I’ll be performing my first-ever solo electronic set as nightmother this Saturday evening at the Circuits in the Woods festival in Brattleboro, Vermont. (Er, at least my first IRL solo…

the usual https://solitum.net/posts/hike-lost-creek-falls-2026/ -Overview A ran into a friend of mine last week who suggested we take a little hike he’d found in Provo Canyon, and here we are.…

The Raddy ATS200 was first released in May of 2024. I ordered one from Raddy today because it was on sale for $69.99 (plus about $10 shipping). That’s $50 off. It’s an attractive package…

If television has taught the public anything, it’s that catching a cyberstalker takes about thirty seconds in a dark van with lots of blinking lights and headphones, a hoodie, some scrolling green…

As I am certain you all know by now, especially if you're a Notorious ROB reader, Compass has filed its lawsuit against CRMLS in California. Seems that everyone knew it was coming, what with…

This post responds to the fifty questions posed by Richard Gingras at the Newsgeist Unconference in Hamburg, Germany. He chairs the board of Village Media and is a co-founder and board member of the…

Stepping off the algorithmic treadmill to curate what I feed my brain, from underground soul mixtapes to quiet RSS feeds and Raindrop.

Hello folk, Well this blog (in some for or another looking at you Opus Maius!) has lasted long enough to see my first ever inq28 game back in 201 2 and now my most recent 4th event a few days ago 14…

Learn how to secure Open WebUI with HTTPS on Debian using Caddy as a reverse proxy, with automatic TLS certificates or Let's Encrypt certificates.

last week an agent filed my taxes. it signed into my hr provider, found the pdfs, read the numbers out of them, and, on the irs website, found a free filing option i didn’t know existed. it ran…

Where did it come from? The personal data economy took root around 2012, when Google changed its privacy policy to…

Books are a gift. Some of the best minds who ever lived wrote down their thoughts in the form of books, and you can often find them available for less than a tenner. When you stop and think about it,…

A small job this morning with Glorious Grasslands. We headed over to Pitchcombe to seed a small field squeezed between mill ponds...

For about 10 years I’ve worked at the same company, and for about 9 of those years I’ve been running NixOS on my work machine with a setup that I’ve built and tuned exactly the way…

Communism never runs out of promises; it just runs out of food.

Great day with Florian at Halde Rheinpreußen and Norddeutschland

While at OWASP Global AppSec EU 2026 in Vienna a couple of months ago, I picked up a copy of Izar Tarandach’s and Matthew J. Coles’ book “Threat Modeling: A Practical Guide for…

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Earlier today I had a string of fraudulent "vinted" purchases against my AppleCard. The first two $17 and $35 transactions went through but the repeated transactions were bl ocked. Apple doesn't…

Once upon a time I called myself the Boundary Waters Blog Lady. It defined a daily role I performed for a number of years. While these days I barely blog I thought it appropriate to introduce you to…

Dans cet article, je réfléchis sur la réponse des communautés mathématique et logicielle au dépôt mathématique d’OpenAI.

Today we are looking at the Barco ClickShare CSC-1, a screen sharing device used in commercial AV installations that is long past the end of support. Here is a summary of the CSC-1 specs: Fujitsu…

Using Formal Analysis to Find Requirements Gaps

When two transactions work on the same data at the same time, PostgreSQL has to answer two questions: what is each transaction allowed to see, and what happens when both try to change the same row?…

"I'd love to opt out, but I have to use Google/Microsoft/X for work!" I often hear some version of this…

22 new SF/F (and some others) books to add to your TBR

Ring Barking I wrote a couple of weeks ago about Coillte using continuous cover forestry practice to manage a plantation. Apart from selectively removing larger spruce trees, other spruce have also…

The 2026 edition of the Vancouver International Film Festival felt bigger than previous years.

I wanted to connect an AI agent to a Microsoft Teams channel. Someone mentions the assistant, the agent does its work, and the answer appears in Teams. I also wanted the opposite direction: an event…

TL;DR: Dropping razor blades down a wall cavity and letting autonomous agents merge uninspected code share the same fantasy: that unobserved spaces have no consequences. Adulthood is realizing…

Just three weeks after the October 4 bus upgrades , with benefits for Caroline Springs, more bus improvements are coming this Sunday, October 25. These will give some welcome coverage and…

This is not how most people use them, but there is a way for LLM agents to bring your mind and fingers closer to the code instead of further away, so that you feel more practiced, not out-of-touch.…

Building a small robot companion for learning with a Jetson Orin Nano, Nemotron, and Nebius Token Factory.

Here's a quick follow up for the Using AI for French Reading Comprehension Practice post from a year ago. The prompt I wrote was mostly working, but LLMs often went off-script in minor ways. I kept…

The inaugural episode of the Throwing Rocks Podcast features an interview with Saskatoon’s Steve Laycock and Unionville’s Shane Konings to […] The post Throwing Rocks Podcast…

Kernel 7.3 is out, and a brief summery is here: https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2610.2/05350.html As expected from tests with -rc versions, the latest NVIDIA 615.78.08 and VMware…

Jelenleg az Ön rokonának, Dr. Guth Antal, a Magyarországi Tanácsköztársaság egészségügyi népbiztosának és orvosának életét kutatja, azzal a céllal, hogy megírja életrajzát. Guth Antal a kommunista…

If I automatically disagree with the crowd, am I really thinking for myself? A reflection on contrarian identity and the freedom to listen.

Two sections meet Seen in the street beneath our feet, the proud sections of this bridge joint are shined by tired wear from vehicular traffic.

You can't beat the smell of a horribly charred Cambodian in the morning, especially if he's been playing a plethora of Psyched up garage tunes in what sounds like an empty School hall on the…

The Root Key of the DNS rolled to a new key on the 11th October. This key roll is special as it sits at the apex of the DNS hierarchy, and DNSSEC-validating resolvers need to add this key to their…

Warning: this review contains lots of spoilers. Please go see the movie first. You Can See Everything is an absolute masterpiece. A delicate kaleidoscopic fractal of deception, manipulation, and…

Version 0.3 of dtg is out. Check it out on GitHub ! This is a substantial release. By the end of 0.2 , I knew that the next version would entail major changes. I didn’t appreciate their extent until…

So, this is what is actually going on (seen as they are) in plain English. The sheer brute-force of data-center-sized “frontier” models is so brute that it easily appears as…

We are not woke enough!

Why?! At least it shows an actual error message instead of just hiding the toggle, or flipping itself back on. But just saying that it’s not possible is such a terrible user experience. Explain to me…

transcribe_cpp turns speech into text on the phone itself, live and hands-free, on iOS and Android. Why I built it and what turned out to be hard.

For at least the first few years I had my Amiga 500, Kickstart 1.3 was my OS version of choice. I’m not sure I chose it, per se, because it simply came this way, but it is still my go-to for…

I started playing Proverbs a little over a year ago, when things were getting quiet at work just before I got laid off. So in a way it's fitting that a year later, and having recently been re-hired…