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“Guards at the gates of estates, complexes, office parks, or gated communities should not make digital copies of your driving licence, as it could infringe on the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA). This is according to the...
Did you ever remember a melody and could hum it but cannot, for the life of you, recall the words? That happens a lot to me. I thought of that as I read more and more about “soft skills” as an essential for 21st century students...
This is Jessica. Many researchers are thinking about what we should do about scientific peer review now that AI makes producing papers so much easier. Submission numbers keep getting higher — in the past week, I saw reports that the most...
This means I need fewer certificates, and works around the IP blocks
Birmingham’s biggest restaurant opening this year is in London. Our biggest culinary export, a two Michelin wielding chef by the name of Aktar Islam, has opened a restaurant in the big smoke called Oudh 1722. And before you think about...
DiskImageMounter.app silently fails to mount Linux ISOs in macOS and hdiutil attach linux.iso returns "attach failed - Resource temporarily unavailable". However, the built-in tar (bsdtar 3.5.3 in Tahoe) command can list contents: tar tf...
During 2020 and 2021, when I spent a LOT of time at home, I got really into making condiments. It's surprisingly easy to make condiments - for some reason, I had the idea that making sauces was harder than making "regular ass food", and...
While investigating an espionage case, Colin Lamb stumbles upon a murder involving a typist, a blind woman, and a room full of clocks. By getting to the bottom of the murder, Lamb thinks he might just catch an international criminal...
Deserialization attacks have grown in popularity over the past decade, with major flaws hitting tech giants and modern frameworks— even in 2025. Last July, a question came to mind: "What if we took insecure deserialization and brought it...
CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHER PIKE STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES (EXO-6) Hey, it’s a Star Trek review, which means it’s time for me to talk about how I’m not *really* into Star Trek. But, honestly, I’m starting to realize I’m perhaps...
by Gwyn Conaway According to designers, it's time for the miniskirt to take a hike. These eleventh graders didn't get the memo. There are few things that bring me more joy than announcing the death of a trend, but this time, I’m...
I’m lucky to have a job where I get to visit a lot of different places. The most "exotic" times, even for me as a Swede, are when I get to do house inspections out in the archipelago. I had such a day yesterday. Going from house to house...
Scribed by Sandre the Giant Released: 14th May 1996 Finnish death metallers Amorphis had begun their considerable career a few years before this, with the incredible ‘The Karelian Isthmus’ and of course their iconic ‘Tales from the...
Market Street This is one of those photos where I wish I could have been close enough to eavesdrop. This discussion was so intense, so perplexing, and completely captivating. I so wanted to be part of it.
Since losing interest in a lot of the things I used to be into, I've not really been posting to social media. The circles I moved in and the people I followed were nearly all tech people, and micro.blog tends to be very nerdy and skewed...