It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"O daughter, to take the juices of herbs and spices, which the great god Helios Mithras ordered to be revealed to me by his archangel, so that I alone may ascend into heaven as an inquirer and behold the universe."
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Oh oh, I haven't done anything here for a really long time—but health comes first.
And to make matters worse, I lost a very, very good friend more than a week ago, who was taken by the damn MRSA germ... Rest in peace, my friend, you will never be forgotten! 😢
But during my own convalescence, I had enough time to return to my roots with Linux and switch my systems back to the tried and tested, beloved, and familiar. And I'm now leaving the time of experiments and trials …
Good photos.
This is my city here: the bad and the good. I recognize it — which is always a strong compliment to journalistic work.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/ice-descends-on-minneapolis/
OKC et le Bouddhisme Tibétain : Une Légitimité Bâtie sur le Silence des « Grands Maîtres »
et les promoteurs du Bouddhisme Tibétain sauce "plein conscience"
https://chardonsbleus.org/okc-et-le-bouddhisme-tibetain-…
Varnished the shelves. At least until I ran out of varnish anyway. Stained the first half of the bed. The stain takes ages to dry. Will have to flip and stain the other half tomorrow. Varnish on Tuesday if more has arrived. That dries much faster, might even get two coats on both sides during one day. Then I can have a bed on Wednesday?
At which point I will know the maximum height for a mattress. The bed is pretty low because to determine the height of the doors for storage at the end of the bed, I measured my old bed. Which was apparently lower than most, being a waterbed frame with a spring mattress in it.
So total bed height has to be under 50cm and a mattress can take 30 or more of that. But with this low bed I might even have room for a topper.
After months of not using it, I dusted off my Matrix account thanks to the room created by @… and I encountered a problem due to a loop that prevented me from completing the verification of some devices. Although I solved it, it is certainly not an app suitable for non-techies.
I guess Matrix isn't designed for them, to begin with. However, maybe there…
I was talking to my son-in-law today and got an update on how his sister and her husband are doing. They are a great couple with 2 awesome boys. But I'm always asking about them because they are both engineers who met in Ireland while working for an F1 race team. Fast forward almost a decade, and she returned to Canada with her Irish husband in tow to settle down near Hamilton. About a year ago, they were both recruited by GM Motorsport to work on the brand new GM F1 Team with the race car joining the series in 2026. I'm definitely going to see if I can score some tickets to a Canadian event.
https://youtu.be/FLK9a0BPjcI?si=AuaYx7B0K-WkhJ5d
Pretty interesting article, this one.
https://maho.dev/2026/01/the-forkiverse-experiment-and-why-instance-choice-matters/
cintestinalis: Tadpole larva brain (C. intestinalis)
Entire connectivity matrix for the complete brain of a larva of Ciona intestinalis. Each directed edge represents a synaptic connection from pre-synaptic cell i to post-synaptic cell j (may not be a neuron). Edge weights represent the cumulative depth of presynaptic contacts in µm.
This network has 205 nodes and 2903 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted
I’m trying out #matrix with conduit ⚡️