Thu Dec 04
The morning sun - at the edge of the frame - illuminates red maple leaves along the Oi River in Arashiyama. 朝の太陽が、フレームの端で、嵐山の大堰川沿いの赤い楓の葉を照らしている。
The suggestion, made by The Daily Aus (TDA), is that few Australians listened to local music in 2025. On Spotify at least. Zero local acts featured in Australia’s most listened-to artists, tracks, and albums on Spotify in 2025. You’ll have to go to Instagram (IG) to read the slide card since TDA mainly publish their...
I recently took my old workstation out of storage, booted it and found it running Fedora 40 - so of course it was time to put NixOS on the machine and bring it into the fleet. I’ve probably been sleeping on the machine as a build/rendering server for my projects, and figured let’s do it. While the setup was farily...
November 2025. Manchester. Back in Piccadilly Gardens from Sale only slightly later than hoped, I admired the Manchester Christmas markets, apparently only second to Nuremberg, who are therefore the Arsenal of Christmas tat. All you need for Christmas is a pint of Holt in the Hare & Hounds, but I reckoned Matt would...
TitleBroken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars CreatorRevolution Software Year1996 Kindgame Played2025-12-05
Cryptomator es una aplicación que permite cifrar directorios, tanto a nivel local como en servicios de almacenamiento en la nube. De manera sencilla, podemos crear bóvedas (directorios) que se protegen y cifran utilizando AES y cifrado de 256 bits para los archivos. De esta manera podemos proteger el contenido de...
Almost exactly 20 years ago I installed and used Linux for the first time. The distro was good old Ubuntu 5.10, code-named “Breezy Badger” back in the day. The hardware was my faithful Apple iBook G3 bought in 2003, with a PowerPC CPU. That iBook was my favorite laptop for a long time, and I ended up giving it a...
Aunt Em had just come out of the house to water the cabbages when she looked up and saw Dorothy running toward her. “My darling child!” she cried, folding the little girl in her arms and covering her face with kisses. “Where in the world did you come from?” “From the Land of Oz,” said Dorothy gravely. “And here is...
七年前我来到了日本，一开始因为词汇量不够，时常会有不知道准确的日语表达方式的情况，但是生活中使用日语的场景远多于母语的中文，渐渐地说话的时候想不起来准确的中文词汇的次数越来越多了。每次想不到准确的表达方式的时候，我都会非常难受。在试图究其原因的时候我发现，作为一个大学选了外语专业的人，我应该是有一些语言洁癖的。 我尽量避免说（不地道的）方言 汉语 我是一个东北人，但我除了和家人在一起的时候之外基本不说东北话。主要有两个原因： 一是因为我15岁就离开老家去了北京，很早就脱离了东北话环境。高中时期混沌模糊，记忆暧昧不清，但是我记得到了大学，已经基本没有人能通过口音听出来我是哪里人了。...
I just saw the post on Mastodon that the FSF Europe deleted their account on X (Twitter) and recommends their Fediverse accounts. On their news site they write: The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X. The platform never aligned with our values and no longer serves as a space for communication....
Have you ever heard of Whamageddon? I hadn't, until the hashtag recently showed up in my Mastodon feed. According to the wiki site, it's a tongue-in-cheek survival game in which the player must avoid hearing Wham!'s Last Christmas from December 1st all the way through Christmas Eve. Unbeknownst to me, I've been...
Thanks be to God for these: We arrived safely at home yesterday. Are now catching up on sleep. Old people need lots of sleep. Especially after long international journeys. My to-do list for today was long, but much got done, even with a longer afternoon nap and running the Missus to her morning appointment. Two...
📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 600 mm focal length – 1/500″ at f/8 – ISO 500 📍 Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla, Shoshone-Bannock, and Tséstho’e (Cheyenne) land
Khaire, Artemis, Goddess of many names! You take pride In roaming the forests Rarely visiting divine Olympus. Your illustrious mother And loyal Nymphai Stand beside you As you hunt on mountain hills. O, bright goddess of the moon, You push people to nature. If my offerings were sweet to you, Pull me closer to divine...
In my last two posts, I outlined different stories about my experiences dealing with developers that had offloaded their work to low-quality LLMs, resulting in frustrating performance degradation. Today, I’ll be writing about a similar experience, wherein responding to a potential security incident, my professional...
It’s the beginning of December again, which means Spotify Wrapped has just dropped. Like last year, I want to share mine here and encourage you to do the same, so we can all discover some great music :) This year, Spotify used a TikTok-style vertical scroll for Wrapped instead of the old Instagram Story format. I...
I am a worrier. A worrier that comes from a long line of worriers. I’ve spent a significant amount of time worrying, so I am practiced. With all due humility, I’m very good at it. And, in spite of my skill level, the outcome of this investment has been what you might expect, including bouts with anxiety and...
In this article, I will follow a guide from IAB Tech Lab to create an Ads.txt file for a site which does not have authorized advertising system records, which is the case for The New Leaf Journal (we are proudly ad-free). My article comes with a prefatory story, but you can jump to the solution if you came here just...
Communism and leftists; change and alternatives; colonialism and development; spies and terrorists; psychoanalysis and grief; crime and heroes; climate and sustainability; poverty and survival; football and footballers. 2021? I've been putting together a blog post on books I read in 2025. It prompted me to delve...
SPONSORED This week’s ad slot was purchased by friend of Foofaraw, Evan Passero, in support of the Denton Community Food Center—providing emergency food assistance from a central community storehouse to needy families and individuals in the City of Denton and Northern Denton County struggling with hunger...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Quick caveat up front; Saturday night I got incredibly INCREDIBLY sick (don’t wanna go into it but I’ve legitimately never thrown up that much in my life) and by the time I’m posting this (Thurs 12/4) I’m only now in “not dying” mode. Once I’m well...
It’s Blogvent, day 5, where I blog daily in December! Today, an Issue I made on a repository 11 years ago was closed. Eleven whole years! The Issue hasn’t been solved yet (the team did say it’s on the roadmap though, so yay, and they had me make a Discussion post, so smash that upvote button), but man, the world is...
Installing OpenMediaServer on a Raspberry Pi Trixie, or any Debian system, without the use of piping a shell script through bash.
Este toot de @editora@mastodon.social me ha hecho pensar en una cuestión básica y en un error que muchos cometemos. Repetid conmigo, casi como un mantra: no perdáis el control de ninguna de vuestras identidades digitales. Pueden pasar muchas cosas y casi ninguna buena. Dejo unas notas un tanto inconexas en relación...
Baudrillard beschreibt in "Amerika" (1986) die Obsession, an das eigene Bewusstsein angeschlossen zu sein. [Der Universitätsangestellte] speichert alles, um dem Endergebnis zu entkommen, um die Frist des Todes zu verlängern und die Schicksalhafte Zeitspanne der Schrift dank des ewigen feed-back mit der Maschine zu...
Tenho usado KeePass (especificamente o KeePassXC) a alguns meses depois de mais ou menos 7 anos usando Bitwarden para fazer meu gerenciamento de senhas. Usar um gerenciador de senhas é essencial com a quantidade de contas e serviços que utilizamos hoje. Se você já utiliza algum serviço do tipo, migrar para o...
Tom’s post nudged me to revive my Digital photo frame that I set up last year. Turned it on this morning and it lit up like it was setup a minute ago. Love it! Took me a minute though to figure out how I’d initially set it up since I missed documenting it then. So here’s a quick note for posterity. Hardware Display:...
A list of the things I often pester people about when I start a new piece of commsy sort of work. Hi! How's your Thursday going? Or whatever day you're reading this
Retro Bar in Manchester has closed. I wasn't the most regular bar fly but it was a constant venue in my decades living in Manchester; known for a decent club night or two and as a cracking venue for seeing bands of a certain size/popularity/fame. For example, I remember seeing Frank Turner there on one of his first...
Is this a minor irritation, or the end of Android as we know it?
From Nina Kalinina’s excellent revival of a forgotten 1983 GUI, a discovery of a hilarious accessibility bug: VisiOn loves to beep at the user. It beeps every time a menu option is chosen or an on-screen button is clicked. If you are tired of the noise, you’d appreciate that Application Manager has an option to...
Back in college I ran a service called Dog-a-Day, where I emailed subscribers a picture of a dog every day, along with a fun caption. This was initially just a Christmas present for my dad but it spiraled into a full service with some ~200 subscribers. I stopped it in 2020 after five years, but am resurrecting it...
Original Composition Idea by Ritika Assistant Lyricization by Akshat, Anusha, Shashank Instrumentation, Voice, and Direction by Shashank Lyrics Chawal ke duniya mein mein phass gayi Main toh chali gulab ugane Par yahan mein dekhu chawal ugg aaye Chawal ke duniya mein mein phass gayi haye Maine toh suna tha chawal...
In the digital landscape, understanding cyberattacks isn’t just for IT professionals anymore—it’s essential knowledge for anyone using the internet. Every day, millions of people and organizations face sophisticated threats, but many remain unaware of how these attacks actually work or what they can do to protect...
Japanese handwriting I opened this book from the library and I felt a good hit of dopamine when I just look at it and READ it! #japaneseThank you for following my feed! ♥ Leave a reply here.
This is my entry for this month’s IndieWeb Carnival, hosted by V.H. Belvadi, on the topic of “where do you see the IndieWeb in 2030?”. 2031.12.04/Lyon You have to understand that i thought the web was dead. They told us that after the great AI metastasis of 2028, it was impossible to clean up the mess, and they had...
Small talk as a costly signal of social commitment: for many of the social benefits of language, the content of what is said literally doesn't matter. pic.twitter.com/wypaSXq0tr— Cameron Harwick (@C_Harwick) October 10, 2022
I started this blog to document and reflect on random moments from my life. Eventually to find that it was a poor medium for doing so. Though anonymous (to a certain degree), my page is public facing. No matter how much I tell myself to not care, I do care. I reword, reorganize, and cut out the "boring parts". It...
I added an Ads.txt file to this site (see our Ads.txt file). That may sound odd. This site doesn’t have ads! That is true. But I like collecting text files and I learned how to create a properly-formatted Ads.txt file for an ad-free website. For those interested, you can read my new post titled Adding Ads.txt to...
Last weekend I drove down to see my family. I have one cousin who has a ton of kids, so every time I see him, he's like, "Let's meet up for dinner away from the chaos." As soon as he and his wife sat down, they both immediately ordered martinis. They told me that the restaurant was the only decent seafood restaurant...
James “Jim” Bogen, a longtime professor of philosophy at Pitzer College as well as an adjunct professor in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, has died. Professor Bogen was known for his work on various topics in the philosophy and history of science, including the epistemology of...
Eu tenho um certo pavor de Visual Novels pelo único motivo de: tem que ler. Mais do que isso: Precisa ler muito! Não faz muito sentido, ainda mais depois de eu ter falado que eu li uma quantidade grande de livros esse ano. Mas pra mim são duas situações diferentes. Jogos foram feitos para serem jogados, livros para...
Trying to win the lottery with pure Linux RNG magic.
This is a slightly modified version of the closing words from the hour-long video I posted today while looking at the full moon: Vlog: hike and philosophy with my four dogs. When you are in the wilds and get to be moonbathed be inspired to remain silent Heed the voice of the great outdoors Allow yourself the chance...
With my recent unemployment, I’m returning to a blog post idea I had a few months ago. I wrote this idea down and just didn’t know how it fit, as it was during the time when I started to think more carefully about my health and getting older. Life happens, we all know this. Good things, bad things, and all the...
Mais c’est plus joli ! La nouvelle version de votre site web est inutilisable, vos emails sont longs et illisibles, vos slides et vos graphiques sont creux. Mais j’entends bien votre argument pour justifier toute cette merde : C’est plus joli ! On fout tout en l’air pour faire « joli ». Même les icônes des...
Check out As in guillotine... for more. NOTE: If you’re reading this via email, some things may look different because I made a bunch of backend changes to my website, but it’s still me and my five things of interest. If you’re on my website, the differences will be a little more subtle and I’d honestly be surprised...