Steve @stebby@bsd.network

It's not the old internet you miss, it's some of the things that were in the old internet. The same things could be in the internet today. It's not the old internet you're looking for. Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, old UNIX environments, and in old friends; look for it in nature and look for it in yourself.

The old internet was only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget...The magic is only in what the internet says, how it stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

The old internet showed pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless. We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam.

Even fireworks, for all their prettiness, come from the chemistry of the earth. Yet somehow we think we can grow, feeding on flowers and fireworks, without completing the cycle back to reality.

Do you know the legend of Hercules and Antaeus, the giant wrestler, whose strength was incredible so long as he stood firmly on the earth. But when he was held, rootless, in mid-air, by Hercules, he perished easily. If there isn't something in that legend for us today, in this internet, in our time, then I am
completely insane.

First woman in the United States to get a Ph.D. Helen Magill: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Magill_White

My great great grandfather graduated from Boston University the same year she did. He wrote an award winning essay on women's rights while he was there. Years later he became the first politician in Canada to introduce women's suffrage legislation (provincially), twice, both times voted down -- a quarter of a century before the legislation would finally pass.

Connecting the dots makes me wonder if she had an impact on my g.g. grandfather while he was there.

#internationalwomensday

1. Microsoft Windows - NT4 Service Pack 3 - 1997/98.
2. Apple Mac - OS X Snow Leopard - 2009
3. Ubuntu Linux - Hardy Heron 8.04 - 2008
4. Debian Linux - Debian 11 (Bullseye) - 2021
5. OpenBSD - 7.6 (Current) - 2024

Victor Hugo, we need you!

#politics

I’m glad they clarified what the policy change meant. They don’t sell user data, they “give” or “share” it with partners, who then “donate” to Mozilla. It’s not “selling”, it’s quid pro quo! ​ ​

Using a Firefox fork seems to be the better choice of bad options. It might be a short term solution, but I’m willing to change when the landscape inevitably changes again.

Temple of the Dog - Hunger Strike (Chris Cornell, Eddie Vedder)

https://archive.org/details/Temple_Of_The_Dog_Hunger_Strike_1992

I forgot to include the link in case anyone is curious: https://openwrt.org/toh/openwrt/one

Unboxed my #OpenWrt One. Arrived this morning. It will replace my 10+ year old WiFi router -- which also ran OpenWrt.

I have a two router setup at home. An #OpenBSD router handles the external internet connection and firewall, and the WiFi router sits behind it.

Roberta Flack - Suzanne (Leonard Cohen)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKWhXZJKAxg