Xerxes' web page

Home to Gentoo/Arch Linux guides, ThinkPads, Casio watches, and other assorted tech, as well as anything else I create, such as poetry or mathematics research.

Direct all questions, comments, corrections, results, or just say hi at guitaristocrat@aol.com.

Thoughts

My time with Tony Hawk's Underground

The elephant in the room

Pokémon Alpha Sapphire is deeply flawed

Text censoring helps nobody and harms everybody

youtube-dl is the glue holding the internet together

Elitism is the easy way out; or, why not to say "RTFM"

I now have an associates

The Evil of JavaScript has come for my website

Google's Orwellian Behavior #72861: Top Comments on YouTube

Fight the corporations; buy an external drive and archive!

Tech

How to replace the internet with RSS feeds

How to use suckless software instead of a desktop environment

What's the appeal of old ThinkPads?

Domain registrars all suck

My collected thoughts on libre software (work in progress)

Casio is the ThinkPad of watches

Why Folding@home is not that great

Digital scarcity's threat to a free society

About xpr, a rewrite of the core POSIX/Single Unix Specification utilities

A little bit about the death of ad blockers in Chromium

Software recommendations

What is DRM (Digital Rights Management), and why does it matter?

Thoughts on cryptocurrency

Learning Linux, the terminal, and your directory structure is good, actually

Mathematics

For mathematics-related articles, see the math index.

Poetry

Poetry I wrote can be found here.

Research

The pretty pitiful work I did in junior college can be found here.

RSS feed

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Code

Most of my code can be found at Codeberg, and the rest is at Gitlab.

This website's source is publicly available at Codeberg.

License

Copyright © 2022-2026 Ethan Masse. All writings on this site (including artistic works and works of opinion) are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license, or, at your option, the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 or, at your option, any later version.

The CC-BY-SA-4.0 license text can be found here, and the AGPL-3.0-or-later license text can be found here.