Milestones in my Journey

Studied Windows office and played online games

Electronics

Programming with Scratch

Studied Javascript with Khan Academy

Used Processing

Learned Arduino and robotics

Programmed with Visual Studio Code

Learned Git

Learned Windows Batch, VBS, registry, and others

Introduction to Linux and disks with Tails

Installation of Linux mint

Installation of Debian

Learned Apt, sudo, and other commands

Discovered the Raspberry Pi

Learned ssh, vnc, servers and networking with the Raspberry Pi

Received a Thinkpad laptop and installed on it Bodhi Linux, Linux Lite and Alpine Linux

Learned about erasure, recovery and encryption of data

Learned more about Linux (Screen, network configuration, emacs, programming in C)

Discovered Nethack and Open Adventure console games

Studied hacking and pentesting

Helped a company with its computers and learned from it guys

Introduction to Python and BSD

In this episode Martin and Chris host John Hawley of kernel.org fame. The

discussion centers around Python, the royal British family and other FLOSS

topics such as some break-away colonies like the US, version control systems,

wireless wikis and containers. Never mind Python. Did I mention Python? :-)

And perhaps VMware. Ever wondered why early versions of git just gobbled up

your main memory? You may or may not find the answer in this episode. Or its

outtakes...

Links:

The Linux kernel: https://kernel.org

The wireless subsystem: https://wireless.kernel.org

git: https://git-scm.com

Linux kernel VCS before git: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/git-origin-story

xkcd on git: https://xkcd.com/1597

Guido @ Microsoft: https://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/1326932991566700549

Episode on The Halloween Documents: https://linuxinlaws.eu/archive.html#S01

TIOBE index: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index

PhotonOS: https://vmware.github.io/photon/assets/files/html/3.0/Introduction.html

BusyBox: https://www.busybox.net

Python Software Foundation: https://www.python.org/psf

Google Summier of Code: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com

trace-cruncher: https://github.com/vmware/trace-cruncher

Zero Dark Thirty: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1790885/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Command Line Heroes: https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/about

Hacker Public Radio New Years Eve Show 2021 - 2022

Part 2

Massachusetts MCAS Tests

https://www.doe.mass.edu/mcas/

A Level Test mention -

http://www.gostudyuk.com/a-levels-and-equivalents/

COVID-19: quarantine, masks, vaccination, testing, etc.

Michael Mina @michaelmina_lab

https://twitter.com/michaelmina_lab

West Virginia & Kentucky Accents

https://www.dialectsarchive.com/west-virginia

https://www.dialectsarchive.com/kentucky

Netminer talks about being a security guard & Security Guard tools of the trade

Detex Clock

https://www.watchmanclocks.com/productdetails.aspx?ProductID=56

Mag light flashlight

https://maglite.com/

Ohio Linux Fest

https://olfconference.org/

Not Curses

https://notcurses.com/notcurses.3.html

Sixel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel

The Book Of Boba Fett

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13668894/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Boba_Fett

Under The Helmet : The Legacy of Boba Fett

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15715890/

Mordancy talks about Mark from Command Line Magic

Command Line Magic Homepage - http://www.climagic.org/

Command Line Magic Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/user/climagic/videos

Command Line Magic Twitter - https://twitter.com/climagic

Command Line Magic Mastadon - https://mastodon.social/@climagic

Mordancy also suggests

https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse

https://explainshell.com/

More Website Suggestions

Regex Crossword is a crossword puzzle game, where the crossword clues are defined using regular expressions

https://regexcrossword.com

Learn VIM while playing a game

https://vim-adventures.com/

Tennesee Valley Authority

https://www.tva.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority

West Virginia Coal Mines

https://www.americangeosciences.org/critical-issues/maps/interactive-map-coal-mines-west-virginia

Nuclear Power Plants in the USA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wik

In this episode, I talk about getting in to the field of cybersecurity or moving up in the field. I also talk about how keyboards could keep malware from going Boom on your system.

Links:

Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick-russian-hackers-hate/

Fake VM Sandbox artifacts - not talked about in this episode

https://github.com/NavyTitanium/Fake-Sandbox-Artifacts

Has your password been involved in a breach?

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

Realtime Global Cyber Attack Map

https://threatmap.checkpoint.com/

UNIX is sublime

Or, "how to use a computer without hating yourself for it in the morning"

Or, "Unix is basically a simple operating system . . ."

Or, "My weariness and disdain for computers grow with each additional unit of knowledge"

Or, "Worse is better"

Origins

UNIX is not Multics

Multics = Multiplexed Information and Computer Service

UNIX = Uniplexed Information and Computing Service

The name 'UNIX' is a pun on the name 'Multics'. Multics was entirely too large and complicated to be useful so the boys at Bell Labs cooked up something smaller, less complicated, and easier to use.

Ancient emulation interlude

How to run Multics in 2022.

This wiki helped me emulate UNIXv5.

And this one helped me emulate UNIXv7.

These guys host ancient systems accessible via guest accounts over ssh.

"Cool, but useless."

I know almost nothing about Multics and I'm not sure if it's even worth learning. This is about UNIX, not Multics. Maybe I'll come back to it.

Philosophy, implementations, ducks

When I think of "UNIX", I do not think of the trademark. Instead, I think of the Unix philosophy. and the general design principles, interface, and behavior of a UNIX system.

A better way of thinking about "UNIX" is as something "POSIX-like" rather than "AT&T's commercial UNIX". Example: although Linux and GNU are overly complicated, they pass the duck test for being a UNIX. Pedigree or not, you know a nix when you see one.

Also, when I say "UNIX", I mean "Free UNIX". I have no interest in proprietary implementations that only exist for the purpose of restricting users and disempowering/discouraging sysadmins from becoming self-reliant.

So what is the philosophy?

Do one thing and do it well

Design programs that work together using text as the common interface

KISS: Keep it simple, stupid

Test early, test often

And additionally:

everything is a file or a process

Design

10,000 Ft View

UNIX is a multiuser time sharing networked operating system, running as an always online service. A UNIX system is a single mainframe computer running an operating system designed for multiple users to access concurrently over the network, equally (depending on implementation) sharing resources amongst the active users.

In a traditional network setup, there is one mainframe UNIX machine with multiple dumb terminals connected to it over the network. None of the users touch the mainframe physically. Instead, they interact with it exclusively through their own dumb terms. These dumb terminals have minimal or no computing power of their own because all of the actual computation takes place on the mainframe. Built in networking is a given.

As for the actual software running on the mainframe, it's quite simple to visualize. A Unix system is a flexible but organized stack of concepts, each depending on the concept below, all working together for the sole purpose of enabling the end user to play video games and watch videos online.

/ user applications

The Tin Foil Hat often worn in the belief or hope that it shields the brain from threats such as electromagnetic fields, mind control, and mind reading.

Proper hat construction video. Also includes the “why” along with the “how”.

Proper hat construction music. Just something to keep you focused.

FCC Caller ID Spoofing info: Spoofing is when a caller deliberately falsifies the information transmitted to your caller ID display to disguise their identity.

FCC Call Blocking info: Call blocking is a tool used by phone companies to stop illegal and unwanted calls from reaching your phone. A second annual FCC report released in June 2021 found that many voice service providers and third-party analytics companies are improving their call blocking and labeling services and use new data to better detect robocalls. Billions of unwanted calls to American consumers are being blocked each year.

The PinePhone Pro Explorer Edition is aimed at Linux developers with an extensive knowledge of embedded systems and/or experience with mobile Linux.

Time-based one-time password (TOTP) is a computer algorithm that generates a one-time password (OTP) that uses the current time as a source of uniqueness. As an extension of the HMAC-based one-time password algorithm (HOTP), it has been adopted as Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard RFC 6238.

Matrix is an open standard for interoperable, decentralised, real-time communication over IP.

Password Managers: Used by Some Guy On The Internet.

Bitwarden

KeePassXC

From deleting command.com in Windows 95 to tinkering with circuitpython, this is a brief introduction of how I got into tech

Hacker Public Radio New Years Eve Show 2021 - 2022

Part 1

2021-12-31T10:00:00Z

Welcome to the 9th Annual Hacker Public Radio show. It is December the 31st 2021 and the time is 10 hundred hours UTC. We start the show by sending Greetings to Christmas Island/Kiribati and Samoa Kiritimati, Apia.

LINT Christmas Island/Kiribati Kiritimati

Ken and Honkey talk about setting up streaming

Mumble → Client (Butt) → Ice Cast

https://www.mumble.info/downloads/

https://danielnoethen.de/butt/

https://icecast.org/

http://www.darkice.org/

Ken and Honkey talk about COVID-19 Omicron Variant

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/variants/omicron-variant.html

https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/get-support/coronavirus/about-coronavirus

Ken, Honkey, and Netminer talk about mental health, Asperger's Syndrome, Eli The Computer Guy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome

https://www.webmd.com/brain/autism/mental-health-aspergers-syndrome

https://aspergersfromtheinside.com/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-FpBZR7DbpvNj5UrFN8qUA

https://www.youtube.com/c/Elithecomputerguypage

Ken gets his HAM radio license

http://www.arrl.org/getting-licensed

Ken talks about rebuilding the house

Growing up in the 60's

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Greeley

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1197497.The_High_Tech_Knight

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Frankowski

What is a Dunny?

https://www.warrenfahey.com.au/the-dunny-a-history/

https://www.pinterest.com.au/rosepat52/old-aussie-dunnies/

Farming Talk

Isaac & James https://www.facebook.com/IsaacenJames/?fref=mentions&__tn__=K-R

More Amateur Radio

Harmonised Amateur Radio Examination Certificate (HAREC)

http://www.zs6mrk.org/RAE%20Handleiding/The-HAREC-syllabus---CEPT-T_R-61-02-Annex-6---Class-A-only.PDF

Raspberry Pi 400 Chat & Makulu Linux (installs Android APKs)

https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-400/

http://www.makululinux.com/wp/

https://distrowatch.c

Study tools

HamStudy.org

HamStudy.org Offline App

Android app link

ARRL (American Radio Relay League)

ARRL Find an Amateur Radio License Exam Session

Pictures

Picture of sign on the test day

Click the thumbnail to see the full-sized image

Picture of Masonic Lodge sign

Click the thumbnail to see the full-sized image

BASIC came bundled as a free programming language when you bought DOS, but it is also the language used for two key components, EDIT and HELP. You need BASIC, therefore, to run either of these key applications, such as on your Emergency Boot Disk.

Links:

https://www.ahuka.com/dos-lessons-for-self-study-purposes/dos-lesson-13-basic/