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Solderpunk's Phlog Bitter complaining about the state of the modern internet, interspersed with electronics tinkering, homebrew computing and trying to live simply, minimally and deliberately. So much fun at parties. Except for posts which are replies to things posted in Gopherspace, or are otherwise only likely to be of interest to the Gopher community, everything posted here is also posted to my gemlog at: gemini://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/users/solderpunk/gemlog/ TEXT (2024-10-03) ROOPHLOCH 2024 round up TEXT (2024-09-28) A late September life update TEXT (2024-09-01) Announcing ROOPHLOCH 2024 TEXT (2024-08-11) Assorted updates on a Sunday evening TEXT (2024-07-21) Velouria blogs again! TEXT (2024-07-17) Hostname pedantry II and farewell to the Red Consensus TEXT (2024-07-03) Suomiward bound TEXT (2024-06-05) A mostly offline May TEXT (2024-05-08) I'm here, I'm glad you're there (they were St.GIGA) TEXT (2024-04-29) Smol Earth in five cold points (resp. to adiabatic again) TEXT (2024-04-22) Differentiating myself and Smol Earth from the Amish (resp. to adiabatic) TEXT (2024-04-22) A smol.earth update on Earth day TEXT (2024-04-19) Embracing the universe like a blazing star TEXT (2024-04-14) Akebono, Musashimaru and Konishiki TEXT (2024-04-14) OFFLFIRSOCH thoughts and observations TEXT (2024-04-02) OFFLFIRSOCH 2024 round up TEXT (2024-03-29) An offline city database TEXT (2024-03-06) Book excerpts TEXT (2024-03-01) Announcing OFFLFIRSOCH 2024 TEXT (2024-01-31) Radio 208 in the cabin TEXT (2024-01-13) Cold and clear TEXT (2023-11-26) Metabolism in architecture TEXT (2023-11-19) Lunatic drivetrains TEXT (2023-11-07) Koyaanisqatsi TEXT (2023-11-05) A quick autumnal update TEXT (2023-10-01) ROOPHLOCH 2023 round up TEXT (2023-09-30) ROOPHLOCH 2023 explanation post TEXT (2023-09-19) ROOPHLOCH 2023 433 MHz transmission 01 TEXT (2023-09-10) Announcing the Smol Earth Compendium TEXT (2023-09-01) Announcing ROOPHLOCH 2023 TEXT (2023-08-26) Talking about the weather TEXT (2023-05-21) MiniDisc updates TEXT (2023-05-20) Spring time, nature observations and lo-fi log TEXT (2023-05-19) Ascension day ponderings TEXT (2023-05-10) Six years of gopher TEXT (2023-04-22) An Earth Day rant against class warfare environmentalism TEXT (2023-04-16) aussies.space gopher server TEXT (2023-04-08) Penguin Green Ideas, simple graphic art TEXT (2023-04-01) Cloud spotting blues (resp. to tfurrows) TEXT (2023-03-13) The gnat hitch TEXT (2023-03-10) Five years a sundog - Happy birthday, circumlunar space! TEXT (2023-02-02) Zaibatsu downtime notice TEXT (2023-01-31) One billion, one continent TEXT (2023-01-22) Do you even compute, bro? TEXT (2023-01-21) Orphans of Netscape, part II TEXT (2023-01-19) Permacomputing II TEXT (2023-01-12) The Earth is not for us TEXT (2023-01-11) Orphans of Netscape TEXT (2023-01-08) Reading list added TEXT (2023-01-06) ThinkPad thermal paste replacement TEXT (2023-01-01) Micro album reviews 04 TEXT (2022-12-31) "Stray" is a great game TEXT (2022-12-30) Radio updates TEXT (2022-12-29) Gardening decrescendo TEXT (2022-12-28) More binocular astronomy TEXT (2022-10-07) Binocular observation of Jupiter and the moon TEXT (2022-10-01) ROOPHLOCH 2022 roundoup TEXT (2022-09-29) Story of a ROOPHLOP TEXT (2022-09-18) Franken-Peugeot updates TEXT (2022-09-01) Announcing ROOPHLOCH 2022 TEXT (2021-11-10) Green days in Brunei TEXT (2021-10-23) Vodka and cigarette sustainability TEXT (2021-10-23) Low budget P2P content distribution with git TEXT (2021-10-11) Smartphones vs real cameras (resp. to Alex Schroeder) TEXT (2021-10-09) Micro album reviews 03 TEXT (2021-10-08) Been an even longer time TEXT (2021-10-02) ROOPHLOCH 2021 roundup TEXT (2021-09-01) Announcing ROOPHLOCH 2021 TEXT (2021-05-02) Been a long time TEXT (2021-03-07) Micro album reviews 02 TEXT (2021-01-02) 2021 resolutions TEXT (2020-12-20) A new circumlunar colony TEXT (2020-11-28) Mac mouse madness TEXT (2020-11-08) The short-lived browser TEXT (2020-11-01) Permacomputing TEXT (2020-10-30) Micro album reviews 01 TEXT (2020-10-21) Digital audio on tape TEXT (2020-10-07) Video tapes and helical scan TEXT (2020-10-04) 2020 gardening wrap-up TEXT (2020-10-03) ROPHLOCH 2020 round up TEXT (2020-09-01) Announcing ROOPHLOCH 2020 TEXT (2020-08-16) Progress toward "offline first" TEXT (2020-08-14) Album review: Kikagaku Moyo's "House in the Tall Grass" TEXT (2020-08-09) Computing less, but with more focus TEXT (2020-08-08) Keyboard hegemony TEXT (2020-08-02) The standard salvaged computing platform TEXT (2020-07-26) Discussions toward radically sustainable computing TEXT (2020-07-15) Resisting, and not resisting, photographic purchases TEXT (2020-07-15) Gardening update TEXT (2020-07-11) My second S24O TEXT (2020-07-03) New email address TEXT (2020-07-03) Getting my tabs under control TEXT (2020-06-03) So tired of waking up tired TEXT (2020-05-19) Actually listening to music again, part 2 TEXT (2020-05-16) The spiritual side of computing TEXT (2020-05-16) Actually listening to music again, part 1 TEXT (2020-05-10) Three years of gopher TEXT (2020-05-09) Almost square foot gardening TEXT (2020-05-09) Zaibatsu upgrade, setuid woes TEXT (2020-05-07) World class tree climbing TEXT (2020-03-29) Conscripting surveillance capitalism to fight COVID-19 TEXT (2020-03-26) The roos shall flock again (resp. to tildecow) TEXT (2020-03-20) Silver linings TEXT (2020-03-02) Quick thoughts on DoH TEXT (2020-01-01) Crossing the Baltic sea by bicycle TEXT (2020-01-01) A new start TEXT (2019-10-27) W3rdn4's ruins TEXT (2019-10-27) Pentax MX prereview TEXT (2019-10-20) The individual archivist, and ghosts of Gophers past TEXT (2019-10-13) Decent exposure TEXT (2019-10-13) Pentax ME Super review TEXT (2019-10-01) ROPHLOCH 2019 round up TEXT (2019-09-22) WiFi in the forest (ROPHLOCH2019 entry) TEXT (2019-09-21) In praise of real camping (resp. to katolaz) TEXT (2019-09-21) Gopherspace: the tip is the best! (resp. to jynx et al) TEXT (2019-09-21) VF-1, AV-98 and Agena (response to Tomasino) TEXT (2019-09-09) Space at the Zaibatsu TEXT (2019-09-05) Asahi Pentax Spotmatic SP-1000 review TEXT (2019-08-31) Announcing ROOPHLOCH 2019 TEXT (2019-08-25) Gardening update TEXT (2019-08-18) Musical milestone ponderings (resp. to tomasino) TEXT (2019-08-18) In praise of good libraries (resp. to slugmax) TEXT (2019-08-17) Gopher as a rural retreat TEXT (2019-08-06) Home again, and the tyranny of robot bathrooms TEXT (2019-06-30) Little library in a fridge TEXT (2019-06-25) Look, Ma! No lightmeter! TEXT (2019-06-20) Project Gemini TEXT (2019-06-18) Summer (response to jynx) TEXT (2019-06-18) Everything2 is non-awful web TEXT (2019-06-16) Protocol pondering intensifies, Pt III TEXT (2019-06-16) Protocol pondering intensifies, Pt III TEXT (2019-06-16) Protocol pondering intensifies, Pt II TEXT (2019-06-16) Protocol pondering intensifies, Pt I TEXT (2019-06-15) Off-grid fun TEXT (2019-06-13) Materialism revisited (resp. to nermagermalous) TEXT (2019-06-12) The soul of gopher TEXT (2019-06-11) My hundred square metres TEXT (2019-06-02) Circumlunar updates II TEXT (2019-06-01) Cycles of optimism and pessimism TEXT (2019-05-31) Board and card games TEXT (2019-04-21) Can we all walk away? TEXT (2019-04-07) More on gopher and crypto TEXT (2019-04-07) The three questions of Tomasino TEXT (2019-03-31) Why gopher needs crypto TEXT (2019-03-30) Ikea hackers TEXT (2019-03-24) Some thoughts on software copyright licenses TEXT (2019-03-03) Pondering what's inbetween gopher and the web TEXT (2019-02-26) Copy and paste with wsmoused on OpenBSD TEXT (2019-02-26) The looming return of cycling TEXT (2019-02-23) OpenBSD on an eeePC 1005HA TEXT (2019-02-05) Phone ranting (resp. to cmccabe) TEXT (2019-02-02) The zen of pubnix TEXT (2019-01-20) Manifestos "R" Us TEXT (2019-01-19) Discrimination and philosophy of mind (resp. to Visiblink and Yargo) TEXT (2019-01-05) Port 70 stickers TEXT (2019-01-05) Visiting my S24O site in the snow TEXT (2019-01-02) We're bringin' finger back! TEXT (2018-12-31) Learning to love Lua TEXT (2018-12-30) Reading questions TEXT (2018-12-11) Micro-pubnixes, local flavour and two-tier structure TEXT (2018-12-09) On obsolescence TEXT (2018-11-30) Hostname pedantry, or GNU/Circumlunar TEXT (2018-11-28) So much cool stuff (resp. to Jynx and Tomasino) TEXT (2018-11-15) Comic book memories (RIP Stan Lee) TEXT (2018-11-10) Circumlunar updates TEXT (2018-11-06) Hey you! Host something! TEXT (2018-11-04) On SDF and the future of public access Unix TEXT (2018-10-27) Greetings, knives and Civ TEXT (2018-10-06) Tagged gophers TEXT (2018-10-06) Crystal radio in 2018 TEXT (2018-09-22) My first S24O TEXT (2018-08-19) Data security threat models TEXT (2018-08-10) Data security ratings TEXT (2018-08-10) Shiny new gopher content TEXT (2018-08-03) Replies to tomasino, tfurrows, and yargo TEXT (2018-07-28) Photos, Yashica 35-ME review TEXT (2018-07-16) Death cleaning TEXT (2018-07-07) Greetings from Australia TEXT (2018-06-27) Ups and downs TEXT (2018-06-08) AFK TEXT (2018-06-03) Welcome back, phlogger! TEXT (2018-06-02) Bike thoughts and projects TEXT (2018-05-31) Offline life TEXT (2018-05-10) A year of gopher TEXT (2018-05-06) On the futility of individual action TEXT (2018-04-29) Response to ja re: smartphones TEXT (2018-04-29) Muesli with yoghurt TEXT (2018-04-24) Chiptune musings TEXT (2018-04-14) Dumbphone dilemma TEXT (2018-04-14) Amazon and me TEXT (2018-04-13) Mental dominance of Javascript TEXT (2018-04-13) The Epic Struggle of the Internet of Things TEXT (2018-04-12) Getting high TEXT (2018-04-11) Gophery things TEXT (2018-04-10) VF-1 updates and tips TEXT (2018-04-04) Spring, at last TEXT (2018-03-26) Article on attention TEXT (2018-03-26) On Gopher conservatism TEXT (2018-03-26) Looking at long stuff with VF-1 (response to tomasino) TEXT (2018-03-26) Securing circumlunar.space with bind mounts TEXT (2018-03-17) On tiny servers TEXT (2018-03-17) Decentralising gopherspace TEXT (2018-03-17) Woods recap TEXT (2018-03-16) Email problems TEXT (2018-03-15) Papa's Antisocial Media Manifesto TEXT (2018-03-10) Circumlunar space TEXT (2018-03-03) Going innawoods TEXT (2018-03-03) Hobby farming (response to tfurrows) TEXT (2018-03-03) In defence of Aussie coffee TEXT (2018-03-02) Printing RFCs TEXT (2018-02-25) Against connoiseurship TEXT (2018-02-23) Rebuilding attention span TEXT (2018-02-22) Coffee promises and responses (Kroovy, Defanor) TEXT (2018-02-19) Half Hour of Power TEXT (2018-02-19) Period rec rooms TEXT (2018-02-14) Assorted replies and acknowledgements TEXT (2018-02-13) Lead acid life TEXT (2018-02-13) All I want TEXT (2018-02-12) Snow TEXT (2018-02-11) On EDC TEXT (2018-02-11) Musical rodents TEXT (2018-02-10) Things I've been doing lately TEXT (2018-02-05) On bungled listings TEXT (2018-02-03) Precious bodily fluids TEXT (2018-01-31) On the growth and searching of Goperhspace TEXT (2018-01-30) Miscellaneous, etc. TEXT (2018-01-20) Thoughts on "The Future Will be Technical", part 1 TEXT (2018-01-19) On hats TEXT (2018-01-16) On physicality TEXT (2018-01-15) More on PMR-466 and going off-grid TEXT (2018-01-14) Introducing VF-1 TEXT (2018-01-13) Assorted replies and acknowledgements (just about everyone) TEXT (2018-01-11) Only a matter of time TEXT (2018-01-10) On devils and bentos TEXT (2018-01-09) On common interests (resp. to Logout) TEXT (2018-01-08) Response to psztrnk on Mastodon TEXT (2018-01-08) Responses on pseudonymity (slugmax, psztrnk, ZLG) TEXT (2018-01-07) Thoughts on Mastodon and decentralisation TEXT (2018-01-06) My favourite software TEXT (2018-01-04) Pocket Gopher / Grumpy old man phone rant TEXT (2018-01-02) Assorted replies and acknowledgements (tfurrows, pet84rik, slugmax, tomasino) TEXT (2018-01-01) Pseudonymity woes TEXT (2017-12-25) Diving into DOS TEXT (2017-12-24) Merry Christmas and thanks TEXT (2017-11-26) Sorting out PDPs TEXT (2017-11-21) Hotel Viru and the KGB TEXT (2017-11-19) Lightweight prepping TEXT (2017-11-08) Assorted replies and acknowledgements (cat, jynx, ZLG, melton) TEXT (2017-10-31) Hobbyist electronics without hypocrisy TEXT (2017-10-30) Assorted replies and acknowledgements (ZLG, tfurrows, hobbsc) TEXT (2017-10-28) A Solderpunk once more TEXT (2017-10-26) Frugal entertainment TEXT (2017-10-25) Belated responses TEXT (2017-10-24) Radical frugality, or something like it TEXT (2017-10-22) Technoskepticism, or something like it TEXT (2017-10-19) Asceticism, or something like it TEXT (2017-10-11) More battery thoughts TEXT (2017-10-10) Lithium blues (resp. to Yargo) TEXT (2017-10-08) Let me tell you about my mother TEXT (2017-10-02) Delusional ambo fantasies TEXT (2017-09-29) Missing AnonRadio TEXT (2017-09-26) The rise and fall of AVCon TEXT (2017-09-25) My dream setup TEXT (2017-09-24) On the apparently looming death of FTP TEXT (2017-09-09) Disconnecting TEXT (2017-08-28) Call me! TEXT (2017-08-27) On phones and phreaks TEXT (2017-08-26) How I phlog TEXT (2017-08-26) Building models TEXT (2017-08-08) Quick gophery thoughts TEXT (2017-07-30) More on walled gardens TEXT (2017-07-22) Two walls good, four walls bad TEXT (2017-07-19) URL shorteners are evil TEXT (2017-07-07) GameBoy tech links TEXT (2017-07-05) I want to ride my bicycle... TEXT (2017-07-04) Overpowered browsers TEXT (2017-06-29) Alive and well TEXT (2017-06-21) Aussie anime nostaliga TEXT (2017-06-18) Phlog on! TEXT (2017-06-17) Airpot WiFi vs OpSec TEXT (2017-06-06) Chicken Noun TEXT (2017-06-01) The casino web TEXT (2017-05-28) Too much stuff TEXT (2017-05-27) Home again TEXT (2017-05-21) Anti-Google sentiment TEXT (2017-05-18) Thanks for your emails TEXT (2017-05-16) Web apps are houses built on sand TEXT (2017-05-14) I'm giving myself Sundays off TEXT (2017-05-13) Future GameBoy hacks? TEXT (2017-05-12) Rainy days TEXT (2017-05-11) We've lost our way TEXT (2017-05-10) Introduction