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I’ve been a Tailscale user for almost five years. Today, I stumbled across NetBird again and largely replaced Tailscale with it. Why? For one, the reverse proxy feature: Setting up public services is much easier with it compared to...
2026-05-11 22:00 There’s a shopping center I sometimes walk to for lunch. It’s been there long enough that it doesn’t have a sidewalk (before city ordinances required sidewalks I imagine). A few years ago, a mixed-use complex was built...
Self-portrait with Cameraphone, Putnam County 2007
I rarely watch anime anymore, except for the occasional movie. However, as mentioned in one of my weeknotes from last month, I occasionally get bouts of nostalgia for shows that I watched in the past. The most recent one is Shin Sekai...
May 11, 2026 I installed Hyperduck by Sindre Sorhus on my iPhone and Mac back in February 2023. I don’t think I’ve used it once since then. This morning an update for the iOS app reminded me it was even installed. I had honestly...
A long while back now I posted a survey for my readers. Much to my surprise, people actually responded! I then proceeded to do nothing with the results (other than enjoy them in private). Well, no more! I thought people might want to...
Ooh, iRacing for Vision Pro sounds pretty great, although I don’t have a wheel to try it out. Given how far I went with sim racing last time, maybe I shouldn’t be tempted again.Besides, sim racing, especially if you have a strong wheel...
A little bit of philosophy to get through the tough spots...
A browser that decrypts your full saved-password vault at launch and leaves it in process memory is not delivering secure convenience. It is widening the blast radius after compromise, and calling that by design does not make it a good...
Ya les habíamos hablado de ellos en su momento, y también contado su historia, pero... The post La Banda Chilena De Death Metal Prepara Su Primer EP | Sempiternus Estrena Material first appeared on Del Otro Lado Metal.Fuente: Del Otro...
Every email address in existence. And every non-existing email address, probably, gets spammed. If it was possible to die from too much digital spam, we would probably have a lot less people on Earth.
Une collection d’expériences interactives ludiques et expérimentales d’Alienmelon.
Performance at the Murat Theatre in Indianapolis, Indiana. + pictures and thoughtsCurrently Listening: Talking Heads “This Must Be The Place”Reply via email
2026-05-11Hello! First, a technical note: for people who choose to disable JavaScript, for security reasons or limited internet, I've made some useful changes to maintain functionality. If you don't know what any of that means, don't...
Recientemente se ha descubierto que Google Chrome está descargando el modelo de IA Gemini Nano en ordenadores Windows. También lo he visto en macOS. La sorpresa, al encontrar el fichero en mi ordenador, no ha sido el tamaño, si no, la...
You’ve probably heard you should take magnesium. This guide explains what it does, whether you need it, and how to make a sensible choice — rather than just buying whatever’s at the pharmacy. The Short Version For most reasonably healthy...
One of my favourite bloggers, Kev, did Hyde’s Over/Under interview! I knew Kev loves animals but I didn’t know he had so much fish as well! Kev is the creator of #100DaysToOffload in case you didn’t know. 😉 [For up-to-date content, visit...
May 2026. Sheffield. A rare Saturday in Sheffield, and a designated “dry” day, which is quite an effort in my hometown. On a whim, I thought “about time I went to Bramall Lane“, and was a bit miffed to see the Cricketers Arms opposite...
Shortly before an election, a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to fabricate a war in order to cover up a Presidential sex scandal. I never thought a political movie can be so fun. Showing how the government spins story...
Contentment with Markdown mtift Mon, 05/11/2026 - 15:33 If one tool can make the work look more exciting, why choose a different tool that makes the work look basic?Last week, Thariq Shihipar, who works on Claude Code at Anthropic,...
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For Internet-facing applications it's advisable to run Java server applications in a restricted sandbox. Can we do that, at least in part, without the overheads of Docker and the like?
One of the things I have been really enjoying during my career break is learning to tackle cryptic crosswords. I am still not very good at them, but I can solve clues today that were dark to me a year ago, and that’s pleasing progress. I...
Here’s how to make your post as hard to read as possible. Step 1: Make it all one paragraph, the longer the better. Step 2: Don’t put in any subheadings. If you’ve followed step 1, you won’t be able to do this anyway. Step 3: Resist the...
Yesterday I was thinking about all the stuff that has lately been happening in my life and a lot of mixed feelings went all out to the point I started crying just because. Not sure if this is something that happens to everyone, but there...
No more analytics for me! After moving my blog, I thought I’d be using Cloudflare’s analytics, which are semi-built-in and purport to be privacy-first and lightweight. But when I went to set them up, I learned they’re not available for...
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What have I been upto? Work has ramped up a lot (I’ve been booked up for May, and it’s likely I’ll be booked up for most of June), meaning some projects have fallen by the wayside a bit. The client in a field I like in the last update...
It has arrived! I feel that Valve have upped their presentation game a little. Even the box feels quality; I don't remember my Steam Deck turning up in such a nice box. I might give it a go tonight. I probably should. On the other hand...
Just Enough Chimera Linux Chimera Linux is a delightful community-driven Linux distribution built from scratch that does things differently: musl instead of the typical glibc for C library, dinit over systemd for system init, and a...
In a distant land lives a peaceful man called Phantes. His house is nice and cosy. It was built by a gifted fellow before Phantes was around. Nobody knows for sure who that person is. Whispers echo in the night. Birds sing of a peerless...
“The miracle is that we rise again out of suffering… The miracle is that we create ourselves anew.” We spend our lives trying to anchor our transience in some illusion of permanence and stability. We lay plans, we make vows, we backbone...
Más de lo mismo. El tiempo se ha puesto peor lo que ha hecho que mucho del tiempo que tendía a estar pasando outdoors ahora lo estoy pasando indoors. Mis sensaciones generales no han cambiado. De la alergia he estado un poco mejor, eso...
Last night beer out was enlightening. Not so much at viva but what I see when I get back. Sometimes I feel I see this worst side of people. Or maybe really it’s their frail human side. Being one step removed lets me see a little more...
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A federal court judge ruled today that Texas State University must reinstate philosopher Idris Robinson, whom the university fired from his assistant professorship over a talk he gave about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Robinson had...
This article was originally drafted in 2024 but I struggled to finish it then. I was stuck wondering if I was just moaning over the past. Recently, Salma and Jo both shared thoughts that gave me the rage and energy to come back to this....
For a really long time I was using the same setup for development. Basically a macbook and Sublime text. Then using DDEV for Craft CMS sites, and Laravel Herd for Kirby or general PHP/static sites. But things started to change when I...
When I think something is bad, immoral, unethical, harmful, evil - or whatever may apply - I neither do it in private or in public. I don’t just adhere to this rule of not doing it when I’m by myself, I also don’t do it when I’m with...
Title: Being Pablo Website: pablomurad.com RSS Feed: pablomurad.com/rss Sharing my research, experiences, and projects with anyone who might be interested. RSS users are my people 🫶 If you appreciate what I'm doing consider becoming a...
Antecedently: A whole grip of grapplin’; the latest hit from Supergiant Games; ambiguously-sized wasps in an unknowably-sized wasphaus (Fair warning to the reader, this entire session—and so this post—was literally just this one fight,...
In november 2025 I went to Gamescon, which is a convention in Serbia that’s all about games, cosplaying, et cetera. This is relevant because I made myself 3 badges there because I won some kind of competition. I gave one to a friend, and...
Estava com muita pica para voltar a Setúbal para o Festival de Tecnologia Popular, agora na segunda edição, e não fiquei desiludido. As pessoas são diversas, generosas e atentas, e as conversas são sempre estimulantes, fluem...
American journalist Kelsey Piper, writing at The Argument: But soon, the entire debate over internet anonymity will be as anachronistic as an iPod Touch. That’s because Claude Opus 4.7 is here, and last week, I discovered it could...
Se você estiver se perguntando aonde o review do primeiro jogo foi parar, ele não existe já que eu comecei a jogar pelo segundo jogo. Afinal, qual a graça de seguir uma ordem nas coisas não é mesmo? Eu fico feliz que algumas vezes a...
Power is owned, strength is used. Power can be inherited, but strength cannot. Strength is something you have to show and display repeatedly when the situation demands it. To see the use of strength is evidence enough that a person...
Hey you, start communicating!by David JamiesonDavid talks about why it's good to reach out to authors when you read their content. Even if it's just to say hi.Read post ➡Hard agree with David's comments here - he and I regularly exchange...
Saito, H., Wang, W., Akiyama, K. et al. Optic nerve head abnormalities in primary open-angle glaucoma and their associations with axial length. Jpn J Ophthalmol (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10384-026-01371-y I’m including a table of...
Mucho se habla de la Internet muerta, una teoría que viene circulando desde el 2015 en donde el tráfico de bots son los que navegan las páginas y no los humanos. Donde son ellos quienes publican en las redes sociales privativas, y en...
This post is one of a series on local-first development with CAP Node.js. The mocked authentication strategy The Authentication Strategies section of the Node.js Security topic in Capire explains the different strategies available, and...
Two cartoons from the May 2026 Funny Times, both with variants of familiar theme. Some Bizarro word play exploiting and extending on the similarity between names of diseases and names of flowers (commented on long ago by James Thurber);...
Do I just keep numbering these? Do I call them something better than links? Findings sounds nicer. So what have I seen this time? Teresa Watts has been sharing her art. I enjoyed Shopping – it’s warm and glows, the light makes these...
Dacă folosești un telefon Android fără serviciile Google sau cu un sistem de operare axat pe confidențialitate, există șanse mari să nu mai poți accesa o bună parte din internet în viitorul apropiat - și asta nu e o glumă sau un scenariu...
A pattern I keep stumbling upon: start with the gentlest (softest?) action, then escalate only when it didn’t properly go through: Killing processes. Start with SIGINT. Then SIGTERM. Finally SIGKILL. murder(1) encapsulates that. ArgoCD...
Cómo solucionar que Firefox muestre los caracteres en idioma japonés y también chinos y koreanos Al navegar por la red con mi navegador Firefox, ya sea en la Wikipedia u otras páginas, que tengan caracteres o kanjis en japonés (y supongo...
John Sloan was a Village resident and something of a voyeur in the early 1900s, discreetly watching from his window or walking nearby streets in search of scenes to commit to canvas. He never lacked material, finding inspiration in the...
Why are we hereA while back I found myself having an irritating problem. I was reverse engineering an IP camera and wanted to modify its filesystem. Easy - you just desolder the BGA NAND, read it out, patch and write it back -...
I mentioned last week that some wording in a news article struck me as odd. A similar thing happened when I read this Scientific American piece (that’s an Apple News link—I don’t have a SciAm subscription). In this case, I didn’t even...
Since May 8th, Instagram stopped offering the option of direct messages (DMs) with end-to-end encryption (e2ee). The announcement was made quietly on a page in Meta’s help documentation, which reflects the importance of this feature...
I don't think it is very hard to predict the exponential rise of INT in large LLMs in the near future, but what about on prem local models and their rise? Every day I am seeing reports of people able to run decent models on their own M4...
I should start by saying that Kagi is a paid product. For those who want to look at what other search engines are out there, Startpage and DuckDuckGo both offer great services free of charge. Why pay for search?As the oft-repeated adage...