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Some 50 years ago today. A full half-century, “an old ship with a young crew” calls at a lost colony, “all’s forgiven.” The pride of the Royal Navy, the Audacious-class aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (R09) entering Port Everglades in...
Some people take this idea further, with 36 key keyboards that eschew the outer most column of keys to reduce the burden on the pinkies. There are tricks to get more utility out of the most accessable keys, like using home row modifiers....
There was this one book with the names of two, er, unusual men printed on the cover. It had been created in the Kingdom of – no need to get into details. What was the book about? The story went something like this: After I finished...
Yesterday, I modified r730-01 by Running pkgbasify on FreeBSD 15.0 – as a consequence, my log collecting jail was offline. Did it miss any logs? Let’s find out. In this post: FreeBSD 15.0 syslog-ng-4.11.0_2 (sending logs from FreshPorts...
Preface: In climbing lingo, sending a project means completing a route you were working on as a project. On the stone, on the rock One the boulder, I sit in shock. The project I dreamed about all while, I sent it with a smile. Last...
Humid and cool. The ruby throat of a hummingbird shimmers in front of a hanging bandanna’s much blander red. From the other side of the house, the rising buzz of a cerulean warbler.
I love continuing to spotlight Washington state photographers who made a living capturing the beauty of the Pacific Northwest. One such photographer is award winning Michael W. Siegrist, Sr. who created Outdoor Photo in 1981 after being...
Coastal redwoods are the tallest tree species on earth. They exist only within a mile of the California coast, sustained by fog — drawing water directly from the air to feed themselves. But the most intriguing thing about these majestic...
It’s a Saturday morning, and we’re in a taxi on the way to the airport. My clothes cling to my body and already reek of sweat, and that’s even before our 12-hour flight has started. Earlier today, the alarm went off at 5:30, and I threw...
The ascended Christ of this mural at St. Vitus’s Cathedral in Prague seems so happy I couldn’t help but think of the song by The Postal Service: They will see us waving from such great heights Come down now, they’ll say But everything...
I found some contagious metadata corruption in exiv2, such that reading a file with corrupt XML namespace values in XMP data poisons all subsequent metadata writes with the same corrupt namespace — even to other files. I don’t think it...
They want sainthood, he wants freedom and belonging, sie wants protection and safety for a loved one, while she simply wants everything to stop going horribly wrong. A delightful return to the Imperial Raadch universe in which Leckie...
Thanks to BookSirens for providing me with a review copy. This is an intriguing self-published novel with a backstory almost as interesting as the plot. The story is a descent into paranoia as an author is convinced that an AI is...
I talk about a bunch of things here with my good pal Huyen (Kotlin Multiplatform, Android, the web) but arguably the most important thing we chatted about was the role of AI/LLMs, how it’s a tool and should be treated as such, and why...