Setting up a computer (more details to come) but for right now I wanted to point out that for whatever reason, this machine doesn't like SD cards when used with a SD to CF card adapter. Every time fdisk tried to format the drive, it'd have issues. But my 16GB CF card? Works perfectly fine. I wish I could get higher capacity CF cards for cheap.
Comparing StartPage to DDG to Kagi Search... Been using DDG as primary web search but exploring others too. Looking for right mix of quality of results and privacy as Google has been failing at both for some time. Any opinions?
TAB TRICK: A person watching over my shoulder asked “How are you switching around so fast?” and I realized that while most readers here know this trick, some may not, and it’s awfully useful: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/05/24/Tab-Lore
[This is an update to an earlier version from 2012. Most people already know the trick, but I keep encountering people who don’t, so here you go.]
Visited the grave of the poet and philosopher Rumi. Despite appearances. It isn't a mosque and they don't make you take off your shoes. Thought you are given plastic booties to cover them. There is a mosque and former religious school next door and many famous people have desires to be buried around him.
My feeling is that universal rights systems are usually best. They avoid having some people or groups fall between the cracks -- when some enumerated set of ethnic groups or religious practices are protected, but edge cases and novel situations are not.
And consequences of human rights might not be full explored until long after they are codified. So, better they should be broad and universal.
@evan An aside, but it never ceases to amaze me how totally essentially all modern notions of domestic federal welfare power rest on the Interstate Commerce Clause. A result it clearly wasn't actually intended to produce.
To be clear, I fully support the Freedom of Choice Act (and fair labor standards, and medical leave, and occupational safety standards, and union rights, and civil rights, and disability protections, and on and on…). It just shows how out of date our constitution is.
Mozilla’s Project Nova redesign for Firefox adds rounded tabs, customizable layouts and a reorganized Settings page with easier access to privacy and AI controls. 🦊 Firefox 151 also adds Web Serial API support, PDF merging and clearer management for optional local AI models that are not installed by default. 🔒
I went to the grocery store yesterday and they really were playing "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley.
It's has to be at least 30 years since the last time I've heard that song played in a normal way.
As soon as it came on, I felt like I just got punked by someone. It was as if I picked up a loaf of bread that was sitting on a switch or I opened the wrong freezer door.
@sysop408 — imagine being so old that for you, it went from a song you listened to in its original unironic form on the radio when it was new to oldie to meme to rickroll to come back full circle to being just some song at the grocery store.