It is a well-established law of homelab physics: if a task can be automated, it will be automated—until it violently consumes your entire digital existence. In our Night-Tower setup, our self-hosted…

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There are many examples across Scotland where landowners large and small are continuing to frustrate the ambitions of individuals, businesses and social enterprises through the exercise of the…

Apple Unveils New Mac Studio and Mac mini →Apple has just announced their new line-up of Desktop Macs. There’s a new Mac mini with M6 or M5 Pro chips, and a new Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5…

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Source Datafinnovation are out with more impressive research described in a blog post entitled Losing The Blacklisting Race and a paper entitled Enforcement Speeds In DeFi: Limits to a Race Against…

In 1918, before the end of WWI, and in reaction to the huge number of American servicemen who had sexually transmitted diseases, two Congressmen came up with a law that allowed law enforcement…

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I try to not look at Reddit too much nowadays, but I still end up there more often than I'd like to. One of the subreddits that keeps showing up in my feed is r/AestheticWiki , probably because I've…

At every gathering, there’s someone on the outskirts. Maybe by happenstance, maybe by choice. Some mourn this, being sidelined. But doesn’t it grant you a fantastic view? Best seat in the house. The…

Leading up to the 2024 election, 4.7 million Americans were wiped off the voter rolls, a daylight robbery of democracy, an outcome not based on the will of the voters but on the cruel, racially…

I&rsquo;ve been revisiting trying to run NetBSD on Wrap030, my 68030 homebrew computer. In the process I&rsquo;ve been running into some truly strange behavior. I&rsquo;ll change a kernel compile…

The boy appeared on a Thursday, which was collection day. Danny Toal had taken over the corner of the big shed from Micky Breen two years before, and he still thought of the week in terms of who…

This is the official video for the song All my friends are heathens by Twenty One Pilots. My oldest son who is frequently assumed to be ASD by people who have barely met him had that song on repeat…

At some point today, I'll receive a call from the funeral home to let me know my dad is ready to be picked up. Like my pretend child that does an after school program, only it's my cremated dad. I'll…

Earlier this month, I attended ClueCon 2026 in Chicago. The event was well attended with open source RTC/VoIP community members. Any opportunity I get to spend time with Daniel-Constantin Mierla is…

The demo sets an anchor nobody wrote down, and then your team spends a quarter losing an argument to it.

Rigorous thinking about the future produces extreme outcomes.

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With New Horizons now 63 AU out, it’s time to ponder that record hibernation period that the spacecraft just went through. Over 10 months long, this one had the same goal as previous such periods, to…

The development of air-to-air refueling changed aerial warfare and gave US Air Force SAC bombers global reach. KC-135 tanker on display at the Barksdale Global Power Museum in Louisiana The first…

Three years ago today we returned for the third time to our favorite beach. As we were reflecting on what it's meant for us to keep coming back to the same place, he went down on his knees and asked…

There are a lot of guides online for recording cassettes This is another one, because why not. This isn’t a guide for how to get the ~best~ sound, it’s just how I figured out to do it using stuff…

August has not been kind to me. Work draws taxes from my soul and the weather from my body. I read in deep, hours-long gulps on the weekend, then spend my time craving the feeling of crafting good…

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My new home is definitely smart - CAT5 cabling, smart thermostats, wireless access points, gigabit internet, and more. But there's the thing - there's no manuals, diagrams, or help guides. So far…

I listened to two great podcasts this week exploring the tangle of human/AI relationships. In &ldquo;Computer Love,&rdquo; the guests explore whether these relationships are good for us, and in…

I want to write a new crowdfunding module, and it's probably going to be for Eco Mofos!!. I'm thinking: Bestiary - Monsters with all kind of extras, like hooks, biome, and habitat - Villains with a…

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iPhone Mirroring is one of those little Apple inventions that – when it works – is quietly excellent. When I first heard the concept I really thought it was bananas....

Some interesting insights from my past six-plus months of geeking out with Anthropic's insane AI tool.

Gaming Science | It's cool to be a criminal in-game. Violent video games were shown to drive aggression. But is this also true for the crime rate? Today's study analyses a dataset of 50+ million…

Palantir has access to the personal information and news-reading behavior of—if USA Today Co.'s own reports are true—158 million average unique monthly visitors, or 48% of the American people.

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I recently read a great post from Matt Haughey about his time spent working in a bike shop as a teenager and it got me a little nostalgic about my own teenage &ldquo;bike shop&rdquo; experience and…

I got fired, chat. How cooked are we? 😱 It's never a good time to lose a job - but to lose a job in this economy? No thanks! So... What happened? Background Disclaimer I need to address some…

I share internet links that I find interesting and informative. Besides photography, I&#39;ve collected news articles and thoughts around the world.

I set a 5 a.m. alarm for years and kept snoozing it. On swapping inputs without quitting the goal, and letting go of who you used to be. The post Make It Easy to Win appeared first on Christopher…

In a short period of time, I&#8217;ve rebuilt my Kenner Star Wars collection from its humble new beginnings. Y got me an Ikea Billy bookcase for my birthday, which I used to display most of it now.…

Five data channels, no HTTP for app data: using WebRTC as an app transport between iPhone and Mac. The community framework whose macOS slice ships one header, the WebSocket storm, ICE restart vs…

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Digital tools make it easy to capture and store information before we have really processed it. But once the device has it, the mind may quietly let it go. As soon as we come across an interesting…

First, a PSA: Do NOT use Omarchy if you care about security of your machine even a little bit . You can't polish a turd Omarchy 4.0 shipped with a collection of security issues which I can only…