Month: February 2026

Clearing as many open tabs as possible.

• The Day the telnet Died.  (via)
• Reports of Telnet’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated.  (via)
• Offpunk 3.0 (via)
• How I Scrobble.
• Ultima IX.  Falling out of where I was familiar with the games.
• Penrose, diagram creation with text.  (via)
• Related: Penrose Tiling, in case you weren’t familiar with it.
• Freakpages, sorta like what I do here.  (via)
• The Squarp Hapax, linked because of the name.  (via, via)
• The Decision Before the Work.
• The consoles of UEFI, serial and otherwise, and their discontents.
• Exploring Docker containers on FreeBSD.
• Windows 11 Update.  (via)

One link is very modern, the others are not.

• Places to Telnet.  This should keep you busy for a bit.  (via)
• The Visible Zorker Project (and Patreon).
• Meshtastic and Meshcore, which I am seeing more often.
• Tcl: The Most Underrated, But The Most Productive Programming Language.  (via)
• A short list of good games.
• The Home Computer Hybrids: Atari, TI, and the FCC.
• Top 20 Newsgroups.  USENET is still active.  (via)
• Entries in the 2026 Public Domain Day Film Contest, using 1930 material that just became available.
• Running and administrating a 2.11 BSD system.
• TOPS-10 Survival Guide, to get an idea of what it’s like without having to run it.

I’m only complainy with some of these links.

• Your Search Button Powers my Smart Home.
• Typeframe PS-85, which I’ve linked before, but now you can get the plans.  (via)
• Good Web Search.  Google searches and even searching within my own Gmail account have become unreliable.
• What should I use to make a website?
• Clicks Power Keyboard.  And Clicks Communicator.  (via)  ReTreo, I’d call it.
• Odd SYN attack, parts one and two.
• Favourite well-made apps and sites summary from the person behind Shift Happens.  Too many good links to pick out.
• The two subtypes of one sort of package managers, the “program manager”.  People always want to merge them.
• Time Machine inside a FreeBSD jail.  Layers inside layers. (via)
• I’m back to building my own digital music collection.

This Lazy Reading is a little bit stuck at the turn of the century.

Time dependent: NYCBUG’s having a get-together on February 4th, Tuesday.  Go if you are near.  There will be stickers?

• Web Archiving at the Library After 25 Years.  Library of Congress, that is.
• CODEPUNS.
• DJ Q-Bert’s DOOM BOX.
• Hypermind, The High-Availability Solution to a Problem That Doesn’t Exist.  (via)
• Tone Glow 200: Negativland.   If ever there was a group that could talk about copyright…  (via)
• The UNIX Magic poster annotation.  (via)
• USB Bus, not what you think, a video.  (via)
• XScreenSaver 6.14 with 18 new savers.
• Jam Like It’s The 1980s With A Mini-IBM PC.  This is the boringest mini-recreation.
• C.A.F.E., visual Home Automation editor.  (via)
• How I’m still not using GUIs: A guide to the terminal.  (via)
• 200 MB RAM FreeBSD Desktop.  Seeing other people’s loader.conf is always interesting.

Your unrelated music link of the week: PLAGUE MUSIC by KAVARI.  I like the music; I don’t enjoy the video.