not clicking. no. ... but I wonder what it says... ... NO. ... but... ... CLOSE THE BROWSER NOW.

I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that my wife has regularly been getting these empty packages in the mail. The scam seems to be ebay/etsy/etc sellers making fake sales and using the proof of delivery to boost their numbers. But now they're starting to send her […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Been a week+ since my good old dog left us. It's still tough. Not like I expected. It's not just constant overwhelming grief. Certainly residual waves of sadness. But the last few days just being completely unmotivated. Catch myself staring into space thinking of nothing. I was just wondering if […]

There are 23 US states with direct access to oceans. There are 16 states that are singly landlocked. You have to go through one other state or province to get to the ocean. There are 10 states that are doubly landlocked - you have to travel through two other states/provinces to get to the […]

Installed https://kewplayer.com/ on the recommendation of @joeress on @latenightlinux I love it. Joe, I think "TUI" is the term you were looking for.

I started my tech career in the late 90s. There were so many people coding who had no idea what they were doing (myself very much included) and were just in it for the money (I was in it for the money, but not "just"). When the bubble burst, most of them went off chasing other "easy" money. The […]

I'm totally installing this later today. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/starling-ai-built-linux-desktop Oh, sorry, I meant to say I'm going to avoid anything related to this like the plague. Linux is already an adventure without vibe coded desktop environments.

Starling is a new Linux desktop built using AI in six months

Some Linux desktop environments were developed over decades, others in just a few years. Starling, which made the rounds online this week, claims to have been built by just one person in six months using AI coding tools. What’s more, a preview build is available as a .deb to install on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Yup, this isn’t a ChatGPT mockup but a real working demo. According to the project’s GitHub and website, a developer used AI to rewrite Flutter’s framework layer from Dart to Swift, and left its C++ rendering engine unchanged. A traditional desktop uses a windowing system but […] You're reading Starling is a new Linux desktop built using AI in six months, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.

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Do you have a hard time finding the best way to display your Canadian Geese? Try our new Goose Display Log. $199, holds up to six geese. Call now, operators are waiting. Allow 6-8 weeks for delivery.

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Years ago... OK, *decades ago*... OK, when I was still in my teens and living at home... I read The Mind's I, by Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett. A series of essays, stories, excerpts about the nature of consciousness, both human and speculatively non human. I still clearly remember […]

Question seen on reddit: Does anyone know of a Radio application that I can use to listen to FM radio that doesn't need Data or Wifi to use? Top answer: That would be called a radio... ... kids these days.

Saw these "seed pops" in the book store of all places. Got one for my wife. They're mad of seeds. You plant them and a bunch of different flowers grow. Company offers a lot of other interesting planting kits. https://modernsprout.com/

One regret I have is that I never owned a mini disc player. I know if I got one now I'd be utterly disappointed, but I'm sad I missed that that experience. I don't know if they were any good at all, but they looked so damn cool.

With recent events, I've been thinking about loss and grief and naturally ended up looking at the "stages of grief". They seemed to have zero relevance to anything I was experiencing, so I looked more into it. A. they were originally written as things dying people go through, not people […]

Recently I watched The Night Manager after finishing reading the LeCarre novel it's based on. I liked it, but only found out later that there is a second season!?! Just this year. It looks like it goes rogue, creating a whole new story with some of the characters from season one. The last […]

Been "dogfooding" my recplay app extensively, while adding new features. I didn't want to go to crazy on advanced scheduling features, but setting up cron jobs for weekly or daily recording works great. Wrote about it here: https://codeberg.org/bit101/recplay#crontab

I used recplay to record WERS's "Throwback Thursday" earlier and lo and behold, in honor of Kate Bush's birthday today (!!) it's an hour of her music. Lovely! https://wers.org/schedule-shows/throwback-thursday/ https://codeberg.org/bit101/recplay

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I focus so well when I'm in a meeting. Not on the meeting but whatever thing I'm multitasking on during the meeting. If I'm not in a meeting, I'm all over the place. I get so much done on other stuff when I'm in a meeting. Sometimes I wonder about myself.

me: we should not expose sensitive info to Claude coworker: we have an enterprise account, they won't use our data for training me: they settled a $1.5B lawsuit for illegally stealing data to train their models. coworker: apples and oranges me: yes, they stole apples, i don't trust them with […]

Things that have been raised in meetings recently: 2 weeks ago: our numbers of commits, PRs, tickets, show no noticeable velocity improvement that can be traced to our use of AI. Last week: engineer survey, most engineers report a 25-200% increase in productivity This week: The one engineer […]

Said goodbye to Yuki, my beloved, beautiful, faithful, funny best friend and close companion of the past 13 years this morning. It's almost walk time and I don't know wtf to do. I will probably walk anyway.

I need to rework my zen browser install on Manjaro. Every time I update, it compiles the entire browser from source. Takes hours. I keep saying I'll change it to a precompiled binary, but this time for sure.

TIL that "footgun" is a common term for when you "shoot yourself in the foot". I thought it was just something we came up with in our company.

I wrote something up on this app I worked on over the weekend. https://bit-101.com/blog/posts/2026-07-26/recplay/

BIT-101: Recplay

A new command line app that plays and records live audio streams.

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More and more I've become fixated on earlier parts of my life. It's been causing me tension for a while, but now I'm past tense.

I wrote something up on this app I worked on over the weekend. https://bit-101.com/blog/posts/2026-07-26/recplay/

BIT-101: Recplay

A new command line app that plays and records live audio streams.

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recplay is coming along nicely. Listening to a nice show I recorded earlier today. https://codeberg.org/bit101/recplay

recplay

A command line app for recording live audio streams such as internet radio.

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Last year I set up a NAS with TrueNAS and I've been very happy with it. ZFS raid is great, backups, redundancy, tests, snapshots, all the things. My data has never been so secure. I also set up a few apps on there - Jellyfin, Forgejo, FreshRSS, etc. But it's not really great as a general home […]

If you find yourself with an unnatural addiction to eating seaweed, you should sea kelp.

Firefox’s new tab page adds AI-powered daily crossword widget Exactly the next feature I was hoping for in my browser. Good to see Mozilla has its priorities straight. </s> https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/07/firefox-new-widgets-crossword

Firefox’s new tab page adds AI-powered daily crossword widget

More widgets are coming to Firefox’s New Tab page, including an interactive crossword puzzle powered by the AI news service Particle. The mini crossword game is updated daily, with puzzles based around recent content from the AI summary app Particle, replete with links to articles from the service which you can read to help you deduce crossword answers from the clues provided. You click on a square to activate the row or column (clicking on it again switches between “Across” and “Down”). You read the clue at the bottom, and then you type in your answer. Use the hint button […] You're reading Firefox’s new tab page adds AI-powered daily crossword widget, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.

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