Clara and I scan a lot of stuff. More than any rational person would. I’m so afraid of clutter and paper than anything we get goes through the scanner and archived. When we’re not doing that, we’re scanning boxes of old stuff, either ours or for my old man. We literally wore out … | Continue reading
It’s funny how we forget so many important things, and remember such trivial ones. Here are some that I remember, some going back to my childhood: In primary school I had a friend who called the sport shutput. Maybe he was my first interaction with a Kiwi! My networking lecture … | Continue reading
I was configuring an S3 backup target for Comet backup server on Monday, like a gentleman, when the page went blank. I restarted the server and checked its status: $ sudo service cometd status And got this result: cometd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE … | Continue reading
Clara and I have been watching Blacktail Studio’s back catalogue over dinner the last few nights. We know nothing about furniture making or design, but it’s therapeutic watching an expert craftsman applying their trade with such genuine passion and interest. We liked this gem fro … | Continue reading
I just made the switch to Apple Silicon for my primary Mac, and I wanted to know what my virtualisation options were. I was delighted to see QEMU runs, including my favourite nostalgic CPU families: i386/pc i386/isapc sparc/sun4m powerpc/mac99 I haven’t run any concrete benchmark … | Continue reading
Now that we’re getting more reviews and benchmarks of AMD’s latest CPU generation, my thoughts around the tech and what it represents are less clear cut than before. On the one hand we have a more efficient CPU that takes the performance crown from Intel, as much as there’s value … | Continue reading
Few etymological debates stir up as much furore as whether a hot dog constitutes a sandwich. It doesn’t, but that reality doesn’t dissuade descenting delicatessen doyens demanding the dictionary definition of a sandwich is satisfied by a hot dog. Eric Mittenthal, president of the … | Continue reading
I’m iffy on the language used to describe people, our creativity, and our interactions online. Everything is measured by engagement, for the production of content, and extracting value. And it’s hollowing out the web from the inside. Doc Searls expanded on this last month, in a b … | Continue reading
I’ve been using modern macOS since the original Mac OS X betas were shipped on CD. Yet this is, to the best of my memory, the first time I’ve ever used the Location feature for networks. If you open System Preferences and choose Network, there’s a dropdown labelled Location. It’s … | Continue reading
Here’s a mental exercise. When was the last time you logged out of a site? Not closed the tab, or put your laptop to sleep, or waited for a timeout; but pressed a log off button to end a website session? If your answered recently, do you think any of your colleagues, classmates, … | Continue reading
The news as reported by the Kyiv Independent, which you can support here: The announcement [of annexation] comes after Russia’s proxies held sham referendums in the occupied parts of these regions and, on Sept. 27, declared nearly 100% of people living in the occupied territories … | Continue reading
Last year I wrote about MediaWiki’s new logo, and talked of the general trend among logo designers towards bland, dull, uninteresting, unoriginal, and largely interchangeable marks. Neil of the imitable Matchstick Cats and the late great IntoYourHead podcast (I miss joining him a … | Continue reading
I’ve been having fun lately challenging assumptions about my operating environment. I’ve got into the habit of blindly enabling settings without stopping to think if I need them, or for what reason. I’ve been surprised how much stuff was either built on sand, or that have been he … | Continue reading
Bad news about a YouTube franchise reminded me about the golden rule of the Internet: If it’s not archived, it won’t exist. | Continue reading
So many lines in that song have been surpassed, but RAM sticks out as something that hasn’t. | Continue reading
I logged in after a few years, and the UI is way better than the likes of Gmail. | Continue reading
Microwaves are brilliant inventions of brilliance. They could be even better. | Continue reading
It’s such a ridiculous claim | Continue reading
Grow up! But not too much. | Continue reading
A fun, small, affordable, and beautifully-crafted media player that’s easy to transfer files to, and sounds excellent. | Continue reading
Claiming one thing is important doesn't invalidate something else. | Continue reading
An article about a new curriculum gives me hope, but schools still don’t prepare people enough for the real world. | Continue reading
Use the BIOS! | Continue reading
Homelabs, kitchens, storage pools, web accounts, and consoles! | Continue reading
Despite Mozilla’s best efforts, I’m still using their browser nearly 20 years on. Here are my tips. | Continue reading
They don’t use OLEDs, they’re light and small, and cost less than a kidney. | Continue reading
One-time password, two's compliment, triple DES...! | Continue reading
What if I told you the ONLY writing rule is this: You must write. | Continue reading
pngcrush, jpegoptim, gifsicle, and scour for SVGs | Continue reading
Thank you Clara! | Continue reading
A study published by Nature asks whether people are predisposed to it, and what learned behaviors result from drinking black coffee. Interesting! | Continue reading
Was I the last person to learn of the existence of this machine!? | Continue reading
But those who advocate for it are themselves rarely brief. | Continue reading
Someone uploaded the video the British RMP would have you watch before making the trip in your car. Talk about ominous! | Continue reading
Grr, why can’t I use this shaver while charging? | Continue reading
Their new site design is the modern web writ large, but it’s easy enough to hide all the new junk. | Continue reading
Putting my mechanical boards aside to help my tired wrists. | Continue reading
Of course it's plagued with PC Screen Syndrome, but the other selling point is compelling. | Continue reading
Sucks to be among the people who can’t use them. | Continue reading
What are home users to do with camera phones that shoot 4K? | Continue reading
News outlets broadly got the message right, but not sure about some of the numbers. | Continue reading
They saved me from an over-zealous video conference call application today. | Continue reading
IT is still the Wild West by comparison. | Continue reading
An excerpt from an interview with Jordan Ellenberg | Continue reading
How many other forums limit discussions to supported releases? | Continue reading
And why you should too! | Continue reading
By Ruben Schade in s/ Singapore/ Sydney/ since 2004-ish. | Continue reading