We went to the source of the river Fils this evening. I couldn’t believe it, but as I was promised, there were just 20°C. That was super nice. Almost chilly. We only met two others with their three dogs right at the beginning and had everything to our own. We enjoyed the firefly and bat show on a bench. Now back in town and the temps are cooking at 27°C. Fuck me!
It was already fairly dark for my camera, so all the photos are even more blurry than usual. Sorry!
https://lyse.isobeef.org/filsursprung-2026-06-25/
06 shows the bench in the background. The source is next to the building under the trees. 07 shows it in its full glory. 08 is the view before the glowing show began.
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[$] An API for handling arithmetic overflow
On March 31, Kees Cook shared
a patch set that represents the culmination of more than a year of work
toward eliminating the possibility of silent, unintentional integer overflow in
the kernel. Linus Torvalds was
not pleased with the approach, leading to a detailed discussion about the
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@rdlmda@rdlmda.me it is called, in Spanish, “the mother”. It is created through a bit (not by much) effort, and kept as a starting point. Just like Asian cuisine has dishes that never cool, always cooking leaving always a base on it.
How do you think a lathe (and just about any tool, etc.) is done? Yup, in part by using a lathe. 😅
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[ Edward Hopper. And Apple TV says he created the “festive artwork” shared on X by Apple CEO Tim Cook on Christmas Eve, “made on MacBook Pro.”
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From the Business Standard:
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How to Build a Solar Powered Electric Oven
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- Cooking’s high power use
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AI and Home-Cooked Software
https://mrkaran.dev/posts/ai-home-cooked-software/
** Stinky **
This morning I set up our new composter. This entailed shoveling a lot of compost from the old one into the new so that it can actually finish cooking. Shoveling 4 years worth of mostly kitchen scrap compost is a very very stinky endeavor. Despite wearing gloves I don’t know if my hands will ever not smell again. ⌘ Read more
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@thecanine@twtxt.net we are so cooked
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