There are already plenty of custom firmware options for Linux handhelds. That is especially true once you get into Anbernic territory, where the choice between stock software, muOS, KNULLI, ROCKNIX, MinUI and everything else can become almost as involved as choosing the handheld itself. Slot, the new custom firmware K-Wall has been building for the Anbernic RG SP, isn't really interested in competing with any of them on the usual terms. It doesn't want to support more systems, expose more…

You get the best geometric views from old fashioned stairs with wells. Fans of Escher and Piranesi, unite.

Sunday Asides #115 It's October. The beginning of Q4. How we feeling? The sequel to A Different World is coming back for a second season! Now I guess I can finish this first season, because I really figured it would be one-and-done. (You know how Netflix does.) The current season of American Horror Story just premiered on FX last week. I was gonna try and catch up this weekend, but how are there already SIX episodes out? And the season ends before the end of the month! They said wrap this…

When I got into machine learning it was all about making the world a better place. I worked for Microsoft and had access to projects and the smart people behind them that all were for the benefit of humans. Batch analysis of MRI scan data to allow doctors to detect cancer growths faster. Analysis of satellite imagery to predict storms and floods and limit their impact. Analysis of soil and satellite imagery to predict the outcome of crops. Smart glasses for the visually impaired, that read out…

If your software has a web interface but no API, your customers will automate the web interface. I know, because I’ve done it. First for Sportlink, the member administration system Dutch football clubs have to use. And today, again, for another system our club runs on. Neither vendor offers an API for the data we need. Both now have a headless browser logging in to their app several times a day, clicking through screens and pulling data out. That’s not a complaint about my code. It’s a question…

This week was yet again uneventful, although it had a long weekend. I spent time vibe coding two projects this week. My goal now is to add some side-projects to my portfolio. On Wednesday and Thursday, I polished / refined the case study content in my portfolio. Over the long weekend, I first resumed work on one of my side projects from back in May. (The Creative Practice inspiration page.) What I did this time is to have ONE inspirational piece show up per day. Again, here is the live version.…

Eastern horizon on the evening of Sunday, October 4 as seen from Adelaide at 20:47 ACDST, 90 minutes after sunset (click to embiggen). Saturn is the brightest object above the eastern horizon. Saturn is at opposition, when it is biggest and brightest as seen from Earth, on the 4th and is visible the entire night. But is best for telescopic observation from around midnight on, and its rings are widening.The inset shows the telescopic view of Saturn at this time. Elsewhere in Australia will see a…

Incredibly frustrating drawing day today. I really struggled to manage anything, it was as though I'd forgotten everything and nothing worked. Ugh.

In this page, I am taking notes of tools and practices that might be relevant to my writing workflow for my XPUB Thesis. These are merely random notes, check Academic writing with Pandoc for the complete workflow I used to write my bachelor’s thesis

It’s a space movie. I like space movies. But this is not the best of its genre IMHO. I can’t complain about how it’s made, really. I definitely enjoyed the acting and most of the visuals and sets.Rocky is very cute and I like how their friendship develops. I found the flashbacks on Earth were a bit too silly. And this could have been shorter. So, this is definitely more on the “light entertainment” side of space movies. I guess I generally prefer my space movies more doomy and gloomy…

A practical post on hardening Laravel projects against destructive AI agent behavior. It walks through the PocketOS incident and shows concrete safeguards like deny rules, credential isolation, and production guardrails. Read more

Hello one, hello all! We're back, and somehow — I'm just getting reports of this now — it's already spooky season? How the hell did that happen, man. Wasn't I just writing about Screaming Mad George's pinball nightmare a few months ago? Did spending the first three weeks of September in Asia where it was like 90 degrees and wetter than the inside of a mouth throw off my seasonal radar? Quite possibly. But here we are barreling towards the end of the year nonetheless.I've fallen woefully behind…

Old concrete culverts stacked and slowly decaying on the outskirts of McKinney, Texas. The post All Stacked Up appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

8703/21622The semi-final of The Great Celebrity Pottery Throwdown tonight  and Twitch of Fun/Craven Newsround fans will enjoy this one as it features Richard Ison's Tiny Dick puppet and me building some garden gnomes based on Ally and me. Spoilers incoming so watch the show first.My main memory of this show is being frustrated and for the first time the show chose to highlight a tiny amount of that. Layton even calls me a misery guts, which made me laugh, but would be a lot more fair…

In the biggest scandal in football history, an independent commission has found Man City guilty of breaking Premier League financial rules. With the verdict out, the battle of the narratives has commenced. | Read full post >>

In the biggest scandal in football history, an independent commission has found Man City guilty of breaking Premier League financial rules. With the verdict out, the battle of the narratives has commenced. | Read full post >>

These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 TextSynth Server ts_server is a web server proposing a REST API to large language models. They can be used for example for text completion, question answering, classification, chat, translation, image generation, audio transcription, speech synthesis, … (from the creator of ffmpeg) api llm 🔖 The Spectacle of AI taking over the world A group of French scientists sees OpenAI unjustly claiming it has solved the mathematical…

“AI” allows you to get to a bad idea faster. I had until recently completely forgotten about this song from The Electric Company, which I can remember my little brother singing around the house. The links above the video were provided by Shiv Ramdas, Jesse Walker, Tracy Quan, Asawin Suebsaeng, Glenn Kessler, and IncarcerNation, in that order. Much more of this, please. Did life on Earth begin twice? Why does Venus have no moon? No, your reason is not an exception. Another great moment in…

No, the phone for the phonebox isn't quite finished yet - don't mention bubbles unexpectedly appearing overnight in previously near-perfect...

Today’s TDC says 4th October is World Animal Day. Make some art to celebrate your favourite animal I decided to celebrate the puffin, so I headed over to Flickr and searched my images there. Here’s a picture I took in 2018 when we took a boat from Mull to Lunga. Puffin flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA 2.0) license

📍 National Gallery Incredible. My art history class in college coming to life. Location: London, Greater London, United KingdomComment by email

Is there a way of me trying to tell you that I’m currently doing a season of Raquel Welch films, without sounding like a dirty bastard? Maybe I could say that I highly recommend her 1967 film Fathom, a Bond pastiche which she is fantastic in, and which avoids every single Mary-Goodnight-shaped mistake you might worry they would fall into. My feminist credentials duly restored, I also recently watched the double-length Mork & Mindy episode “Mork vs. the Necrotons”, broadcast by ABC on the 18th…

I am a heavy user of Find a Grave, both to locate ancestors/in-laws and to memorialize them.Above, what Find a Grave says about itself and its goal, a "virtual cemetery experience." The site has more than 265 million memorials.Over the years, I've added 600 memorial pages and photographed 1,200 graves. Not a very big number, but how many memorials isn't why I participate.Usually I photograph dozens of nearby stones when I'm at a cemetery visiting an ancestor's grave. Very few of those extra…

Content notice and disclaimer: This post is about AI. When I say AI, I mean the GenAI/LLM hype which has been going on since late 2022 in the broader public. In this post, I will not further mention all the bad things we all know about AI1. The reason is not that I don't think it's important. The reason is that I think that we all know about this at this point. Some decide to ignore it. I am not ignoring it and I am deeply concerned about it. It's important, but not the subject matter of this…

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Lochwinnoch flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Green-breasted mango Rivoli's hummingbird Amethyst-throated mountain-gem Blue-throated hummingbird Garnet-throated hummingbird Mexican sheartail with pollen on his head Bumblebee hummingbird Lucifer hummingbird Ruby-throated hummingbird Calliope hummingbird Rufous hummingbird Broad-tailed hummingbird Canivet's emerald White-eared hummingbird Wedge-tailed sabrewing Violet sabrewing Azure-crowned hummingbird Berylline hummingbird Buff-bellied hummingbird White-bellied emerald 20 hummingbirds on…

Ten to fifteen years ago, social media reigned supreme on the internet and was the place to be. For better or worse, those days are long gone. Social media has become increasingly toxic. Elon Musk has dropped his mask and revealed himself to be the fascist piece of shit he has always been (pardon my French), and he bought Twitter to spread his nasty, destructive agenda. Mark Zuckerberg can no longer hide his sociopathic creepiness, and he'll stop at nothing to make his products addictive,…

What it says on the tin. Almost 4 years after Announcing Franz, I've decided to open source it under the 3-clause BSD license and to stop selling commercial licenses. The code is available on GitHub and free builds of the latest version are now available on its website.Why now?Sales tapered off and I wanted to have one less thing on my mind.Commercial PostmortemOver its commercial lifetime, Franz made approximately $5.5k in license sales, and I've given out on the order of 10-15 free licenses…

The #Fediverse exists because the corporate #dotcons are not enough, we don’t wont more of turning our social lives into products, our relationships into #closeddata, and our communities into audiences to be managed. We wont a different way to communicate, organize and build power together. But the #Fediverse is not simply a kinder version of corporate social media, its has a real promise based on the history of the #openweb: people and communities building their own spaces, connecting through…