Miscellaneous Links

Music Links
Music Links at my gopher site

Quick Lookups

Calculator at DuckDuckGo
Definitions of words at Dict.org
DNS Propagation Check
DNS Tools
IP Address Lookup (Check your own IP address, can be done from the command line)
IP Addresses
IRC: Lookup Channels
Linux Command Examples
Linux Man Pages
Speed of your internet connection via CloudFlare
Weather forecast from US NOAA for Lexington, Ky
Web search at DuckDuckGo Lite
Web Search Freek's SearX instance
Web search at Startpage

Gopher Proxies

Floodgap
Gopher Commons
Muffin Labs

Gemini Proxies

mozz.us
vulpes.one

Tech Blogs

Andrew Schwartzmeyer’s Tech Blog
Boyter: Ben E. C. Boyter's Tech Blog
Cal Paterson
Carlos Fenollosa
The Changelog (Personal blog of Debian and pygopherd developer John Goerzen)
Cloudflare Blog
Computers Are Bad
CSpace: Chris Siebenmann at UToronto
Ctrl.blog
Dan Luu
Daring Fireball
datagubbe
Drew DeVault's Blog
Eric Rescorla: Educated Guesswork
Firstyear's blog-a-log
From Jason
Gokberk Yaltirakli
Gustaf Erikson
Hacker News
Hacker News Users

Hugo Landau
joepie91 blog
Julien Vehent
jwz
Lars Wirzenius' blog
leah blogs (Blog about Unix topics)
Linux Reviews
Lobsters
Luke Smith
Mark Nelson Notes and Essays
Mike Grindle's Webpage
Occasionally Cogent
OneZero: Simon Pitt, "Computer Files are Going Extinct"
OpenBSD Journal
Parimal Satyal
Parity Bit (Web site and blog of Jake Bauer)
passthejoe (Web site and blog of Steven Rosenberg)
Phil Pennock
Phil Pennock Spodhuis
Poolp.Org: blog of OpenSMTPD maintainer, Gilles Chehade
Schneier on Security
Sourcehut Blog
starbreaker
Terence Eden
Thierry Zoller’s Musings on Information Security
Troy Hunt Blog
unixsheikh
Vitaly Parnas (This is one of the best.)
vlad's microblog
WezM: Wesley Moore's Blog
Working Concept

VPS Providers

Hetzner The big German provider
HostUS
OVH The big French provider
Ramnode Stable and reliable U.S. host
RPI Raspberry Pi VPSs
Scaleway
TinyKVM
Tornado VPS (formerly prgmr)

Unsorted

Andrew Schwartzmeyer’s Tech Blog
AppleInsider
archive.is (historical snapshots of web pages)
Art: Dark Classics
Art: Soviet Art
Art: Soviet Art and USSR Culture
Art: Watercolour World
Art: WikiGallery
Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Blizzard of Zeros (for old computers)
Calculus Made Easy
Calcurse (A curses-based calendar)
The Changelog (Personal blog of Debian and pygopherd developer)
Cheapskate's Guide to Computing
Chromium Browser for Windows
Chromium Ungoogled
CLI: Google Search
CLI: Living in the Terminal
CLI: Weather
CMS Detector
COVID Tracking: COVID Tracking Project
COVID Tracking: Financial Times
Crimeflare: Tools for avoiding Cloudflare
Crontab Guru
Cyrillic-Latin Conversion (Romanize Russian language text)
Dark Reading (Internet Security)
Debian Cloudflare Mirrors
Debian installation images with non-free firmware
Debian Package Management
Debian Wiki (because the main Debian site has become an unnavigable morass of empty marketing)
DeOldify (add color to B&W images)

dn42
DNS Cache Refresh (Google)
DNS Cache Refresh (OpenDNS)
DNS: Hurricane Electric Market Share
DNS: List of Authoritative DNS Providers by Number of Domains Hosted
DNS Performance
DNS Propagation Tool
DNS Propagation Tool 2
DNS: Public Resolver List
DNS Tools
DNS Tutorials
What DNS: Am I using Cloudflare?
DNS: What DNS Resolvers am I Using? (Simple)
DNS: What DNS Resolvers am I Using? (Complex)

Domains: Expired Domains
Domains: Name Server History
Domains: Random Generator
Domains: TLD Price List
Domains: TLD Spam Rates
Domains: Word Generator
Dooble Web Browser (Actively-maintained, secure, graphical web browser with native support for gopher that is available for Linux, MAC, and Windows)
Dooble Web Browser Review
Drew DeVault's Tech Blog
DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo: Let me DuckDuckGo that for you
Dudle Scheduling Tool
EdX: Non-Profit Online College Coursework
EFF Explains Internet Tracking
Emacs; org mode markup
Email Address Obfuscator
Email: Fake MX Record to Combat Spam
Email: Lars Wirzenius on Re-Thinking Email
Email: Mutt with OAuth
Email Server Best Practices (This one is important.)
Email Server Setup 1: Postfix and Dovecot on FreeBSD
Email Server Setup 2: OpenSMTPD and Dovecot
Email Server Setup 3: Running My Own Email Server
Email (Unix Clients): Mail/Mailx
Email (Unix Clients): Mutt
EmailDiscussions

EU.org
Fake Email Generator
Fake Name Generator
Fibery (a brutally honest landing page)
File Transfer Services
Firefox Add-On: Multi-Account Containers
Firefox Add-On: Temporary Containers
Firefox Add-On: Temporary Containers Guide
Firefox Profile Maker
Firefox Release Repository
Fonts: I Love Typography
Fonts: Old PC Fonts
Fonts: Practical Typography
Fountain Pen Nib Sizes
Fountain Pen Reviews: Scribble Jot
Fowler: The King's English
Free Services for Developers
FreeBSD Man Pages
Gemini: A New Internet Protocol
Gemini Client Bombadillo
Gemini Proxy
Google Account Lockout (Horror Story)
Google Account Lockout (Slightly Easier Recovery Method)
Google Account Lockout Reflections
Google Chrome Secure Shell App Intro
Google: How Google Ruined the Internet
Gopher Protocol (Excellent, short history)
Gopher Proxy at Floodgap
Gopher Proxy at MuffinLabs
Gopher: Cirucumlunar (via Floodgap proxy)
Gopher: oldfolio (via Floodgap proxy)
Gopher: oldfolio at SDF
Gopher: SDF (via Floodgap proxy)
Gopher: Where Have all the Gophers Gone? (Excerpt here.)
Greylisting Instructions (adding postgrey to postfix)
GUIdebook: Graphical User Interface Gallery

Hetzner Cloud Network Configuration
Hooktube (a minimal interface for accessing Youtube videos)
HostedTalk (formerly Hostballs)
How secure is a server?
IP Addresses: Reserved IP Addresses
Internet connection speed via Cloudflare
IP Analyzer
IP Geolocation
IP Lookup
IP to CIDR Conversion
IPv6 Config Generator for Debian
IPv6 Config Generator for FreeBSD
IPv6 is Essential for Your Freedom (Roman Mamedov on IPv6)
IPv6 Proxy provided by Netiter
joepie / Sven Slootweg
joepie blog
King James Bible (first draft)
LandChad.net (Tutorials for self-hosting various services, including Nextcloud)
Legal Documents (free fillable forms)
LibreOffice Fonts
Linux Man Pages
Lobsters
LowEndSpirit Talk (Discussion board for server hosting industry, started by a former LowEndTalk moderator)
LowEndTalk

Maestral (lightweight, open source Dropbox client [spelled meastral in the git readme])
Mapire: Historical Map Portal
Maps: Use OpenStreetMap to Render Monochromatic Drawings of Cities
Markdown Syntax
Marketing
Mastodon: oldfolio
Medical error is the third leading cause of death in the US
Medical/Scientific Studies (Most are wrong/false/misleading: from the British Medical Journal [2013])
Medical/Scientific Studies(Most are wrong/false/misleading: from PLOS [2005])
Modern Monetary Theory: (Marxist economist Michael Roberts explains the flaws in MMT)
News in Slow French (See "Sign-in" menu for additional languages)
Nextcloud Installation
Nginx Beginner’s Guide
Nutrient Charts with Search (USDA)
Old Book Illustrations
Old Version
oldfolio gopher server (via Floodgap's gopher proxy): I will, on occasion, make updates to the gopher site -- but not often and not consistently.
oldfolio gopher zlinks
Onion: Employee Performance Review (The Onion)
Onion: Employee Takes Vacation Day (The Onion)
Onion: What to say to someone who refuses to vote
OpenBSD: FAQ & Guides
OpenBSD: Man(ual) Pages
OpenBSD: OpenHTTPD Configuration
OpenBSD: SMTPD Notes by Jonathon Fletcher
OpenNIC Project
OpenNIC Wiki
OpenStreetMap
OVH: Configure Firewall
Pass: The Ultimate Unix Password Manager
Passwords: Welsh Password Generator
Paywall Bypass: 12ft Ladder
Perfect Website
Pine64 (low-end ARM64 computing products)
Pissarro (with complete collection of images)
Plain Text for Everything

Politicians: OpenSecrets (Funding Sources)
Politicians: Voteview (Voting Records)

Poolp.Org, blog of OpenSMTPD maintainer, Gilles Chehade
Project Gutenberg
Quotation Checking
RAM: The deceptive complexity of RAM metrics
Rant about Technology (about how technology has not advanced in decades)
Raverat Print and Engraving Archive
Redirect.Name (a free domain re-direct service)
Remind Calendar Tips
Remind Calendar Wiki
Resize partition (OVH Guide)
Resize partition (Red Hat Knowledgebase)
S-nail email client
Sandstorm (self-hosted office apps)
Self-Hosted (a list of options for self-hosting various services)
Shadowban (Check to see if Twitter has hidden a user or tweet)
Shell Comparison
My Site Generating Script at Github
My Site Generating Script at Teknik.io
Skyrim Free Housing
Skyrim UESP Wiki
Slide Rule Instructions
SMS Message temporary phone numbers
Soviet Literature vs. Western Literature (Daniil Granin, writing in 1971)
SSH Guide
SSL/TLS Test: Mozilla Observatory
SSL/TLS Test: Qualys
Static Site Generator: Zola
strftime Reference
Strunk & White condemned by Geoffrey Pullum
suckless software
Swap: swappiness
Syncthing for just one file
Syncthing on OpenBSD

Terms of Service Summaries and Analysis
This Person Does Not Exist
Time and Date
Tom O’Bedlam: Spoken Verse
Top Level Domain Popularity
Tracking and privacy article by Martin Gundersen
Troy Hunt Blog
Troy Hunt: Email Fundamentals
Troy Hunt: Have I been pwned?
TuxURLs: Linux news feed aggregator
Two-Factor: Services that Support 2FA
U.K. Link Blue
UNetbootin (create bootable USB sticks)
Vercel (Independent CDN with a free tier)
Vim Downloads
Vintage Operating Systems
Violin Tuner
VLC will not play Youtube videos
VLC: Playing Youtube Videos (Latest youtube.lua file)
VOLE.WTF: Free Movies
VOLE.WTF: Scunthorpe Sans (a self-censoring font)
WAVE: Test your site's accessibility
WCRB: Classical Radio Boston
WeeChat Shortcuts
Welsh Password Generator
Wirth's Law (software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster)
WWWizer (Redirect bare domains to the www subdomain)
WTF Public License
XKCD: Competing Standards
XZ Web Fonts
Yunohost (Tool for installing self-hosted apps on a Debian server)

Email

Fastmail
Fastmail Status
Forward Email (A no-cost email forwarding service)
Gandi Roundcube
G Suite Reseller Promevo
Gmail
Gmail Unlock Captcha (See DisplayUnlockCaptcha link under, “If you’re having trouble…”)
Namecheap Private Email
Runbox
Runbox Status
Yandex
Yandex Connect Support
Yandex Repository
Yandex Wiki Help Site (English)

Weather

Weather LEX18
Weather from US NOAA
Weather Underground

Text-Oriented Web Sites

Some of the tech blogs listed above are text-oriented, but I have not repeated them here.

Alex Wennerberg (Email hosted by Fastmail)
Nolan Prescott (Email hosted by Fastmail)
Sijmen J. Mulder (Email hosted by Fastmail)
Tastytronic Industries

(desultory, adj., lacking a plan, purpose, or enthusiasm)

Other Blogs

Dave McGowan
John Steppling
MD Petrucelli
Michael Roberts Economics Blog
Proletcultist Blog (Michael D. Petrucelli)
Reddit
Swiss Policy Research

cordeliers
Dr_Sportello
KobaPG01
MrSierra8
NahasNewman
RedKahina
Zis1941


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