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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!

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

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

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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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Last year's most clicked blog post of mine was about Free Software washing machines, so let me revisit this again with some of the practical concerns I have, and why I won't be following up hands-on on this.

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Please send your book proposals to [email protected]. We review them weekly. Some key topics of interest: Go, Rust, coffee table books like Engineering in Plain Sight, Open Circuits, Game Console. Books for nerds, geeks, hackers. Cyber, cyber, cyber, etc.

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Listen, no, this is definitely some sort of coordinated inauthentic behaviour.

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End of the year appears to have woken up networking folks trying to convince us that 2025 is definitely the year of #IPv6! If you believe so, help me collect services that are totally definitely available over IPv6, to show that v4 is legacy, and users can totally give it up! ipv6-in-real.life

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Hm, US partisan-boasting accounts following me out of the blue. Nope, not suspicious at all. (For those who don't get it, I'm UK-based and a British/Italian citizen, the amount of care I give for US politics is limited to how the global scale is affected by it.)

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British Rental Property Management Agencies Are A Disease Note that this post is primarily about UK politics, so if you're here for technical content, you may want to just skip it. Some of the content and jargon assumes you're at least vaguely familiar with the news of the past year or so. This…

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The the fuck are you up against, Wikipedia? Because this is Taboola-level clickbait.

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TIL (from @tailscale.com) about the existence of JWCC. Or, how I feel like referring to it going forward, "Sane JSON." (Still, not a fan of JSON overall, but I _do_ see the appeal.)

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So my last blog post, about AGPL-3, reached the usual places (Hacker News, Lobsters), and as usual, there's some level of commentary there — but nobody bothered commenting on the blog itself. I hate those aggregators, they're discussion thieves. flameeyes.blog/2020/01/27/w...

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Defusing AGPL-3 With Batch Processing Preamble: this is an intentionally incendiary post, you could even define it as trolling. I have been thinking whether to publish this for a while, as it is on the border of being the type of unkind post I wouldn't want to be associated with. But I decided to…

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If you ever need to figure out my age, you should just see that my NAS stores copies of the (legit) installers and patches for Caesar 3, Dungeon Keepeper Gold, Nox, Settlers 3, Hexen II, and UT99.

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We ended up writing about hardening your Bluesky account for our newsletter. Spoiler alert: Email-based 2FA means you have yet more reason to secure your Bluesky email address. freedom.press/digisec/blog...

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Okay, I'm definitely old enough that FreeAgent reminds me of something else entirely... #OldUsenetFart

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Dear everyone who sends an email verification link: please include a "I never signed up for it" option. Signed: someone who just received a verification email from a legit company with which he has no business.

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Can we please stop listing "SSL Data Encryption" as something to be proud about on e-commerce sites? It's table stakes even for my eight years old niece's website by now.

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Since @lizthegrey.com reminded me it exists, I think it's a good time to remind newcomers (and not) that you shouldn't feel bad if you don't take part in #AdventOfCode or other similar coding programs—but do enjoy it if it's your cup of tea! flameeyes.blog/2024/04/21/o...

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My general online-ness is quite limited these days because between work and personal administrative tasks, if I'm not required to sit in front of a small screen I'm trying not to. On the other hand, on-call means I'm not going out in this weather anyway, so I'm enjoying that, too.

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Today is Unsubscribe Friday.

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FREE COMEDY KLAXON, NOT A DRILL: anyone who wants a free show, I will be presenting @bbcradio4’s new topical show, recorded on Thursday! Free tickets to The Naked Week are now available at sroaudiences.com. Come and see us messing around with the news/wasting licence fee payers' money LIVE.

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Documents Management (Searching For Bigfoot, Again) Context for the title: a few years ago, I wrote a post about the paperless office, quoting Jim Butcher and his quip about about the paperless office being more elusive than Bigfoot (and… https://flameeyes.blog/2024/11/24/documents-management/

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So it looks like that, at least on an incognito window for me here, my blog is the third result for "Google Reader" on Google. Quite ironic.

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