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	commit ef69411968fdc716dc4613647ff3417bb7dee237
	parent 096f7736b18064b8722366624f2771e13d7dddde
	Author: Jay Scott <[email protected]>
	Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2023 22:38:51 +0000

	shuffling things around a bit

	Diffstat:
	M .gitignore \| 1 +
	M bin/sync.sh \| 2 +-
	M index.gph \| 40 ++++++++++++++++++-----------…
	A meta/changelog.txt \| 0
	A meta/email.txt \| 5 +++++
	R about/jay.scot.asc -> meta/jay.sco… \| 0
	A phlog/001.txt \| 73 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++…
	A phlog/002.txt \| 116 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
	A phlog/003.txt \| 79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++…
	A phlog/004.txt \| 118 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++…
	A phlog/005.txt \| 91 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++…
	A phlog/006.txt \| 236 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++…
	A phlog/007.txt \| 93 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++…
	A phlog/008.txt \| 84 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++…
	A phlog/009.txt \| 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++…
	A phlog/010.txt \| 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++…
	A phlog/011.txt \| 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++…
	D txt/001.txt \| 74 -----------------------------…
	D txt/002.txt \| 117 -----------------------------…
	D txt/003.txt \| 80 -----------------------------…
	D txt/004.txt \| 119 -----------------------------…
	D txt/005.txt \| 92 -----------------------------…
	D txt/006.txt \| 237 -----------------------------…
	D txt/007.txt \| 94 -----------------------------…
	D txt/008.txt \| 85 -----------------------------…
	D txt/009.txt \| 34 -----------------------------…
	D txt/010.txt \| 39 -----------------------------…
	D txt/011.txt \| 41 -----------------------------…

	28 files changed, 1032 insertions(+), 1030 deletions(-)
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	diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
	@@ -1 +1,2 @@
	drafts/
	+files/
	diff --git a/bin/sync.sh b/bin/sync.sh
	@@ -1 +1 @@
	-rsync -vz --delete --exclude=git* --exclude=.git* --exclude=bin* -a . jay.scot…
	+rsync -vz --delete --exclude=files/.tar.gz --exclude=git --exclude=.git* --e…
	diff --git a/index.gph b/index.gph
	@@ -8,28 +8,34 @@

	J A Y . S C O T

	+PHLOG

	-RANTS
	-
	-[0\|2023-01-21 ... Reducing my footprint, using a mini-pc\|txt/011.txt\|server\|po…
	-[0\|2022-09-28 ... Convert mbox to maildir using fdm\|txt/010.txt\|server\|port]
	-[0\|2022-09-13 ... A true cheap dumbphone,impossible?\|txt/009.txt\|server\|port]
	-[0\|2022-08-01 ... I moved over to wayland\|txt/008.txt\|server\|port]
	-[0\|2022-05-01 ... Build, patch and maintain suckless tools\|txt/007.txt\|server\|…
	-[0\|2022-03-01 ... Association of really cruel viruses (arcv)\|txt/006.txt\|serve…
	-[0\|2022-01-02 ... Why I dropped freebsd after a month\|txt/005.txt\|server\|port]
	-[0\|2021-12-01 ... How I use the modern web\|txt/004.txt\|server\|port]
	-[0\|2021-11-01 ... Qutebrowser is amazing but\|txt/003.txt\|server\|port]
	-[0\|2021-10-01 ... Is github the facebook of coding?\|txt/002.txt\|server\|port]
	-[0\|2021-09-01 ... So much bloat around dotfiles\|txt/001.txt\|server\|port]
	+[0\|2023-01-14 ... Reducing my footprint, using a mini-pc\|phlog/011.txt\|server\|…
	+[0\|2022-09-28 ... Convert mbox to maildir using fdm\|phlog/010.txt\|server\|port]
	+[0\|2022-09-13 ... A true cheap dumbphone,impossible?\|phlog/009.txt\|server\|port]
	+[0\|2022-08-01 ... I moved over to wayland\|phlog/008.txt\|server\|port]
	+[0\|2022-05-01 ... Build, patch and maintain suckless tools\|phlog/007.txt\|serve…
	+[0\|2022-03-01 ... Association of really cruel viruses (arcv)\|phlog/006.txt\|ser…
	+[0\|2022-01-02 ... Why I dropped freebsd after a month\|phlog/005.txt\|server\|por…
	+[0\|2021-12-01 ... How I use the modern web\|phlog/004.txt\|server\|port]
	+[0\|2021-11-01 ... Qutebrowser is amazing but\|phlog/003.txt\|server\|port]
	+[0\|2021-10-01 ... Is github the facebook of coding?\|phlog/002.txt\|server\|port]
	+[0\|2021-09-01 ... So much bloat around dotfiles\|phlog/001.txt\|server\|port]


	PROJECTS

	-[1\|GIT ... all of my git repos\|git/\|server\|port]
	+[1\|GIT ... all my git repos\|git/\|server\|port]
	+[1\|HPUK ... organised collection of 1990s-2000 UK hack/phreak scene files\|file…
	+
	+
	+META
	+
	+[0\|EMAIL\|meta/email.txt\|server\|port]
	+[0\|GPG\|meta/jay.scot.asc\|server\|port]


	-CONTACT
	+OFFLINE

	-[h\|EML ... me (at) jay (dot) scot\|mailto:[email protected]\|server\|port]
	-[0\|GPG ... 0726AF07C73389E1E4475B7EC88BBC696A39CCB0\|about/jay.scot.asc\|server\|…
	+PHLOG ... curl -O gopher://jay.scot/0/phlog/[001-011].txt
	+FILES ... curl -O gopher://jay.scot/0/files/hpuk.tar.gz (651MB)
	diff --git a/meta/changelog.txt b/meta/changelog.txt
	diff --git a/meta/email.txt b/meta/email.txt
	@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
	+run the following in a shell:
	+
	+ echo "[email protected]" \| tr '[a-z]' '[n-za-m]'
	+
	+please use my pgp key if you can.
	diff --git a/about/jay.scot.asc b/meta/jay.scot.asc
	diff --git a/phlog/001.txt b/phlog/001.txt
	@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
	+[jay.scot]
	+[001]
	+
	+
	+--[ So much bloat around dotfiles
	+
	+
	+Let's be honest here everyone who uses some form of *BSD or Linux knows
	+what 'dotfiles' are these days. It's super common to push your local
	+machines various configuration files to GitHub/GitLab or whatever 3rd
	+party hosted git provider happens to be flavour of the month.
	+
	+The thing that really annoys me for some reason is the amount of people
	+that use dedicated programs to manage dotfiles. I am not talking about
	+tools such as GNU/Stow that have multiple purposes, or home-grown shell
	+scripts, not my choice but there is nothing wrong them. I am talking
	+about bloated crap such as Ruby gems or even worse some NodeJS
	+application with 100s of dependencies included. Let's look at a few..
	+
	+ AutoDot - "A minimal dotfile manager".
	+ - NodeJS
	+ - 230+ dependencies
	+ - 50+ different maintainers
	+ - https://github.com/ajmalsiddiqui/autodot
	+
	+ DotStow - "manage dotfiles with stow" (stow front-end???)
	+ - NodeJS
	+ - 270+ dependencies
	+ - Spread over 200 maintainers
	+ - https://github.com/codejamninja/dotstow
	+
	+ Homesick - "Your home directory is your castle"
	+ - Ruby
	+ - Requires ruby, bundler, thor, rack (devel)
	+ - git clones to ~/.homesick then symlinks...
	+ - https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick
	+
	+These types of apps make my balls scurry back up from where once they
	+came. It's just so completely over-engineered and unnecessary, each to
	+their own I guess. Personally I just use a tool that's already on
	+everyone's machine GNU/Make nice and simple! Below is a basic make file
	+you can use to get start, just update the files and configs values and
	+then run `$ make` and you are good to go!
	+
	+
	+ files := bashrc xinitrc muttrc vimrc Xresources
	+ cfgs := qutebrowser ncmpcpp mpd git mutt
	+ dotfiles := $(shell pwd)
	+
	+ all: link
	+
	+ define symlink_file
	+ ln -fs $(dotfiles)/$(1) ${HOME}/$(2)$(1);
	+ endef
	+
	+ define symlink_dir
	+ ln -fns $(dotfiles)/$(1) ${HOME}/$(2)$(1);
	+ endef
	+
	+ link: @$(foreach f,$(files),$(call symlink_file,$(f),.))
	+ @$(foreach f,$(cfgs),$(call symlink_dir,$(f),.config/))
	+ @echo files linked
	+
	+ .PHONY: all link
	+
	+
	+Its pretty straight forward and you can't really go wrong with it, in my
	+own personal Makefile I have a few added steps such as adding backing up
	+installed packages list and cron entries. You can find it over on my git
	+repo which might give you a better understanding how it works in the
	+real world.
	+
	+.EOF
	diff --git a/phlog/002.txt b/phlog/002.txt
	@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
	+[jay.scot]
	+[002]
	+
	+
	+--[ GitHub: The Facebook of coding
	+
	+
	+In my opinion, there is no question that GitHub is the new Facebook for
	+coders and geeks. What I mean by the new Facebook is two-fold, first the
	+type of users you find on GitHub and secondly the businesses shenanigans
	+over the years.
	+
	+
	+THE USERS
	+---------
	+
	+Essentially, GitHub is now a necessity when you are applying for jobs
	+inside the tech industry, recruiters look for it, businesses are
	+requiring it and insist you engage in coding challenges that must be
	+done on the platform. This doesn't sound like a bad thing really, or
	+does it?
	+
	+
	+ YES, actually, it does!
	+
	+
	+GitHub has now become a shit storm of individuals seeking to pimp out
	+their profiles with bullshit Pull Requests, faking timelines, forking
	+repos and raising entirely pointless issues. Everything with the goal
	+of showcasing how much they have contributed to open-source projects. As
	+a recent example look no further than Digital Oceans Hacktoberfest
	+clusterfuck, useless PRs such as deleting spaces all in the hopes of
	+getting a t-shirt.
	+
	+
	+Another real world dilemma impacting users is the knowledge gap of
	+actually using git normally, GitHub is NOT git. GitHub is a proprietary
	+closed-source front-end for a centralized git hosting service. Users
	+have become completely dependent on features that GitHub have built such
	+as PRs, forks, online editing, branch protection to name a couple.
	+I doubt that many users are even aware of commands such as send-mail
	+which is a core function of many projects outside the GitHub world. Nor
	+does it help when the web interface of GitHub encourages sloppy git
	+practices, relying exclusively on one way of doing things, the GitHub
	+Flow.
	+
	+
	+THE COMPANY
	+-----------
	+
	+Let's start off with the obvious fact that Microsoft owns GitHub.
	+Microsoft has a long track record of open-source hatred, the CEO has
	+even gone as far as stating "Linux is a cancer" at one point. This is
	+not good, Microsoft were outed by the U.S. Department of Justice for
	+using this internal term. In short, it ties in well with buying their
	+way into open source projects right? Sounds like GitHub is at the
	+Embrace stage...
	+
	+
	+ "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" [5]
	+
	+
	+Electron, the Chromium engine / NodeJS pile of shit that requires a few
	+Cray supercomputers to run a calculator app on was developed and pushed
	+into the ecosystem by good friends, GitHub. Now we are blessed with
	+awesome spyware programs such as WhatsApp, Discord and Skype that will
	+now run on Linux YAY /s. I mean there is just so much mud around GitHub
	+that I just don't have the urge to go wading through it, searching even
	+more than I have already. Here's a short fire list with some sources to
	+follow-up on, if you are interested.
	+
	+
	+* Denied employee harassment by CEO
	+* Blocked users from country's under US trade sanctions
	+* Have dealings with ICE, they keep kids in cages
	+
	+
	+Due to an incredibly weak DMCA take down notice by the RIAA, youtube-dl
	+was recently banned by GitHub. After it hit main stream news GitHub
	+crapped the bed and started on the news PR. It was not, however, until
	+after the EFF moved in and sent a letter [10] to GitHub describing how
	+the DMCA notification was absolute dog shit that GitHub did something.
	+After this, GitHub went into complete PR mode after and they made it out
	+that they were the saviours of the day and how they'd stronger and
	+better in the future.
	+
	+
	+Anyway, enough of this rant. If you are looking for a 3rd party hosted
	+git solution then please take a look at these two:
	+
	+
	+* SourceHut, https://sr.ht
	+* GitLab, https://gitlab.com
	+
	+
	+Or do what I do an just use the naked git protocol without any front-ends, its
	+stupidly simple.
	+
	+
	+SOURCES
	+-------
	+
	+>> https://drewdevault.com/2020/10/01/Spamtoberfest.html
	+>> https://git-send-email.io/
	+>> https://guides.github.com/introduction/flow/index.html
	+>> https://davelane.nz/microsoft-there-way-win-our-trust
	+>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
	+>> https://tknk.io/01P8 Electron
	+>> https://tknk.io/xnsf
	+>> https://tknk.io/rddV
	+>> https://tknk.io/8pfH
	+>> https://tknk.io/RMLT
	+>> https://tknk.io/XtFd
	+
	+
	+.EOF
	diff --git a/phlog/003.txt b/phlog/003.txt
	@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
	+[jay.scot]
	+[003]
	+
	+
	+--[ Qutebrowser is amazing but..
	+
	+
	+UPDATE as of version 2.0, these are not an issue now. Time to move
	+back to Qutebrowser!
	+
	+
	+For those preferring browsers with a minimal GUI and vim-like keyboard
	+controls, Qutebrowser is a fantastic choice. The project can be compared
	+to Firefox add-ons like Vim Vixen but with a smoother and more refined
	+user interface, backed by an active creator. With that being said here
	+comes the but.
	+
	+
	+And it's a big BUT for me, I no longer use Qutebrowser due to lack of
	+privacy options compared to the likes of Firefox with add-ons. Does
	+Qutebrowser have any choices at all for privacy? It sure does, BUT for
	+the requirements of today's modern web it's just not enough to cut it.
	+This is a list of things that you can do:
	+
	+
	+* disable javascript
	+* disable geolocation
	+* disable webgl
	+* custom http headers
	+* custom user agent
	+* reject cookies
	+* stop canvas reading
	+* host based ad-blocker
	+
	+
	+Although the problem is not a poor list of choices, each of these
	+choices has very limited scope. For example, the ad blocker is
	+a primitive host based list from a flat file. You're going to get video
	+ads and page elements still showing. It just doesn't compare to add-ons
	+like uBlock Origin, where all ads traces are just erased. Setting
	+cookies to deny all the time often contributes to a poor user
	+experience.
	+
	+
	+As an example, I will be constantly be asked to fill in CATCHPA's for
	+every site sitting behind CloudFlare. However, I can install a cookie
	+cleaner on Firefox that manages cookies on a per site basis, deletes
	+them as soon as you navigate off the site, close a tab etc.
	+
	+
	+I also discovered that Qutebrowser does not function as intended with
	+the option to hide the referrer header. This is currently an upstream
	+issue with the engine Qutebrowser uses, QtWebEngine. In the hopes that
	+this gets resolved, I have opened a bug report directly with the
	+project.
	+
	+
	+Using the EFF's browser fingerprinting tools might show you as rather
	+unique compared to Firefox with the privacytools.io recommended addons.
	+In order to randomise the User Agent and HTTP Accept headers, I also
	+tried to write a Python script to do this in Qutebrowser. Although the
	+finger printing was improved, it was just not as good as using Firefox.
	+Once the Qutebrowser feature list has plugin support, I would definitely
	+switch back to Qutebrowser once it has been implemented, but
	+unfortunately Firefox and addons are the way for me.
	+
	+
	+SOURCES
	+-------
	+
	+
	+>> https://qutebrowser.org
	+>> https://github.com/ueokande/vim-vixen
	+>> https://privacytools.io/browsers/#browser
	+>> git://jay.scot/dotfiles.git
	+>> https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/30
	+
	+
	+.EOF
	diff --git a/phlog/004.txt b/phlog/004.txt
	@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
	+[jay.scot]
	+[004]
	+
	+
	+--[ How I use the modern web
	+
	+
	+With how polluted the modern web has become over the years, I actively
	+avoid it as much as possible. From mainstream media sites acting like
	+the gossip magazines from years back. Remember OK magazine? To sites
	+riddled with ads, tracking, social media buttons, and a plethora of
	+utter crap. It feels like navigating down a busy main street where all
	+the hawkers are hassling you too buy their wares. Now bolt-on how every
	+UX designer has given up on the basics like page accessibility
	+standards, loading times, and the important one, usability.
	+
	+
	+ It's an utter shambles right now.
	+
	+
	+When using a browser, I find it far too easy to get caught in a "YouTube
	+loop" or see something at the corner of your eye that you feel the urge
	+to spend the next 30 minutes researching. Before you know it, 3 AM
	+rolls around and your reading a Wikipedia article on some random
	+bollocks. This is why I avoid using a browser as much as possible and
	+this is how I achieve it for about 90% of my daily internet usage.
	+
	+
	+NEWS
	+----
	+
	+Do you need to be reminded every day that Covid has killed X amount of
	+people, that some political party leader fucked a dead pig? Nope, you
	+don't! What you should be doing is focusing on what news is important to
	+YOU. For me, this comes in the form of the latest tech news and
	+information from my local government. The obvious way to do this is via
	+RSS feeds.
	+
	+
	+I am sure everyone has heard of newsboat or similar RSS readers but
	+there is still the problem that most RSS feeds don't have any content
	+attached to the feed. Normally it's just a summary of the article, at
	+best, you still need to open up the browser and view the content. One
	+RSS reader that seems to have slipped under the radar is one called
	+sfeed by Suckless. With this tool I can have this setup.
	+
	+
	+ sfeed ---> fdm ---> rdrview ---> mutt
	+
	+
	+sfeed, this RSS reader allows you to output feeds into various formats,
	+one of them is the mbox. From there I use fdm which is a mail filtering
	+and fetching program, think a better procmail. Using a custom script in
	+fdm I can pass the feed URL to rdrview. rdrview fetches the URL and
	+outputs the page to basic html, using lynx -dump to convert this to
	+a pure plain text article.
	+
	+
	+Finally, once the page has been fetched and processed fdm pushes it to
	+Maildir, filtered by the feedname ready for reading in Mutt. The result
	+is a full copy of the article in a mailbox ready to read in plain text.
	+All of the code for this is in my dotfiles if you need to take a look at
	+the sfeed, fdm, mutt configuration's.
	+
	+
	+Within the same configuration for fdm I fetch my email which also has
	+mailing lists subscriptions of things I should know about. Since
	+switching over to FreeBSD fully a lot of discussions are carried out on
	+various mailing lists. Have a look and see if the tools, news, forums
	+you are apart of have mailing lists. It's another good method of
	+"offline" content.
	+
	+
	+MEDIA CONTENT
	+-------------
	+
	+This one is quite easy to avoid. We all have our favourite channels and
	+check daily to see if anything has been uploaded by them. Only to find
	+3 hours after checking your still on YouTube but watching a video of
	+someone reacting to the latest James Bond trailer while shouting "Make
	+sure you hit the thumbs up and subscribe!" cue shitty gif of a bell
	+throughout the video.
	+
	+
	+The method I was using for this until recently was using a python
	+application called ytcc by woefe over on GitHub. In a nutshell it's
	+a front-end to youtube-dl for managing your subscriptions on YouTube.
	+Simply enter the channel's name and whenever they upload a new video, it
	+will download this ready to view locally. Simple, YouTube crap avoided.
	+
	+
	+As I mentioned though I no longer do this, I have my a shell script that
	+does something similar that directly uses youtube-dl. The reason
	+I changed to this is I can download more than just YouTube videos, I can
	+add other things such as LBRY. I can also customise youtube-dl output
	+and options in greater detail.
	+
	+
	+Finally on media content, podcast. Simply use a tool like castget or if
	+you are a newsboat fan use the built-in podboat feature.
	+
	+
	+BROWSING
	+--------
	+
	+There is no avoiding using a browser completely. When I do have to use
	+one I fire up Qutebrowser, now since my rant about QuteBrowser and
	+privacy in 003.txt things have changed for the better. Qutebrowser now
	+has ABS ad-blocking enabled as well as fixing issues with referrers not
	+working. My qutebrowser blocks nearly everything along with a decent VPN
	+your good to go and get off as soon as you can.
	+
	+
	+Checkout my dotfiles for a better understanding of how all this fits
	+together. I will assume everyone reading this is fairly technical!
	+
	+
	+.EOF
	diff --git a/phlog/005.txt b/phlog/005.txt
	@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
	+[jay.scot]
	+[005]
	+
	+
	+--[ Why I dropped freebsd after a month
	+
	+
	+I switched over to using FreeBSD as my main desktop around 1 month ago.
	+Last night I had enough of some core issues I was having and ended up
	+switching back to Linux. My 2-year-old graphics card, an AMD RX 5700XT,
	+does not work with the current stable release 12.2, so I had no choice
	+but to use -CURRENT, ALPHA-2 then BETA-1.
	+
	+
	+My setup is minimal; I don't use any GUI applications apart from the
	+rare occasion I need to use a browser; I do use mpv often. Even with
	+this setup, there was a performance issue that caused Xorg to micro
	+stutter, causing a system pause for around 1 second.
	+
	+
	+When using just a console things seemed to work fine, so my first
	+thought was the problem must lie with Xorg. Over a few days I tried
	+tweaking various Xorg options such as Tearfree, SWCursor, etc. This made
	+zero improvement, my next port of call was the AMDGPU driver, drm-kmod.
	+
	+
	+AMDGPU, A trip to the GitHub project page for this project did indeed
	+show 4 out of 17 issues open are for the exact model of graphics card
	+I have. Though none of the issues seemed related to the problem I was
	+having.
	+
	+
	+During my research, though, I also found posts on /r/freebsd and the
	+official FreeBSD forums with similar issues, Sadly, none of them had any
	+actual solutions. I decided to build the kernel module from the latest
	+git master, this seemed to improve the stuttering, progress!
	+
	+
	+Around this time I also found out that -CURRENT, -ALPHA and -BETA builds
	+have a lot of debugging enabled in the kernel by default, which can
	+cause degraded system performance.
	+
	+
	+I found GENERIC-NODEBUG kernel config; I stripped out a lot of modules
	+I wouldn't need to help the build times. This was so simple to do, and
	+before I knew it I had a custom kernel built with all debugging removed.
	+Booting into the new kernel I noticed an improvement right away.
	+
	+
	+Playing a video still caused a little stuttering, as long as I did
	+little else. I was happy with this for the time being, thinking that
	+maybe when BETA-1 or RC came around things would be better.
	+
	+
	+Woo-hoo, BETA-1 snapshot was released, time to give it a whirl. BAM,
	+right back to square one. So I went through the same steps again with
	+building the AMDGPU module from git and building a custom kernel with no
	+debugging enabled.
	+
	+
	+The same day as BETA-1 released, I got a reply on one post I made about
	+the issue. Just run this, the poster says, All processes are tied to the
	+first CCX0. This will reduce the usable cores to 4, however.
	+
	+
	+ sh -c 'ps -aux \| cut -w -f2 \| xargs -I foo \
	+ cpuset -l 0,2,4,6 -p foo > /dev/null 2>&1'
	+
	+
	+No way this can be the solution, can it? Well yes it was, suddenly I had
	+nearly ZERO issues. All the lag had disappeared! The only cost? I had
	+to gimp the potential of my system.
	+
	+
	+At this point I had enough, I spent so long on such a trivial matter
	+I decided just to go back to Linux until 13.0 is released, then I will
	+revisit it. I liked FreeBSD. There is so much to it that I loved and
	+would go back in a heartbeat if I could get my hardware working without
	+having to jump over so many hurdles.
	+
	+
	+* I love ports
	+* I had set up Bhyve running Poudriere building my own packages.
	+* Setting up the GPU driver was really simple (if it worked on my card)
	+* Audio setup was such a breeze.
	+* I had no issue installing ports/packages I needed, pkg is a wonderful tool.
	+* Jails are so handy, I didn't think I would need them but man they are
	+great!
	+
	+
	+.EOF
	diff --git a/phlog/006.txt b/phlog/006.txt
	@@ -0,0 +1,236 @@
	+[jay.scot]
	+[006]
	+
	+
	+--[ Association of really cruel viruses (arcv)
	+
	+
	+I have saved and collected a huge amount of data from the 80s, 90s
	+and early 00s from the UK Hacking and Phreaking scene. Many of it has
	+been lost over the years, so I will be dumping it here over the next
	+while in the hopes someone finds it interesting!
	+
	+
	+First up though we have ARCV, a virus writing group from the early
	+1990s!
	+
	+
	+ARCV
	+----
	+
	+Around late 1992 a group emerged calling themselves the Association of
	+Really Cruel Viruses (ARCV). The group was initially small, and by all
	+accounts relatively unskilled, and was made up of two people, Apache
	+Warrior who was the leader of the group, and ICE-9. They soon recruited
	+two more, Toxic Crusader and Slartibartfast, and became one of the first
	+virus writing groups in the UK.
	+
	+
	+Over the next year, they would write around 100 viruses, the first few
	+were created using a virus generator called Virus Creation Laboratory
	+(VCL) but they would soon end up writing their own virii, apparently,
	+they were also very well written! Apache Warrior would also end up
	+creating the group's engine, Cybertech Mutation Engine (CME).
	+
	+
	+ARCV didn't last too long before Scotland Yard caught up with them in an
	+unsuspecting way. A year after they entered the scene around
	+December/January 1993 Apache Warrior and ICE-9 were arrested in the
	+Salford area in the UK. The group had been distributing their viruses
	+and newsletters to a BBS in Cornwall as well as others via beige boxing.
	+In their great wisdom, they decided that the best target of the beige
	+boxing would be their neighbours' line. Scotland Yard did not even
	+realise these two phone phreakers they just caught were also the
	+founding members on ARCV until the confiscation of their computer
	+equipment.
	+
	+
	+Apache Warrior cooperated with the police, and further examination of
	+the confiscated equipment confirmed that not only had the police caught
	+some phone phreakers, but they also caught the leader of ARCV. On
	+Wednesday, January 27 1993, four other ARCV members in Manchester,
	+Cumbria, Staffordshire and Cornwall were raided by Scotland Yard and
	+their computer equipment confiscated. This was ICE-9, Toxic Crusader,
	+Slartibartfast and the arrest in Cornwall was the SYSOP of the BBS where
	+ARCV transferred files too so not officially a member of ARCV. In total
	+there were six arrests and all were released on police bail pending
	+further investigations.
	+
	+
	+DC Noel Bonczoszek of the Computer Crimes Unit failed to identify anyone
	+affected by any ARCV created viruses. Due to this Apache Warrior, ICE-9
	+and the two other members were let off with cautions. One was cautioned
	+relating to another matter, the BBS SYSOP, and the last one was released
	+with no further actions.
	+
	+
	+You can download all the files I have on ARCV from the following gopher
	+site.
	+
	+
	+* ARCV Newsletter 1, txt format
	+* ARCV Newsletter 1, exe format
	+* ARCV Newsletter 1, exe screenshot
	+* ARCV virus collection, 93 in total, be careful you windows users!
	+* November 1992 article
	+* April 1993 article
	+* July 1993 article
	+
	+
	+>> gopher://jay.scot/files/groups/arcv/
	+
	+
	+Got any of these files? Let me know!
	+
	+* ARCV Newsletter Issue 2, may not exist.
	+* ARCV Virus Library Disk 1 and 2, may not of been released.
	+* EICAR'94 conference talk/slides (ICE-9)
	+* CME 1.0 and CME 2.0
	+* Access All Areas II (96) and III (97) talks/slides (Apache Warrior & ICE-9)
	+
	+
	+--- Feb, 1993 : Spreading Viruses
	+--- Personal Computer World Magazine
	+
	+We are a bunch of programmers who, depressed with the lack of viruses that
	+have originated in England, have sought to change matters. We presently
	+write viruses for the PC, Archimedes and Atari ST. We have increased the few
	+viruses written in England by about 25, though this number is increasing all
	+the time as our programmers churn out more quality computer viruses.
	+Although there are many viruses about we hope to dominate the UK 'market'.
	+Won't it be nice, though, for England to have at least one export? Finally,
	+we as an organisation like to stress that, contrary to public opinion, we are
	+not boring people who wear anoraks, nor are we depraved people who were
	+beaten as children and so grew up with a hatred of humanity. We are highly
	+intelligent and good at programming and are just ordinary people. But we are
	+gonna get you soon!
	+
	+ - ARCV (Association of Really Cruel Viruses)
	+
	+
	+--- 4 Feb, 1993 : Apache scalps virus cowboys
	+
	+Police raided the homes of suspected computer virus authors across the
	+country last week, arresting five people and seizing equipment. "The raids
	+were carried out last Wednesday by police in Manchester, Cumbria,
	+Staffordshire and Devon and Cornwall." Scotland Yard's computer crimes unit
	+co-ordinated the raids under the codename Operation Apache. A spokeswoman for
	+the Greater Manchester Police said: 'The investigation began in the
	+Manchester area following the arrest of the self-styled president of the
	+virus writing group in Salford last December.' Police would not reveal the
	+man's name, but said he had been released on bail. "Last week's raids led to
	+the arrest of a further two people in Manchester. Three other suspects were
	+also arrested in Staffordshire, Cumbria and Cornwall." PCs and floppy disks
	+were seized in all the raids. "All those arrested have been released on
	+police bail pending further investigations."
	+
	+
	+--- 4 Feb, 1993 : UK Virus Writers Group Foiled by Scotland Yard
	+
	+British police have arrested four members of a virus-writing group that calls
	+itself the Association of Really Cruel Viruses (ARCV).
	+
	+The Scotland Yard Computer Crime Unit coordinated the raids carried out on
	+suspects in Greater Manchester, Staffordshire, Devon, and Cornwall. The
	+arrests last Wednesday, January 27, bring to six the number of ARCV members
	+found by police, after they initially arrested one caught "phreaking" in
	+Manchester in December. ("Phone phreaking" is the illegal practice of
	+obtaining free use of telephone lines.) The arrests were made under Section 3
	+of the Computer Misuse Act, which prohibits unauthorized modification of
	+computer material, said Detective Sergeant Stephen Littler. The suspects, who
	+cannot be identified at this stage under British law, have been released on
	+bail pending inquiries and may face further charges.
	+
	+The members of ARCV used PCs to write viruses, which they shared via a
	+bulletin board operated by one suspect in Cornwall. The police confiscated
	+hardware and software, which is being studied by virus experts to determine
	+how many viruses were written and what the viruses were intended to do,
	+Littler said. The British anti-virus community became aware of ARCV through
	+the group's own publicity efforts, such as a newsletter that it had uploaded
	+to various bulletin boards in the U.S., according to Richard Ford, editor of
	+the monthly "Virus Bulletin", which is published in Abingdon, Oxon, England.
	+The newsletter was described in detail in the November, 1992, issue of "Virus
	+Bulletin".
	+
	+To the best of my knowledge, none of their viruses are in the wild, out
	+there spreading" said Ford. But they have been found on virus exchange
	+bulletin board services, and we've had reports of them being uploaded rather
	+widely in the UK. ARCV claims, in its newsletter, to have links with
	+PHALCON/SKISM in the U.S. and other virus writers in Eastern Europe. "The
	+world is a very small place when you've got a modem, or are on the Internet",
	+Ford said. The newsletter invites new members to join even if they are not
	+virus writers but prefer other "underground" activities such as hacking and
	+phreaking. It also betrays ARCV's fears of being perceived as nerds (a term
	+not used in Britain) saying, "Now the picture put out by the Anti- Virus
	+Authors is that Virus writers are Sad individuals who wear Anoraks and go
	+Train Spotting but well they are sadly mistaken, we are very intelligent,
	+sound minded, highly trained, and we wouldn't be seen in an Anorak or near an
	+Anorak even if dead."
	+
	+ARCV has already failed at one of the objectives mentioned in its premier
	+newsletter issue, which said, "We will be dodging Special Branch and New
	+Scotland Yard as we go."
	+
	+
	+--- From: [email protected] (Mike C Holderness)
	+--- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
	+--- Subject: This just in from London...
	+--- Date: 3 Feb 1993 13:57:06 -0000
	+--- Department of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
	+
	+Police have arrested Britain's first computer virus-writing group in an
	+operation they hope will dampen the aspirations of any potential high-tech
	+criminals. Four members of the Association of Really Cruel Viruses (ARCV)
	+were raided last Wednesday in a joint operation in four cities co-ordinated
	+by Scotland Yard's computer crimes unit. The arrests in Greater Manchester,
	+Cumbria, Staffordshire and Devon and Cornwall, bring to six the members of
	+the group that have been tracked down by police. Two others, also writing for
	+ARCV, were arrested a month ago in Manchester. This six are thought to have
	+written between 30 and 50 relatively harmless viruses....
	+
	+[continues. By Susan Watts. (C) 1993 Newspaper Publishing plc.]
	+
	+Comments, especially from survivors and even more from people in the UK who
	+are into a little light looking around but nothing Really Cruel, very
	+welcome. Yes, I am a journalist.
	+
	+
	+--- 16 May, 1994 : Urnst Couch / Crypt Newsletter
	+
	+About the same time, a hacker was arrested for stealing phone service from
	+his neighbor's line and his equipment confiscated, too. The hacker turned out
	+to be Apache Warrior, a member of the small United Kingdom virus-writing
	+group called ARCV (for Association of Really Cruel Viruses).
	+
	+Some background information not included in the book: Alan Solomon was
	+apparently able to convince New Scotland Yard's computer crime unit that they
	+should also try to prosecute Apache Warrior as a virus-writer and that the
	+rest of the group should be rounded up, too. In conversation, Solomon has
	+said Apache Warrior turned over the names of other group members.
	+Subsequently, New Scotland Yard and local constabularies conducted raids at
	+multiple sites in England, arresting another man. Paradoxically, prior to the
	+arrests, Solomon joked that ARCV was better at cyber-publicity than virus
	+programming and its creations were little more than petty menaces. The book
	+offers no reported incidences of ARCV viruses on the computers of others,
	+although Virus News International, by extension S&S International, solicited
	+readers for such evidence in 1993.
	+
	+
	+--- Date: Fri, 16 Apr 93 09:17:21
	+--- From: [email protected] (McAfee Associates)
	+--- Subject: Forwarded message from Scotland Yard
	+
	+Hello All,
	+
	+I was recently contacted by DC Noel Bonczoszek of the Computer Crimes Unit at
	+New Scotland Yard in London. As some of you may be aware, Noel is one of the
	+folks responsible for arresting the members of ARCV, a UK-based group of
	+virus-writers. He would like to speak with anyone who suffered an infection
	+from any of their viruses. If you have been infected by one of their
	+viruses, or know of someone who has, then please give him a call at +44 (71)
	+230-1177 during office hours (GMT), or send him a fax at +44 (71) 230-1275.
	+
	+Please bear in mind that I'm only forwarding this message for DC Bonczoszek.
	+If you have any questions, please contact him directly.
	+
	+.EOF
	diff --git a/phlog/007.txt b/phlog/007.txt
	@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
	+[jay.scot]
	+[007]
	+
	+
	+--[ Build, patch and maintain suckless tools
	+
	+
	+I am a long time supporter of the Unix philosophy and have been using
	+tools such as dwm as my daily driver since 2011, as such I mainly use
	+the terminal for everything. Lots of these tools are best built via the
	+latest source code release or development copy instead of a package
	+build, so you can apply your custom configuration. The most common
	+methods I have come across on managing to do this is a mixture of using
	+separate git branches for each patch or even just manually applying the
	+patches and then fixing anything that didn't succeed.
	+
	+I am a big fan of Makefiles, I even use Makefiles to manage my dotfiles
	+instead of a tool like GNU Stow. So it will be no surprise I use these
	+to build, patch and install all my suckless based tools such as dwm, st,
	+dmenu and herbe. My Makefile makes patching easy and means I don't need
	+to worry about maintaining multiple branches, it's super easy to get the
	+latest versions etc. It also helps that I don't have any extra patches
	+apart from dmenu and st, any additions I have for dwm and herbe are
	+added to config.h as functions.
	+
	+Below is the generic Makefile I use, this one is for dmenu as it's
	+a good example to use since I use a few minimal external patches. The
	+options at the top of the Makefile should be pretty obvious, the
	+defaults should be fine for most people.
	+
	+
	+ REPOSITORY = http://git.suckless.org/dmenu
	+ SRC_DIR = dmenu-src
	+ PINNED_REVISION = HEAD
	+ PATCH_DIR = patches
	+
	+ all: $(SRC_DIR)
	+
	+ clean: reset
	+ @if test -d $(SRC_DIR); then \
	+ $(MAKE) -C "${SRC_DIR}" -s clean; \
	+ git -C "${SRC_DIR}" clean -f; \
	+ fi
	+
	+ $(SRC_DIR): clone reset patch
	+ @cp config.h $@
	+ $(MAKE) -C "${SRC_DIR}" -s
	+
	+ patch: $(PATCH_DIR)/*
	+ @for file in $^ ; do \
	+ patch -d "${SRC_DIR}" < $${file}; \
	+ done
	+ reset:
	+ @if [ -n "$(strip $(PINNED_REVISION))" ]; then \
	+ git -C "${SRC_DIR}" reset --hard $(PINNED_REVISION); \
	+ fi
	+
	+ clone:
	+ @if ! test -d $(SRC_DIR); then \
	+ git clone $(REPOSITORY) $(SRC_DIR); \
	+ fi
	+
	+ update: clean
	+ @git -C "${SRC_DIR}" pull
	+
	+ install:
	+ $(MAKE) -C "${SRC_DIR}" -s install
	+
	+
	+ .PHONY: all clean update install reset clone patch
	+
	+
	+And this is the file structure I have:
	+
	+ \|- dwm
	+ \|-- dwm-src # git clone of dwm, handled by Makefile
	+ \|-- config.h # my custom config for dmenu
	+ \|-- Makefile # the Makefile from above
	+ \|-- patches # directory containing patches
	+ \|---- 01-dmenu-centre.patch
	+ \|---- 02-dmenu-border.patch
	+
	+If you have no patches to apply, then remove the 'patch' from line 14
	+then run 'make', this will git clone or reset if already cloned, apply
	+patches, copy your custom config.h and the build, A 'make install' after
	+that will install as normal.
	+
	+To see a working copy of these you can clone my dotfiles and have
	+a look in the dwm, dmenu, st or herbe folders.
	+
	+ git clone git://jay.scot/dotfiles
	+
	+.EOF
	diff --git a/phlog/008.txt b/phlog/008.txt
	@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
	+[jay.scot]
	+[008]
	+
	+
	+--[ I moved over to wayland
	+
	+
	+I have been putting it off for ages, it's been on my to-do list for
	+months. Anytime I saw it pop-up I would just ignore it either due to
	+laziness, not interested or just general procrastinating. However, not
	+this weekend! Wayland will be the de facto and soon enough replace Xorg
	+am sure.
	+
	+My setup is heavily terminal based with the usual tooling you see these
	+days. Suckless based tools such as dwm, dmenu and st as the main WM
	+tooling. Mutt for email, all kinds of feeds via Newsboat, MPV for
	+videos, browsing with Qutebrower and Amfora for Gemini. I was hoping
	+with such minimal GUI usage the switch over would be easy enough.
	+A quick look around and it looks like I would need to completely switch
	+dwm, dmenu and st over to a wayland equivalent.
	+
	+I do have a few edge case applications I use but upon checking, they all
	+work under wayland. These were Qutebrowser (Browsing), Performance
	+Portfolio (Accounting) and Calibre (Ebooks), result!
	+
	+First, the window manager! As it turns out there is a wayland port of
	+dwm called dwl, there seems to be a few trivial changes, but they are
	+basically like for like. On a sidenote, I had been tweaking dwm recently
	+and it really became a bit of a pain in the arse building, restart dwm
	+all the time. With this still at the back of my mind, anticipating that
	+I will be doing it again with dwl, I thought why not try out something
	+new. Enter Sway.
	+
	+Sway is the wayland port of i3 with some common patches people used
	+rolled in. A look at the config file setup for Sway made it look very
	+straight forward to replicate my dwm keybinds and layout. Another
	+benefit being I could install the packages via the AUR instead of
	+building it myself, this felt like a plus after many many years of
	+compiling from source.
	+
	+I kinda hate st, truth be told. You need to add in a few patches to the
	+build as out of the box it's very limiting. So on that I was happy to
	+find a replacement for st. Two options were on the table for me,
	+Alacritty and Foot. I ended up going with Foot, it seemed to be a lot
	+faster and lightweight compared to Alacritty, according to their own
	+benchmark results. I also wasn't sold on the idea of it being GPU
	+accelerated. Alacritty also clams to be faster than all the rest, but
	+they didn't seem to provide the actual benchmarks, just the tool they
	+used. Whereas Foot had a whole ton of information, benchmarks and
	+screenshots explaining why its fast as fuck.
	+
	+Again the application was in the AUR and with a live reload config file
	+it was trivial to set up. Interestingly, the out of the box config would
	+have been fine, only thing I really changed were the colours and font.
	+
	+dmenu, this one I spent most of my time researching and testing out
	+various alternatives. At first, I was just going to use rofi but soon
	+found out that it doesn't have native wayland support and uses Xwayland
	+instead. There is a port called wofi too, I tried both of them out.
	+I don't know, I just didn't like them, they seemed to flashy, the config
	+for them seemed tedious. I then tried out bemenu which is based on
	+dmenu, this was the one. Yet again I just needed to install the AUR
	+package, the config can be set via an environment variable called
	+BEMENU_OPTS. After playing about with it I just added this to my bashrc
	+profile and I was done. So simple, love it.
	+
	+
	+> export BEMENU_OPTS="-p '> ' --tb '#000000' --tf '#ffffff' --hf '#444444'"
	+
	+
	+So far I have had no crashes or any issues at all. One thing that I have
	+noticed is MPV playback seems way smoother and scrolling in Qutebrowser
	+is tear-free. So far so good, and I really don't feel like I am missing
	+anything switching over.
	+
	+Another side, my installed packages has reduced massively, all
	+X packages have been removed as they are no longer needed. My dotfiles
	+directory looks a lot leaner without all the dwm, herbe, st and dmenu
	+builds. Trivial I know.
	+
	+I guess now I just continue as is for a few more months and see what
	+I think then!
	+
	+.EOF
	diff --git a/phlog/009.txt b/phlog/009.txt
	@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
	+[jay.scot]
	+[009]
	+
	+
	+--[ A true cheap dumbphone, impossible?
	+
	+
	+I have been on the lookout of a truly cheap dumb phone but trying to
	+find that sweet spot just isn't happening. I just want to call and get
	+SMS - that's it.
	+
	+The Lightphone 2 [0] looks ideal at first glance, nice and simple.
	+However, digging into it a bit more I see the following possible issues
	+for my use case:
	+
	+ It's expensive, around £350 ($402) when you include import tax.
	+ Linked to some sort of central login platform.
	+ From installing apps to first-time boot a "Light Account" is needed.
	+
	+Another one that's looks good is the Mudita Pure Phone [2], they even
	+have an open source OS running it called MuditaOS. The massive downside,
	+it's nearly £340 ($385). Crazy prices if you ask me!
	+
	+What I am using currently is an old Nokia 2.3 with Unlauncher [3]
	+running, cost was around £60 ($75) 2 years ago. I really wish there was
	+a cheap and truly dumbphone out there..
	+
	+
	+0. https://thelightphone.com
	+1. https://mudita.com/products/phones/mudita-pure
	+2. https://jkuester.github.io/unlauncher
	+
	+.EOF
	diff --git a/phlog/010.txt b/phlog/010.txt
	@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
	+[jay.scot]
	+[010]
	+
	+
	+--[ Convert mbox to maildir using fdm
	+
	+
	+I recently downloaded a bunch of old mailing list archives from Alpine
	+Linux[0] that I want to merge with my current archives. The problem being
	+my current archives were in Maildir format while the Alpine Linux
	+archives were in MBOX.
	+
	+
	+Since I already use fdm[1] for fetching my mail as well as converting RSS
	+feeds I just went with that, this is how:
	+
	+
	+ $ cat archive
	+
	+ $listdir= "%h/.mail/alpine.users" # where to save the maildir
	+ $mbox= "%h/tmp/alpine-users.mbox" # the local mbox location
	+
	+ # the local mbox file
	+ account "convert" mbox "$mbox"
	+ action "convert" maildir "${listdir}"
	+ match all action "convert"
	+
	+
	+then just run FDM with the above configuration file:
	+
	+
	+ $ fdm -f archive fetch
	+
	+
	+0. https://lists.alpinelinux.org/~alpine/users
	+1. https://github.com/nicm/fdm
	+
	+.EOF
	diff --git a/phlog/011.txt b/phlog/011.txt
	@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
	+[jay.scot]
	+[011]
	+
	+
	+--[ Reducing my footprint, using a mini-pc
	+
	+
	+I recently turned off my main pc, a homegrown setup I had been upgrading
	+over the years. It had quite a decent spec, AMD RX XT5700, Intel i7,
	+32Gb RAM, 3xSSDs and a NVM drives. I have mentioned in previous TXT
	+files I mainly use the command line apart from qutebrowser occasionally
	+so it was complete overkill. Not to mention the energy prices in north
	+Scotland being absurd, it was time to "downgrade".
	+
	+
	+I had a few options in mind, a good old Raspberry Pi, a 2nd hand
	+Thinkcentre or an off the shelf mini-pc. As you obviously gathered,
	+I went with the mini-pc, a beelink U59 [0]. The RPI are actually quite
	+costly now, hard to get. I also wanted an x86 architecture for using
	+Alpine Linux - my desktop distro of choice these days. Apparently the
	+Thinkcentre can be quite loud too, so I ended up buying the U59 with the
	+500Gb SSD, 16Gb Ram options for around £200 on Amazon.
	+
	+
	+I installed Alpine Linux with no issues at all. I have a bootstrap
	+script for Alpine [1], so using this I was up and running with the foot
	+terminal open on sway 15 minutes later. The U59 is completely quiet, and
	+the max I have seen the temp get so far was 59C while playing Loom via
	+ScummVM. I had to compile ScummVM from source which took around 20
	+mintues, not bad at all. The power draw was sitting around 15 watts
	+during this time.
	+
	+
	+Really happy with it so far, will be interesting to see how long this
	+machine lasts for.
	+
	+
	+0. https://www.bee-link.com/catalog/product/index?id=334
	+1. gopher://jay.scot/1/git/alpine-bootstrap/
	+
	+.EOF
	diff --git a/txt/001.txt b/txt/001.txt
	@@ -1,74 +0,0 @@
	-[jay.scot]
	-[001]
	-
	-
	-So much bloat around dotfiles
	-──────────────────────────…
	-
	-
	-Let's be honest here everyone who uses some form of *BSD or Linux knows
	-what 'dotfiles' are these days. It's super common to push your local
	-machines various configuration files to GitHub/GitLab or whatever 3rd
	-party hosted git provider happens to be flavour of the month.
	-
	-The thing that really annoys me for some reason is the amount of people
	-that use dedicated programs to manage dotfiles. I am not talking about
	-tools such as GNU/Stow that have multiple purposes, or home-grown shell
	-scripts, not my choice but there is nothing wrong them. I am talking
	-about bloated crap such as Ruby gems or even worse some NodeJS
	-application with 100s of dependencies included. Let's look at a few..
	-
	- AutoDot - "A minimal dotfile manager".
	- - NodeJS
	- - 230+ dependencies
	- - 50+ different maintainers
	- - https://github.com/ajmalsiddiqui/autodot
	-
	- DotStow - "manage dotfiles with stow" (stow front-end???)
	- - NodeJS
	- - 270+ dependencies
	- - Spread over 200 maintainers
	- - https://github.com/codejamninja/dotstow
	-
	- Homesick - "Your home directory is your castle"
	- - Ruby
	- - Requires ruby, bundler, thor, rack (devel)
	- - git clones to ~/.homesick then symlinks...
	- - https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick
	-
	-These types of apps make my balls scurry back up from where once they
	-came. It's just so completely over-engineered and unnecessary, each to
	-their own I guess. Personally I just use a tool that's already on
	-everyone's machine GNU/Make nice and simple! Below is a basic make file
	-you can use to get start, just update the files and configs values and
	-then run `$ make` and you are good to go!
	-
	-
	- files := bashrc xinitrc muttrc vimrc Xresources
	- cfgs := qutebrowser ncmpcpp mpd git mutt
	- dotfiles := $(shell pwd)
	-
	- all: link
	-
	- define symlink_file
	- ln -fs $(dotfiles)/$(1) ${HOME}/$(2)$(1);
	- endef
	-
	- define symlink_dir
	- ln -fns $(dotfiles)/$(1) ${HOME}/$(2)$(1);
	- endef
	-
	- link: @$(foreach f,$(files),$(call symlink_file,$(f),.))
	- @$(foreach f,$(cfgs),$(call symlink_dir,$(f),.config/))
	- @echo files linked
	-
	- .PHONY: all link
	-
	-
	-Its pretty straight forward and you can't really go wrong with it, in my
	-own personal Makefile I have a few added steps such as adding backing up
	-installed packages list and cron entries. You can find it over on my git
	-repo which might give you a better understanding how it works in the
	-real world.
	-
	-.EOF
	diff --git a/txt/002.txt b/txt/002.txt
	@@ -1,117 +0,0 @@
	-[jay.scot]
	-[002]
	-
	-
	-GitHub: The Facebook of coding
	-──────────────────────────…
	-
	-
	-In my opinion, there is no question that GitHub is the new Facebook for
	-coders and geeks. What I mean by the new Facebook is two-fold, first the
	-type of users you find on GitHub and secondly the businesses shenanigans
	-over the years.
	-
	-
	-THE USERS
	----------
	-
	-Essentially, GitHub is now a necessity when you are applying for jobs
	-inside the tech industry, recruiters look for it, businesses are
	-requiring it and insist you engage in coding challenges that must be
	-done on the platform. This doesn't sound like a bad thing really, or
	-does it?
	-
	-
	- YES, actually, it does!
	-
	-
	-GitHub has now become a shit storm of individuals seeking to pimp out
	-their profiles with bullshit Pull Requests, faking timelines, forking
	-repos and raising entirely pointless issues. Everything with the goal
	-of showcasing how much they have contributed to open-source projects. As
	-a recent example look no further than Digital Oceans Hacktoberfest
	-clusterfuck, useless PRs such as deleting spaces all in the hopes of
	-getting a t-shirt.
	-
	-
	-Another real world dilemma impacting users is the knowledge gap of
	-actually using git normally, GitHub is NOT git. GitHub is a proprietary
	-closed-source front-end for a centralized git hosting service. Users
	-have become completely dependent on features that GitHub have built such
	-as PRs, forks, online editing, branch protection to name a couple.
	-I doubt that many users are even aware of commands such as send-mail
	-which is a core function of many projects outside the GitHub world. Nor
	-does it help when the web interface of GitHub encourages sloppy git
	-practices, relying exclusively on one way of doing things, the GitHub
	-Flow.
	-
	-
	-THE COMPANY
	------------
	-
	-Let's start off with the obvious fact that Microsoft owns GitHub.
	-Microsoft has a long track record of open-source hatred, the CEO has
	-even gone as far as stating "Linux is a cancer" at one point. This is
	-not good, Microsoft were outed by the U.S. Department of Justice for
	-using this internal term. In short, it ties in well with buying their
	-way into open source projects right? Sounds like GitHub is at the
	-Embrace stage...
	-
	-
	- "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" [5]
	-
	-
	-Electron, the Chromium engine / NodeJS pile of shit that requires a few
	-Cray supercomputers to run a calculator app on was developed and pushed
	-into the ecosystem by good friends, GitHub. Now we are blessed with
	-awesome spyware programs such as WhatsApp, Discord and Skype that will
	-now run on Linux YAY /s. I mean there is just so much mud around GitHub
	-that I just don't have the urge to go wading through it, searching even
	-more than I have already. Here's a short fire list with some sources to
	-follow-up on, if you are interested.
	-
	-
	-* Denied employee harassment by CEO
	-* Blocked users from country's under US trade sanctions
	-* Have dealings with ICE, they keep kids in cages
	-
	-
	-Due to an incredibly weak DMCA take down notice by the RIAA, youtube-dl
	-was recently banned by GitHub. After it hit main stream news GitHub
	-crapped the bed and started on the news PR. It was not, however, until
	-after the EFF moved in and sent a letter [10] to GitHub describing how
	-the DMCA notification was absolute dog shit that GitHub did something.
	-After this, GitHub went into complete PR mode after and they made it out
	-that they were the saviours of the day and how they'd stronger and
	-better in the future.
	-
	-
	-Anyway, enough of this rant. If you are looking for a 3rd party hosted
	-git solution then please take a look at these two:
	-
	-
	-* SourceHut, https://sr.ht
	-* GitLab, https://gitlab.com
	-
	-
	-Or do what I do an just use the naked git protocol without any front-ends, its
	-stupidly simple.
	-
	-
	-SOURCES
	--------
	-
	->> https://drewdevault.com/2020/10/01/Spamtoberfest.html
	->> https://git-send-email.io/
	->> https://guides.github.com/introduction/flow/index.html
	->> https://davelane.nz/microsoft-there-way-win-our-trust
	->> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
	->> https://tknk.io/01P8 Electron
	->> https://tknk.io/xnsf
	->> https://tknk.io/rddV
	->> https://tknk.io/8pfH
	->> https://tknk.io/RMLT
	->> https://tknk.io/XtFd
	-
	-
	-.EOF
	diff --git a/txt/003.txt b/txt/003.txt
	@@ -1,80 +0,0 @@
	-[jay.scot]
	-[003]
	-
	-
	-Qutebrowser is amazing but..
	-──────────────────────────…
	-
	-
	-UPDATE as of version 2.0, these are not an issue now. Time to move
	-back to Qutebrowser!
	-
	-
	-For those preferring browsers with a minimal GUI and vim-like keyboard
	-controls, Qutebrowser is a fantastic choice. The project can be compared
	-to Firefox add-ons like Vim Vixen but with a smoother and more refined
	-user interface, backed by an active creator. With that being said here
	-comes the but.
	-
	-
	-And it's a big BUT for me, I no longer use Qutebrowser due to lack of
	-privacy options compared to the likes of Firefox with add-ons. Does
	-Qutebrowser have any choices at all for privacy? It sure does, BUT for
	-the requirements of today's modern web it's just not enough to cut it.
	-This is a list of things that you can do:
	-
	-
	-* disable javascript
	-* disable geolocation
	-* disable webgl
	-* custom http headers
	-* custom user agent
	-* reject cookies
	-* stop canvas reading
	-* host based ad-blocker
	-
	-
	-Although the problem is not a poor list of choices, each of these
	-choices has very limited scope. For example, the ad blocker is
	-a primitive host based list from a flat file. You're going to get video
	-ads and page elements still showing. It just doesn't compare to add-ons
	-like uBlock Origin, where all ads traces are just erased. Setting
	-cookies to deny all the time often contributes to a poor user
	-experience.
	-
	-
	-As an example, I will be constantly be asked to fill in CATCHPA's for
	-every site sitting behind CloudFlare. However, I can install a cookie
	-cleaner on Firefox that manages cookies on a per site basis, deletes
	-them as soon as you navigate off the site, close a tab etc.
	-
	-
	-I also discovered that Qutebrowser does not function as intended with
	-the option to hide the referrer header. This is currently an upstream
	-issue with the engine Qutebrowser uses, QtWebEngine. In the hopes that
	-this gets resolved, I have opened a bug report directly with the
	-project.
	-
	-
	-Using the EFF's browser fingerprinting tools might show you as rather
	-unique compared to Firefox with the privacytools.io recommended addons.
	-In order to randomise the User Agent and HTTP Accept headers, I also
	-tried to write a Python script to do this in Qutebrowser. Although the
	-finger printing was improved, it was just not as good as using Firefox.
	-Once the Qutebrowser feature list has plugin support, I would definitely
	-switch back to Qutebrowser once it has been implemented, but
	-unfortunately Firefox and addons are the way for me.
	-
	-
	-SOURCES
	--------
	-
	-
	->> https://qutebrowser.org
	->> https://github.com/ueokande/vim-vixen
	->> https://privacytools.io/browsers/#browser
	->> git://jay.scot/dotfiles.git
	->> https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/30
	-
	-
	-.EOF
	diff --git a/txt/004.txt b/txt/004.txt
	@@ -1,119 +0,0 @@
	-[jay.scot]
	-[004]
	-
	-
	-How I use the modern web
	-────────────────────────
	-
	-
	-With how polluted the modern web has become over the years, I actively
	-avoid it as much as possible. From mainstream media sites acting like
	-the gossip magazines from years back. Remember OK magazine? To sites
	-riddled with ads, tracking, social media buttons, and a plethora of
	-utter crap. It feels like navigating down a busy main street where all
	-the hawkers are hassling you too buy their wares. Now bolt-on how every
	-UX designer has given up on the basics like page accessibility
	-standards, loading times, and the important one, usability.
	-
	-
	- It's an utter shambles right now.
	-
	-
	-When using a browser, I find it far too easy to get caught in a "YouTube
	-loop" or see something at the corner of your eye that you feel the urge
	-to spend the next 30 minutes researching. Before you know it, 3 AM
	-rolls around and your reading a Wikipedia article on some random
	-bollocks. This is why I avoid using a browser as much as possible and
	-this is how I achieve it for about 90% of my daily internet usage.
	-
	-
	-NEWS
	-----
	-
	-Do you need to be reminded every day that Covid has killed X amount of
	-people, that some political party leader fucked a dead pig? Nope, you
	-don't! What you should be doing is focusing on what news is important to
	-YOU. For me, this comes in the form of the latest tech news and
	-information from my local government. The obvious way to do this is via
	-RSS feeds.
	-
	-
	-I am sure everyone has heard of newsboat or similar RSS readers but
	-there is still the problem that most RSS feeds don't have any content
	-attached to the feed. Normally it's just a summary of the article, at
	-best, you still need to open up the browser and view the content. One
	-RSS reader that seems to have slipped under the radar is one called
	-sfeed by Suckless. With this tool I can have this setup.
	-
	-
	- sfeed ---> fdm ---> rdrview ---> mutt
	-
	-
	-sfeed, this RSS reader allows you to output feeds into various formats,
	-one of them is the mbox. From there I use fdm which is a mail filtering
	-and fetching program, think a better procmail. Using a custom script in
	-fdm I can pass the feed URL to rdrview. rdrview fetches the URL and
	-outputs the page to basic html, using lynx -dump to convert this to
	-a pure plain text article.
	-
	-
	-Finally, once the page has been fetched and processed fdm pushes it to
	-Maildir, filtered by the feedname ready for reading in Mutt. The result
	-is a full copy of the article in a mailbox ready to read in plain text.
	-All of the code for this is in my dotfiles if you need to take a look at
	-the sfeed, fdm, mutt configuration's.
	-
	-
	-Within the same configuration for fdm I fetch my email which also has
	-mailing lists subscriptions of things I should know about. Since
	-switching over to FreeBSD fully a lot of discussions are carried out on
	-various mailing lists. Have a look and see if the tools, news, forums
	-you are apart of have mailing lists. It's another good method of
	-"offline" content.
	-
	-
	-MEDIA CONTENT
	--------------
	-
	-This one is quite easy to avoid. We all have our favourite channels and
	-check daily to see if anything has been uploaded by them. Only to find
	-3 hours after checking your still on YouTube but watching a video of
	-someone reacting to the latest James Bond trailer while shouting "Make
	-sure you hit the thumbs up and subscribe!" cue shitty gif of a bell
	-throughout the video.
	-
	-
	-The method I was using for this until recently was using a python
	-application called ytcc by woefe over on GitHub. In a nutshell it's
	-a front-end to youtube-dl for managing your subscriptions on YouTube.
	-Simply enter the channel's name and whenever they upload a new video, it
	-will download this ready to view locally. Simple, YouTube crap avoided.
	-
	-
	-As I mentioned though I no longer do this, I have my a shell script that
	-does something similar that directly uses youtube-dl. The reason
	-I changed to this is I can download more than just YouTube videos, I can
	-add other things such as LBRY. I can also customise youtube-dl output
	-and options in greater detail.
	-
	-
	-Finally on media content, podcast. Simply use a tool like castget or if
	-you are a newsboat fan use the built-in podboat feature.
	-
	-
	-BROWSING
	---------
	-
	-There is no avoiding using a browser completely. When I do have to use
	-one I fire up Qutebrowser, now since my rant about QuteBrowser and
	-privacy in 003.txt things have changed for the better. Qutebrowser now
	-has ABS ad-blocking enabled as well as fixing issues with referrers not
	-working. My qutebrowser blocks nearly everything along with a decent VPN
	-your good to go and get off as soon as you can.
	-
	-
	-Checkout my dotfiles for a better understanding of how all this fits
	-together. I will assume everyone reading this is fairly technical!
	-
	-
	-.EOF
	diff --git a/txt/005.txt b/txt/005.txt
	@@ -1,92 +0,0 @@
	-[jay.scot]
	-[005]
	-
	-
	-Why I dropped freebsd after a month
	-──────────────────────────…
	-
	-
	-I switched over to using FreeBSD as my main desktop around 1 month ago.
	-Last night I had enough of some core issues I was having and ended up
	-switching back to Linux. My 2-year-old graphics card, an AMD RX 5700XT,
	-does not work with the current stable release 12.2, so I had no choice
	-but to use -CURRENT, ALPHA-2 then BETA-1.
	-
	-
	-My setup is minimal; I don't use any GUI applications apart from the
	-rare occasion I need to use a browser; I do use mpv often. Even with
	-this setup, there was a performance issue that caused Xorg to micro
	-stutter, causing a system pause for around 1 second.
	-
	-
	-When using just a console things seemed to work fine, so my first
	-thought was the problem must lie with Xorg. Over a few days I tried
	-tweaking various Xorg options such as Tearfree, SWCursor, etc. This made
	-zero improvement, my next port of call was the AMDGPU driver, drm-kmod.
	-
	-
	-AMDGPU, A trip to the GitHub project page for this project did indeed
	-show 4 out of 17 issues open are for the exact model of graphics card
	-I have. Though none of the issues seemed related to the problem I was
	-having.
	-
	-
	-During my research, though, I also found posts on /r/freebsd and the
	-official FreeBSD forums with similar issues, Sadly, none of them had any
	-actual solutions. I decided to build the kernel module from the latest
	-git master, this seemed to improve the stuttering, progress!
	-
	-
	-Around this time I also found out that -CURRENT, -ALPHA and -BETA builds
	-have a lot of debugging enabled in the kernel by default, which can
	-cause degraded system performance.
	-
	-
	-I found GENERIC-NODEBUG kernel config; I stripped out a lot of modules
	-I wouldn't need to help the build times. This was so simple to do, and
	-before I knew it I had a custom kernel built with all debugging removed.
	-Booting into the new kernel I noticed an improvement right away.
	-
	-
	-Playing a video still caused a little stuttering, as long as I did
	-little else. I was happy with this for the time being, thinking that
	-maybe when BETA-1 or RC came around things would be better.
	-
	-
	-Woo-hoo, BETA-1 snapshot was released, time to give it a whirl. BAM,
	-right back to square one. So I went through the same steps again with
	-building the AMDGPU module from git and building a custom kernel with no
	-debugging enabled.
	-
	-
	-The same day as BETA-1 released, I got a reply on one post I made about
	-the issue. Just run this, the poster says, All processes are tied to the
	-first CCX0. This will reduce the usable cores to 4, however.
	-
	-
	- sh -c 'ps -aux \| cut -w -f2 \| xargs -I foo \
	- cpuset -l 0,2,4,6 -p foo > /dev/null 2>&1'
	-
	-
	-No way this can be the solution, can it? Well yes it was, suddenly I had
	-nearly ZERO issues. All the lag had disappeared! The only cost? I had
	-to gimp the potential of my system.
	-
	-
	-At this point I had enough, I spent so long on such a trivial matter
	-I decided just to go back to Linux until 13.0 is released, then I will
	-revisit it. I liked FreeBSD. There is so much to it that I loved and
	-would go back in a heartbeat if I could get my hardware working without
	-having to jump over so many hurdles.
	-
	-
	-* I love ports
	-* I had set up Bhyve running Poudriere building my own packages.
	-* Setting up the GPU driver was really simple (if it worked on my card)
	-* Audio setup was such a breeze.
	-* I had no issue installing ports/packages I needed, pkg is a wonderful tool.
	-* Jails are so handy, I didn't think I would need them but man they are
	-great!
	-
	-
	-.EOF
	diff --git a/txt/006.txt b/txt/006.txt
	@@ -1,237 +0,0 @@
	-[jay.scot]
	-[006]
	-
	-
	-Association of really cruel viruses (arcv)
	-──────────────────────────…
	-
	-
	-I have saved and collected a huge amount of data from the 80s, 90s
	-and early 00s from the UK Hacking and Phreaking scene. Many of it has
	-been lost over the years, so I will be dumping it here over the next
	-while in the hopes someone finds it interesting!
	-
	-
	-First up though we have ARCV, a virus writing group from the early
	-1990s!
	-
	-
	-ARCV
	-----
	-
	-Around late 1992 a group emerged calling themselves the Association of
	-Really Cruel Viruses (ARCV). The group was initially small, and by all
	-accounts relatively unskilled, and was made up of two people, Apache
	-Warrior who was the leader of the group, and ICE-9. They soon recruited
	-two more, Toxic Crusader and Slartibartfast, and became one of the first
	-virus writing groups in the UK.
	-
	-
	-Over the next year, they would write around 100 viruses, the first few
	-were created using a virus generator called Virus Creation Laboratory
	-(VCL) but they would soon end up writing their own virii, apparently,
	-they were also very well written! Apache Warrior would also end up
	-creating the group's engine, Cybertech Mutation Engine (CME).
	-
	-
	-ARCV didn't last too long before Scotland Yard caught up with them in an
	-unsuspecting way. A year after they entered the scene around
	-December/January 1993 Apache Warrior and ICE-9 were arrested in the
	-Salford area in the UK. The group had been distributing their viruses
	-and newsletters to a BBS in Cornwall as well as others via beige boxing.
	-In their great wisdom, they decided that the best target of the beige
	-boxing would be their neighbours' line. Scotland Yard did not even
	-realise these two phone phreakers they just caught were also the
	-founding members on ARCV until the confiscation of their computer
	-equipment.
	-
	-
	-Apache Warrior cooperated with the police, and further examination of
	-the confiscated equipment confirmed that not only had the police caught
	-some phone phreakers, but they also caught the leader of ARCV. On
	-Wednesday, January 27 1993, four other ARCV members in Manchester,
	-Cumbria, Staffordshire and Cornwall were raided by Scotland Yard and
	-their computer equipment confiscated. This was ICE-9, Toxic Crusader,
	-Slartibartfast and the arrest in Cornwall was the SYSOP of the BBS where
	-ARCV transferred files too so not officially a member of ARCV. In total
	-there were six arrests and all were released on police bail pending
	-further investigations.
	-
	-
	-DC Noel Bonczoszek of the Computer Crimes Unit failed to identify anyone
	-affected by any ARCV created viruses. Due to this Apache Warrior, ICE-9
	-and the two other members were let off with cautions. One was cautioned
	-relating to another matter, the BBS SYSOP, and the last one was released
	-with no further actions.
	-
	-
	-You can download all the files I have on ARCV from the following gopher
	-site.
	-
	-
	-* ARCV Newsletter 1, txt format
	-* ARCV Newsletter 1, exe format
	-* ARCV Newsletter 1, exe screenshot
	-* ARCV virus collection, 93 in total, be careful you windows users!
	-* November 1992 article
	-* April 1993 article
	-* July 1993 article
	-
	-
	->> gopher://jay.scot/files/groups/arcv/
	-
	-
	-Got any of these files? Let me know!
	-
	-* ARCV Newsletter Issue 2, may not exist.
	-* ARCV Virus Library Disk 1 and 2, may not of been released.
	-* EICAR'94 conference talk/slides (ICE-9)
	-* CME 1.0 and CME 2.0
	-* Access All Areas II (96) and III (97) talks/slides (Apache Warrior & ICE-9)
	-
	-
	---- Feb, 1993 : Spreading Viruses
	---- Personal Computer World Magazine
	-
	-We are a bunch of programmers who, depressed with the lack of viruses that
	-have originated in England, have sought to change matters. We presently
	-write viruses for the PC, Archimedes and Atari ST. We have increased the few
	-viruses written in England by about 25, though this number is increasing all
	-the time as our programmers churn out more quality computer viruses.
	-Although there are many viruses about we hope to dominate the UK 'market'.
	-Won't it be nice, though, for England to have at least one export? Finally,
	-we as an organisation like to stress that, contrary to public opinion, we are
	-not boring people who wear anoraks, nor are we depraved people who were
	-beaten as children and so grew up with a hatred of humanity. We are highly
	-intelligent and good at programming and are just ordinary people. But we are
	-gonna get you soon!
	-
	- - ARCV (Association of Really Cruel Viruses)
	-
	-
	---- 4 Feb, 1993 : Apache scalps virus cowboys
	-
	-Police raided the homes of suspected computer virus authors across the
	-country last week, arresting five people and seizing equipment. "The raids
	-were carried out last Wednesday by police in Manchester, Cumbria,
	-Staffordshire and Devon and Cornwall." Scotland Yard's computer crimes unit
	-co-ordinated the raids under the codename Operation Apache. A spokeswoman for
	-the Greater Manchester Police said: 'The investigation began in the
	-Manchester area following the arrest of the self-styled president of the
	-virus writing group in Salford last December.' Police would not reveal the
	-man's name, but said he had been released on bail. "Last week's raids led to
	-the arrest of a further two people in Manchester. Three other suspects were
	-also arrested in Staffordshire, Cumbria and Cornwall." PCs and floppy disks
	-were seized in all the raids. "All those arrested have been released on
	-police bail pending further investigations."
	-
	-
	---- 4 Feb, 1993 : UK Virus Writers Group Foiled by Scotland Yard
	-
	-British police have arrested four members of a virus-writing group that calls
	-itself the Association of Really Cruel Viruses (ARCV).
	-
	-The Scotland Yard Computer Crime Unit coordinated the raids carried out on
	-suspects in Greater Manchester, Staffordshire, Devon, and Cornwall. The
	-arrests last Wednesday, January 27, bring to six the number of ARCV members
	-found by police, after they initially arrested one caught "phreaking" in
	-Manchester in December. ("Phone phreaking" is the illegal practice of
	-obtaining free use of telephone lines.) The arrests were made under Section 3
	-of the Computer Misuse Act, which prohibits unauthorized modification of
	-computer material, said Detective Sergeant Stephen Littler. The suspects, who
	-cannot be identified at this stage under British law, have been released on
	-bail pending inquiries and may face further charges.
	-
	-The members of ARCV used PCs to write viruses, which they shared via a
	-bulletin board operated by one suspect in Cornwall. The police confiscated
	-hardware and software, which is being studied by virus experts to determine
	-how many viruses were written and what the viruses were intended to do,
	-Littler said. The British anti-virus community became aware of ARCV through
	-the group's own publicity efforts, such as a newsletter that it had uploaded
	-to various bulletin boards in the U.S., according to Richard Ford, editor of
	-the monthly "Virus Bulletin", which is published in Abingdon, Oxon, England.
	-The newsletter was described in detail in the November, 1992, issue of "Virus
	-Bulletin".
	-
	-To the best of my knowledge, none of their viruses are in the wild, out
	-there spreading" said Ford. But they have been found on virus exchange
	-bulletin board services, and we've had reports of them being uploaded rather
	-widely in the UK. ARCV claims, in its newsletter, to have links with
	-PHALCON/SKISM in the U.S. and other virus writers in Eastern Europe. "The
	-world is a very small place when you've got a modem, or are on the Internet",
	-Ford said. The newsletter invites new members to join even if they are not
	-virus writers but prefer other "underground" activities such as hacking and
	-phreaking. It also betrays ARCV's fears of being perceived as nerds (a term
	-not used in Britain) saying, "Now the picture put out by the Anti- Virus
	-Authors is that Virus writers are Sad individuals who wear Anoraks and go
	-Train Spotting but well they are sadly mistaken, we are very intelligent,
	-sound minded, highly trained, and we wouldn't be seen in an Anorak or near an
	-Anorak even if dead."
	-
	-ARCV has already failed at one of the objectives mentioned in its premier
	-newsletter issue, which said, "We will be dodging Special Branch and New
	-Scotland Yard as we go."
	-
	-
	---- From: [email protected] (Mike C Holderness)
	---- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
	---- Subject: This just in from London...
	---- Date: 3 Feb 1993 13:57:06 -0000
	---- Department of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
	-
	-Police have arrested Britain's first computer virus-writing group in an
	-operation they hope will dampen the aspirations of any potential high-tech
	-criminals. Four members of the Association of Really Cruel Viruses (ARCV)
	-were raided last Wednesday in a joint operation in four cities co-ordinated
	-by Scotland Yard's computer crimes unit. The arrests in Greater Manchester,
	-Cumbria, Staffordshire and Devon and Cornwall, bring to six the members of
	-the group that have been tracked down by police. Two others, also writing for
	-ARCV, were arrested a month ago in Manchester. This six are thought to have
	-written between 30 and 50 relatively harmless viruses....
	-
	-[continues. By Susan Watts. (C) 1993 Newspaper Publishing plc.]
	-
	-Comments, especially from survivors and even more from people in the UK who
	-are into a little light looking around but nothing Really Cruel, very
	-welcome. Yes, I am a journalist.
	-
	-
	---- 16 May, 1994 : Urnst Couch / Crypt Newsletter
	-
	-About the same time, a hacker was arrested for stealing phone service from
	-his neighbor's line and his equipment confiscated, too. The hacker turned out
	-to be Apache Warrior, a member of the small United Kingdom virus-writing
	-group called ARCV (for Association of Really Cruel Viruses).
	-
	-Some background information not included in the book: Alan Solomon was
	-apparently able to convince New Scotland Yard's computer crime unit that they
	-should also try to prosecute Apache Warrior as a virus-writer and that the
	-rest of the group should be rounded up, too. In conversation, Solomon has
	-said Apache Warrior turned over the names of other group members.
	-Subsequently, New Scotland Yard and local constabularies conducted raids at
	-multiple sites in England, arresting another man. Paradoxically, prior to the
	-arrests, Solomon joked that ARCV was better at cyber-publicity than virus
	-programming and its creations were little more than petty menaces. The book
	-offers no reported incidences of ARCV viruses on the computers of others,
	-although Virus News International, by extension S&S International, solicited
	-readers for such evidence in 1993.
	-
	-
	---- Date: Fri, 16 Apr 93 09:17:21
	---- From: [email protected] (McAfee Associates)
	---- Subject: Forwarded message from Scotland Yard
	-
	-Hello All,
	-
	-I was recently contacted by DC Noel Bonczoszek of the Computer Crimes Unit at
	-New Scotland Yard in London. As some of you may be aware, Noel is one of the
	-folks responsible for arresting the members of ARCV, a UK-based group of
	-virus-writers. He would like to speak with anyone who suffered an infection
	-from any of their viruses. If you have been infected by one of their
	-viruses, or know of someone who has, then please give him a call at +44 (71)
	-230-1177 during office hours (GMT), or send him a fax at +44 (71) 230-1275.
	-
	-Please bear in mind that I'm only forwarding this message for DC Bonczoszek.
	-If you have any questions, please contact him directly.
	-
	-.EOF
	diff --git a/txt/007.txt b/txt/007.txt
	@@ -1,94 +0,0 @@
	-[jay.scot]
	-[007]
	-
	-
	-Build, patch and maintain suckless tools
	-──────────────────────────…
	-
	-
	-I am a long time supporter of the Unix philosophy and have been using
	-tools such as dwm as my daily driver since 2011, as such I mainly use
	-the terminal for everything. Lots of these tools are best built via the
	-latest source code release or development copy instead of a package
	-build, so you can apply your custom configuration. The most common
	-methods I have come across on managing to do this is a mixture of using
	-separate git branches for each patch or even just manually applying the
	-patches and then fixing anything that didn't succeed.
	-
	-I am a big fan of Makefiles, I even use Makefiles to manage my dotfiles
	-instead of a tool like GNU Stow. So it will be no surprise I use these
	-to build, patch and install all my suckless based tools such as dwm, st,
	-dmenu and herbe. My Makefile makes patching easy and means I don't need
	-to worry about maintaining multiple branches, it's super easy to get the
	-latest versions etc. It also helps that I don't have any extra patches
	-apart from dmenu and st, any additions I have for dwm and herbe are
	-added to config.h as functions.
	-
	-Below is the generic Makefile I use, this one is for dmenu as it's
	-a good example to use since I use a few minimal external patches. The
	-options at the top of the Makefile should be pretty obvious, the
	-defaults should be fine for most people.
	-
	-
	- REPOSITORY = http://git.suckless.org/dmenu
	- SRC_DIR = dmenu-src
	- PINNED_REVISION = HEAD
	- PATCH_DIR = patches
	-
	- all: $(SRC_DIR)
	-
	- clean: reset
	- @if test -d $(SRC_DIR); then \
	- $(MAKE) -C "${SRC_DIR}" -s clean; \
	- git -C "${SRC_DIR}" clean -f; \
	- fi
	-
	- $(SRC_DIR): clone reset patch
	- @cp config.h $@
	- $(MAKE) -C "${SRC_DIR}" -s
	-
	- patch: $(PATCH_DIR)/*
	- @for file in $^ ; do \
	- patch -d "${SRC_DIR}" < $${file}; \
	- done
	- reset:
	- @if [ -n "$(strip $(PINNED_REVISION))" ]; then \
	- git -C "${SRC_DIR}" reset --hard $(PINNED_REVISION); \
	- fi
	-
	- clone:
	- @if ! test -d $(SRC_DIR); then \
	- git clone $(REPOSITORY) $(SRC_DIR); \
	- fi
	-
	- update: clean
	- @git -C "${SRC_DIR}" pull
	-
	- install:
	- $(MAKE) -C "${SRC_DIR}" -s install
	-
	-
	- .PHONY: all clean update install reset clone patch
	-
	-
	-And this is the file structure I have:
	-
	- \|- dwm
	- \|-- dwm-src # git clone of dwm, handled by Makefile
	- \|-- config.h # my custom config for dmenu
	- \|-- Makefile # the Makefile from above
	- \|-- patches # directory containing patches
	- \|---- 01-dmenu-centre.patch
	- \|---- 02-dmenu-border.patch
	-
	-If you have no patches to apply, then remove the 'patch' from line 14
	-then run 'make', this will git clone or reset if already cloned, apply
	-patches, copy your custom config.h and the build, A 'make install' after
	-that will install as normal.
	-
	-To see a working copy of these you can clone my dotfiles and have
	-a look in the dwm, dmenu, st or herbe folders.
	-
	- git clone git://jay.scot/dotfiles
	-
	-.EOF
	diff --git a/txt/008.txt b/txt/008.txt
	@@ -1,85 +0,0 @@
	-[jay.scot]
	-[008]
	-
	-
	-I moved over to wayland
	-───────────────────────
	-
	-
	-I have been putting it off for ages, it's been on my to-do list for
	-months. Anytime I saw it pop-up I would just ignore it either due to
	-laziness, not interested or just general procrastinating. However, not
	-this weekend! Wayland will be the de facto and soon enough replace Xorg
	-am sure.
	-
	-My setup is heavily terminal based with the usual tooling you see these
	-days. Suckless based tools such as dwm, dmenu and st as the main WM
	-tooling. Mutt for email, all kinds of feeds via Newsboat, MPV for
	-videos, browsing with Qutebrower and Amfora for Gemini. I was hoping
	-with such minimal GUI usage the switch over would be easy enough.
	-A quick look around and it looks like I would need to completely switch
	-dwm, dmenu and st over to a wayland equivalent.
	-
	-I do have a few edge case applications I use but upon checking, they all
	-work under wayland. These were Qutebrowser (Browsing), Performance
	-Portfolio (Accounting) and Calibre (Ebooks), result!
	-
	-First, the window manager! As it turns out there is a wayland port of
	-dwm called dwl, there seems to be a few trivial changes, but they are
	-basically like for like. On a sidenote, I had been tweaking dwm recently
	-and it really became a bit of a pain in the arse building, restart dwm
	-all the time. With this still at the back of my mind, anticipating that
	-I will be doing it again with dwl, I thought why not try out something
	-new. Enter Sway.
	-
	-Sway is the wayland port of i3 with some common patches people used
	-rolled in. A look at the config file setup for Sway made it look very
	-straight forward to replicate my dwm keybinds and layout. Another
	-benefit being I could install the packages via the AUR instead of
	-building it myself, this felt like a plus after many many years of
	-compiling from source.
	-
	-I kinda hate st, truth be told. You need to add in a few patches to the
	-build as out of the box it's very limiting. So on that I was happy to
	-find a replacement for st. Two options were on the table for me,
	-Alacritty and Foot. I ended up going with Foot, it seemed to be a lot
	-faster and lightweight compared to Alacritty, according to their own
	-benchmark results. I also wasn't sold on the idea of it being GPU
	-accelerated. Alacritty also clams to be faster than all the rest, but
	-they didn't seem to provide the actual benchmarks, just the tool they
	-used. Whereas Foot had a whole ton of information, benchmarks and
	-screenshots explaining why its fast as fuck.
	-
	-Again the application was in the AUR and with a live reload config file
	-it was trivial to set up. Interestingly, the out of the box config would
	-have been fine, only thing I really changed were the colours and font.
	-
	-dmenu, this one I spent most of my time researching and testing out
	-various alternatives. At first, I was just going to use rofi but soon
	-found out that it doesn't have native wayland support and uses Xwayland
	-instead. There is a port called wofi too, I tried both of them out.
	-I don't know, I just didn't like them, they seemed to flashy, the config
	-for them seemed tedious. I then tried out bemenu which is based on
	-dmenu, this was the one. Yet again I just needed to install the AUR
	-package, the config can be set via an environment variable called
	-BEMENU_OPTS. After playing about with it I just added this to my bashrc
	-profile and I was done. So simple, love it.
	-
	-
	-> export BEMENU_OPTS="-p '> ' --tb '#000000' --tf '#ffffff' --hf '#444444'"
	-
	-
	-So far I have had no crashes or any issues at all. One thing that I have
	-noticed is MPV playback seems way smoother and scrolling in Qutebrowser
	-is tear-free. So far so good, and I really don't feel like I am missing
	-anything switching over.
	-
	-Another side, my installed packages has reduced massively, all
	-X packages have been removed as they are no longer needed. My dotfiles
	-directory looks a lot leaner without all the dwm, herbe, st and dmenu
	-builds. Trivial I know.
	-
	-I guess now I just continue as is for a few more months and see what
	-I think then!
	-
	-.EOF
	diff --git a/txt/009.txt b/txt/009.txt
	@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
	-[jay.scot]
	-[009]
	-
	-
	-A true cheap dumbphone, impossible?
	-──────────────────────────…
	-
	-
	-I have been on the lookout of a truly cheap dumb phone but trying to
	-find that sweet spot just isn't happening. I just want to call and get
	-SMS - that's it.
	-
	-The Lightphone 2 [0] looks ideal at first glance, nice and simple.
	-However, digging into it a bit more I see the following possible issues
	-for my use case:
	-
	- It's expensive, around £350 ($402) when you include import tax.
	- Linked to some sort of central login platform.
	- From installing apps to first-time boot a "Light Account" is needed.
	-
	-Another one that's looks good is the Mudita Pure Phone [2], they even
	-have an open source OS running it called MuditaOS. The massive downside,
	-it's nearly £340 ($385). Crazy prices if you ask me!
	-
	-What I am using currently is an old Nokia 2.3 with Unlauncher [3]
	-running, cost was around £60 ($75) 2 years ago. I really wish there was
	-a cheap and truly dumbphone out there..
	-
	-
	-0. https://thelightphone.com
	-1. https://mudita.com/products/phones/mudita-pure
	-2. https://jkuester.github.io/unlauncher
	-
	-.EOF
	diff --git a/txt/010.txt b/txt/010.txt
	@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
	-[jay.scot]
	-[010]
	-
	-
	-Convert mbox to maildir using fdm
	-──────────────────────────…
	-
	-
	-I recently downloaded a bunch of old mailing list archives from Alpine
	-Linux[0] that I want to merge with my current archives. The problem being
	-my current archives were in Maildir format while the Alpine Linux
	-archives were in MBOX.
	-
	-
	-Since I already use fdm[1] for fetching my mail as well as converting RSS
	-feeds I just went with that, this is how:
	-
	-
	- $ cat archive
	-
	- $listdir= "%h/.mail/alpine.users" # where to save the maildir
	- $mbox= "%h/tmp/alpine-users.mbox" # the local mbox location
	-
	- # the local mbox file
	- account "convert" mbox "$mbox"
	- action "convert" maildir "${listdir}"
	- match all action "convert"
	-
	-
	-then just run FDM with the above configuration file:
	-
	-
	- $ fdm -f archive fetch
	-
	-
	-0. https://lists.alpinelinux.org/~alpine/users
	-1. https://github.com/nicm/fdm
	-
	-.EOF
	diff --git a/txt/011.txt b/txt/011.txt
	@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
	-[jay.scot]
	-[011]
	-
	-
	-Reducing my footprint, using a mini-pc
	-──────────────────────────…
	-
	-
	-I recently turned off my main pc, a homegrown setup I had been upgrading
	-over the years. It had quite a decent spec, AMD RX XT5700, Intel i7,
	-32Gb RAM, 3xSSDs and a NVM drives. I have mentioned in previous TXT
	-files I mainly use the command line apart from qutebrowser occasionally
	-so it was complete overkill. Not to mention the energy prices in north
	-Scotland being absurd, it was time to "downgrade".
	-
	-
	-I had a few options in mind, a good old Raspberry Pi, a 2nd hand
	-Thinkcentre or an off the shelf mini-pc. As you obviously gathered,
	-I went with the mini-pc, a beelink U59 [0]. The RPI are actually quite
	-costly now, hard to get. I also wanted an X86 architecture for using
	-Alpine Linux - my distro of choice these days. Apparently the
	-Thinkcentre can be quite loud too, so I ended up buying the U59 with the
	-500 GB SSD and 16 GB Ram for around £200 on Amazon.
	-
	-
	-I installed Alpine Linux with no issues at all. I have a bootstrap
	-script for Alpine [1], so using this I was up and running with the foot
	-terminal open on sway 15 minutes later. The U59 is completely quiet, and
	-the max I have seen the temp get so far was 59C while playing Loom via
	-ScummVM. I had to compile ScummVM from source which took around 20
	-mintues. The power draw was sitting around 15 watts during this time.
	-
	-
	-Really happy with it so far, will be interesting to see how long this
	-machine lasts for.
	-
	-
	-0. https://www.bee-link.com/catalog/product/index?id=334
	-1. gopher://jay.scot/1/git/alpine-bootstrap/
	-
	-.EOF