Leftovers

• James G ☛ The joy of incremental website improvements

  Making incremental improvements to one's personal website is a joy. Your site can evolve at your own pace, and as you learn. You don't need to set out with a grand ambition. You can make small changes when you have free time; nobody is there to tell you that you have to do something on a given day. (Except if you have anxiety like me, but that's a topic for a separate blog post.)

• James G ☛ Internet gardening

  A few months ago, someone referred to be as an "internet gardener." This title has stuck in my head ever since. I often note that I love tinkering with my website. Whereas some people garden plants, I garden the web. I write the thoughts on my mind. Sometimes, these are technical. Other times, whimsical. Other times, emotional; the result of months of contemplation and years of processing. I experiment with new ideas (plants); when I am out of ideas, I try a new plant.

• Jason Burk ☛ Hey, it's Jason! // OfficeSpace.gif

  You may be familiar with this little movie from 1999 called Office Space. I would call it a classic, dare I say, perfect film. This isn’t an in-depth think piece on Office Space but rather a journey of sharing the movie in a somewhat new way. One of the things that makes this movie special to me and many others is just how damn quotable it is. It feels like every line of dialog can stand alone and is totally relatable (for a certain segment of office workers). This got me thinking, it’s 2024, gifs from movies are still fun and there are certainly Office Space gifs all over the web, but what if there was a gif for every single line of dialog!?

• Antonio Rodrigues ☛ 20 years of blogging

  Last Tuesday, on Feb 27th it was the twentieth anniversary of this blog. I’m far from an active blogger but I like to think that this still exist 20 years later.

• Shariq Raza Qadri ☛ Multi Account Browser Containerization

  I have multiple browsers installed on my machine but I use Firefox most of the time, especially when I need to login into certain accounts to use them like Github & Fosstodon. I use Arc for its folders which are similar to bookmarks and Safari to access google drive specifically.

• Education

  • Sara Jakša ☛ The Techno-Babble in Our Tech Job Ads

    We are having a couple of local positions open at my company. So I have messaged a couple of the people, that I know they are looking for the job, if they want me to recommend them for it.

    Then this week, one of these people replied with the invitation to the coffee. And during the conversation they pulled their smartphone out and showed me the job ad, and asked me about the meaning of some of these points.

    That person has been programming for years and they are looking for a software engineering job, so this is not the problem of now knowing anything about the area.

    The surprise was, when I had no idea what some of these points mean as well. Even being at this job for close to half a decade, trying to reconcile the words and what was happening was not easy. In short, I had no idea what they wanted to say with this.

• Hardware

  • Zach Flower ☛ Cylinder 3 Misfire Detected

    Now, I don't know a damn thing about cars. I've always considered myself more of a "software person," so the realm of the physical kind of scares the shit out of me. But, 2024 is a year where I want learn to be more comfortable working with my hands than my fingers, so an old car in mediocre condition seemed to be just the motivation I needed to skill up.

  • Tedium ☛ UV Light and Mildew: Why Physical Objects Degrade Over Time

    The problem, though, is that wood is made from cellulose, which tends to best maintain its strength when the paper is made of long fibers, as the Library of Congress explains. Newsprint is produced through a process of mechanical pulping, which is basically the worst possible way to produce paper if your goal is to keep it around for hundreds of years.

    But cellulose in general has challenges as a preservation medium. Cellulose, the LOC notes, naturally produces acids over time which tend to degrade within the paper over time. And even strong paper fibers tend to degrade over time.

    Additionally, there’s a common type of polymer in woods called lignin, which helps to create rigidity for the plant. This structure is key to many types of heavy paper, as How Stuff Works notes, but it tends to be removed from high-quality white paper, which is often bleached. Why is that? Easy: because lignin encourages oxidation of the paper, which creates the yellowing effect.

    So, while wood pulp was revolutionary for publishing because of its ability to allow for fast production, it was not designed to last very long in its natural form. Ironically, the material that wood pulp replaced, rags, actually holds up much better to the elements, according to the LOC.

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-02-23 [Older] GOP Flounders Over How to Handle Alabama Supreme Court’s IVF Ruling

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-02-24 [Older] Colon Cancer Under 50: Know Your Risks and How to Prevent It

• Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)

  • International Business Times ☛ Deepfake CFO Tricks Remote Worker To Send Them £20m After 'Video Call'

    According to the police statement, the employee reported the incident on January 29, revealing that the deception occurred through video conference calls where the impersonators convincingly portrayed themselves as high-ranking company officials, directing the transfer of funds to designated bank accounts.

  • France24 ☛ Family of celebrated French WWII veteran Léon Gautier refuses the commercialisation of his legacy

    The first of these “biographies” was published on July 5, 2023, just two days after Gautier’s death. The speed of publication suggests that it was generated by artificial intelligence software, which explains why so little care was taken to fact-check.

    “I pity people like that,” said Gérard Wille of those responsible for the fakes. “It’s deplorable. I just couldn't let that go.”

    The family managed to have the two books removed from sale on Amazon, but as the 80th anniversary of D-Day approaches later this year, Wille has received other dubious commercial requests: “Some people want to make figurines, posters, or even T-shirts displaying a photo of my grandfather. One can imagine that during the D-Day commemorations, there will be this kind of thing for sale all over the public sphere. I even saw that his signature is being sold for €300 on the internet. People are trying to make money off our family’s history.”

  • Cory Dransfeldt ☛ Go ahead and block AI web crawlers

    All of this marks a clear and fundamental distinction between search crawlers and AI crawlers. The former extracts value from open content, the latter indexes and directs users to content, enhancing discoverability and aggregating data.

    It is not incumbent upon news publications, blogs, social media sites or any other platform to cede this data to AI companies for free, nor should they. But, as search giants (and startups — looking at you Browser Company[1]) lean (questionably) into surfacing extractive summaries rather than directing users to original, independent results, it makes more and more sense to block the agents they're using to crawl and surface those answers.

  • Thorsten Ball ☛ How I Use AI

    Occasionally I come across comments that make me think “wait, there’s still developers out there who don’t use AI? Like, not at all?” Not just programmers who think that AI is overhyped, no, but programmers who don’t use AI in any shape or form: no ChatGPT, no Copilot, no Cody, no local models, nothing.

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-02-27 [Older] Apple Met With DOJ Officials to Avoid Antitrust Lawsuit, Bloomberg Reports

  • US News And World Report ☛ 2024-02-26 [Older] Long-Time Biden Aide Olivia Dalton to Leave for Apple, Sources Say [Ed: Revolving doors]

  • International Business Times ☛ 2024-02-26 [Older] Bing's Sub-Par Search Quality May Have Cost Microsoft A Lucrative Sale To Apple In 2018 [Ed: Microsoft having financial issue, trying to sell part of the company]

  • Matt Birchler ☛ Pedal to the metal

    I think that people are misunderstanding who the current Vision Pro is for and what it means to buy something brand new. If you bought a Vision Pro, you are very much in a niche group who is willing to spend a ton of money on a product that doesn’t have a clear product market fit yet. If we look back at any of the products listed at the top of this post, the most common buyer for the 2nd generation of each product was completely new to the platform, they weren’t upgrading from the original. You may remember for many years, when Apple announced iPhone unit sales, they would talk about how the current model outsold all previous models combined.

  • Engadget ☛ 2024-02-23 [Older] Some Apple Vision Pro units reportedly developed a similar hairline crack on the front glass

  • Gizmodo ☛ 2024-02-27 [Older] 'Crackgate Is Real': Apple Vision Pro Users Report Cracks Appearing Out of Nowhere

  • Gizmodo ☛ 2024-02-28 [Older] Up to 30% of Apple Vision Pro Returns Are Because Users Don't Get It, Analyst Says

  • Bloomberg ☛ 2024-02-28 [Older] Apple Is Canceling Electric Car Project

  • Engadget ☛ 2024-02-28 [Older] The Apple Car never felt real

  • Engadget ☛ 2024-02-28 [Older] The Morning After: Apple's car project may be dead

  • Gizmodo ☛ 2024-02-27 [Older] It Looks Like the Apple Car Is Dead

  • Engadget ☛ 2024-02-27 [Older] The Apple Car project is reportedly dead

  • Melbourne’s Torus Games reportedly ceasing all production

    Melbourne-based studio Torus Games is reportedly ceasing all production, with eight employees set to be laid off, and no projects moving forward. The report comes from award-winning journalist Jack Ryan, who shared details on Twitter / X.

    “Melbourne’s Torus Games has effectively shuttered after nearly 30 years. Eight employees have been laid off,” Ryan said. “Bill McIntosh, founder/owner, said that Torus had a number of projects in discussion over the past year – but no one keen to move forward in development.”

    McIntosh reportedly told Ryan the studio will “continue as a business for the time being” but he will be the sole employee, and will “take care of things” moving forward.

    As the Torus Games website details, the studio has an impressive tenure – one which includes 146 video game releases across 40 platforms. It’s been active for 28 years, and reportedly served as a “proving grounds” for many up and coming Australian developers.

• Security

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • Meduza ☛ Russia may block Wikipedia due to article on VPNs that help reach blocked sites, says lawmaker

      On March 1, a ban on advertising or promoting circumvention tools, including VPNs, came into effect in Russia. The country’s federal censorship agency, Roskomnadzor, stated that it has begun “restricting access to information on the web that advertises or promotes means of bypassing restrictions to illegal content.”

    • Cory Dransfeldt ☛ I'm going to keep opting out

      Marketing, solicitations, advertising, political contact, direct mailers, email campaigns, cookies, ads — it's all opt out. It puts the burden on you to opt out of each communication each message, each outreach from a loyalty program. It can feel like weeding a garden, but that garden is your attention. The weeds keep returning, insisting upon their removal. One after another.

    • The Hill ☛ Congress, don’t give away the keys to our encrypted communications 

      For the last 30 years, law enforcement officials have called for the end of end-to-end encryption. They’ve proposed various ways of weakening encryption, like the Clipper Chip of the 1990s, “exceptional access” of the mid-2010s, or the “ghost proposal” of the late 2010s. But the consensus among technical experts has been unwavering: there is no way to provide law enforcement access to end-to-end encrypted communications without undermining the security and privacy of everyone who relies on those protections.

    • The Verge ☛ Google Drive search on iOS gets better filtering options

      Google Drive for iOS now lets you filter searches using dropdown menus for File Type, Owners, and Last Modified, the company wrote on Friday in its Workspace Updates blog. The dropdown menus show up before and after a search, and relevant filter recommendations will show up as well as users type.

    • EPIC ☛ EPIC Emphasizes That FCC Pilot Program Protect Student Privacy, Not Just School Cybersecurity

      On February 27, EPIC filed reply comments with the Federal Communications Commission supporting the FCC’s proposal to use funds from its E-Rate program to support strengthening cybersecurity at schools and libraries, as these are increasingly attractive targets to hackers. The E-Rate program uses discounted pricing to facilitate schools and libraries providing free internet access to their students and patrons.

      EPIC urged the FCC not to dictate a limited list of eligible purchases as part of this cybersecurity Pilot Program and offered the FCC examples of cybersecurity practices that are commonly-accepted as the modern baseline for cybersecurity. EPIC emphasized that the schools and libraries implementing cybersecurity tools through this Pilot Program should not do so at the expense of student privacy and urged the FCC to be clear about this position—including the scope of the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA). EPIC also agreed with commenters who suggested the Pilot Program should fund schools and libraries on an annual basis for three years rather than once for a three-year period.

      EPIC regularly files comments with the FCC and has long advocated for consumer privacy protections in broadband services and student privacy in particular.

• Defence/Aggression

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-02-24 [Older] Germany debates how to boost Bundeswehr recruitment

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ Burkina Faso: 170 people 'executed' in attacks on villages

    Survivors of the attacks told the AFP news agency that dozens of women and young children were among the victims.

  • The Hill ☛ The US must do more to hold the Taliban accountable

    While the Taliban reap the benefits of their grand corruption, Afghanistan appears to be reverting to pre-9/11 conditions as it once again becomes a hotbed for terrorism.

  • RFERL ☛ The West Needs Stronger Sanctions On Russia To Help Ukraine Win War, Says Expert

    To better understand the cracks in Western sanctions and how Russia has been able to exploit them, RFE/RL spoke with Tom Keatinge, the director of the Center for Financial Crime and Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in London. A former investment banker, Keatinge is also an adviser on illicit finance to the British Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee.

• Transparency/Investigative Reporting

  • RFERL ☛ Wanted Former Wirecard Executive Spied For Russia For Years, Investigative Journalists Say

    Among the findings of the investigative article by journalists with ZDF, the German magazine Spiegel, the Austrian newspaper Der Standard, and The Insider is that Jan Marsalek, the shady central figure in the implosion of the German digital-payment-services provider, changed his identity while in Russia.

• Environment

  • Tech Central (South Africa) ☛ This South African region may be the most polluted place on Earth

    Vereeniging is relatively unknown outside of South Africa, but the country owes much of its status as the most industrialised nation on the continent to it. It was the site of the country’s first coal discovery in 1878, which helped magnates Sammy Marks and Hendrik van der Bijl establish one of South Africa’s most concentrated industrial areas. At the town’s Vaal Teknorama museum, the last lump of coal extracted from the Cornelia mine sits on a desk. A 1923 painting shows a happy image of the local Vaal River, with leisure boats sailing down a watercourse lined with steel mills and power plants.

  • Science Alert ☛ Glitter Has a Dark Side, And It's Causing Even More Harm Than We Realized

    Glitter is essentially a microplastic in disguise, whose whimsical nature distracts from its insidious contributions to plastic pollution. That has begun changing to some degree, however, as seen in the recent ban on microplastic glitter in the European Union.

    As a microplastic, glitter typically resists degradation, helping it persist and accumulate in the environment. And since it's often too small to be filtered by wastewater treatment plants, it can end up in waterways, potentially harming freshwater aquatic life or traveling on to pollute the ocean.

  • Science Alert ☛ An Endless Stream of Satellites Is Burning Up in The Sky, And Nobody Knows The Cost

    So how do we answer this question? We have some research from atmospheric scientists, spacecraft builders and astrophysicists, but it's not rigorous or focused enough to make informed decisions on which direction to take. Some astrophysicists claim that alumina (aluminium oxide) particles from spacecraft will cause chemical reactions in the atmosphere that will likely trigger ozone destruction.

    Atmospheric scientists who study this topic in detail have not made this jump as there isn't enough scientific evidence. We know particles from spacecraft are in the stratosphere. But what this means for the ozone layer or the climate is still unknown.

  • Futurism ☛ Microsoft Is Draining an Arizona Town's Water Supply for its AI

    According to the Atlantic, Microsoft has been incredibly shady about its Goodyear center's water use, even redacting exact figures in city records on grounds that its water consumption is "proprietary" information. But in estimates commissioned by Microsoft itself, the 279-acre campus, which currently houses two buildings and is on track to host a third, would consume an annual 56 million gallons of drinking water once the final building is completed.

    To put that in perspective? Per the Atlantic, that's approximately the amount that a total of 670 Goodyear families would consume in a year combined. And though that's a lot of water anywhere, it's especially material in a place like southern Arizona's Sonoran Desert, where a drying Colorado River and property development loopholes have led to an increasingly dire water crisis.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Fireworks may attract tourists to Hong Kong, but can cause distress for wildlife

    Research has shown that birds take flight en masse in response to fireworks displays in Europe. This has also been demonstrated in the USA, where scientists used radar to document 1,000 times more birds flying during firework displays on New Year’s Eve than would be expected normally.

    Birds have also been recorded flying so far out to sea during fireworks displays that it would be impossible for them to make it back to shore. These effects are not localised, with significant disruption being caused to bird communities up to 10 kilometres away from the displays themselves.

  • Energy/Transportation

    • The Verge ☛ Crash of the Titan: a short history of Apple’s doomed car project

      So began a nearly 10-year slog of sky-high expectations that even the world’s richest company couldn’t hope to meet. Apple has done a lot to push consumer electronics forward over the years. But nobody can do everything, and the Apple Car is as fine a cautionary tale about that as any.

    • Kirsty Darbyshire ☛ The View From 5000 Miles

      I just hit 5000 miles on my ebike this morning.

      I bought my ebike in September 2020, and at the time I wasn’t entirely certain it was a good way to spend £1600. Although I’ve always enjoyed cycling I thought that maybe the ebike would just be something that I used a few times and then sat in the garage expensively rusting away because it didn’t fit into my everyday life. So I set up a Beeminder1 goal to make sure that I kept using it. I set up what seemed like a slightly ridiculous plan. I looked at how much I’d used my old non-electric bike which I’d bought ten years before in 2010. That bike had cost me £400 and I’d tracked pretty much every ride I’d taken with it. We’d had some lovely holidays in France and the Netherlands but I never managed to keep using it regularly around my hilly home region and when I totted up the distances of the rides around home the bike had been ridden 1419km, that’s 925 miles. (In retrospect I’m not sure why I excluded the holiday rides, but I did.)

    • Tech Central (South Africa) ☛ I went solar at home ... this is what I learnt

      Towards the end of last year, I finally bit the proverbial bullet. After much discussion about technology choices with Metrowatt and its CEO David Neale, I deployed solar at my home, a townhouse in Johannesburg’s northern suburbs.

      In hindsight, I should have done it a lot earlier.

  • Wildlife/Nature

    • Science Alert ☛ The Snake Is The Spearhead of Reptile Evolution, But Why?

      Snakes seem to have hit an evolutionary jackpot – a rapid pulse of successful biological innovation that allowed them to thrive in copious variations.

      It's likely there were many driving factors, the researchers concede, but a shift in the way snakes feed separates them from other reptiles. This includes flexible skulls – allowing them to swallow animals significantly larger than their heads – and a highly sophisticated chemical detection system to find and track this prey.

      "If there is an animal that can be eaten, it's likely that some snake, somewhere, has evolved the ability to eat it," says Rabosky.

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • Tech Central (South Africa) ☛ Nvidia is the new Tesla

    Of course, there are plenty of differences between Nvidia and Tesla, from the products they make to the personalities of the men that run the companies. But the parallels are striking.

  • Deutsche Welle ☛ Russia waging 'information war' on Germany, Pistorius says

    Pistorius pointed out that one of the issues being looked at was whether the right platform was chosen for the meeting. The conversation reportedly took place on the Webex communication platform.

    The minister said he would not "speculate on personnel consequences" before the investigation into the matter has been concluded. He did not rule out "disciplinary action" against those who are proven to "have acted wrongly."

  • New York Times ☛ Why Elon Musk’s OpenAI Lawsuit Leans on A.I. Research From Microsoft

    Mr. Musk is turning the paper against OpenAI, saying it showed how OpenAI backtracked on its commitments not to commercialize truly powerful products.

  • Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

    • The Atlantic ☛ How to Tackle Truth Decay

      When Trump voiced skepticism about climate science, he was raising doubt about scientists’ expertise. Another way to erode trust in experts is to attack their credentials, or even the entire system of credentialing institutions such as universities. Yet another tactic is to question whether something is knowable at all. This is a method perfected by Russian propagandists and amplified by state media to sow doubt and place an event in a cloud of confusion.

      When this occurs, what Putnam called the “linguistic community” informed by experts has been fractured, leaving a swath of society split off from experts.

• Censorship/Free Speech

  • RFA ☛ Another arrest as Vietnam’s internet crackdown continues

    International human rights groups, including Protect Defenders, have accused Vietnam of misusing Article 117 to stifle freedom of expression.

  • New York Times ☛ Blasphemy Is a Crime in Pakistan. Mobs Are Delivering the Verdicts.

    These are only the most recent of many such episodes in Pakistan, a predominantly Muslim country where faith holds immense sway. Blasphemy is taken seriously in the country, and a conviction could mean death.

    But so can an accusation: Mobs sometimes take matters into their own hands, lynching people before their cases can even go to trial. A political climate that has given cover to extremism and a police force that is sometimes unable or unwilling to intervene have helped enable such violence.

  • BBC ☛ Pakistan woman in Arabic script dress saved from mob claiming blasphemy

    The dress has the word "Halwa" printed in Arabic letters on it, meaning beautiful in Arabic.

    Blasphemy is punishable by death in Pakistan. Some people have been lynched even before their cases go on trial.

  • Indian Express ☛ Two Christian brothers acquitted in blasphemy case in Pakistan after implicated by personal enmity

    A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has acquitted two Christian brothers in a high-profile blasphemy case in Punjab province after it emerged that they were framed by local Muslims who implicated them over personal enmity.

    Blasphemy is punishable by death in Pakistan.

    The case pertains to a violent mob comprising thousands of Muslims burning down 24 churches and 86 homes of Christians in Jaranwala city, some 130 km from Lahore, on August 16, 2023, on the allegations of desecration of the Quran.

  • India Today ☛ Why 'halwa' on dress, QR codes can get people killed in Pakistan - India Today

    At the root cause of the fiasco and the death threats in Pakistan in 2024 is a dress, apparently from a Kuwaiti company, with Arabic calligraphy.

    The fanatic crowd in the Lahore bazaar saw the Arabic script and associated it with verses from the Quran.

    The dress, which can be bought from eBay, had nothing to do with the Quran.

• Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

  • Press Gazette ☛ Most popular websites for news in the world: Monthly top 50 listing

    Visits to the US cable broadcaster’s site were up 7% to reach 537.2 million compared to December, according to data from digital intelligence platform Similarweb. It reverses last month’s pattern for CNN which was the only top ten sites in December to see visits down, falling 2% between November and December.

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • ANF News ☛ 2024-02-29 [Older] Political prisoners in Turkey on day 94 of hunger strike

  • CBC ☛ 2024-02-28 [Older] Residents of Quebec town running scared as turkeys take to streets

  • The Kent Stater ☛ Police release body camera video capturing Illinois police shooting man inside his home

    A police department in suburban Chicago has released portions of several body camera videos capturing the moments police shot and killed a man inside his apartment bedroom. The videos fill in some key information about the incident but do not show why police opened fire.

  • VOA News ☛ Climate Change, Cost and Competition for Water Drive Tribal Settlement

    Negotiating terms outlined late Wednesday include water rights not only for the Navajo Nation but the neighboring Hopi and San Juan Southern Paiute tribes in the northeastern corner of the state. The water would come from a mix of sources: the Colorado River that serves seven western states, the Little Colorado River, and aquifers and washes on tribal lands.

    The agreement is decades in the making and would allow the tribes to avoid further litigation and court proceedings, which have been costly. Navajo officials said they expect to finalize the terms in the coming days.

  • Omicron Limited ☛ Billionaires are building bunkers and buying islands—are they prepping for apocalypse or pioneering a new feudalism?

    However, Zuckerberg, Winfrey, Ellison and others are actually embarking on far more ambitious projects. They are seeking to create entirely self-sustaining ecosystems, in which land, agriculture, the built environment and labor are all controlled and managed by a single person, who has more in common with a medieval-era feudal lord than a 21st-century capitalist.

• Digital Restrictions (DRM)

  • The Verge ☛ HP is in the rent-a-printer business now

    HP has a new proposition in a time when (companies like it have made sure) you don’t really control much about your computer anyway: why don’t you just let HP rent you one? The company debuted a subscription service today — just like CEO Enrique Lores said it would last month — called the HP All-In Plan. It’s essentially an extension of HP’s Instant Ink, and like that plan, you’ll have ink sent to you as you approach empty, but unlike it, your monthly fee also covers the printer itself.

Monopolies/Monopsonies

• The Register UK ☛ Indian tech minister stops Google deleting local apps

  Google has recently nixed apps that it alleges do not comply with its payment regulations.

• The North Lines IN ☛ Google restores 10 delisted apps after Centre talks tough

  On its part, Google removed the 10 apps citing non-compliance with its billing policies. The move sparked a dispute between the tech giant and Indian app developers over what they perceive as Google's “unfair” policies. Among the apps impacted were Bharat Matrimony, Shaadi.com, 99acres and Naukri.com.

• Copyrights

  • Torrent Freak ☛ Piracy Shield: IP Addresses and Server Locations Blocked Since Launch

    After dismissing concerns that overblocking needed to be taken more seriously, those behind Italy's Piracy Shield system pressed ahead regardless. After one major overblocking incident was branded 'fake news' and a bigger one wasn't addressed at all, promised transparency has also ground to a halt. Data obtained by TorrentFreak shows that the ten domains made available to the public, have led to domains and IP addresses being blocked in their thousands.

• Gemini* and Gopher

  • Personal/Opinions

    • not much, but weekly gemlog time!

      been having to up the exam revision intensity as they get closer, but not much else, so it's a little annoying but, if i wanna do well, i gotta work at least a little hard.

    • Plants: the planting and eating thereof

      Lately I feel a compulsion to write about fascism, anarchism, that sort of thing... but I don’t WANT to be writing about these things. So, since that means I haven’t written at all, how about a quick update about my mundane life?