Stop Using Discord

https://usemumble.neocities.org/

with not so amazing computers, but Discord uses a significant amount of RAM (sometimes ~500-800MB). Their client is extremely bloated with unnecessary features such as flairs, soc

The Design and Implementation of the Tor Browser [DRAFT]

https://2019.www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/

such as seizing the computers of all Tor users in an area (especially after narrowing the field by the above two pieces of information). History records and cache data are the pri

Linux is NOT Windows

http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm

users to reboot their computers because they couldn't figure out how else to get out of vi. However, there is an important difference between a FOSS programmer and most commercial

Learning HTML 3.2 by Examples

https://www.fi.muni.cz/~hales/html/jk.html

http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/ , which contains, in its World Wide Web section , a list of guides and tutorials on HTML (in several languages). Please notice that most introducto

Privacy Subtleties of GMail

https://www.templetons.com/brad/gmail.html

have speech-recognizing computers listen in and barge in with product offers related to your conversation? It's easy to imagine an unpleasant situation where you get invited to a

Mandrake Expatriate Syndrome

http://greenfly.org/mes.html

I'm pretty good with computers, and managed to install Mandrake with no problems - but I didn't really know how it did anything. I did look into Linux from Scratch, but decided th

The BFG FAQ

https://www.gamers.org/docs/FAQ/bfgfaq/

performed on Pentium computers running the MS-DOS versions of Doom II and The Ultimate Doom. Tests were done both in single player mode and in 4-player deathmatch mode. Testing wa

Letter to ARRL - Restructing of Ham Radio Licensing

https://www.wm7d.net/az_proj/az_html/arrl_restructuring.html

injection and in-car computers, students who have to learn more each year to be competitive for jobs and companies which have to produce better products each year, hams are doing

Router Security

https://routersecurity.org/

smartphones, and computers." While you are at it, why not completely disconnect the router from power (thus forcing a cold boot). That said, every coin has two sides. In Janu
Router Security Home Page

Frequently asked questions by the Press - Tim BL

https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html

it is made from computers and cables. What Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn did was to figure out how this could be used to send around little "packets" of information. As Vint points out,

Journal

https://doogie.neocities.org/journal

pictures of my desktop computers to the technology section of this site and I will update them once I upgrade my PC. March 18, 2026 I finally decided to delete my Discord account.

John Gilmore's home page

http://www.toad.com/gnu/

the First Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy. I remained quite active in EFF, and served on its Board of Directors for decades, until a spasm of political correctness du

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