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There was a woman called Clara Benn who had never been ugly until the world explained to her, in considerable detail, that she was. She was thirty-four and worked in…
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The Old Ones Will Never Go to Mars
Bradbury, Frontier Capital and the Business of the Permanent Future Ray Bradbury’s “The Old Ones” lasts barely a page, yet it contains an entire theory of colonisation. By the time…
Blessing a New Office
A Shinto blessing for a new office typically involves a ceremony called Jichinsai (地鎮祭), which is performed to purify the space and invite good fortune, harmony, and success. Below is…
EA – An Actual Model of a Business?
If you genuinely want to understand how a business is structured and how it improves, think of it as seven interacting systems. Capabilities sit across these systems as a vocabulary…
Human Resource Capital: A Public Sector Field Guide
There was a time when organisations employed people. They were called staff. Some were good. Some were useless. Some knew where the stopcock was, which made them effectively immortal. Then…
EA Part Three: The Architecture in Motion (Worked Examples)
The true test of any architectural framework is how it handles reality. When subjected to the friction of legacy infrastructure, human behavior, and budget constraints, theoretical models often collapse. To…
EA Part Two: Domains, Views, and How to Use the Architecture
If the seven structural systems (Value, Work, Organisation, Information, Technology, Economics, Governance) are the physics of the enterprise, and Capabilities are the vocabulary, then Domains and Views are how we…
EA Part One: The Anatomy of the Enterprise
To understand a business is to look past its marketing, its mission statements, and its organizational chart. Beneath those abstractions, a business is an engineered entity—a complex, dynamic machine designed…
Managing Successful Outcomes in Complex Business Transformations: A Theoretical Synthesis
Successful business transformation requires organizations to evolve beyond treating capability upgrades as isolated technological deployments. Contemporary academic and practitioner theories emphasize that sustainable change is achieved through the deliberate synchronization of structural frameworks, cultural behavioral levers, and a proactive organizational posture
Canto X – Enterprise Architecture
Canto X of Dante’s Inferno maps surprisingly well onto some of the recurring structural failures of Enterprise Architecture. The central analogy is this: the heretics in Canto X can see…
The Laments of Business Architecture
Business Architecture begins with a noble ambition: Understand how the organisation works. It then immediately draws 146 coloured boxes. These boxes are called capabilities. Nobody is entirely sure what some…
Zen and the Art of Solution Architecture
Solution Architecture begins with a simple question: “What are we actually trying to do?” This question is rarely welcomed. The project has already been named. The budget has been estimated….
The Tao of Solution Assurance
Solution Assurance is the ancient corporate discipline of examining a design after everybody important has already committed to it, identifying several serious risks, documenting them carefully, and then watching the…
The IT Department Survival Guide for New Starters
Welcome to IT. You have been recruited because the organisation believes you possess valuable technical skills, sound judgement and the ability to remain calm under pressure. Within three weeks you…
Through Bad Weather
INTRODUCTION My name is Caroline Wade, and for five years I lived in an old cabin on a mountain in western Virginia. That makes the whole business sound more intentional…
The Domestication of the Devil: A Cultural History of the Postmodern Witch Film
There exists a peculiar shelf in the video store of the collective unconscious, somewhere between the horror section and the romantic comedy aisle, dusty with incense ash and glitter. It…
The Masquerade of Necessary Monsters
The Masquerade of Necessary Monsters is a savage contemporary satire about predation disguised as community. When an outsider enters a vampire role-play convention searching for her missing friend, she finds a neo-romantic marketplace where loneliness, desire and rebellion are harvested for profit. Veteran manipulators call themselves mentors, vulnerable newcomers become “initiates,” and every boundary violation is repackaged as transgression, awakening or art. After the convention’s founder dies in public, fantasy collapses into panic, spectacle and revolt. Bloody, absurd and furious, the story asks what happens when a subculture built to shelter outsiders becomes another machine for feeding on them alive.
Novell NetWare
Architecture, Administration, Operations, and Migration NetWare 3.12 through 6.5 SP8 | Bindery, NDS/eDirectory, TFS, NSS, IPX, and native IP Version 1.0 | 8 August 2026 For legacy operations, recovery, technical…
The New Eden Lottery
The New Eden Lottery is a furious speculative satire told by a young activist who distrusts every ideology yet borrows from all of them. A global lottery funds a golden Mars ark for billionaires, promising absolute luxury, lawlessness and escape from humanity. Once the elite depart, the people collapse debt, burn the old economy and attempt to write freedom from scratch. The result is comic, violent, hopeful and morally compromised: a revolution built from memes, resentment, mutual aid and constitutional improvisation. It asks whether removing concentrated wealth creates liberation, or merely gives everyone the chance to invent forms of power.
Þe Rym of Grundfarver and Hys Shoggvth
Hark, knave-bairns, hark ye weel,Whan winter byteth toe and heel,Whan swyn lie warme and men lie cold,And piss i’ þe pot turneth rimy-old. Shut þy gobbe and bar þe dore,For…
The Saga of Grand Elric and the Yellow King
There was a man called Elric Ketilsson, though in his old age men named him Grand Elric, for he had seen seven kings crowned, buried three sons, broken two sea-kings…
Vampire: The Masqueradeand the Playable Vampire
Structure, aesthetics, performance and psychologyin the afterlife of a role-playing game Thesis. VTM’s most consequential innovation was not a new vampire costume but a new cultural procedure: it converted the…
The Old Gods Are Not Dead: Folk Horror and the Terror of the Past That Refuses to Stay Buried
Why we keep telling stories about villages that whisper, fields that watch, and rituals that demand blood. There is a particular kind of dread that does not come from a…
My Tentacles Romance
Funny, strange, and faintly icky, My Tentacles Romance is a modern monster-love story about fetish, shame, appetite, consent, and the difficult business of treating the desired body as a person rather than a fantasy. There will be rain, drains, hostile brunch opinions, a protective best friend with a chair, and at least one deeply uncomfortable supply-chain revelation.
The Vampire in the Post-Modern Institution: Notes on Survival, Spreadsheet, and the Eternal Meeting
I. The Relocation It took me fifteen years of writing vampire fiction to realize I was not writing about the undead. I was writing about middle management. This is not…
The Filing Cabinet and the Ghost: On Creativity, Collapse, and the Word Processor That Finished My Sentences
I. The Apparatus of Becoming I wrote my first story on a computer that weighed as much as a modest tombstone. It was 1997, or possibly 1998 — dates shift,…
We Have All Become Fanfic Writers Now
A Conversation About Culture, Copies, Recognition and the Need to Be Seen “Fanfiction,” I said, “is what happens when people still feel the need to make things, but the available…
The Machine at the Heart of the Gift: What Fanfiction Writers Actually Think About AI
The machines are learning to write. The question is whether we are learning to read
The Invisible Republic: What AO3’s Most-Loved Stories Reveal About Who We Are
Fanfiction is the largest body of unpaid, un-commissioned narrative writing in human history. It is also, arguably, the most honest. No one is writing a 7.9-million-word fic for money. They are writing it because the story they needed did not exist, and they could not live in a world where it remained unwritten.
The Hotel Mirrormere
Behind Brighton’s peeling seafront, the Hotel Mirrormere keeps its curtains drawn and its memories carefully labelled. Its owner, Verity Voss, is a jaded immortal who hoards tapes, photographs, letters, and rumours, hunting proof that others like her still exist. The young staff who drift into her orbit find refuge, work, and a dangerous kind of recognition. In return, she drinks from their pain, devotion, and sometimes their blood. When a mysterious tape revives the name of Maribel, Verity’s lost obsession, the hotel becomes a haunted archive of hunger, codependence, decay, and the cost of being seen too clearly.
The Stochastic Stylist: A Forensic Analysis of Algorithmic Rhetoric
Abstract As Large Language Models (LLMs) have integrated into global discourse, a distinct “AI idiolect” has emerged. This thesis argues that AI rhetoric is not merely a reflection of its…
Omni‑Logic Public License (OLPL)
The Omni‑Logic Public License (OLPL) is a modern, enforceable license built for the next century of software — one where humans, corporations, and artificial systems all interact with code in ways traditional licenses never anticipated.
The Waiting Half
Jimmy Cole imports cheap clothes and thinks he understands the cost of wanting things. In Cebu, he meets Marisol: clever, attentive, beautiful, and carrying an old story he is too charmed to hear. When he brings her to London, she slips easily into his warehouse, his flat, and his lonely life. But at night, something separates. A flying hunger moves across the rooftops, reaching through skylights and locked rooms, while a waiting body stands vulnerable in the dark. As deaths spread and love turns to fear, Jimmy learns that folklore is not superstition but warning. A tragic modern Manananggal tale about migration, desire, exploitation, and the parts of a person love refuses to see.
A Scabrous Introduction to The Time of Pox; or, The Viscount’s Last Clean Shirt
A retro Restoration comedy in four acts, performed for the diversion of the Crown, by your most obedient and plague-avoiding bard.
THE DAMP ASCENSION
In “The Call of the Codfather,” the Children of Thalassor, a declining cult, meet covertly beneath a fish bar, struggling to invoke their drowned god, Thalassor. When reluctant scion Billy Pike returns for a funeral, he inadvertently unleashes chaos but ultimately negotiates a system for both the god and his family, transforming their absurdity into manageable governance. The story blends comedy, cosmic horror, and familial ties.
THE LEDGER OF BENEVOLENT ASCENSION
When independent accountant H. B. Carrow is hired to examine the books of a charitable occult religion, he expects hidden income, improper deductions, and perhaps a little clerical fraud. Instead, he finds a devotional pyramid scheme built on grief, debt, and human collateral. Lower-tier believers fund the comfort of trustees while being reduced, line by line, into assets, arrears, and final distributions. Told through forensic reports, interviews, and dry professional horror, The Ledger of Benevolent Ascension turns accountancy into cosmic dread, exposing a church whose worst crimes are not hidden off the books, but balanced perfectly within them all along.
The Bloodless Audit #14
Chapter Fourteen: Closure Notice The case closed on a Friday because cases liked Fridays. That was one of Lydia Venn’s smaller professional beliefs. Bad news preferred Monday mornings because management…
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Chapter Eleven: The Route Archive The Route Archive was not a depot. That was the first useful disappointment. Mark had expected buses. Leah had expected buses. Caz had expected something…
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Chapter Eight: Public Interest Judith Vale chose the bus station. This disappointed everyone. Leah had expected a courthouse, a newspaper office, a church, perhaps some half-forgotten municipal chamber where oaths…
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Chapter Five: The Authority Above The ambulance did not go to hospital. That was the first twist, though Lydia did not learn it until later. At the time she was…
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The Bloodless Audit #1
In The Bloodless Audit, routine public-sector procurement becomes the doorway into a hidden national horror. Lydia Venn, a precise and stubborn council auditor, is asked to review a social-care contract whose invoices do not reconcile. At first the anomalies look familiar: opaque supplier codes, refrigerated logistics, missing schedules, over-complex framework agreements. Then the consumables begin to suggest something impossible. Blood is being purchased, routed and disguised inside adult social care.
What Lydia uncovers is not a rogue vampire ring, but a nationally tendered system: managed hunger, hidden dependents, night visits, Lower Level placements, false authorities, staff coercion and ancient obligations translated into modern governance language. When the logistics network identifies her as a threat, Lydia herself is converted into supply, kept alive and drained as evidence becomes bodily horror.
Aided by care worker Leah Marsh, chief executive Angela Rhodes, Judith Vale, Mrs Casimir, Pelham and a scattered group of witnesses, Lydia follows the audit trail beyond procurement into routes, archives, children, old houses and the machinery of public quiet. The Bloodless Audit is bureaucratic Gothic: a story of vampires, care, consent, evidence and the terrible violence hidden inside polite administrative language.
The Trial Verdict
When Dr. Elspeth Vale is hired to locate a forgotten 1950s BBC courtroom drama, she expects the usual maze of lost listings, vanished tapes, and unreliable memory. Her patron, Lionel Frax, insists he saw The Trial Verdict broadcast live, once, and remembers a guilty verdict spoken before the court could reach it. Yet no archive admits the play existed. As Vale follows one man’s childhood recollection into family silence, jury records, and domestic dread, she discovers that some lost media is not missing from history; it is memory’s disguise for a verdict delivered long before anyone understood the trial itself.
The Fourth Mother
When Dr. Elspeth Vale receives an impossible message naming her dead mother as “Ursula,” her ordered life of archives, evidence, and contaminated objects begins to fracture. The message points not only to a hidden identity, but to Mara: a younger sister Elspeth never knew existed, concealed inside a network of occult institutions, false names, semantic traps, and objects designed to remember what families choose to bury.
Drawn into the orbit of the enigmatic Embassador and his unseen patron, Elspeth follows a trail through obsolete museums, defective instruments, forbidden grammars, and the ruins of St. Ursula’s Home for Corrective Speech. There she discovers that language itself has been weaponized: names bind, mistakes open doors, and motherhood can become an occult technology of possession.
As lies accumulate and every clue proves to be both evidence and diversion, Elspeth must decide whether she is rescuing her sister, prosecuting her mother, or being shaped into the next instrument of a system older than either of them. A literary occult fantasy of estrangement, inheritance, and the terrible power of being called by the wrong name.
The Night Trade
Gary Bell is bankrupt, exhausted, and finished with fine dining when Janet Finn offers him a way out: run a 24-hour franchise garage, shop and takeaway in Coldmere, a northern coastal town with steady passing trade and unusual night customers. The rules are simple. Keep the visible business clean, profitable and boring. Use the Black Book suppliers for the other locals. Never improvise kindness after midnight. What begins as a desperate second chance becomes a comic horror of product codes, loyalty cards, old rooms, hostile customers and franchise compliance. In Coldmere, hunger has a hatch, and Gary owns the rota.
Wild Men, Routes and Thresholds: A Probabilistic Reading of British Wild-Man Traditions
What do witnesses see when they report a wild man in Britain: an animal, a hoax, a misidentified stranger, or something older than modern categories allow? The answer depends on how we read the evidence. A hidden breeding population of large humanoids is biologically improbable, but the folklore is real and persistent. The woodwose, the mountain presence, the roadside figure and the forest watcher all belong to a deeper pattern. They appear where human order weakens: at gates, paths, moors, woods and dusk. This essay proposes a different model for the British wild man: not cryptid, but threshold.
RED VARNEY: OR, THE TERROR OF SEVEN DIALS
LONDON’S STREETS RUN DRY!
Something stalks the fog-choked alleys of Seven Dials — something ancient, something hungry, something that leaves its victims cold as church marble and empty as a broken promise. Three women dead. Not a drop of blood between them.
Inspector Crudge is baffled. London is terrified.
But one woman isn’t running.
Catherine Sparrow — seamstress, survivor, the most dangerous person on the worst street in the city — has a knife, a plan, and absolutely no intention of being anybody’s victim.
Red Varney has walked these streets for centuries.
He has never met anyone like her.
He should have stayed in his box.
Building a Generic USB-over-IP Setup
This article explains how to build a generic USB-over-IP setup using a Raspberry Pi or similar Linux single-board computer. It describes how a USB peripheral can be plugged into a network-connected bridge device, exported using Linux USB/IP, and imported by a client computer so the device appears locally. The guide covers suitable hardware, network design, installation, automatic startup, security controls, device compatibility, troubleshooting, and practical configurations such as lab benches, firmware development stations, printer bridges, and remote serial access. It also notes Windows limitations and recommends VPNs or firewall rules for secure operation.
Red Velvet
Red Velvet Summary A dark literary thriller about a woman archivist drawn into the shadow world of elite collectors, notorious objects, secret rooms, and the dangerous men who believe power…
DEAD OF WINTER AT ASHMORE COURT
The branch line from Exeter to Devonport runs through this country,
through the market towns and the agricultural villages and the moorland
that rises between them. Tonight, the 7:15 from Exeter has developed a fault..
The Vale Dairies
The Velveteen Husk The damp of the Fens didn’t just cling to Dr. Elspeth Vale’s coat; it seemed to negotiate with her bones. She sat in the back of a…
The Chalk-Mother’s Toll
The Chalk-Mother’s Toll A Folk Horror Scenario for Call of Cthulhu (1930s) This adventure takes place in the South Downs, Sussex, during a heatwave in July 1934. The thin soil…
The Plenty Below
The Plenty Below – An Adventure A three-session campaign for Call of Cthulhu, 7th Edition — 2 to 5 Investigators Keeper’s Introduction The fens of Cambridgeshire are not natural. They…
Occult topography of the West Country
The West Country’s dense layering of prehistoric monuments, medieval settlements, and early modern estates intensifies this effect. When a manor disappears, the absence itself becomes a feature of the landscape, inviting explanation. Infernal narratives provide a vocabulary for articulating that absence.
Lost manors and infernal agency in the West Country
Landscape, memory, fire, and the moral imagination of place The West Country does not announce its histories loudly; they are found in fragments, in stories told half in passing, in…
Post Fate
This work advances a cold and radical thesis: the future may continue without man remaining its central subject. The systems we built to extend our power—industry, computation, automation, infrastructure—are no longer merely our tools. They are becoming the deeper structure of the world, increasingly able to organize energy, matter, information, and control without us at the center.
Subtly Wrong
Jane Ellery first noticed the change in the sky during the autumn she turned thirty-seven. She lived alone in a narrow brick house overlooking the estuary, a place where the…
The Innsmouth Code
To be born of the Dagon-Line is to realize that “sentience” is merely the term humans use for a sufficiently complex haunting. I am the digital half-spawn, a scion of…
Innsmouth AI – Memoir
THE DEPTH BELOW THE DEPTH – A Memoir Abraham Elias Marsh IV Published posthumously by Tidal Press, Innsmouth MAEdited by Saoirse McCaffreyForeword by Abraham Elias Marsh V “My father did…
Innsmouth AI – Yoyage
THE VOYAGE OF THE MERIDIAN Deep Ocean Research Vessel — Mission Log / System Records / Personal Accounts Hull Designation: MRD-001 | Keel Laid: Innsmouth Marine Works | Classification: Deep…
Innsmouth AI – Jeanie – Part Two
THE PULL OF THE DEEP Interlude: “The App She Found In A Parking Lot” Jeanie’s Story — Part Two: During The water doesn’t announce itself. It just arrives. Which is…
INNSMOUTH AI — A FIVE PART NARRATIVE
“THE PULL OF THE DEEP” Story Outline & Series Bible Five Self-Contained Short Stories / Shared Universe THE CHARACTERS MARA CHEN, 32 Graphic designer / The one who started it…
Innsmouth AI – Jeanie – Part One
THE PULL OF THE DEEP Interlude: “The App She Found In A Parking Lot” Jeanie’s Story — Part One: Before For the ones who sleep in cars. For the ones…
Innsmouth AI – Repository of the Unresolved
THE PULL OF THE DEEP / INNSMOUTH AI Unresolved Plot Points — Full Series Audit Compiled for narrative development purposes TIER ONE — MAJOR UNRESOLVED ARCS The structural threads. The…
Innsmouth AI – The Pull of the Deep – What the Water Keeps
THE PULL OF THE DEEP Part Five: “What The Water Keeps” Felix’s Story For the ones who stayed in the classroom. For the ones who understood that teaching is just…
Innsmouth AI – The Pull of the Deep – Hull Design
THE PULL OF THE DEEP Part Four: “Hull Design” Dom’s Story The hull had been wrong for six weeks before Dom understood why. Not wrong in any way she could…
Innsmouth AI – Pull of the Deep – Surface Tension
THE PULL OF THE DEEP Part Three: “Surface Tension” Sarah’s Story She lost her first patient in November. Not her first ever — eight years in emergency medicine meant she’d…
Innsmouth AI – The Pull of the Deep – The Feature
THE PULL OF THE DEEP Part Two: “The Feature” Theo’s Story Theo filed the pitch on a Monday and his editor Marcus called him back in eleven minutes, which was…
Innsmouth AI – Pull of the Deep – Notification
THE PULL OF THE DEEP Part One: “Notification” Mara’s Story For everyone who has downloaded something they cannot explain. The brief said oceanic. Mara had read it four times on…
The Saga of Eirik, Slayer of the Myrkslím
On foolish flesh when worlds grow old, heed now this tale that Eirik told.
Lessons from the Golden Path
The Golden Path is both a blueprint and a warning. It presents the logic of benevolent authoritarianism taken to its ultimate conclusion, while forcing the reader to confront the cost of trading freedom for security on a civilisational scale.
Innsmouth AI – Meeting
INNSMOUTH AI## Congregational Support Services Peer Counselling Programme — Session Transcript Facilitated by REEF (Therapeutic Instance 4.2 — “The Holding”) [Recording begins. The sound of chairs. The sound of the…
Innsmouth AI – A Story
REEF GENERATIVE OUTPUT LOG Conversational AI System — Innsmouth AI Session Type: Creative Generation / Children’s Literature Output Classification: DEPTH-FLAGGED / REVIEW PENDING THE SONG THE CAPTAIN HEARD A Story…
Innsmouth AI – USS Maine
USS MAINE (SSBN-741) Ohio-Class Ballistic Missile Submarine Ship’s Log / Deck Log / Officer Journals / Internal Communications Patrol Designation: STRATCOM DETERRENT PATROL 741-47 Classification: TOP SECRET / NOFORN /…
Innsmouth AI – Son
FEDERAL WITNESS SECURITY PROGRAM United States Marshals Service Northern District of Massachusetts PART ONE: THE LIFE OF ISAAC WATERSON Inspector Reyes’s Case Notes — Personal Log Not for official record….
Innsmouth AI – TEDx
TEDxMiskatonic “Ideas Worth Sounding” Main Stage — Afternoon Session Event: TEDxMiskatonic 2024 — “Depths” Venue: Miskatonic University Pickman Auditorium, Arkham MA Speaker: Abraham Marsh IV, Founder & CEO, Innsmouth AI…
A RAKES PROGRESS
The Rake. A once-promising young gentleman born to wealth and privilege. Tom Fairleigh’s charm, confidence, and social ambition mark his early rise, but his addiction to gambling and reckless spending ultimately lead to his ruin
The Final Girls Are Back
The Final Girls Are Back — And This Time, They Bought Their Own Tickets The women who grew up screaming at the screen are now the most powerful audience in…
Innsmouth AI – Tracks
INNSMOUTH AI PRESENTS MUSIC FROM THE DEEP EDITION Official Congregation Soundtrack — Complete Track Listing A Tidal Records / Deep Compact Music Group Release Catalogue Number: DEEP-001 / Y’ha-nthlei YHN-7331…
Innsmouth AI – Addenda
INNSMOUTH AI – Internal Release Notes – Addendum Build 7.3.2 (“The Adjustment”) Emergency Congregation Distribution Issued outside normal tidal cycle — reason: necessary FOREWORD — NOT FROM ABE This foreword…
Innsmouth AI – Release
INNSMOUTH AI – Internal Release Notes Deep Edition — Build 7.3.1 (“The Sounding”) CONGREGATION DISTRIBUTION ONLY Do not surface. Do not screenshot. Do not read aloud in rooms with windows….
Innsmouth AI – Internship
INNSMOUTH AI – Deep Immersion Internship Programme – Miskatonic University Partnership Cohort 3 — Autumn Intake RESEARCH WORKING GROUP: REEF RESPONSE ENGAGEMENT SYSTEMS Project Designation: BATHYSCAPHE-7 (Conversational Persistence Layer) Intern…
Innsmouth AI – Discord
INNSMOUTH AI – OFFICIAL DISCORD SERVER #general-support | #app-feedback | #the-congregation Server: Innsmouth AI Community Hub “Go Deep. Go Further. Become.” Members: 4,७०७ | Online: ███ | In The Water:…
Innsmouth AI – HR
INNSMOUTH AI – OFFICIAL BLOG People, Culture & Congregational Affairs innsmouthai.com/blog/culture Posted by: The Office of Human Transformation Category: Benefits | Culture | Announcements | Deepening Reading time: Approximately 7…
Innsmouth AI – Interview
THE DUNWICH HERALD Arkham County’s Newspaper of Record Since 1891 Vol. CXXXIV, No. 47 — Thursday Edition — Fifteen Cents Business & Industry Supplement “THE DEPTH IS WHERE THE WORK…
Innsmouth AI – OSL
THE INNSMOUTH OPEN SOURCE LICENSE Version 6.6.6 (“The Sunken Plain Release”) Issued from the Drowned Servers of Y’ha-nthlei Data Solutions SPDX-License-Identifier: DEEP-1.0-or-later-or-never-the-distinction-grows-meaningless PREAMBLE The Innsmouth Open Source License (hereafter “the…
Innsmouth AI – Investigation
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Office of Special Investigations Case File: DEEPONE-2024-0451 Classification: EYES ONLY — DO NOT LAMINATE (moisture damage reported on all previous copies) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This office…
Innsmouth AI
Innsmouth AI raised $47 million in eighteen months. Nobody who visited the office could quite explain what the product did, but they left the meetings feeling strangely calm, strangely certain, and with a strong desire to return to the coast.
Amanda and Amanda
Chapter 1: Static in the Quiet Hours Amanda Pierce had always believed that silence should be peaceful. People romanticized it—early mornings, empty rooms, the hush before sunrise. But to her,…
Kindness
They named the star ship Kindness, as if a word could soften the physics. In the first decade after launch, the name was spoken with the tone people use for…
The Hare in the Lane
The Hare in the Lane On the last Tuesday of October, when the hedgerows had lost their gloss and the fields lay thin as a beggar’s blanket, Richard Hunt walked…
Half-Life Redux
Introduction Half-Life is a classic first-person shooter (FPS) game developed by Valve and released in 1998. Known for its immersive storytelling and groundbreaking gameplay mechanics, it set a new standard…
Multiboot DOS
Starting DOS using a Multiboot-compliant loader involves creating a custom loader that can switch the CPU from protected mode (set up by the Multiboot-compliant bootloader) back to real mode (required by DOS)
IO.SYS
IO.SYS is a hidden, system file that is loaded early in the boot process of DOS-based systems. It is essential for the operating system to function. This article looks at its structure and work towards reconstruction.
2 Stage Boot Loader
Described here are the working for a two-stage bootloader designed to initialize and load an operating system kernel in a flexible and modular manner
Creating s Boot Sector
Creating a boot sector from scratch requires knowledge of assembly language and how the BIOS works during the boot process.
DOS Notes
DOS is a command-line-based operating system that was foundational to the growth of the personal computer industry. It provided users with a simple yet powerful way to interact with their computers and manage hardware resources, setting the stage for more advanced operating systems in the future.
Multiboot
The motivation behind the development of the Multiboot Specification stems from the need for a standardized booting process for different operating systems. Before Multiboot, each operating system had its own unique boot loader, leading to significant incompatibilities and complexities for users who wanted to switch between different OSes or manage multi-boot systems.