Thank you for the reaction Alan. Now I know a bit more from that part of History

@alanc @JdeBP

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Your reader, your couch, your rules.

Starting today, both my-notes.dragas.net and it-notes.dragas.net are changing the way they distribute content - on RSS and on the Fediverse alike.

No more excerpts. No more "read more" links. Full posts, delivered directly to you, wherever you choose to read them.

Here's why:
I don't run ads. I don't have paywalls. I don't sell attention, or measure success in page views. I never have, and I have no intention of starting. My blogs exist because I enjoy writing, and because
some of what I write might be useful - or simply enjoyable - to someone else.
That's the whole business model. There isn't one.

When that's the case, there's no reason to keep content behind a click.
Sending you a teaser and asking you to visit my site would only make sense if I needed you *on my site* - for an impression, for a conversion, for something. I don't. So why would I make you leave your reader, your client, your comfortable corner of the internet, just to come to mine?

What I want instead is simple: that you can read what I write the way you'd read a book on a cold winter evening, wrapped in a warm blanket. Privately.
Quietly. On your own terms, in your own space, without anything tracking your eyes or nudging you toward something else.

Your RSS reader is yours. Your Fediverse instance is yours. The content should be yours too.

If you're on the Fediverse, you can follow both accounts directly:

- my-notes β†’ @mynotes

- it-notes β†’ @itnotes

These are low-traffic accounts. If you don't want them to get lost in your timeline, feel free to hit the notification bell. I promise it won't make much noise.

So from now on, it will be.

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EnshittifAIcation

Three episodes, one week. AI bots that hallucinate VPN requirements, recommend Apache configs on nginx servers, and suggest replacing 128 GB of RAM with a cloud VPS. A field note on the cost of mistaking confidence for competence.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2026/03/20/enshittifaication/

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EnshittifAIcation

Three episodes, one week. AI bots that hallucinate VPN requirements, recommend Apache configs on nginx servers, and suggest replacing 128 GB of RAM with a cloud VPS. A field note on the cost of mistaking confidence for competence.

IT Notes
EnshittifAIcation

Three episodes, one week. AI bots that hallucinate VPN requirements, recommend Apache configs on nginx servers, and suggest replacing 128 GB of RAM with a cloud VPS. A field note on the cost of mistaking confidence for competence.

IT Notes

Why I love freeBSD

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I love FreeBSD because it doesn't rename my network interfaces after a reboot or an upgrade.

I shall dwell on what Stefano may mean as I have experienced this nightmare on the Linux path countless times

  • using the if tools ifconfig ifup ifdown route and others on a LAN local network I repeat on a LOCAL network
  • these tools were depreciated due to many issues with them, decades later (IIRC)
  • no linux distro ever told me as a user that I needed to use replacements like ip
  • I install a new version of a random distro (was on an ESR) and could not address the NIC's no iftools
  • names of the NIC's were also replaced with cumbersome cryptic names, again, no fucks given no warning, I should have read the remarks in the GNU tool sources?
  • WTF?!?

In that period I needed to enter the world of freeBSD
it was a chilibox experience with three main factors. Great docs, consistent tools logic and control governed by a central body of all, no guerilla tool changes which could disrupt server up keep flow. Just rest, ease and stability

Mind you I know BSD from before the chilibox, in fact I've played with BSD way before even Linux was in the balls of though of Torvalds

TLDR;

  • choose BSD for your servers if you need consistent OS behaviour for decades
  • choose Linux for bleeding edge changes and chances of breaking server (VMs) at regular updates
  • choose win64 for love of being tortured
  • choose mac to give away your aurum to the mac overlords
  • choose the abacus for absolute stability

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Why I Love freeBSD

freeBSD

Processing

I've only skimmed this nice post.
Thorough reading will follow later

Some highlights which resonate with me *as flageolets on a string instrument* are captured here in screenshots I've made on an Android

  • Many tools still work exactly as they did (decades ago)

  • The feeBSD handbook taught me an enormous ammount, more than many of my University courses, including things that had nothing to do with freeBSD specifically

  • This is vital

  • The handbook taught me the right approach

    understand first, act second

This is a principle I use since I've been a peuter (NL).

  • Analyze what occured
  • understand why it occured
  • find out under what circumstances it can occur
  • close or limit those conditions
  • fix the problem by repairing, cooling, modifying the break
  • analyse the proposed fix before implementing
  • Only replace when all other methods fail or repair is more expensive than replacement

Sources

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2026/03/16/why-i-love-freebsd/

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Why I love FreeBSD

A personal reflection on my first encounter with FreeBSD in 2002, how it shaped the way I design and run systems, and why its philosophy, stability, and community still matter to me more than twenty years later.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2026/03/16/why-i-love-freebsd/

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Why I Love FreeBSD

A personal reflection on my first encounter with FreeBSD in 2002, how it shaped the way I design and run systems, and why its philosophy, stability, and community still matter to me more than twenty years later.

IT Notes
Why I Love FreeBSD

A personal reflection on my first encounter with FreeBSD in 2002, how it shaped the way I design and run systems, and why its philosophy, stability, and community still matter to me more than twenty years later.

IT Notes

I've just finished reviewing the new blog post for IT Notes.
I'll publish it on Monday morning.

Stay tuned! 😊

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Make Your Own CDN with NetBSD

NetBSD is a lightweight, stable, and secure operating system that supports a wide range of hardware, making it an excellent choice for a caching reverse proxy.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/09/03/make-your-own-cdn-netbsd/

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Make Your Own CDN with NetBSD

Learn how to build a self-hosted CDN using NetBSD, Varnish, and nginx

IT Notes