Mar 24, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Re; On AI in response to: A Positive Technologist Identity (4/4) (See parts 1, 2, and 3 of my response.) I conclude my response with a favorable reply to Mr. Powiertowski’s eloquent penultimate paragraph. He includes a general disclosure statement of sorts above...
Mar 24, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Re; On AI in response to: A Positive Technologist Identity (3/4) (See parts 1 and 2 of my response.) Mr. Powitowski shared an interesting essay by Benjamin Breen. Mr. Breen, a historian and writer, explained that he respectfully abstains from AI in his areas of ...
Mar 24, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Re; On AI in response to: A Positive Technologist Identity (2/4) (See part 1 of my reply.) Mr. Powiertowski writes that the point on which he would “push back gently is on the implication that AI-assisted media is somehow lesser for being assisted,” using early ...
Mar 24, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Re; On AI in response to: A Positive Technologist Identity (1/4) I published a short post titled A Positive Technologist Identity, wherein I offered my thoughts on a longer post by Wojtek Powiertowski titled The tool, the craft, and the joy. In the main, I appre...
Mar 24, 2026 from Toni Notes Distribution should not begin with panic Small-blog distribution works better when it is designed before publication. A post should have a public shape, a resurfacing path, and a few fitting routes before it goes live.
Mar 23, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Adding Victor V. Gurbo’s YouTube Channel to NLJ Blogroll Victor V. Gurbo is a Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter (see his official website). I have known him for just about 20 years now (we both agree that has been way too long but it is too late now to do...
Mar 23, 2026 from Ambient Irony Daily News Stuff 23 March 2026 Lemon Presbyterian Edition Top Story Elon Musk has announced TeraFab, a Tesla-SpaceX joint venture to bring the various companies' (including xAI and I guess Twitter) chip manufacturing together un...
Mar 23, 2026 from Jasco's Website The Redesign I talk about rewriting Notex and integrating it more deeply into my website pipeline.
Mar 23, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Sony’s Very Long-Term PS3 Support On February 8, 2022, I wrote an article praising Nintendo for its apparent commitment to support the Nintendo Switch (which is still being supported notwithstanding the presence of Switch 2) for a ...
Mar 23, 2026 from It's FOSS LibreOffice is Adding a Donation Banner That Might Annoy Some Users The feature has already been merged into LibreOffice 26.8's development builds.
Mar 23, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-23-26 Monday is the beginning of the work week. But it is also Pook-Emu Bee links day. Of course, every day except Newsletter Saturday is Pook-Emu Bee links day… 1. Hiding Behind Pen Names (Jerome Mazand...
Mar 23, 2026 from It's FOSS Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support The project removes the birthDate field systemd added last week in response to age verification laws.
Mar 23, 2026 from Fatbobman's Blog Is My App Stuck in Review? - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #128 Last Thursday, a user in my Discord community complained that their app had been submitted to App Store Connect for four or five days but still hadn't entered the review process. While I was enthus...
Mar 23, 2026 from It's FOSS Systemd Crossword: Test Your Knowledge of Linux "ctl Commands" A fun Linux crossword puzzle featuring systemd ctl commands like systemctl and journalctl. Perfect for testing and improving your Linux skills.
Mar 23, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Internet Reply Posting Maddy Miller wrote a good essay titled I wish reply articles worked better. As a fellow fan of site-to-site conversations (and not at all a fan of social media), I too wish that reply articles work...
Mar 23, 2026 from Ploum.net Scène de salle d’attente Scène de salle d’attente Extrait de mon journal du 6 mars, dans la salle d’attente du docteur X. Le couple entre, asphyxiant l’air de l’étroite salle d’attente avec leurs remugles de fumée de cigar...
Mar 23, 2026 from Heitor's log # is not always a comment symbol in Bash `#` starts a comment in Bash, but not always. A small quirk with a clear rule.
Mar 23, 2026 from Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots! Weekly Robotics #353 I'm super overextended the last couple of days, so no proper intro today, let's look into some cool robotics news and projects! This issue is brought to you by our sponsors: Designing the human sid...
Mar 22, 2026 from The Emu Café Social NAF Blogroll Entry: Joel Chrono I credited a blog post to the personal blog of the pseudonymous Joel Chrono with giving me a concept for my new New Leaf Journal Blogroll. Because Joel Chrono’s post gave me an idea and I read his ...
Mar 22, 2026 from GadgeteerZA Big Win for Open Source as Germany Backs Open Document Format “Germany has strictly standardised its digital document requirements. The Deutschland-Stack (in Deutsch), the country’s new sovereign digital infrastructure framework, names just two document forma...
