Wed Mar 11
A service promising to protect your privacy is not able to keep you anonymous. Why is that? This distinction is actually really important in data protection and privacy laws. Anonymity is about the inability to link an action, message, or data point to a specific individual. If attribution is possible (even if...
A long weekend well spentI took two days off work this week—which is quite a rare thing for me to do—to fly off the Manchester. I go there quite a lot for gigs, and I feel like I know the city quite well even though I have never lived there. This was a quick trip. I flew there on Monday and flew back to Belfast on...
March 2026. Nottingham. The Americans were in town in early March, giving me as busy a gig schedule as I’ve ever had. Actually, Leith Ross is from Ontario, but since Russ is taking a break from commenting I can confidently tell you that Canada is now part of America, and who wouldn’t want to be ? Back from gigs in...
I started it in December. The first 28 were completed in 34 days. The last two took almost two months. Though I would like to credit this delay to work becoming hectic, it’s mostly me not being able to prioritize. The work is still hectic, but I can take out 20 mins and do a painting. Day 30: Finally 30 days. Last...
Read H.'s story, Basement Girls and Attic Gods, on Foofaraw now!There’s a wonderful contrast between beautiful prose and a quite dark and ugly situation… was that deliberate or just natural from your writing style and interests?I find this question to be incredibly satisfying because it’s a question I’ve gotten...
Trying to save a null value to a non-nullable field in Django will raise an IntegrityError, right? Well, not always. It turns out that Django saves string-based model fields as the empty string into the database instead. Usually, this is ok. For those times that it isn’t, you’ll need to add a constraint. Here, I...
I didn’t choose the raccoon life. The raccoon life looked at my personality, my decision-making skills, and my anxiety level and said, “Yeah. That one.” Some people say their spirit animal is a wolf or an eagle. Strong. Majestic. Symbolic of leadership and wisdom. Meanwhile, I’m out here realizing that if I were an...
When we buy an electronic device, the normal thing (I want to believe) is to choose the most balanced model within the price range available to the purchase. Let's take a phone as an example. There's no point in having the best camera in the world if the system crashes or the battery can't keep up with your routine....
Introduction Earlier this month, I found myself on a side quest to build a Shack-Hartmann Wavefront Sensor (SH-WFS) to act as a scoring WFS for my experimental WFS. While conceptually simple to construct, I never saw any concrete step-by-step instructions for how to build one on the internet. So here is my...
Topgrade: Keeping your system up-to-date usually involves invoking multiple package managers. This results in big, non-portable shell one-liners saved in your shell. To remedy this, Topgrade detects which tools you use and runs the appropriate commands to update them. They are essentially a full-featured version of...
The story goes like this. ComputerCraft is a mod that adds programming to Minecraft. You write Lua code that gets executed by a bespoke interpreter with access to world APIs, and now you’re writing code instead of having fun. Computers have limited disk space, and my /nix folder is growing out of control, so I need...
Icons work because they’re fast. One glance, immediate meaning, no reading required. The tradeoff is that they compress complex information into a single symbol, and compression always drops something. Most of the time that’s fine. But sometimes what gets dropped is the thing that actually matters, and the icon...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop OK so I went from "dude I feel like shit" to "knocked on my ass for 5 days" sick and I'm still recovering - but I did draw pokemon in bed every day because (as stated previously) I appear to have a problem. I caught up on the photo taking and blog...
I quote others only in order the better to express myself. —Michel de Montaigne In 1571, a French nobleman bought a château in Bordeaux with a round stone tower attached to it. He was thirty-eight, newly retired from public life, gutted by the death of his closest friend, and unsure what came next. He withdrew to...
Gonna be honest, I didn’t see this coming just a few months ago. Through some connections I recently had a freelance game development opportunity come up. I like an excuse to start a new project (while trying to ignore the ever growing number of unfinished ones). Game development has always interested me for a long...
I've seen Pillion referred to as a 'dom-com' more than once. While that's good for a chuckle I didn't see this movie as comic by any stretch. ⊕Currently Listening: Ian William Craig “Prisms”Reply via email
"Fetore Allontanato" (Odour Removed) from the Gli abiti de veneziani (1754) by Giovanni Grevembroch, translated by René Seindal.
Zen Browser es un navegador web basado en el motor Gecko de Mozilla, centrado en la privacidad, ofreciendo una experiencia de usuario limpia y minimalista. El proyecto de Zen Browser, de código libre y abierto, se lanzó en verano de 2024 y lleva en fase beta desde diciembre de ese mismo año. Su apariencia...
This is hopefully the first of a regular frequency of journal entries / updates during the course of studies in power. Power cuts across multiple dimensions and levels. There's a lot of power dynamics in nature, within species, across species. In humans (sociologically), there's individual power, there's collective...
(image courtesy of avogado6) today i celebrate the absence of thought. recognise the loss of direction and prepare to abandon ship. i will go on without control be free from regret and forget to remember. to this date i pledge that the greatest weight i shall hold is the weight of my soul and my escape from all...
The month of March really should have been called January, after the double-faced Janus, looking both backward and forward. March looks back to winter, giving us frequent reminders of its cold and gloom, and forward to spring, offering tantalising glimpses of what is to come. It is the true hinge of the year, a...
Days without turning off site blockers: 20 Today I spent 30 minutes doing interpretive dances to ringtones and alarms with my sister.
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Background Reviews TL;DR Tiger-Heli (1985) Flying Shark (1987) Twin Cobra (1987) Fire Shark (1989) Out Zone (1990) FixEight (1992) Dogyuun (1992) Batsugun (1993) Conclusion Links/References Background In January (2026) I answered some questions for Hyde’s Over/Under series. One of the questions was about...
I search this every so often to see if it’s changed, and it finally has! https://community.ui.com/releases/UniFi-Network-Application-10-0-156/67344cb3-8f12-47bc-8796-20de6857c7b2 Now I can assign stable IPv6 addresses in DNS for stuff I host at home. 🎉
For as long as she can remember, James's connection with her twin has gone beyond intuition - she can feel what he feels. So when Johnny is killed in a tragic accident, James knows before her phone even rings that she's alone - truly alone - for the first time in her life. I knew I liked this book when I realised I...
I honestly don't know how to keep living anymore. Don't get me wrong -- I'm not gonna kms or anything, that thought doesn't even cross my mind but... there's truly nothing in my brain. There's no will to keep doing stuff in me. I have no idea where to go from here. It's been what, two, maybe three years? Three years...
How much unconfortable it is to sit with yourself, with the intent of writing, but with no idea about what to write about. I postponed the creation of this blog for so long because I wanted to avoid this moment. I did not want to sit in silence with my own thoughts. It did not feel comfortable. It still doesn't....
March 11, 2026 Houdah Blog HoudahSpot was never designed to replace Finder. It was designed to do the one thing Finder search can’t do well: let you find files using precise, composable criteria.[…] When trying to wrangle a large number of files, Finder keeps you searching and guessing. HoudahSpot, on the other...
I finished reading Patrick Stewart’s memoir “Make It So” – a long, interesting read by one of my favorite actors. Worth reading at least once, it has given me a deeper appreciation for Stewart and his work. His style is amiable and his storytelling is engaging. From his humble beginnings to his greatest triumphs, he...
I enjoy little lists like these, and the presentation here is also delightful. From a design engineer Jakub Krehel, Details that make interfaces feel better. A few of these stood out to me: Make your animations interruptible. […] Users often change their intent mid-interaction. For example, a user may open a...
Susan Haack, professor of philosophy and law at the University of Miami, has died. Professor Haack was well-known for her work in philosophy of logic, epistemology, pragmatism, and philosophy of law. She is the author of Deviant Logic, Fuzzy Logic (1974), Philosophy of Logics (1978), Evidence and Inquiry: Towards...
Recently my partner's trusty old 5K iMac died after 8.5 years of service (Radeon gpu is fried). At first I thought it was finally time to get one of those cool little M4 Mac Minis, but then decided to conduct an experiment. I gave up my Mac Studio M2 Max (64 Gb unified memory and 1 Tb storage) and tried to use my...
Earlier today, at 20:00 Europe/Athens time, I provided an introduction to Emacs at the event FLOSS @ Oxford: https://ox.ogeer.org/event/computing-in-freedom-with-gnu-emacs-protesilaos-stavrou. I had written the transcript ahead of time to make my presentation more accessible. The event was held live as a Jitsi call....
[EDITORIAL NOTE: This analysis examines a prospective scenario based on current research trajectories. The Eon Systems demonstration referenced as occurring in “March 2026” is a projected development used to explore structural questions about whole-brain emulation. All technical claims about FlyWire and Shiu models...
So I was running my linkhut fork instance scalie.computer, and everything was fine at first. Then it was suddenly gone. This happened to me twice! Note that I am not a sysadmin/webdev type of person. This whole world is scary and full of horrors to me. I am most comfortable writing native applications in my cave. I...
Homelab February 2026 Things are snowballing here. You know, it always starts the same way. You see a video on youtube, a photo on reddit, start digging, and suddenly you end up with a home server. I don’t know if this is a trend now or if it’s only on me, but it seems that the algorithm has been pushing homelab...
What destined me to the infinite cycle of writing and reading was the evolution unit in eleventh grade biology.
Even the most foolish entrepreneur today thinks he can replace consultants, technicians, lawyers, and accountants with a credit card and a subscription costing just twenty dollars a month. I wrote a few lines on my Italian blog about why corporate digital bricolage needs to be governed. Otherwise, that idiot will...
My Tor Browser installation is unusual. Rather than install it from my distribution’s repos, I grab the tar.xz file from torproject.org/download/, extract it and run it directly from there. I do the same with Firefox and Thunderbird, but that’s likely a story for another day. The system-wide cursor theme on Linux...
Mientras escribo estas líneas suena en mis auriculares la canción “É preciso dar un jeito, meu amigo.” De Erasmo Carlos. El mate en mi escritorio y la noche de un miércoles en la que reina la incertidumbre, si, lo sé, eso es un estado mental y ando incierto, pero no viene al caso. Trabajaría 8 horas encerrado de no...
Escribe una carta a tu yo de 100 años. Para el querido he irritante :YO No sé si llegases a leer esta pequeña epístola, no es que no crea que no hallas vivido lo suficiente para leerla o mejor escrito sobrevivido a todos los posibles acontecimientos que han de venir para transformar el curso de la historia ya sea...
CW: talk of depression and anxiety Yeaahhhhhh. The last few sentences of my previous post? I'm not okay. I was in the office for about half a day on Monday and ended up going home because of stomach issues. Went home and straight to bed for most of the afternoon. Stayed home yesterday because I got almost no sleep,...