Mon Oct 26
I hate star ratings in places like goodre/ads, especially now that they started allowing fraction stars, because you'll have to see the most ridiculous person you've ever met "reviewing" a book "entertaining, not very good" and giving it 3.75 stars just because they're embarrassed of having enjoyed it when they...
October 26, 2026 I was reading a forum thread the other day and noticed how many people are trying what I'll call third-party browsers: anything other than Chrome, Safari, or Firefox. The pitch is usually workflow: better tab management, split views, built-in notes. Sometimes it's privacy. It made me wonder: is the...
I live in hope of finally catching up on my reviews of this series, and this month’s TBR Challenge offers me a perfect opportunity to continue chipping at it: I tend to read these novels rather quickly, and the ‘mysterious beast haunting the woods’ in the blurb, coupled with the mystery solving element, means I can...
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Until last week, India had no Public Backbone Interfaces for the reticulum. I started one last week so we could have one in India. I really wanted one in Bangalore, but the Mumbai server was the cheapest. So I set up one in Mumbai. Of course, you can use the one outside India; that is how I started, but it would...
There’s a lot to miss about Arc (RIP), but the feature I miss the most has got to be automatic picture-in-picture. You start a video and when you change tabs to jump to another task, the video anchored itself to the corner of your desktop. Go back to the video tab and it slurps up into the video player area. A...
I was a guest on the Tehno klistir show of the slovenian Radio Študent. We talked about Omarchy and why it is such a dangerous power grab within the FLOSS community. You can check out the interview on the episode website, if you speak no slovenian (like me) you might want to skip forward to about 15 minutes into the...
(It’s Halloween Week on Unsung, where we’re sharing scary, spooky, and creepy stories. This is a story of a second creepy bug I remember from my childhood.) The Monopoly Deluxe computer game from 1992 fascinated me for one reason that you will understand even if you know me only a little bit: despite not running on...
JAXA, being the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, last week launched a probe towards Mars, with the ambitious aim of landing on Phobos, one of the red planet’s moons. The probe, called the Martian Moons eXploration mission (MMX), will collect samples from Phobos’s surface, and return them to Earth for study. The...
I only now understand what I missed about music in all the years I let algorithms decide on what I listen to. Searching for and discovering songs and albums from artists I previously never heard of or mostly ignored is one of my new favorite activities. And Last.fm is actually giving me some good inspirations. And...
October 2026. West Tarring. Worthing. The lack of young, female pub tickers is a matter of concern in our society, but then women aren’t generally as fascinated by maps in the same way as blokes, having been forced to read cookery books rather than OS maps in school. Many has been the hour Si and I will have pored...
Weekly cleaning and home improvement series, with some thoughts in between. Good afternoon, everyone. This is probably the latest I've ever started my cleaning day so far. We had breakfast around 11, and then I immediately went back to Witcher 3 to collect some Gwent cards. Now that my decks are more built out, I'm...
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Here we are Tuesday or so. The days kind of blend together so I took a nice break yesterday and went downtown. Had coffee out where I like. Then walked the usual and unique places. Each street I’ve done before yet it always seems there’s new things to taste. Feelings to feel. The sun shined a certain way and...
Google has changed an important rule in its terms regarding the use of user content stored in Drive, Photos, and Gmail. Until October 16th, the document stated: We don’t show you personalized ads based on your content from Drive, Gmail, or Photos. The new terms extend that passage with some strings attached: We...
Busted out the Vita today and started playing Tearaway, what an amazing game! The art style and music give such a welcoming atmosphere. The gameplay mechanics use the unique features of the Vita so well. For example, you break through the game world by touching your fingers to the back touchpad and your face makes...
“People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.” Van Morrison once characterized Bob Dylan (b. May 24, 1941) as the greatest living poet. And since poetry, per Muriel Rukeyser’s beautiful definition, is an art that relies on the “moving relation between individual consciousness and the world,” to...
26 Zip | INDEX | 28 Trophy One of the biggest cases of mass hallucination ever perpetrated: the idea that deforming the human foot by squishing it into rigid structures that do not allow for natural movement, is both healthy and beautiful. Once your eyes are opened to the idiocy — and the harm it does to the entire...
So I’m driving along the information superhighway, being careful to obey the speed limit, when suddenly I hear a siren. It’s the internet police. Not again! During my first run-in with the internet police, the officer explained to me the difference between “lie” and “lay.” I learned a lot but didn’t appreciate the...
I've often wondered what it would be like to spend an extended period of time without the devices I use to distract and entertain myself. I'm talking at least two weeks without screens. No smartphones, tablets, laptop or desktop computers, televisions, video game devices, etc. How could I even make something like...
This might be common knowledge, but I only learned of This One Neat Trick today, so: I’ve got a bunch of gadgets with batteries that need to be charged. All of them are USB-C these days (thanks, Europe), so I’ve got a spiffy GaN PD (i.e., high wattage) charger with lots of ports that I use for that. But some...
Begrudgingly checked out of the Village Inn this morning. It was the last day of the season and they needed to winterize the lodge. Made our way back up the Going-to-the-Sun Road to Logan Pass for a hike to the Hidden Lake Overlook (After seeing folks along the edge of the Highline Trail yesterday, I knew my nerves...
Ik schreef eerder een hopelijk vermakelijke parabel over hoe de Nederlandse overheid “niet zo van de IT is”. Ook is er een follow-up met suggesties hoe je dit zou kunnen verbeteren. Door mij (niet AI!) ingesproken audio versie van deze pagina: In dit stuk wil ik twee specifieke voorbeelden uitlichten hoe onmachtig...
Another little update to Wasat, this time bumping the version to v1.11.0. After this morning's change, I made a start on the work I wanted to do on Rogallo and quickly realised that most of what I had planned was better done in Wasat itself. The short version is: rather than maintaining a just-this-session ignore...
From Wednesday 21 October to the end of the weekend, I was patching an old VPS and moving a handful of sites onto a new one. PHP2Shell finally made the decision for me. This blog carried on regardless, because it’s just files. The sites I’d built with a CMS were another story. I was a WordPress person long before I...
Birds, rose petals, seasonal foliage—there’s just so much richly detailed loveliness carved into the staircases leading to Central Park’s Bethesda Fountain. But amid these whimsical carvings are some creepier reliefs of a witch riding a broomstick, a jack o’ lantern, a bat, an owl, and other figures representing the...
heya! I'm back! in case you didn't know, i have this big list of blogpost ideas that i add to anytime i, well, get an idea for something. and if you've been writing down every idea you have for any significant amount of time, you're going to eventually write down some very silly things. or stuff that you no longer...
I’m so happy I’m writing these posts consistently. It makes me look back on the past week with a big smile. 📷 Bought a new camera (instax 41) and immediately doodled it too. ✏️ I just LOVE how much I’m doodling thanks to inktober! I don’t just make my daily doodles for the challenge, but also doodle a lot besides...
We have discussed in many posts here how artificial intelligence (AI) is affecting—and could affect—different aspects of academic philosophy’s research ecosystem. We have seen AI-written articles published in peer-reviewed journals and AI-written referee reports. As journals attempt to craft policies about AI use,...
Here we are, the last week of October, which down here in the Carolina's should be beautiful. For me, it will be a week of 2 Halloween events at work, which makes me so very happy. There will be a neighborhood gathering at a local brewery. Of course, there will be much more mundane events. On Wednesday, we find out...
Esse talvez tenha sido o mês com a menor quantidade de recomendações? Ou um dos menores. Com tudo o que estava acontecendo acho que todos podem entender os motivos, mas a partir do próximo mês tudo volta ao normal com uma lista desnecessariamente grande de músicas e tudo mais. Esse mês a ideia inicial seria a de...
Die Stille des Abends bricht über den Tag herein, schleicht entlang der Fassaden, in Hauseingänge und Korridore, bis in die Fugen der Dielen. Sie überkommt alles so beiläufig wie Atmen. Kein Regen mehr, nur noch das gelegentliche Rascheln der Blätter. Es ist jene Art von Stille, die sich wie eine Pause anfühlt,...
Outside of big exhibition builds, it is generally considered a sin to glue LEGO bricks together exactly because it robs the toy of perhaps its most attractive quality: that we can always take it apart and reconfigure it if we get a new idea that becomes more interesting to pursue.How LEGO Engineered the Perfect...
Excerpts from the "Annales Regni Francorum" about the Venetian-Frankish conflict in 806–811, translated by René Seindal.
Back in Belfast again after an uneventful flight that took off late and landed ahead of time (make that make sense). Caught up on the chores I had missed, glanced at the work email inbox that had, curiously, not exploded, and made dinner. Life continues as normal tomorrow.
1984: The Canadian Edition 2026-10-26 My government (Canada) is trying as hard as possible to become an overreaching, surveillance state. This is based off the recent push for Bill C-221, which has already made its way past the House of Commons, and is now set before the Canadian Senate. Bill C-22 gives the...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] Yesterday, Numberphile released a delightful video with James Grime (redundant, I know) in which he walks us through a geometry problem first posed by Henry Dudeney in 1902....
I have been using GO Club for two things I already paid attention to: my steps and how much water I drink. Apple Health records steps, and I have used apps dedicated to either activity or hydration. GO Club stays on my iPhone Duo because it puts both habits in one place. Its widgets keep the numbers visible, and I...
The syntax for table markup is well known. <table> wraps the table, <thead> contains the table’s header row, and is full of <th> elements which hold each header cell content, <tbody> contains the table’s body rows, <tr> holds an individual table row, and <td> is a cell of table data within a row. Then <colgroup> and...
Right, I haven't written anything about AI writing yet. Everyone else on Bear seems to have said something. I wasn't going to comment on it even though I run an online literary magazine. However. Today I was scrolling through reddit on my phone and as usual I get shown some "recommended" subs. The name of this sub?...
Awake befor my alarm.I reach over to the shelf next to my bed and touch it. The faint green-blue backlight activates and reveals a familar loaf shape at the foot of my bed.It is Sula, my cat.I sit up and lean forward, quietly humming the first few bars of Happy Birthday.Today is her birthday. She is 18.I begin to...
Roshan: Wikipen We intuitively know that ethnic cleansing is wrong. Humans are not so uniform that all members of every tribe are sufficiently dangerous to any other tribe. But the truth is that we reward cleansing through one simple mechanism: descendants of survivors are entitled to eternal litigation of...
It seems like we're in a golden age of software documentaries. As a card-carrying computer history nerd I'm having the time of my life, so I figured I'd share some of my favorites. If you're into programming languages, open-source software, or really computers in general, pull up a chair (and a cushion for your...