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A researcher in India has asked a journal to amend a retraction “for major errors in data” because, he says, the data weren’t wrong – they were stolen. The October 2023 paper, “Prediction of Weaning …

Californios (singular Californio) are Hispanic Californians, especially those descended from Spanish settlers of the 17th through 19th centuries before California was annexed by the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Californios Arguello, Noe, Vallejo, Martinez, Peralta; if you live …

So you’ve decided to leave London. You’re leaving because the millionaires are being priced out by billionaires. You’re leaving because every high street is boxy, bland, and identical. You’re leaving because the Tories are in …

Turning one of my monitors vertical appeared to exacerbate an issue with the power button to the point where it stopped working. I did my first soldering job in years and was able to get …

This is pretty late, but really, no hurry. This would probably feel like a repeat of my 2023 review.January 😔 Got disappointed by recent events. 📢 Made a statement that it’s impossible for an app …

I started writing a post called "how to write AI apps" but it was over-reach so I scaled it back to this. Who am I to tell you how to write anything? But here's what …

Security questions like "what is your mother's maiden name?" are so fucking bad. Here's what I do to make them slightly more secure. Whenever I get forced to add a "security" question to an online …

Back in 2020, while sorting out some old papers, I found an article in a gardening magazine from 2010, listing the three major changes we should expect in our gardens for the following decade or …

We do get a fair amount of Illustrator Only submissions. Which is fine -- not every illustrator is also a writer. I think if it is your GOAL to be an author-illustrator, then it would …

Many things have been said about the Andromeda Galaxy, arguably the most majestic galaxy that amateur astronomers can image due to it's sheer size in the sky—many times larger than the Moon appears to us, …

The new Kino app recording ProRes Log with a custom preview LUT. Yes we’re still talking about shooting video on iPhones. But I also want to talk about digital cinema shooting in general, in a …

I found out about Micro.blog platform thanks to Jeff Triplett a few months ago and I even decided to give it a try, but to be honest, having already a main blog, made with Hugo, …

The following piece was written months ago, right after the “We Are Developers World Conference” took place in Berlin. So far I have not been reached out to for providing feedback to the conference, and …

TikTok may or may not be banned in the USA within the next 24 hours or so. Here's a pattern you can use to download all of the videos from a specific account. Using yt-dlp …

Voy a probar una cosa durante un tiempo: inspirado por las open office hours de Zach Lieberman, los cafés virtuales de Carly Ayres, y el miedo a la muerte, he decidido abrir mi calendario para …