Ariadne Conill 
So, you want to work in ad tech, do you? Perhaps this will be a cautionary tale… I have worked my entire life as a contractor. This has had advantages and disadvantages. For example, I am free to set my … Read more
Normally, when you hear the phrase “trusted computing,” you think about schemes designed to create roots of trust for companies, rather than the end user. For example, Microsoft’s Palladium project during the Longhorn development cycle of Windows is a classically … Read more
For whatever reason, the alpine-glibc project is apparently being used in production. Worse yet, some are led to believe that Alpine officially supports or at least approves of its usage. For the reasons I am about to outline, we don’t. … Read more
I have been using GNU nano for the overwhelming majority of my life. Like an old friend, nano has always been reliable and has never failed me where other text editors have. By far, it has been the most influential … Read more
From time to time, somebody reports a bug to some project about their program crashing on Alpine. Usually, one of two things happens: the developer doesn’t care and doesn’t fix the issue, because it works under GNU/Linux, or the developer … Read more
But the thing is IRC has always been a glorious thing. The infra has always been sponsored by companies or people. But the great thing about IRC is you can always vote and let the networks and world know which … Read more