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C-list Blogger Since 2004. Systems Mechanic, Conference Wannabe. Hot chili, mild takes. he/him || they/them https://flameeyes.blog/?mtm_campaign=social&mtm_kwd=bluesky&mtm_content=profile
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You know things are not good when your *Status* page is not loading either. #HugOps to the @fastmail.com folks — I think they'll need a lot.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Hey Canada! Somehow nobody contributed any entries for ipv6-in-real.life for your country. Help me see if your infrastructure is more or less futuristic than the UK! (It's not a high bar, honestly!)

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Okay one more post about this. I wish more games today had a "play by email" option. Adult gamers having a hard time finding enough time and energy to meet up in realtime to play could *totally* use something like that. Heck, my mother playing something like Royal Story is not that far off!

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Hey I actually played hours and hours of this! And contributed to the Wikidata entry for it because with its name it is annoyingly hard to disambiguate 😅

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

This. I'm with Liz on this — and I said that before: LLMs can be CASE tools that augment our productivity rather than hurt us. (Unless you're seeing programming as handcrafting, which is fine, but it's the difference between a hobby lathe and an industrial plant!) flameeyes.blog/2023/12/31/l...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

So my friends at @genkigear.bsky.social are celebrating their 20th anniversary! If you follow me, you may remember them from my showcase during COVID lockdown: flameeyes.blog/2020/05/02/c... The range has only extended since then, thus as always they have something for everyone!

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Mostly relevant to fellow UK taxpayers, but generally useful to understand taxes nearly everywhere. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

Does anyone have a suggestion for connecting one of those silly Apple-proprietary SSDs that use 16+12 edge connectors to a modern laptop? Clearly you can't connect those in an NVMe adapter, since they're AHCI. Is there a more generic PCI-E to Thunderbolt adapter?

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

It feels like a lot of people start to have opinions about rewriting software and programming languages — I will point out at something I wrote a few years back. flameeyes.blog/2022/10/26/o...

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Now more than ever we must stand with Ukraine and work alongside our European partners to support a just peace, even in the absence of a reliable ally in the US.

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

@zekefaux.bsky.social your book was discussed yesterday on BBC Radio 4, it's now on their podcast. Books and Authors: A Good Read: Oliver Burkeman and Sara Collins Episode webpage: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

Whirlpool AP330W: It’s A Trap So I disassembled my Whirlpool AP330W air purifier, and yes I keep thinking this was a white label, low-quality job, and it's possible there is no real way to replace the filter!

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

Just started listening to the latest episode of Fish and once again, @andrewhunterm.bsky.social is my people.

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

Another thing that my blog survived: the gold linker. flameeyes.blog/tag/gold/?mt... lwn.net/Articles/100...

submitted 118 days ago • 0 comments

Hardware Review: Ozlo Sleepbuds A quick review of a decent piece of "sleep technology" that has been making my sleep more restful over the past few weeks.

submitted 119 days ago • 1 comment

We all have things - clothes, electronics, furniture - that has unexpectedly lasted for decades. But most of our stuff falls apart annoyingly quickly. So is it possible to buy only stuff that lasts? And how? www.ft.com/content/aff9...

submitted 127 days ago • 71 comments

Somehow, reading @lwndotnet.bsky.social on the Boox AirC is much more pleasant with Firefox than Chrome. Neither of them supports choosing font weight though, just size. I would have just increased weight for the eink screen.

submitted 131 days ago • 0 comments

From Furniture Websites To Sweet Home 3D Rambling a bit about how to get 3D models from furniture stores websites into the Sweet Home 3D interior design app when planning how to arrange furniture in a (possible) new house.

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