Mastodawn

I turned a corner just as two builders came out of a doorway carrying a huge pane of glass that filled the whole path. We all braked in time, but now I'm going to spend the rest of the day keeping an ear out for comedy slide trombone noises and an eye out for banana peel on the pavement.

Martin Pugh 19h ago

Stefano Marinelli 1d ago

Announcing The BSD Cafe Journal!

The wait is over! Pour yourself a cup, because The BSD Cafe Journal is officially open! Let the journey into the world of BSDs begin.

https://journal.bsd.cafe/2025/07/14/announcing-the-bsd-cafe-journal/

Martin Pugh 20h ago

Joe Brockmeier (@jzb)2d ago

We should stop calling them “ad blockers”. If a site serves up a few banner ads as images like the old days, that’s fine. I don’t object to a site paying the bills, or seeing a banner ad.

They’re malware blockers and privacy protections. I don’t want a site popping up bullshit and trying to track me across the net. If that’s what a site is serving, it’s more than an ad, and I absolutely want to block it.

General reminder:

The domain name putty.org is *NOT* run by the #PuTTY developers. It is run by somebody not associated with us, who uses the domain to interpose advertising for their unrelated commercial products. We do not endorse those products in any way, and we have never given any kind of agreement for PuTTY's name to be used in promoting them.

Please do not perpetuate the claim that putty.org is the PuTTY website. If anyone is linking to it on that basis, please change the link. The PuTTY website is https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ and it always has been.

You can check this by downloading the source code, which cites that URL in many places (the README, the documentation, some strings in the actual code), or by using the "Visit Web Site" menu options in the official Windows binaries (the ones signed with my personal Authenticode certificate). The true PuTTY website is the one that PuTTY itself says it is.

Many search engines list putty.org above chiark. I don't know if this is due to active SEO on the part of the domain owner, or a heuristic in the rankings. Either way, don't believe them. It's not our site.

PuTTY: a free SSH and Telnet client

Martin Pugh 1d ago

When Mrs P ( @vmisty75 ) suggested we buy an ex-hire hot tub (for a bargain price) a year ago I wasn't overly enthusiastic but in this heat, just filling it with cold water and running the circulation pump does an amazing job of cooling you down.

It's been up for just over 24 hours and didn't feel any warmer this afternoon than it did yesterday when we filled it which in the current warm weather is refreshing to say the least.

However, it looks like we missed a washer that seals the pipe for the air feed so there's a slow leak but it'll be fine for a few more days.

Martin Pugh 1d ago