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A couple of weeks ago I decided to read John Green’s book, Everything is Tuberculosis, in part as research for the novel I am writing about a tuberculosis outbreak. Initially I considered buying it, but remembered the weak state of my...
What have you recently finished reading? I’ve finally been getting through some books that’d been sort of paused for a while, so I finished up Charlotte Booth’s Lost Voices of the Nile and Stephanie Burgis’ Wooing the Witch Queen at...
Today's visitor in EKSN: A brand new Cirrus SR22 (reg. OY-ACM).
Apple: Apple today announced a new multiyear commitment with Broadcom to design and produce custom silicon components and cutting-edge wireless connectivity technologies for a wide range of Apple products. The new agreement, expected to...
The quote from The Register: Azure Linux 4 isn't really meant for humans to install at all, let alone on bare metal. Hmm, isn't that also quietly true of modern Windows 11? Said as someone who ditched Windows back when that was still...
One more snapshot taken with E-PL7 and (over)processed with the Olympus Image Share app.
The weather was perfect today, so I dug up my Olympus PEN Lite E-PL7, packed lunch, and biked to EKSN. There wasn't much action, so I entertained myself by monkeying with my E-PL7.
I have never been particularly fond of “shake to undo” on the iPhone. It’s not a pleasant gesture to perform, I feel like typically I don’t have strong enough of a grip on my iPhone to invoke it without fear, and the gesture often...
Yes, but not the dict kind of dictionary. When working on CPython, we often find obscure bugs elsewhere, in compilers, operating systems and elsewhere: Rust/LLVM, clang-19, clang 21 and BOLT GCC 13, GCC 15, glibc, readline and curses...
We're living in split realities. There's what modern software is actually capable of, and then there's the gargantuan pile of "AI" hype, fraud, and bullshit our biggest tech companies (and their lazy enablers in the tech press) have...
TLDR: My default position is still, “if an LLM is good at it, we probably don’t need it.” Claude: Claude wins on personality, but loses on rate limiting (as I’ve mentioned before), also I’m developing an allergy to Claude’s written...
Apple, in a new support document: In macOS 28 and later, the Mac OS Extended file system format will be supported only for volumes (disks and other storage devices) that aren’t encrypted. For future macOS compatibility, either decrypt or...
This piece returns to an argument I’ve made elsewhere, that fascism is “a specific form of reactionary mass politics”. And that if you read the history of interwar Marxist theories of fascism then whoever you begin with (Trotsky,...
Having started blogging in earnest again, it was only to be expected that I'd get itchy feet on the site design. Saying that, I am actually still very happy with my theme. Typography, of course, is another matter entirely. A few days...
Batman, Vol. 1 #156D Facsimile Foil Variant Release: Jul 08, 2026Cover: Sep 2026 Creators WriterBill FingerArtistSheldon MoldoffCover ArtistSheldon MoldoffCover InkerCharles ParisPencillerSheldon MoldoffInkerCharles ParisLettererStan...