Yesterday, women and children from Ukraine Appeal Charity and Sunflower Supplemental School have performed at the historical Bletchley Park, in honour of the 80th anniversary of the end of WW2.

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

I posted an update over onto my fundraiser's page together with this week's steps! Comes with a picture of the trike I have posted about before! step.diabetes.org.uk/fundraising/...

Yesterday I watched youtu.be/WSh7U3m9KgA?... again and I realised what seemed to always be at the top of my brain. I can't unsee @andrewhunterm.bsky.social as the singer 🤣

This is the time of the year that I usually remind people who are okay with Adobe and Amazon, that you can get a discounted Creative Cloud Photography Plan via Prime Day. But then I forgot that the 20GB plan I use was discontinued this past January.

The start of this challenge had a bit of a weird timing for me, since we just moved, thus I actually did most of the steps in the house. But things will shape better soon, particularly since they just finished paving our walkway, so walking out of the house is a a lot nicer.

As usual Avery gets it. Particularly by spelling out what *isn't* (though it's often called) enshittification.

If I'm honest, I'm still not sure whether "evasive evitability" is the same word twice and am afraid to look it up apenwarr.ca/log/20250530

@andrewhunterm.bsky.social I think I found your new decoration: woodupp.co.uk/product/moss...

@mredbyrne.bsky.social funny seeing you here! 😅

@trishyb.bsky.social was Ed as much as an enthusiastic player of Trivial Pursuit as he sounds on radio? 😅

So I decided that since I'm going to be walking a lot anyway this summer, I might as well sign up for this. click.contact.justgiving.com?qs=a97804a45...

@trishyb.bsky.social thank you, now I need to find a way to switch my Audible account to the store where I have the collection or I'll never get rid of Ottery St Mary from my mind!

So I thought that £40 for two people for OsmAnd+ is fair, since they say on their website it supports family sharing. But it doesn't look like it does support it? Either that or Google broke the family sharing system?

You know things are not good when your *Status* page is not loading either. #HugOps to the @fastmail.com folks — I think they'll need a lot.

Estonia has the last surviving example of a British inter-war submarine. That fact is a thousand times more interesting than this song.

Hey Canada! Somehow nobody contributed any entries for ipv6-in-real.life for your country. Help me see if your infrastructure is more or less futuristic than the UK! (It's not a high bar, honestly!)

Okay one more post about this. I wish more games today had a "play by email" option. Adult gamers having a hard time finding enough time and energy to meet up in realtime to play could *totally* use something like that. Heck, my mother playing something like Royal Story is not that far off!

Hey I actually played hours and hours of this! And contributed to the Wikidata entry for it because with its name it is annoyingly hard to disambiguate 😅

This. I'm with Liz on this — and I said that before: LLMs can be CASE tools that augment our productivity rather than hurt us. (Unless you're seeing programming as handcrafting, which is fine, but it's the difference between a hobby lathe and an industrial plant!) flameeyes.blog/2023/12/31/l...

So my friends at @genkigear.bsky.social are celebrating their 20th anniversary! If you follow me, you may remember them from my showcase during COVID lockdown: flameeyes.blog/2020/05/02/c... The range has only extended since then, thus as always they have something for everyone!

Mostly relevant to fellow UK taxpayers, but generally useful to understand taxes nearly everywhere. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

Does anyone have a suggestion for connecting one of those silly Apple-proprietary SSDs that use 16+12 edge connectors to a modern laptop? Clearly you can't connect those in an NVMe adapter, since they're AHCI. Is there a more generic PCI-E to Thunderbolt adapter?

It feels like a lot of people start to have opinions about rewriting software and programming languages — I will point out at something I wrote a few years back. flameeyes.blog/2022/10/26/o...

Now more than ever we must stand with Ukraine and work alongside our European partners to support a just peace, even in the absence of a reliable ally in the US.

@zekefaux.bsky.social your book was discussed yesterday on BBC Radio 4, it's now on their podcast. Books and Authors: A Good Read: Oliver Burkeman and Sara Collins Episode webpage: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

Whirlpool AP330W: It’s A Trap So I disassembled my Whirlpool AP330W air purifier, and yes I keep thinking this was a white label, low-quality job, and it's possible there is no real way to replace the filter!

Just started listening to the latest episode of Fish and once again, @andrewhunterm.bsky.social is my people.

Another thing that my blog survived: the gold linker. flameeyes.blog/tag/gold/?mt... lwn.net/Articles/100...

Hardware Review: Ozlo Sleepbuds A quick review of a decent piece of "sleep technology" that has been making my sleep more restful over the past few weeks.

We all have things - clothes, electronics, furniture - that has unexpectedly lasted for decades. But most of our stuff falls apart annoyingly quickly. So is it possible to buy only stuff that lasts? And how? www.ft.com/content/aff9...

Somehow, reading @lwndotnet.bsky.social on the Boox AirC is much more pleasant with Firefox than Chrome. Neither of them supports choosing font weight though, just size. I would have just increased weight for the eink screen.

From Furniture Websites To Sweet Home 3D Rambling a bit about how to get 3D models from furniture stores websites into the Sweet Home 3D interior design app when planning how to arrange furniture in a (possible) new house.

Last year's most clicked blog post of mine was about Free Software washing machines, so let me revisit this again with some of the practical concerns I have, and why I won't be following up hands-on on this.

Please send your book proposals to [email protected]. We review them weekly. Some key topics of interest: Go, Rust, coffee table books like Engineering in Plain Sight, Open Circuits, Game Console. Books for nerds, geeks, hackers. Cyber, cyber, cyber, etc.

Listen, no, this is definitely some sort of coordinated inauthentic behaviour.

End of the year appears to have woken up networking folks trying to convince us that 2025 is definitely the year of #IPv6! If you believe so, help me collect services that are totally definitely available over IPv6, to show that v4 is legacy, and users can totally give it up! ipv6-in-real.life

Hm, US partisan-boasting accounts following me out of the blue. Nope, not suspicious at all. (For those who don't get it, I'm UK-based and a British/Italian citizen, the amount of care I give for US politics is limited to how the global scale is affected by it.)

British Rental Property Management Agencies Are A Disease Note that this post is primarily about UK politics, so if you're here for technical content, you may want to just skip it. Some of the content and jargon assumes you're at least vaguely familiar with the news of the past year or so. This…

The the *fuck* are you up against, Wikipedia? Because this is Taboola-level clickbait.

TIL (from @tailscale.com) about the existence of JWCC. Or, how I feel like referring to it going forward, "Sane JSON." (Still, not a fan of JSON overall, but I _do_ see the appeal.)

So my last blog post, about AGPL-3, reached the usual places (Hacker News, Lobsters), and as usual, there's some level of commentary *there* — but nobody bothered commenting on the blog itself. I *hate* those aggregators, they're discussion thieves. flameeyes.blog/2020/01/27/w...

Defusing AGPL-3 With Batch Processing Preamble: this is an intentionally incendiary post, you could even define it as trolling. I have been thinking whether to publish this for a while, as it is on the border of being the type of unkind post I wouldn't want to be associated with. But I decided to…

If you ever need to figure out my age, you should just see that my NAS stores copies of the (legit) installers and patches for Caesar 3, Dungeon Keepeper Gold, Nox, Settlers 3, Hexen II, and UT99.

We ended up writing about hardening your Bluesky account for our newsletter. Spoiler alert: Email-based 2FA means you have yet more reason to secure your Bluesky email address. freedom.press/digisec/blog...

Okay, I'm definitely old enough that FreeAgent reminds me of something else entirely... #OldUsenetFart

Dear everyone who sends an email verification link: please include a "I never signed up for it" option. Signed: someone who just received a verification email from a legit company with which he has no business.

Can we please stop listing "SSL Data Encryption" as something to be proud about on e-commerce sites? It's table stakes even for my eight years old niece's website by now.

Since @lizthegrey.com reminded me it exists, I think it's a good time to remind newcomers (and not) that you shouldn't feel bad if you don't take part in #AdventOfCode or other similar coding programs—but do enjoy it if it's your cup of tea! flameeyes.blog/2024/04/21/o...