Brian Krebs has continued to impress me in the wake of Trump v2. He's active on Mastodon and LinkedIn, where he reports timely infosec news and provides an important perspective on
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I'm working on a series of posts, behind the scenes here, about icons in photography. There are a few photographers who have so completely changed my approach to making photographs that
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Zack Freedman, hacker and prototyper extraordinaire, came up with the Gridfinity system a few years ago. Here's the launch video. It's pretty simple: a modular, grid-based system of base
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NPR has a good explainer on the SAVE Act.
Backers of the SAVE Act say requiring voters to show citizenship documents is necessary to protect election integrity — though they have yet to provide
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It is time for our cockroach era, to "be unkillable. Like the noble trash lobster." I've been sitting on this article by Geraldine DeRuiter for an least a month,
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Everything is political
A lot of what I write here (and on Mastodon, and on Bluesky) is about politics. So much so that you might think my day job has something to do
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Obsidian introduced the web clipper recently, adding to their suite of features. With plugins, you can do almost anything in Obsidian now! Want to publish what you write? Easy. Sync with git? Done.
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Spoiler alert: that's not a rhetorical question, and I don't have an answer.
I work in the research org at my job, which means we need to understand, if
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Over Thanksgiving/National Day of Mourning, I upgraded my Prusa Mk4 to the Mk4S. When I went to initiate the self-test, it failed. I hadn't run the test in a while
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From the official Substack Substack:
Mark Zuckerberg recently announced favorable changes in policy for Meta that should result in freer expression on its platforms. His stated reasons were a change in public sentiment
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I finally got on the Severance train with my girlfriend this week. We watched the whole 1st season very quickly, and are taking a break to savor before we move on to season
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Last Monday I deleted my Instagram account after more than a decade. I feel lighter, happier, and safer. It's like one long exhale.
It's a shame, really. I gained
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In my day job, I'm a data engineer at a startup. My goal for this coming year is to design and implement a unified data platform. I'm fleshing out
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Like Aftermath, Greg Pak advocates for having a web presence not owned by an oligarch:
Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve seen Meta push anti-LGBQT “moderation” policies and TikTok shut down
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He's a kleptocratic, incompetent, venal, juvenile, puerile, self-serving asshole. And a fascist to boot. Fuck that guy and the opportunists and enablers hoping to profit off the suffering he will create.
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I'm looking forward to reading this year. I've been a big reader ever since I first got my little brain around the idea (which took a little while) but
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Ben Werdmuller, on making America more like Europe:
If I could change one thing it would actually be car culture. So much is related to that: what psychologically makes it more attractive to
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When I wanted to start blogging again, I decided to also self-host. I don't fully self-host (at my home) everything—this blog, for instance, is on PikaPods. In general, if I
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Adding to the cool stuff in Tailscale, I found out Tailscale supports go/ links.
GitHub - tailscale/golink: A private shortlink service for tailnetsA private shortlink service for tailnets. Contribute to tailscale/golink
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Ben Werdmuller hits the nail on the head about why neutrality isn't enough:
As builders, users, and advocates of open systems, we must demand transparency, accountability, and ethical commitments from all
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Jasper visited Detroit for a moped rally, and we went to Belle Isle on a rainy day to explore. I found out my focus needed adjustment that day, when I realized I couldn&
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George has some handy RSS feeds to supercharge your feed reader. For instance:
Mastodon Hashtags
https://mastodon.social/tags/movies.rss (Replace movies with the hashtag you want to follow).
There’s a
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Essential tools to make the web more bearable: Lukas Mayer has some tips to make the modern web easier to use and less likely to steal your data. I heartily endorse:
* Using an
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Setup
I've been meaning to set up a better option for remotely accessing my home network than opening up and forwarding ports. I tried out Cloudflare Zero Trust Network Access last
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Creator economy platform costsA pricing calculator for creator economy platforms.Buttondown
I don't use Ghost as a way to supplement my income (I've disabled every membership feature), but I&
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In an effort to blog more, I tried writing a post on my phone last week. Unfortunately, I encountered a few issues. I don't know whether the root of the problem
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Chris Wiegman writes about carving out a place to be yourself on the Internet.
The more human a blog is, the more I’m drawn to it. I don’t want to see
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I finally bought a Pentax 67 after years of hearing the hype. That 105/2.4 really is something special, and it renders Portra 800 beautifully.
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Curtis McHale is thinking about re-reading, something I've been doing a lot of this year. I hate having rules for my relaxation activities, so I am not exclusively re-reading, but I
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Unfortunately, this is what all of the internet is right now: social media, owned by large corporations that make changes to them to limit or suppress your speech, in order to make themselves
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