Nelson Minar

Full stack homosexual.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/nelson
Weblog: https://www.somebits.com/weblog/
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2026-05-30 22:47:38 UTC

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when I was a kid I went to a summer camp that had a strict no sweets policy for kids. But if you picked a whole #10 can of blackberries then the nice Mennonite ladies in the cafeteria would bake a cobbler for you to share with the other boys. What a treat!

2026-05-30 22:20:58 UTC

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I am very grateful to my markets but blackberries don't taste quite as good when you can just buy them by the pint. OTOH I hear there are seedless blackberries in the works and that sounds like a significant improvement!

2026-05-30 17:05:20 UTC

2026-03-10 22:54:56 UTC

Home from our lovely trip. Here's a [collection of my postcard posts](https://www.somebits.com/%7Enelson/postcards/2026-italy-france-spain/gallery.html ) in a nice web viewer.
I'm thinking of turning this Mastodon → web page script I use into a product others can use too. I really like the result.

2026-02-15 19:29:59 UTC

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I can't read Yegge but I had Gemini read it for me.
> Steve Yegge argues that while advanced AI tools like Claude Code provide a massive productivity boost, they act as "energy vampires" that cause rapid developer burnout through extreme mental exhaustion.

2025-12-13 02:11:18 UTC

I haven't launched Firefox in months. Today it popped up this ad on my Windows machine. Guess it's time to uninstall it entirely.
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2025-10-28 18:28:45 UTC

TIL that % routing of email (ie: nelson%example.com@relayserver.com is basically dead and gone. It mostly hasn't worked for years because of spam issues but modern mail systems don't even recognize it. Source routes got deprecated in RFC 2821 (from 2001) and fully removed in RFC 5321 (2008).

2025-10-22 14:01:46 UTC

It is 7:00 a.m. and still dark out in California. Daylight savings time is incredibly stupid.

2025-10-22 11:46:06 UTC

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do you think that works well on a 3X retina display?

2025-10-16 10:35:49 UTC

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I run a little aggregator for the big ones, see [Feditrends](https://feditrends.com/ ). I didn't write the code, just took it over when the original author got tired of it.

2025-09-29 14:34:08 UTC

I signed up for the USPS's "send photos of your mail" service so now every day I get an email with pictures of spam.
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2025-09-14 13:19:15 UTC

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The tone curve on this photo is fascinating

2025-09-02 22:54:08 UTC

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this is a good article. The bit about how his non-technical friends already have passkeys was particularly interesting to me.

2025-08-24 22:49:54 UTC

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Here's [an archival record of this photo](https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102741216/ ). 1957. "From left to right, Donald Cropper, K. C. Krishnan, Grace Hopper, and Norman Rothberg."

2025-08-23 20:35:25 UTC

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just check the 7+ box George.

2025-08-23 19:03:26 UTC

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what do you use for email?

2025-08-23 18:52:06 UTC

How many pillows do you have on your bed?

2025-08-22 21:12:05 UTC

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respectfully, that big green button will just capture all the "I hate all AI and reflexively disable it" sentiment and won't actually measure whether the features are worth a damn. I agree they should have a clear opt-out but what is AI isn't even clear is it? Do you want browser spell correction? URL autocomplete?

2025-08-17 03:04:11 UTC

I bought a cheap fitness tracker watch. And it has all these incredibly abusive upsells. Here they are offering me a discount because they like how I am sleeping. This is so unethical. How did anyone do this?
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2025-08-13 20:34:20 UTC

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I prefer to convey emotions using the settings on my Penfield Mood Organ. Such as here, 742. A brisk impulse to counter a peevish remark with a lightly absurd quip.

2025-08-07 22:47:47 UTC

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Economist is also more or less like that, except they engage more directly with the Trump stuff and call bullshit on bullshit. It's refreshing to get an outside source. In some other ways the publication is unpleasantly right wing: James Bennet has had an unfortunate influence.

2025-08-05 13:46:26 UTC

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you know, you could expand this last post into a whole article and it'd be fascinating.

2025-07-30 15:18:37 UTC

One annoying tech thing is people seem to have forgotten that filenames matter. My desktop is littered with things like ad3b1359-ba15-4898-8801-23b8213b1f1c.JPEG.jpg

2025-07-16 17:20:14 UTC

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if you had more love in your heart you wouldn't say such mean things on fedi.

2025-07-07 16:54:09 UTC

A particular feature of the Google Play Store for Android apps is how when you search for an app by name they show you an ad for some other app, trying to trick you into installing that instead.

2025-07-06 00:41:58 UTC

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I never stopped using CGI for simple things. My weblog is still hosted with blosxom.cgi!

2025-07-02 14:11:04 UTC

@npub1gv2…tlwl how do you know an agent's code works? I'm trying to do more Claude Code and I just don't trust the output. Are you creating elaborate automated testing? Reading the code? Just visually inspecting the output?

2025-06-27 16:35:26 UTC

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some I think, Microsoft is aggressive advertising its own products

2025-06-27 15:29:03 UTC

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it's remarkable how much cruft MacOS has accumulated over the years. At this point it might be easier to get a clean Windows machine than a Mac :-(

2025-06-21 17:40:24 UTC

The album cover for [Rod McKuen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_McKuen )'s 1977 album "Slide... Easy In"
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2025-06-08 14:48:56 UTC

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29 hours plus 0–20 more hours. also you may take a bus.

2025-06-06 23:31:32 UTC

I've really been moved by Edward White's death and the tributes to him being written. His books have meant a lot to me as a gay man. I [wrote a blog post with more links](https://www.somebits.com/weblog/culture/books/edmund-white-1940-2025.html ), many also shared on @npub1wzf…u30y

2025-06-06 16:53:25 UTC

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every time Archive is down it reminds me of how much we all rely on it. Which worries me because you're literally the only resource out there like this. Not just Wayback, but the broader Archive. What would we do without it?

2025-06-01 16:11:27 UTC

Google Photos has a shortcut key for "delete the photo I am looking at". It's not backspace, or delete, or even D. It's #. Yes, Shift-3. Good job, UX experts!

2025-05-22 03:05:16 UTC

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I'm torn between not liking Skarsgård's casting because he's too masc and loving him because he's so hot and such a talented actor.

2025-05-20 11:39:00 UTC

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dunno about paper but back in 1999 my colleague [David Small](https://www.davidsmall.com/about ) was using a laser to [print on food](https://web.archive.org/web/20010224005951/http://www.media.mit.edu/ci/projects/foodforthought.html ). More like etching or ablation but he did some burning too.
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2025-05-17 19:20:38 UTC

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I like them better. It took about 90 seconds for the novelty to wear off and me to realize I liked the robot driver better than random Uber humans.

2025-05-11 16:24:16 UTC

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Bonus round: the US also has a "dry pint" unit of volume which is about 551mL. Totally different from the "wet pint", 473mL.
A proper pint is 568mL and contains cellar temperature bitter.

2025-05-11 16:22:10 UTC

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I was talking about ounces, the unit of weight (or mass). But we also have fluid ounces, a unit of volume.
In the US, a fluid ounce is ¹⁄₁₆ of a pint. It is 29.5735295625 millilitres. Unless you're looking at a food label, in which case it is 30mL.
In the UK, a fluid ounce is ¹⁄₂₀ of a pint. But it's a different pint. It is 28.4130625 mL.
A US fluid ounce weighs 1.041 ounces (varies slightly with temperature).
Fluid ounces can be written ƒ℥.

2025-05-11 16:13:42 UTC

The English word "ounce" comes from the Latin word "uncia" meaning 12th. An ounce is a 16th of a pound. Ounces can be written ℥.
The English word "inch" also comes from the Latin word "uncia". An inch is a 12th of a foot. But inches are divided by powers of two, so you talk about ¹⁄₁₆ of ¹⁄₁₂ of a foot. Inches can be written ″.

2025-05-06 23:01:15 UTC

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it's a crowded city and there's a little ambiguity. The car only encroaches a foot into my driveway so they convince themselves I can just go around. But that's incredibly dangerous and difficult. I just stand by my property rights now.

2025-05-06 22:24:43 UTC

Third car towed for blocking my driveway this year. They always knock on the door and ask where their car is and then get upset. They never once apologize for blocking my access to my house.

2025-05-05 03:48:27 UTC

This gave me a sensible chuckle.
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2025-04-19 00:25:30 UTC

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when I was reading your scene I imagined the whole thing with a Circle Jerks soundtrack

2025-04-17 22:50:20 UTC

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that's what ChromeOS is sorta. Also I think Mint and Ubuntu are both pretty Windows-like in their UIs.

2025-04-16 23:05:35 UTC

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I appreciate your courage initiating this conversation.

2025-04-16 21:25:41 UTC

Google is now outright spamming me, sending me an ad about Google Analytics with the footer "You have received this mandatory email service announcement to update you about important changes to your Google Analytics product or account." Here's a screenshot of the "important changes"
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2025-03-23 19:55:52 UTC

I keep thinking about the Florida couple who chose to wear these outfits while bicycle touring in Vietnam.
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2025-03-18 17:05:33 UTC

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just curious, do you know about [Gemini](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol) )? It had a little momentum last year as a lightweight web replacement. Gopher-like, but newfangled.

2025-03-12 05:04:46 UTC

Watching YouTube clips of the coming Pink Floyd Live at Pompeiii remaster and re-experiencing high school acid-soaked memories of the VHS bootleg. I have no idea if 1972 psychedelia has any relevance in 2025 but I sure hope so

2025-03-03 11:42:36 UTC

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Good evening from the Aqua Mekong in Cambodia!
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2025-03-03 03:58:40 UTC

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Some more shots from our morning: a sunrise, a tuktuk ride, a fancy chicken coop, and some silkworms and cocoons.
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2025-03-03 03:50:20 UTC

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The work is intricate but repetitive, seems sort of meditative. This woman worked very quickly and precisely. The slide of the shuttle across the warp is particularly satisfying. https://photos.app.goo.gl/54v1owAvUFvJ4RwYA

2025-03-03 03:46:31 UTC

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Woke up this morning for a tour of the silk industry at Koh Okhnatey, near Phnom Penh. They still hand spin silk and hand weave scarfs on simple looms. A lot of work and very delicate, beautiful fabrics.
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2025-03-02 23:58:19 UTC

Happy birthday to me! A fun thing about being on Asian time is you get to celebrate your birthday before all the automated robots do.

2025-03-02 14:02:42 UTC

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Good night Phnom Penh!
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2025-03-02 11:33:55 UTC

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There's something really special about the light on the Tonle Sap river, a tributary to the Mekong. Limpid sunrise and sunset, a stillness and glow that fills the sky.
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2025-03-02 04:41:32 UTC

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The pot making was really impressive. She makes 50 consistent round pots a day without a wheel. Mostly walking in a circle around the pot and shaping it with hands and tools. Very high skill for a humble product. Short video clip: https://photos.app.goo.gl/6NujDvrFHzoNDNUGA

2025-03-02 04:40:17 UTC

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This morning's tourist visit was to Kampong Chhnang, an area that has traditional pottery. We had demonstrations of making pots, making clay stoves, and harvesting sugar palm juice.
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2025-03-02 04:31:17 UTC

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We are learning a lot this trip that is hard to convey in photos. Cambodia is poor but developing. And people here seem reasonably comfortable, well fed, sheltered. And most importantly: happy, content? It's humbling. I'm certain some of that well-being comes from Buddhist culture. It is particularly remarkable given the awful history of war and genocide in recent memory.

2025-03-02 04:25:55 UTC

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Kampong Prasat turned out to be more of a new normal village (built along a road along the river) and not much left floating. Was a good introduction to what ordinary village life looks like. A lot of fishing, also small scale rice farming.
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2025-03-01 07:15:01 UTC

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And religion. Udong is home to the [Cambodia Vipassana Dhura Buddhist Meditation Center](https://www.cambodiavipassanacenter.com/ ), a well-funded monastery founded by [Som Buntheoun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Bunthoeun ). We got a nice overview of what Buddhist monastic life is like and the role of the religion in daily life. Photos include cute monk boys and a procession for the day's lunch.
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2025-03-01 06:47:59 UTC

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Some commerce photos. In Koh Chen they make hammered metalwork, this one is a copper bowl. And Udong is a domestic tourist site so it has a market selling all sorts of delicious snacks for daytrippers.
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2025-02-28 23:46:46 UTC

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It's a new day! Today we visit Koh Chen, a village with silversmiths. Then Udong, a Buddhist temple site. This afternoon we go to Kampong Prasat, a floating village.
We are on the Tonle Sap river these next few days.
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2025-02-28 10:00:01 UTC

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Made it to our cabin on the Mekong River cruise for the next week.
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2025-02-28 05:47:12 UTC

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Then a visit to the [National Museum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_Cambodia ) with beautiful art but also a reminder of how much has been destroyed or stolen.
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2025-02-28 05:41:18 UTC

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Morning visit to the [Central Market](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Market_(Phnom_Penh) ), a 1937 art deco building from the zenith of French colonialism. Center is cheap shlock but the sides of the market have fantastic fresh fish, cooked foods, hair-dressers, toilet paper, etc.
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2025-02-28 02:04:03 UTC

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One striking thing about Phnom Penh is how functional the city is. The last major war here was just 45 years ago and the economy only normalized around 1990.

2025-02-27 05:31:52 UTC

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Highlight of the trip so far was last night, a [Street Food Tour of Phnom Penh](https://urbanforage.co/product/phnom-penh-food-tour/ ). Tuktuk tour of seven different casual food places, sidewalk restaurants and old grandmas making coconut desserts on the side of the road. Super fun and delicious!
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2025-02-27 05:24:11 UTC

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I'm very glad I visited these genocide monuments and learned some of the Cambodian history. It is very recent, a fresh wound.
The US has a role in creating this history and a responsibility for helping Cambodia recover. Unfortunately the Republicans have destroyed USAID, causing great chaos in many social aid programs in a matter of days. I am ashamed.
Back to happier tourist times in Cambodia...

2025-02-27 04:53:10 UTC

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This morning we visited [Choeung Ek (ជើងឯក)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choeung_Ek ), one of the "killing fields" from the Cambodian genocide. More of a memorial than an interpretive museum, it has the feeling of a rough open grave. They've left many bones in the ground, scattered on the surface. Skulls of victims are collected respectfully in a central stupa.
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2025-02-26 05:50:24 UTC

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🖼
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2025-02-26 05:46:03 UTC

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We visited the [Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuol_Sleng_Genocide_Museum ) today, very heavy. I've been to a lot of memorials to Nazi victims. This felt similar only the atrocities are from just 45 years ago. And of course a different history, but a similar form of totalitarian murder. Difficult visit but well done, the audioguide in particular was excellent.

2025-02-26 05:44:23 UTC

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Enjoying Phnom Penh's urban vibe. Cambodia has this sort of calm chaos in the traffic, everyone's chill even as motos and cars come from all directions and speeds. Not sure how to photograph it well, these aren't great.
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2025-02-25 11:46:29 UTC

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Made it to Phnom Penh. Enjoying colonialist excess at the Elephant Bar of Sir Raffles.
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2025-02-24 10:36:59 UTC

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The coolest part of Bayon are all these relief sculptures of daily life. I love this detail of a goat standing behind a cart wheel. Quite visually sophisticated for a relief sculpture!
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2025-02-24 10:34:58 UTC

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But wait, there's more! We went this afternoon back to Bayon (Angkor Thom), an 800+ year old Buddhist temple a few km from the many Hindu temples. Very impressive.
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2025-02-24 05:06:24 UTC

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And finally the big event, Angkor Wat. There are zillions of much better photos you can find of the place, but these are mine. Also so glad to see it in person, understand how it fits together. The temple complex is mind-bogglingly huge.
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2025-02-24 04:55:09 UTC

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More Cambodian food, breakfast at [Sala Kdei](https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g297390-d26820626-Reviews-Sala_Kdei-Siem_Reap_Siem_Reap_Province.html ) near Angkor Wat. My favorite was the [Nom Bohn Chok](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Num_banhchok ) នំបញ្ចុក, rice noodles with fish and coconut broth.
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2025-02-24 04:48:29 UTC

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Cambodian food is good y'all. Dinner at the hotel with an Apsara dance performance.
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2025-02-23 10:56:50 UTC

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Made it to Siem Reap, tomorrow is Angkor Wat. Some first impression photos, it's a big change from Singapore.
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2025-02-22 10:21:44 UTC

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More snaps from Singapore today. We had a true Singapore meal at the Paulaner Bräuhaus. Also the aquarium, and view from our hotel.
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2025-02-21 13:09:12 UTC

We arrived in Singapore! Exhausted but comfortable.
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2025-02-15 19:58:59 UTC

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Calibre isn't sketchy but is a very clunky product.
It's probably easier to download unlicensed copies from Anna's Archive or Z-Library. Glad to provide more details on access if it's not obvious to you. Internet Archive has as lot of books too but right now they're all locked up.

2025-02-06 22:14:43 UTC

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have you ever been tempted to build an airplane?

2025-01-26 14:17:13 UTC

I installed the experimental Arc browser on my desktop a few months ago and then forgot about it. I haven't used it for a long time. Today I learned it's spying on my computer's location in the background all the time.

2025-01-24 17:47:27 UTC

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these notes are tantalizing.
Has anyone written a good social media history of Fidonet? It's very important. Usenet is well represented but not so much any others.

2025-01-18 13:07:53 UTC

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TikTok is also the creation tool and the publishing tool. And the media are ephemeral. I totally get why people create and share things there without thinking they should make their own copy.

2025-01-17 16:12:31 UTC

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2025-01-10 00:09:13 UTC

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I've been to several museums in Germany that touch on this topic. Wartime in general was hard, folks were just trying to get by with limited food, wartime economy, etc. There was a lot of patriotism in favor of the Nazi state. Also forced compliance.
Even for Germans who were not Jewish / Communist / Queer it was not a good time. Obviously for the victims of the state it was way way worse.
One particular way to get at this is what the various Protestant churches did. Many of the complied or aided the Nazi Party but not all of them. This particular topic is very well researched.

2025-01-09 15:45:34 UTC

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lol I forgot that's a thing. I don't have a problem with the substitution in theory, but a targeted mind virus encouraging it seems evil to me.

2025-01-09 15:33:07 UTC

Facebook's surveillance figured out I'm doing Dry January. It responded by showing me ads for marijuana. "Nice sobriety experiment you've got going there... would you like to try a different drug?"
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2025-01-08 23:50:17 UTC

I love how Sniffies implemented its own jockstrap-themed CAPTCHA.
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2025-01-03 17:56:36 UTC

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you have an awful lot of patience

2025-01-01 05:13:40 UTC

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I respect the struggle to compute

2024-12-28 16:53:14 UTC

For the first time in years my amplified computer speakers are picking up noise from my cell phone. This was a big problem back in the GSM days but mostly went away. I wonder why it's suddenly back now?
Moving the phone a few inches away fixes it at least.

2024-12-22 02:27:40 UTC

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really, aren't all restaurants destined to be toilet themed?

2024-12-19 16:35:53 UTC

Do you know who Quentin Crisp is? Answer before you look it up!

2024-12-18 00:29:47 UTC

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I was postmaster@ and news@ for awhile at my college. It was not as glamorous as it sounds.

2024-12-15 03:41:31 UTC

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I'm struck by you using "blog" to mean "blog post". It's common enough but it seems odd coming from you, old-timer.