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You know something is happening when Hacker News features a Who Is Quitting instead of a Who Is Hiring. Bad managers, unrealistic expectations, AI, toxic culture… Every response shared a different but similar story. I’ve wanted to quit...
The Motel Rita Blanca’s sign in Dalhart, Texas. The post Rita Blanca appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
Who's eating this hedge? 5 July 2026 In my neighborhood on 1 July I encountered a deer very close to the sidewalk who didn’t care that I stared at her. She was eating a large Japanese spindle hedge (Euonymus japonicus)*, a plant that is...
Had a major brain fart tonight. I thought I had written up my post but I hadn't. I deleted all the pics I would have used to write it up. I went and snapped a few after the fact pics to use. The heat wave continues and it sapped me. I...
Will has been an absolute trouper. Single-handedly he has waxed the inside of the cabin. It is backbreaking work waxing ceilings and he did a large section of it in 30° C heat! D and I have got the first coat of Matt Black barn paint all...
For today’s TDC we were directed to the Random Animal Generator to see what we could generate. I got a phoenix, random-animal-phoenix flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
Yesterday in EKSN.
For the past week, I’ve been telling people that I’m feeling a lot like the “Old Man Yells at Cloud” meme. “Old Man Yells at Cloud” is a meme based on an image from The Simpsons featuring Grandpa Simpson angrily waving a fist under the...
Meta spent tens of billions of dollars on building the future of the internet, and all it has to show for it is a handful of bored children in the parking lot of an offbrand drive-thru restaurant. – James Ball Without Let or Hindrance...
As our "Cyberdelia" series has seen a bit of success at branching out from being only the "Hackers" party, we've decided to try and screen roughly one cult movie a month! I hope you will join us. Our bill through the rest of the year:...
I discussed previously that AI projects have a short lifespan, on average. This one is a related hypothesis, which I believe we are starting to see in the AI-adjacent software engineering domain already, and which might spill into other...
One of the biggest problems we face isn’t technology, politics or even money. It’s #stupidindividualism. By this I don’t mean individual freedom, freedom matters. I mean the habit of seeing every issue only through “my” immediate...
Guest post by Matt Spick Photo: Parsadanov/Shutterstock.comFrom relative obscurity, paper mills have recently moved into the spotlight of academic attention. These organisations - which sell manuscripts or citations to authors to enhance...
Acqua che gorgoglia in lontananza. Un piccolo ruscello in un fosso che taglia a metà un prato verde. O forse non è verde. È giallo, viola, bianco, azzurro. Fiori. Un mare verde sporcato da macchie di fiori. Si sente solo l’acqua. O forse...
Table of Contents Table of Contents At a Glance Architecture The Host pf: Default Deny, Both Directions nginx: A Lazy Mirror with proxy_store The pkg Mirror (Port 8080) The freebsd-update Mirror (Port 80) The Release Mirror (Port 8081)...