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The terrible disaster in the Nepal and (probably) Tibet has happened, when a debris flow came down one of the river valleys. The toll is still unclear. The images show a wall of mud, tens of meters high, coming at extreme speed, giving no warning. The cause was 5 km up in the mountains, where…
I recently posted this on linkedin. It came from an email conversation with Alex DS and my experiences with applying for jobs recently.I’ll say it again, Alex is extremely smart and been a fantastic person to talk with about so many things, especially the rights and wrongs of the tech industry. A month ago, I remembered something fundamental: my network matters far more than applications sent into the void of public job boards. Thanks to Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino for the...
Otro lugar especial que descubrí en esta visita relámpago a Ámsterdam: Terry Blue, un estudio de risografía, serigrafía, sello editorial y tienda de fanzines, con una excelente selección de publicaciones independientes de todo el mundo. Por desgracia el catálogo de su web no incluye todo lo que tienen a la venta en la tienda. Amsterdam. Cámara: Ricoh GR IIIx. Comentar · Me gusta · Newsletter · Office Hours
GL.iNet Beryl AX (GL-MT3000) as a dual-stack network access point. I’ve been doing some day job stuff where I need to test a device from a full dual stack (IPv4 and IPv6) residential network connection, but our house has Wide Open West service which is unfortunately only IPv4. While there are a bunch of ways to tunnel the IPv6 half of a connection out to the internet (eg: tunnelbroker.net and my OPNsense router) I’ve previously had issues with path asymmetry (IPv4 going...
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This is a more personal post than usual, but I think it’s worth writing down. Earlier this year, around March, I had the first proper health scare of my life. I checked myself into the ER and spent a week in the hospital, being monitored and tested. I won’t go into much detail about it here, but it looks like I’m alright now, pending a few final checkups later this month.
In 2023 the crowdfunding campaign for the MNT Pocket Reform open source laptop started and I backed it right from the beginning, securing one of the first devices of that batch. This week, about three and a half years later, I sold that same device. If there’s a time for a retrospective on my experience, it is now. Spoiler warning: Given that I just sold my Pocket Reform, it shouldn’t be surprising that I have more negative than positive things to say. I will keep the good...
Nearly a month ago, Big Walk debuted and I wrote a quick post after having only played a beta version of it for an hour with a small group. Since then, I've played the game in a variety of groups, from just two to five people in total, and yesterday I made it to the end, and wanted to post a few thoughts. I'll try not to post too many spoilers and only mention aspects of the game anyone would pick up from the first day playing it.Group dynamicsThe hardest part of the game,...
By demand of beloved Bamzo, the top secret Barony playlist.Bravos in the Capital on summer afternoons, getting drunk and high and fooling around and maybe getting into a fight or maybe trying to steal someone's boyfriend or maybe just hitting the bath house. The dragons at the centre of the planet, those who faithful converts who live in filth, whose Word is poison, whose Word is annihilation. More Baronial Capital, artists and poets and university days - recruiters and...
Across selections gathered in this rare promotional release, ECM’s 2018 landscape holds together by an invisible underground current in which every melody becomes a thread whose destination remains mercifully uncertain. John Surman opens that map on Invisible Threads (ECM 2588). In “At First Sight,” his soprano enters the upper air, stitching daylight to the needle-eye of time. Thomas Strønen’s Lucus (ECM 2576) carries this paradox inward. “Time Is A Blind Guide” separates...
The fact that she is completely absent from the Internet whereas I, by no choice of my own and the result rather of my profession, am scattered across it in photos and interviews and blog posts (…this has been unavoidable, my name in them, that is. I still bristle every time I am forced to utter or type the word and have, to this day, never myself written a blog), along with my business address and various emails, could mean only one of two things: she is dead or she...
Journalist Alex Wagner on MS NOW a little while ago: We are so beclowning ourselves (The intensive Gen-X so is just a bonus; AW was born in 1977, and Gen-X is roughly 1965 through 1980) That’s beclown ‘make a fool of’ (perhaps clumsily). With a modest number of cites to be found, but uncommon enough to strike many hearers as a colorful coinage. On the prefix, from Michael Quinion’s Affixes site: be-: This prefix has been productive in the past, but is rarely used to make...
Talk about defying the odds. Maybe. Late last year, Operation Bluebird lunched a bid to “revive” Twitter, the micro-blogging platform Elon Musk bought in 2022. Operation Bluebird claimed — rather optimistically I thought — they could take control of the Twitter brand, as they believed Musk had abandoned the rights to it, when he renamed the platform X. X immediately filed a court action opposing the claim, but a US judge has tentatively ruled in favour of Operation...
Multiple blockchains based on the Cosmos chain suffered exploits after Cosmos Labs publicly disclosed a vulnerability in the Cosmos EVM. Some have criticized Cosmos for "negligence" in their vulnerability management. KiiChain, one of the affected chains, wrote in their postmortem, "This loss was avoidable. ... Publishing a security fix in the open, before the chains running that code have been told privately and given time to patch, hands the vulnerability to anyone...
A couple of new videos of me talking to people, which feature some themes that are going to be in Don’t Be Too Sure, as well as some stuff I’ve written about before. Both of these are long, so only watch if you, I dunno, have a long series of physical therapy exercises you have to do or something! On the Particles of Thought podcast for PBS: And talking to the Wisconsin Mathematics Council about the virtue of uncertainty:
In sad news, British actor Tim Curry has passed away at the age of 80. One of the best-known and most popular actors of his generation, Curry was known for his charisma, acting skill, singing voice, his ability to make the cheesiest roles his own, and his generosity to fans.Born in Cheshire in 1946, Curry was raised abroad in Hong Kong as well as different towns around the UK. At school he studied singing and became a soprano. He decided to focus on acting and studied...
Although many people still call “X” by its birthname, the … original rightsholders? Or, something? Have decided to launch a new app by the name of “twitter.now,” promising that we’re about to “take back the town square” and that it belongs to us! A familiar line of branding that you’ve probably heard once or twice, or ninety seven times before. And, if you take a glance at their homepage, their entire identity is, “We’re not Elon Musk.” And they want 20 bucks so that you...
Will the Home Hub know whose head is biggest? What will September 9th bring? Can anyone afford new Macs? Who knows Tim Cook best? All of these questions will be answered on this week’s episode.
Taxi sign. Not much happened today. Worked some, helped with the move some more. Didn't take any photos outside, thus the above one from yesterday.
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I've just realised that today is the 450th anniversary of the death of the greatest of all Venetian painters, if not of all painters – Tiziano Vecello, aka Titian.
Wally and Lav, impatient for the grass to go green again now it’s rained. There was a thing a few years ago, back when wildfires were rare and noteworthy, where people were noticing that their cameras weren’t taking accurate photos of the red skies, shifting the white balance so it looked a bit more “normal”. I’ve been noticing it on a more mundane scale when photographing the rabbits on our lawn. The camera is fine when the grass is green but the deep orange of the...
. Begin your pasta-making adventure! PME-ART alum and collaborator Claudia Fancello welcomes you to Etna Pastificio for an exceptional workshop-fundraiser alongside Jacob Wren. Sip wine with fellow artists, discuss your favourite art, and end your evening with an excellent introduction to pasta-making and all the pasta you made in-hand. No prior experience needed! Join us on SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 26TH 2026 from 6 PM - 8:30 PM at 244 rue Jarry E. 8 spots available - $130 each...
the little things that seem to carry more meaning than what has been said out loud I do notice and in my mind I reply with more warmth more joy more than I am able to say out loud for now