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2000 Years of Christ's Power Volume 2 by Nick Needham

Why read the book? Nick Needham wrote 2000 Years of Christ's Power Volume 2: The Middle Ages. It is the second book in his clear and readable church history series. This volume covers the long medi...

Mageia 10 released with Linux 6.18 kernel, wayland by default on Plasma & GNOME, and more

Mageia 10 has been released as the latest version of this Linux distribution for desktops and servers, almost 3 years after the latest major update. Building on its Mandriva Linux roots, Mageia 10 ...

Scientists Solve the Mystery of the Death of the Medici Brothers, Clearing Centuries of Speculation About Poisoning

In 1562, Cardinal Giovanni de’ Medici, scion of the dynasty that dominated the politics and banking of Tuscany during the Renaissance, died of malaria. Twenty-five years later, in 1587, his older b...

Debugging Notes on Two SwiftUI Animation Bugs

Easy-to-use animation has always been one of SwiftUI's defining features. But the nature of a declarative framework is a double-edged sword: once an animation misbehaves, tracking down the cause is...

Apostasy

"Apostasy" is the abandonment or renunciation of a religious (or political) belief. Yesterday's post on Canon 70 of the Fourth Lateran Council discussed the concern over Jews who converted to Chris...

Movies / TV - May & Jun 2026

These are the movies and TV shows I watched over the past couple of months. A note about ratings: I had a convo with someone recently about "ratings inflation" where people rarely rate anything 5/1...

Building kannada-kasturi-embeddings

Embeddings are numerical representations of real-world objects, such as words, phrases, text, images, audio, and video. Since the real world is so complex, these representations are usually vector ...

6 Backup Tools for Linux Users of All Kind

From desktop servers, from single machine to a fleet, here are the backup tools you could explore for your Linux system(s).

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They’ve read the scroll thing! AI helps decipher ancient document charred by Vesuvius

“A sealed scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum, which was destroyed by Mount Vesuvius’ eruption nearly 2,000 years ago, has finally given up its secrets, thanks to a combination of machine lea...

Blocking complete ASN IP ranges automatically on FreeBSD with pf based on nginx logs

Some time ago I though that putting up an AI poison maze on my site is a great way of doing something against bots that do not respect robots.txt. It was, until I got hit by botnets which never bac...

June 2026

2026 is officially 50% done. My goal for this month’s post was to have a proper tagline for the lead, but I can’t think of anything… 🍀 Life Our youngest daughter is growing and “waking up”! It’s st...

Holes

The Bear

I didn’t expect The Bear to make me uncomfortable. Not because of the kitchen chaos or the screaming, and there’s plenty of both. Because of how much the characters care. Carmen beating himself ove...

Not Done Yet

Yesterday, I played trivia at a new bar. I was at this place a few minutes from my house a few weeks ago—in an entertainment district in my town—and was hanging out, doing stuff on my laptop. Acros...

Sam Alito Still Has His Job — See Also

Reports Of Samuel Alito's Retirement Have Been Greatly Exaggerated: A lil' oopsie from NPR. Small firms, big money: Raises and bonuses going around. No Holds Barred Take On Attorney General Nominee...

Building a Fiber-Coupled Laser Source for Precision Optics

Laser diodes are convenient light sources, but for precise optical work their often-elliptical beam profile leaves something to be desired. One way to get around this is to couple the …read more

Seeing Red Lettuce

Read Seeing Red Lettuce Customer: "Why don't you carry Red Leaf lettuce anymore?" Me: "It never sold quickly enough; not enough people were buying it. It just went bad every time we ordered it." Cu...

x86-Prozessor in CSS

Jemand hat einen x86-Prozessor in CSS emuliert.

WhatsApp is adding usernames to let people chat without sharing their phone numbers

WhatsApp is set to introduce usernames later this year, allowing users to chat without sharing their phone numbers for privacy. Once the feature goes live, phone numbers will no longer be shown to ...