Earth Must Die | Pensive Ibex

Story 7 - dawn - Sylvia's Studio

Every morning, I get up before dawn to make coffee and saunter to either the bench under the apple tree or to the conservatory when it's either cold or when...

Friday Random Ten for 19th January 2024

Ten random songs from my collection

Can a Bull Snake Be a Show Snake?

Where Nature Meets Culture—Plus Wildfire, Dogs, Environmental News, and Writing with a Southern Rockies Perspective.

TIL: how to check why a Nix package is in the Nix Store | Heitor's log

Ever wondered why a package ended up in your Nix store? Here's how nix why-depends can help you find out.

Taking the Airbus to the IKEA Cloud - Bert Hubert's writings

This article is part of a series on (European) innovation and capabilities. The very short version: All of computing is moving to the cloud at a rapid pace, including (government) parts you might want to keep under your own control Europe has no relevant ‘hyperscaler’ cloud providers at all, and there is a desire to change this by policy means Competing with the IKEA-concept is nearly impossible. Offering IKEA-like products but then with a smaller range is not an attractive proposition.

Yellow Roses | Noahie's Blog

This is my blog where I post all of my most recent writing for you, for free. Good stuff here, seriously.

This was yesterday’s post

It eeked out today. Why even mention? I have a reason, a plan. But it was meant to be this past week was old school blogging the way I wrote them in say 2004. Short bits of anything. Everything. Mo…

Gemini CLI vs GitHub Copilot (redux)

Given I'm almost certainly going to drop GitHub Copilot starting next month, I'm using Gemini CLI more and more for BlogMore. Yesterday evening, I used it to plan out an idea for a change to the application. Now that I've migrated all images to WebP, I thought it might be interesting to look at the idea of having a responsive approach to images. This is something I don't know a whole lot about (never having needed to bother with it before), but it also happens that I need to read up on this anyway for something related to the day job; given this, it felt like a good time to experiment.

The Genesis Mission Puts AI in Charge of Our Science. As a Security Pro, I’m Not Sold.

An editorial from a cybersecurity practitioner on Trump’s Genesis Mission executive order, and why centralizing federal science data into a single AI mega-platform raises serious security, privacy, and power-imbalance concerns.