The Emu Café Social
The Emu Café Social
Nicholas A. Ferrell
The Emu Café Social is a social-publishing site powered by WordPress. Members will be able to use the site to post about what interests them and discuss their external projects. While the site is conducive to short-to-medium-length posts, it also accommodates longer-form writing. By advertising feeds and user profiles, it will be easy for visitors to follow individual writers or to follow the project as a whole. In general, members of the site can and will post about subjects of interest to them.
Latest Posts
I was sent a video of a deer eating a begonia. I thought to myself that begonias do not sound like ideal deer food. According to Coast Redwood Adventures, begonias are a deer-resistant plant. Granting the caveats in the CRA article that...
Quoted Viral Deepfake Demo Prompts ByteDance to Limit New AI Video Tool by He Qitong (Sixth Tone) Within just three days of release, Chinese tech giant and TikTok owner ByteDance has temporarily restricted features in its new generative...
Bookmarked The tool, the craft, and the joy by Wojtek Powiertowski (behindtheviewfinder.com) If your identity as a technologist is primarily defined by what you're against, against corporate exploitation, against AI, against whatever's...
Quoted Audio transcript of: Chinese Nationals Sentenced to 46 Years in Prison for 'Cyber-Terrorism' in Nigeria by Frances Martel (breitbart.com) The two men processed this week, Huang Haoyu and An Hongxu, were sentenced to serve 46 years...
Atlus is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Persona series. I have played through Persona 3 FES, Persona 3 Portable, Persona 4, Persona 4 Golden, and Persona 5 (Persona 5 Royal and Persona 3 Reload are on my to-do list). Suffice it...
Bookmarked Ask a Nerd: Does email length affect deliverability? by Ryan Farley (Buttondown) Gmail clips emails at 102kb (~15,000 words of plain text, or ~5,000 words with formatting). Other providers have different limits or none at all....
I referenced Valve’s announcement that it would delay the launch of the cube-shaped Steam Machine in my recent article, which touched on AI-driven computer memory price increases. Before going off my my tangent on memory price increase...
I am used to seeing road salt in New York City before and after it snows. A couple of years ago (definitely during the Eric Adams administration), I recall having noted remarkable amounts of road salt in the street near Atlantic Avenue...
I just published a NLJ article in which I made a reference to the murderous camera in Sonic Adventure for Sega Dreamcast. I described the camera as homicidal in my draft. But that did not seem right. While Sonic Adventure features Dr....
I saw a link to a 1Password report about totally shocking and unofreseeable vulnerabilities involving OpenClaw. I recently discussed how they started a so-called AI social network to distract from the previous round of bad publicity...
Favorited The Indie Web Is Not Defined by Its Enemies by Khürt Williams (islandinthenet.com) The indie web is stronger when it is defined by what it does: people owning their publishing, people controlling their data, people connecting...
I have a Posteo email account. I was paying 1 Euro per month (or whatever that converts to in USD at the moment) for 2 GB of storage. Today, Posteo doubled the amount of storage on the 1 Euro plan from 2 GB to 4 GB. I do not think I was...
I wrote an article a couple of weeks ago about the “retirement” of visual novel developer PixelFade Studio. I had reviewed two PixelFade Studio visual novels, ACE Adademy (see review) and Kaori After Story (see review), with the latter...
I wanted to add an htaccess rule to NLJ blocking requests from empty user agents (and “-” user agengs). I looked into the best way to do it and found a 2017 answer on Stack Overflow. This solution is interesting because it explicitly...
Reuters reports that Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s former placeholder President and current deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, insists that Russia comes in peace: We are not interested in a global conflict. We’re not crazy. Dmitry...