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Jelloeater @jelloeater.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why Write? notes.pault.ag/why-write/ @pault.ag great stuff

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Why Write?

Jean-Paul Sartre, 1947

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Paul Tagliamonte @pault.ag · 18/09/2026

notes.pault.ag/why-write/ while not my usual programming fare, this has been in the back of my head for a while. I have finally put some words down after re-reading some 1940s era philosophical writing I couldn't let go of. please enjoy with post with the love and intent I have imparted on it.

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Why Write?

Jean-Paul Sartre, 1947

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e. hashman @eha.sh · 17/09/2026

Alas, no, but people have been saying for years that @pault.ag and I need to release a collaboration called "hashtag"

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Paul Tagliamonte @pault.ag · 08/09/2026

After 4 (long) years, I can finally make good on my promises to revisit building a DIY Layer 1 & 2 with my SDRs. I've been calling it 'pigeon' (using my RF library sparky). I've written down as much as I could and have just hit publish on a now 4-year old draft (now 16 posts) at k3xec.com/pigeon/

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pigeon: my experimental PHY (Part 0/12) 🕊️

I'm going to build a network transport! Again!

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Paul Tagliamonte @pault.ag · 02/04/2026

GitHub back to two nines of uptime from only one, lets gooo .... wait not like that

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Paul Tagliamonte @pault.ag · 27/03/2026

Due to life decisions, I use my SDRs over the network with my own protocol. Existing programs don't support it, so it was high time to do what any normal person would do -- convincingly implement librtlsdr .so off my rust sdr codebase (sparky) and make it work. Obviously k3xec.com/sparky-rtlsdr/

gqrx's settings menu showing a list of attached SDRs. Two of which are "RTL-SDR" devices (rtl=0, rtl=1) with obviously bogus product strings, which talk to my rust radio code instead.

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Paul Tagliamonte @pault.ag · 02/02/2026

I've posed my slides and linked to the video recording from my talk "Paging All Radio Curious Hackers!" at @districtcon.bsky.social Year 1 just now at k3xec.com/paging-all-r... All in all, the session was great - It was truly humbling to see so many folks interested in hearing me talk about radios.

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Paging all Radio Curious Hackers

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Paul Tagliamonte @pault.ag · 27/09/2025

happy to report i'm very much back on my bullshit

gqrx screenshot of the spectrum plot and waterfall plot. the waterfall plot is, hilariously, a recognizable image of the "doge with gun" meme, sitting next to a large looking ham radio receiver captioned "I lied, I don't have netflix" "take off your shoes, we're gonna listen to Russian numbers stations on shortwave radio"

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Tianon ✿ @tianon.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

A site dedicated to info about it / how to set up your own: tpl.house 👀

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The Promised LAN

The Internet sucks, build a LAN

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apenwarr @apenwarr.ca · 17/06/2025

A lovely post. It reminds me a bit of this: tailscale.com/blog/remembe... which was the inspiration for Tailscale.

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Remembering the LAN

Learn more about the early days of LAN.

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Tianon ✿ @tianon.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

"The Promised LAN" - a lament from my friend @pault.ag on the internet as it is today, as it was, and as it could/should be, if you answer the call-to-action and link up with your friends ❤ notes.pault.ag/tpl/

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The Promised LAN

The internet sucks. Build a LAN.

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Paul Tagliamonte @pault.ag · 16/06/2025

After around 4 years, I wrote down a manifesto for a project a handful of us participate in called "The Promised LAN".

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Paul Tagliamonte @pault.ag · 11/03/2025

Some personal #debian news here I'm incredibly grateful, humbled and excited to have been entrusted with the opportunity to serve on Debian's technical committee. I'm looking forward to a lot of listening, learning and careful work. lists.debian.org/Z88nbv5t36I8...

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New appointment for the Debian Technical Committee: Paul Tagliamonte <paultag>

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Paul Tagliamonte @pault.ag · 04/03/2025

sorry to report I'm back on my pager bullshit -- I bought another set of pagers off the internet and got them beeping! k3xec.com/su68g/

k3xec.com

Reverse Engineering (another) Restaurant Pager system 🍽️

Let's reverse engineer a different restaurant pager system I bought off the internet!

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Paul Tagliamonte @pault.ag · 26/02/2025

My desktop notifications will soon become both mysterious and important

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Tianon ✿ @tianon.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I've just pushed @debian.bsky.social versions hamm (2.0), bo (1.3), rex (1.2), and buzz (1.1) @docker.com container images to hub.docker.com/r/debian/eol -- they're a little esoteric to successfully use thanks to old kernel expectations, but they do work and represent those old releases accurately!

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Paul Tagliamonte @pault.ag · 20/02/2025

I wrote up a post about a joke which ended with me building a UEFI binary that would boot into a picture of Kier. Praise Kier! I wouldn't usually post stuff like this, EXCEPT using the UEFI rust crate was awesome. Took me way longer to write the post than write the hack. notes.pault.ag/boot2kier/

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Paul Tagliamonte @pault.ag · 07/02/2025

not me over here spending 45 minutes building a custom efi binary and booting my laptop into it for a joke that wasn't even all that funny

laptop with a fullscreen image of a still of pickle rick

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Paul Tagliamonte @pault.ag · 01/02/2025

I've been frustrated at times with the state of ax25 in linux (not to mention platforms like #OpenBSD), so I've been using patty (thanks kz3rox!) for all my packet code and it's been awesome This post has no point except this is good software and I feel like it should be more widely used kz3rox.us

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patty AX.25 stack-73 de KZ3ROX

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Paul Tagliamonte @pault.ag · 25/01/2025

after the whole twittering, how do people find their friends on bsky?

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Paul Tagliamonte @pault.ag · 14/11/2024

My Mastodon posts are mirrored into here at @paul.soylent.green.ap.brid.gy -- feel free to follow me there! if you want me to see your replies and stuff, give @ap.brid.gy a follow first so I see you! ❤️ y'all goofballs, miss you all

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