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Table of Contents The Question of Over-regulation Digital Protectionism? Capital Union Infrastructure A European Stack Conclusion Europe is in a bind. While we posses advanced manufacturing and research, we have somehow been unable to...
So if you haven't heard the news yet, No Brand Con is coming back. Not only are we running the convention again, but we're bringing it back to Eau Claire -- something folks have been begging us to do for the last decade. May 1st-3rd 2026...
I wrote in my anarchist notebook: Jacques Ellul thinks that Christians should be anarchists because God, in Jesus Christ, has renounced Lordship. I think something almost the opposite: it is because Jesus is Lord (and every knee shall...
Il problema di gruppi con una decennale storia alle spalle è che c'è una discografia sterminata da cui attingere...
A long exposure in the last light of the evening, the Katsura River and Togetsu Bridge, with Mt. Ogura in the background. 桂川と渡月橋、小倉山を背景に夕暮れの最後の光で長時間露光。
Today's lunch break was at the Blue Jay Restaurant, a diner as classic as you could imagine. I got a chicken gyro and sat under this still from The Killing of a Sacred Deer, a movie with many scenes filmed in Cincinnati — including this...
Here's a really good post by Alikhil that probably resonates with a lot of us:One evening, I felt like I had finally cracked a tricky part of our infrastructure. I thought, “Just 20 more minutes and I’ll finish it.” Of course, those 20...
Decided that BookWyrm was just not for me, and trying out a different book-tracking app, Bookmory!
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“One of the most visible and impactful ways that philosophers demonstrate their practical value,” says Matthew Kisner, professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina, is by having ethicists “embedded in a professional...
Sometimes I get into collecting something, when usually a single one is enough, this happens with many tools, so I shared some thoughts about why.
TLDR: Check whether a used device is in a Mobile Device Management (MDM) pool before buying it. I bought a used iPad Pro 12.9” off of Craigslist. I bought it to use with my new exercise bike, which I may write about in another post....
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September 2025. Werrington. Peterborough. Another year, another micropub in the suburbs of Peterborough, which could really do with something new and exciting in the city centre so I can bore you with descriptions of naves and fan...
I got thrown off a bit this morning after having a good conversation with an acquaintance/reader (hey salty), but after having the conversation and going to the gym, I feel like I had a bunch of things I was thinking about, but need to...
Virtue signaling is great actually. Clearly communicating our values can prevent a lot of grief and help stand up for what’s right. Early on before I started writing more explicitly about politics I got a couple of “I love your blog but...
El buscador DuckDuckGo un año más dona dinero a diversas organizaciones que luchan por un internet más privado, más seguro y respetuoso con las personas que lo utilizamos
I am the endurance in your long hikes the fortitude in all your commitments the sheer resilience in your cold showers the exuberance in each of your long days the star dust permeating every fibre of your being the unflinching devotion to...
My test running Ubuntu Touch on my Pixel 3a XL as my primary phone continues. I received an MMS for the first time today. Instead of displaying the MMS, the default Ubuntu Touch messaging app told me it could not be downloaded. I tried...
I always wanted to be a person that ran. I was a fast kid, always at the top of elementary school gym class in the 50-yard dash and a frequent base stealer in my Little League days. But I never actually, really ran. I joined track in...
Things that happened the last week of September going into October (Sept 29 - Oct 3)
British actor Patricia Routledge died at the age of ninety-six last week. I came to know Routledge through her role as Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced bouquet, it would seem), in the BBC produced TV sitcom Keeping up Appearances, which ran...
A rock formation that resembles a shark fin is a sight to behold.
Se cumplen 5 años desde que el 5 de octubre de 2020 llegaba a las librerías «Contenedor Amarillo S.A.» Un tiempo interesante para la gestión de residuos, en particular la gestión de residuos de envases. Han pasado muchas cosas desde...
Claude Code supports custom commands. The precise term is “custom slash commands”: Custom slash commands allow you to define frequently-used prompts as Markdown files that Claude Code can execute. Commands are organized by scope...
when i collapsed onto the couch next to my mum this afternoon—after having spent the past hour and a half frantically occupying myself with whatever job, errand or "see-and-do" that my addled brain could conjure up for me—i think we both...
A while ago, I scored a couple of super cheap Fujitsu Futro S-series thin clients that I now use to self-host my own homemade applications. To keep an eye on them, I wanted to use a lightweight monitoring tool, and after some lazy...
Een verbeterd transcript van een praatje gehouden op 24 april 2025 ter afsluiting van de “Datamaand” van de Tweede Kamer. Het publiek bestond uit medewerkers van de Tweede Kamer, zoals de (data) experts van de Dienst Analyse en...
This is my submission to this month's Indie Web Carnival theme hosted by Bix of slow.dog. It is a stream of consciousness triggered while reading Genius and Ink ; Virginia Woolf on How to Read (2019). There is something about her...
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i've been a coffee drinker for a while now. i wasn't always like this though. the first time i drank coffee was when i was very little. i don't remember it myself but my parents tell me i was curious about coffee and wanted to try it so...
Day 33, What are five issues that have affected your political life? I personally don’t have bunper stickers. I don’t relate my political beliefs to folks. Well perhaps an exception to family that ask. But, honestly, fuck politics. Its...
"Veduta del Campo de' Giesuiti" from the "Gran Teatro di Venezia", published by Domenico Lovisa, c. 1717.
npm logo TL;DR: In September 2025 a self‑replicating worm, tracked as Shai‑Hulud, turned the npm ecosystem into a lateral‑movement playground. Maintainer accounts were phished, popular packages were hijacked, new malicious versions...
Beware those who tread here, for there be MAJOR Spoilers ahead. Stephen King has never written an ending I’ve really enjoyed. I’ve read many of his books, most of them from his younger days, and I’ve never really left any of his books...
Hace bastantes años cayó en mis manos un curioso librito de principios de los 2000 en formato apaisado. En su portada, la textura de formica de una barra de bar mostraba la marca dejada por un vaso de cerveza impresa con barniz. El...
It's the little things I guess