defanor's homepage

Here I write about the things I learn, use, do, and think of. The page about me includes contact information.

Notes

There is the index of notes. Most recently modified ones:

Debian 11 (to 12) workstation

Debian 11 to 12 workstation maintenance (2021-08 to 2025-10, 3195 words)

Computer hardware

Personal notes on computer hardware (2019-04 to 2025-10, 3121 words)

Home entertainment centre

Software, games, and media retrieval notes (2020-01 to 2025-10, 1865 words)

Mobile computing

Experiences of doing computing on mobile devices (2017-07 to 2025-10, 2822 words)

Personal data storage

Storage and backup notes (2021-03 to 2025-10, 3581 words)

Art and playfulness

On the hacker culture, art, and playfulness in computing (2024-01 to 2025-09, 521 words)

Physical exercises

Casual workouts at home (2023-03 to 2025-09, 2583 words)

Network abuse

A log of dealing with network abuse (2022-09 to 2025-08, 1674 words)

Projects

My recent hobby projects are available from my GitHub page, my Codeberg page, or my tildegit page.

Blog

There is the index of blog posts, and I have a separate Mastodon microblog. Below are the most recent blog entries.

• 2025-10-12-machiavelli-and-descartes.txt
• 2025-09-20-politics-and-security-theater.txt
• 2025-08-20-hobbes-locke-llms-exercises.txt
• 2025-07-16-kropotkin-hobbes-xmpp.txt
• 2025-06-22-more-philosophy-works.txt
• 2025-05-17-nicomachean-ethics.txt
• 2025-04-06-history.txt
• 2025-03-03-mechanics.txt

Links

There are many interesting things around, and I am trying to collect them: it is both for me, to keep them around, and for others who may be interested.