry cell phones with us almost everywhere we go.

I have been looking for a good tablet for Debian for… well, years.

In the recent article The Internet Origin Story You Know Is Wrong, I was somewhat surprised to see the argument that BBSs are a part of the Internet origin story that is often omitted.

Saturday, I wrote in Pipes, deadlocks, and strace annoyingly fixing them about an issue where a certain pipeline seems to have a deadlock.

This is a complex tale I will attempt to make simple(ish).