A trike bike I snapped in Thailand Back in 2008 I had been using Twitter for a while and thought it was pretty cool that you could text an update and have it appear on the web. A friend of mine set up a StatusNet server which was really exciting because it was like our very own Twitter for our local community in...

Acabo de desplegar algunos cambios en el feed RSS del blog. Algunas personas me avisásteis (¡mil gracias!) de que no estaba funcionando en algunos lectores, y con tino me indicásteis que el RSS no era válido según las especificaciones. Creo haberlo corregido, aunque haya algunos warnings a los que prestaré atención...

Eli and I are engaged, and we're getting married later this year!

A guide to how I'm writing fiction with AI. It lists all my reflections, essays and more about this experiment.

#arte #ElSueñodelArtista #ESDA #opinión Un podcast, un blog, un canal de Telegram y una pregunta esencial: ¿qué significa sostener un sueño artístico en la era digital? La Génesis: Un Ecosistema de Reflexión Artística "El Sueño del Artista" nació como un espacio polifónico donde el arte se desnuda ante preguntas...

They are at it again. The so-called “Chat Control” proposal is back on the table to be voted soon. The plan is to weaken encryption for emails and chat apps, so law enforcement can read your messages, eavesdrop on your VPN connection etc. The excuse the politicians and lawmakers are using here is option A: to...

August 16, 2025 Analytics numbers can be deceiving. They only capture part of your audience, missing readers who follow your site in RSS without ever visiting directly. That means the traffic you see is just the drive-by visitors. Keep that in mind the next time you judge your site's performance by analytics alone.

ChatGPT and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

...And now for a new blog straight from HOPE 16 in Queens, NY! You would think that after a FULL day of talks, workshops and general hackery, I would be dead tired and fast asleep but alas, I can't sleep. No AGI is not keeping me awake, it's the Rave …

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. Martin Fowler, software author Poem: Encrypted I know the script is hard to read, But reading's not the goal; You're not supposed to understand — That's why they call it code! Just like music, poetry, or...

There has been quite a surge in interest towards desktop Linux lately. The userbase, at least according to some metrics, seems to be climbing. I realised today that it's been 4 years for me since I did the switch. I have gathered some know-how that maybe a complete newbie could find useful. I also try to untangle...

A few photos from today around Berkeley Hills, CA.

Manage remote vm-bhyve guests with OS X Mavericks VNC client FreeBSD vm-bhyve is a great tool to create, install and manage virtual machines. vm-bhyve is designed to work with ZFS, which makes it very easy to create new vm's, and make ZFS snapshots of those. Virtual machines can either run with or without a...

When I wrote about how much I abstract myself from daily news (1, 2, 3), many people asked me how I can stop worrying about a gazillion things happening in the world. I pondered whether I had become numb. I found out, over time, that I developed a high level of attention to certain things and serenity to worry less...

In this new video series, I talk to anybody who is interested to have a video call with me (so do contact me if you want!). The topics cover anything related to Emacs, technology, and life in general. More here: https://protesilaos.com/prot-asks/. Today I talk with Erik Arneson about a number of topics ranging from...