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From a Medieval Latrine in Germany, Archaeologists Extracted a Pristine Leather Notebook That Preserved Latin Cursive for CenturiesThe writing in the booklet…

Starting this week I've left my phone disconnected from the car for CarPlay. I still have a bluetooth connection incase someone calls me, but otherwise my car…

I’ve come across a lot of anti-AI posts on BearBlog. Many of them do make some fair points, but there are also those that just seem to be hopping on a…

I think we all know that constant access to the internet and social media on our smart devices is rotting our brain cells. It's easy to pick up your hand-sized…

Recently, I've been blowing bubbles at work while on break. I sit in this sweet little park outside my office building, and blow bubbles to de-stress. Of…

My wife told me a story recently that I couldn’t get out of my head. Her close friend works as a waitress at a restaurant. Hard worker, nice person. One…

Some posts you may have missed

Yesterday I attended a night event at my local park about moths lead by a quirky old lady who wore a butterfly blouse and a butterfly necklace and a butterfly…

It entirely surprised me to see that my last post, a little tongue-in-cheek thing explaining vibe blogging, https://skryblans.com/vibe-blogging/ appeared on…

The bar for not engaging with media that directly supports genocide is in hell, apparently (photos unrelated)

I sometimes hear people my age (I'm 55) talk about tech and the younger generation. Not just the usual conversations about social media and doomscrolling…

Christopher Columbus didn’t navigate by the North Star. At least, not directly. Columbus is a controversial figure from a modern perspective, and he undeniably…

The morning sun had barely begun to burn the dew from the lavender when the visitor arrived. He was a fuzzy, golden-belted bumblebee. From my vantage point at…

Buy from EU, but pay attention to what you buy.

I've decided to cancel my monthly donation to the Mediawiki foundation for now

After nearly twenty years under CBS ownership, Last.fm is once again independent: Your account, your listening history, and your data remain exactly where they…

I recently stumbled upon a nice blog post titled Childhood Computing. It made me think about my own childhood computing experience. I am much older than the…

I've delisted the podcasts I'm involved with from Spotify.

Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. Let's start with Wikipedia, because the irony is almost too perfect to pass up. In mid-May, the Wikimedia…

Co-authored-by: ur mom I don't get why people just gleefully add these ads for companies to their open-source projects that do not pay them a penny (but…

Right around the time of Trump's re-election, I discovered European Alternatives, a page dedicated to—well—European software alternatives. It was the first…

Finger from 1971, Gopher from 1991, and Gemini from 2019. These protocols offer decentralized, terminal-based alternatives to the modern web. The small web's…

A beginner-friendly guide to building your own homelab on inexpensive hardware. Covers finding old computers, setting up Linux, SSH, Docker, and self-hosting…

So I have a few sites with SiteGround. They’re largely sites that don’t get a huge amount of traffic (with the exception of All Rumble Stats, which gets 20k a…

Folks have been asking me questions about my writerdeck setup. Here, I attempt to answer them.