When Apple introduced the iPhone Duo in September I called it “the ultimate wait and see device.” Folks have waited, and now some folks have seen, fondled, written and talked about it. Those who got lucky in the preorder lottery will see iPhone Duos tomorrow and quite a few will be waiting a bit longer given supply and demand issues. From most accounts I’d say there’s still a bit of waiting and seeing to come. Generally reviewers were excited by the new device. Even if their comments about…

I enjoy the etymology of technology words. Understanding it can be a handle into using the tool well. One example: sudo. sudo comes from “Superuser do”, allowing you to run a program with the security privileges of another user, usually the root superuser. Here’s an example from a terminal near you: $ <dangerous-command> dangerous-command: NOT super-user $ sudo <dangerous-command> Doing a dangerous thing... This is why programmers say “su DO” (pronouncing “do” like “do”) rather than the softer…

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***Sometimes, coincidences are too great to seem like coincidences.A perfect example of that occurred this week in 1976 when the Mississippi River ferry MV George Prince was struck by another ship, causing the deaths of 78 people.At that very moment, Number One on the UK singles chart was the song Mississippi by Pussycat.Fortunately, no such tragic synchronicity was to be found on the…

Anna and I had one of our fantastic “let’s do a bunch of neat little activities around the city” days. I’ve been back in Hamburg for more than two years now, and I’ve only just gotten around to climbing up the bunker. When I first lived in Hamburg, the structure that now makes it the “Green Bunker” wasn’t there yet. There were always things to do inside the bunker, but the whole exoskeleton is new to me. I loved it. What a view. This city. ❤️

Vines on the side of a grain elevator in the tiny North Texas town of Krum. The post Vine-Sided appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

a person with a great job, a nice salary, a partner, the fancy house. it sure sounds like this person has it all figured out but in reality they are as lost as everyone else on this beautiful planet earth it is all about perspective — reframing

I woke up around 6:30am, way too early for my eyes that I had tired past midnight on a small C+bash+php project of mine: hacking the messages that circulate on the CAN bus of the heating controller in order to drive our energy needs down. I went to bed with more ideas for the next days, but really tired. I woke up too early, with my eyes stinging from wanting more rest, but the brain was already engaged contemplating the job of the day: get on the roof, remove a 2 sqm sheet of glass from a…

LEGO Newsroom: Today, the LEGO Group and DAFT PUNK are proud to announce a new partnership that aims to inspire and remix fandoms, with the Daft Punk robots entering the LEGO universe. Spanning product, content and brand experiences, the collaboration celebrates the creativity and communities that have shaped the legacy of both brands. To introduce the partnership, the two brands have unveiled a film in which the duo’s minifigures follow a holographic red brick through what starts as a dark,…

Sometimes, I like to delight you with a complete, brilliantly-researched tale about one of my favourite comedy shows. Other times, all I can do is point to something weird and shrug. Guess what today’s post is? Take a look at this clip from Maude, “Maude’s Good Deed”, broadcast by CBS on the 6th March 1973. What the bloody hell happens 22 seconds into that clip? The studio audience disappears, and Bea Arthur and Esther Rolle are saying their lines to no reaction whatsoever. Note the incredibly…

Joyce Ferguson sat across from the devil⁠—or more accurately⁠—a devil. She was sort of glad not to be considered important enough to be seen by the big guy himself. She was only meeting with a caseworker of Hell.“Looking over your record, I see you traded your soul in exchange for a car that never needed to go to a mechanic," the man across from her said in a calm voice lacking the wickedness she was expecting from someone in Hell. “Later, you also traded your soul to a different devil for…

Read: Stations by Louise Kennedy ★★★★★ 📚 Broken Irish kids escaping to 80's London squat. Emotional misunderstanding last for decades. Great 'period' detail. Brilliant story with no easy endings.

★★★★: Killer sequel to a movie I generally enjoyed. It's less of a halloween mystery and more of a time loop rom com thriller (but with murder). Enjoyed it all the same though! It took itself a little less seriously, which served it well. FYI: My reviews are scored out of 4. Also, thanks for subscribing to my RSS feed and supporting the indie web!

It is impossible to simply enjoy something on its own. Anything relevant will be made viral, then made unpopular again in its suffocating ubiquity—such is the law of late-stage capitalism. https://post.substack.com/p/does-tv-actually-suck-now-emmys Related to: 🗨️ TikTok is great because you must ‘dislike’ 🗨️ we’re on the verge of democratizing only the worst part of celebrity

In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-93479 for the project NGINX, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix a heap buffer overflow in worker script evaluation triggered by crafted requests when regex map captures are referenced before the map output, or when a non-cacheable variable is used in certain string expressions, causing worker restarts and potentially code execution if ASLR is disabled or bypassed.…

I thought this was absolutely delightful! It was silly, light and fluffy but everyone involved played their parts as it it were Shakespeare and took it completely seriously so it just “worked”. The effects were fine, the sets were fun and the magical characters very broadly drawn to the point of almost being one-dimensional but there were all great fun. The peril was real but only mild and the story made sense on its own terms, helped by the genuinely different characters of the three children…

Excerpted from Primer on Sorcery by Moiner Squillion, Collegiate Wizard: It is a commonly accepted wisdom that we all do things we regret, but sorcerers do not have that luxury. To warp reality itself cannot be taken back, and every spell must be cast with an absolute clarity of intention. Addendum by Defilter Mugwhistle, Rogue Maleficer: A wizard's relationship with magic is like a gambler and his bookie. You can always dig yourself into a deeper hole. It's just a question of how many fingers…

by Fiona Moore Doctor Jekyll and Sister Hyde Poster for Doctor Jekyll and Sister Hyde The premise of this one is fairly obvious just from the title alone. It's a retelling of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde, only, instead of turning the eponymous scientist into a monster, the magic potion turns him into a woman. … Continue reading [October 22, 1971] Cinemascope: Hyde and Seek → The post [October 22, 1971] Cinemascope: Hyde and Seek appeared first on Galactic Journey.

COMMANDER FOX STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS (HASBRO) “Commander Fox heads a squad of clone troopers who accompany Padmé to the palace of Ziro the Hutt. She hopes to reopen negotiations with the Hutts, who have been tricked into believing the Jedi abducted Jabba’s son. The commander finds a hostile reception when the group arrives at Ziro’s lavish palace on Coruscant.” The last time I was talking about Clone Wars, it was the Genndy Tartakovsky 2D-animated series, which actually aired between Attack…

Every time a browser loads a page over HTTPS, it is trusting a chain of signatures. A certificate authority signs the website's certificate, and the browser accepts it because that authority sits on a short list the browser ships with. Most authorities keep their top-level root keys offline and do their daily signing with intermediates, subordinate keys the root has vouched for. Whoever holds an intermediate's private key can issue a certificate for any website, and browsers will accept it. So…

I’m rather surprised to find that Wired is the magazine which takes such a knee-jerk anti-AI line. In a piece by Adam Morgan, entitled, Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting (link via LitHub) they reveal that “behind the scenes, at least three of the Big Five US book publishers—HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette —have been quietly incorporating AI tools into their publishing processes without public disclosures or author consent.”* Author consent?! Did we…

RJ Sangosti photograph for The Denver Post of unidentified men released from GEO processing center carrying Rev. Edward Nalwamba out to his waiting car. This photo of Rev. Edward Nalwamba, 78, unable to walk after 13 months of ICE detention, being carried by two fellow detainees who were also released yesterday, because GEO, the operator of ICE’s for-profit prison, refused to let him take the corporation’s wheelchair all the way to the edge of the prison gate, should haunt those executives and…

The people of Earth develop nuclear power. Naron, a long-lived Rigellian who serves as the Keeper of galactic records, notes this achievement and records humanity as having reached maturity. Until he discovers something else... Despite the seriousness of the subject, Asimov keeps a light touch in this very short story. A 1-minute read. Naron of the long-lived Rigellian race was the fourth of his line to keep the Galactic records. He had the large book which contained the list of the numerous…

The amounts of money being spent on the hardware and buildings behind the new AI boom may turn out to be enormously large by historical standards. How is it being financed? Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh tells the story in “Financing the AI Buildout” (Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Fall 2026, conference draft version). As he points out, the new AI technologies are often discussed as a new form of software, and how the capabilities of that software are developing. The software perspective is…

When you have lived in and moved around a particular place for many years, you can start to think you know it very well. And to an extent, you will, but surprises still occur. Especially in a city as big and old as London. I’ve had three such surprises lately.

At least once a year I try to go on retreat for a couple of days to clear my head by becoming a hermit for a little while. I try to get off the grid far enough that I can walk around, explore, take pictures, and have a little time to hack around with stuff for the fun of it (usually tools I haven't had a chance to experiment with yet). Last September I randomly picked a direction and found myself somewhere in northern California for a while. It was nice to wander around in a new town and see…

First of all, I wanted to send a thank you to everyone who ever sent me an email or a message. I read all of them, but can’t always respond timely – and sometimes at all – but I enjoy receiving those, and learn a lot from them. I wanted to excerpt a few things I received in recent months, so that you can enjoy them, too! Gabriel Roth pointed an obvious flaw in the Ishmael editor’s Ghost Cut implementation that completely eluded me: You didn’t mention perhaps the worst thing about the Ghost Cut…

When I was first creating for the web, “The Web Platform” was made up of “whatever Microsoft and Netscape thought would help them obliterate the other.” A lot of what that meant? Write two sets of code to do the same thing. I can probably still write the Flash <embed> and <object> off the top of my head. I wrote about my appreciation for “write-once-2020s” in The Web Is Better. In 2026, The Web Platform is made of not just megacorporations, but people. The Interop Project has a mission of…

From The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, by Christopher Clark (Harper, 2013), pp. 65-67: Two military disasters defined the trajectory of the Habsburg Empire in the last half-century of its existence. At Solferino in 1859, French and Piedmontese forces prevailed over an army of 100,000 Austrian troops, opening the way to the creation of a new Italian nation-state. At Königgrätz in 1866, the Prussians destroyed an Austrian army of 240,000, ejecting the empire from the emergent…

Tracking Minneapolis crime numbers on Glass on the Street comes from one dataset: the City of Minneapolis Crime Data on the open data portal. This post covers how to access the public API, pull the data and how to parse it.

😢 This makes me sad. They made such great games. I spent hours playing Knights of the old Republic and Mass effect. https://www.theverge.com/games/1015647/ea-is-shutting-down-bioware