Paul Tagliamonte

The Promised LAN https://tpl.house/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44661682)

I have a problem

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

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

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

Remembering the LAN Learn more about the early days of LAN.

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

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"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/

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Reverse Engineering (another) Restaurant Pager system 🍽️ Let's reverse engineer a different restaurant pager system I bought off the internet!

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/

An exceptionally tiny (3.5" screen) Macrodata Refinement Terminal from the TV show Severance, powered on with a black and white "LUMON" logo

My desktop notifications will soon become both mysterious and important

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!

Well done, everyone!

GIF of a video that was captured off the HDMI port of a computer booting my UEFI blob. You briefly see the boot logo for "MINISFORUM", then a photo of Kier Eigan.

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/

laptop with a fullscreen image of a still of pickle rick

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

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.

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