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Accessory Corner Twofer: SmallRig A7C II Wood Grip and Eyecup. Subtitle: Aesthetics Playing A Part In Camera Preference Is An Odd Thing. The Grip. With the acquisition of my small villag...
by Eric L. Woods
This week I’ve done a lot of behind-the-scenes work on robertbirming.com, but also started working on a new look. And I’m finally piecing together an Extras page. Many more slash pages to...
Watched: The Whistleblower (2010) 🍿 Picked it at random. Turned out to be a great movie. Based on true events. Horrible story, sometimes hard to watch.
Browsing: What’s in a Name? 🔗 I chanced upon a thread on social media this morning where someone asked everyone what was the funniest name they’d ever…
The weather has gone a tad cloudy again, which provided me some relief from my allergies–but not enough for proper overnight rest, so yet again I arrived at Friday afternoon totally exhausted....
by Rui Carmo
Rainbow on the drive home. 🌈
So… The Sony A7RVI: Great camera… I bought an outfit for my A7C II. Short Version: Great Camera… But What I Have Is More Than I Need. Let me get this out of the way first....
by Eric L. Woods
Jon Stewart is usually pretty good, but I think he got it wrong when he says the AI companies are stealing journalists' knowledge. Imho they don't create knowledge, they report it. The knowledge isn't...
So, there’s a new laptop out there (coming this Fall) called Googlebook. It’s like a Chromebook, based partly on ChromeOS, retaining the full desktop Chrome browser with webapps. But it’s also: Ni...
Fortune cookie. Unforeseen circumstances will pave the way for transformation.
Yes, I’m writing again about my ongoing experiment with blocking JavaScript on a per-site basis. This time, I’m not here to explain how I operate in detail, but to complain about the work needed to ma...
by Nicolas Magand
Trained: Lower · 48 min 💪 Those poor legs starts shaking as soon as I come close to some stairs. Leg Press (Machine) · Back Extension (Weighted Hyperextension) · Seated Leg Curl (Machine) · Standing...
Eastwood is one of my favourite suburbs in Sydney. On the one side of the train station you have some of the best Cantonese food and culture in the city, and on the other has rows of Korean restaurant...
by Ruben Schade
I got this when upgrading a server: Fatal error: Uncaught Error: \ Call to undefined function filter_var() Easy enough install to fix: # pkg install [-j $JAIL] php84-filter Thanks to bofh@ for main...
by Ruben Schade
My thanks to Drata for sponsoring last week at DF. Their message is short and sweet: Leverage autonomous AI agents to automate compliance, manage internal and third-party risk, and continuously prove...
by John Gruber
Just noticed (and fixed) that I had accidentally put May 2027 in some of my release notes. The opposite of writing last year’s date on checks. 🤪
Microsoft launched Teams' Together Mode during the pandemic to give the illusion of a bunch of people sitting in a conference room together, even if they were really sitt...
by Terrence O’Brien
Oliver Haslam: MacBook Neo review, two months later: Almost a MacBook Pro beaterThe MacBook Neo is a marvel. The fact that Apple was able to find a way to sell this thing for less than $600 makes it a...
by Matt Birchler
Today Claude found a problem that would only be uncovered if you knew that assigning to location.href didn't happen immediately. If it decides to redirect and then do a bunch of other stuff including...
GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source Terence Eden continues his coverage of the NHS' poorly considered decision to close down access to their open source reposito...
The new Siri will offer auto-deleting transcripts: According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the more chatbot-like Siri set to debut in iOS 27 will include the option to autodelete chat histories. Users...
Apple is hoping that its record on privacy can be the differentiator on the AI front and maybe even buy it a little slack as it continues to lag behind the competition. A...
by Terrence O’Brien
529 - Kenneth Gudz :root { color-scheme: light; supported-color-schemes: light; } body { margin: 0; padding: 0; min-width: 100%!important; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100% !important; -we...
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Timothy Snyder made an important point. Trump sees his cause as a religion and sees himself as god. So when someone who is unfairly punished by Trump says they're still glad they voted for him, becaus...
I envision a network of twitter-like systems built out of the components of the web and nothing more. Every part replaceable.
Thinking about John Gruber’s post about AI as a technology, not a product: Does AI “threaten to disrupt the entire iPhone ecosystem”? It’s possible, but it doesn’t seem nearly as likely to me a...
On Friday, I rode my bike for almost 20 miles (over 12 in a single ride, over 7 in another), the most yet in a day. I rode over 8 miles Thursday night too. So Saturday, I took a needed break. Today...
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt delivered the commencement address at the University of Arizona on Friday. And, as his speech veered into talk of AI, he was repeatedly dro...
by Terrence O’Brien
I’ve started listening to jazz ever since I randomly discovered The Köln Concert. Months later I’m still enamoured with jazz, particularly with piano trios. I don’t see...
by Winnie
Listed an item on Facebook Marketplace for the first time last week. May not do this again, it’s a lot to manage messages from dozens of people. Perhaps worse for something free because there&rs...
Within the UK's Civil Service you occasionally hear the expression "being invited to a meeting without biscuits". It implies a rather frosty discussion without any of the polite niceties of a normal m...
by @edent
VMware Workstation Pro 26H1 supports Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, letting you install Broadcom's free virtual machine software on the distro and run it in a VM. You're reading Ubuntu 26.04 support added to VMwar...
by Joey Sneddon
The agent's been talking to us through JSON. In this episode we build a real-time chat widget with Livewire,...
by Harris Raftopoulos
Kudos to the designer of that horrifying golem. | Image: Shudder Hokum recently hit theaters, and it's already outperforming box office expectations. If this Kubrick-refer...
by Terrence O’Brien
A week before the ElliQ robot arrived, a neurologist told me we need to rebalance my mom's life. Her Parkinson's disease medication had steadily become less effective ove...
by Sheena Vasani
Fujifilm’s X Half digital camera wasn’t designed to replace your main camera, though you’d be forgiven for assuming it was with its ludicrous $850 price. However, the com...
by Cameron Faulkner
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about how AI is seeping into our daily lives, follow Emma R...
by Emma Roth
Dear friends,I sat across from sixty-eight people in one day, inside a hand-painted former church at the edge of Amsterdam. Here are two of my favorite portraits from the day:Ruigoord: Maarten van der...
Sunday, May 17, 2026 I envision a network of twitter-like systems built out of the components of the web and nothing more. Every part replaceable.# Today Claude found a problem that would only be unco...
by [email protected] (Dave Winer)
× Companion to the full research report, Reconciling Enterprise AI Revenue: A Methodological Crosswalk and Vendor-Level Census, 2025. The PDF carries the 68-vendor primary-source census...
by [email protected] (Philipp D. Dubach)
It's starting! Those sweet, sweet email replies shall begin to make their way starting now...
by Dave Gauer