Tue Aug 25
We went to the zoo in Emmen for my birthday! I took so many good pictures (and some crappy ones that bring me joy) so here is a LOT đ
° These pictures were taken with my Campsnap Pro. The entrance to the Asia area of the park I made a beeline for the elephants :) This was such a highlight. I managed to get this...
Yesterday was one of those teaching days where I had plans going into the day, with back up plans because I wasn't sure the original plans would work, and then I went with the original. Let me explain, in case it's useful:--I had planned to do peer editing with my English 101 class. I got rough drafts by e-mail, and...
Eu AMO (muita ĂȘnfase nesse amo), dilemas ou questĂ”es que nĂŁo fazem o menor sentido mas que podem gerar conversas infinitas. Quando eu leio algumas dessas questĂ”es eu fico instantaneamente fascinado e quero passar adianta pros outros e fico muito empolgado em saber qual vai ser a reação ou resposta das pessoas. Por...
My wife and I switched from Facebook Messenger and RCS to Signal almost a year ago for all our messaging needs. We have no plans to stop using Signal, but to be honest, Signal kind of sucks as a messaging app: No call notification on Apple Watch, meaning if you have your phone in your pocket on silence, youâd be...
â A serendipitous discovery: macOS continuity. Picture this: I am using my corp Macbook Pro, whilst my personal Macbook Air happens to be close by. Both of their lids are open. In my corp Macbook, for some reason, I decided to move the mouse cursor to the edge of the laptop screen, using the trackpad. And then, just...
Este desarrollo lo hizo un programador cansado de las redes sociales convencionales. Cosmos47, lanzado hace menos de un mes, es un feed social pĂșblico que muestra las publicaciones de manera cronolĂłgica sin algoritmos y sin likes. La particularidad de esta es que la IA se encarga de catalogar lo que publicas en...
New links in the Heap⊠âThe ethics of war in the context of a culture war means that you accept that action you take in fighting such a war has harmful effects on your enemies, and that those harmful effects must be evaluated relative to their ultimate aimsâ â Barry Lam thinks âthe culture wars could use some ethics...
There are two ways to sue a technology company for what its algorithm did to you. One of them hands the company a constitutional shield. Right now, nobody is choosing between them on purpose. In March, a Los Angeles jury found that Meta and Google had negligently designed products that injured a young woman who had...
August 2026. Cardiff. A whole day in Cardiff with no plans. No football, no pubs, no Chinese takeaway trail through Splott. A quick look at the market, a triumph of function over form, and a dither at the big clock facing what used to be (in my mind) a run of top Brainâs houses. The Cottage, now restyled TC (as in...
I have learned many things through reading articles and resources on the internet collected through my feed subscriptions and articles linked from articles in my feed collection. I have also learned things through conducting research for my New Leaf Journal article projects. But in what will surely come as breaking...
Siccome nelle ultime settimane mi sto dando a riascolti di vecchie glorie direi che possiamo chiudere qui, e per me agosto lo vincono i Cairiss con Wilderness
I love it when you are leaving at the end of your consultation with the GP with one hand on the door handle and his parting shot is "... and remember, if your chest starts hurting at all, just call 999." OK, I don't love it really. That was sarcasm. Anyway, this comment came today at the end of the appointment with...
I read two blog posts this morning almost back to back that got the exact opposite reaction from me. The more I thought about it, the more I needed to reconcile that. So, here's me trying to do that in pretty much real time... First, this post from James Zhan about a presentation he went to on AI writing vs Human...
A thoughtful moment in the Arrange Displays pop-up in macOSâs Settings when you choose to designate a screen to be a primary screen: It not only shows a nice preview of where your menu is going to land, but also changes the shape of the menu proxy youâre holding, to help you connect the two. (The whole interaction...
On July 31, N-able detected a threat actor exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in N-central. By August 1, the company had published guidance. Hotfix 1 arrived on August 2. Continued monitoring found a related attack path, so Hotfix 2 followed on August 6. That is already a difficult timeline for any IT or...
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Whatâs a song youâd want to hear while stargazing? Iâve always been mildly fascinated with space, with the moon, with the wonder of the stars. I canât recall where it started, or when, but as my life settled down I started to look up more and more often. One particular night, not long after my Dad died, I remember...
A few weeks ago, Noisy Deadlines posted a list of 5 albums that shaped her taste in music. I was going to write a post like this too, but it completely slipped my mind. Today she published another post about 5 books that shaped her, which reminded me of the 5 albums. So here's my list, these are 5 albums that had a...
Wie fast immer mit Begriffen lĂ€sst sich der des AnthopozĂ€ns nicht einer Person zuschreiben. Es wĂ€re falsch, hier nur Paul Crutzen zu nennen. Begriffe hĂ€ngen nicht nur an Personen. Die Proposition lautet, unser geologisches Zeitalter als AnthopozĂ€n zu bezeichnen, das heiĂt auch â nicht mehr als HolozĂ€n. Die Idee ist...
My first car was (is) a old 60's Opel, and it made me spoiled as a car owner. Calling it reliable is disingenuous, but with a bit of finagling - you'd always arrive eventually. No central locking to fail, no locking at all actually, someone has gone with a hammer to the lock. No worries though, not like you'd be...
a half-assed review"> Many years after âPortal,â Chell reawakens at Aperture Science and tries to stop GLaDOS once again with the help of Wheatley, who has his own plans for the historical facility. Soooo, after releasing one of the most fun games of all time, what was Valve up to? Of course, making the perfect...
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Dave Rupert wrote about shipping microlighter: a tool for handling syntax highlighting using the CSS Custom Highlights API. I saw his post the day he released it, and I had an implementation PR up for my blog by end of day. Then, like I do with so many things, I let it sit there. This is the period where my...
Blathering about a sign, plus a recipe for a chopped salad with a handful of gallery art pieces thrown in the middle.Currently Listening: William Orbit âPieces in a Modern StyleâReply via email
Four years into living in our house, and somehow it feels colder than it did before. I think itâs because we bought this house with Cocoa in mind. We wanted a safe neighborhood so we could take her out at 3AM and still feel safe1. We wanted grass for her. We wanted a backyard where she could lounge around. So much...
I've been playing around with the new release of Omarchy Quattro on my ThinkPad and have been enjoying it quite a bit! The single biggest improvement over past releases of Omarchy has been the integration of AI agents with the system. Thanks to this integration, configuring Arch, Hyprland, etc no longer requires...
As an expat living in Germany, online radio has become a good daily companion. I enjoy listening to news from my home country (and connect to my mother tongue), practice German language or just discovering music and stories from a random place around the globe. I found a GNOME app that is a genuine gem: Shortwave,...
I find it hilarious that when I search for âworking writerâ on Pexel, they serve me numerous images of serious-looking people with typewriters. Honey, weâve moved on from that, but Iâll use it because of the romanticism of it all. In truth, I work with two monitors, a mouse and a mechanical keyboard hooked up to a...
I try to not look at Reddit too much nowadays, but I still end up there more often than I'd like to. One of the subreddits that keeps showing up in my feed is r/AestheticWiki, probably because I've joined the similar r/BooksThatFeelLikeThis. I've read and watched many condemnation of the "microaesthetic" trend. My...
This book is, as my friend told me, indeed a page turner. Its almost 500 pages long but I finished it in a weekâone of my fastest read ever. The story is similar to the movie of the same name (yeah, I saw the movie first). But I enjoyed the book more than the movie. This book is amazing. The friendly alien Rocky is...
As I get older, I have to recognize that some pains are inevitable. I worry a lot about my health and I get anxious about small symptoms. I know that I am kind of a hypochondriac. My pattern is as follows: I notice something that hurts or feels strange. I have an appointment with a doctor, they tell me it is not...
During my break, I have also read The Ethical Slut. It's been on my list for a while, and I even had a Kindle version I just never got around to read; then I left Amazon years ago and deleted my account, and it seems like my conversion of the EPUBs via Calibre failed or I copied over the wrong files when I did my...
This blog post is prompted by Robert Birmingâs AuguStory blogging activity.1 Blaugust 2026 is still ongoing, but Iâve fallen behind my originally planned schedule due to family commitments. Nonetheless, I will continue to try to be productive and try to finish the month on a high! PrefaceI have written a post last...
I am old enough to remember that when background images on websites became possible, suddenly a lot of websites got background images. When (i)frames became possible, a lot of websites got (i)frames. And you see the same thing over the past few years with scroll-based animations. What you also seeâŠ
Prietenul Alex mi-a scris pe Discord Èi m-a rugat sÄ verific cĂąt costÄ cooler AMD Wraith Stealth pe AliExpress Ăźn RomĂąnia. Am deschis link-ul pe care mi l-a trimis, dupÄ care am comparat preÈul din RomĂąnia cu cel din Marea Britanie. Ăn Anglia, coolerul era la preÈul de 0,99 lire Èi Ăźn RomĂąnia acelaÈi produs, acelaÈi...
August has not been kind to me. Work draws taxes from my soul and the weather from my body. I read in deep, hours-long gulps on the weekend, then spend my time craving the feeling of crafting good sentences. On a day when the cold-induced sludge couldnât get heavier, the light peeked through my closed glass window,...
At the end of May I made a list of 12 games and decided that I should complete at least 5 of them.Here is what happened...5/12 completed! The 12 games I challenged myself to complete The minimum requirements of the challenge were met. To be honest, I'm content with having completed the challenges, but I could have...
Recently Johnson's ballad parody, 'I put my hat upon my head', turned up on this blog, apropos Marianne Moore's tin ear for meter. Browsing last night in a recent charity-shop purchase, The New Oxford Book of Light Verse â edited by Kingsley Amis â I came across it again, sandwiched between two other Johnson...
In last weekâs edition of Dense Discovery, publisher Kai Brach linked to an article, written by Kate Wagner, challenging the notion that our phones are over overpoweringly addictive. But they are, arenât they? To Wagnerâs mind, excessive smartphone use is a behaviour we have developed. But what is at the root of...
Decades later, trying to find a singular moment in an incredibly stupid series of star trek parody youtube videos Photo unrelated, here's Mastodon looking like an absolute unit Sometime around 14 years ago my bandmates and I were inflicted with a specific brand of brain poison known as "the DJO Star Trek videos"....
My interest in LLMs has increasingly shifted towards smaller models, small in terms of size and their ability to run on modest local machines. For some time now, I have been using models with fewer than 40 B parameters on my machines in some quantized way. Then I came across BitNet, a project that introduced me to...
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I love reading science fiction books. I especially love science fiction books that have a friendly and benevolent AI helping the protagonists. I really like it when the friendly and helpful AI is the protagonist. Characters in the books have implants in their heads that let them connect directly to The Feed. Many...
I once asked ChatGPT to write a poem about a total solar eclipse in the style of Walt Whitman. It returned a dozen couplets of cliches that touched nothing, changed nothing in me. The AI had the whole of the English language at its disposal â a lexicon surely manyfold the poetâs â and yet Whitman could conjure up...
Favorited Maxell brings back classic 1970s cassette tapes â 1970s ferric formula is custom-made for vintage PC data drives | Tom's Hardware by Mark Tyson (Tom's Hardware) Creating mix tapes is hinted at as a possible use of a pack of UD-60Us. Normal-position tapes (Type I ferric) like these are not the best for...
As I mentioned in my recent post, Iâve turned a corner with AI. Maybe not the corner, but my perspective has certainly changed. I used to see AI mostly as a tool to do basic Q&A and help me write simple scripts. I knew that other people used it to generate vapid scrawls for LinkedIn, or, more legitimately, to write...
...is like dancing about architectureI have written so many music-related posts over the years. They range from music recommendations, to gear reviews (these aren't directly music-related, but tangential), thoughts on music-adjacent films, gig recaps, and instrument talk. My knowledge may be limited, but that hasn't...
So ganz ist der Crypto Betrug ja nie weggegangen, er hat sich nur verschoben. Heute vor allem hin zur Bestechungsmethode fĂŒr die US Regierung und illegales GlĂŒcksspiel (âPrediction Marketsâ). Aber vor einigen Monaten wurde ich doch nochmal zu einem Crypto Thema interviewed. Es geht dieses mal vor allem um die...
Someone on the VS Code team decided to do a redesign of the product. This makes VS Code look like this: A picture of the VS Code UI that has a design I don't like. This design is fine, I guess? It's got some rounded corners that look nice, I guess, but I really just want it to look like what I'm used to. I can...
Any rigorous thinking about the long-term future leads to extreme outcomes. It cannot, by construction, produce normal or mundane futures. âRigorous thinkingâ means you have a model: a formalism for representing the state of the world, and a transition function to advance the state. You put the world into the...
Well I spent my youth under canvas roof, as I roamed from town to town I'm not fooling when I say I got no schoolin' Never liked the class bell sound .. Rory Gallagher
Surely cursed, they carried him, tiny, yowling, still wet from birth, and left him near the time-rift, the death-sentence destiny for all misshapen things. Who could love a three-eyed cat? The hungry time-rift void, thatâs who. Hunched against the cold, they didnât look back, lest his helpless, wriggling form defile...
Elon Muskâs lawyers sent a cease-and-desist letter to Nitterâs maintainer, a legitimate service that displays X posts through a different interface. The person, who goes by zedeus, complied with the threat, took down their own Nitter instance, and stopped development. These guys donât even bother hiding the...
2026-08-25Hello!A sequel to Day 100, where I gathered three hundred links. Most of them had little context attached, and it fell apart near the end. I regret that I didn't give myself enough time to allow that project to shine.This time, all the 200 webpages attached today have a whole paragraph of anecdotal...
When I was learning CSSâs grid feature (oh gosh, nearly ten years ago), I posted a few short videos talking about my understanding of the feature and how it worked. I was surprised to get scolded for sharing inaccurate information, âespecially as a teacherâ. Wait, what?! Who, me?! I get things wrong all the time....
I'm still working on the client certificate management PR for Rogallo, which, of course, heavily leans on the API of Wasat. In most cases, I've noticed that something I want to do in the PR can already be done, but the work to perform the action would seem like unnecessary detail in a client application; I want to...
Le jeudi 27 aoĂ»t 2026 Ă 14:30 Sacha Chua, Fabrice Niessen, et moi nous rĂ©unirons une deuxiĂšme fois pour parler dâEmacs. Sacha a dĂ©jĂ Ă©cris lâarticle pour cet Ă©vĂ©nement: https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/08/27-aout-emacs-chat-fabrice-niessen-en-francais-partie-2/ Ă demain!
I write about journaling a lot, since itâs honestly my most important practice. In my most recent post on the subject I made the case that active recall is an effective way to remember things, whether that be ideas, thoughts, or events. I'd like to expand on that post and make the case that journaling extends life...
Not Taking What Is Not Given mtift Tue, 08/25/2026 - 07:24 Last week I published episode 100 of Pretty Good Meditation. It did not involve much fanfare.When I first started recording these, I had intro music, I said the date and the episode number, and I sometimes mentioned my website or newsletter. There are no ads...
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