I've been meaning to post this for a while: @brianschrader.com has created a @socialspec.org validator. Check it out: https://brianschrader.com/other-projects/social-spec-validator/?domain=brianschrader.com I love these early stages of an open source software project, when people start showing up and filling in obvious gaps around the project. This is how a community is formed! I've been meaning to add validators to all of the SocialSpec websites, but in some ways this is better than an…

After a long break, I’ve started creating small actions for Drafts again. Let’s see how it turns out.

One way I’ve been able to find more joy in life is by avoiding algorithms. It’s difficult, but thankfully not impossible to avoid them. AlgorithmsAlternativeSpotify or Apple MusicRecords, MP3 Players, RadioSubstackFollowing blogs on Ghost or WordPressInstagramVSCOFacebook or RedditRSS Feeds from your favourite websitesNetflixLetterboxd In my attempt to avoid algorithms (not a resolution, more so just a life goal), I’ve been spending more time trying to find bloggers to follow via RSS. I’m open…

Once, I lied to my teacher when she asked me if I had read Ivanhoe. I’m still a bit sad about that. But when I found this collection about Scottish folklore by Walter Scott, I immediately bought it. *Still in progress* 🏃Hey, thanks for reading my blog via the RSS feed! Feel welcome to get in touch!

In the last few months, I’ve installed more and more services on my Raspberry Pi 5. It has “only” 8GB of RAM, but I’m very happy with it. From top, I see that it always has half of its memory available, so for now, I’m not afraid of overloading it. About a week ago, I installed a VaultWarden instance to replace KeePass, and I’m quite happy with it. Yesterday, though, a new challenge arose (exclusively in my head): to find a good alternative to one of the best iOS apps — Bear. For years, I’ve…

Same as for the talks archive counts for the speakers list. And don’t forget: many of them have spoken multiple times. Otherwise it would be even longer (Find the full image here). Reply via Email

I love the Internet Archive, but I don’t love its interface. It’s just… not great all around, homely and confusing. It has some endearing qualities, harking back to the web of the 1990s without endless commerce and incessant growth hacking – Wikipedia feels the same – but it’s unpleasant in many ways, and won’t inspire you the way good interfaces will. (Even the thing I once praised it for falls apart in details.) So this below, once more, is going to be caveated. I have been uploading things…

Bloody hell. It always impresses me again, what 15 years of beyond tellerrand mean content wise in talks. Look at this page! (Find the full image here). Reply via Email

I'm doing some research about .well-known URIs today and TIL about the hosting-provider URL. https://nasa.gov/.well-known/hosting-provider Is anyone else besides @automattic.com using this?

Every so often, when I say I'll do the hoovering, someone - we could call them a wit or a pedant, depending on my mood that day - will say, "Actually, it's not a Hoover: it's a Henry." Fine! Yes, it's a vacuum cleaner. I could say I'll do the vacuuming, but that feels more 1950s housewife than I am comfortable with. Hoover really won the brand war. They were actually invented by a chap called Spangler but Mr Hoover developed and sold them. So there's an alternate universe not too many branches…

Something I glimpsed on Facebook this morning (and, of course, couldn't find again) alerted me to the existence of a literary subgenre that had somehow passed me by – midcentury 'library girl' fiction. These are novels following the adventures – too strong a word, in some cases – of improbably good-looking female library assistants. Some of them, such as Molly Qualifies as a Librarian by Bertha Lonsdale or Nancy Runs a Bookmobile by Enid Johnson, are closer to careers information than fiction,…

Phoenix, Arizona label owned by country deejay, air-conditioning salesman and musical entrepreneur Frank Porter. Porter Records was active in 1957/1958. Some details here.

Moving files around outside of Git in a Git-managed project will cause Git and humans to get confused. Why don’t my new files show up? Why are some files deleted? What did I do? If that happens, how do you tell Git about the file reorganisation and get things back on track? Prompted by a recent question about this, I thought I’d write up my approach, focusing on command line solutions. Use git mv instead of mv when reorganising files and directories in Git. Consider this: you’re working on a…

The year is 3000, and we can choose only ten aircraft for the Cold War Hangar of Fame. To help us choose the right aircraft, we consulted several brilliant authors: Joe Coles, Michael Pryce, and Jonathan Glancey. We also spoke to two people with hands-on experience: an Air Chief Marshal and a pilot of the […]

Zombie porn star, Sunland, Calif., 2000 | Photo credit: Susannah Breslin Recently, I set out to read and reread, watch and rewatch, and view and review The Porn Library archives. I started by rereading Evan Wright’s “Scenes From My Life in Porn,” published by The LA Weekly in 2000.Here’s an excerpt:“I experienced a sense of numbness on Jasmin‘s set — as I would on many others — that I can only compare to accounts I have read of combat. It was the sense of being in a group of people deliberately…

My worldview changed when I asked a mentor for personal advice, and he said "I will only give it to you in a room where there are no electrical devices".

Dawarich is a self-hostable web app designed to replace Google Timeline (aka Google Location History). It enables you to: Track your location history. Visualise your data on an interactive map. Create trips and analyse your travel history. Share your location with family members. Integrate with photo management apps like Immich and Photoprism to visualise geotagged photos. Import your location history from Google Maps Timeline, OwnTracks, GPX, GeoJSON and some other sources Explore statistics…

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Yesterday, a group of MIT researchers released an article titled “Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights”. The piece describes a set of experiments which convincingly show OpenAI’s latest Astra model is able to understand and successfully alter raw weight data. Wowzers! It’s a rough analogy, but an LLM’s weights are sort of like its brain. A set of weights is a large pile of numbers generated during training, and an LLM’s output is derived by…

Back in March, I wrote The Comforting Lie of SHA Pinning, after spending rather too much of my Monday investigating the supply-chain compromise with Trivy and discovering something worrying about how GitHub Actions resolves dependencies.

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"You're holding this child's body to ransom!" The ghosts off the TV are back, in a movie! And it’s pretty good! In this one they find a way to inhabit worldly bodies, and must use their new powers to escape the house and stop it being destroyed. I’ve not seen the show in its entirety, but what I have seen is a show full of funny jokes, good vibes and the occasional poignant moment. This film delivers that, and gives the characters a way to escape the house and go on an adventure. It’s a bit of…

I heard the Swedish artist Benjamin Ingrosso talking about one of the biggest moments in his career. He was playing at Stockholm Olympic Stadium. Sitting by the piano, looking out over the crowd. 40,000 people in the audience. And then... spotting himself on the Jumbotron. Right away, his mind goes: “Oh nooo, how do I look?! I’ve made 40,000 people disappointed. Everyone thinks I’m ugly and not good enough.” Even though I wasn't there myself, I'd bet that not a single person in the crowd was…

🤖 This post includes some LLM-derived content 🤖 I'm very much not a fan of people being meat proxies and pasting AI-generated output to each other, least of all me. It's super frustrating to read it, and feels wasteful of my time, as well as anyone else in the conversation, who are having to unpack the verbose text for what is actually being communicated. That rant aside, sometimes I want to copy some text from an LLM, or sometimes you do need to reply to someone based on what an LLM has given…

Frequent visitors may notice I've redecorated a little bit around here. I wasn't feeling very satisfied with the theme I had going on, and was feeling substantial amounts of envy toward the frankly stunning websites that I see some people on Bear and beyond making from scratch. I don't have a particularly strong eye for design, nor sufficient enough time that I can spend hacking away at CSS, JS, and HTML to craft a beautiful page. So I decided to switch (with a couple of small tweaks) to using…

Yesterday, I was alarmed to learn that LTS versions of Ubuntu are still lacking a critical security update to patch a severe vulnerability that was first disclosed on October 15th. As of now, all LTS versions dating back to version 16.04 have this vulnerability. Ubuntu's security tracker indicates every release from 16.04 LTS to 26.10. is still vulnerable, two weeks after the CVE was disclosed. Until recently my Hetzner VPS ran Ubuntu. Even though it’s unlikely that I would fall victim to this…