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I noticed late last night, by way of discovering pooling water under the sink, that the garbage disposal had gone belly up.
And so today’s task is to replace it, which I don’t really relish doing, but:
"…so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." -Gandalf the Grey
And so, I’m off to the hardware store, having accepted the conditions are what they are and deciding ho…

A silent scenery in four acts...
(Selenium-toned[1] 4x6 salt print (still in final wash) plus previous work-in-progress stages... see alt text for details)
The picture/motif itself is one of my personal favorites and was taken 4 years ago in the Alpstein massif, when clouds were spontaneously forming around us, creating a wonderful light/scene/drama and a dear memory... now also as print which likely will/can outlast myself
[1] The tones will become more neutral once dry...…

X updates Grok to prevent the "editing of images of real people in revealing clothing such as bikinis" and geoblocks it for all users "where it's illegal" (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/x-says-grok-wi

X says Grok will no longer edit images of real people into bikinis
X says it is changing its policies around Grok’s image-editing abilities following a multi-week outcry over the chatbot repeatedly being accused of...

Chicago is getting a place for sickos
#fedifc

I've now migrated from my Pixel 8 to my Pixel 10 Pro. Just like last time the new phone migration had some hiccups. The biggest problem is app migration: some apps copied state over but the majority did not. Why don't more Android apps support it?

I asked Gemini 3 "Draw a diagram showing tiller, rudder post and rudder (based on typical 30 ft sloop)"
It produced this grotesquely bad diagram!!
How can it be so stupid?

As it's been surprisingly hard to find this info, here's a short how-to to save urls in the #waybackmachine @… programmatically via script (if you've got a list of urls).
1) Get your API-Keys:

Vi närmar oss dagen när jag för första gången ska få höra György Ligetis Requiem live. Berwaldhallen, Radiosymfonikerna, Esa-Pekka och Gretas mamma. Jag börjar redan bli nervös.

Sehr beeindruckend: die Geschichte von Andrea Ballschuh bei #WillowCreek, die sie auch hier erzählt:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=L_lXA7tFrD8&si=1bGgzvfv-VkCfr75

Void, with encrypted zfs, on the laptop. Dwm or River. Tbc. But Gentoo dwm is calling. Possibly before Tet.
NixOS with KDE on the N150. Solid.
Finally revived the old NUC with Slackware Tilers: Sway and Mango. And Dank. Great stuff.
The Thinkpad that wasn't sold: this will be either TileOS or Hatchery, a project by Troutcobbler, an old ArchLabs mate. Both Debian, tiling wm's. Cool. Check them out.
The last one will be after Tet, I'm off for a couple of days fo…

Source: Microsoft quietly becomes one of Anthropic's top clients and was recently on pace to spend nearly $500M/year for Anthropic to power Microsoft products (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsofts-spending-anthr…

Microsoft’s Spending on Anthropic AI Is on Pace to Hit $500 Million
OpenAI is Microsoft’s most important AI provider and its biggest cloud server customer. But as OpenAI does more business with Microsoft’s cloud rivals, Microsoft is doing more business with Anthropic, OpenAI’s archrival. Microsoft has quietly become one of Anthropic’s top customers and was ...

I save all my good content for mastodon. sorry #discord

Participate in the war of colors

Self-hosting #forgejo on my lan was a bit more of an adventure than I expected, especially around the https side of things. But in the end, success!

🛌 Wissen fürs Kopfkissen: 📖
#Gemüseanbau funktioniert auch auf dem #Balkon. 🌱🍅
Welches #Gemüse eignet sich dafür gut? Ich habe bereits viele Sorten ausprobiert und bin begeistert…

Gemüse anbauen gelingt auch auf dem Balkon oder der Terasse
Gemüse anbauen auf dem Balkon: Tipps und Tricks für Anfänger

The Digital Wellness app in Android just spammed me with a notification warning me about how too many notifications on my phone are bad for my wellness. The app is uninstallable.

Zahlen, bitte! Mit 162 Flugzeugen zu neuen Zielen: Die Gründung der Lufthansa
Am 6. Januar 1925 wurde die Lufthansa gegründet. Die Fluggesellschaft mit dem markanten Kranich erlebte in den 100 Jahren eine wechselhafte Geschichte.

"These deals represent the corporate capture of the UK state including, our cloud capacity, National Health Service, and now our military establishment...
Starmer’s inability to speak the truth is not diplomacy. It’s evidence." @…

Peter Thiel's New Model Army
The Palantirisation of the UK military is a national security disaster

Sitting at Montgomery Muni. The guy next to me is hitting his meth pipe. He does not offer to share.

@peterk@masto.es My old ssd died on me. Obviously that means a new fresh install of dwm on Gentoo.

My new business cards finally came in the mail!
#photo #photography #foxwork #fox

Gestern abend 7h Show mit #qlcplus. Das war ein Fest!
#Musikverein #Bissingen #MVB

We are looking for motivated volunteers to help make #bbuzz a success! Whether you're interested in being a stage host, assisting with registration, or helping with build-up and break-down, we would love to have you on board.
Learn more about our volunteering options: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/helping-hands/

🛌 Wissen fürs Kopfkissen: 📖
#Gemüseanbau funktioniert auch auf dem #Balkon. 🌱🍅
Welches #Gemüse eignet sich dafür gut? Ich habe bereits viele Sorten ausprobiert und bin begeistert…

Gemüse anbauen gelingt auch auf dem Balkon oder der Terasse
Gemüse anbauen auf dem Balkon: Tipps und Tricks für Anfänger

Finally got my heat fixed in SF. Also kicked the Nest thermostat to the gutter like the garbage that it is. So far Ecobee is making a good impression.

Heute irgendwo in #Deutschland. Der zugefrorene See knackst und ächzt so schön.

So, I'm getting down to the core:
1. Slackware with nwg-shell Sway and Mango
2. Gentoo dwm
3. Aurorix, my KDE container spin.
All working superbly.
One SSD left. FreeBSD? I think so.

A cafe in Dublin airport has a robot that delivers hot food orders! But it just sped off without letting the people get their food out.
When it came back it had a human minder. And when my order arrived, the same human bought it, saying she couldn't trust the robot.
This is a post about most AI.

The Ninden-Drawer came in so I got it installed, made sure everything was wired up correctly, and did some test fitment of a few cartridges. I like this design more than the previous one, and it looks better which is a nice bonus.
#retrogaming #nes

What The Tech Podcast (AU)
The podcast where we break down the latest discoveries in AI and technology so everyone can understand...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/what-the-tech-podcast-au/

'Gedreht' #FotoVorschlag Die begehbare „Achterbahn“ Tiger & Turtle in Duisburg

I am wrong! The New Colgate Powerhouse is independent, owned and run by the Yuba Water Agency. So the pipe failure is not PG&E's responsibility. PG&E's grid didn't respond very well but maybe there's water damage in the area that complicated things.

My art, but not my video[1] for #Genuary9 #Genuary2026: Crazy Automata
C-SCAPE (2022), a piece of multiple co-evolving cellular automata, running as a massive projection as part of the ALGORYTHMS group exhibition at Collective, Oslo (August 2023).

Good morning from Harlem
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NYC

"If our national security rests on US technology, we have no national security." -- @…
#UKPol
#Palantir

Peter Thiel's New Model Army
The Palantirisation of the UK military is a national security disaster

I really gotta sleep more than 4 hours.

A longshot Super Bowl of Seahawks and Patriots. Plus: Keith Law’s top 100 prospects https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6998377/2026/01/26/seahawks-patriots-super-bowl-the-pulse/

🛌 Wissen fürs Kopfkissen: 📖
#Gemüseanbau funktioniert auch auf dem #Balkon. 🌱🍅
Welches #Gemüse eignet sich dafür gut? Ich habe bereits viele Sorten ausprobiert und bin begeistert…

Gemüse anbauen gelingt auch auf dem Balkon oder der Terasse
Gemüse anbauen auf dem Balkon: Tipps und Tricks für Anfänger

The cause of my outage appears to be a hydroelectric failure. PG&E's penstock failed sending a huge flood down the river and stopping the generation at the Colgate Powerhouse. Yet more PG&E infrastructure maintenance failure. At least this time they didn't kill anyone.

Oei oei, speedy stuff. All aplications, and dwm 6.6., up and running: 1hr and 17.minutes. Beer time 🍻

7,7 Millionen elektronische Geräte haben 2025 die rote Karte bekommen. 🚫 🚨
Besonders kritisch waren Geräte mit Störaussendungen über den zulässigen Grenzwerten.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11167093?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastod…

🦋 librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem
#airpods

GitHub - kavishdevar/librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem.
AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem. Contribute to kavishdevar/librepods development by creating an account on GitHub.

OH, from a very senior software engineer friend of mine
if AI is a meteor, we're all dinosaurs.

Fresh Gentoo install on N150 in 1hr 48. Now that's a quickie for you 🥳
Logged in as root. Rest of install? Probably 3hr 27 😜

Some joyful moments are hard to explain.
Finding the correct keybinds on how to move a window to a certain tag and focus there and how to do the same and not focus there made my Mango Sunday.
Thanks to @… 🍻

Okay, a brief recap of today's trials.
Alpine with Cosmic was no success, with an cosmic-OSD running at 100%.
AerynOS blew up the install at 97%.
FreeBSD River showed the audio output device in pavucontrol, but produced no sound.
The Slackware QT6 spin shat the bed again with SDDM.
Gentoo KDE update got interrupted by me; compiling kwin takes ages. And i mean 2 hours or so.
The Slackware Cosmic iso downloaded, but got corrupted in the process.
The exter…

Jarrett Stidham's golden opportunity with Broncos squandered by costly gaffe https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6998210/2026/01/26/jarrett-stidham-broncos-patriots-loss-afc-championship/

Die EU will chinesische #Elektroautos künftig über Mindestpreise regulieren statt über hohe #Strafzölle.
Hersteller können Preisverpflichtungen abgeben und so #Importzölle um…

Elektroautos aus China: EU will Mindestpreise statt Strafzölle - Golem.de
Die Strafzölle für Elektroautos aus China sollen Mindestpreisen weichen. Die Hersteller müssen konkrete Angebote mit Investitionsplänen abgeben.

The most up to date (according to Repology) Linux distro T2 Linux (https://t2linux.com/) will come out with a prosumer image before the end of this year. It will be KDE based and Rene Rebe and his team are doing a total cleanup of the code. Having done a 1000 hours already. It is so much fun to watch him. What a dedicati…

That SoundCloud 2025 tells me a lot..

Some Biden-era officials say access to Nvidia chips could help China's AI companies buy time while China's chip makers improve their chips' performance (Meaghan Tobin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/business/china-gains-trump-nvi…

How Much Could China Gain From Access to Powerful Nvidia Chips?
President Trump said Nvidia can export some chips. But years of U.S. restrictions have propelled China to make everything it needs for advanced A.I.

So. That iso with Slackware, nwg-shell on Sway and Niri plus a shitload of goodies (thnx @… ) installed nicely. Cleaned it up a bit and added and compiled Mangowc (aka maomao) myself, to have a closer look at it. Added Homebrew, Flatpak is there by install.
Surprisingly enough this means also I'm out of KDE for the first time in about 5 years.
I had a …

PG&E getting ready for the coming winter storm by flaking out our power two days early. This happens once a month here. We pay 4x for electricity what the rest of the US pays and we don't even have reliable power.

My 'complaining' about KDE has led to an extra effort by the FreeBSD community to pull me in 🤣 Ungoogled Chromium is back in ports with the latest version 👍🏻
#freebsd

Storybook Patriots aren't always the prettiest, but they keep doing what it takes to win https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6998272/2026/01/26/patriots-broncos-super-bowl-surprise/

What great news! Now that is something I've been on the lookout for 🥳
At the time @… wrote a nice blog post about how, together with @… , the port was submitted. Read it here:

Source: the US Department of Commerce plans to allow the export of Nvidia's old H200 chips to China, seeking a compromise over controlling exports to China (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/08/2025/commerce-t…

Exclusive: Commerce to open up exports of Nvidia H200 chips to China
The move, which has the support of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, could bolster Nvidia’s revenue by opening up a huge market for its chips while ensuring US technology remains the standard worldwide.

What we learned from NFL playoffs: Seahawks, Patriots bucked coaching trends in rapid rebuilds https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6998506/2026/01/26/seahawks-patriots-super-bowl-coaches/

The final indignity: I clicked the button to tell Mozilla why I was uninstalling and it launched Edge to fill out the form instead of my default browser (Chrome).

Letterboxd plans to launch its Video Store film rental platform on December 10, offering curated indie titles in 23 countries, including the US, UK, and France (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/letterboxd-…

Letterboxd Video Store Sets Launch Date With Exclusive Films
Letterboxd Video Store is launching Dec. 10 with films available to rent in 23 countries, including some exclusive indie titles.

A Rams season filled with joy ends in heartbreak: 'It's hard to fathom that it's over' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6998489/2026/01/26/rams-season-loss-nfc-championship-seahawks/

buhbye.

OpenAI and Instacart launch a grocery shopping experience inside of ChatGPT, letting customers brainstorm meal ideas and check out via OpenAI Instant Checkout (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/08/you-can-buy-your-ins…

You can buy your Instacart groceries without leaving ChatGPT | TechCrunch
Shoppers will be able to go from recipe planning to checkout within the ChatGPT window.

I haven't launched Firefox in months. Today it popped up this ad on my Windows machine. Guess it's time to uninstall it entirely.

How Sam Darnold rewarded those who never doubted: 'We'd do anything for him' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6998603/2026/01/26/sam-darnold-seahawks-super-bowl-rams/

One of the nice things about Shortwave's Gmail frontend is that it isn't full of consistency bugs. Gmail is forever showing me out of date info. Also sometimes 5 minutes after I do something in Gmail it will complain when I close the window that some info hasn't been saved. WTF? They made some non-transactional architectural decisions in Gmail long ago that are still causing problems.

Remember that drama laptop? Last night I installed TileOS on it. A very interesting project, with River, Sway, Niri, Qtile etc. available. I opted for Qtile, version 2 (that version is now in testing, 1.3 is production). A quick glance yesterday showed a lot straight up working ootb. And great ricing also. Worth a check ✔️
#tile-os

"I don't use AI it is useless" is the new "I don't own a TV it's dumb".

The unlikeliest Super Bowl matchup ever, and the far-reaching implications: Pick Six https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6996097/2026/01/26/seahawks-patriots-super-bowl-rams-broncos-pick-six/

Travel planning with Google Gemini. It's astonishingly good at this. I give it an itinerary and it gives me detailed and personalized suggestions like "You have this reserved, but note it's 1.5km of walking over steep, uneven surfaces. As an alternative it's easy just to go into town and look around."
I love being able to throw an enormous amount of data at the LLM and have it make sense of it. In this case it doesn't matter if the answers are not 100% correct as long as they are close and the suggestions are verifiable.

@peterk@masto.es Yes, the bin kernel is very much up to date.
Edit: but i just checked, Slackware has it also available. That update is much more straightforward; I'll do Gentoo later on

RE: https://tech.lgbt/@somebitslinks/116058348297956373
I was suspicious of the etymology of molly-guard because it only dates to 1982, and the devices are much older. But Ed Krol from UIUC tells the story about his daughter Molly on page 14 of this PDF.
The only thing about it was that on one side was a big red switch—kid-sized, about 2 inches wide. ... I took my daughter Molly in to work with me. I said, ‘You play with your trucks on the floor while I work,’ and she saw this amazing big red thing and gave it a yank and turned it off.
/cc @…

Tony Romo and Jim Nantz were unremarkable. That's a win for CBS these days https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6998128/2026/01/26/tony-romo-jim-nantz-cbs-nfl-broncos-patriots/

@peterk@masto.es That's a quick kernel update, didn't even take a week from 6.18.4....

@peterk@masto.es Yes, obviously they are not installed ootb, but with ujust you could install them easily.

Seahawks Outlast Rams in Thrilling N.F.C. Championship https://www.nytimes.com/video/sports/football/100000010668159/seahawks-outlast-rams-in-thrilling-nfc-championship.html

@peterk@masto.es Great! There's a lot of development tools included as well (I don't use them) and you can leave it as is,

@peterk@masto.es Then grab that Aurora iso and switch to Aurorix. How-to on the github page 🍻

Get ready for the Senior Bowl: Six predictions and 15 NFL draft prospects to watch in Mobile https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2026/story/_/id/47706764/2026-senior-bowl-nfl-draft-prospects-qbs-predictions

@peterk@masto.es You better focus on your trip to Milan! ⚽ 🛫

Live on github @ thesaigoneer/aurorix-saigon. Customized install with adjusted default applications & flatpaks, brew files, font configs and a just command to clean out unnecessary flatpaks.Have a go!
#auroralinux #bluefin

The Rams thought they were done with Cooper Kupp. They know better now https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6998767/2026/01/26/cooper-kupp-seahawks-rams-nfc-championship-game/

There was this mention in the Budgie 10.10 release announcement of ending an era and working together in a very positive way with the KDE team.
What most people, including yours truly, missed was the mention of QT6 as the new development platform of choice for Budgie 11! Part of Frameworks is already in 10.10, and a totally new architecture will be build for Wayland, QT and Budgie. Exciting times!

@… If I remember correctly it's been around awhile 😜 But you made me look up mine also 🥳#AntennaPodEcho

2026 NFL Draft storylines to watch during Senior Bowl week https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6997131/2026/01/26/nfl-draft-2026-senior-bowl-prospects-scouting-nussmeier/

NFL news roundup: Broncos QBs coach Davis Webb interviewing for Bills, Raiders head coaching jobs https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-monday-jan-26

Super Bowl 2026: Five reasons why Seahawks won NFC to reach big game, including historic rebuild

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/super-bowl-2026-five-reasons-why-seahawks-won-nf…

Slack's fonts are all fucked on Windows.

Inside Sean Payton's fourth-down Broncos-Patriots call https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47732621/sean-payton-fourth-call-denver-broncos-new-england-patriots-afc-championship

Been using updown.io to monitor my webserver for about a year and a half now. Works flawlessly, no hassles. Finally ran out of free tokens so I paid 5€ for another three years. Feels like a good trade!

Sam Darnold 'shut a lot of people up' with Seahawks' win over Rams in NFC Championship

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/seahawks-qb-sam-darnold-rams-nfc-champi…

Patriots, Seahawks reach Super Bowl; Steelers hire Mike McCarthy; Justin Gaethje claims belt at UFC 324

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2026-super-bowl-seahawks-patriots-…

05::55 Saigon. The days just before Tet (our Lunar New Year) are my favorite ones. Streets empty out, everyone is happy to celebrate. On to the coffee ☕
#archlabs #photography #tet

Did a reverse install of Gentoo today. Installed dwm alongside KDE, made sure all was running well. Then deinstalled all KDE parts, did a deep clean and switched profile to just desktop (from desktop-plasma). Smooth, and keeping all settings, applications and tweaks as they were. Easily beats a 4 hour reinstall 😅
#gentoo

The hidden gem. Another one.
Did you know Alpine Linux has a vibrant community, delivering the latest desktop environments?
KDE Plasma 6.5.4, of course. But also Gnome 49.2.2? And, since y'day afternoon already, Cosmic 1.0?
That's the one I'm gonna go for.
Unexpected, but really amazing. Don't tell too many people 😂
#alpine