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<h2 id="toc-title">Contents</h2>
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<li><a href="#frequently-anticipated-questions" id="toc-frequently-anticipated-questions" target="_self">Frequently Anticipated
Questions</a>
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<li><a href="#questions-noone-asked-but-could-maybe" id="toc-questions-noone-asked-but-could-maybe" target="_self">Questions noone asked,
but could maybe</a>
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<li><a href="#why-bother-running-a-tor-hidden-service-if-youre-gonna-put-your-full-name-on-it" id="toc-why-bother-running-a-tor-hidden-service-if-youre-gonna-put-your-full-name-on-it" target="_self"><em>Why
bother running a Tor hidden service if you're gonna put your full name
on it?</em></a></li>
<li><a href="#how-come-i-cant-access-your-main-domain" id="toc-how-come-i-cant-access-your-main-domain" target="_self"><em>How come I can't
access your main domain?</em></a></li>
<li><a href="#you-wrote-all-this-in-vim-why-tho" id="toc-you-wrote-all-this-in-vim-why-tho" target="_self"><em>You wrote all this in
vim? Why tho?</em></a></li>
<li><a href="#why-openbsd" id="toc-why-openbsd" target="_self"><em>Why
OpenBSD?</em></a></li>
<li><a href="#why-bother-making-your-site-from-scratch-it-looks-like-crap" id="toc-why-bother-making-your-site-from-scratch-it-looks-like-crap" target="_self"><em>Why
bother making your site from scratch? It looks like crap</em></a></li>
<li><a href="#why-does-your-rss-feed-update-me-on-old-stuff" id="toc-why-does-your-rss-feed-update-me-on-old-stuff" target="_self"><em>Why does your
RSS feed update me on old stuff?</em></a></li>
<li><a href="#why-is-this-site-public-domain-what-does-that-mean" id="toc-why-is-this-site-public-domain-what-does-that-mean" target="_self"><em>Why is
this site public domain? What does that mean?</em></a></li>
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<h1 id="frequently-anticipated-questions">Frequently Anticipated
Questions</h1>
<h2 id="questions-noone-asked-but-could-maybe">Questions noone asked,
but could maybe</h2>
<h3 id="why-bother-running-a-tor-hidden-service-if-youre-gonna-put-your-full-name-on-it"><em>Why
bother running a Tor hidden service if you're gonna put your full name
on it?</em></h3>
<p>One, because I think hidden services are neat and I thought it'd be
neat to make one. And two, if I really needed to be anonymous, I would
probably self-host or find a hosting provider somewhere else, or
reconsider using the Internet all together.</p>
<p>The hidden service has a benefit though, mostly to <em>you</em>. You
don't need to expose your IP to me or to anyone else to access this
site.</p>
<h3 id="how-come-i-cant-access-your-main-domain"><em>How come I can't
access your main domain?</em></h3>
<p>Honestly, I wouldn't know if my site is blocked elsewhere, but I may
have blocked your IP for the following reasons:</p>
<ul>
<li>You attempted to ssh to my server (I use fail2ban and employ private
keys, I block all failed attempts)</li>
<li>You tried to pass some weird or malicious HTTP request (again,
fail2ban)</li>
<li>Someone else on your IP tried to do one of those things</li>
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<p>This is part of the reason why I run the site as hidden service since
you can still read my nonsense anyway through that, but if you think
this might be an error on my part, you can email me.</p>
<h3 id="you-wrote-all-this-in-vim-why-tho"><em>You wrote all this in
vim? Why tho?</em></h3>
<p>Neovim more lately, but yeah other than large projects, I prefer
using vim for editing. Mostly because it's easy to edit consistently
across servers and because I just spend so much of my time in the
terminal lately that I'm used to it.</p>
<h3 id="why-openbsd"><em>Why OpenBSD?</em></h3>
<p>Honestly, I though the fish was cool.</p>
<p><img src="/static/media/puffy.gif"/></p>
<p>I don't know the artist of that one unfortunately, I just found it on
a forum.</p>
<p>Besides I've installed Debian lots of times so I figured, why not try
something different? It's pretty cool as a server OS. Just a lot of
homework. I'm sure it's good as a desktop/laptop one too, but it's not
different enough for me to move all my data.</p>
<p>For what it's worth, I use Debian sid for a daily driver.</p>
<h3 id="why-bother-making-your-site-from-scratch-it-looks-like-crap"><em>Why
bother making your site from scratch? It looks like crap</em></h3>
<p>Eh. I feel like if what I say isn't interesting, prettying it up
won't help keep attention that much. I like simple sites like this one.
It forces you to poke around more. Poking around is a good thing.</p>
<h3 id="why-does-your-rss-feed-update-me-on-old-stuff"><em>Why does your
RSS feed update me on old stuff?</em></h3>
<p>Because I made it to set the publication date to the last write time
of the file. Change is important and I do it often, because I'm often
wrong.</p>
<h3 id="why-is-this-site-public-domain-what-does-that-mean"><em>Why is
this site public domain? What does that mean?</em></h3>
<p>This site is "licensed" under The Creative Commons CC0 or "No Rights
Reserved" license. This means that any file accessible on my web server
which I created (which is the text you are reading and the code that
generates it) belongs to the public domain as far as legally possible
and I reserve no right to it's re-publication, re-use, or
re-distribution with no expectation of compensation. So if you find any
use of the information I post here, or the little flask app I wrote to
run the thing, you are free to use it without any fear that I'm going to
slap you with a lawsuit. This does <em>not</em> include most of the
images; I try to link credit where I can for those.</p>
<p>A lot of people might prefer a BSD or GNU style license for their
code and I agree that there are many cases where <em>that</em> is the
preferred option. But it doesn't make sense for me; at least not for a
homepage like this. I'm not sure about other people, but most of my
ideas are not my own; they come from reading a history book or doing a
textbook exercise or an off-color joke.</p>
<p>So for this site at least, I guess I just don't really care. If
someone really finds some way to profit of some random guy's Linux
tutorials and unqualified thoughts on the world, I honestly think
<em>they</em> deserve the credit not me. I have no idea how I'd do that;
I'm not sure I'd even want to waste my time with all the marketing
nonsense of the modern web.</p>
<p>And on the second point, if someone "steals" my work it's not exactly
hard to figure out it was published here first--a Google search will
prove that. But even if that weren't the case, I still wouldn't mind.
I'd be glad that this stuff is useful at all. That would be a nice
surprise.</p>
<p><em>Not</em> everything that is <em>linked</em> to on this site falls
under the same guidelines, so be sure to respect that author's
copyright; I tend to link stuff that is generally pretty free to use,
though.</p>
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