Mon Jan 19
One of the minor regrettable features of modern life (and there are plenty of major ones, heaven knows, but I'm not going there) is the prevalence of whiskers on men's faces: from the full-on righteous hipster beard to carefully curated (or not) permanent stubble, by way of every possible form of facial hair display...
A quick sketch of my proposed peace prize (not an artist). It's been a while since I've written a blog post. I tried taking a break from the buffoonery of the news in the hopes that it would dissipate. That has not gone well. As I wrote in a previous post (to do: be kind), I do believe that individual words and acts...
I have a bunch of screen-casts that I want to release. I have not found a good PeerTube instance to host my videos. I am happy to pay a monthly fee, and I hope one day there will be a platform that provides this. For now, I will add them to my site, Archive.org, and YouTube. They are all CC-BY-SA. I am thinking of...
Back in 2020 we added MQTT support to curl. When curl 8.19.0 ships in the beginning of March 2026, we have also added MQTTS; meaning MQTT done securely over TLS. This bumps the number of supported transfer protocols to 29 not too long after the project turned 29 years old. The 29 transfer protocols (or schemes) that...
Added pages for Etelätär, Otavatar and Louhi. Also amendended the front page text below on request.
NY Times“Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace”This is pure insanity. What a childish, insecure, petty old man. The narcissism and selfishness to try to take over a country for what you think is a...
I have met people from all walks of life. I have met millionares and people living on benefits. I have met people who are doing fine, and people in deep depressions. I have met people that grew up in a strict household, and I have met people who had to raise themselves. However, I have found one primary way to gauge...
Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor: We articulate a vision of artificial intelligence (AI) as normal technology. To view AI as normal is not to understate its impact — even transformative, general-purpose technologies such as electricity and the internet are “normal” in our conception. But it is in contrast to both...
I came across a recent article on making Linux system calls from a Wine process. Windows programs running under Wine are still normal Linux processes and may interact with the Linux kernel like any other process. None of this was surprising, and the demonstration works just as I expect. Still, it got the wheels...
Notes, open questions, and possibly reliable replies about opening a single-person business in the Netherlands. Questions When am I going to be able to produce the first invoice? Kleine ondernemings regeling (KOR)? (<20k/y) Working with the US and/or abroad in general? Is it ok if I have a main income from IA(E) and...
Hier een lijst organisaties die voor hun primaire missie totaal afhankelijk zijn van Amerikaanse clouds, en waarbij de maatschappij ontwricht zou worden als ze hun werk niet meer konden doen, bijvoorbeeld door sancties over Groenland. Dit omvat bijvoorbeeld wel de veiligheidsregio’s en het UWV, maar niet het...
I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here in daily posts. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive. Ads on ChatGPT. Testing will begin in the US, on the free and Go plans (USD 8/month) — which has been expanded worldwide. Who could have imagined this would happen…? KDE for...
January 2026. Liverpool. A third new Liverpool GBG tick in barely an hour brought me to the scruffier bit of the modern city, not far from Toxteth and Cains and all that. Love Lane is notably quieter than the Ropewalks pubs, but seems to have the smartest menu and they’ve pulled out all the stops to make this an...
How, as a researcher, can you use AI tools like ChatGPT in a way that doesn’t compromise your integrity, creativity, and independence? In the following guest post, Jimmy Alfonso Licon (Arizona State University) explains how he does it, laying out how he approaches his writing process and the roles he assigns ChatGPT...
I'm going to brace for impact on this one because I'm not going to suggest you go into these to actually watch videos. If you are going for a fun aesthetic in the background at a retro party or art installation great, do it. What I'm saying is don't invest in VHS outside of collecting. There are lots of rare...
An advertisement flyer for Theriac, from 1688 (and 1697), printed in Venice, but in English. This is an annotated transcript.
I found a solution to a CSS issue, but I probably discovered a Safari CSS calculation bug along the way.
(Published a few days after week two). I've been reading the Murderbot books and I've been pretty hooked. My wife started reading them, then the series came on Apple TV and I watched it - but I've turned to the books as they are (unsurprisingly) much, much better. They were written a decade ago and what is described...
Savage from heliographe.studio on Threads (via Daring Fireball): #apple #humor #iconography #mac os
A few days ago, my wife told me about something happening in the art community, specifically the webcomic community. The full allegations can be read here, but in short: Hiveworks used to provide web hosting, site design, advertising support, and crowdfunding services for indie webcomic creators. It soon failed to...
Una de las últimas películas que vi en 2025 fue Frankenstein de Guillermo del Toro. La nueva adaptación del clásico de Mary Shelley puede verse en Netflix, que de hecho ha producido el metraje. En todo caso, nos encontramos ante la típica película de Guillermo del Toro, con una ambientación gótica refinada y...
Baro perché metto in cima uno degli inevitabili recuperoni di dicembre: non che il 2026 non sia partito bene eh, ma The Splintered Oar una menzione di merito come se la meritava tutta.
A local news broadcaster redirects users with ad blockers to a third-party error page with oddly personal messaging.
Twitter's descent into a gutter of the lowest order has been gut-wrenching: Elon Musk’s Grok and the Mass Undressing Scandal As I draft this, a week later, it appears pressure from civil society, investigations by regulators, and outright bans on multiple continents have forced Musk to back down to an uncertain...
At temples, I often shoot these hanging ema votive tablets with their wishes and prayers. Picturesque, and occasionally poignant. Taken at Mangetsu-ji temple. 寺院では、願いや祈りが書かれた絵馬をよく撮影する。絵画のように美しく、時に胸を打つ。満月寺で撮影。
I switch back and forth between Windows and Mac pretty regularly depending on what I’m working on (and sometimes between WSL and PowerShell on the same machine, what a time to be alive), and one thing that I always mess up in PowerShell on Windows is making a new file. On Linux-based machines, you can run touch...
Today I attended a dance fitness class. Even Edie was in shock by this development. ⊕Currently Listening: Florence + The Machine “Sympathy Magic”Reply via email
Most of the websites I follow in my web reader are personal sites like blogs. With that said, recently I subscribed to my local council’s news web page. On that page, they publish various updates – events coming to the region, draft council reports, weather warnings, and more. They advertise that there is an RSS...
I am writing this mostly for people who may be coming around sometime in late 2026 or maybe even early 2027, when the release of the second season of the show is imminent; most everyone else who’s online at all right now has heard about the show, and probably has some idea what to expect–even though the discourse...
Earlier today I heard that there was yet another attempt being made to reboot the late 70s TV show Blake’s 7. I have a particular fondness for Blake’s 7 and by coincidence I recently finished my latest rewatch of all four seasons of the show on DVD. In that article there was a brief comparison of Blake’s 7 with...
Segunda versión menor de la versión 3.3 del reproductor de música Amarok creado por la comunidad de KDE El reproductor de música Amarok de KDE recibe una nueva actualización. La anterior versión 3.3.1 se había publicado en agosto de 2025. La versión 3.3.2 presenta una serie de pequeñas mejoras, incluyendo pequeños...
I took a fancy to the idea of hosting my own Git repositories. I did not want to simply mirror them elsewhere on someone else’s platform, but wanted them entirely under my control. I also wanted the repositories viewable in a way that feels familiar, like on GitHub or Codeberg. The problem is that most of the...
Dass sich einer der nervigsten Wurmfortsätze der Marketing-Maschinerie jetzt als korrupte Kackscheiße (via: Links von Dirk Hesse) herausstellt, überrascht mich nur milde. Die Rede ist vom unsäglichen SPIEGEL-Bestseller-Aufkleber, der—gemeinsam mit seinen Scheißgeschwistern A Netflix Series und Tik-Tok-Phänomen—jedes...
In Searching for Tendler-like formulas we presented new Tendler-like cyclic linear multistep formulas for the solution of stiff differential equations. Assume the cyclic linear multistep methods of the form $$ \sum_{j=-k+1}^\ell \left[ \alpha_{ij} y_{m\ell+j} - h \beta_{ij} \dot y_{m\ell+j} \right] = 0, \quad...
Back in the day, independent social media enthusiasts were building their own social spaces on RSS/Atom and self-hosted publishing. There was a huge ecosystem of feed readers and publishing software, where anyone could use their own choice of tools to interact with the space, and it was super cool.Then Google got...
Apple’s Creator Studio bundle, shown with a lineup of the included creative app icons. Source: Apple Newsroom I’m not usually the guy who gets hyped about a new subscription. Subscriptions are how software companies quietly move into your wallet, set up a tent, and start charging rent. But Apple Creator Studio has...
Yes, despite being an AI doom-speaker, I tried using a app-builder to make a simple, social-media-like, private, journalling web app. You can see it at https://yousky.veryuseful.app/. This post explains what I did and why, and outlines the development process I took, including the point at which I decided the AI...
This is the 1969 Pan paperback edition of Devil's Cub. The novel was originally published by Heinemann in 1932.My plan to read my way through Georgette Heyer's historical fiction in chronological order fell apart rather quickly. After my first two titles, The Black Moth and These Old Shades, I was so keen to keep...
TIMBRE [La Jornada, enero 13 2026]EL PAÍS MÁS SOLO DE LA TIERRA Creo que fue Truman Capote quien aseguró que, para estar solo o sentirse solo, no había como ir a New York. Lo dijo, si es que lo dijo, un poco después de traicionar la confianza de sus amigas acaudaladas, cuando ellas le declararon la ley del hielo por...
If I told you that a Kevin James/Alan Ritchson buddy comedy ended with our leads purposefully killing dozens of children in a fiery explosion, you'd probably look at me sideways. If I told you they were the heroes, and this was supposed to be a "cool and funny' moment, you'd think I've lost my god damned mind. But...