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In the past few months I have unwittingly become an expert on all things W Social: the microblogging platform that is a fork of Bluesky and bills itself as Europe’s alternative to X, with identity verification “to fight bots and...
“We need detachment… as much as we need engagement in our lives… transports that make our consciousness of time and mortality easier to bear.” “Our normal waking consciousness,” William James wrote in his pioneering work on transcendent...
The Wonderful and Amazing Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge mtift Tue, 06/16/2026 - 07:58 Over the weekend Marnie and I drove up to Duluth to celebrate her birthday at our favorite bed and breakfast on Park Point. We’ve spent a lot of time in...
This time, my trip to Chennai was also a road trip. I got a ride with friends in the car, and it also gave us lots of time for conversation. As we were going to the convocation, the discussions turned to education and degrees. Though...
pardon my french. ;P i am, of course, talking about this mother*&#@ing website. my friends on the indie web have talked about it, as well as its derivatives. they are simple sites with simple markdown and layout that take shots at modern...
I’ve recently been looking around for some place that isn’t Instagram, isn’t Flickr, but is a quiet place to share some of (what I consider) my better photos. I am not a photographer but I like capturing moments… So I was delighted when...
I recently gave a talk at a doctoral school in Belgium about alternatives to Big Tech software: do they exist, where are they, and how to find them? I figured it might be useful to other people as well, so I'm sharing the presentation...
Some time ago, I attended an event to discuss European digital autonomy and digital dependencies. I accepted the invitation without checking too carefully, and I belatedly found out that most of US big tech was invited as well, and would...
June 2026. Sudbury. Suffolk. Mrs RM is, of course, correct in all matters (though she thought she saw Gareth Southgate playing for Australia v Turkey the other night), and is adamant that the only way you understand a place is with an...
Can you believe we made it to another day? Can you? I took a late afternoon nap yesterday, and yet again I had a series of strangely vivid and metaphysically discombobulating dreams. The highlight from these dreams: I was watching a...
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I’m wrapping a feverish rework of my remote-editing setup. My requirements I have two primary groups of text I want to be able to edit remotely: (a) my personal Obsidian vault, and (b) this blog. I wrote about some of these desires here....
Google will remove the last traces of Manifest v2, the feature that enabled robust ad-blocking extensions like uBlock Origin, in Chrome versions 150 and 151. Chromium forks — Edge and Opera — have signaled they will follow Google’s lead,...
It looks like Ubiquiti is coming for Sonos with its PoE Audio Port, a $199 device that closely resembles the $499 Sonos Port, and $599 PowerAmp. Sonos is going up-market with the Amp Multi. Sonos has had a rough patch, but I’m pretty...
Mi-am cumpărat de pe Vinted un Palm M100. Acum trebuie să învăț să îl folosesc. Palm M100 Mulțumesc că urmărești ThinkRoot prin RSS. Poți folosi și Atom sau JSON Feed.
AI "assisted" Code is still generative AI and it's weird how people try to justify that it's not Last week I wrote at length about how much I was enjoying the Spirit Crossing playtest, a life sim MMO being built by the team that made...
Time for a new edition of Pook-Emu Bee links on this very pretty (in Brooklyn, at least) June 16. I took this phone on June 14, 2026, to send to Victor V. Gubo. 1. SCOTUS To Newman: Drop Dead (Josh Blackman at The Volokh Conspiracy. June...
Entre todas las mañas que se le han pegado a los jóvenes hay una de la herencia post-woke que los hace quedar como los más flojos de todas las generaciones: la ofensa preventiva. ¿De qué se trata? Pues...
Web Dev UpdatesStale Files on BunnyI was checking my Bunny.net (affiliate link) dashboard a few days ago and noticed some stale files in the root directory for this site. I thought every time I build and deploy the Hugo /public to Bunny,...
The U.S.–China relationship is usually described as a rivalry. Its core mechanism is a recycling machine — and the people who pay for it don’t get a vote on either side. In 2025, as tariffs climbed and “decoupling” became the organizing...
Title: Lyteforce Writes Website: lyteforcewrites.fyi RSS Feed: lyteforcewrites.fyi/feed.xml Just the ramblings of a regionally-biased Canadian Dad who happens to be an avid sports fan, gamer, podcaster, and procrastinator. RSS users are...
In June of 2026, Arch Linux experienced a real hurdle: a large number of packages were taken over and turned evil. Orphaned packages (as of writing, 1,935 known packages; roughly 1.8% of the AUR) were hijacked by bad actors and loaded...
Muchas veces nos preocupamos casi con obsesión por la permanencia del contenido que generamos en Internet. ¿Cuanto servicios desaparecieron en los últimos años. Las plataformas pioneras de blog son WordPress, Blogger, Open Diary, Live...
Hey hey! Good news, this was my birthday week! And it has been pretty awesome. The World Cup started, and as much as I hate everything behind the politics and the greediness of FIFA. Us Mexicans and many other people choose to focus on...
RFC 10008 was published on June 15, 2026 and defines a new HTTP method: QUERY. It fills a gap that has existed for as long as I have been building APIs. You have data to send to the server in order to describe what you want back, but GET...
AS THE READER MAY KNOW, I work for a law firm, as befits my deeply serious nature and inability to lie1. Today we felt the first cold fingertips of a sticky, clotted wind, a stupid portent of the truly dumb things that are surely to...
fivepoints.mattglassman.net via publicannouncement.org This is also why youth and amateur soccer, as a game, can be more fun to watch than pro soccer. The comparative lack of skill and relative inability to control the ball create a...
The doric-themes are the minimalist counterpart of my modus-themes and ef-themes. They define few colours and exercise restraint in how they customise faces. This means that there rarely is a context that has red, green, yellow, blue,...
Private Cloud Compute is one of the most interesting parts of Apple’s AI strategy.It is also one of the parts that needs the most scrutiny.That might sound contradictory, but it is not. Good security architecture should invite scrutiny....
Without me, there would be no observer that could experience or assign values to things. If I had not been born, there would be no one who would know that something like an "existence" is even an option. I am the prerequisite for my...
In the last month or so, as I've mentioned a few times before, I've been trying to tidy up some of my older personal Emacs Lisp packages. I thought I'd updated all the ones I commonly use, but it turns out I hadn't. Somehow I'd missed...
I work as a software developer in a small team. We all know and like each other, even though we don't see each other very often. Most of us work from home, so we mostly meet on Teams. As a software developer, I mostly solve problems....
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:Smith_and_Farrow_in_the_Sunset.jpg|thumb|A view of the building where we stayed, from our cousin's place]] We stayed in [[wikipedia:Coquitlam]], [[wikipedia:British...
We have the incubator setup incubating a dozen eggs, including the last 2 our hen that was caught by the fox layed. Expect regular updates. 🐣 Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post...
Governments and firms are turning to philosophers and other scholars more and more in regard to the ethics of developing and regulating technology. Yet this engagement with ethics may be superficial, careless, or even manipulative—and...
So I currently have three clankers working for me, currently, all built using Claude Code. However, only one of them works in the traditional "here is a prompt, now go and build the software" kind of way. We use Linear for issue...
Buy tickets at the box office and save good money AND get a real ticket. Also? Comedy podcast tours are not for me.Currently Listening: Taylor Swift “I Knew It, I Knew You Taylor Swift”Reply via email
Thanks to David Meissner for proposing this! His contribution has some lovely entries and you should go read it! My old harddrive had years of collected samples and photography on it. It died was killed by an incompetent computer repair...
Marks on the sand at low tide, like a sumi-e ink painting. 砂の中の山 干潮時の砂に刻まれた跡は、まるで墨絵のようだ。
(I make no apologies for the ChatGPT images in my recent blog posts, by the way. No artists are missing out on being paid: I wasn’t going to hire an artist to illustrate these blog posts which will be read by like three people.) A while...
I don't subscribe to any streaming service partially because I don't want to get hooked to any TV series. I've heard great things about the Apple TV offering, so I recently watched two series: Pluribus and Murderbot. Out of nowhere,...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] At the end of yesterday’s post about the combinatorics of the World Cup group stage, I said...
We repainted the entire house. All of it. I spent two months boxing up books, paintings, toys, digital devices, more books, and candles and mugs and pen holders and desk photographs and dozens of miscellaneous knick-knacks, and glasses...
Welp, I'm doing it. I'm canceling my Pinboard subscription. I've actually been a Pinboard customer for a very long time. I found Pinboard way back in 2010 when Yahoo said they were sunsetting Delicious. It's my second longest used...
El verano pasado compré el perfume de verano de Ffern, el del corto que os enseñé (y que me sigue encantando). Me sedujo la propuesta y ese anuncio, lo reconozco. Son 100€ al trimestre; no es barato pero es cierto que llevo tiempo con...
(There will be some man-on-man sex, in street language, so not for kids or the sexually modest) From my 6/13 posting “Two laughs-out-loud and a shiver of self-recognition”, about this Sarah Akinterinwa Psychiatrist strip: The therapist...
2026-06-16Hello!Thank you very much to those who have passed me some funds yesterday and early this morning. I appreciate the support. For those who don't know what I'm talking about: I'm putting together a budget to repair my...
Me surgió la curiosidad (¿siempre digo eso no?) de como es que surgió esta palabra, porque me parece una palabra muy única pero que además es muy usada. Para quien no la conozca, ya que el español es muy diverso y las palabras cambian...
Tres años después de empezar con la saga de Herederos del Tiempo de Adrian Tchaikovsky vuelvo a ella para hablaros de la tercera entrega titulada «Herederos del recuerdo». La saga que se compone de dos libros anteriores (de los que os...
I’ve spent a fair bit of time on the receiving end of webmentions, from adding support for them in the first place through to fetching them at build time and rendering them server-side so the discussion section doesn’t flicker in over...
June 16, 2026 I’ve been using Drafts for years. It’s the starting point for almost everything I write. Over time, I’ve settled on two specific features that keep me moving fast and out of the menus. My Command Palette setup The Command...
In Hyde's recent Over/Under series of interview posts, David left the question "If you could be transported back in history to a period of time, when would it be and why?" for the next participant, who happened to be Elena Rossi. She...