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This is a typography-first BearBlog theme built around restraint, legibility, and mood. No tricks. No visual noise. Just clean reading space and a soft accent system. QuietType exists for blogs that want to quiet down a little and, have an appreciation for the default theme. What It Is 3-color palette system Clean...
It’s 9 AM on a Saturday morning and somehow I am already an hour into having learned that the looming US strike on Iran has finally happened, and that they’ve only gone ahead and gotten Israel involved too. The US has named this operation “Epic Fury”, which always brings to mind the old Shakespeare saw “Full of...
Tumbleweed es una distribución de GNU/Linux «Rolling Release» o de actualización contínua. Aquí puedes estar al tanto de las últimas novedades. openSUSE Tumbleweed es la versión «rolling release» o de actualización continua de la distribución de GNU/Linux openSUSE. Hagamos un repaso a las novedades que han llegado...
Some link titles have been slightly modified for style. AnimalsDr. Cheeto CatThis orange cat gets his own profile as a professor at UC Davis' high-performance computing facility. (Thanks to someone on the Fediverse for sharing this university chonker!) Nature Match Cuts: Snails or Slop SlimePetra dissects a viral,...
Check out As in guillotine... for more. NOTE: I would like a hard reboot on 2026, please! Between multiple deep freezes, the last of which froze some pipes and cracked a joint I found right before it could turn into a basement catastrophe, to a historic blizzard, to various IRL shenanigans I mostly can’t talk about...
A new OS website; how should gov experiment on the web? some links, pics, the usual gubbins in many respects etc
Estoy volviendo a ver Friends. No es que esté prestándole toda mi atención pero es una serie que me parece agradable de tener de fondo, sobre todo porque ya la conozco. Y creo que en general ha envejecido muy bien. Tengo opiniones sobre algunas cuestiones, pero en general las tramas y los personajes aguantan...
Here’s some stuff I’ve experienced lately (and not necessarily only new releases)...
Dear friends,I’d love to share with you what I’ve been up to this month.First up:✏️ Writing: A newbie's guide to self-hosting with YunoHostI published part 4 in my “newbie’s guide to self-hosting with YunoHost” that discusses backups:A newbie’s guide to self-hosting with YunoHost. Part 4: backupsThe fourth article...
I wrote a little while ago, that I planned to stop blogging every day. I stated in that post that it had started to feel like an obligation, and that it had stopped being fun because I was forcing it. Since then, I’ve had a problem in that I’m not blogging at all. I’ve only posted 19 times since that post and that...
It’s okay to not feel okay, especially when your hormones have been out of whack for months and healthcare is slow to try to help you with it. My pain and fatigue have been especially bad lately, and that also feeds into my lack of patience and temper, and also is probably due in no small part to the fact that my...
The work has been hectic. I actually don’t like hectic mode. I prefer being prepared and doing planned activities. But I do understand that not all real-world things can be planned, so one will feel stressed about time. I think it’s going to be like this till the end of March. So at least I know when it’s going to...
February 2026. Timperley. Greater Manchester. On Saturday I dropped Mrs RM off at Manchester Airport after an exciting trip through Wynatt’s Pass and less absorbing trek along the A555, which let me tell you in no A57. Mrs RM was off on another planet-killing trip with a very famous pub blogger, but it wasn’t me (no...
Eight months post-June 2025 Twelve-Day War, the Middle East lingers in armed stability: exhaustion and uncertainty, neither peace nor war. Israel’s surprise strikes destroyed 35-45% of Iran’s ballistic missile stockpile and eliminated key military leaders. The United States bombed three Iranian nuclear sites. Iran...
Manchester, UK. Late 1999; I don't recall the exact month but it was post-September because the Freshers had arrived. The Roadhouse was legendary for its low ceiling dripping sweat, loud speakers, and knee-high stage — a truly intimate venue. Cyclefly were playing and the crowd were ready! Touring "Generation Sap",...
I've been reading Sebastian's recent Haikus and got inspired to write some. I've shared some in Spanish before, but I haven't in English (or wrote much Haikus in English at all). It wasn't as hard as I thought, it was fun. Less I'm not escaping, I'm searching for something new, something less perfect. 8 AM A...
Antecedently: HEIST TO MEET YOU; Eric and other adoptables; wham-bam-bank-you-ma’am The manager pulls a piece and lets fly at Rigatoni, which, rude but understandable, for a 17; it meets (and therefore beats) his AC, and lands for 3 damage. She shouts to the room and rest of the bank “We have thieves here, raise the...
I hate my iPhone. What used to be a cool toy became addictive and an active hindrance in my life. For a long time, I wanted to get myself a (so called) dumb-phone, but this would prove itself a challenge in the year of our Lord (The Smartphone) 2026. Too many things depend on my having this terrible device, that not...
Admito que desde o ano passado quando eu descobri sabe-se lá como sobre uma quantidade acima do normal de jogos em FMV que saíram e estão pra sair, eu fiquei com sentimentos conflitantes. Parte de mim deu risada de imaginar esse tipo de jogo em pleno 202X. E outra parte ficou curiosa de saber quão esquisito seria...
Sirât es la última película del director Óliver Laxe. Nos sumerge, por un lado, en la cultura de las raves. Esa cultura, predominantemente francesa que aparece cada año en las noticias, sobre todo en Navidad, cuando se organiza alguna fiesta que dura días. Así es como empieza Sirât, con una rave, que se organizó...
A few days ago I wrote about how I recently decide to just poke away at games without actually feeling any rush to focus on a single game completely. But of course, sometimes a game just grips me from beginning to end, and I have to commit, because it’s just that cool. I have lots of memories of watching speedruns,...
My rather long book review and/or collection of notes from reading Richard W. Hamming's opus.
The faithful Cacambo had already prevailed upon the Turkish skipper, who was to conduct the Sultan Achmet to Constantinople, to receive Candide and Martin on his ship. They both embarked after having made their obeisance to his miserable Highness. “You see,” said Candide to Martin on the way, “we supped with six...
After an absolutely devastating January, my February was chilled and productive, and I really hope to keep that trend. Today is the State of the Browsers day, and I’m well pumped to be there with my best friends, surrounded by the best folks from the web community. I’m still hunting for a new job, and things are...
NY Times“Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems,” Mr. Altman said. “The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our...
There are many alternatives to Google Analytics. The fact that the use of Google Analytics is illegal in some countries should give you pause for thought. In Europe alone you will find more than 30 organisations tooled and ready. They include those that start with a small monthly fee or charge nothing at all....
Me siento un rato afuera, en uno de los tantos bancos que hay, en uno de los tantos lugares que emulan una placita en el predio del lugar donde trabajo. La noche se presta para todo, menos para estar trabajando. Las cosas están tan desacomodadas que mi sistema operativo se siente acelerado, como si un par de volts...
"Industria Elvetica" (Swiss Industry) from the Gli abiti de veneziani (1754) by Giovanni Grevembroch, translated by René Seindal.
In Europe they were going on about things called postmodernist and poststructuralist magick, which seemed to involve lots of spells doing the opposite of what their inventors wanted, ana spells that did nothing at all, which everyone claimed was very profound. hehe... this is so subtle ðŸ¤
PSA: The new Gorillaz album is out today and it is very good, indeed. Reply by email
Lilypond is a program and language for writing musical scores using only text. The syntax is similar to LaTeX, and this can be easily converted to nice-looking PDF scores, as well as MIDI files for previewing/making mockups. In addition, there are e.g., Python libraries such as Abjad that allow for algorithmic...
Not a lot. I think. I am still hopelessly in love with this peanut rayu, and I'm currently enjoying reading (very slowly) A Thousand Blues by Cheon Seon-ran.[1] ill I was snotty for a week and a bit. That halted the running & cycling & climbing discipline of last month. I have just come back from my first climb in a...
La usurpación de identidad es una técnica bastante curiosa en el sentido de que no funciona para causar ningún daño técnico, sino para engañar al humano del otro lado del computador. Ya revisamos lo que sucedía en el Spoofing y ahora me salen con el SMTP Smuggling. Introducción SMTP Smuggling y Email Spoofing son...
With the Firefox AI kill switch added in Firefox 148, it seems a small part of the user base has been heard. But is this addition by Mozilla really as big an improvement as they make it seem? There are dark patterns and somewhat obvious attempts at hiding the real agenda they laid out a few months back. Mozilla is...
TIMBRE VUELOS NOCTURNOS SOBRE UN MAR SIN FONDO [La Jornada, martes febrero 24, 2026] Decía Valère Novarina, el dramaturgo y escritor francosuizo que murió hace poco más de un mes en París, que al teatro uno va a ser testigo del desgaste del cuerpo. No acudimos a la escena por el relato, aseguraba, sino para...
Todo site, aplicativo, serviço digital, e-mail e possivelmente mensagem que você envia na internet tem alguma forma de rastreamento embutido. Você sabia que alguns e-mails podem conter uma imagem minúscula, do tamanho de um pixel, com uma URL única, destinada somente a você? Quando você abre este e-mail, esse pixel...
A new article by Joseph Howlett at Quanta explains how Georg Cantor plagiarized Richard Dedekind’s work on infinity. The case that Cantor plagiarized Dedekind had been made earlier by José Ferreirós (University of Seville), and some earlier mathematicians, such as Emmy Noether (a student of Dedekind’s) seemed to be...
Allez (pronounced ah-lay) just opened a new location in Madisonville and added a few sandwiches into the rotation of breads and pastries. ⊕Currently Listening: Packaging “In Your Pocket”Reply via email
Before computer graphics, movies relied on matte paintings to extend or flesh out the background. This is perhaps my favourite matte painting, from the end credits of Die Hard 2: Turns out, videogames do something similar, except the result is called a skybox, since it has to encompass the player from all sides....
In my previous post I talk about how I got rid of hundreds of thousands of lines of Objective-C code while at Audible and I explain why keeping Objective-C code around is a terrible idea. And I explain that… I’m not stuck in the old ways; I’m not the guy insisting on the supremacy of Objective-C despite the obvious...
Cherry Blossoms! Kawazu zakura in full bloom at Yokohama's Motomachi Park, in the historic Yamate district. 桜だ！横浜・山手の歴史ある元町公園で、河津桜が咲き始めました。
Another day, another storm in the writing community teacup! The storm, this New York Times article: The New Fabio is Claude TL;DR: Coral Hart uses AI to generate 200 books a year. This has made many writers mad, mad, mad. (Somewhere in a glistening office tower is a very satisfied editor – the ragebait has worked as...
Smart home devices are sold with the promise of convenience: plug-and-play setup, remote control, automatic updates, seamless integration. But the recent DJI robot vacuum breach raises questions we should all be asking. What happened? Sammy Azdoufal, a software engineer, didn’t even need to “hack” anything. By...
Winter finally seems to be on the wane, and this is the time that the USA decides to start yet another war in West Asia, this time supporting Israel. Not what I was hoping to wake up to, but not something I was surprised to see after the UK pulled their diplomats out of Tehran yesterday. At that point this not...
I've changed my website again! Last year, I was tired of how bloated and ad-soaked Wordpress had become, so I moved to Joomla. And while that was a fantastic CMS, it felt a bit like driving a huge truck. I wanted a website that was a bit more cozy, and that I could understand what was happening under the hood...
I run EndeavourOS on my main workstation. I recently switched from XFCE to Cinnamon due to having flickering/performance issues with XFCE after a Nvidia update. I was still using XFCE’s Thunar as my file manager. However, I ran into a strange bug starting yesterday where toggling “show hidden files” caused Thunar to...
I often chuckle to myself when people misuse the words Subconscious and Unconscious. Subconscious is generally acting or making decisions without awareness. Unconscious is the state of being unaware of your surroundings, and incapable of interacting in the environment. Consider this: The fresh air and outdoor...
I've never attempted any bird or wildlife photography until now (well, there was the squirrel I spotted in December), and I don't know why I didn't attempt it sooner. It seems perfectly aligned with my other favourite subjects, Aurora, Lightning, Storms, Noctilucents, in that it's technically challenging,...
The war of the United States of America and Israel against Iran is yet another case of power that runs unchecked within its sphere of influence. America has the privilege to operate with impunity in many parts of the world because there is no authority that will impose penalties. What unfolded in Venezuela...
In May of 2023, Google introduced “AI overviews” into their search engine.1 This followed years of decisions leading to worse search quality and the consummation of their mission to answer every query on Google instead of sending you to outside sites. This was upsetting but something I groaned about and then moved...
One day after posting “Better Sleep in Ten Days” I ate junk food, had a beer, watched Olympics until 10:15, got a good length of sleep, but it was not restful. All of these things together were probably not good choices. 😆 Searching for a hotel. Yay or nay? I was finally able to see Brandi Carlile in person (review...
My husband had to have a minor surgery a few weeks ago. Before they wheeled him into the operating room, I slapped him on the foot and told him he'd be okay before walking out with a garbage bag full of his clothes. I sat in the waiting room for a few hours; it was so early, not even the Starbucks downstairs was...
One thing about AI is that I use it. I use it for work, but also for personal stuff1. And there’s nothing wrong with that. I also wrote about it here (in Italian): I don’t remember how to do some things that I now do with a calculator, and sooner or later I’ll probably forget how to do things that I now do with an...
(image courtesy of 河CY) a whirlwind has swept through yet another day, reducing it down to an odourless ether marred by the overwhelming sense of mental and physical fatigue, from doing (or being forced to do)... absolutely nothing. i'm not quite sure how yet to unpack this idea, this feeling, that i wallow within...
This essay is adapted from Traversal. Just before the eleven-year-old Walt Whitman dropped out of school to begin his first job, his parents diverted a portion of their meager working-class means toward a subscription to the radical paper The Free Enquirer, inspired by The Enquirer published by the radical...
I have started to watch the television series “The Chosen” again during this Lenten season. I think this will be my fourth time watching these earlier seasons. It's easily one of my favorite TV shows of all time. I do enjoy TV and movies. I subscribe to a couple video streaming services. I still collect DVDs and...