I’ve done quite a few KVM reviews in the past, and there’s a reason for that: All of the homelab and industrial IoT stuff I test needs some sort of physical access for setup, and even if I do have monitors with multiple inputs, USB video capture dongles, etc., it gets really old to have to constantly re-wire stuff, switch between keyboards, etc. Additionally, most of the newfound range of cheap/compact KVMs that have popped up over the past two years still need an Ethernet connection, and it’s…

Friday night at On The Paper Trail Live in Nashville featured a typewriter demonstration! We explored all the analog technology! SPD: Sad Pen Day (via Pen Addict - Kimberly). If you are every testing out a pen at a pen club, show, or store, please turn the cap first to unscrew. Don’t pull!First Look at Sunlit Steel: Duluth Shop Exclusive (via Dime Novel Raven). I love it when store/shop exclusives have special meaning, especially when they relate to local landmarks.The Gentleman Stationer New…

This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Colors of Lava and Black.’ See more responses here. I thought a collection of colorful lava fit the bill. These were taken on two of the trails in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, the Kau Desert Trail and the Puna Coast Trail. Finally, some red lava erupting from Kilauea volcano. I posted a few days ago (here) about the pressurized situation at the volcano when I visited last week. This is a screen shot from one of the live webcams at Kilauea (here).…

#coffeeneuring2026 No. 2 10.3km round-trip Beautiful autumn Sunday afternoon, bright skies, warm, but not too warm, so out for a little ride to a new park along the Tiber. The Parco Marconi used to be a total tip 20 or so years ago when I sometimes had to walk my dog down here. Used needles, human crap and crap, lots of litter of all sorts of broken stuff, from fridges to bicycles. Anyway, it is just one example of the buckets of money spent by the city for last year's Jubilee and it is now a…

Here’s some comics I’ve read over the past few weeks. I’ve had almost no time to read comics lately… When translating/collecting works from prolific artists, publishers wisely publish the best material first. I mean, you want the people who pick up the first volumes to be impressed and keep buying. So what are we getting in the tenth volume of Fantagraphics’ monumental collection of Guido Crepax stuff? More than three thousand pages in? Yes, “Surreal Stories”, as the cover says, but I’m not…

I find I’m automating things less, rather than more. I have automatic software updates turned off on both my phone and my laptop. I turned off spell check and autocomplete on my phone and on my email. You can get messages with typos from me, it’s fine, it’s organic! I turned off Gmail’s smart features and now I just unsubscribe from annoying spam lists instead of letting Google filter everything. The autogenerated “thread summaries” of personal email chains with friends were just too intrusive…

A modern-looking, tiny, fast, self-hosted URL shortener built for Docker Compose. zer0 keeps the redirect path lean, protects public link creation with CAPTCHA, stores links in Redis, and includes a browser admin dashboard for stats and cleanup. Custom shortlinks are a lot easier to share than lengthy links with variables that follow them, and Bit.ly shortlinks are sometimes banned from use on some sites. Self-hosting ensures privacy compliance for your users and audience, and this service is…

From what I read, most people who want to ban young people from accessing social media platforms are politicians, and not scientists. That alone probably already give us clues on how well these bans are achieving their apparent objectives. Michal Luria, Aliya Bhatia, & Danah Boyd, in MIT Technology Review: Social media bans suppress kids’ access to information, including information that’s essential to their development, identity formation, and socialization, especially during adolescence.…

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***It does strike me the number of times random strangers in the street demand to know just how I achieve my stunning levels of fitness.And, of course, it's because I'm still in training for the Olympics, knowing, as I do that, one day, if I keep plugging away at it, I'm bound to get selected.People who have already managed to get selected are the people who took part in the 1988 Seoul…

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“When the great etch-a-sketch is shaken”, Gregor Hens writes in The City and the World, “and the public streets are erased, this microcosm always remains, the memory of the most familiar paths, of the sun falling at a certain angle on the breakfast table, of a window reflected in a window. Carpet bombing doesn’t destroy the experience of the city, its grid or aspect, because it’s within us.” (p. 205, emphasis in the original) Carpet bombing does not, and neither does a nuclear bomb, nor however…

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Last month I observed that “it seems only a matter of time before Trump ‘renames’ either the Pacific or the Atlantic as the American Ocean, or as the West American and East American Oceans respectively.” I would say “I joked”, but I wasn’t really joking. I knew it. “We have a gulf and we have a lake,” Trump, 80, told reporters in the Oval Office. “Now all we need is an ocean. Maybe we’ll have to change the name of the Atlantic and/or the Pacific. Maybe we’ll change them both.” I missed that…

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At least they're human. Biologically human, anyway. 1. Civilization ends at the Hudson River — everything to the east of it is a howling barbarian wilderness. It's dotted with quaint barbarian villages, especially in the self-appointed "greatest city in the world" — like the 1700 block of Broadway, most of the Avenue of the Americas, and virtually the entirety of Madison Avenue.

Binged The Dropout before heading to the theater for You Can See Everything, and it functions like an 8-episode prequel. Sort of. Fielder put together a nice piece of work here. Can’t even fathom what footage was left out.

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My API documentation course is free on the web, but I also sell a PDF version of it through Buy Me a Coffee, which has brought in about $6,700 since I started selling it in December 2021. This post walks through each step of how I turn about 170 web pages into a 975-page PDF with chapter files, including the print configuration, layout, CSS, table of contents, Prince build, chapter splitting, file hosting, and the Buy Me a Coffee setup.

In 1980, Intel introduced the 8087, a chip that made floating-point operations much faster in the IBM PC and other systems. Although the 8087 supports advanced operations such as tangents, square roots, and logarithms, this article focuses on basic arithmetic operations: addition and subtraction. The 8087 provided a spectacular speed improvement over the 8086 processor, speeding up addition by a factor of almost 100, and complicated operations by even more.1 In this article, I examine the…

• 4-star hikes • 4 to 5 mile options • Easy | Gain 140 to 360 feet • Haverhill, MA | Northeast Region . The 1875 castle-like summer home crowns the park. Winnekenni Park is a scenic conservation area in Haverhill that features peaceful woodland trails, beautiful lake views, and a historic stone castle. We took a counterclockwise loop around Kenoza Lake starting from The Basin parking area. This route links the Dudley Porter Trail, the Shore Trail, and the Merrill Trail, using a safe roadside…

Book 37 for my 2026 goal of 36 books for the year – carrying on through the rest of the year! My link to the book is through my bookshop.org affiliate account, which means I may earn a small commission if you buy from there. This book blog post comes soon after the previous one because I had already read the next Dungeon Crawler Carl book but opted to read something else so that my blog isn’t just 100% Dungeon Crawler Carl! This post is about the 7th book in the series, This Inevitable Ruin…

Aidan Walker, among other things Creator-in-Residence at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, writes about his appearance on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher.I don’t understand what exactly he was there to talk about, other than that it had something to do with memes. What saved the piece for me, though, was this paragraph, referring to Maher:You must feel empathy for the Boomer marooned in a world he is not adapted to exist within. It is as if they have been sailing on a boat all…

Aidan Walker, among other things Creator-in-Residence at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, writes about his appearance on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher.I don’t understand what exactly he was there to talk about, other than that it had something to do with memes. What saved the piece for me, though, was this paragraph, referring to Maher:You must feel empathy for the Boomer marooned in a world he is not adapted to exist within. It is as if they have been sailing on a boat all…

“The Unix tradition is especially important to understanding why command lines have lasted. Unix systems developed around the idea that small programs could perform particular jobs and be combined to accomplish more complicated tasks.” Composition is the key reason that command line utilities have a renaissance in the agent era as well. Source: deadparrotbbs.com

Consider trying to open a jar. Perhaps its lid is screwed tight and you are struggling to open it. Friction is working against you, perhaps painfully so, as you might injure your hand in the process. On the other hand, without friction, you would not be able to get a grip at all, failing to open the jar as well. Friction can get in the way, but is essential, too. It poses challenge, but also enables possibility. You may reach for a towel to get a better grip, essentially affording yourself more…

Bulbs- 480 of them, which I orderedfor planting en masse at the music school. Bulbs are relatively inexpensive (unless it's something rare) so you get a lot for your money. This lot came to £94.99 including delivery, that's 20p a bulb on average. I got Narcissus 'Tete-a-Tete', Crocus tommasinianus and Chionodoxa forbesii for spring and various Alliums for early summer: A. caeruleum, A. sphaeroephalon, A. hollandicum and A. moly.

Tim certainly is the master of what you might call the “Domestic thriller”; ordinary people thrown into extraordinary situations. In this case, we jump straight into the mystery when a single mother finds that her student daughter left her university accommodation months ago and has vanished from sight. Through a series of flashbacks w heye learn that the mother – daughter relationship was perhaps more fragile than first thought, and that things buried even deeper in the past can come back to…

Those of you holding out hope for a masterpiece released in October 1971 are out of luck (unless you want to pick up the hardback version of Le Guin's excellent The Lathe of Heaven). Still, read on—maybe one of these four SFnal titles will tickle your fancy… by Fiona Moore Grendel by John Gardner Cover … Continue reading [October 18, 1971] The Master of Miracle (November Galactoscope #2) → The post [October 18, 1971] The Master of Miracle (November Galactoscope #2) appeared first on Galactic…

This front cover design for The Unicorn Hunters is very good, I think it captures the vibe reasonably well. Jacket design by Irene Ng and jacket illustration by Serena Malyon. She’d imagine how it would be, wakeful in bed, and sometimes in quiet moments, walking through Rennes or in long, tedious councils. How warm it was, to be so near someone else, how it burned to touch. His knowing eyes and knowing hands, the calluses of rein and swordhilt. How he’d taken the sacrifice upon himself, a gift…

Reading this week: Dark Voyage: An American Privateer’s War on Britain’s African Slave Trafe by Christian McBurney The central irony of the New River is that of course it is one of the oldest rivers. They explain this is the lovely video in the visitor’s center, though in the video they, for inexplicably humble reasons, like to emphasize it was really the Teays. Then again as I have pointed on this blog before in deference to Heraclitus, how old can any river be if no man can step in the same…