Flutterby!

Welp, I inadvertantly did an rm -rf, holler if anything seems obviously missing from here, searching for my backups now...

I'm looking at Hetzner's shared webhosting product (and would like to recommend it to a few other people), both for static web hosting and for email, but apparently it's not possible to host a .com or .net domain there, even if you have DNS with another p…

Are Elites Meritocratic and Efficiency- Seeking?

Okay, this is kinda interesting.

I mean, you don't actually own your phone, especially with Google going after F- Droid, but they're also scanning your content for nudity.

I like this framing: Liz Dye: SCOTUS Blessed "Kavanaugh Stops."

Moment of hesitation while I tried to figure out if the Macarena craze happened before or after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, but 100% on today's Timdle!

Wow.

Rather than the awful tree-layered GUI experience that is QT's MaintenanceTool.app, it sure would be nice if there were a command-line "install whatever your name for the module identified by 'webenginewidgets' is" tool.

Sometimes it takes a great cover to pull me in to a long read.

Oh, good, pulling the open source project i work on I see that someone has added the QT "webenginewidgets" component.

Local climate & active transportation activist has just discovered AI, and the cognitive dissonance is great with this one.

NBC, August 26, 2025: The CDC quietly scaled back a surveillance program for foodborne illnesses CDC, September 26, 2025: Listeria Outbreak Linked to Prepared Meals Frozen meals from Walmart and Trader Joe's leave 4 dead and 19 hospitalized The CDC is war…

I mentioned that Firefox's AI/make the system harder to configure/don't fix bugs thing drove me away, and the thing I miss about that rendering engine is "show selection source".

Nextdoor post saying "I've got some excellent news to share with my neighbors!!