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Ratfactor 1 months ago

Project Inbox 2026

It's starting! Those sweet, sweet email replies shall begin to make their way starting now...

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Ratfactor 1 months ago

Ascetic Computing

I hope this comes across as fun rather than preachy! At least it has some drawings...

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Ratfactor 1 months ago

This too shall pass

A little bit of philosophy to get through the tough spots...

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Ratfactor 1 months ago

Correction: Text FILES as a user interface

I'm sorry, that previous title was very misleading! I also added a whole new example that I'm hoping will get the idea across a lot better...

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Ratfactor 3 months ago

My home network observes bedtime with OpenBSD and pf

Another OpenBSD article. There's at least two more coming, so brace yourselves. This one is about setting up OpenBSD as a router and controlling traffic with pf (Packet Filter)...

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Ratfactor 3 months ago

OpenBSD Blog #13: Moving ratfactor.com to OpenBSD.amsterdam

This website has moved to a new OS and web server and host! You shouldn't really notice anything different, but there are probably more broken links than usual...

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Ratfactor 3 months ago

Dave's book review for The Art of Doing Science and Engineering

My rather long book review and/or collection of notes from reading Richard W. Hamming's opus.

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Ratfactor 4 months ago

A programmer's loss of identity

A year later, another piece of text I had to get off my chest. I trust I won't have to do this again in another year? I did not enjoy writing it, but I had to write it...

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Ratfactor 8 months ago

LibreWolf

I've hit the last straw with Mozilla's antics in Firefox. I've been a Firefox champion for years and years. But every danged upgrade has some new insane junk I don't want or need and they keep popping up these little "tips" to rub my nose in it. I'm sick of it. I'm done. THANKFULLY we have LibreWolf to solve all of that. I'm a heavy browser user migrating from the fox to the wolf and here are my notes so far...

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Ratfactor 3 years ago

Auto-login in Slackware

I now have two machines set up to auto-login and I love it. These instructions may apply to some non-Slackware Linuxes as well. Also, gnome-keyring-daemon needs some UI help...

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Ratfactor 3 years ago

Linux Data Recovery - the stupid way!

I was afraid I'd lost the beginings of a new project when my old EeePC (circa 2007) drive finally became corrupted. But I was able to do the simplest, stupidest recovery you can imagine to recover the project...

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Ratfactor 3 years ago

** RSS Club ** | nosurf3

*RSS Club* Exclusive SECOND followup to the previous "nosurf" post. Getting closer and closer to the truth...

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Ratfactor 3 years ago

** RSS Club ** | AI vs Art

(OLD PERSON RANT WARNING) It turns out, I do regret posting this to my Virtual Box of Cards. But not for saying it. I stand by what I wrote here for now. Also, this new title isn't much better, but at least it's still pretty short...

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Ratfactor 3 years ago

Dave's OpenBSD Blog 1 - Installation, disklabels

My OpenBSD exploration begins! Well, began a while ago, but now I'm SeRIouS about it. This first post is about the installation experience...

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Ratfactor 3 years ago

** RSS Club ** | Hello Mastodon! (Goodbye Instagram)

*RSS Club* Hey, if you read my feed, I guess you care what I'm up to. So Mastodon is what I'm up to! Check it out.

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Ratfactor 3 years ago

Needle Felting

I resisted the urge as long as I could. Because Dave Doesn't Need Another Hobby. But needle felting is cool! I'm updating this page as I make progress. (This post is mostly pictures with descriptions.)

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Ratfactor 4 years ago

Computers as Workspaces

This was just a "shower thought", but it turned into into an IndieWeb "reply". For that reason, I'm adding it to this feed. :-)

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Ratfactor 4 years ago

The Phased Approach

I already knew this, but sometimes it's really pleasant to turn yourself into a factory worker on your own project...

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