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In recent weeks, talk, at least in the literary circles I circle, has turned to literary prizes and prize winners, more explicitly to the question of the use of AI to at worst generate complete stories or at best, toss ideas around in...
Waterlilies flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Thought I'd try book no.1 in The Guardian's top 100 best novels of all time. I wouldn't put it as my no.1, but I can see why so many people did. Funny, sad, tense, depressing, exciting, and satisfying. Also v long.
Sometimes, I take on voluntary work I don’t want to do. Like this current project I’m working on with my sister. I do it out of a feeling of obligation and responsibility, without realising the drain.
The Linux kernel's security model is constantly evolving. In 2026, my Docker-in-LXC nesting became increasingly fragile and needed a replacement. Here I describe a state of the art architecture for Proxmox. The post outlines deploying...
The ideas from Lyn Alden's Broken Money that stuck with me: credit, hard money, debt, surveillance, and why the system is broken.
Let’s deploy JA4. A tutorial for a HAProxy deployment and a proof-of-concept of PCAP collection and then parsing in Python.
UpdatesI'm still in Spain - the warm weather is doing a good job. We spent a couple of days in Almeria this week, a nice hotel, some excellent Tapas and an afternoons relaxation in a spa hotel. Just what the therapist ordered!I am...
Whit Monday, Bank Holiday Another nice day. Did the small rose bed. Went to Dot’s in the afternoon. Jane was very amusing. Got home about 9 p.m.
Why must sci-fi author Ted Chiang state in The Atlantic that AI is not conscious? I call this La Stilla Syndrome: my Jules Verne-inspired name for the delusion our technology is alive. Chiang doesn’t buy it and nor should we. #SciFi...
🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Brigitte Fontaine & Areski Belkacem (33 plays), Stavros Lantsias (31), Sam Amidon (20), Fadia Tomb Elhage & Fragments ensemble (16), The Tallis Scholars & Peter Phillips (10)