TL;DR I wanted an always-on screen showing a camera feed. Something that boots straight into the stream with no prompts, survives Wi-Fi drops and camera hiccups, and can be maintained remotely. A used Surface Go 3 running Omarchy turned out to be a great fit, with only a few setup steps. Background I have my home kitted out with UniFi PoE cameras. Inspired by Casey Neistat’s studio door camera, I made a similar setup: a camera pointed outside with a screen mounted on a wall inside. In practice,…

George Hammond and Stephen Morris, reporting for the Financial Times: OpenAI copied millions of copyrighted articles in an effort to build technology potentially worth “gazillions”, despite recognising the “existential threat” it posed to publishers, according to a new filing in a lawsuit brought by The New York Times… But lawyers for the newspaper claim the “defendants repeatedly copied millions of… copyrighted articles in their entirety without permission to produce substitutive commercial AI…

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Play any rpg campaign long enough and you’ll reach a point where you’re playing more your table than whatever game you’ve allegedly sat down to play. Your particular relationship to the rules, your particular social dynamics, your preferences and histories and fiction become the dominant force at the table more than however the fuck downtime works or whatever. When you sit down to start playing, this point is at the horizon. Some people other than me will argue this is true the minute you start…

Regular readers may recall that I put a visit to Tulainyo Lake on my bucket list a few years ago. Last week I did it. Impossibly remote, otherworldly beauty, and an enduring mystery. Just how deep was this lake? Wikipedia claims not to know. Measuring it is non-trivial. A worthy challenge. The skinny: This relatively small alpine lake is about 117 m deep! That makes it the 25th deepest natural lake in North America, and by far the deepest lake on Earth for its size. Enjoy our interactive report…

One thing our recent holiday brought home is that we’re definitely over the urge to visit every brewery or important pub in any given city. In the early days of this blog (it turns 20 next year) we very much had a ticking mentality. This was especially true of Jess who, as you might know, plans and organises most of our expeditions. With a bit of effort, it was usually possible to track down the beers from every brewery in a given city. Sure, we might have to dash from place to place, and drink…

Which song would you use to introduce yourself to someone new? Has to be rock music based but with a twist. Well, that makes it easy then. “Renegades of Funk” by Rage Against the Machine Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Listen to Gordon McLean's Apple Music playlist View original post on Crucial Tracks Thanks for reading and keeping RSS alive. Visit my site for more.

Source Bob Kuhn (1920 – 2007)In His Prime (1991)acrylic on board14.5 × 18.5 inches21 × 25 × 1.5 inches (framed)signed lower left.The artist wrote, “The moose, with all his bizarre conformation, has a variegated and lustrous coat. You must first lay in the local color, which in art talk is the actual color without the influence of strong light, direct or reflected. Then you superimpose a tone that suggests the shine that ideally plays over the animal, taking shapes that define the form as well…

Wenn es draußen richtig kalt wird, zieht es mich in die Wärme. Mein Lieblingsort dafür ist eine klassische finnische Sauna mit Löyly, dem finnischen Aufguss. Zwei oder drei Saunagänge später bin ich nicht nur äußerlich warm, sondern meistens auch deutlich entspannter. Sauna habe ich in Finnland in sehr unterschiedlichen Varianten kennengelernt: privat im Hotelzimmer, in öffentlichen Saunen in der Saunahauptstadt Tampere und in einer traditionellen Rauchsauna in der Region Häme. Dabei habe ich…

COMICHawkgirl Vol. 1 No. 50Cover Date: May 2006Release Date: March 22, 2006Script: Walter SimonsonPencils/Inks: Howard ChaykinColors: Michelle MadsenLetters: Rob LeighEditing: Mike Carlin, Tom Palmer Jr.Cover: Howard ChaykinBIRD'S-EYE VIEW Hawkman Vol. 4 ends at No. 49, which is the end of the Rann-Thanagar War and the beginning of the Infinite Crisis. The series continues at No. 50 as a Hawkgirl series. At the end of the Infinite Crisis, Hawkman (Carter Hall II) decides to stay behind and help…

I have sinusitis and a bit of wheeziness. Before my cacao in matcha latte oat milk I tilt myself forward and backward and then roll from the waist to dislodge phlegm. As a toddler, when I was recovering from the fatal strain of croup, Doctor Halfpenny...I don’t know what he would be called these days factoring in inflation: Doctor Twenty-Six Pounds Seventy-five, maybe? Anyway, to shift phlegm he recommended Eirwen and Terry play the Fishy in the Water game.* One or other of them would sit me…

I have tried diagramming on a couple posts but never had a good workflow because I didn’t want Mermaid.js with a massive payload, but maybe D2 is a contender!? I watched this excellent video: Beautiful diagrams in Emacs by Torstein Krause Johansen and it got me interested in reexamining an easy way to integrate diagramming that is both declarative and tangled out, my Mermaid attempt wasn’t that. Yak shaves I’ve started this blog post as a way to try it out directly in my workflow, so this is…

A typhoon is approaching, but for now I have the kitchen window open with the combined fragrance of ginger lily -: a cold warm spice – its chastity ambiguously lucent – and the fresh lilting apricot of the new osmanthus – which, unusually, bloomed two weeks early on d’s birthday last Wednesday. I thought I would share some just taken photographs — wish I could transmit the smell as well — before it all gets blown away.

On Sundays I like to share with you, my sweet readers, my Meals of the Week. That is everything delicious I have enjoyed as my main meals over the past seven days, plus any pertaining recipes and suggestions for delicious sides.I do normally eat at my sister's on Sundays for Sunday Dinner with the family every second Sunday and most Wednesday nights I go out to eat at a local diner with my father and his friend Hazel. I always provide "like" recipes as a substitution for those days. My daughter…

When I saw this book online a few months ago its premise piqued my curiosity, as I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from it in terms of style and structure. So, when it was published earlier this month, I decided to give it a go.

When I tell people that I „never do anything for others“, they tend to be rather confused. They would remind me of my numerous social activities and mention some particular events where I helped friends. And that, if what I say was really true, I would be a complete asshole - which I do not seem to be [1]. But I'm not lying: all these things I really never do for others. The reason is, that I actually enjoy doing these things. I therefore do them for myself. And I’m more and more convinced that…

Open House weekend two started with this motley quartet. Open House: Trent Park: House of Secrets (Cockfosters) The Secret One Here's London's newest museum, opened just three months ago in a former stately home amid parkland beyond Cockfosters. Trent Park has been a socialite's retreat, a wartime intelligence centre and a university campus, the new museum showcasing only the first two of these. I last went on a tour of the house in 2012 just before Middlesex University sold up and moved out,…

Alice and Bob are editing the same note. Both are offline, on a train or on a plane. Alice makes a word bold, Bob fixes a typo three words further along. Later the devices sync. The question that research and frameworks have been wrestling with for fifty years: what now?Merge the two HTML strings naively and you end up with torn markup and lost text. The interesting question is not whether this can be solved, but at which level you break the text apart. That is exactly where the approaches…

You just can't know how much we dislike this. But the weekday posts (not to mention teaching duties) have to take precedence. And the only hope, on both fronts, is another night of rest. Sorry. Click here for full story

We have the whole Oxide team coming to Emeryville this week for our annual OxCon meetup. For a remote company, an in-person meeting is uniquely energizing, and in preparation for that, we made some t-shirts featuring Oxide logos that are an homage to past computer companies. Thanks to our designer extraordinaire, Ben Leonard, all of these homage shirts are amazing — but one of them was simply too hot to leave as a surprise: Unsurprisingly, this shirt has stirred up a bunch of nostalgia for Sun.…

I’m reading another book by C.E. Montague, a collection of travel essays, The Right Place: A Book of Pleasures (Chatto & Windus, 1924). Montague gets a little rhapsodic on occasion and requires a periodic calming down, but the man survived the Great War and would die in 1928 at age sixty-one so I’m happy to make allowances. Montague begins his “Overture” by entering through the back door: “You may wonder how it will feel, to find you are old, and able to travel no more. Perhaps to sit out, with…

My Thinkpad arrived yesterday. :jazz-hands: I decided to go with Fedora i3 spin for my distro and desktop environment. I was trying to balance nerdiness and usability. Arch was calling me, and I may go there next. But I don’t know how much hacking time I’ll end up having on this thing, so I leaned toward a just-works approach, scoring my nerd points with i3 rather than Arch and rolling updates. And boy do I love reuniting with i3. I love its speed and power. I also appreciate how different it…

For our final TINGS selection, we’ll start with little and large…. A neat little tram layout. And the diminutive French Verneuil-les-Vignes…. In contrast, the Northumbrian NGS group’s Long Hirston, a very large N-mod layout. East Anstey Station on the North Devon line. St Mawes Jetty. Two Locks…. Beechwood…. Irgendwohn Hauptbahnhof (what a mouthful) – a T-track layout. There were some other layouts, but none that caught my eye. A very good TINGS this year and it was fun exhibiting – but rather…

This is from The Intersection column that appears every other Monday in Mint. Dear top, middle and junior manager, I am writing this in response to the questions you have been asking me after hearing my talks on geoeconomics and economic statecraft. I know that you are anxious about your career path and the future of your company, and that neither business school nor recent working experience has prepared you for what your job has become. Economic statecraft is the use of economic measures to…

This is a recording of our AI Book Club discussion of I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything by Joanna Stern, held September 20, 2026. The group gave the book its lowest ratings yet, and much of the discussion is about why: so many of the experiences come across as superficial stunts with AI, rather than true engagement. In our discussion, some found the medical chapter to be the book's strongest section. Other topics: the question of whether you should fix a system before…

This entry coming in on a Monday because Sunday was busy. My Week Google Fit says I walked 74,807 steps from last Sunday to yesterday, another 70k week! A lot of this week's walking were around either amall or a hospital. Another busy week for me, mostly because of friend meetups and also some regular doctor consults followed by a bunch of labs done. The labs are to check on some minor symptom that has been an unresolved mystery for more than a year now; hopefully it's nothing serious. Recently…

Bump into Ad. He has long hair these days and mutton chops. He looks beautiful. He's still juggling with cigar boxes but his teaching of Pilates hasn't gone well so far. He felt he wasn't ready even to cover classes but was then disappointed to have only two pupils in them. When he tried Pay What You Can nobody at all came. He's still in the housing cooperative, which he really shouldn't be - paying very little for a four bedroom place on his own. His children moved out more than a decade ago.…

I switch on the lamp in the sitting room. It doesn't work. When I finally palm aside the two cushions, blankets and a plump black silk bag, I find the lamp's lead has gone to ground with four or more dust-buried refugees from the Innovations Catalogue. I leave it be. There are two large and near to death rubber plants on the small kitchen window sill. Squeezed beside them is a box of broken plant pots - one containing a dried up bulb - shells, a brass tankard, a mug with its broken off handle…

Flixy (disregarding my advice at the time) told Trombone Tracey not to pay her last month's rent, she would use the deposit for it. As an avid watcher of Judge Judy and The People's Court I warned her not to. The room as I find it is a collection of non-compensated dilapidations. Ruined paintwork, scuff marks, gouges, nails, blue-tac, oily/sticky patches, water damage, sun warping - and is filthy. But Flixy being Flixy insists, 'I've made you up a lovely bed, with my nice cushions.'Orange…

Up at five to clean. My upper knuckle wound still weeps. Apple peeler stigmata. #diary #memoir #lgbtqia #gay #funny #humour #brighton