Uhh #mountainMonday again? Okay, this is a view from one of my recent walks.
As usual it was just nice to escape the fog in the valley. It's always the same - when you're below or in the clouds for a couple of days ... it's all just grey and dimm.
And by the minute when I break through into the sunshine, I immediately feel the impact to my mood.
I think this is progress.
I fixed the typoed atu_unr_limit and now the ATU is working, translating accesses to the 0x1000_0000 AXI space to configuration reads and writes in the PCIe bus.
But the data is always zero. I'm trying to write 0x41410000 to the BAR and it comes out as zeroes, and while the protocol analyzer shows me successfully reading 1327:1c5c which is the VID/PID of my test SSD, it comes out as zero on the AXI side.
Urban Mirage II 👁️🗨️
城市幻境 II 👁️🗨️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Why are all these telephone poles hanging sideways in the air along Eight Mile?
looking good tonight, #SanFrancisco
Here in the Bay Area of San Francisco, some of the world’s biggest companies are fighting it out to gain some kind of an advantage.
And, in turn, they are competing with China
This race to seize control of a technology that could reshape the world
is being fuelled by bets in the trillions of dollars by the US’s most powerful capitalists.
The computer scientists hop off at Mountain View for Google DeepMind,
Palo Alto for the talent mill of Stanford University, <…
Nice sunset, if a bit on the early side
Close-up view of the audio-responsive LED floor installation I co-created for the KEF Muon launch in 2007 @ Sala del Cenacolo (Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia in Milano). The animation was repurposed from one of my first projects I created with Processing (in 2003)...
The 2 meter tall speakers were designed by Ross Lovegrove and made from milled solid aluminium...
The installation was created by Moving Brands (my old employer), a short video of the project/instal…
@… mentioned in his recent video how some hams like to make antennas.
Guilty as charged.
It was only last night that I finished my new linked dipole. But sometimes I want to operate with a vertical. Putting radials on the ground has worked pretty well on North Carolina Piedmont clay, but on dry sand near the beach, t…
A little pic from this morning’s Purbeck Dawn ride.
-3C when I left the house
#biketooter #dorset #purbecks
Cleared off the driveway from the second snow. It was nice and powdery, so no big deal.
Then I had to clear in front of the garage doors from the first snowstorm. Snow drifts with frozen rain on top had turned them into glaciers.
After some trial and error, I found that using the maul would break the ice into boulders. Then it was a function of breaking the boulders to the point where I could lift them and toss them clear.
They were not light and I am very tired.
On an earnings call, AMD CEO Lisa Su says Microsoft's next-gen Xbox "is progressing well to support a launch in 2027" and will feature an AMD semi-custom SoC (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Un Momento 🕰️
一瞬 🕰️
📷 Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
We had to drive over to Queanbeyan to pick up an order at the farm shop there.
We don't get there very often so we took the opportunity to go for a bit of a wander by the river afterwards. I forgot how pretty it is.
#Queanbeyan #Australia
Always look at the credits in CVE records, they’re full of insightful details.
I particularly enjoyed this one. By the way, in Vulnerability Lookup we also have a nice display of the actual credits: finder, coordinator, and so on.
🔗 https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/cve-2025-13658…
Well, we made it to Borrego Springs. Yaaay!!!
It may not look like much from Google maps' satellite view, but it is rather nice. The wildflowers are not yet in mass bloom, but there are still a lot of 'em.
And the weather is nice - I'm typing this among palms next to a pool.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/y8a…
RE: https://mas.to/@seeingwithsound/115995132429931913
Indeed a simultaneous combination of USB Camera Pro, Google Gemini Live screen sharing and The vOICe for Android works with the USB camera glasses: The vOICe sounds the live camera view while Google Gem…
Hey all,
today was a totally grey day. Very low hanging clouds. Actually a superb inversion -- if I would have had the time for a walk to the mountains. Yet other topics were on my schedule for today.
But hey, this is what photos are for: having memories about good time, right? I wrote more about it here: https://www.
Aerial view of a snow covered and frozen #Minneapolis #Minnesota looking north. Two larger lakes in the background are Harriet and Bde Maka Ska. The dark smudge a little further and to the right is downtown.
JWST/NIRCam View of the Resolved Stellar Populations of the Interacting #DwarfGalaxies NGC 4485 and NGC 4490: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adfccc -> A dance of dwarf galaxies: https://esawebb.org/images/potm2511a/
Big Sur coastline, looking North from Ragged Point. Ragged Point, California, USA. October, 2025. Fujifilm X100VI. #bigsur #raggedpoint #coastline
This video essay about the look of Sinners (which was shot on 70mm IMAX and Ultra Panavision) brought up something I hadn't realised until now: the large format gives you a wide field of view with the look of a telephoto lens! What that means is that you get shallow depth of field like in closeup shots with the framing of a wider angle lens.
Personal observation: there's also very little barrel lens distortion that usually comes with wide shots on 35mm.
Correction! It actually is still possible to export from Paper but not by using the export button. Instead you can export from the journal view so I now have it all as a PDF at least!
Still going to try to find a replacement though!
I bought a Seestar S30 and it arrived with all the clouds and rain. But tonight was a clear night AND the moon is almost full…
Blueberry species (genus Vaccinium) circled the Northern Hemisphere to travel from North America to Hawai'i— and then closed the loop to hybridize with a North American species
#science
Introducing the kiddo to optical spectroscopy
I've been a member of Little Free Library for 18 months. Their emails have been a nuisance, but I remained because of my goodwill towards the org. I finally hit my limit and unsubscribed today. Why? I counted 18 emails in the last 30 days!
If you're a non-profit and view each email as having essentially zero cost to your org, you should ask if you're not silently chipping away at goodwill by being a pest.
The Castle along the river Trent, Newark-on-Trent (Nottinghamshire), July 2025
#photography #ukphotographer #heritagephotography
I’m in Chicaago! Not a fan of weather that can be reasonably described as terrifying 🥶 ❄️ 💀
#travel #weather
shakey forensics: attempting to pin down the dates neil young wrote & recorded "like a hurricane" https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j8Oa8vWbSg1GhI8UHizmcBW6FlS9bwap/view
Past and Sapiens 🉐
过去和智人 🉐
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
PLAXTON: Just the main ignition controls now.
[Scorpio flight deck]
AVON: One minute precisely, Doctor.
[Main drive chamber. Plaxton is still working.]
PLAXTON: Two more connections. Not long now.
[Scorpio flight deck]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/434
TikTok US says it has resolved technical issues and glitches that have impacted core features, such as video likes and view counts, over the past week (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
Turnip is obsessed with getting into our loft - we let him have a roam around while we were putting the Xmas decorations away. Look at his pleased little face!
#CatsOfMastodon
Today's macOS fails include quick view no longer working for media files and the inability to drag and drop into a save dialog box. Uptime shows 46 days, may need to reboot. (Or try restarting the Finder first.)
Wrote a paradox flaw today …
Network confused: #rpg
We've come to Hadestown, and the funniest thing so far is hearing EVERYONE coming in saying "Good grief, it's a long way down!" Or words to that effect. I think it's good to be looking down on hell from above. #theatre #WestEnd
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@fantinel/115991351707305503
Well-written post, especially the “About Phanpy” part 😉
Very cool to see this.
From Taras Gresco
Automatic for the People
A Ride on the First Fully-Functioning Line of the REM, Montreal's New Light Metro
#Montreal has a new "light metro" links to the Mount-Royal Tunnel, at 5 kms the third longest tunnel in Canada. Built by the Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) between 1911 and 1918, it cuts through Mont-Royal. Trains, which were perforce electric, be…
#MPSGoettingen wishes you happy holidays and a healthy and successful New Year 2026!
Featuring prominently on our season's greetings card: the first images of the Sun's south pole 🛰️ ☀️
During its flyby of the Sun at the end of March this year, the Solar Orbiter space probe had its first clear view of our star's poles. Solar Orbiter's trajectory has recentl…
View of Bath from Beechen Cliff the other day #photography
HeatMat: Simulation of City Material Impact on Urban Heat Island Effect
Marie Reinbigler, Romain Rouffet, Peter Naylor, Mikolaj Czerkawski, Nikolaos Dionelis, Elisabeth Brunet, Catalin Fetita, Rosalie Martin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22796 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.22796 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.22796
arXiv:2601.22796v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect, defined as a significant increase in temperature in urban environments compared to surrounding areas, is difficult to study in real cities using sensor data (satellites or in-situ stations) due to their coarse spatial and temporal resolution. Among the factors contributing to this effect are the properties of urban materials, which differ from those in rural areas. To analyze their individual impact and to test new material configurations, a high-resolution simulation at the city scale is required. Estimating the current materials used in a city, including those on building facades, is also challenging. We propose HeatMat, an approach to analyze at high resolution the individual impact of urban materials on the UHI effect in a real city, relying only on open data. We estimate building materials using street-view images and a pre-trained vision-language model (VLM) to supplement existing OpenStreetMap data, which describes the 2D geometry and features of buildings. We further encode this information into a set of 2D maps that represent the city's vertical structure and material characteristics. These maps serve as inputs for our 2.5D simulator, which models coupled heat transfers and enables random-access surface temperature estimation at multiple resolutions, reaching an x20 speedup compared to an equivalent simulation in 3D.
toXiv_bot_toot
Toblinger Knoten / Torre di Toblin
(October 2024)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography
By-the-way, it is time for us to review that aspect of international law that is known as the "head of state doctrine".
https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2279&context=ilj
The #sunspot show goes on: now activity region (1)4274 - which caused a major geostorm last month - has returned onto the disk with the new number (1)4299. And immediately fired off an X1.9 #SolarFlare today: see #SDO HMI image - https://jsoc1.stanford.edu/data/hmi/images/latest/HMI_latest_Int_4096x4096.gif - of 18:11 UTC, i.e. exactly an hour ago.
I’ve fallen in love with the Japanese literary form, zuihitsu.
Zuihitsu, meaning “following the brush,” flow as the mind flows. They are fragmentary—mixing moments of observation, opinion, anecdote, asides, and humor. From the contemporary point of view zuihitsu refuse categorization, vibrating in the live space between prose and poetry.
#poetry
Thanks to @… for teaching me the word “lustration” today.
Failure to undertake sufficiently wide-reaching lustration and vetting of the Minneapolis Police is in my view one of the major failure of city government after the murder of George Floyd. It’s one of the reasons I’m still bitter about Mayor Frey, notwithstanding his excellent words on the national stage these past couple of months. https://mastodon.online/@xankarn/115955982521903310
This foreign policy series by @… is quite revealing. Chakrabarti has by far the best answer to the IMF/World Bank question: "the role of the IMF and World Bank has been to try to implement austerity measures on countries by creating pressure from outside creditors...It’s been a way to impose neoliberal policy on countries, and also a way to force countries to lose t…
The second floor and up in Upson have lobbies on the side of the building facing Hoy road: that curved building in the center is Rhodes Hall where you can find my den-away-from-my-den
#photo #photography #buildings
These are the photos for my 2026 calendar. Got the proofs today. Should have the hard copies in 2 weeks. Always agonizing to pick 13 of my photos for the next one. The last few years I’ve had to use older ones too. I don’t get out to shoot as much anymore. I’m hoping that will improve. I’ve volunteered to be a photographer for the city park dept. I’ll take pics of people engaged in the parks and activities, and whatever else I see.
The German love for combustion is a perpetuum mobile.
68.5% of Germans believe that their car makers are not fully committed to electric mobility.
Furthermore, 47.8% believe that politicians do not view electric mobility as the technology of the future.
https://…
Brown Pelicans flying in formation over the water. Elephant Seal Vista Point, San Simeon, California, USA. October, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 MC14. #moonstonebeach #pelican #bird
I appreciate how #DeutscheBahn makes working on a train easy for #embedded development.
As 2025 comes to a close, I thought it might be worth revisiting a fascinating social media post from the Silicon Valley pro-extinctionist #Daniel #Faggella.
He espouses the radical view that
👉we should build a
“worthy successor”
in the form of
Moody Urbanity - Old & New IV 🔆
情绪化城市 - 新与旧 IV 🔆
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
I’m in SLC, punk!
#travel #slc
An interview with IBM CEO Arvind Krishna on why there's no AI bubble, his view that Watson's healthcare push was "inappropriate", IBM's quantum bet, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/829868/ib
Series C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
ORAC: The idiosyncratic syntax of riddles interests me. They seem to depend for their effect on solecisms and grammatical discrepancies.
VILA: Eh?
ORAC: Do you have another riddle for me to analyze?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/310/228 B7B4
Moody Urbanity - Old & New III 🔆
情绪化城市 - 新与旧 III 🔆
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Evening walk. Each (end of) day this past week had such amazing light/mood... it's good to get out!
#EveningWalk #SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography
Put a random old M.2 SSD I had in a M.2 to mini-PCIe carrier board and attached it to the STM32MP2 devkit.
Didn't even have to do anything and a 100 MHz refclk (no spread spectrum, it looks pretty stable) magically appeared on the connector. I'm not sure which side is sourcing it (can an addin card generate REFCLK?) because I didn't do anything to configure PCIe on the host side yet.
Promising!
i gave my son-in-law a battery daddy (fully populated), a scrub daddy set, and a gift certificate to fat daddy
#BatteryDaddy #ScrubDaddy #FatDaddy
"Tracking Instructional Themes at the Reference Desk"
https://journals.ala.org/index.php/rusq/article/view/8611
"Academic libraries play a vital role in supporting student learning by offering both structured instruction and point-of-need research assi…
Now this was a gorgeous cycling loop. Temperature was around freezing but luckily just few wind. As you see, the weather was ace. Clouds and fog stayed in the north 🌞
Also tried Knee warmers, which was just right! A very good buy!
I just need a solution against freezing toes. @… ,I bought neoprene toe warmer! The shoes are just a bit tight then, …
-- Jared Sullivan:
I scoop ice cream to pay my bills while running for the United States Senate.
That should not be rare.
In a country divided on almost everything, one view cuts across party lines:
working-class Americans are fed up with a political system that does not understand their lives.
They are right. Today, fewer than three percent of members of Congress come from the manual labor and service jobs that most Americans work,
a disparity documente…
View of a cliff looking right down the middle of Sixmile creek
#ithaca #photo #photography #sixmilecreek
Cold and windy, but my gluttony over the holidays has insulated me well. I would trade some of it for fitness, which I suppose is what’s happening, albeit much slower and more arduously than I might like.
Ran 4/1 minute run/walk intervals for what turned out to be 6.5 km. Pace was 8:03/km.
#Running
Future Portrait Of A Billionaire's House...
Ozymandias, only an inscription and the views remain...
(From our snowy and icy morning walk yesterday... Hohenfreyberg, built & expanded between 1418-1608, burnt down (sacrificed) in 1646. Same fate for the other ruin on the neighboring hill (last image), which belonged to the father and also got destroyed previously (in 1525) by farmers of the surrounding villages...)
“In my view, we are in an all-out war with the United States, Israel, and Europe;
they do not want our country to stand on its own feet,”
Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian said in an interview with the Supreme Leader’s official website.
He said the current war is worse than the Iraq war in the 1980s.
“If one understands it properly,
this war is far more complex and more difficult than that war.”
“In the war with Iraq, the situation was clear;
the…
Some photos from today's hike in the mountains. To escape the fog.
It was very very icy at the bottom. And I was super happy to have my micro spikes.
The way up was pretty calm. Right the #silentsunday I had desired. At the summit there were a bit too many people and I didn't see proper motives. So I just enjoyed the view and the really warm temperature.
On the wa…
Went to the new Laugaršs Lagoon yesterday and it’s delightful. Peaceful and quiet. Also ate at at Ylja, and that is worth a trip by itself.
Since a few weeks I have a Hippeastrum bulb standing on my desk, so I can watch something grow even at this time of the year. Two days ago it finally burst open. Here are some views from before.
#photography #bloomScrolling
Snowflake and OpenAI agree to a multi-year, $200M partnership to integrate OpenAI's models into Snowflake Cortex AI and the Snowflake Intelligence agent (Sabrina Ortiz/The Deep View)
https://www.thedeepview.com/articles/snowflake-lands-usd200m-openai-partn…
Monumental 🪦
纪念 🪦
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Great darkness is coming ... huge #sunspots galore rotating onto the disk now as in https://jsoc1.stanford.edu/data/hmi/images/latest/HMI_latest_Int_4096x4096.gif from 25 minutes ago. We knew what was in store: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10236046194988615 and https://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=26&month=11&year=2025 - Perseverance on Mars has a view of the 'far side' right now and saw the groups a few days ago with its non-astronomy camera.
Some City Some Nature V 🏙️
一些城一些自然 V 🏙️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
805Undocufund
Volunteer and Rapid Response Training
SATURDAY, January 31st, 2026,
at 4 pm in Carpinteria
Please RSVP as soon as possible, with enough time before the training to allow for vetting to occur. Saturday, January 31st
Location to be provided upon registration and completion of vetting.
Sources: Microsoft is focusing on fixing the core issues of Windows 11 over the coming months after persistent bugs, ads, and bloatware eroded user trust (Tom Warren/The Verge)
City Spot ⭕️
城市点阵 ⭕️
📷 Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
City Random Manners ✴️
城市随机行为 ✴️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite