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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

I very much hope someone out there reads this and feels a push to look into this work -- it's been a great deal of fun and I've learned a lot by doing it!

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

It's been an adventure filled with a lot of fits and starts -- the time to first data transmitted over the air was weeks/days of work back in 2022, but fixing all the systemic bugs and ironing out concepts took longer (also, a bunch of life events in the mix too!).

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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/

k3xec.com

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 had a bit of an own-goal in picking a 20 minute form-factor, so the talk is paced wrong (it feels like it went way too fast). Hopefully being able to see the slides and pause the video is helpful.

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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.

k3xec.com

Paging all Radio Curious Hackers

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Paul Tagliamonte @pault.ag · 01/01/2026

jon "gzip" johnson likely has a deep bag of tricks depending on access patterns

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Paul Tagliamonte @pault.ag · 16/12/2025

Oh! Very cool! Enjoy WA! Feel free to send my thermal printer a hello (ask @mako.cc how!) next time you're at ELS!

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Paul Tagliamonte @pault.ag · 13/12/2025

I mean, 10/10 would try This batch is about half the heat as last years and I think it's better for it but hey - really wanted the peach to come through at least a LITTLE this year

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Paul Tagliamonte @pault.ag · 13/12/2025

if I can only be known for one thing let it be I ferment deliciously

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Paul Tagliamonte @pault.ag · 13/12/2025

yesssssssss! I hope you enjoyed ❤️🌶️🍑

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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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Paul Tagliamonte @pault.ag · 20/06/2025

In response to the interest in the technical aspects I stood up this small pile of HTML tpl.house covering some of the basics of how The Promised LAN works

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The Promised LAN

The Internet sucks, build a LAN

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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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Paul Tagliamonte @pault.ag · 17/06/2025

When I was sending this draft around to houses on the LAN two folks sent this along -- i feel it all so deeply. ❤️

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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

tldr on the tech aspect is IPSec IKEv2 PSK (AES 256, SHA2 512, curve 25519; ESP chacha20poly1305 curve 25519), using bird (debian)/bgpd (openbsd) to exchange routes

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

You can read long-form thoughts at notes.pault.ag/tpl/ where I tried to capture as much as I could into one place. This is on my blog but I was just the one to put keyboard to markdown here. I am exactly one of many. I hope this represents our thoughts well. It definitely represents mine.

notes.pault.ag

The Promised LAN

The internet sucks. Build a LAN.

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

We know we can't scale this. We can't even get all our friends on the LAN. I don't know how long that will take -- nevermind letting anyone outside that group in. However -- this is my call for you to do the same. Build your own LAN. Connect it with friends’ homes. Have fun with computers.

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

We’ve grown our own culture and fads - around half of the people on the LAN have thermal receipt printers with open access, for printing out quips or jokes on each other’s counters. There’s a 3-node IRC network, exotic hardware to gawk at, LAN only email, and even a SIP phone network of redphones.

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

We can freely host insecure game servers or one-off side projects without worrying about what someone will do with it.

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

In December of 2021, three of us got together and connected our houses together. The idea is simple - fill the hole we feel is gone from our lives. Build our own always-on 24/7 nonstop LAN party. Build a space that is intrinsically social, even though we’re doing technical things.

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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

Feels a bit self-congratulatory, but this is the sort of thing I'm particularly proud to spend my time on earth helping with.

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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...

lists.debian.org

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

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

started to try and recreate this photo but the pagers kept going off

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

you think that's bad, just imagine spending $2k for a brand new b210 to get your table and spend $10 on dinner

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

hell yes amazing concept restaurant this is gonna be a huge hit

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

The real question is what do I do with all the leftover pagers?

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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 · 06/02/2025

When I saw the email "Jed" in my inbox it definitely took me offguard and brought back a lot of feels; very well timed and especially meaningful.

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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

kz3rox.us

patty AX.25 stack-73 de KZ3ROX

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

It's up again and helped me find some people, thank you!

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