Most of the week was spent rummaging through storage to get rid of obsolete hardware and troubleshooting ISP and Wi‑Fi issues, so there isn’t a lot of interesting stuff to report.| Tao of Mac
It's almost the end of August and I've not made a post for this month's IndieWeb Carnival. The child has been on summer holiday, which leads to not much solo thinking time. Marisabel picked an excellent topic which I should have a lot to say about: Colors. Unfortunately my sleep deprived mind struggles to think…| BrittHub
The captain (boss) gets the final say. It’s important there is clarity about who is in charge. However being the boss doesn’t mean every decision is the right one. You (first officer) need a way you can convey your point of view if the decision(s) being made could have a very bad outcome. At work … Continue reading "Captain it’s imperative you listen"| Reasonable Doubt
Every interaction is like a roll of the dice. You aim to move forward. Yet in the game Snakes and ladders a roll of the dice can move you forward but then suddenly back down the rung of a ladder. A little way down or nearly back to square one. Every time your boss changes, your contact leaves at the place you had influence or the world around you changes it can feel like your tumbling back to the beginning. Better to know that and know the conditions of the rules than to keep focusing on chan...| Reasonable Doubt
Yes, it could be said the problem started here.| Eric Krueger
Last week, I passed 4,500 miles on my e-bike!| Eric Krueger
So according to WordPress this is my 500th post. I started this blog when I got my first job – I was installing Nortel equipment. The name was meant as “Nick versus Networking”, as I attempted to take on the trade and learn it. Going through CCNA, networking certs, I got way more into SIP/VoIP, … Continue reading Meta: 500 Posts Apparently→| Nick vs Networking
I did an exercise recently over two consecutive days, a Wednesday and Thursday, where I wrote down experiences I might like to have on a date. I ended up with a little over 5 notebook pages (perhaps A5 paper size?) of ideas. Later in the week, I ended up journaling| Joe Cecil
I'm terrible at naming things. As a child I named my guinea pigs Ginny and Piggy. My sister banned me from naming our cats.| A parenthetical departure
I write and design everything on this blog.1 Nothing is generated.| A parenthetical departure
The old capitalist Left identifies and states the truth of the problems we face but lies about the results of their actions (because the actions for a solution require dismantling capital). The modern capitalist Right lies about the issues (or denies them altogether) but is ironically honest about the results of their actions.| Josh Beckman
Neoliberalism has sought to become the most efficient system that would fight the Stalinist approach to the appearance of work. Fisher uses the example of Stalin’s White Sea Canal. In the 1930s, this canal was one of the most impressive feats in engineering, but only on the surface. The canal was too shallow to use for most 20th-century cargo. Thus, it was a symbol of production and, more importantly, anti-production at that. Stalin’s USSR would turn this canal into PR. People would photo...| Josh Beckman
I threw this party with Mike Wang, who’s my collaborator at Long Journey. Everyone that came to this dinner party had to try on a pair of spectacles, and the spectacles had a role that they had to play written on the side. Jackson: Cool. C...| Josh Beckman
Politics legendarily creates strange bedfellows. Crypto companies are now asking the CFPB to revive a regulation protecting a business the first Trump administration kneecapped, after which the second Trump administration hollowed out that same agency, despite campaigning against kneecapping tech and crypto—leaving the CFPB, long a sworn enemy of big banks, in Chase’s corner dismantling the crypto industry and suppressing competing payment methods, because the administration apparently th...| Josh Beckman
This has a really good overview of my own thinking around why/when a fetus or a baby has rights and “is alive/conscious” and why an embryo or computer is not.| Josh Beckman
This is like the author-attribution complement to everything must have a URL. And I do agree! Everything was authored at sometime by someone; make it clear to encourage collaboration. You’ll learn more if people can find you through your work.| Josh Beckman
"I consider knowledge to be overvalued. Too many of us suffer from “infobesity.” Too much information, not enough action. But knowledge combined with action is priceless."| Geoff Graham
I latched onto a line in Keith Richards’s autobiography, Life, because it overlaps with a lot of my current feelings about, well, stuff. I always felt that I was actually fighting technology, that it was no help at all. That’s how I’ve felt trying to work alongside coding LLMs. My experience is that I spend […]| Geoff Graham
It’s yet another Trump action that also hurts his own voters.| South Side Weekly
Choose the least capable feature/tool/pattern/etc. suitable for a given purpose. This optimizes for the capability/tractability tradeoff: the more things you can do with something, the harder it is to reason about. Using a less capable thing...| Josh Beckman
Let’s make scholarly profiles for our colleagues. Together.| Librarian of Things
The tariff end game is a modest tax hike that is disproportionately felt by a small set of industries. It could be recessionary.| Joseph Wang
(Politically speaking, this idea overlaps appealingly and naturally with the widespread low-information voter belief that a single sufficiently driven and common-sensical guy could “fix” the government–see, e.g., the movies Swing Voter, Dave, Ma...| Josh Beckman
Over the past few months, I had been in a bit of a gaming slump. Of my two groups, neither group was gaming well, and I was starting to get those detached feelings that typically come from when I am not getting emotionally fed from my games. This was not my game or game group’s […]| Gnome Stew
Our tenderness might be exactly what's needed right now| Read A Little Poetry
I *thought* I had settled on Devonthink as my everything bucket, but now I am falling down an Obsidian shaped rabbit hole thanks to Steve Messer linking to this monster: Every few months I set aside time for a “random revisit”. I use the random note hotkey to quickly travel randomly through my vault. I ... Keep reading| Dave Briggs
Just keeping track of stuff with my old and new VR PC.| busybee
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Mental models - what they are, why we need them, and how to change them intentionally| Amir Rachum’s Blog
My system for reading books, writing literature notes and increasing retention| Amir Rachum’s Blog
Shanti chose his favourite rules from The forty Rules of Love of Shams of Tabriz The post Sham’s rules of love first appeared on Osho News.| Osho News
An insight by Subhan The post We are at the place we are looking for first appeared on Osho News.| Osho News
I made a new icon for this website. It’s all been gradually and quietly getting updated over the last few months. First I changed the main typeface to Atkinson Hyperlegible. Then I added a nice subtle texture to the background, it reminds of early computer graphics but at the same time somehow feels like it […]| BrittHub
Disclaimer: This is in a lab held together with duct tape and glue that doesn’t do anything important. Use at your own risk. I hit this issue in Proxmox whenever trying to do anything with VMs: TASK ERROR: clone failed: lvcreate ‘SDH/vm-202-disk-0’ error: Insecure dependency in exec while running with -T switch at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl-base/IPC/Open3.pm line … Continue reading Proxmox Insecure dependency in exec while running with -T switch→| Nick vs Networking
Recently we were debugging a slow memory leak in a little-used Kamailio module.| Nick vs Networking
Libraries can support people developing and using LLMs by providing an alternative to LLMs| Librarian of Things
ドナルド・トランプは多くの顔を持つ。彼はレイシストであり、権威主義者であり、レイピストである。だが彼がはじめから、そして一貫して何であったかといえば……詐欺師だ。 The post 詐欺師国家と化したアメリカ first appeared on p2ptk[.]org.| p2ptk[.]org
金持ちは文字通り、明日が来ないかのようにマシュマロを貪り食う。 The post なぜ金持ちの子供は我慢ができて、貧しい子供は我慢できない（ように見えた）のか first appeared on p2ptk[.]org.| p2ptk[.]org
マスクは米国行政機関の切実な問題を解決しようとしているのではない——彼はそれを破壊したい。審判を解雇したい。なぜなら審判がいなくなれば、ルールなしでゲームを続けられるからだ。 The post トランプ／マスクが望むのは「公正なゲーム」ではなく「審判のいないゲーム」だ first appeared on p2ptk[.]org.| p2ptk[.]org
A Seattle-based programmer/musician who makes games, comics, and bad decisions.| beesbuzz.biz
Notre bref article envisage une réponse à la question suivante d’une de nos correspondantes : « Encore un texte sur les dépenses militaires US (https://entreleslignesentrelesmots.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/nourrir-letat-guerrier-nous-perdons-les-fabricants-darmes-gagnent/). J’aimerais bien comprendre dans quelle mesure elles participent (ou pas) de la « bonne santé » de l’économie américaine, de vos points de vue respectifs ». Nicole, Le but de cet article n’est pas … Th...| Le blog de la revue Temps Critiques
A Seattle-based programmer/musician who makes games, comics, and bad decisions.| beesbuzz.biz
Depuis la fin des années 90, une partie des représentants politiques français, emmenés par l’extrême-droite, brandissent la double menace d’un tsunami migratoire et d’un fossé culturel freinant l’intégration des populations nouvellement arrivées. Occultant l’intégration des migrants comme fait majeur, ce refrain stigmatisant attribue l’érosion de la cohésion sociale et nationale à la seule responsabilité individuelle des personnes migrantes ou de leurs descendants. Pa...| Institut Rousseau
For this post I traded titles with Zachary Kai. He suggested the title of this post and in return I suggested "A Sense Of Place" for him - a post title that has been sitting in my drafts for nearly a year as I try to gather the thoughts attached to it. Zachary's approach to…| BrittHub
Clutter data describes real world things on the planet’s surface that attenuate signals, for example trees, shrubs, buildings, bodies of water, etc, etc. There’s also different types of trees, some types of trees attenuate signals more than others, different types of buildings are the same. Getting clutter data used to be crazy expensive, and done … Continue reading Importing Global Clutter data into Forsk Atoll→| Nick vs Networking
Pinout for the Fluke TN2100 Enhanced Far End Terminator| Nick vs Networking
Another post in the “vendors thought Java would last forever but the web would just a fad” series, this one on getting Nokia BTS Site Manager (which is used to administer the pre-Airscale Nokia base stations) running on a modern Linux distro.| Nick vs Networking
I use Zotero when I am doing research or scholarly writing but I also have a handful of other reasons why I use Zotero which I thought I’d share.| Librarian of Things
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No I will not be running it| busybee: Notes
A Seattle-based programmer/musician who makes games, comics, and bad decisions.| beesbuzz.biz
I’ve spent way too much time productivity hacking and fiddling with the perfect PKM (personal knowledge management) system. And I’d increasingly been coming to the same conclusions as Joan Westenberg…| Derek Kedziora
I had a conversation with a friend who described sitting in a workshop where clients and the people they hired were working on problems. As you do. Happens in every consultingy kind of job. But what has totally become normalized is for the people hired, the “experts” to use ChatGPT and similar services to come […]| Smashing Frames
A Seattle-based programmer/musician who makes games, comics, and bad decisions.| beesbuzz.biz
Summer solstice has come and gone. I feel relief at the slow lengthening of night even though the hottest, driest months are still ahead. Coastal California’s June gloom gentles the mornings with a…| narinda heng
This post is part of the IndieWeb Carnival, June’s topic was chosen by Nick Simson and is explained as Take Two/time travel. A post I made the other day (Updates and Renewals) feels like it would fit very well into this theme as the post was half written in April and half written in June, […]| BrittHub
I started writing this blog post in April. It felt unfinished at the time. It's a very stream of consciousness kind of post. It might not be for everyone. That's OK. The beginning of the year was an odd one. I've lost the monthly rhythm due to the Make & Mend Market being on hold…| britthub.co.uk
After all these years I have decided to tidy up my computing devices and make replacing/restoring them easier. One way to do this is by creating a Brew bundle that makes reinstalling all of my apps easier. It is pretty simple really if you use Homebrew as your package manager. This command output a list […]| James King
A repost from my Facebook. Original December 1, 2015. Worldreaders is a U.S. non-profit organization using “quiet tech” — technologies that disappear with their environment — to deploy digital libraries around the world. Worldreader’s digital catalog of books contains 6,699 titles with an average readership of 184,000 people per month. By deploying e-ink readers, Worldreaders […]| James King
A repost from my Facebook. Original November 30, 2015. The Navy Department Library was established by a letter from President John Adams to the first Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stoddard in 1800. It was established to be the most comprehensive naval library of its kind. Today it is housed at the Washington Navy Yard […]| James King
A repost from my Facebook. Original November 29, 2015. The Laurentian Library in Florence, Italy, is interesting for many reason, not least of which is its fantastic architecture. Most importantly, the Laurentian Library holds the oldest manuscript of Herodotus’ Histories. Sources:Laurentian LibraryThe Older, the Better: Forging a Neo-Pagan Tradition in Co-Production with Christianity and Islam| James King
A repost from my Facebook. Original November 28, 2015. The Washington University Library in St. Louis is the third-largest holder of Jefferson’s books. They received the Jefferson collection through a donation in 1880, but it took 131 years to identify and confirm the original owner of these books was Thomas Jefferson. This collection contains what […]| James King
A repost from my Facebook. Original November 27, 2015. Originally built in 1876, the Library of Parliament is an architectural marvel. With flying buttresses on the outside and a stunning interior, one might say it is too nice a facility for the sole use of politicians. The library contains 600,000 items covering a couple hundred […]| James King
A repost from my Facebook. Original November 26, 2015.After the British sacking of Washington D.C. in 1815, Thomas Jefferson sold his extensive library to Congress. This formed the basis for what is now the Library of Congress. Today, Jeffersons books are setup as its own exhibit inside the Library of Congress. Sources:Library of Congress: Jefferson's LibrarySale [...]| James King
As a kid I did lighting for stage shows. | Nick vs Networking
"We have been diverting ourselves and not effectively dealing with the real underlying issues of the pain that produces the need to divert," writes Subhan| Osho News
I cannot ask my library catalogue to give me a list of Canadian Law Reviews and Journals we currently subscribe to but I *can* ask Wikidata which Canadian Law Review titles are open access..| Librarian of Things
I’ve previously written about how there’s something creepy and very sexual lurking behind a lot of the people into “AI”, primarily men who can’t handle being told no. Others have noticed this trend…| Derek Kedziora
We’re excited to introduce upgrades to two of Inoreader’s most valuable features for active readers and researchers. Highlighters and annotations… The post New and improved tools for active reading appeared first on Inoreader blog.| Inoreader blog
Sands China Ltd, the Macau-facing subsidiary of Las Vegas Sands Corp, has completed full redemption of US$1.63 billion in outstanding| IAG
“God hates you wicked baby killing whores,” “cocksucker,” “fucking cunt,” and “shut your fucking mouth, you bitch” are statements that start fights. In 1791,... The post Fighting Words at the Founding appeared first on Harvard Law Review.| Harvard Law Review
The Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment provides that when the government takes private property for a public purpose, it must compensate the property... The post “Background Principles” and the General Law of Property appeared first on Harvard Law Review.| Harvard Law Review
The Gardner presumption, also known as the pro-veteran canon, is a substantive canon of interpretation named after the Supreme Court case Brown v. Gardner. The canon instructs courts to construe ambiguous statutes concerning veterans’ benefits in favor of the veteran. While the canon today rarely acts as a tiebreaker, it has historically represented a strong congressional intent to care for veterans. The post Codify <em>Gardner</em> appeared first on Harvard Law Review.| Harvard Law Review
Eighty-year-old Lavetta Langdon was convicted of shooting and killing her husband, Larry Langdon, while he slept. She later described decades of abuse by her... The post Making Equal Protection Protect appeared first on Harvard Law Review.| Harvard Law Review
For the past few years I’ve run a Dell R630 as one of our labs / testing, it’s hosted down the road from me, and with 32 cores and 256 GB of RAM, it’s got enough grunt to run what we need for testing stuff on the East coast and messing around. We’ve got a proper DC with compute in Sydney and Perth, but for breaking stuff, I wanted my own lab.| Nick vs Networking
Let's use old amazon kindles to make meeting room signs at your local library and organize!| Librarian of Things
I just walked back from the lovely Cookie Bar in Ford City, Ontario, where I was one of the six "fun" speakers at the Bike Windsor Essex AGM. The theme was transportation and the format was pecha kucha: 20 slides that auto forward every 20 seconds. This is what I was supposed to have said.| Librarian of Things
I would like to add the property of ‘intervener’ to Wikidata but I cannot do this alone.| Librarian of Things
From my friend and former colleague Autumn:| Derek Kedziora
DeepSeek released an updated version of their popular R1 reasoning model (version 0528) with – according to the company – increased benchmark performance, reduced hallucinations, and native support for function calling and JSON output. Early tests from Artificial Analysis report a nice bump in performance, putting it behind OpenAI’s o3 and o4-mini-high in their Intelligence| www.macstories.net
I’ve recommended the odd book on my blog, sometimes with an affiliate link for bookshop.org. I’ve attempted to compile the various recent recommendations into a list. For now there’s just one list but perhaps themes will emerge at a later date. Here is a list of books that I love and feel in some way […]| BrittHub
I’ve been using a bullet journal of some sort since about 2016, for events, tasks, plans and sketches. During that time I’ve come across the idea of daily affirmations pages a few times. I’ve always reacted against these, seeming an indulgence for people with perfect calligraphic handwriting, perfect page layouts and perfectly arranged desks. The […]| BrittHub
The fun thing about dyslexia accessibility is that it’s often just good design legibility, if a body of text has the right line spacing, word spacing, a good contrast and no distracting elements then it’s an excellent start. Add a highly legible typeface with unique shapes for each letter and your message is readable by […]| BrittHub
Machines reconfigure work. And yet, historians or other humanistic researchers rarely think about the way that our digital workflows—the tools that we use to do our work—enable or disenable the kinds of questions we pursue and the evidence that we marshal to answer them.| Clio and the Contemporary
L’investigation et les méthodes sont liées aux féminismes et aux décolonisationS| Xavier Coadic
There’s this weird phrase “agentic AI” which looks weid. But it’s a sign for how bad the state of the bubble is: Software agents are a very old concept, they are simple systems provided with a target function to optimize that operate somewhat autonomously. This fits in well with modern “AI” systems who can be […]| Smashing Frames
My personal knowledge management system for work is separate from my system for life due to different requirements. In this post, I'm sharing my requirements, the PKM tools I use at work, and how I use them.| the wordy habitat
The Dutch government recommends that people not eat eggs from backyard chickens: RIVM scientists assessed the PFAS content in eggs from 60 different locations across the country and found that eg…| Derek Kedziora
Unsure about how to gain permission to blog with your students or what guidelines you should have in place? We outline a straightforward 3 step process with example forms to get you started....| The Edublogger
https://hidekazu-konishi.com/entry/aws_mgn_architecture_lifecycle_usage_notes.html Summary of AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) Architecture and Lifecycle Relationships, Usage Notes - Including Differences from AWS Server Migration Service (AWS SMS).| Hidekazu Konishi - Profile / Biography | hidekazu-konishi.com
The company Boom is working to build a new supersonic airliner. In a recent interview, the founder extolled saving a few hours of flight time:| Derek Kedziora
It’s spring, which means it’s time for some garden inspiration and to get to work. I’ve really come to like the sort of no-lawn, more natural meadow style approach, and it’s perfect for the tiny garden we have. It’s not like we’re going to play a game of football on a five square meter lawn. Instead, we’re going to sit outside, enjoy the sunshine, have fun watching all the critters around—something green and living sure beats the cement pavers that are (were?) so popular in th...| Derek Kedziora
From the Guardian:| Derek Kedziora
Amod Lele makes a strong argument for disengaged Buddhism:| Derek Kedziora
Never let the weeds get higher than the garden. Always keep a diamond in your mind.| Librarian of Things
Mit bis zu 200 Milliarden Euro will die Kommission die Entwicklung von KI in der Union anschieben. Davon sollen 20 Milliarden Euro für bis zu fünf neue “KI Gigafactories” zur Verfügung stehen. Source: EU-Kommission: “KI-Gigafabriken” sollen Standort Europa stärken | heise online Microsoft rollt seine Commitments, KI Data Center zu bauen, zurück, in China sind […]| Smashing Frames
What truly distinguishes Google, Airbnb, Spotify, Vinted or Amazon as world-class product companies? This talk goes beyond the conventional “agile” framework to explore how these organizations create a seamless flow across discovery, delivery, and innovation, ensuring that impactful products are delivered consistently.| ThinkingLabs
Humans make mistakes, it’s a fact of life. Despite our best intentions, and no matter how many checks we put in place, sometimes things go wrong. It’s no different with software. To move at speed then it’s inevitable that production issues will happen. Sometimes it’s your code that doesn’t work as expected, sometimes dependencies break, sometimes infrastructure breaks. Sometimes that once in a lifetime event happens. Again.| ThinkingLabs
