2026-01-22 18:27:28
Mundane Things II 🌀
普通物件 II🌀
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
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The removal of TrueNAS legacy (CORE) leaves space for a tenth button.
What would you like?
The button need not be FreeBSD-specific. Discussions frequently attract users of other systems.
The sidebar of r/freebsd is crowded (very tall), and this cluster of buttons is relatively far down, so I doubt that it will gain much attention. Still, cafe community thoughts are welcome.
Three screenshots:
1. an overview of <
Well, this is unexpected! Gorgon has produced the first calf of the year. She's healthy, and Gorgon is a good, experienced mother, so I'm not at all anxious about it, but I wasn't expecting calves until May.
#Crofting
🌍 AfricaConnect receives a €40 million boost from the EU to expand digital infrastructure for #Research & #Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
Since 2011, AfricaConnect has strengthened R&E connectivity across the region. Now, with €40 million from the European Union under the Global Gatewa…
Sources: Vox Media approached media companies and investors in 2025 to explore selling its growing podcast business of 30 shows, NYMag, or the whole company (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/03/22/2026/vox-media-tried-to-sell-its-p…
Spent the first half of the run trying to figure out if I was hearing a fox, a possum, a raccoon, or a fawn screaming from just beyond the fence. It stopped as soon as I got out my phone to record. So now my working theory is aliens. Or Sasquatch. Can’t allow themselves to be clearly filmed.
Then a young, shirtless dude arrived. 37°F/2.8°C out. Well beyond #TeamShorts
The agony was …
So, it's really going to happen. My next book to be published by Wiley is slated for release in April.
I have analyzed some high-profile cyber incidents and mapped them to the outcomes in the NIST 2.0 Framework.
The goal is to give real-world relevance to what can sometimes be dry but absolutely necessary cybersecurity fundamentals that all defenders should take to heart.
Even more exciting is that Wiley will be offering corporate and government purchasers some intere…
This article has some stunning photos
"Last year China installed more than half of all wind and solar added globally. In May alone, it added enough renewable energy to power Poland, installing solar panels at a rate of roughly 100 every second."
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/china-ren
I can't believe it's almost been a year since the Open Science Retreat in Switzerland #OSR25CH! Now I am already getting ready to go to the next two.
Two?! Yes.
I will head off to the Netherlands for a Dutch-centered retreat in the dunes and right after I'll continue on to Wales for the Open Science Retreat Global in the wonderful green nature of Wales
Ob und wie Social Media für Minderjährige schädlich sind, ist nicht geklärt, auch wenn viele das Gefühl haben, dass das doch völlig klar sei.
Es wird geforscht, aber viele relevante Fragen sind noch offen. Deswegen ist ein pauschales Verbot (Wie? Von was?) keine sinnvolle Lösung.
Researchers Embrace Complexity in Social Media and Teen Mental Health | TechPolicy.Press
Neues Objektiv: älter als ich, 200mm, f4, für 50€ in der Wik gekauft. An der roten Ampel antesten, durch den Sucher sehen, wie die Ampel grün wird, kurz noch weiter Fokus suchen, sehen wie von links nach rechts was durchs Bild rast, Auge von der Kamera lösen und das Wohnmobil, das bei deutlich rot über die Kreuzung gefahren wurde, entdecken und sich freuen, dass ich mit dem Kinderwagen nicht direkt bei grün auf die Straße bin, auslösen.
Wieso lassen wir so gefährliche Leute ans Steuer…
Roligt att DN:s Världen-redaktion, där jag ingår, nominerats till "Årets redaktion"! https://www.dn.se/sverige/dn-fyrfaldigt-nominerad-i-arets-dagstidning/
Britisches Oberhaus stimmt für Social-Media-Mindestalter – Stopp im Unterhaus?
Im britischen Oberhaus hat eine Mehrheit für ein Social-Media-Mindestalter gestimmt. Die amtierende Labour-Regierung will den Antrag allerdings stoppen.
The cover of this week's edition of Science..
The details say it all - everything that Trump's shadow touches is broken.
https://www.science.org/
Let's do what we can to preserve science (which is an international endeavour) and support our US colleagues until the US gets rid of Trump!
Tomorrow we're discussing policing in my "History of Here" course. We'll start in the 19th and continue through the turn of the 21st century. A key event: the killing of Michael Wade Lawson, a Black 17 year-old from #Mississauga, #Ontario, shot in the back by Peel Regional Police. Four years lat…
Ja, scho recht...
#ki #aioverview #google
If you're local to the Twin Cities, here's the info on marches for next weekend. If you're not local, you can find info at https://www.nokings.org.
Auch wenn's heute nur das #mdRzA war, das ich normalerweise nicht als #Rausgeschafft ansehe, so war's nach 'ner knappen Woche Bindehautentzündung (mittlerweile wieder gut) doch das 1. Mal wieder #Radfahren
Urban Demons III 👻
城市鬼魂 III 👻
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Rollei RPX 400
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
Got this flyer through the post from my MP, I imaging every other household in the constituency got one too. Looking at it, can you see which party he represents?
@…, do you feel that some complaint should be made?
#ThePartyThatDareNotSpeakItsName
Media advocacy group Free Press analyzed 35 top corporate media and tech companies for their DEI goals and says 26 retreated from those goals in 2025 (George Winslow/TV Tech)
https://www.tvtechnology.com/regulatory-leg…
Some City Some Nature 🏙️
一些城一些自然 🏙️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Looking back at some of my old decaps compared to one I did recently. Amazing what a difference 15 years of practice makes lol.
The etch is so much more surgical now (and I can preserve copper bond wires which was a pipe dream before - although to be fair back then copper wires were not in common use)
The clipped pin on the recent sample is intentional, you'll find out why in a few weeks
@… and #RoveloCreative wieder mal on spot!
Bra av Michael Winiarski. Viktigt att vi i medierna inte nöjer oss med att okritiskt (eller utmattat) förmedla alla osanningar som Trump häver ur sig. https://www.dn.se/varlden/michael-winiarski-trump-foljde-upp-angreppet-fran-jd-vance-pa-europa/
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
CDU beschließt Social-Media-Verbot für Kinder, aber keine Klarnamenpflicht
Left-leaning French alternative media startups surged over the past decade amid the country's rightward shift and consolidation of billionaire media ownership (Christopher Clark/Nieman Reports)
https://niemanreports.org/french-media-blast-mediapart-lag…
RED (Ocassionally) II 🔴
红 (有时) II 🔴
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Harman Red 125 (6x6)
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
#silentSunday #elkOfMastodon
Elderly bull elk relaxing. October 2014
Three gates on hinges and stock proof. One wooden gate loaded up to be relocated. This feels like a useful afternoon's work.
#Crofting
#TheJoyOfCrofting
Urban Demons IV 👻
城市鬼魂 IV 👻
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 400 Plus, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ydcdingsite
This is what Weizenbaum wrote about the dawn of the computer age: it was used as an excuse to not even try to make society better. The same thing is happening with “AI” now.
We know what would make society better.
One example is UBI (which Weizenbaum mentions in the same book in passing as “negative income tax”).
But of course we don’t have universal healthcare or UBI nor really any other advances (perhaps the ADA was a rare win); instead trillions of dollars are invested into software that tells us to bomb schools; for the sole reason to say it was the computers’ fault, not ours.
This book* was written 50 years ago.
*Computer Power and Human Reason
#AI #society
UK's College of Policing issues new communications standards, including encouraging officers to engage with media, after 15 years of restrictive press relations (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/police-media-guidelines-updated/
#silentSunday
Coopers Hawk February 2026
Well, that's another gate hung. It has to be said Icarus isn't impressed. #Crofting #TheJoyOfCrofting
Timeline cleanser, some photons I caught on my driveway.
This is Cederblad 214, part of the "Question Mark" nebula in Cepheus (I can't fit the whole question mark on my field of view with my telescope!).
#astrophotography
Eero in 3D
(view cross-eyed on a large monitor or TV, the dots should help to overlap the images)
DXG-018, 0.3MP x2, 2011
#ShittyCameraChallenge
On March 3 there will be a total Lunar Eclipse, visible from the western US!
Attached my photos from an eclipse in 2022.
More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_2026_lunar_eclipse