I had a chance to check out the iPhone Duo earlier in a real life store. After reading a lot of reviews, I was thinking it was going to be some sort of massive brick phone from the 80s or something, but actually it was smaller than I had expected. I mean it is thicker than most phones for sure but each pane is actually kind of thin, it's just thick when its folded. It felt quite sturdy. The outer screen is about big enough to do simple emailing and web browsing. I tried both Mail and Safari on…

The saga of the DeWalt belt change and resuming the console table build again is restarted. I got the planer back today and got the legs planed. The tech told me he almost gave up trying the the belt I gave him. I got two of them off eBay for $12 whereas an OEM belt was over $90 with S/H. I'll keep that in mind if and when I shred another belt.step oneBefore I could use it I had to install the chain and the sprocket. It was an easy do with zero headaches to deal with.operational againNo…

Smith & Wesson went the extra mile for wheel gun enthusiasts this week, paying tribute to the famed M1917 while also adding a revolver fans have waited years for. As we have detailed in the past, the U.S. Army Model 1917 revolver in .45 ACP was one of the company’s first big N-frame “triple lock” revolvers. Using two 3-round “half-moon” clips or a single six-shot “full moon” to accommodate the rimless .45 ACP, 150,000 S&W M1917s were delivered to the Army before the end of the Great War, and…

Some 65 years ago this week. The intersection of Friedrichstraße and Zimmerstraße at the sector boundary between Communist East and NATO-allied West Berlin. The Cold War armor, face-to-face: three M48A1s from F Coy, 40th Armored Regiment, U.S. Army’s Berlin Brigade, stand tall against East German border forces backed by Soviet troops. Note the MPs, likely of the 287th Military Police Company, observing from the building’s windows just above the apothecary shop. U.S. Army photo The “Turner…

An update to the tally for Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 9, embarked aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), which just returned from a 322-day deployment to the Middle East, including over 150 days in a combat zone. These are individual squadron return snippets: Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 41, flying the F/A-18F Super Hornet, logged over 4,500 flight hours while executing over 2,400 sorties, including 807 combat sorties. They expended 394,227 pounds of ordnance and…

Bitrig: Build and ship native Swift apps with AI.

Very quick, very short post for this weeks plan. The injury to my right leg still hasn’t got any better. The doctors have ruled out 1DVT, through physical examination and blood tests, and how now prescribed me with rest! No running for me for at least the coming week… Deep Vein Thrombosis - essentially a blood clot in the leg

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I like living alone. I like having my own space, making my own decisions, and spending my time without having to negotiate what I’m doing with it. There’s a peace in that which I’m reluctant to give up. I also want a woman’s company. Her affection, her conversation, her touch. Someone I’m attracted to who is pleased to be with me. Both things are true, which apparently makes explaining what I want more complicated than it ought to be. When I say I enjoy being alone, I don’t mean I’ve stopped…

China's first AI film, "Sanxingdui," failed to resonate with audiences. but not because Chinese people are anti-AI

Hi, welcome to this write-up for the 1. A Sticky Situation challenge from Bellingcat. Here you can see my thought processes and what steps I took to get to the answer, but of course there are many different ways of reaching the same results. First lookWe've received a picture taken by Foeke from a high vantage point. We have to find the name of the mountain Foeke was standing on while she took the picture. I prefer to closely inspect any photograph before starting my search online for the…

The darker mornings amaze now, and yet, I am no stranger to the change of seasons and nor is it unfamiliar to me that days grow shorter in the wintertime and the nights grow longer.However, I am amazed at how fast times change hands and hence, I am amazed at the hour and the darkness since it was recent that the sun stayed out later and woke earlier. I used to stay out until dawn. I used to break the night and see the sunrise from different places after long nights in the City.I have memories…

An employee receives a PDF that appears to be a shared business document. They open it, follow the link, and eventually reach a legitimate Microsoft sign-in page. They enter a code, complete authentication, and expect the document to open.The Microsoft login page is real. The authentication may succeed. The problem is that the employee could be approving an authentication request started by an attacker.That’s the issue behind MadApe, a Microsoft device-code phishing kit documented by Group-IB…

Our first foray into the special medieval holdings of the Bodleian Library is Cædmon's Hymn.Bede wrote that Cædmon was an illiterate man in the late 7th century who cared for the cows at what is now Whitby Abbey. One night, in a dream, he was approached by "someone" who asked him to sing about the beginning of the world. In the dream he first refused, then did create a poem.When he woke up the next morning, he wrote down the remembered poem. Taking it to Abbess Hilda of Whitby (658–80), it was…

I had a productive back-and-forth with our heat pump vendor's engineer regarding Claude's design. We have, I believe, one remaining issue to resolve and then I should have a complete parts list and schematic to present to a competent plumber and get this thing installed. The company with the $50K HVAC quote has been in contact, and it seems like they want to try to make a deal. I need to go collect my equipment from them, because I think that ship has sailed. They did notify me of a recent…

Picking up from here and here. I didn't mean for this to be a series but I keep coming across more news stories that illustrate the point. Frank Landymore writing for Futurism:A new analysis from Guardrails Action, an AI accountability advocacy group, found that voters in key battleground states still harbor mostly negative feelings towards the AI industry, with the tech being such a toxic topic that it’s potentially driving voters to cross the aisle. The survey, reported by Inc, questioned…

I was using Ramp’s app for a work expense recently and realized I’d forgotten to upload the receipt, which normally kicks off an exceptions process. Except the receipt was already there. I asked how, and learned Ramp has a direct integration with Toast, the restaurant payment system. Pay with a Ramp card at a merchant on Toast, and the itemized receipt gets attached to your transaction automatically. No photo, no upload, nothing from you. This is what good integrations do. They take manual load…

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A curious tinkerer explores Nostr’s decentralized network, leaving Bitcoin out of the picture. I was reading Nostr the other day and saw an interesting post that got me thinking. I can't find it now and wish I had saved it, especially since it relates to some other things I've been wanting to write about. The person said they didn't understand why Nostr isn't more popular, and that it seems like people are leaving and there are fewer people around. Why does it feel so empty, almost like it's…

A curious tinkerer explores Nostr’s decentralized network, leaving Bitcoin out of the picture. I was reading Nostr the other day and saw an interesting post that got me thinking. I can't find it now and wish I had saved it, especially since it relates to some other things I've been wanting to write about. The person said they didn't understand why Nostr isn't more popular, and that it seems like people are leaving and there are fewer people around. Why does it feel so empty, almost like it's…

In the process of settling a bet on post-election phone calls, Miss Manners makes the following important point:The problem is that you both look at the call as a personal interaction, rather than a professional one. The reason the loser calls the winner is that it increases faith in the electoral process by having the loser acknowledge defeat, a relevant lesson in our time.It is hardly surprising that in a time when too many Americans seem to have forgotten in what way our government is…

In the wilderness south of the wide lake hunters were seeking their game. Instead they found woe. One of their own kin was dead beneath thorny brush. They rescued his corpse from its jagged trap. Perhaps he died while ensnared? The truth was more grim. For they found the source of his violent murder. Buried in his chest was a slender blade. Its grip was textured leather. The pommel was strange for it was broken, a feat not easily done. Much time and effort would have to be spent to break the…

I came across the simple and moving account below of how a German doctor organised assisted dying for his mother whom he loved greatly in “The House by the Lake: One House, Five Families, and a Hundred Years of German History” by Thomas Harding. The doctor was Dr Alfred Alexander, a Jew who had “converted” to Christianity in order to take up a prominent university position. Bella his mother was 51, and when he visited her he was “shocked by her condition: her breaths came in short gulps, her…

9728/21647Ernie was very excited this morning as he had decided to break the World Record for highest Lego Tower built by a 9-year-old that was rainbow coloured. He was confident of getting this as the record did not, as far as he was aware, exist. So he got to work and built a tower that was over four feet tall and only partly kept up by the wall and the TV it was leaning against.He was pretty thrilled.

Springs!When it comes to note-taking software, I prioritize usefulness over longevity. I prefer plain text (e.g. .org and .md files), I prefer having both, but I'm not going to reject an app that makes my notes useful today, due to some kind of functional "lock-in". I think I need to teach Claude about TiddlyWiki...and Tinderbox. EMACS turns 50 | MIT Technology Review Wow, that's a long time. ✍️ Reply by email

It's a superpower.Diarium is a journaling app I've stuck with because the content (that is, my content) is easy to re-work, expand, contract, and generally re-organise to my fancy. I can do those things easily because it exports a SQLite database, with a schema you can figure out, hack on, and then import to replace what you have in the app.It does other export formats, but I see those more as archival. Tables and columns, mm, perfect for hacking on this kind of app.

Like my peers, I've decided to publish my personal ranking preference for the 2027 interop project. I'm doing this from a phone, so I can't link to the others that have published theirs, but I think it's interesting to see and compare what we feel is important. I did want to also comment on my ordering process. Originally I had something like 20 selected items, and even after using the "hot or not" selection process, my list is still pretty long. The Temporal API landed at the top because I…

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There's an enormous, unimaginable cresting tidal movement happening in a very specific setting, and you almost surely don't know about it. It's complicated, so I'll just run you through the 30,000 foot view and you can take my word for it re: the significance.Mac gaming has always been problematic. Hardly anything is written for Mac natively, so it's all about emulation. And the problem with emulation is that it takes computing assets, which in turn reduces resolution, smoothness, and…

Senior ad salesman Justin Doors is widely recognized as the industry’s foremost in-house expert on out-of-home advertising, an achievement made possible by his unwavering commitment to never working outside his house.Doors, 38, sells highway billboards, commuter rail posters, and airport lightboxes from his living room sofa. As a remote employee dedicated entirely to out-of-home inventory, he spends forty hours a week inside his home thinking about people leaving their homes so brands can reach…