Status 2025-07-21
Morning, computer! Spending my days off trying to figure things out.
Some of them will occur in this post. I think best when I’m writing,
after all.

I’m back from a short vacation since a couple of weeks. I’m still
going to take a few days off every week for a while. I need the break.
It’s been way too many 12-16 hour workdays. I’m nominally working 80%
(~6 hour days), so I figure I’ve been working a lot for free.

Yeah, well, I like the TKey project to succeed. The ideas behind it
have implicatio … ⌘ Read more

After many weeks and probably at least a hundred hours of research, discussions and in-person viewing, I think I’ve finally come up with my Final Choices (shortlist) of a Hybrid Camper / Caravan that I think will suit my family and that I’ll enjoy (far less work for me to setup and teardown). The one at the top of the list I’m leaning towards os the SWAG SCT16 Family 4B

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i made a new tumblr account to interact with fandom last week. while using the site today i got logged out and when i logged back in i was told my account was terminated. mullenweg will pay for this

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, it’s a shitshow. MS overconfirms all my prejudices constantly.

Ignoring e-mail after lunch works great, though. :-)

Our timetracking is offline for over a week because of reasons. The responsible bunglers are falling by the skin of their teeth:

1. The error message neither includes the timeframe nor a link to an announcement article.
   
2. The HTML page needs to download JS in order to display the fucking error message.
   
3. Proper HTTP status codes are clearly only for big losers.
   
4. Despite being down, heaps of resources are still fetched.
   

I find it really fascinating how one can screw up on so many levels. This is developed inhouse, I’m just so glad that we’re not a software engineering company. Oh wait. How embarrassing.

I hear you, @movq@www.uninformativ.de! :‘-(

At work, too. For a few weeks now when I try to log into this horrible Outlook web intershit (Because why would they fix the Evolution integration?! It’s cactus for well over a year now. Probably more like two.), it forwards me to the corporate weblogin, I enter my credentials, even do the bloody MFA crap and get redirected back to Outlook. “Loading mailbox…” “Please wait for us to log you out, do not close this window while this process is underway.” Fuck you! I have to delete the cookies for this damn domain each and every fucking time. Otherwise, this goes in circles forever. I tried the game for 15 minutes, no joke.

But wait, there’s more! Why just fuck it up only a little bit? This week I get logged out at the middle of the day. Every. Single. Day. Not even close to eight hours since I started, no. What the hell!? I reckon I just don’t even bother reauthenticating anymore in the arvo. No more e-mails for Lyse after lunch. Fuck it. It’s just distraction, anyway, right?!

Gone on a road trip. Be back in a week 👋

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 06/16 to 06/20 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/06/20/week.html #linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 06/09 to 06/13 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/06/13/week.html #linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week

What are you doing this week?
What are you doing this week? Feel free to share!

Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too. ⌘ Read more

First usermode exploit and more: Nintendo Switch 2 had a busy (hacking) week for its launch
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On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 06/02 to 06/06 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/06/06/week.html #linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week

My sweet baby girl passed away 2 weeks ago - everyone please go hug your cats, they are only here for so long and they go so suddenly ⌘ Read more

Found her when she was 2 weeks old. She’s 6 now, and very sassy 💁‍♀️ ⌘ Read more

What are you doing this week?
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Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too. ⌘ Read more

** Admitting that they’re really never weekly notes **
While everyone is up to their eyeballs in puzzles playing Blue Prince I’ve been playing some Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword on the Gameboy Advanced. I’ve also set up the playdate to mirror at my computer and have been having fun exploring the games in season 2! Mostly just Dig! Dig! Dino!, so far.

I decided to learn OCaml a few weeks ago. I’ve been writing a rogue clone in it. I am enjoying is and the entire ML fami … ⌘ Read more

Senate to ‘start moving’ Russia sanctions bill next week, Graham says ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 05/26 to 05/30 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/05/30/week.html #linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week

My music listening is inconsistent. I don’t listen to much music, sometimes weeks without any music streaming at all. And when I do, I often listen to some automatic playlists with recommendations from YouTube. I don’t have any specific artists I always listen too. Furthermore, I don’t even have a specific genre I like the most, often it’s something electronic. ⌘ Read more

50% off The Lunduke Journal (including Lifetime Subscriptions) through Saturday!
About 3 weeks back we had a deal where every new subscription to The Lunduke Journal was 50% off. ⌘ Read more

Two fantastic weeks in Scotland
I am back from Scotland, and my first days back at work are behind me. Let me tell you about my awesome vacation! ⌘ Read more

Two fantastic weeks in Scotland
I am back from Scotland, and my first days back at work are behind me. Let me tell you about my awesome vacation! ⌘ Read more

Two fantastic weeks in Scotland
I am back from Scotland, and my first days back at work are behind me. Let me tell you about my awesome vacation! ⌘ Read more

NATO announces new Ramstein format meeting next week ⌘ Read more

‘We’ll know in two weeks’ if Putin serious about ending war, Trump says ⌘ Read more

What are you doing this week?
What are you doing this week? Feel free to share!

Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too. ⌘ Read more

Having a rough week (or year lol)? Share a photo of your cat! ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 05/19 to 05/23 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/05/23/week.html #linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week

Over the past few weeks I’ve been experimenting with and doing some deep learning and researching into neutral networks and evolutionary adaptation of them. The thing is I haven’t gotten very far. I’ve been able to build two different approaches so far with limited results. The frustrating part is that these things are so “random” it isn’t even funny. Like I can’t even get a basic ANN + GA to evolve a network that solves the XOR pattern every time with high levels of accuracy. 😞

One week after abandonment vs after we took him home ⌘ Read more

Hey y’all 👋 I am told my “participation” is drastically down of ,ate So sorry 😞 Busy quite a busy few weeks at work with a reorg and lots of complex things happening in real live too 😅 – Hope everything is doing well 🤗

Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android
I recently learned something that blew my mind; you can run a full desktop Linux environment on your phone. That’s a graphical environment via X11 with real window management and compositing, Firefox comfortably playing YouTube (including working audio), and a status bar with system stats. It launches in less than a second and feels snappy. ↫ Hold the Robot In and of itself, this is a neat trick most of us are probably aware of. Running a … ⌘ Read more

Mimalloc Cigarette: Losing one week of my life catching a memory leak
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@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Haha I did that for a couple of days last week 🤣 What was I doing you ask?! 😅 Studying and learning how Artificial Neural Networks with Evolutionary Adaptation work 🤣

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 05/12 to 05/16 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/05/16/week.html #linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week

Update of the injured kid i found last week. Looks like he’s gonna be a handsome boy ⌘ Read more

Poptarts’ birthday is sometime this week but idk the exact date. So happy 11th you old fart ⌘ Read more

10 weeks -> 10 months -> 10 years ⌘ Read more

2 handsome fellas joined the family this week 🥹 ⌘ Read more

Armbian Updates Add OMV Support, Boot Improvements, and Rockchip Optimizations
The Armbian development team has rolled out a series of notable updates this week, introducing enhancements across software usability, bootloader standardization, and hardware compatibility. One of the most significant additions is the integration of OpenMediaVault into the Armbian software installer. OpenMediaVault is now available via the armbian-config interface, offering users an easy … ⌘ Read more

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Hmmm Please if this happens again, help me reproduce it. Any clues in the logs? Hmm? 🧐 My own pod has been running flawlessly for weeks now 😅

What are you doing this week?
What are you doing this week? Feel free to share!

Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too. ⌘ Read more

The thing about upright bass is that you must play it on a regular basis. At least several times a week, ideally daily. It requires quite a bit of strength and it’s very easy to lose those muscles again – at least I don’t use them that much otherwise. 🤣 I’ve been through several cycles of “gain strength → lose strength → goto 0” now …

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 05/05 to 05/09 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/05/09/week.html #linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week

“AI” automated PR reviews mostly useless junk
The team that makes Cockpit, the popular server dashboard software, decided to see if they could improve their PR review processes by adding “AI” into the mix. They decided to test both sourcey.ai and GitHub Copilot PR reviews, and their conclusions are damning. About half of the AI reviews were noise, a quarter bikeshedding. The rest consisted of about 50% useful little hints and 50% outright wrong comments. Last week we reviewed all our exp … ⌘ Read more

Rescue kitten 2 weeks old abandoned in my backyard. Was near death when found, doing much better after 2 days ⌘ Read more

Found on the road about 3 weeks ago, Mr. Leonetti (Leo) has matured into a pretty cute tyrant. ⌘ Read more

Release Candidate of iOS 18.5, MacOS Sequoia 15.5, iPadOS 18.5 Available, Public Release Coming Soon
A release candidate build for iOS 18.5, iPadOS 18.5, and MacOS Sequoia 15.5 is now available for users enrolled in the beta testing programs. For users not in the beta testing programs, what this basically means is that the final versions of these system software releases is coming soon, perhaps even next week. macOS Sequoia … [Read More … ⌘ Read more

Running - 4 miles: 4.00 miles, 00:09:40 average pace, 00:38:41 duration
nice and easy run on the treadmill. not sure how much i am going to run this week in anticipation for the final run.
#running #treadmill

Building your own Atomic (bootc) Desktop
Bootc and associated tools provide the basis for building a personalised desktop. This article will describe the process to build your own custom installation. ↫ Daniel Mendizabal at Fedora Magazine The fact that atomic distributions make it relatively easy to create custom “distributions” is s really interesting bonus quality of these types of Linux distributions. The developers behind Blue95, which we talked about a few weeks ago, based their entire … ⌘ Read more

GTK markup language Blueprint becomes part of GNOME
This week’s This Week in GNOME mentions that Blueprint will become part of GNOME. Blueprint is now part of the GNOME Nightly SDK and is expected to be part of the GNOME 49 SDK. This means, apps relying on Blueprint won’t have to install it manually anymore. Blueprint is an alternative to defining GTK/Libadwaita user interface via .ui XML-files (GTK Builder files). The goal of blueprint is to provide UI definitions that require l … ⌘ Read more