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OK, I built a new PC last year, and it’s been generally awesome. Except for one little thing. I put a NZXT Kraken Z53 in it. The Z53 is a nifty dual-fan all-in-one water cooler, complete with a little screen that shows the temperature of my cooling loop (or a GIF of my choice, whatever). It comes in a variety of sizes and is available in both white and black, …

Few people I know still have an RSS reader, ever since Google did us all dirty and essentially killed the entire idea of RSS; as such, I keep an oldschool bookmark list of comics that I open daily. Things that don’t update on particular days, or perhaps are on hiatus, they get opened up along with the more active sites; the cost of doing so is negligible. And sometimes, that …

Image credit: NASA.The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) had its origins in talks aimed at developing a common U.S./Soviet docking system for space rescue. The concept of a common docking system was first put forward in 1970; it was assumed at that time, however, that the docking system would be developed for future spacecraft, such as the U.S. Space Station/Space Shuttle, not the U.S. Apollo

Hi! Welcome to a kinda-sorta complete overview of everything Kitchen Sink published. I started this project in late 2021, and it took me a year and a half to complete. Compared with some of my other comics reading projects (see sidebar to the right) I kinda-sorta failed: The schtick with these projects is to read everything a publisher has er published, and then natter on about each series a bit. …

Just like week 108, I started writing this post late-march, but got so busy that it wasn’t finished and published until May. On March 21, Morten Just posted a tweet that set my brain on fire: Apparently, he had created a Slack bot with different personas based on which slack channel he uses, e.g. #ai-copywriter for copy writing, #ai-web-developer, #ai-lawyer, etc. I thought the idea of having an AI team …

We just wrapped up our 13th conference. This was our first three-day event. Up until this one, all past FLOCK events basically fit into a single day. Each event has its own theme, curated for small business entrepreneurs, writers, photographers, and content creators. The theme for this event, Show Me the Money, revolved around ways for creators to diversify and expand their revenue streams. It was held at Disney World …

We are now living in the age of OpenAI narrative, and a lot of problems are to be aligned to fit it. What are going to be side-effects of its implementation is going to be very interesting.

Traditionally, biltong was dried by hanging it in a cool and dry space with good ventilation, but nowadays, modern technology has introduced more efficient ways of drying biltong. One of these methods is using a food dehydrator or a biltong box. What is a Food Dehydrator? Like most of us, I wasn’t familiar with many cooking appliances. A food dehydrator is an electrical appliance that removes moisture from food items, …

What is currently known as the Broadway Theatre is arguably one of Lewisham’s finest 20th century buildings both inside and out. It dates from the early 1930s and used to be next to a gothic 1870s Town Hall – pictured together below. When the Town Hall was first built there appear to have been lawns backing onto what was then called Springfield Park Crescent (now called Catford Broadway) . The …

Hey. Thanks for reading this. And, more so, thanks for reading and commenting on everything else before this on TV-VCR. But, I’m sorry to say, this is all there will be to read. This is it. I hoped that by doing a unique thing, and keeping it going mostly on my own, with slight, curated staff, I could prolong the death of the dying entertainment blog industry. Indeed, I did. …

Signalling allows for applications to be decoupled by allowing designated receivers to be informed when an action has taken place (the signal). Flask and Quart both utilise the excellent Blinker library to support signals and it is version 1.6 of this library that has been released. This is the second major release of Blinker since maintenance transferred to the Pallets-eco organisation, and represents a desire to maintain it for the …

As part of my current hydroculture experiments, I am using a lot of PVC piping. And while it can be cut with regular woodworking tooling, it can be a bit brittle and crack or even explodes while cutting small pieces. Using the right blade on any saw makes all the differences.In addition, I need to make a series of stop cuts along a 4 inches pipe. Yes, could be done …

When this blog reached its five-year anniversary in 2018, I wrote a summary of the conclusions it had reached so far, and I vaguely thought at the time that, should it run for another five years, that might be a good time for a pause. Now we’ve reached that point – Ten Minutes Past Deadline is 10 years old this week! – and it does seem to be the moment …

In recent months, there have been increasing attempts to spread malware via some seemingly ‘harmless’ programs, luring the user through rewards such as sending money with cryptocurrency or NFT-themed gifts. The unsuspecting user by running an ‘innocent’ executable to access prizes becomes part of a botnet. In this post, I would like to analyse in some detail the ‘Redline-EDIRA’ malware campaign that has been going on since around the beginning …