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Dan had a good post about polyamory, in which he explains how his partner Ruth shares a bed between him and his meta — her other life partner. This invites a discussion about polyamory, but first, a discussion about fairness and content....
A couple of recent posts have claimed that I fed years of a customer's personal writing into an LLM without their consent.I want to clarify what actually happened. I used Claude Code to help write a parser for a WordPress export file,...
The one thing that I am pining about old software: there is 'no need' to upgrade the software ever so often, because there is no always-on internet. Or heck, no internet. And you don't get viruses so long you practice safe diskette...
§ This feels like the last big gasp of summer before autumn starts creeping in. In the garden our first dahlia finally bloomed and our sweet autumn clematis is suddenly full of tiny flower buds that are threatening to open any day now. §...
When a student in Edinburgh I regularly walked past by the huge Scott Monument, a memorial to the novelist Walter Scott, and wondered why there was such a huge memorial to a writer that I’d never read and didn’t seem to be read by...
Wenn man an Traditionsrestaurants in Herne denkt, dann kommt man ums Forsthaus im Revierpark Gysenberg nicht herum. War doch das schnuckelige Fachwerkhaus über eine Jahre eine Bank für Gemütlichkeit und gute Küche. Leider hat dies… Der...
Five years ago I tried to trace a popular quote from its two 1870s literary appearances, to its becoming so hackneyed it was a punchline for Il’f and Petrov in the 1920s, to its later life in twenty-first century political rhetoric. The...
Mentioned at the time, but not included in the post, the third Tattle Tale from Phidal I bought back in 2023, it still needs to be cleared out and ticked-off, so here it is; As with the others, it contains four figures from one of the...
New in Swift 6.4 (which at the time of writing is in beta as part of Xcode 27) is a warning which is emitted when a nested closure performs a weak capture while the parent closure implicitly captures that object as a strong reference.At...
One of the great things about attending scholarly conferences—aside from all the really smart people you meet—is the treasure trove of book recommendations you get. Now adding to my tbr pile: GOLIATH — by Tochi Onyebuchi GRACE — by...
Director: Kristoffer BorgliStarring: Nicolas Cage, Julianne Nicholson, Michael Cera, Tim Meadows, Dylan GelulaWhat it is about: A boring professor who leads a boring life starts appearing in almost everyone's dreams and becomes an...
flashrom 1.8.0 shipped three days ago. There won't be a 1.9.0. The next release is 2.0.0, exactly 25 years after the first commit, and it ships with a model that never hallucinates, scores 100% on chip identification, and fits in a PDF.
The Linux Foundation The OSI License Concept Model Legality Change It As You Wish Normal Stuff Wait, What Retaliation More Boilerplate Free As in Mattress Motivation Returning to Legality Last Boilerplate Compatibility Conclusions I have...
August 24. 2026Late summer. On the surface, it seems like a rather slow time of year when not much is happening. Yet, when I look closer, there is so much life happening before my eyes.Baby cardinal finally popped out of the leaves for a...