Paul Tagliamonte

notes.pault.agWhy Write?Jean-Paul Sartre, 1947

18 Sept

notes.pault.ag/why-write/ while not my usual programming fare, this has been in the back of my head for a while. I have finally put some words down after re-reading some 1940s era philosophical writing I couldn't let go of. please enjoy with post with the love and intent I have imparted on it.

k3xec.compigeon: my experimental PHY (Part 0/12) 🕊️I'm going to build a network transport! Again!

8 Sept

After 4 (long) years, I can finally make good on my promises to revisit building a DIY Layer 1 & 2 with my SDRs. I've been calling it 'pigeon' (using my RF library sparky). I've written down as much as I could and have just hit publish on a now 4-year old draft (now 16 posts) at k3xec.com/pigeon/

8 Sept

It's been an adventure filled with a lot of fits and starts -- the time to first data transmitted over the air was weeks/days of work back in 2022, but fixing all the systemic bugs and ironing out concepts took longer (also, a bunch of life events in the mix too!).

8 Sept

I very much hope someone out there reads this and feels a push to look into this work -- it's been a great deal of fun and I've learned a lot by doing it!

2 Apr

GitHub back to two nines of uptime from only one, lets gooo .... wait not like that

27 Mar

Due to life decisions, I use my SDRs over the network with my own protocol. Existing programs don't support it, so it was high time to do what any normal person would do -- convincingly implement librtlsdr .so off my rust sdr codebase (sparky) and make it work. Obviously k3xec.com/sparky-rtlsdr/

k3xec.comPaging all Radio Curious Hackers

2 Feb

I've posed my slides and linked to the video recording from my talk "Paging All Radio Curious Hackers!" at @districtcon.bsky.social Year 1 just now at k3xec.com/paging-all-r... All in all, the session was great - It was truly humbling to see so many folks interested in hearing me talk about radios.

2 Feb

I had a bit of an own-goal in picking a 20 minute form-factor, so the talk is paced wrong (it feels like it went way too fast). Hopefully being able to see the slides and pause the video is helpful.

tpl.houseThe Promised LANThe Internet sucks, build a LAN

27 Sept 2025

happy to report i'm very much back on my bullshit

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@betterhn20.e-work.xyz

23 July 2025

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

notes.pault.agThe Promised LANThe internet sucks. Build a LAN.

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

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.

tpl.houseThe Promised LANThe Internet sucks, build a LAN

20 June 2025

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

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Tianon ✿

@tianon.bsky.social

20 June 2025

Replying to @tianon.bsky.social

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

tpl.houseThe Promised LANThe Internet sucks, build a LAN

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apenwarr

@apenwarr.ca

17 June 2025

Replying to @pault.ag

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

tailscale.comRemembering the LANLearn more about the early days of LAN.

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Tianon ✿

@tianon.bsky.social

notes.pault.agThe Promised LANThe internet sucks. Build a LAN.

"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/

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

lists.debian.orgNew appointment for the Debian Technical Committee: Paul Tagliamonte <paultag>

11 Mar 2025

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...

11 Mar 2025

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

k3xec.comReverse Engineering (another) Restaurant Pager system 🍽️Let's reverse engineer a different restaurant pager system I bought off the internet!

4 Mar 2025

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/

4 Mar 2025

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

26 Feb 2025

My desktop notifications will soon become both mysterious and important

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Tianon ✿

@tianon.bsky.social

26 Feb 2025

Replying to @tianon.bsky.social

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!

20 Feb 2025

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/

7 Feb 2025

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

kz3rox.uspatty AX.25 stack-73 de KZ3ROX

1 Feb 2025

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

25 Jan 2025

after the whole twittering, how do people find their friends on bsky?

14 Nov 2024

My Mastodon posts are mirrored into here at @paul.soylent.green.ap.brid.gy -- feel free to follow me there! if you want me to see your replies and stuff, give @ap.brid.gy a follow first so I see you! ❤️ y'all goofballs, miss you all