Here are some (potentially) interesting topics you can find here: Some longer articles related to many of the topics discussed here: I am a programmer, manager, hobbyist, advocate, volunteer, dad, and nature lover. I live out on an old farm…
These sites are hosted on the complete.org server. Some are hosted with resources donated to non-profit organizations. Please see the list of current software and the caveats about the below table on the main software index page. This table…
Originally, a meta-word like FOO. This word was coined by Guy Steele for precisely this purpose when he was young and naive and not yet interacting with the real hacker community. Had he known that “foo” was the standard, he would not have
Gopher is an interactive Internet browser. It is something of a successor to FTP and predecessor to the Web. Gopher had a brief moment of popularity in the early 1990s, but was eclipsed within a few years by the web. Gopher’s chief innovati…
According to the NNCP documentation, NNCP is intended to help build up small size ad-hoc friend-to-friend (F2F) statically routed darknet delay-tolerant networks for fire-and-forget secure reliable files, file requests, Internet Email and c…
Old technology is any tech that’s, well… old. Small technology is any tech that has a small footprint: doesn’t require a powerful machine to run, doesn’t have a lot of bloat, doesn’t have anti-features like spyware and tracking. Technology
This started as a post on my blog. This edited version is intended to be kept more up-to-date. In How the Attention Economy Hurts You Via Social Media Sites Like Facebook, I wrote about how the Attention Economy in use at big Social Media n…
Train travel is a modern, fun, and fast way to travel all across the United States and the world. Here you can learn all about it. This page links you to information all about the nation’s cross-country passenger railroad, Amtrak. Why Take
In my writing about dar, I recently made that point that dar is a filesystem differ and patcher. We can exploit this property to do something really cool: build an Asynchronous rsync. What does that mean? rsync is a tool that has been in ma…
For a number of years, this was a public wiki, but due to high volumes of spam, it hadn’t been editable for a number of years. In February 2022, the content from that site was folded into this one. You can find the relevant content under: T…
The NNCPNET email network is a peer-to-peer, encrypted Email network based on NNCP. It routes across the quux.org NNCP public relay by default. It is a full-featured email system that doesn’t require Internet connectivity, though by default…
NNCP lets you securely send files, or request remote execution, between systems. It uses asynchronous communication, so the source and destination need never be online simultaneously. NNCP can route requests via intermediate devices – other…