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The new calendar is here! This year I've gone back to people on the canal; so there's incidents from daily life and history, like the workboats - here's John Knill in 1950, delivering a cargo to Newbury; and Ishtar, keeping boaters supplied with coal last winter; and the CRT paddle boat, dashing off to clear vegetation in the Long Pound. And a couple of cross-section pictures, which are always a …

Hyperconnexion, addiction et obéissance De l’hyperconnexion Nous sommes désormais connectés partout, tout le temps. J’appelle cela "l’hyperconnexion" (et elle ne passe pas nécessairement par les écrans). Parfois, je tente de me convaincre que mon addiction personnelle à cette hyperconnexion est surtout liée à mon côté geek, que je ne peux généraliser mon cas. Et puis, quand je roule à vélo, je me rends compte du nombre de piétons qui n’entendent …

When we launched NeuroBB in 2015, as the first (and only) independent EEG, BCI, and neurofeedback discussion forum, we chose the forum software Discourse. We chose Discourse not because it is easy, but because it is hard because it’s good, despite its hefty resource requirements. So, I have been self-hosting Discourse on DigitalOcean for the past decade, first on a $5/month 1GB droplet, then on a $12/month 2GB droplet when …

Introduction Luanti (formerly Minetest) 5.10.0 has been released just three months after 5.9.0 in accordance with the new release schedule. Just in time to be used in the 2024 Luanti Game Jam, too! Highlights include a content browser redesign, support for the modern glTF model format, gettext translation support, new visual effects, an API for per-player objects, usability improvements, and more. You can download Luanti from our website. As always, …

duration-property is a bit of a quirky component compared to what I've made before. I always try to make them very low level, versatile and utility based. In this case though I just went with what I needed, and hopefully you might find it useful too.ContextOn the homepage of my website I have a button next to my name, and if you press it a sound plays. When the sound …

El fin de semana pasado estuve en Zaragoza por primera vez. Aproveché la visita para quedar con varios amigos y ver de cerca la fantástica colaboración gráfica que Erica hizo para el «Zaragoza Fear Fest». Leer más. Zaragoza. Cámaras: Fuji X-T5, Ricoh GR IIIx. Comentar este post · Me gusta

As a longtime donor, got to visit the Internet Archive! They protect 50+ petabytes of web history over the past 28 years — nearly 835 billion web pages and 44 million books. Each drive rack holds 2.88 petabytes of data, so these 3 racks are ~2% of the archive counting backups.

The cover is kind of "busy," but I shall try not to judge the book by its cover. The book is Every Living Thing, The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life, by Jason Roberts. It is sort of a double biography of Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) and Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788), but it continues to follow their legacies well beyond their lifetimes to the present. I cannot …

Do your duty, prepare for your lethal injection. Tl;dr: Our medical/care system is screwed, governments are all efficiency- and cost-obsessed. They’re fixated on ageing and on the explosion of the ‘economically inactive’ population. This system would like the idea of more people taking the voluntary way out. Am I being neurotic? My concerns about the assisted suicide bill, currently in the UK Parliament, are not with the risk of coercion …

When I first decided to get an espresso machine, I went for a top of the line machine. I wanted something that would last a lifetime. The same applied to the grinder. I bought an ECM V-Titan 64, with titanium-coated flat burrs that are quoted to last at least 50 years before needing to be replaced. Here I am, 8 years later, and finding myself somewhat frustrated with my grinder. …

by Peter Wood Peter Wood reveals and explains his personal list of rules for good writing. Check out his latest story, “Murder on the Orion Express”, in our [November/December issue, on sale now!] On Writing by Stephen King should be required reading. There’s not a bad suggestion in the book, and you’ll also get some really cool backstories to some of King’s iconic fiction. I don’t have a writing advice …

I was very fortunate to speak at another excellent Beyond Tellerrand last week, alongside some brilliant and wonderful people. Once again I was inspired by the variety of topics and messages people shared on the stage. Alongside the usual artists’ inspiring career stories and techies’ (equally inspiring) web design magic, there was a strong undercurrent of anticapitalist messaging in a way that is more important than ever, especially relevant given …

I studied design in the early 2000s, a time of brutal design feedback culture. These days, I have at least two to three conversations every week with designers who need some advice on how to share often negative feelings at work. Sometimes it’s because of a personality clash, other times it’s ‘constructive feedback’ based on someone’s performance. In any case, it’s a ‘difficult conversation’. Helping people have difficult conversations well …

Recollections / November 12, 2024 ROBERTS: I don’t know if I told you guys this, but I worked at Musicland/Sam Goody for a couple of years in the early ‘90s, a pretty good time for popular music. I was actually a store manager for a few months—yes, Richard, it’s true—before my location closed down (there was another Musicland down the street in the mall). That’s what you did back then—you …