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Thu Sep 18
My hesitation sacrifice to the altars of Kronos
James O’Sullivan, writing for Noema: While content proliferates, engagement is evaporating. Average interaction rates across major platforms are declining fast: Facebook and X posts now scrape an average 0.15% engagement, while Instagram...
Friction to feel. The rattle of a train moving in the quiet late night wouldn’t be the best sleep one could get but youth and excitement forgive. We had bunks to sleep in, which is far better than what most train infrastructure offered...
Hi-fi snobs and complacent manufacturers colluded to rob us of our tone controls in the 90s. Why should we care?
I don't get out. If everyone's blind, and it's only been one day, why is everyone killing themselves without first trying to figure out if there's help or cure? Seems rushed and lazy. I'll keep reading out of curiosity and hopefully it...
More bookmarks of interesting things I saw this week, or remembered that I’d previously bookmarked this week. There is an upright piano in our back lane. Probably there to be taken away with the bins but I get the feeling it’s going to...
Llevo tres días sufriendo cortes de luz. Cortes de luz que duran un período que abarca unas 4, 12 o más horas, aunque según E-Distribución1, la compañía que tiene el monopolio de las distribución eléctrica, son microcortes temporales....
Writing articles for De Programmatica Ipsum made me adopt a workflow to read and annotate research papers. Most of the material that I use to write articles for DPI are papers, nearly all in PDF format, some with OCR’d text, some without...
RSS readers mostly 1 work by "polling" web feeds to retrieve posts. At a specified interval, the server will try to download every feed to which a user is subscribed, and add any new posts to the database. These posts are then displayed...
Everyone needs a Get Your Shit Together day every once in a while...
I woke up this morning feeling a lot more rested, which is nice. It seems that I was actually able to get decent rest last night, so I feel much more able to get stuff done today. I want to build more onto this blog like I've been...
Closed fast casual joint at the strip mall.
We are dropping support for this feature in curl 8.17.0. Kerberos5 FTP to be exact. The last Kerberos support we had for FTP. Badness On September 16, 2025 we received a security report that accurately identified a possible stack based...
Liberi. Sempre.
It's funny, earlier I wrote about how disliking things feels isolating. But the flip side of that is that disliking the same things can bring you closer together. Nothing excites me like someone who has the same opinions as I do. My...
A day late, and still trying to complete SuperWendy’s TBR Challenge; the theme for this month is, “Friend Squad”, and this book’s blurb mentions a “close-knit building”, which I stretched to mean close friends (it’s not; her neighbors...
To continue on the seasonal theme, the people of the Bonk Wave community have released another 2 albums in the last weeks. It’s time for summer now, so get ready for some sunny tunes. This time, the first album is all original summer...
Daddy's home! Someone seriously needs to scoop him up and let him do this kind of stuff again once he's loose from CBS. Hopefully Paramount doesn't own all of the IP related to The Colbert Report... 0:00 /4:44 1× Source
First of a short series of posts, where I introduce my switch to an operating system released in 2013, running in a computer built the same year. I can't possibly explain all the fine details of how it works, it'd require a book, but...
7:14 am thirst day slept chamber 18 2025. weird dream this morning, but dont remember. well theyre all weird, lets face it. around 12:30, 1 am? last night we heard a loud fairly steady shriek, clearly...
Mientras continúa el genocidio perpetrado por el estado de Israel en Palestina, vale la pena volver a mirar cómo el pueblo ha expresado su lucha por la libertad a lo largo de la historia. Una de esas expresiones artísticas han sido los...
Did you know that the melting point of glass is somewhere above 600°C? Glass doesn't have a clearly defined melting point like water does, but at this temperature it becomes somewhat soft and gooey. The hotter it gets the more fluid it...
An interview with the author of Siren call
LinkedIn changed its terms to share more data with Microsoft for advertising purposes. It’s routine — nothing dramatically new or alarming — but I liked that, in the explanatory document, LinkedIn included direct links to the three...
It has taken six (6) days of turning off every power-saving setting I could possibly find and wrangling cats away from the delicious braided power cord to get Time Machine to do its thing. I think I'm finally ready for the Molten Silica...