78 Followers
153 Following
824 Posts
OpenBSD Slacker, CS student. Interested in all things BSDs, security, LISP and compilers. From Italy, currently trying to learn Japanese.
Bloghttps://www.omarpolo.com/
Italian Bloghttps://it.omarpolo.com
Gemini Capsulegemini://gemini.omarpolo.com
Honk@[email protected]

2/

If you’d like to learn all about this phenomenon – which extends way beyond plurals but has got nothing to do with vowel alternations in verbs, such as ‘ride ~ rode ~ ridden’ – I highly recommend Danny Bate’s article:
https://dannybate.com/2022/03/17/of-mouses-and-mans-the-origins-of-englishs-vowel-swapping-nouns-and-verbs/

Of Mouses and Mans? — The Origins of English’s Vowel-Swapping Nouns and Verbs

Introduction: Nouns, Verbs and Variable Vowels In present-day English, the plural of mouse is usually mice, and one man plus another equals two men. While most English nouns are made plural simply …

Danny L. Bate

Something a bit worrying to note about using Ai in healthcare.

I’ve had two specialist appointments recently, both using ai to transcribe. Both sent report letters with inaccuracies about my diagnoses and past medical history. Even my GP was like, “huh, that directly contradicts what I put in the referrals.”

I have followed up both and requested amendments (which were done) but if I hadn’t, these inaccuracies could have significantly damaged ongoing care, further treatment or insurance claims.

Human error has always been a factor, but both doctors were clearly using the ai software and assuming what it spat out was correct. They made no other notes during the appointments to cross-reference and double check. This is how Very Bad Things can happen.

It's truly amazing how GitHub is all 2026 design where it doesn't matter (AI integration and unnavigable, slow Web 5.0 frontend) and 1995 design where it does matter (exclusively supports IPv4 and SHA-1 git checksums)

Millennium Actress di Satoshi Kon arriva al cinema in edizione rimasterizzata dall'11 al 13 maggio, come celebrazione del suo 25° anniversario.

#anime #film #cinema #satoshikon

GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone around the world without requiring personal information, identification or an account. GrapheneOS and our services will remain available internationally. If GrapheneOS devices can't be sold in a region due to their regulations, so be it.

Fun fact:

Without any extra apps, just using #DeltaChat, you can read #Gemini capsules on any operating system where Delta Chat runs, using bots:

https://i.delta.chat/#E0421EA0951C59A565F470F5241C8A542ACEF9D1&a=www2delta%40chatmail.woodpeckersnest.space&n=www&i=6OPTVCRUmdD&s=1giWmIckD_r

This is useful because you can then forward the message to groups or other friends without them needing to install any app to read the capsule

#tips #ArcaneChat #tip

‘Luncheon of the Boating Party’ is an 1881 painting by French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It is now in The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.

It’s going to Paris to the Musée d'Orsay for the major exhibition ‘Renoir and Love: A Joyful Modernity’. The work is on view from March 17 to July 19, 2026.

That same exhibition will move to London in October. Unfortunately the painting will have returned to DC and won’t be in London.

#art #impressionism #Renoir #exhibition #Europe

If you told me in 1990 that a coalition of Opus Dei and Italian fascists were going to platform a gay billionaire Republican to challenge the pope on end-times doctrine, I would conclude that one if not both of us was having a stroke

I'm actually quite surprised at the number of open source repositories using git rev-parse --parseopt for option parsing, even for things that are not Git-related.

I use it in my code because it's a reasonable, portable way to get sensible option parsing in shell scripts in a way that works across shells and OSes. Apparently other people had the same idea.

Despite its looks, the English word ‘heart’ is etymologically related to ‘cardio’, ‘cordial’, ‘to record’, ‘courage’, and even Spanish ‘corazón’.

Through Germanic, Greek, and Latin, these words all derive from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning “heart”.

In Germanic, sound changes that are called Grimm’s Law radically changed its consonants.

Click my new infographic to learn how: