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By Ruben Schade in Eora/Sydney, Australia.

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2026 445

  1. ⚠ Update your Alpine Linux OpenSSH NOW
  2. David Jones going into administration
  3. Slovakia, Brazil, and the US
  4. Nup to the Melbourne Cup
  5. My A–Z toolbox: htop
  6. The Dinoni Cafe in Thornleigh
  7. Game shows and loss aversion
  8. Images saved with JPG extensions that aren’t
  9. CommSec says goodbye to Mr “Middle”
  10. Follow-up on my LTO post, and Fujifilm’s news
  11. NFSv4 on macOS? Don’t
  12. I miss my Swedish keyboard
  13. Binance’s latest adventures
  14. Living in the future with a big screen
  15. You could just do it yourself
  16. Plasma Bigscreen (or something else) for a lounge TV computer
  17. Apartment updates
  18. Missing lyrics: Ravel’s Alborada del gracioso
  19. Is it time to get into domestic LTO?
  20. Navidrome: “Failed to get executable path” error
  21. October 2026 banner: Fagan Park
  22. Double check used CDs before buying them
  23. Why big tech stopped building useful stuff
  24. Notational Velocity and nvALT got updates
  25. Needing a solution for my old desktops
  26. Family travel for December booked
  27. Ethernet interfaces in the wild, maybe
  28. When WD advertised music collections
  29. Clara has an art goods store!
  30. Case screws, PHP2Shell, and eMudhra⁴
  31. Updated Rubenerd Show podcast client list
  32. ICANN has an (unofficial) wiki
  33. How we’re dealing with a data space crunch
  34. Lyrics in America, Simon and Garfunkel
  35. A 180-degree USB connector for my new KVM
  36. Exploring Fagan Park
  37. eBay US turning back shipments to Australia
  38. Some October 2026 quality of life changes
  39. A hidden Hello Kitty at this coffee shop
  40. My A–Z Toolbox: Go
  41. Clutch bags
  42. A mini home rack
  43. Invoking the Pikachu defence
  44. How do you pronounce PAM?
  45. A misty evening Sydney webcam view
  46. Media
  47. The older thing was objectively better
  48. Rubenerd Show 435: The hippopotamus episode
  49. Show
  50. Less than a week, and The Takes™ started
  51. Bob Geldof: Room 19
  52. CSS for underlines
  53. Windows Movie Maker “DissolveNoise”
  54. Behind every caution tape is a story
  55. Trialling OmniFocus again, and getting organised
  56. A live Sydney webcam
  57. Unpacking two new Wyse 3040 thin clients
  58. –ificate
  59. My impossible bucket list, 2026 edition
  60. The edge of Sydney
  61. Video conversion fun, and the RetroTINK-6X CE?
  62. Music over podcasts
  63. done with the Raspberry Pi
  64. #thoughts
  65. My Commodore VC-20 now has a PET-style keyboard
  66. That time I was scammed on eBay
  67. Rubenerd Show 434: The toastrack episode
  68. The end of card surcharges in Australia
  69. Being asked to sanitise Wikipedia entries
  70. Seeing the Fellow Espresso Series 1
  71. Eight activities not improved by riding a pogo stick
  72. Congratulations to Linh and Victor!
  73. The InWin IW-MS04 mini 4-bay case looks interesting
  74. Diff’ing NetBSD and FreeBSD ZFS zpool features
  75. Iced Nicaraguan cold brew
  76. Things that have never worked (well) for me on iOS
  77. The AV Access iDock M10 KVM is almost perfect
  78. Linux OOM on the desktop
  79. Troubleshooting a weird keyboard on a Pentium III
  80. Back to the Antec Three Hundred for our FreeBSD server
  81. “AI developing too fast”
  82. Places that start with S
  83. “Ruben, you misspelled VIC 20”
  84. Sydney Trains got my keys back!
  85. With apologies to Clarke and Dawe: Scooters
  86. Excel can’t open workbooks with the same name
  87. Page 1,050, and the number
  88. Lavazza decaf 3/10 “intensity” coffee
  89. When we didn’t know everyone’s politics
  90. Rubenerd Show 433: The digital dust episode
  91. A roadside Dell 1907FP monitor
  92. A bezel into my childhood
  93. David Gubler’s Peruvian freight train photo
  94. Read and watched, week 37 2026
  95. ZFS silently discarding invalid acltype
  96. A decluttering retrospective
  97. Tante rediscovering the spark
  98. MediaWiki-specific crawler spam
  99. Nice spring day
  100. A hard drive as a table
  101. What would excite you for a new tech device?
  102. Web form invalid validation
  103. Navidrome metadata tips
  104. #software
  105. Ban infinite scrolling
  106. Rubenerd Show 432: The pontification episode
  107. Should you buy a ThinkPad?
  108. A closing department store in Carlingford
  109. The PicoMEM 2 is out
  110. Names in common with lost friends
  111. Randal Schwartz on Perl and timestamps
  112. Twenty years of using the GNU Image Manipulation Program, and remembering Fireworks
  113. Back up to ten thousand steps
  114. This spoon is a bit sus
  115. A boxed set of DR DOS 6!
  116. The freedom to organise music how we want
  117. The Internet Archive has a FIGlet in its HTML
  118. Bubbles
  119. FreeBSD 14.5-RELEASE and NetBSD 9.5
  120. Replacing gift cards with hóngbāo
  121. Trying out an ATAPI Zip drive again
  122. Retiring my gag agents file
  123. A new flag for Massachusetts
  124. Documentaries used to be so chill
  125. get a working Apple IIɢꜱ motherboard
  126. Brexit, ten years on
  127. Arnold Rimmer’s character description
  128. Apple IIɢꜱ adventures continue
  129. Goodbye, Lloyd Robertson
  130. Using and powering shelf retrocomputers
  131. My first class action
  132. Reintroducing 4 TB drives into our FreeBSD server
  133. Trying a new espresso
  134. Sam Wilson’s thought of the day
  135. Musty computer? Use UV
  136. Programming an SST39SF040 with the T48 and minipro
  137. The magic just
  138. Upgrading my ThinkPad X230? In this economy?
  139. keeping retro motherboard builds on shelves
  140. Leslie Cheung: A Balloon’s Journey
  141. NetBSD 11!
  142. The Black and White Espresso Bar in Chatswood
  143. A super helpful question: will there be another?
  144. Sitting at a Starbucks
  145. Prior to the 17th of August
  146. Biopics
  147. Doing the Australian 2026 Census
  148. On the BSDs being “corporate friendly”
  149. Why WCAG 2.x guidelines feel inadequate
  150. Kenshi Yonezu: Shunrai
  151. Why I (now) prefer light mode
  152. I’m a heat-pump dryer convert: they’re amazing
  153. Stovetop covers are a thing
  154. Spamming notifications is counterproductive
  155. Numbers that don’t have six in them
  156. How my homelab storage evolved over time
  157. IBM Plex Mono got an update
  158. Messing with modern ZFS compression options
  159. Kristina Rybalchenko plays Baba O’Riley
  160. Rest in peace, Om Malik
  161. Feedback about replacing a switch
  162. The myth of Snow Leopard
  163. Swapping out a switch for an old Belkin
  164. On form factors
  165. MicroSD cards
  166. Oceanliner Designs: The Wilhelm Gustloff
  167. Life advice from our favourite coffee roaster
  168. Thermaltake’s retro inspired cases
  169. I’m a “computation technology professional”
  170. AusAlert fired off yesterday
  171. What happened to the Apple Store in Hornsby?
  172. scammer selling an Apple IIɢꜱ
  173. Runaway train in the Hunter Valley
  174. All my FreeBSD boxes are now on 15.1
  175. Installing shiny new fire dampers
  176. Treading water with software updates
  177. Daily and weekly(ish) carries 2026
  178. Congrats on PR and citizenship
  179. Music Monday: Paul Simon, Cars are Cars
  180. took my money for the machine
  181. Being recommended the Tasmanian Three Capes Track
  182. likes of AliExpress
  183. Gathering all my thoughts about “AI”
  184. seeing the 3801 steam by
  185. small notebooks
  186. Our first Moka Pot brew
  187. Tindie and alternatives
  188. I was looking back to see if you were looking back at me to see me looking back at you
  189. Getting World borders right in Minecraft
  190. The Commodore Callback 8020 phone
  191. Wait, we just saw the R-766 steam past!?
  192. My Sapphire Nitro+ RX 9060 XT, a fortnight later
  193. Travel
  194. Japanese Kombini tier list for 2026-07-11
  195. Whitegoods that aren’t, but should be
  196. Spammers abusing Google Analytics reports
  197. Aramex as your Australian carrier? Beware
  198. Trousers on fire from lithium
  199. keyboards in particular
  200. My A–Z Toolbox: FFmpeg, among others
  201. Migraines are a pain in the head!
  202. First ever direct flights from Sydney to London!
  203. Bird of the day: the Rufa Red Knot
  204. I tried kombucha
  205. Uniform boolean definitions in DB schemas are good!
  206. Zen and the AeroPress coffee “hiss”
  207. Adding Sendai, Japan to the list
  208. FAQs on my AMD RX 9060 XT
  209. Clarence House in London
  210. Multi-factor logins that account for dashes!
  211. I bought last month
  212. It’s cold this morning
  213. GFLW error 65545 with Prism on Linux
  214. Australian trust in the US and “AI”
  215. People didn’t read my 8-track post
  216. A brief review of Aldi’s official LEGO tubs
  217. Anti-virus scams are enabled by the vendors themselves
  218. The (or my?) golden age for PC building
  219. Bots from Alibaba Cloud taking my sites down
  220. 8-tracks
  221. Data centre smart hands pricing
  222. PSA for web designers: flags have ratios!
  223. #Vietnam2026 Saigon Wandering and goodbye
  224. #Vietnam2026: Museums and Ho Chi Minh City views
  225. #Vietnam2026 Monasteries and peace
  226. #Vietnam2026 Áo dài and Vũng Tàu
  227. #Vietnam2026 Lotus flowers and surreal gardens
  228. #Vietnam2026 Ho Chi Minh City wanderings
  229. #Vietnam2026 Arriving in Ho Chi Minh City
  230. When the train becomes a limo
  231. The fewest enabled features security model
  232. Finding a bug in Textpattern’s URL resolution logic
  233. Painting parts beige for retro towers (eventually)
  234. Married 🪐
  235. Clinton H. Groves’ aviation photos
  236. Finding and using a 5:4 display in 2026
  237. Overheard at the coffee shop, week 22 2026
  238. Blinking cursors and tea in the evening
  239. Kivikakk’s way of being
  240. Australian train news, May 2026
  241. Textpattern issues with MariaDB 11.8
  242. getting an Arc B580
  243. The BOOK II is an Apple II laptop
  244. Listing block devices on FreeBSD
  245. I just realised something
  246. Those darn MacBook notches!
  247. Trying Ten Thousand Korean coffee in Eastwood
  248. Call to undefined function filter_var() on FreeBSD
  249. Using a MariaDB jail with Dynmap for Minecraft
  250. Karl the Fog visited us in northern Sydney
  251. People discussing NetBSD and Project Glasswing
  252. The biggest rainbow I’d ever seen
  253. Web servers, and researching alternatives
  254. A web home crumbling like chalk
  255. “… are ready to take your money”
  256. Fractions in HTML
  257. about our Minecraft server
  258. Talking to me a decade on, now with 8-bit experience!
  259. Linux monoculture is just as bad for security
  260. eBay Australia’s changed fees
  261. Site width tweaks for readability, maybe?
  262. BSD, bottles of water, and positive habits
  263. A hypothetical NetBSD Cyberdeck
  264. Quotes, week 19 2026
  265. Busy, May 2026 edition
  266. I need to do more tea reviews
  267. The power went out at midday
  268. Installing the 250466 in my “Aldi” Commodore 64
  269. It’s the first of May
  270. Auntea Jenny
  271. Testing the Commodore 64 250466 board
  272. Looking at human.json
  273. Commodore releases the 64C Ultimate!
  274. Getting an xD card reader in 2026
  275. new tea shops on Sydney’s north shore
  276. Playing audio files on a hi-fi
  277. how and why
  278. What does a professional calligrapher do?
  279. last show
  280. Melanomas: get yourself checked!
  281. Phantom vibrations
  282. Inadvertent draft publishing
  283. Happy 33rd birthday NetBSD!
  284. about handwriting
  285. Cautious optimism
  286. Australia’s teen “social media” ban
  287. Planets: blog aggregators for tech projects
  288. My favourite TV theme songs
  289. Our FLAC Navidrome has begun!
  290. An office bathroom sink review
  291. Backburning sun
  292. Life advice from @ADHDeanASL
  293. Default payment methods, part B
  294. ZFS helped to remove code
  295. URL change fixes
  296. Correcting the ABC on the RMS Titanic
  297. Goodbye, Orban 🇭🇺
  298. Finding a beige BenQ FP531 monitor
  299. new Kinokuniya
  300. www.rubenerd.au
  301. Community jigsaw puzzles
  302. Audiophile feedback
  303. My A–Z toolbox: ExifTool
  304. Robert Birming: it is what it isn’t
  305. Assembling a new study desk from shelves
  306. The NMS Ceefax teletext reproduction!
  307. Adding tech to recycling is a nice idea in theory
  308. “Post-framework” web design
  309. Maximum connections have been reached
  310. Approaches for personal backups
  311. Hey, I’m back! I want to go to Jersey
  312. Trans Day of Visibility 2026 🏳️‍⚧️
  313. Questions to ask about PII
  314. not in the US
  315. Self-hosting a Mastodon instance?
  316. I am not an audiophile
  317. Ever Given five year anniversary
  318. My 2026 birþday
  319. bridge cameras
  320. 32^2 pages
  321. context of a data breach
  322. Updated and fixed hugo
  323. BLISS.JPG turns thirty
  324. relevant to you
  325. Our revised media centre TV stand thing
  326. The Raspberry Pi 400 or Orange Pi 800 for the lounge
  327. getting into FLAC
  328. Extracting URLs from Apple’s webloc format
  329. Adventures with Outlook grammar
  330. Initial thoughts about the thinkpad e14 wow
  331. The SPAOE Softcard, revisited
  332. Koritno, Majšperk
  333. Stack Overflow is no longer a stack?
  334. Why this blog wastes horizontal space
  335. This ended up being about the history of Airfix
  336. It’s the vibe of systemd
  337. received
  338. wrote about this ritual
  339. Tweaking Mediawiki’s Monobook skin for wide screens
  340. More geoblocks affecting Australia
  341. My first network kit, part one
  342. Coffee review: Moccona French Style
  343. The A to Z of BSD
  344. The Venetian may be the best biccy
  345. Folders for RSS feeds in Thunderbird
  346. How would you “enforce” LLM restrictions?
  347. Charity shop finds: 1990s CD-ROMs
  348. Dates have been a bit off
  349. reel-to-reel machine
  350. Happy International Womens Day
  351. Updating my little orb
  352. Using Thunderbird for RSS
  353. We’ve lost Vim, and gen-“AI” as a drug (updated)
  354. Super Peter
  355. Sellers blocking AusPost Parcel Lockers
  356. Nginx’s revised http2 directive
  357. “Do you know how to fix phones?”
  358. Mouselings 100 webmaster questions part B
  359. “Future-proofing” PC builds
  360. Bullies have the thinnest skins
  361. Mapping my screen resolutions over the years
  362. The Gram editor
  363. A pair of satisfying things
  364. new retro motherboard rack
  365. Tiling a small image with ImageMagick
  366. “Teas and Seas apply”
  367. earlier onslaught of questions
  368. Which wiki software to use?
  369. The COMIX-35, a reimagined COMX-35
  370. Testing the Gigabyte GA-H170-HD3 motherboard
  371. NZXT parts out of the dishwasher
  372. Removing a royal from the line of succession
  373. Banner for February 2026
  374. found an NZXT tower
  375. Competing for another country
  376. The Masked Trogon
  377. Buying a new thinkpad for the first time
  378. An expanded list of things I don’t need
  379. Setting up new phones in 2026
  380. discarded computer components
  381. The tech is coming/it’s inevitable/etc
  382. accepting my childhood 486 motherboard
  383. John Pizzarelli: The Boulevard of Broken Dreams
  384. “Cassette user? Time to get retirement ready”
  385. The Lenovo 400 Wireless Mouse
  386. More childhood Melbourne i486 progress
  387. Resetting the LE75CW aircon controller
  388. Please don’t use “AI” “Summary” tools here
  389. not needing a 3D printer
  390. Tasmania’s Bridgewater Bridge
  391. for another board
  392. Sandwich questionnaire, second helping
  393. sandwiches yesterday
  394. Updating the Minipro T48’s firmware
  395. Recent comments from (some) Americans
  396. what I’d amassed thus far
  397. Everything eventually sorta becomes mail
  398. Links, week 06 2026
  399. Smart card readers in ThinkPads?
  400. Fastmail’s donation to Perl!
  401. Feedback to the Haneda Problem
  402. 2026 fixes, and an IPv6 update again
  403. i486 SX-25
  404. Australia needs a Mark Carney speech
  405. Making up for old games of dubious origin
  406. recently wrote about
  407. got a few options now
  408. I want this bag for storing computer cables
  409. two weeks
  410. The wide world of TCG card folders
  411. Gen(erate losses)-“AI” bailouts
  412. Family retrocomputer trash and treasure
  413. Coming up with a list of spacer tasks
  414. I think FreeBSD fixed our scanner?
  415. Choosing a Plus! 95 theme
  416. If I don’t, you still can
  417. Dreadlock Holiday ♫
  418. My “cursed” trusted brand list
  419. Being positive about tech right now
  420. A retail dark pattern worked on me
  421. English speakers don’t say: So do I?
  422. The Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer
  423. Wait, a repairable ThinkPad!?
  424. LLM Licence
  425. Sadly, I can’t recommend KeePassXC anymore
  426. Postgres wouldn’t take my pg_hba.conf changes
  427. The BookArc and Bolt laptop stands
  428. freebsd-update hanging on “rebuild these ports”
  429. Learning is supposed to be uncomfortable
  430. Xfce is great
  431. ROSÉ and Bruno Mars, APT
  432. The Macintosh LC FDHD!
  433. Being comfortable with “trying”
  434. It was HOT in Sydney yesterday
  435. Messing with uuid() in SQLite3
  436. Blockchains and Australian coffee cards
  437. The Silver-Breasted Broadbill
  438. Shame surrounding spreadsheets
  439. Goodbye Xmas 2025
  440. What I watched, Week 1 2026
  441. “You shouldn’t make New Year’s Resolutions!”
  442. context of a Techmoan video
  443. Tea over coffee first thing has worked oddly well
  444. The primary purpose of lift lobbies
  445. spreadsheets

2025 232

  1. Ending 2025 with thoughts and a wordle cloud
  2. Old computer monitor stands, and DAISO!
  3. (Thinking about) getting new printers
  4. pkgsrc 2025Q4 released
  5. An “AI” check-in
  6. The Haneda Problem
  7. Coffee technique works for cheap stuff too
  8. We had a White Xmas (cough)!
  9. Trying Navidrome on FreeBSD
  10. Requiring iOS 26 to fix security issues
  11. Remembering with cheese keeki, 2025
  12. ZuluSCSI, and an Ultra SCSI Power Mac G3!?
  13. Quick reviews № 01
  14. Finally upgraded the fleet to FreeBSD 15!
  15. Goodbye to the Hexham Oak and Hungry Jacks
  16. Typing is physical and wonderful
  17. Finding (digital) houndstooth
  18. terrible poem about it
  19. netbsd-users: IBM Model M issues
  20. BSD Now 642: Look Harder
  21. Banner for December 2025
  22. Anime
  23. My first bootleg manga (that I returned)
  24. A moment of calm, from Yosemite
  25. Undo your last git commit before you’ve pushed
  26. Hatsune Miku hanging out on an old CD-ROM
  27. Canary Islands, and the Rule of Tincture
  28. new theme
  29. Wikipedia’s orientability article, revisited
  30. Things I’ve decided to live without
  31. Vietnam blog post update
  32. A Swedish furniture store in Sydney at Xmas
  33. Social media history to enter the US
  34. Flight Simulator 98: Inside Moves
  35. App defaults, 2025
  36. Don’t flounder in the Lake of Options
  37. Pronouncing “southern”
  38. Modern Commodore 64 cartridge loaders
  39. Another social media break
  40. My blog opens too many files
  41. Tag soup
  42. What I’m reading, week 49 2025
  43. Pouring one out for Crucial
  44. Vietnam, and where does one go from here?
  45. Using List::Util instead of List::MoreUtils
  46. Llama Book
  47. #Vietnam2025 Typing from a Phê La cafe
  48. so much fun in Vietnam last year
  49. joy rediscovering Perl
  50. I’m your new BSD Now podcast co-host!
  51. Mozilla’s latest quagmire
  52. It’s not included if it’s not listed
  53. Be kind to retail staff
  54. answered in a detailed reply
  55. “Backalog”
  56. This was an incredible espresso
  57. Building a new NetBSD machine
  58. Fun facts, aviation edition
  59. A Retro Corner page for Lotus Organiser
  60. #hardware
  61. boring being a feature
  62. Brother Museum in Nagoya earlier this year
  63. Silverstone’s gorgeous beige boxes
  64. Dave Farquhar discusses the Compaq Portable
  65. When a clear film wasn’t
  66. Another iPhone SE 3, and the upgrade treadmill
  67. With thanks to Steven Rosenberg
  68. I did a thing, and exit excuses
  69. Helping friends can boost your mood
  70. Did they say that?
  71. Injunctions aren’t helping data leaks
  72. mentioned earlier
  73. this Adaptec AHA-3950U2B
  74. Offset bank accounts for mortgages
  75. The BSD, OpenZFS, and illumos communities
  76. Apple Stores make me anxious
  77. Feedback on what to call this site
  78. Merging Minecraft worlds with Worldedit
  79. I watched my first YouTube shorts, and I’m confuzzled
  80. An affinity for specific versions
  81. Paul Simon, Train in the Distance
  82. Mastodon: if it could happen, doesn’t mean it did
  83. Is this a journal, or a blog, or what?
  84. reunited with a Blue and White Power Mac G3
  85. Þe time I reduced my caffeine intake
  86. the letter thorn
  87. 96% keyboard layouts
  88. Pre-sales engineering
  89. My Retro Corner has overtaken my blog? Kinda!?
  90. AWS outage last night
  91. Jack Johnson, Belle
  92. I have more NetBSD than FreeBSD installs
  93. I found a Rubik’s Cube
  94. Stuff I read, week 42 2025
  95. Our twelfth mortgage payment
  96. putting www back
  97. The LED BlinkHAT for the Motorola 6888x
  98. last five years
  99. Do I recommend Hugo for blogging?
  100. My Macs can’t mount SD cards almost half the time
  101. The Blue Mountains and Wentworth Falls
  102. George Benson Beyond the Sea
  103. The utility of digressions
  104. different standards
  105. Outlook for Mac fun
  106. I was wrong about Steven Pinker
  107. thoughtful comments
  108. My filofax was cancelled
  109. Written By Humans
  110. A highly-processed shipment
  111. wrote about
  112. Recorded livestreams for retrocomputer stuff?
  113. Modern games implementing N64-style graphics
  114. Feedback regarding AA batteries
  115. Fully-adhesive sticky notes from Muji
  116. Visiting the historic Coal Loader in North Sydney
  117. discussing batteries
  118. Dingbats > emoji?
  119. Renewables overtake coal for first time in Australia
  120. The weather outside is gorgeous
  121. When to replace hard drives
  122. Sorry for the dupe
  123. The dubious Nagorno-Karabakh anniversary
  124. tried and failed at implementing
  125. Treat those who give you things well!
  126. #SciArtSeptember: Accrete
  127. Goodbye to Typepad
  128. #SciArtSeptember: Scattering
  129. John Walker summarises gen-“AI”, and some feedback
  130. SGI Indigo2 machine
  131. #SciArtSeptember: Tessellation
  132. #SciArtSeptember: Symbiosis
  133. 86Box 5 has a VM manager
  134. #SciArtSeptember: (Electronic) Convergence
  135. #SciArtSeptember: Calm
  136. Spam unsubscribe amusement
  137. I lodged my 2024-25 taxes, and Wi-Fi
  138. #SciArtSeptember: Synapse
  139. #SciArtSeptember: Vesicle
  140. Remembering our mum’s birthday 2025
  141. #SciArtSeptember: Random
  142. #SciArtSeptember: Tiles
  143. tens of thousands of posts
  144. #SciArtSeptember: Orbit
  145. BusLogic SCSI drives under DOS
  146. #SciArtSeptember: Bloom, Sydney sakura season
  147. Retrocomputer cheats
  148. Silly booby traps in FreeBSD and NetBSD
  149. #SciArtSeptember: Lichen
  150. #SciArtSeptember: Vector
  151. The great northern Sydney power outage 2025
  152. #SciArtSeptember: Chaos
  153. one such suggestion
  154. Age gate and VPNs in Australia
  155. #SciArtSeptember and Music Monday: Bone
  156. #SciArtSeptember: Fractal
  157. #SciArtSeptember: Motif
  158. Australian three bedroom apartments
  159. #SciArtSeptember: Transcription
  160. office hand dryer
  161. #SciArtSeptember: Budding
  162. E. L. Konigsburg on learning
  163. #SciArtSeptember: Algae
  164. #SciArtSeptember: Element
  165. FastCode on open source software shakedowns
  166. #SciArtSeptember: Permutation
  167. Comfort viewing
  168. #SciArtSeptember: Virus
  169. Coffee shop chatter, week 37 2025
  170. #SciArtSeptember: Growth
  171. Robodebt, and Australia’s largest ever class action
  172. #SciArtSeptember: Skeleton
  173. I didn’t catch that last part
  174. #SciArtSeptember: Diffusion
  175. Not paying with cash
  176. #SciArtSeptember: Inertia
  177. Hollow fibre optic cables
  178. #SciArtSeptember: Coral
  179. Infosec Allison Mose, sung by Georgie Fame
  180. #SciArtSeptember: Fluid
  181. PSA: Not all KALLAX boxes fit the same
  182. Meeting Bluey at Hammerbarn
  183. Sysadmin work and design shouldn’t be so difficult
  184. Andreas suggests a better Techtember
  185. Asking questions with context
  186. Links for week 35, 2025
  187. #internet
  188. Replacing a sliding door roller
  189. AusPost suspends most shipments to the US
  190. Allan Jude on fault tolerance
  191. Jack Johnson: Shot Reverse Shot
  192. Starting with known good components
  193. QDI 486
  194. The Gateron Smoothie linear switches
  195. My A-Z toolbox: dcfldd
  196. Post frequency recently
  197. Street Library book review № 1
  198. Run illumos? The Café is open!
  199. A parcel locker adventure, and being an edge case
  200. The meaning of “Lenovo”
  201. KDE Plasma removing third-party software icons
  202. Buying a thinkpad x230
  203. issue of consent
  204. Cyclists on footpaths
  205. Getting a cheap and cheerful second-hand ThinkPad
  206. A new or rebooted Web
  207. The day Twitter suspended me
  208. PicoPSU and PicoRC
  209. Teal
  210. in the context of homelabs
  211. horrendously expensive dead ends
  212. missed being optimistic about technology
  213. ran it with a deshroud
  214. slippery when wet
  215. A2DVI Plus
  216. externalities
  217. GU trousers
  218. exploring HARD·OFF stores
  219. SCVMaglev Museum in Nagoya last year
  220. post-smartphone devices
  221. what the point of NetBSD is
  222. MIO card
  223. thinking about “AI”
  224. almost two decades
  225. Everyone deserves this
  226. an expedited clearance plan
  227. purchase invoice
  228. great power efficiency
  229. why I don’t love it
  230. cassettes
  231. Ethics
  232. PlayStation 3

2024 19

  1. 20th anniversary
  2. buying our own apartment together
  3. swap the rubber gasket out once
  4. Quicksilver Power Mac G4
  5. which I’m fine with
  6. expressed optimism
  7. off the side of the road
  8. renewed appreciation
  9. late 1990s air conditioning controllers
  10. unusual SPAOE card
  11. Numbers that dont have nine in them
  12. just as I did last time
  13. surprising exception of Aldi
  14. Titanic exhibition
  15. take the train
  16. Tangara music player
  17. wrote about this in more detail
  18. small homelab with this stuff
  19. spoiled for choice

2023 11

  1. Annexe
  2. dislike the term
  3. Bic Cristal Re’New
  4. retrocomputer authenticity
  5. how to acquire one
  6. prematurely validating text
  7. September 2023
  8. NovelKeys board with Gateron North Pole 2.0 linear switches
  9. personal knowledgebase
  10. I’m not smart, and I won’t remember
  11. tried all the traditional adaptors

2022 7

  1. Numbers that dont have 8 in them
  2. but one factor
  3. Sony NW-A55
  4. joked about being “absolutely” serious
  5. this 2017 retrospective
  6. from official channels
  7. FreeBSD pkg autoremove

2021 1

  1. shared images

2020 8

  1. Replacing a bunch of tarballs with ZFS snapshots
  2. Problem exists between printer and chair
  3. Small and boring system updates
  4. We have Nvidia snow
  5. Seven, again
  6. records
  7. was a pain
  8. described in this post

2019 2

  1. cited Wikipedia’s orientability article
  2. It has numbers in them

2018 3

  1. Queen Mary
  2. briefly
  3. went to Japan the second time

2017 2

  1. evolved over time
  2. don’t see the point

2016 1

  1. goodbye junk

2014 1

  1. stolen by my first web host

2013 2

  1. were willing to look as stupid as I did
  2. Thirteen years ago

2012 1

  1. Belkin f5d7010 fedora freebsd

2011 2

  1. Borders shut their doors
  2. Having fun with hotlinkers

2010 2

  1. former O’Brians outlet at Jelita
  2. As I wrote at the time

2009 4

  1. Dos thinkpad x40
  2. at a sandwich bar in Malaysia
  3. Unicomp Spacesaver
  4. loading DOS CD-ROM drivers

2008 4

  1. Singapore in 2008
  2. After seventeen years
  3. posts like this
  4. FreeBSD desktop from 2008

2007 1

  1. Visoka, Kardzhali Province, Bulgaria

2006 1

  1. Two decades ago to the day

2004 1

  1. when I was a teenager

Undated 38

  1. Photo
  2. Apple //e Platinum
  3. IIɢꜱ board
  4. Vc 20
  5. Pieces of 8
  6. beige Dell Dimension
  7. first computer
  8. PAL Commodore 64C
  9. Commodore 116
  10. Power Mac G4 QuickSilver
  11. Commodore 64 “Aldi” machine
  12. publish my own FOAF profile
  13. Commodore 16
  14. Dell towers like this
  15. my first computer
  16. Atari ST
  17. HP Brio
  18. Retro Corner
  19. Retro Corner
  20. Apple //e
  21. IBM Aptiva
  22. Lotus Organiser
  23. Faqs
  24. Omake
  25. The Retro Corner
  26. 64c
  27. Commodore 128
  28. 1980s AT clone desktop
  29. Sanyo MPC-880
  30. NEC APEX
  31. Presario 5060
  32. Retro Corner
  33. þoughts
  34. QuickSilver G4
  35. downloads page
  36. MV4-V4S471/472P motherboard
  37. DFI Am386 machine
  38. SPARCStation 5