joe curlee

Blog Archive

• Mascots for the attention economy April 8, 2026

  Creative freedom in the age of the attention economy

• Abandoning personal social media accounts April 6, 2026

  14~ years ago I abandoned social media. Today I'm doing that again.

• Hardening Debian to Military Standards March 28, 2026

  This article bridges the gap between a well-hardened personal Linux system and the configuration baseline used by the NSA, DoD, and other government agencies on RHEL-based systems.

• Hardening Debian for Privacy and Security: Part 2 March 28, 2026

  This guide goes deeper. The first guide covered your baseline perimeter. This one covers active monitoring, integrity verification, behavioral controls, and hardening the browser and sudo chain—the areas …

• systemd is trash, here's why March 28, 2026

  `systemd` is a terrible architecture. The new unconstitutional Brazilian and California age verification laws are only a small part of the reason why.