Something funny happened a little while ago: I read about FreshRSS, and it sounded nice, so I installed it on a server and started using it. That would not have happened a year ago, but then again, a…

Finding out what makes a JPEG XL encoder good - Despite it being a very busy period, lately I have been spending a bit of background time thinking about how to improve cujpegxl, the GPU-accelerated…

Contents Copying what you can see is a rational move, and it fails anyway The incentives reward adoption, not results A case: eighteen months of visible activity, and nothing underneath The…

A frog in a pond, just in front of my house. September 2026 I'm writing this almost at the end of October, and as it seems now usual for these notes, the past 3 months have been full! Canada I've…

This is one of my most prized musical possessions. It’s a rare 1996 released of a live set of music from Starflyer 59 covering songs from the Silver and Gold...

By FARHA GUERRERO This hourglass-shaped word collage gathers the remarkable range of subjects I’ve discussed over the years on Prof Talk and The Blue Hour , my radio show on CiTR 101.9 FM , with some…

If there were doubts about Reform's political character, ITV's undercover documentary has put them to bed. In encounter after encounter, its reporters were witnesses to unprompted, off-the-cuff…

. As an outsider, European-based, I used to regard Moby Dick as a curiosity, no longer relevant in our time. The little reading I did years ago – it must have been in the 1970s – a few pages into the…

Into Ontario the Oswego runs, to ever flood the inland sea that swallows every day the sun, which every day resumes the play. The current that carried Onondaga trappers, traders, and Hiawatha to an…

Prescott native Ruby Loy Jacquemin computed Arizona’s vital statistics during the 1920s. What was her background, and what did she do?

SOC Tier 1 shift start and handover review: practical checklist for open incidents, ticket ownership, priorities, next actions, and escalation.

I've made a terrible mistake. I've been scrolling and posting on Reddit. I know, I know. But I was bored one day. And I've learned my lesson. No more Reddit. In order to not lose all of my incredibly…

Orange jelly spot (Dacrymyces chrysospermus) is a bright orange jelly fungus that forms wrinkled masses resembling a brain or a cluster of petals. It is widespread across North America and grows…

I recently slapped NetBSD on my Raspberry Pi 5. Mostly because NetBSD is cool and I want to use it more. But also because I want to slowly escape AI and projects using it, and Linux isn’t safe…

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.…

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…

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…

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

I din't know this phrase was a Japanese proverb. The first time I read it was on this card in high school. I played it in my Goku deck. It's mechanics have nothing to do with starting over, in fact…

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…