Prairiewolf - Jamestown Mercantile, November 5, 2026Two weeks from tonight! On Nov. 5, Prairiewolf will make our triumphant (?) return to the Jamestown Merc, a spot we last played over three years ago. Jamestown is a tiny little mountain town (pop. 256) on the outskirts of Boulder County; a beautiful spot to spend an autumn evening in the Rockies, if I do say so myself. Two sets! Some new stuff, some old stuff, some in-between stuff. The ‘wolf wrapped up our epic four-date summer tour at the…

What happens when the things that make you a good friend become products machines deliver? Will we talk less to each other and more to software programmed to sound like us, but owned by companies with their own interests to serve? Does it matter if the shoulder you’re crying on belongs to a company? AI is breaking the world from what it has been to what it is becoming. I’ve spent much of my adult life at keyboards, interacting and building things for others in the digital world AI is now…

Dear Abby addresses a huge, boundary-crossing ask from a favor-shark. In this case, a woman's brother-in-law, who has "selflessly" performed favors for her over the years, has become angry with her because she won't accept an "offer" to become a nanny three days a week to his newborn baby.Abby's response is pretty good:You are not "crazy," so don't feel guilty for refusing to allow your sister and brother-in-law to push you into something with which you are not comfortable. That they would…

This site, and my other ones, and my business ones (including our NextCloud), were offline as precaution since yesterday afternoon. I was at LegoWorld in Utrecht with E and Y, when I realised what was going on, and left for home to take my stuff down. Now that PHP patches, after becoming available late yesterday afternoon, have been added to our various hosting packages, everything can be brought back online. I also updated my VPS today, after Hetzner made the patches available overnight. Going…

I’d like to echo the sentiment of Scott Aaronson’s latest posting: if you’re in the US, get out and vote against Fascism. We have a two party system, so your choice is voting for a party that has unified in support of the personality cult of a mad wannabe king/Fascist dictator, or the other one. Act accordingly. If you’re in France, you also need to be getting ready to vote against Fascism, with less than six months to go. I’m completely mystified why many of my fellow leftists seem to think…

I encountered the same suspicious MSIX installer in two unrelated managed client environments. Antivirus successfully quarantined it, which was good to see. I still wanted to understand how it had arrived and whether there was evidence that it had run.Those questions led me into browser download history, a PowerShell collector that was skipping more than it should, and a download URL that did not behave like an ordinary web address.The useful result was a matching browser download record and…

It was such a pain in the ass to write this post. I have it fairly well automated, and it's worked reliably for a few years now, but today Mac OS Golden Gate says that my script can't send events to Photos. What the fuck, Apple? I added FastScripts to Automation in Privacy and Security, though it hasn't been there before, and I toggled everything in that pane off and then back on again. No change. Tried running the script from the FastScripts menu item, it worked. Tried it again using the…

Josh has revived the popular twenty quick questions for your campaign from so many years ago. The original was concerned with setting information that players actually care about rather than elaborate worldbuilding that doesn't matter. The new one is explicitly concerned with what players need to know about a setting when they begin playing. So, anyway, player driven fantasy sandbox campaigns can be hard to kick off. If players are supposed to come up with their own plans, what the fuck do they…

In the theme of NixOS enabling fearlessness, here’s a way I use Nix on other Linux distributions to sleep better at night: managing dependencies of simple scripts. This way of using Nix is for everyone, not just those willing to try NixOS. We’ll look at it first for a Python script, and then see how it can be adapted to any other language. I wanted to create a script that would read the verbatim content of my articles out loud to me with a synthesised voice. One of the more convenient ways to…

📷 278/365 - Taking a quick shot before being run over by bikes.

What follows here is an attempt to apply what I learned from my #CrossChannelRail project to one specific, current debate, namely whether any UK stations could be (re-)opened for long distance trains to Continental Europe through the Channel Tunnel. There is a lot more background about this whole topic in the #CrossChannelRail final report I released 12 months ago.Three stations are talked about: Ashford International (that was served by Eurostar trains between 1996 and 2020), Ebbsfleet…

You may have seen references to a password being the number 4. There are countless allusions to this online, but they don’t give the context. As I mentioned in an earlier post, eMudrha was using the numbers 4, 56, 115, 155, 156, 230, and 237 as secret keys. I haven’t seen details of how this happened, but in this post I’ll give a plausible account of how it might have happened, what someone could have done to produce those results. I’m not trying to do forensic analysis on this specific…

Ryan sits down to talk with Serena Malyon, one of fastest-rising artists in the Magic art space. The post How Does Serena Malyon Keep Doing It? appeared first on Hipsters of the Coast.

Our second night in the Noovo Plus van was at El Capitán State Beach Campground. Still with no hookups.Campground map; we were in site 132:Campsite with an ocean view:We enjoyed a bottle of Stanger wine with dinner:Other sites:Bathrooms:Ocean:Sunset:The next morning, we drove down to the beach for a little walk:Birds and beach:Next time, another drive.

It might be fairly obvious now, but I am not doing any adventure here in order. Some are playtests; others are fully thought-out ideas...in my head, if not on paper. And some start out as one thing and then become something very, very different at some point.Such is the case with Larina's birthday on October 25, 1986. Aaron and Larina share chips in her VW Bug.The Edge of Seventeen"Sometimes the ghost doesn't want to haunt you or scare you. Sometimes it just wants to share a bag of chips or for…

To this date the most-read post on this blog is a link to a Youtube video from Dr. Spectred of Balatro University about getting really high scores. Which is fine, I guess, I’m not resentful at all, no, I’m okay with that, really. But you know, I personally have just come off a 92 game win streak in Balatro. Sure it was on White Stake, and in specific circumstances, while Dr. Spectred has 100+ win streaks on Gold Stake. Yes you forced me to admit it, I’m nowhere near as good as they are! But I…

As a kid, my mom would frequently sauté bok choy for dinner with some garlic. 46 Bok Choy I am continuing to add incremental improvements to the blog - I have added an Archive page that lists posts by year and at the bottom of the page is a Tags section which lists the tags for different projects I have worked on. I am debating if Tags would work better above or below the posts by year. Eventually, the posts by year could get very long, so it would be quite a scroll to find the Tags section.…

I have now played 1833NE four times: once in April (a 5p takeover game, using one of the old sets) and three times this month: A 3p non-takeover, takeover games of 5p and 3p. Game Review Thoughts: The non-takeover game has interest — the shifting interconnections are complex. I would be happy to play it again, particularly if time is short. I don’t particularly like how the interconnection bonuses are presented on the map (in how some direct connections are not next to the indirect) and have…

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Consider the following situation. You request a review on a GitHub PR using the “Reviewers” UI. That review may be requested from a group or a single user. A reviewer then reviews the PR: MegaManSec reviewed on behalf of operasoftware/prodsec 18 hours ago The list of “Reviewers” is now only MegaManSec - regardless of whether the group or individual reviewer was initially requested. The PR author changes something in the PR (or just rebases or merges main into the branch). If you have GitHub’s…

I have a few books I either forgot to review or didn't feel up to reviewing this past month. Time to play catch up! Wolf Tower, by Tanith LeeA secondary world YA fantasy from 2001, about a young woman who escapes being the servant to a spoiled princess out into the wider world where she meets many strange people and sees many wondrous things. This is a reread. Originally I read this when I was a teenager, and so I thought I would reread it to see if I still enjoy it. I read it back in August,…

The good GIMP. Continuing in the theme of my previous post on making Qt5 style plugins available to Debian 13 via the CozyNet Debian package repository, I've also included a pre-GTK3 version of GIMP sourced from the Debian 12 Bookworm repos. As the title says, this is "as-is," meaning there are bugs. For example, closing out of a project in GIMP might produce a crash report. I don't know why, but so long it works I don't really care. Just discard it and move on. I've also taken the liberty to…

A friend who found the word dido in a crossword puzzle fell into a rabbit hole, as she put it, and came out with this Stack Exchange thread that starts with a question about the odd phrase “conniption dido” (apparently used only by the questioner’s great-grandmother) but quickly turns into an examination of the second word, partly focused on the unlikely but apparently irresistible “connection between the term dido and Dido of the Aeneid.” There are a great many piquant responses, of which I’ll…

Chris Gallant of Long Island is running for Congress. A Democrat, Mr. Gallant is an openly gay man. Republicans are trying to shame him for “kink” photos taken for Mr. S Leather a number of years ago. Chris confirmed the photos and is proud of who he is. He has nothing to hide; Chris enjoys his sexual activities with consenting adults. There is nothing to hide. I love his quote to the New York Times. I make Christian Grey look like amateur hour. HOT! I actually find Chris hot for a number of…

After a decade-long hiatus, David Smith’s Check the Weather app is back. Here’s Underscore on Mastodon: While I was learning to build for the Duo, I wanted to make an app that made sense in ALL the different poses. So of course I made a weather app! After a 10-year hiatus, Check the Weather is back, with a delightful new design that’s as flexible as the weather is changeable. I’m a big weather radar nerd and wanted an app that put radar front and center, while still giving quick access to all…

We like notebooks, we even tried to start a company analog.is around notebooks. Recently, we’ve been making a different style of notebook and given a few to friends. The feedback has been great, so it’s time we write a bit more about them. There is a company in Japan KOKUYO who makes Campus notebooks. They have won Japanese Stationary awards for their projects. It was probably here that we first saw half sized notebooks. Their’s are smaller B6 sized notebooks, similar to an A5 notebook. What…

I’ve long wanted to watch the British miniseries, Edward the King (1975) (aka Edward the Seventh). When I

“It's better to create something that others criticise than to create nothing & criticise others. Go create! Have fun :)”— Ricky Gervais

Today I learned the Babbling Baboon Ass in D.C. asked Google to rename the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean as “Trump Ocean”. Original story in Newsweek, text below for your reading enjoyment. By the way, Google said no, according to Donny Marmalade, but Google hasn’t confirmed the conversation ever took place. Of course, this is not how any of this is suppose to work. President Donald Trump has claimed he spoke to Google about renaming a body of water after himself, saying the technology company…