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i have said it before and i will say it again: %%green%%silence is largely a myth%%. i live in a fairly rural place. not much for noise around here apart from braying donkeys, gobbling turkeys, the hoof clop of our neighbour's cows,...
I moved sshd from TCP port 22 to a higher port 2026-08-01T23:31Z. I also put the endlessh tarpit on port 22. sshd has not seen a single password guessing attempt since then. The combination of ssh tarpit, and non-standard port works.
Part 2:Yesterday, August 13, was the 20th anniversary of this blog.I want to mention the people I have met through this blog and through riding who have enriched my life and made the journey enjoyable so far.In no particular order or...
Before health and safety, before helicopter parenting, there was Guy Fawkes Night in 1960s Swansea. For anyone outside the UK wondering what any of this is about: in 1605 a Catholic man named Guy Fawkes tried to blow up Parliament and...
I recently watched Pompeii: Out of Time (2026) hosted by Tom Hiddleston, and it’s left me
This seems like a good little idea. BookRiot has set up a survey researching this question. There’s a link to the survey here. If we only knew what we all think about AI, we might be able to discuss it a little less emotionally.
Me, trying to explain that crypto-rails have already solved a problem to the atproto crowd.
Back for another dip into the archive. I think this is around when I left school. As you can see my shitty ebay camera habit started young. My dad’s old Punto. Quite a pedestrian car really but you still see this model around 20 years...
Some thoughts about my reaction to One Day, not the book itself. There is a part of me—let’s call it “red hot and righteous” after a book title that has never left my mind after seeing it in a used bookstore; let’s shorten that to RHAR...
GURPS Space continues to be one of the best resources for a science fiction campaign in the industry today. Originally Published March 18th, 2002 CONTENTS The goal of GURPS Space is simple: To provide an authoritative resource and...
📺 Star Trek: The Next Generation "Night Terrors" S4E17, March 18 1991 Eyes in the dark... I watched this episode last night with volume low, subtitles on, with the Transporter Room 3 podcast Patreon-only audio commentary. I don't...
It was a very warm day in the studio, but it's a productive one too! Mostly because I decided to start up my print club again, yay! It took me the whole day to prepare for the newest edition of the STUDIO MALU CREW PRINT CLUB. I was so...
Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge, was one of the chief conspirators of the Southampton Plot to eliminate Henry V and replace him with Edmund Mortimer. He had an impressive lineage. His father was Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke...
a new role, and some questions I want to build my way through
Stephen O’Connor is the man behind The British Bench, an independent website documenting where British watches are designed, manufactured, assembled, regulated, and tested. Establishing the country of manufacture for any… The post...