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IAM consultant, programmer, open source geek, guitarist, ham radio operator, motorcyclist, gamer, comma enthusiast
Homepagehttps://markearnest.net
Ham Radio Bloghttps://kb3lyb.com

A friend of mine wrote a novel called A Better Human and I reviewed it here - https://markearnest.net/2026/03/25/a-better-human-book-review/

I highly recommend.

A Better Human: Book Review - Mark Earnest

I've recently finished A Better Human, the debut novel from J Donald (if you've watched any of the videos on my music page, he's the other guitarist), and I was blown away by how good this is. When I read novels, I like to mentally slot them into genre tropes, and this one subverted my

Mark Earnest - An Internet Website For Your 386 Computer

I came across this outside the local grocery store. And yes, there was a dial tone, despite the rust!

#PayPhones #Landlines #WorkingRelic #OldSchoolTech

A message for you all to carry through the year
*still punk as fuck* I whisper to myself as I refuse to learn the ways of a new social media platform and continue to both favorite and boost posts.
Looks like the Bluesky admins resisted the urge to go full Elon as long as they could, but in the end it was always going to happen.
Installing Winlink, VARA, and ARDOP on an M1-, M2-, or M3-based Mac – wg1v.org

What’s a Mac guy to do when the Emcomm community standardizes on Winlink? This post takes you through the process of installing pat, rigctld, VARA, and ARDOP so that you too can run Winlink on the latest Mac hardware.

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