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On those hot, sticky days nearing 40°C, when I dream of cool mountain air above 3000 meters, I instead lock myself indoors to wrestle with gadgets and tech. Today's victim? An ancient 2009 Asus EEE…
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I wrote at some point how much I enjoy reading other people's diaries and in the past I had been particularly fascinated by autobiographies of my favourite Jazz artists. My copy of this book. Judging …
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I think if I had my time again, I would have become a software developer. I just so much fun - coming up with ways to solve a problem in an elegant way is very satisfying. Then people emailing saying …
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Your RSS Reader Is Robbing Youby Antonio SantosAntonio opines that by using RSS feeds instead of visiting people's sites, we're robbing ourselves of enjoying the design many site owners have put a…
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Security versus Privacyby Loren StephensLoren talks about the differences between Security and Privacy, but also how (and why) he prioritises one over the other.Read post ➡ I actually wrote about…
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After quite the back and forth I have changed systems again and am back using a Midori notebook. I am huge fan of the B6 Slim form factor. Also: I would be lying saying that it had been an easy…
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Enjoyed spending the day installing Alpine Linux on an old laptop. Runs very quick even with old hardware, low resources and my familiar Gnome desktop. Had some problems connecting wifi, tailscale…
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https://backengrillen.bandcamp.com/album/backengrillen-2 “Antifa Death Jazz” w Mats Gustafsson on bari
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After much thinking and much curiosity, I've finally taken the decision and got into flight simming... I bought XPlane 12 for my Mac, and I got the best eBay deal ever and bought a Thrustmaster TCA…
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Yesterday the sky turned steel grey and dropped a million billion cubic liters per minute, for about 20 minutes. So of-course, Mexico being Mexico there is no water management anywhere other than the …
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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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It's #MountainMonday and a very hot humid afternoon in southern Spain, so I thought I'd drop this image. It's from a few years ago in the extreme cold and clear blue skies of the winter Picos de…
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I appear to be getting a right good telling off by this Purple Glossy Starling on a recent visit to Amazon World on the Isle of Wight. After this picture was taken he did follow me around for a while.
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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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Fuck Spotify An automotive podcast popped up on youtube this morning while I was zoning out having my Saturday morning coffee. I was like "sweet, I'll add them in AntennaPod" and then proceeded to…
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Over the last 2 weeks I’ve been on-and-off working on improving the water supply. When I bought the property I thought that this part of the city simply got less good water. An easy thought to have…
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Woah! Much to my own surprise I was able to connect a mouse to my Android tablet as well. Didn't know this is even a thing. I needed to reduce the pointer speed quite a bit until it felt right. My…
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Cory over at coryd.dev recently had a post about how they've set up a pipeline to move saved RSS articles to an audio feed. I have a setup with similar functionality but a different pipeline. Cory's…
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"Hmmm, probably an 8. On the other hand, why wouldn't I give it a 9? It's among the top 3 movies I've watched this year." -- Robert, struggling to rate. Robert wrote a post about rating movies and…
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When you check the storage on your mobile device or computer, are you ever surprised by how much of it has already been used? What is all this stuff actually doing there? How often do you access it?…
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Stop taking loads of photos of the same thing with your phone. Del wrote a brief note to self recently, about having too many repeated "waste" pictures on his phone. This is my reply, which hopefully …
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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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Mr bayLee saying hi! from his morning walk yesterday. It looks like another week or so of this unfortunate weather...
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This weekend I felt myself coming down with the sickness. No this is not a Disturbed reference, but good taste. Anyway, I decided to take it easy and rest up in the hope that my body will fight it…
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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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Couple of months ago I’ve bought a house and 5 apartments. We’re hard at work to make them livable and nice looking. But from time to time the sewer would smell. Or so we thought… Yesterday I went on …
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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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Not expecting to be back at Anfield so soon - My Chemical Romance last night. Something very surreal about not feeling and being ok, while sitting in a stadium with 40,000 other people singing along…
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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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I was given an old Voigtlander Bessa (Anastigmat Voigtar 1:7.7 version) and tested it with a roll of some expired Samsung 200 brand colour film with some good results. Didn't scan with the sprockets…
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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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I realised recently that my Leuchtturm1917 A5 dot-grid notebook was nearing the end. As in, it was nearly full - and not that it had worn out. Because although it sits in the bottom of my bag every…
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I created an extension of my indieBlog bundle for Pure Blog, to implement workout mapping, tracking and analytics on your own Pure Blog site. Demonstration indieFit project is here:…
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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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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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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1I0_bsjEsY OK Computer, remade as N64 soundtrack. Im almost annoyed that i fit this demographic perfectly. Paranoid android with the mario kart intro 🤦♂️ 😆
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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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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCCWjgWCI4g
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Did you know how extraordinary water is? This substance that we (living in privileged countries) mostly take for granted which is so ubiquitous on this planet we live on? I am not talking about the…
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Edit: A while ago I realized that the setup described here does not actually work. Using a read-only container breaks the intended update mechanism so I made the necessary changes and updated the…
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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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One thing about dynamically-generated CMSes is that one needs to keep them up to date, in case there have been any security or other issues. I logged into this blog, hit the update button, and I'm…
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Using the hooks provided by Pure Blog I was able to set up my blog to automatically commit and push my /content directory to a private repo to keep a backup of all of my content in the event of a…
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We are officially back to the time of year where I need to pay attention to the weather so I can calculate when to mow the lawn.
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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'll only ever use an SSG for my blog!", I said, unconvincingly. Sometimes I don't want to. Sometimes Kev comes along and makes something like Pure Blog and I think, "Well, that's better!" I can't…
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This was gloriously sleazy and surprisingly not bad. https://letterboxd.com/film/52-pick-up/ The review image above was made possible by Kevin's super handy Media Card Generator
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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 …