@mro@digitalcourage.social2026-08-21 16:58:18
@mro@digitalcourage.social2026-08-21 16:58:18
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizza2026-07-27 10:24:49
Changeling Or The End Of?
It's time to crawl out from under that rock. Although I kinda liked it there....
#slackware #blog #thesaigoneer
@jake4480@c.im2026-08-14 15:42:52
Good piece by Sean Goedecke, and I agree-
'Blog about things you don't understand yet': #blogs
@asterisk@social.linux.pizza2026-09-20 22:19:55
I know it's been a while but I wrote a new #blog post: https://asterisk.lol/blog/email/
:)
somehow that led to dunking on
@dde@social.tchncs.de2026-09-15 03:37:02
BlogWochen 2026 – #blogwochen2026
@usul@piaille.fr2026-08-23 11:13:51
@sherold@mastodon.online2026-09-18 09:47:43
@stsquad@mastodon.org.uk2026-08-06 10:59:31
@wwwgem@social.linux.pizza2026-07-23 15:45:02
Let's talk about money today, or How my odd money habits make sense to me.
#blog
@mro@digitalcourage.social2026-09-08 15:26:44
@zudn@theres.life2026-08-25 11:45:03
@sherold@mastodon.online2026-08-23 07:47:14
Mir sind ein paar Wörter zu Phasenübergängen aus dem Kopf gefallen. Hier habe ich sie aufgeschrieben. Vielleicht gefallen sie euch. 🌻
#blog
@opencommit@fosstodon.org2026-08-05 11:27:28
@publicvoit@graz.social2026-07-03 21:51:08
@… Hi, I just saw the "Comments on Reddit." footer of one of your #blog articles.
Have you considered using the #Fediverse for
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-07-14 16:59:47
I wrote a blog post about my first impressions using an Insta360 action camera...
#blogpost
@sherold@mastodon.online2026-09-25 16:35:37
Nur kurz notierte Zwischenrufe heute, für mehr reicht weder Zeit, noch Energie. Dekompressionmemos. Es ist Freitag und die Gönnung steigt.
Kommt alle gut ins Wochenende. 🌻
https://finest.day/posts/freitagstauchgange
@zudn@theres.life2026-08-23 20:41:06
@tomkalei@machteburch.social2026-07-16 08:48:40
And one more thing: I finally published the blog post that I wanted to write 2 months ago. This is the second part on Auto-Formalization and what it means for me:
#blog
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-07-24 11:14:22
@sherold@mastodon.online2026-09-19 10:43:26
„Über das Verstecken“ ließe sich als Homer-Simpson-mäßiges Abtauchen in die Hecke mit einer Emoji-Abfolge darstellen:
😐😶🌫️🫥
Oder mit einem kurzen Blog-Beitrag:
https://finest.day/posts/vermissmeinnicht
@sherold@mastodon.online2026-09-19 05:41:40
Die Guten gehen zuerst. Tja, und wie Sie sehen, bin ich noch immer da.
#blog
@stsquad@mastodon.org.uk2026-09-23 14:48:38
I wrote a project #blog for #qemu. Some notes on the #ai #bugpocalypse:
@kineticdiplomacy@infosec.exchange2026-09-30 13:28:05
📝 Droning on about drones
September 29, 2026
Three years ago I got a DJI Mini 3 Pro for my birthday. Flying it around and getting aerial pictures is great fun. Lately, though, it mostly stays in its bag. This is about why.
It's tiny. The camera is decent: a 1/1.3-inch sensor behind an f/1.7 lens, which is a big sensor for something this size. It has 48 megapixels through the magic of marketing, which means it's 12 megapixels that get upscaled. It does RAW, and 4K video. It has a fancy gimbal head that is surprisingly competent at keeping the camera stable. The drone can autonomously follow a subject, circle a point, or fly preset moves. Handy if you're a narcissist or just not as comfortable with the controls yet.
DJI promises 34 minutes in the air, probably in a vacuum. Real flights, with actual air and wind resistance are around 20 minutes. Range is 8 kilometres, which sounds unrealistic, but probably refers to the antenna. Anyway in the Netherlands you are obliged to keep the drone in your line of sight. Obstacle sensors look forward, back and down, and freak out whenever I get close to Big Hard Things.
And it weighs under 249 grams, which is the whole point of the Mini line. Under 250 grams it flies in the A1 subcategory, the most relaxed one in the EU. You can fly near and even over people, as long as it isn't a crowd. No exam either, just an operator number from the RDW, the Dutch vehicle authority, stuck on the drone. On paper, it's about as free as flying gets. Except all the restrictions that apply anyway because it has a camera.
It looks easy. It isn't. The Mini holds its position on GPS, so hovering takes no effort at all. Everything else takes practice. Two sticks: the left one handles height and turning, the right one moves you forward, back and sideways. A wheel tilts the camera. A smooth shot usually means using three of those at once, gently, while the drone drifts in the wind. At 249 grams it doesn't take much wind to destabilize it.
Then there's orientation. When the drone faces you, everything is mirrored: left is right, forward is back. At a hundred metres it's a dot, and you can't tell whether it's clearing that tree or about to hit it. The obstacle sensors don't look sideways, so sideways is your problem. And you're supposed to keep your eyes on the drone, while the shot you're making is on the screen in your hands.
Practice is exactly what I'm not getting, and the reason starts at my own front door.
My home is squeezed in between three no-fly zones. De Horsten, the royal estate, lies in prohibited area EHP-26, the same rectangle of closed airspace that covers Huis ten Bosch, Noordeinde and the Binnenhof. It runs from the ground to about 600 metres, and no drone gets an exemption, whatever it weighs. The King moved out in 2019; the no-fly zone didn't. The other one is Valkenburg, the old naval air base. It closed back in 2006, and the province turned part of it into a test airport for professional drones, called Unmanned Valley. Whether there's still a restricted circle around it depends on which map you ask. Since at least 2022, the official aviation chart has shown one and the official drone map hasn't.
The drone map around Wassenaar. The pink rectangle is EHP-26, with De Horsten at the bottom. The dunes are on the left, and the dots mark the old airfield at Valkenburg.
That's the real problem: nobody can tell you exactly where the lines are. The government points you to two maps, and both say you can't derive any rights from them. The borders don't follow a street or a fence, either. It's a line on a map, and you're standing in a field trying to work out which side of it you're on. And where the air is free, the ground may not be: Dunea, the water company that runs the water extraction in the dunes, simply bans drones in Meijendel.
Then there's the mood. Last year drones turned up over airports and air bases across Europe. Russia is the usual suspect, though whose they are hardly matters. Do you really want to have your drone shot out of the sky and have an inspiring conversation with an arrest team?
Probably not. The police don't publish how many drone fines they hand out, and an investigation counted thousands of illegal flights over The Hague every year. Nobody patrols the Wassenaar wastelands looking for a 249-gram drone.
Then again, nobody has to. Drones under 250 grams are exempt from the EU's Remote ID. But on my generation of drones, DJI's own signal broadcasts the drone's position and the pilot's, unencrypted.
The fines themselves aren't dramatic: €250 for flying in a no-fly zone, €300 over a crowd, €350 near vital infrastructure and €500 for getting in the way of emergency services. They stack, though, and the drone usually gets seized as well.
In a village like Wassenaar, the likeliest detection system is the neighbour. Most people are uneasy about drones, mainly because of privacy. One of my colleagues, who lives in a big city, proudly claims to shoot illegal drones out of the sky with a slingshot.
Even a perfectly legal flight comes with a fair chance that someone walks over to argue about it. That's an argument I'd rather not have. It's supposed to be fun.
The obvious way out is to take it on holiday. I mostly go to Germany, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and surely somewhere out there is a field with room for 249 grams of drone. My Dutch registration is valid everywhere in the EU, so how hard can it be?
Quite hard, it turns out. The EU only sets the basics, and every country adds its own layer on top. Zones, its own map app, its own list of special permissions. Nature parks, castles and towns add theirs. And the rules move: the Czech Republic introduced a whole new zone system only last year.
Germany wants proof of insurance in your pocket, which I don't need in the Netherlands. The Czech Republic wants a flight plan in its app before almost any flight near a town, road or railway. Slovakia doesn't ask for insurance, but most of its mountain areas are off limits on principle, so that actually limits what there is to take pictures of in the first place.
Read all that back and you'd think I should sell it. I won't. Because when it does go up, it's still awesome. A few seconds after take-off the ground turns into a map, and places you walk past every day look like somewhere you've never been. None of my other cameras can do that. So hopefully I will be more successful at motivating myself to keep trying in the near future.
Please feel free to add any tips for drone photography you might have, and I may use them to rekindle my interest in the hobby.
#Blog #Article #Drones #Gear #Photography #Travel #Wassenaar
@sherold@mastodon.online2026-08-09 08:00:35
@colinpurrington@flipping.rocks2026-08-18 15:54:57
In case useful for teachers starting the semester, my blog has gratuitous advice on lab notebooks, conference posters, oral presentations, lab write-ups, and plagiarism. Pitched for undergraduates but hopefully useful for all ages. #conferences #posters #academics #teaching #college #plagiarism #education #teachers #blog #school #biology #science #undergraduate https://colinpurrington.com/
@sherold@mastodon.online2026-08-16 10:57:42
Manchmal darf man auch einfach nur mal anerkennen, wie weit man schon gekommen ist und was man eigentlich alles bereits geschafft hat.
#blog
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2026-09-24 20:13:13
Finally in the mood to write a blog post about a recent #hinking adventure to the #mountains .
This time, I tried speaking & transcribing the draft at first and then just refining it. This feels better than start writing from zero 🤔. Was it faster? I'm not sure. But at least I had a skeleton to start with. ... the perils of #blogging
Anyways, enjoy the #photos
https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2026/a-quick-escape-bike-hike-and-alpine-views/
@zudn@theres.life2026-08-11 23:21:08
It's been a few days since ye ole blog got some attention:
#blogging
@sherold@mastodon.online2026-08-15 22:16:16
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social2026-09-02 11:30:25
Nicht schreiben lassen, sondern prüfen lassen: Matthias Schüssler setzt LLMs als Sprachkritiker ein – gegen Füllwörter, Nominalisierungen und schiefe Metaphern. Sein Fazit nach dem Vergleich von Gemini, ChatGPT und Claude: Sprachmodelle sind keine Wahrheitsmaschinen, bei Stilfragen gibt es keine absolute Wahrheit. @…
#KI #Sprache #Bloggen - Ein Prompt, der eure Texte tatsächlich verbessert https://blog.clickomania.ch/2026/08/27/ein-prompt-fuer-bessere-texte-wortwahl-stil-und-sprachbilder/
@sherold@mastodon.online2026-09-10 11:45:02
Liebe Grüße aus dem Maschinenraum der Kleinfamilieninfrastruktur. 🌻
#blog
@sherold@mastodon.online2026-08-21 14:28:23
Der Sommer ist noch nicht vorbei, der Herbst hat noch nicht begonnen. Wir sind irgendwo dazwischen. Nur eines ist sicher:
#blog
@sherold@mastodon.online2026-09-17 08:03:59
Wenn einem der Versuch, Momente mit Worten zu fermentieren, die gleiche Fürsorge spüren lässt, wie sie von gepflegten, treuen Arbeitsgeräten ausgeht. Ein Text über das und über andere Dinge.
https://finest.day/posts/fleissigkeitsglanz
@sherold@mastodon.online2026-08-04 08:34:03
I would like to share with you my little appreciation for clouds. ☁️
Maybe you'll love it, too.
#blog
@sherold@mastodon.online2026-09-01 06:23:40
Wenn die eigenen Großeltern den Enkeln zeigen wollen, wie man es richtig macht, verschlimmbessert das meistens alles.
#blog
@xiffy@mastodon.nl2026-08-07 13:46:10
"One thing that we both noticed this summer was our internet, or the intermittent lack thereof. Now I’m a man who likes proof above suspicion, and we both suspected Orange, our internet provider in France. "
#blog #omada #wifi #orange #goodenough
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social2026-09-24 06:51:59
Was mir an meinem Blogdesign wichtig ist? Lesbarkeit, Lesbarkeit, Lesbarkeit. Danach kommen klare Linien, ein Grasgrün und die Marke SPF. Mein Beitrag zum Bloggerschnack der Bloghexen.
#Bloggerschnack #Bloghexen #Bloggen #Blogdesign #WordPress #Bauhaus
http://stefanpfeiffer.blog/2026/09/24/lesbarkeit/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social
@sherold@mastodon.online2026-08-06 12:06:05
I’ve noticed that a quiet, organic division has crept into my daily publishing routine. And that’s one that I don’t like. So,…
#blog
@sherold@mastodon.online2026-09-02 07:02:16
Was die Hand schreibt, lässt die Seele manchmal besser los.
Ein paar Gedanken über das handschriftliche Denken.
https://finest.day/posts/lichtung-im-kopf-schreiben-als-psychohygiene
@kineticdiplomacy@infosec.exchange2026-09-22 09:29:28
📝 Local news, minus the noise
September 22, 2026
I wanted local news for Wassenaar, but without press releases pretending to be journalism, political parties' own opinions dressed up as reporting, and definitely without gambling ads. So I built my own aggregator.The idea is simple enough: pull RSS from every local source I can find, dump it in a database, filter out the garbage, read what's left. In practice the filtering turned into the whole project.Right now I'm pulling from eight feeds. The municipality's own news, Omroep West, Centraal , Wassenaarders.nl, the Police1, Wassenaar Times, a 112-incident feed, and Vrienden van Wassenaar2. There's also a Google News search bolted on for regio15.nl (for pictures of accidents), since that site doesn't bother with RSS. That one runs backwards from the others: instead of a blacklist of things to exclude, it needs a whitelist of every street name in Wassenaar.Local news has a lot of overlap, and that turned out to be its own little problem. A fire, a crash, a stabbing — the same incident shows up on Omroep West, Centraal , Wassenaarders.nl and the municipality's site within a few hours, each with its own angle and its own stock photo. Reading all four versions back to back is a waste of my time. So every article gets a story ID, and anything covering the same event shares one. The August fire near Wassenaarse Slag is a good example: the municipality's evacuation notice, Omroep West's first report, Centraal 's follow-up and Wassenaarders.nl's colour piece all fold into a single thread. I read it once instead of four times with diminishing returns each pass.
The municipality's own feed, for what it's worth, is fine — road closures, permit notices, the odd royal decoration. Boring in exactly the way a municipal feed should be. The actual problem is political parties. Wassenaarders.nl in particular runs a fair amount of content that reads like it came straight out of the VVD's press office: opinion with the "opinion" part quietly removed, no facts, never a critical word. Similar stuff turns up on other sites too, from groups clearly attached to a party. None of it belongs in a news feed, because it isn't news, it's a party talking about itself.And then, separately, there's the gambling ads. At some point the person running Wassenaarders.nl started slipping in LLM-written ads for online casinos. Tacky doesn't cover it, that's close to unethical, and it has no business anywhere near something calling itself local news.Both problems land on the same site, which is why its exclude list dwarfs everyone else's combined, and keeps growing. The real reason it's such a pain is that the guy doesn't use metadata at all — no categories, no tags, nothing structured to filter on. Every other feed gives me some kind of handle beyond raw text. This one just gives me a title and a blob, so I'm stuck excluding it phrase by phrase as new junk appears. Death by a thousand keywords.One nice side effect of all this: both the 112-meldingen.nl feed and the police feed carry GPS coordinates and a priority code for every incident. Too good a dataset to ignore, so I'm using it to plot a risk map of incidents around Wassenaar, somewhere you can actually see where things cluster, rather than scroll a list of accident reports. Give it a few more months and I can map the most dangerous places in Wassenaar.Aggregating local news sounded like a small job. It wasn't, because most local sites simply aren't built to be aggregated: no proper feeds, no metadata, party messaging laundered as journalism, and in one case, a whole side business in AI-written gambling ads. The technical bit was the easy part. The filtering never really finishes.
Which took an incredible effort to find, only to discover het Police only posted two items in the last 3 years. ∩A weird local organisation that's quite critical of the government. ∩
#Blog #Article #Media #PersonalWebsite #WebDevelopment #Local #Wassenaar
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2026-09-02 17:50:23
New on #blog: "How hard is it to get a jobserver client right?"
"""
In November 2025, I’ve started working on #steve, the #jobserver for #Gentoo. I wrote about it already, in the “One jobserver to rule them all” post. Back then, my main focus was on the motivation for a system-wide jobserver, and the technical details of getting it working. I have also mentioned a few client bugs we’ve discovered along the way.
Since then, we’ve found a few more bugs, as well as problematic design patterns. I think they’re kind of interesting, so I’ve decided to dedicate this post specifically to them. As a disclaimer, my aim is not to pick on specific projects; I’m bringing them up as real examples of what we’ve hit, and how that impacts jobserver operation.
"""
https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2026/09/02/how-hard-is-it-to-get-a-jobserver-client-right/