I am just happy she does her homework – the place varies from day to day.

A sub-series within Big Tech's War on Users Five days. Yes, another five days. At this point I'm starting to think it's a unit of measurement over there. This time, five days is how long it took to get from too dangerous to go public to you're going to have to accept some bad things. Last Tuesday at DevDay, Sam Altman told reporters OpenAI wasn't going to rush toward an IPO while capabilities were moving this fast. I covered that week in The Ill-Advised Moment. Safety was the reason. Safety was…

Today a group of us launched Founded Colorado. Eleni Angelides is the Executive Director. She spent nearly eight years in Governor Polis’s office, most recently as Legislative Director, where she ran the Governor’s agenda at the Capitol. She worked on housing, land use, tax policy, RTD reform, and the allocation of more than a billion dollars in COVID recovery funds. Founded Colorado is an advocate for Colorado’s innovative companies - the ones “founded here, growing here, and working with…

So I believe this was the very first package to arrive after we moved to our new digs! We’re finally all settled in, unpacked, and I’m back to reviewing. We’re closing in on 100 days in our new place! What more awesome than to review some great new varieties from A-Sha? Let’s take a look at all of these neat varieties. A-Sha Sends New Zimm’s & Do Kim Premium Noodle Varieties The post A-Sha Sends New Zimm’s & Do Kim Premium Noodle Varieties appeared first on THE RAMEN RATER.

This is a DLC add-on for Final Fantasy VII Remake. I got a platinum trophy for that game a few years ago, but never got around to playing this. I enjoyed that game a lot, I particularly liked how well they brought the characters to life in a modern game. All of the spin-off media for Final Fantasy VII until then seemed to completely get them wrong. Tifa isn’t a bad-ass, she’s the sensitive one. Aerith was a sarcastic wind-up merchant, not some hippy earth mother. Cloud wasn’t a mopey sullen…

This is a DLC add-on for Final Fantasy VII Remake. I got a platinum trophy for that game a few years ago, but never got around to playing this. I enjoyed that game a lot, I particularly liked how well they brought the characters to life in a modern game. All of the spin-off media for Final Fantasy VII until then seemed to completely get them wrong. Tifa isn’t a bad-ass, she’s the sensitive one. Aerith was a sarcastic wind-up merchant, not some hippy earth mother. Cloud wasn’t a mopey sullen…

Once again, James has sent another box. To be honest, he sent this awhile back and I realized I’d not posted the unboxing yet – so you’ll see these reviews soon! With that, a big thanks and a let’s have a look inside! James From Lakeside Sends A Slew Of Instant Noodle Varieties The post James From Lakeside Sends A Slew Of Instant Noodle Varieties appeared first on THE RAMEN RATER.

Tangentially related to the previous post. Alan Kohler. writing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC): Governments are approaching the task of regulating AI as if they are dealing with a powerful new tool, with the humans who make it held accountable for the outcomes. But regulating a new life form might require a very different approach. Kohler suggests AI should be referred to as “other intelligence” — in preference to a certain “super intelligence” idea — and be considered a life…

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Time for another round-up of RPG supplements I’ve been reading lately. This time, it’s a bunch of Chaosium supplements for various Basic Roleplaying-powered RPGs. There’s an extra linking factor here – all of the books relate, to one extent or another, to animal people. Cute! Let’s start by setting course for Iceland and the… Age of Vikings Companion (Age of Vikings) This is exactly what the cover implies it is: a companion volume to Age of Vikings, in the tradition of the Companion books that…

The Tiny Awards 2026 results are in, a contest honoring the most creative website launched during the year. The winner was a familiar face here at Manual: the little multiplayer exploration game Cursor Camp, which I recommended back in May.

Still life of some sort: Ladies and gentlemen, I give you a fine selection of wonky pears. Did I grow them, did I buy them? No I did not. But I can confirm that they came from a reasonably local, not too far away source. Are they at all edible? Absolutely not. Sorry about the gratuitous use of a banned "A" word there but I suffer from a limited vocabulary. Weak thoughts and mumbled prayers are required.

[This is a guest post by Annalisa Buffa. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] About us and the position The Chair of Numerical Modelling and Simulation at EPFL is dedicated to the design and analysis of numerical algorithms for partial differential equations. Our research is oriented towards the development of novel and innovative numerical techniques aiming at improving the integration between numerical simulations and geometric…

Look, if you had one shot or one opportunity / To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment / Would you capture it or just let it slip?

2026-10-05: Added some new notes relating to system administration

This week saw the evenings suddenly seem much shorter! It is a sure sign that the end of the year is fast approaching. Reading I finished 'Around the World in 80 Games' which I mentioned previously. It was a fantastic run through the history of games of all kinds. It was interesting to learn about the origins of Chess, Go and more. I've now gone back to the Disc, and I'm reading Carpe Jugulum. My reading streak is now sitting at 65 days. Around the World in 80 Games by Marcus du Sautoy Carpe…

This post was last edited 1 minute ago. I begin writing this as a set of instructions addressed to one of my kids who might use the Tuta/Nextcloud integration, hence the use of second person. I just heard the news that Tuta Mail and Nextcloud have started working together! Let me explain how you can set this up and why it might be worth your while. PreambleYou've been using Tuta Mail for several years now, and you also have accounts on our family Nextcloud server, where you can store things…

I didn’t really feel like blogging yesterday, so I didn’t. Not much caught my eye in the feeds and I didn’t do much of note (although I did briefly pop out on the scooter) so when it came to the end of the day and my text document was empty I figured, fuck it. What I had been doing was building a new home for the 72 Pete blog which I want to move off Ghost before the next billing cycle. I like Ghost but I really can’t justify the cost so I’m switching to Hugo and hosting it on the cheap. Hugo…

Researchers at Google recently reported on how AI usage has been impacting developer experience. We summarize findings from analyzing developers’ responses to a prompt regarding how AI-powered tools have impacted their recent development workflow. We identify four tensions that developers must balance in their use of AI and suggest strategies practitioners can use to improve developer experience with AI. Developer Productivity for Humans: Navigating the Tensions of AI in the Software…

Excellent holiday reading. The post Reading Roundup: September 2026 appeared first on The Wallflower Digest.

January 2026 February 2026 March 2026 April 2026 May 2026 June 2026 July 2026 August 2026 People allegedly liked my Cohost compilation posts at the time and I think it's good to share sometimes. Though since this isn't Cohost anymore, I'm slow at looking at my RSS feed (these ain't even all from my RSS feed), and I hate looking at bsky, there's probably just going to be way fewer/smaller posts on these. Oh well. Please comment with anything else you think was good, I am going to naturally miss…

In i barely share good things online, Skuka admits: looking at my blog, you could think i am in general a very unhappy person who cares about ai way too much, which i get. i do not really share any good moments that i experience online - i think it's because it would almost hurt if i got no feedback, or if someone wasn't happy for me. when i rant into the void and sometimes nice people respond to it, that feels fun. if i share an achievement or embrace a sweet moment publicly, silence in a…

LanguageTool, at least the paid version has been good to me like I stated yesterday. Harper seems great too but there are little things about it that it was missing. I proofread my stuff and all. I have a habit of mistyping to as too and vice versa. Likely my vision is a huge factor in it but when I am proofreading I tend to miss that. It has always been a struggle for me to see my own errors unless I am looking years later when it’s now hanging fresh in my mind. There are a few things like…

Merriam-Webster: An organism living in, on, or with another organism in order to obtain nutrients, grow, or multiply often in a state that directly or indirectly harms the host. That's it, right? The whole thing, their entire business model. Scrape the whole of the internet, destroy books, siphon everything they can from whoever they can without compensation, and call it fair use. Train models on said stolen data. Sell metered access to the models. Repeat until you've killed the host. Hope you…

Today I only have a short tip. Sometimes you may have an important Emacs buffer you don’t want to kill accidentally. (For example, it might be an Eshell buffer with a long-running process, or a scratch buffer not associated with any file where you have some notes – although that is obviously asking for trouble.)

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[This is a guest post by Jeremy Avigad. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] “Mathematics underwent, in the nineteenth century, a transformation so profound that it is not too much to call it a second birth of the subject—its first birth having occurred among the ancient Greeks…” Howard Stein, in “Logos, Logic, and Logistiké: Some Philosophical Remarks on Nineteenth-Century Transformation of Mathematics” “The report of my death was an…

Remember the good old days of the sixth generation of consoles? The Dreamcast, GameCube, Xbox, and PS2? Those were the days. The glory days of couch co-op, insane peripherals, out-of-the-box gameplay, and the sweet, sweet save file screens. Remember those? Remember memory cards? Back in those days (unless you had an Xbox) you had to have a separate accessory in order to save your game. If you wanted to delete a save file, copy a save file, or whatever other excuse you had for it, you'd go the…

There is a sweet little horror story that is only two sentences long: “The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door…” Two sentences and an ellipsis of three dots. The horror, of course, isn’t in the two sentences at all; it’s in the ellipsis, the implication: what knocked at the door? Faced with the unknown, the human mind supplies something vaguely horrible. But it wasn’t horrible, really. The last man on Earth – or in the universe, for that matter – sat alone in a…