Pablo
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Entrepreneur, programmer, rare book collector, researcher, and photographer (the last two as hobbies). Interested in the rise of the decentralized internet and the evolution of programming. 👾 openpgp4fpr:7C3A051F5EA99005FC1378824E7F9C514F1DAC87
Pill IV: The Incantation Bowls, or Lilith Under the Floor
Pill IV: The Incantation Bowls, or Lilith Under the Floor
Incantation bowl with an Aramaic inscription and a central figure, from Nippur, Mesopotamia, 6th–7th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, inv. L.1999.83.3 (loan). Photograph by Marie-Lan Nguyen, 2011, released into the public domain, via…
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i found both links thru this blog post btw, lots more interesting stuff in there
Pablo@pablomurad.com · yesterdayWords, compiled: Neat Finds #03: Tiny Websites, Paper Zines and Old Desktops Issue three of my occasional zine of open source finds: SSH-powered hosting, a forum with zero JavaScript, a whole website inside a link, a TV schedule for handmade sites,… #NeatFinds #OpenSource #smallweb #indieweb
hax0r.zip is a news page for hackers and programmers. The front pulls Hacker News, Lobsters, Slashdot, Tildes, Techmeme and a few more; below it, chapters on programming, self-hosting, Linux and BSD and security mix sites like LWN, Phoronix and Krebs on Security with Lemmy communities. 1/2
Written, proofread, shipped: Come wreck your photos :) phlog.space is a free little photo site where every picture gets wrecked by one of 35 random effects. Now with a MySpace-style top 8, webmentions and even less tracking. No JavaScript, no ads, just… #photography #projects #smallweb #indieweb
Come wreck your photos :)
phlog.space is a free little photo site where every picture gets wrecked by one of 35 random effects. Now with a MySpace-style top 8, webmentions and even less tracking. No JavaScript, no ads, just plain PHP and SQLite. Come post with us.
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Thrill Kill Kult - A Daisy Chain 4 Satan 4:20 · Skull's Cave #peertube #videos
Thrill Kill Kult - A Daisy Chain 4 Satan
4:20 · Skull's Cave
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I’ve been working on this experiment: https://murad.world/ I have absolutely no idea what it’ll become, but when I figure it out, I’ll let you know.
Words, compiled: The file server I didn't know I needed: copyparty Every now and then a piece of software solves the problem I installed it for and then keeps showing me other problems it can solve. copyparty is one of those. I've been using it and I'm… #SelfHosting #OpenSource #tools #homelab
The file server I didn't know I needed: copyparty
Every now and then a piece of software solves the problem I installed it for and then keeps showing me other problems it can solve. copyparty is one of those. I've been using it and I'm honestly loving it. The pitch sounds almost too simple: run a…
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a CEO emailed me wanting editorial control over my second brain. apparently, my personal archive has a board of directors now. nobody told me. in the movie, he’s a touchy billionaire trying to silence my scathing criticism. in the actual email, it was brand repositioning. 1/2
New transmission: systemd: why do some Linux distributions go out of their way to avoid it? I was reading about antiX when something caught my eye. It's a lightweight distribution, happy on old machines, based on Debian, and it deliberately stays away from systemd.… #linux #unix #sysadmin #debian
systemd: why do some Linux distributions go out of their way to avoid it?
I was reading about antiX when something caught my eye. It's a lightweight distribution, happy on old machines, based on Debian, and it deliberately stays away from systemd. With antiX 26, released on March 21, 2026, it went further than I…
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Uplink established: 9front in your pocket: drawterm on Android Inspired by a tiny note from Sigrid on ftrv.se: how to build drawterm on an Android phone and connect to 9front without touching a PC. Plus what Plan 9 is, running rio on your phone, sharing your… #9front #plan9 #android #termux
9front in your pocket: drawterm on Android
Inspired by a tiny note from Sigrid on ftrv.se: how to build drawterm on an Android phone and connect to 9front without touching a PC. Plus what Plan 9 is, running rio on your phone, sharing your phone’s files over 9P, and an easier app.
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Freshly written: Newt and OpenBSD The plan was simple: spin up an OpenBSD VM on Proxmox to host a small static site generated with an SSG. No giant stack, no Docker, no panel full of abstractions in the middle. Just a clean, predictable system with httpd… #openbsd #SelfHosting #homelab #sysadmin
Newt and OpenBSD
The plan was simple: spin up an OpenBSD VM on Proxmox to host a small static site generated with an SSG. No giant stack, no Docker, no panel full of abstractions in the middle. Just a clean, predictable system with httpd serving static files, the…
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runv.club is open again. It's a small public Unix server, run from Brazil. You get a shell on a shared Debian box, a page at runv.club/~you, a Gemini capsule, a Gopher hole and a blog: drop markdown in ~/blog and it goes up on all three. 1/2
Incoming: 50 more Obsidian plugins worth your time Fifty more Obsidian plugins, zero repeats from part one: screenplays, sheet music, chess and recipes next to the writing, planning and publishing tools. What each one does, how to start using it, and the catch… #obsidian #tools #tips #markdown
50 more Obsidian plugins worth your time
Fifty more Obsidian plugins, zero repeats from part one: screenplays, sheet music, chess and recipes next to the writing, planning and publishing tools. What each one does, how to start using it, and the catch when there is one.
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Words, compiled: Neat Finds #03: Tiny Websites, Paper Zines and Old Desktops Issue three of my occasional zine of open source finds: SSH-powered hosting, a forum with zero JavaScript, a whole website inside a link, a TV schedule for handmade sites,… #NeatFinds #OpenSource #smallweb #indieweb
Neat Finds #03: Tiny Websites, Paper Zines and Old Desktops
Issue three of my occasional zine of open source finds: SSH-powered hosting, a forum with zero JavaScript, a whole website inside a link, a TV schedule for handmade sites, one-sheet zines, a 1980s MUD and a mountain of tiled wallpapers.
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The Golden Dawn, or the Order That Wrote the Rules
The Golden Dawn, or the Order That Wrote the Rules
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers in Egyptian costume, photograph, before 1918. Photographer unknown; reproduced in Aleister Crowley’s autobiography. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn lasted barely twelve…
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Unix V4's malloc() took a memory map, and mfree() wanted the size back. Explicit regions and sized frees in 1973, basically arenas, and then we dropped it. Great dig through old Unix source by napcakes, with galloc() and Pike's gcnew() thrown in: https://napcakes.nekoweb.org/posts/malloc/
Out of the drafts folder: How debrid services work There's a kind of internet service that feels almost magical the first time you use it. You paste a link, a magnet, a torrent file, sometimes an NZB, and the service hands you back a clean, fast, direct link to… #web #computers #usenet #tools
How debrid services work
There's a kind of internet service that feels almost magical the first time you use it. You paste a link, a magnet, a torrent file, sometimes an NZB, and the service hands you back a clean, fast, direct link to download or stream. No queue, no…
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All Souls, or the Day the Living Owe the Dead
All Souls, or the Day the Living Owe the Dead
Purgatory, folio 113v of the Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry , fifteenth century, Musée Condé, Chantilly. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Tomorrow is the second of November. Before it was a holiday, a day of flowers and traffic jams at the…
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Ready to read: The demon's joke, or Delage's demon I ran into one of those wonderfully suspicious YouTube titles: CURSED FILMS. Of course I clicked. On the other side of the screen, a middle-aged presenter called Getro was telling a completely deranged story about… #movies #film #horror #occult
The demon's joke, or Delage's demon
I ran into one of those wonderfully suspicious YouTube titles: CURSED FILMS. Of course I clicked. On the other side of the screen, a middle-aged presenter called Getro was telling a completely deranged story about Georges Méliès, occultism and a…
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Words, compiled: Reading log, 2026-W44 Things I read recently and think are worth your time. #reading #ReadingLog
Reading log, 2026-W44
Things I read recently and think are worth your time.
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Fresh from the devlog: Reddit isn't closing the door on AI. It's selling the key. Reddit says it's killing RSS and its public API to stop AI scraping. But AI is its customer: Google and OpenAI pay for access, while feed readers, researchers and small… #rss #indieweb #smallweb #SocialMedia
Reddit isn't closing the door on AI. It's selling the key.
Reddit says it's killing RSS and its public API to stop AI scraping. But AI is its customer: Google and OpenAI pay for access, while feed readers, researchers and small developers get locked out.
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Days Of Heaven 1:34:00 · Toca da Caveira #peertube #videos
Days Of Heaven
1:34:00 · Toca da Caveira
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movq wrote two novellas, typeset them in groff, and won't let anyone read them. I love that. The part that got me isn't the macros, it's the train ride. No laptop, so he wrote a whole chapter in his head and memorized it. 1/2
Too long for a commit message: Getting started with Kitten, a kit for the Small Web Kitten turns a folder of HTML, CSS and JavaScript into a website or web app, with HTTPS, a built-in database and peer-to-peer features for the Small Web. What it is,… #kitten #SmallWeb #WebDevelopment #javascript
Getting started with Kitten, a kit for the Small Web
Kitten turns a folder of HTML, CSS and JavaScript into a website or web app, with HTTPS, a built-in database and peer-to-peer features for the Small Web. What it is, who it’s for, and how to go from install to a live app.
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