Kelson Vibber: New Posts

After using Gemini for more than 5 years, I finally decided to experiment with Gopher again.

★★★★★ I’ve seen a half-dozen concerts at the Greek Theatre over the past 20 or so years, most recently last week.

Last weekend we went to WorldCon / LAConV for a day.

I didn’t manage daily blogging past day 12, or 31 posts in the month.

★★★★☆ /e/OS is an open-source Android fork based on LineageOS.

★★★½☆ Back in November 2024, we bought a Fairphone 4 as a hedge against the tariffs and trade wars that seemed likely to commence the following year, figuring they’d drive up prices just in time for one of our phones to kick the bucket.

…and sometimes, unreality is intentional and benign.

It’s been gloomy all day – the kind of August day that’s hot, humid and still, sapping all your energy because nothing *actually* cools you off except real air conditioning (or standing in front of the refrigerator), not even taking a cold shower in the a…

Over the last few years, right-wingers have finally started to realize that what they’re missing is empathy.

Maria Konnikova ★★★★★ An interesting read on how con artists operate, and the psychological traits they manipulate in order to trick people into doing what they want.

Back in the 1980s or early 1990s, I remember a motel that dropped out of the “Comfort Inn” chain.

Julie Czerneda ★★★★★ More like the Species Imperative trilogy or In The Company of Others than Czerneda’s more recent Night’s Edge series, To Each This World is a hard science-fiction story featuring multiple alien biologies, space colonies, polymorphic a…

★★★☆☆ You won’t be surprised that this app connects to Canon cameras.

★★★★★ I’m tired of replacing devices that still work fine for my use cases.

★★★★★ I remembered The Prestige was good.

My wife and I recently* rewatched all of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and caught all the episodes we’d each missed the first time through.

I wasn’t planning to do all my Blaugust posts on tech stuff, but it seems to be working out that way this week. 🤷 Today I learned about hybrid MBR/GUID partition tables, where the GPT (not that kind) on a disk is duplicated in an MBR table for compatibili…

On the Blaugust Discord, UltrViolet suggested that bloggers link their post titles to the permalinks so that it’s easy to just right-click, “Copy Link as Markdown,” and get a formatted link with the correct title.

While looking for linking conventions regarding permalink locations, I found a reference on Wikipedia to <a rel="bookmark" href="

★★★★☆ An extremely capable, privacy-respecting, no-frills email app for Android.