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A little over a week ago, I deleted my one-person Mastodon instance. It's something I'd been mulling over for a while. It wasn't really sparking the interest it once did. Whilst I think that Mastodon …
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Every time there's an Apple Event, people on the internet like to smugly claim they didn't even know about it1. I hate when they do that. Except I swear to god I did not know about it this time. It…
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⚖️ I went up 2 kgs in July. For real. There was the Priorat trip, the world cup fueled by beer, a couple bags of lörsdagsgodies (gummies)… I finally hit my limit, and decided to do something about…
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I went to PLASA for the first time in ages... It was agreat couple of hours. Well worth it...
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After more than 45 years in the entertainment industry—most of them spent as a lighting designer—you might assume I would be a regular at the PLASA Show, the anual entertainment technology show in…
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Yesterday was Labor Day in the United States. Traditionally I’ve attended a cycling event called the “Ox Roast Ride” out of a small town called West Jefferson. It’s a great event that ends in a…
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How to set up a Ubuntu Media server with Jellyfin, Samba, Qbittorrent and video conversion scripts en
As I have written over the past few months. I've been working on building an Ubuntu Media Server. This machine runs Samba Filesharing, sFTP, Jellyfin server, Qbittorent, and a basic Apache webserver. …
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How to set up a Ubuntu Media server with Jellyfin, Samba, Qbittorrent and video conversion scripts en
As I have written over the past few months. I've been working on building an Ubuntu Media Server. This machine runs Samba Filesharing, sFTP, Jellyfin server, Qbittorent, and a basic Apache webserver. …
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Do you know what the hardest thing to do on earth is? Quantum physics? No. Solving world hunger? Nope. Getting Trump impeached? Nah. It's climbing the stairs on leg day! 🦵🏼 Thanks for reading this…
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Recently I bought an old Hewlet Packard Elitedesk 800 G2 SFF to add to the newer G4 SFF I already had. This new G2 model is much older and less capable compared to the G4 model, but for a router and…
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Recently I bought an old Hewlet Packard Elitedesk 800 G2 SFF to add to the newer G4 SFF I already had. This new G2 model is much older and less capable compared to the G4 model, but for a router and…
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Weeknote #36 en
Trying a new thing So I thought I'd take a stab at some weeknotes. It's something I enjoy reading from other people, and I've been meaning to start the habit for ages. It was one of my New Year's…
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PureBlog en
I've just migrated by blog to PureBlog. Is was reasonably straightforward, it just needed a bit og Nginx wrangling and then tidying up my content from my previous blog. This blog has been through a…
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The fourth one was Rudy Nance, and Dinah found it when she rolled him to get at the shoulder. It sat on his left flank below the ribs. A palm and four fingers and a thumb, spread the way a hand…
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I fell for the hype for a bit and was playing around with Omarchy on my ThinkPad. While I did like some of the opioniated setup (the theming system is very cool), a number of things bothered me.…
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I decided I was bored with the previous design, but wanted something that was in keeping with the previous design (brutalist and using a monospace font) yet different. I abandoned the yellow accent…
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For as long as I can remember, computers have been a creative hobby for me. As a kid, I “hacked” programs with ResEdit on Macintosh System 9. I wrote programs in C++ on a Palm Pilot and built apps in …
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Fantastic Hi reddit! I'm Wile E. Coyote. I'm taking on ACME. AMA! : r/movies
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Why do so many calendar apps offer Sunday as the first day of the week? It's not the first day of the week, it's the last. Why is that even an option FFS? Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is …
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unstory en
I discovered unstory recently after nosing around Bubbles. I've read a handful of his/her posts now and Jesus Christ, I hope I don't end up as miserable and jaded as this person. Every post so far…
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The third truck of the morning was Cody Muntz with a load of number eight, and Ruthann had the ticket half written before she saw that the handwriting was not hers. Her hand was upright and cramped…
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Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH Brennan Kenneth "You can't separate the art from the artist" can be an interesting discussion to have in the abstract. And then your…
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The Elantra came in on a rollback at ten after eight with its left rear quarter folded into itself, and Roy was down on one knee in the gravel shooting the wheel well when Terri leaned out of the…
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xmpp.nz en
I was sitting in the Server Operators MUC recently and someone was asking about NZ based public servers they could have friends join, or anyone asking, as they were only planning on keeping their…
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It's been a while since I've messed around with my website. While Jekyll has served me very well, and until recently I had a workflow that worked very well for me. But then I went and messed around…
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I was browsing youtube on my TV a couple of months ago and the HPA Live Webinar: Introduction to EFI popped up and I had a watch, and Andre (the good salesperson he is of his tuning courses) was…
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Over the past week, during and now also because of the contractor we've been going full tilt on damage control for the house renovation. First we had a surprise tropical storm that brought so much…
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Over the past week, during and now also because of the contractor we've been going full tilt on damage control for the house renovation. First we had a surprise tropical storm that brought so much…
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After much experimenting, errors and frustration, it’s all working. Restic with Backrest and iDriveS3. Whew!!!
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I was in work the other day, chatting to a guy who's one level above me, and around 20 years my senior. I was moaning talking about my kids and how I try to make time for them despite having a…
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Today (August 17, 2026) marks my first complete year using Last.fm. It's a shame I didn't discover this great service earlier, knowing it has existed for more than 20 years, and that I've been…
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I deploy almost all of the stuff I self-host with Docker Compose. I think it's an accessible and yet powerful way to do this in a (mostly) declarative way. Sometimes it is desirable to reuse things…
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https://mirlo.space/blywallentine/release/mazerati-bankrupt "Everything Takes Me For Granted" is a nice track. That title really is the feeling of being alive in this modern age. If the dystopian…
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For future reference, here's how I get the Obsidian Templater plugin to properly format my posts for Real Deserts so I can upload them directly to the /content/ folder in PureBlog. --- title: <%…
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Soundcheck with Nordic View at the Jumpru Pub. Showtime in 60min.
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“You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic.” — Bill Watterson
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Recently, I took a training course to learn about electricity. On paper, at the end of the training, the student is expected to be able to set up a single-phase home electrical installation, and to…
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It's homelab architecture time again! Sorry everyone (I'm really not). I've been mulling over the current state of affairs and have been thinking for a while that there's room for improvement. I…
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When southern Spain hits 40°C+, you either go high or go low. We chose low — an unmaintained river walk through the Sierra de Almijara that turned into a five-hour, 8km battle through brambles,…
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Delfeayo! en
Pics or it didn't happen... Our saxophone section from the Oulu All Stars Big Bang together with our guest soloist Delfeayo Marsalis after a fun gig on this year's Elojazz Festival.
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Early soundcheck today for this night’s concert with the Oulu All Stars Big Band featuring Delfeayo Marsalis. This is going to be a fun show today at Elojazz.
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I know the literal middle of a year is at the moment when June ends and July begins (a six-month mark over the twelve months within a year). But I’ve always been feeling like the middle of the year…
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Exploring that potentially dangerous but gloriously confusing grey zone where scrambling and rock climbing overlap Note: These notes are not meant to be an instructional guide. They are the result of …
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I just found out (from Mike on fedi) about this project a musician did this year, whereby he would personally send you a USB with his music on it. It doesn't exist anywhere online, and he (I think…
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Ich gehe schon wieder zu spät ins Bett. Nicht 4–5 Stunden zu spät, wie häufiger in den vergangenen Wochen, aber doch deutlich zu spät. Seit ich weiß, dass mein Nervensystem erst zur Ruhe kommt, wenn…
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Wo AI wirklich Sinn ergibt? Zur persönlichen Entlastung. Claude Cowork hat gerade meinen kompletten Notion-Workspace katalogisiert, sich eine Migrationsstrategie überlegt (inklusive der Unterschiede…
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Wie wir in einem einzigen Schuljahr durch die deutsche Diagnostik-Mühle gegangen sind, an einer Fehldiagnose gezweifelt haben und am Ende zu zweit bei der richtigen Diagnose ankamen: ADHS. Heute…
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To begin with, there was so much noise when starting out. Whenever I would mention learning Chinese most people would try to deter me, tell me its too difficult, it's not worth my time, and that AI…
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Not Actually Kids Let me start by saying they are not kids. They are women in their mid-40s. Hardly kids. And they definitely inherited their father's genes, having gone through a similar…
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We're about to go on vacation. And I have decided not to take my newish Macbook Air M4. Just on the off-chance something might happen to my favorite piece of technology. And also: we'll be travelling …
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We now have a tiny Town Square at the bottom of the page. It's got birds, trees, benches, and a lamp or two. This is a lovely wee (free, open source) project from Cauê Napier. It's ephemeral, anon,…
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Due to global supply chain disruptions and macroeconomic shifts, hardware prices have increased across the board. Flash storage media is no exception. Depending on the brand and speed class rating, a …
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The Background I never had a console as a kid, I only had friends who had one. Nintendo's N64 hit my friend's rooms some time during elemental school so, consequently, I'd spend lots of time at other …
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💡TLDR: My 20+ year-old WordPress wp-content directory was a complete mess. After many failed attempts to clean it up, I finally managed to do so. I've written before about the mess that is my…
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Lots of progress on my to-do list has been made. Email notifications for comments are sorted. Notes page is up and running. Updated to the latest version of Pure Blog with no drama. I did break two…
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Notes? en
This is a note
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Graham Hancock's Ancient Apocalyse is a Netflix series, where Graham Hancock walks you through some of his theories about ancient humans. Hancock is a journalist who has spent his career critiquing…
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Commercial models refuse a lot of legitimate requests. Here's why "uncensoring" an open-weight model is useful and how I achieved it. ⚠️ A note before we start. An uncensored model will answer almost …
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I now run a Wireguard VPN-server inside an Incus container. The container has two interfaces. One on my LAN and one only shared with the host via Incus. The host runs a ssh-server that only binds to…
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The morning sun had barely begun to burn the dew from the lavender when the visitor arrived. He was a fuzzy, golden-belted bumblebee. From my vantage point at my table in the garden, I watched him…
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The coffee shop on the corner of Fleet Street was Julie and Morven's sanctuary from the relentless grind of criminal law. Mid-morning lattes were non-negotiable, even on the busiest days. "Did you…
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Contents Preface What purple used to mean The Adam Wathan moment The flattening Other casualties Reclamation Coda Preface Since the dawn of time, every sorcerer wore robes of it. Every threshold…
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Beneath the gnarled roots of the ancient hawthorn, where moonlight dares not tread, the cauldron rests. Its iron sides etched with runes long forgotten, pulsing faintly with a rhythm like a slow,…
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My solution for syncing KeePass between Linux with KeePassXC and Android with KeePassDX using Nextcloud. (Works with KeePassium / Strongbox on iPhone too). My Linux desktop computer is also acting as …
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I couple of years ago, I did a post about my 'default' apps, and since it's been a little while I thought an update might be fun. I've pasted in my answers from the first round, and I'll update where …
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I've always been fascinated with the weather. I can still remember the daily routine of charting the weather in kindergarten with meticulous scientific rigor: Each morning one pupil, on a rotation,…
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Ok - So, take one of this project didn't go as planned. I don't regret the choices I made, and while I'm very happy with how everything is working today. it's not the setup I had hoped for. So, where …
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Mouth Dildos en
People that use mouth dildos annoy the hell out of me. Either commit and smoke a cigarette, or give it up. I loathe smoking. I think it's disgusting and I don't understand why anyone would want to do …