Ky Walsh was recently moved to palliative care with stage IV pancreatic cancer, and he does not expect to live much longer. Dictating his words to a volunteer scribe through bone-deep exhaustion, Walsh has shared his final reflections on life, loss, and society.

https://www.alanbonnici.com/2026/03/life-without-parole-letters-from-prison.html

#CriminalJusticeReform #VictimsRights #PrisonReform #WealthInequality #SocialJustice #Feudalism #ViolenceAgainstWomen #NonProfitTransparency #WomensAdvocacy #TTMO

NUT (Network UPS Tools) is nearly 30 years old, GPL-licensed, and still the best way to monitor your UPS on Linux — but setup can get tricky with older or obscure hardware.

New guide covers the full stack: driver detection, immutable battery thresholds, upsmon shutdown logic, email alerts & testing with forced shutdown commands.

Essential reading for homelab and Linux sysadmins. 🔌

https://www.alanbonnici.com/2026/03/setting-up-nut-ups-software-on-linux.html

#NUT #Linux #Homelab #SelfHosted #OpenSource #SysAdmin #UPS #FOSS #TTMO

A quiet path wrapped in morning mist, where sunlight breaks through the trees and turns the whole scene into something almost otherworldly. Soft rays, stillness, and that fleeting moment when nature feels suspended in time.

#Photography #MistyMorning #ForestPath #Photo #NatureMagic #SereneScenes #TTMO

If you run Linux servers and need them to send alerts, reports, or monitoring notifications, this guide explains how to configure Postfix to send mail through Gmail SMTP.

The guide covers installation, authentication, TLS encryption, and testing email delivery.

Simple step-by-step instructions — useful for sysadmins and homelab users.

https://www.alanbonnici.com/2026/03/install-and-configure-postfix-using.html

#Linux #Postfix #SysAdmin #Homelab #DevOps #ServerAdmin #TTMO

An 80‑year‑old Ky Walsh reflects from his prison cell on the mother who, in a world that failed her at every turn, still managed to give him something that never left him: a belief in the power of words.

⚠️ Content warning: suicide, institutional abuse, child poverty.

www.alanbonnici.com/2026/02/life-without-parole-letters-from-prison.html

#Writing #Fiction #LifeWithoutParole #FictionalMemoir #Motherhood #SurvivalStory #JusticeSystemFailings #HistoricalFiction #Bookish #TTMO

The image captures a beautifully weathered stone wall featuring an intricate carved motif — a symmetrical, floral geometric pattern set into rectangular limestone blocks.

#TTMO #Malta #StoneCarvings #MediterraneanVibes #Architectural #Stone #art

The chapel of the "Madonna delle Grazie" at Giarratana, Sicily. The inscription in Italian carved above the arch: “CI AFFIDIAMO CON FEDE ED AMORE ALLA GRAN MADRE DISPENSIERA DI TUTTE LE GRAZIE”

#Giarratana #Sicily #Luminarie #Traditions #Photography #Culture #TTMO #Religion #Photo

In this eye-opening video, we highlight a serious issue of disrespect and invasion of privacy. If you recognize this individual, we urge you to kindly approach them and politely request that they stop entering other people's private property without permission. Furthermore, make it clear that urinating on someone else's home is completely unacceptable.

https://youtu.be/kE-WTynxxmk

#RespectPrivateProperty #NoTrespassing #CommunityRespect #PublicDecency #StopDisrespectfulBehavior #TTMO #Malta

At 14, Maureen Walsh was cast out for getting pregnant and sent to a “home” for unwed mothers, where girls were worked, shamed and often robbed of their babies. She refused to give hers up. Decades later, that child writes about her from a prison cell.

https://www.alanbonnici.com/2026/02/life-without-parole-letters-from-prison.html

#Writing #Fiction #LifeWithoutParole #FictionalMemoir #Motherhood #SurvivalStory #JusticeSystemFailings #HistoricalFiction #TTMO

AG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) is the solution. Here's how to build your own RAG server from scratch using ollama, Open WebUI and Chroma DB!

✅ Document processing ✅ Vector embeddings ✅ Smart retrieval ✅ Production-ready API

Tutorial 👉 https://medium.com/@chribonn/how-to-create-a-local-rag-enabled-llm-server-that-provides-safe-access-to-your-documents-788a3c8fb447

#RetrievalAugmentedGeneration #RAG #AIEngineering #LLM #Python #TTMO #OpenSource #AI