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  We will not be doing any AI features, even local AI features, any time soon. I continue to be happy with NetNewsWire as my choice of RSS reader. https://inessential.com/2026/08/26/after-fixin-the-bugs.html

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  I just moved a site that I have never publicly linked to, from Github Pages to my own personal server. That means I can now view the access logs. No sooner had DNS propagated the update, I got LetsEncrypt certs set up, and nginx restarted, than two IP addresses managed by McGill College (158.69.*) scraped the entire site. I more curious about what I'll see now than ever. The internet is a weird place.

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  SiriusXM spam in the mail for the first time in years today. I was shaking my head at the coincidence of having *just* fixed our XM-capable car radio last weekend. Nope, not a coincidence at all. The Toyota dealer told Sirius that my car had been in for service a couple weeks earlier. The letter says so explicitly. Lol that what the Toyota dealer told me at that visit was that my radio was incapable of receiving XM (or any other signal).

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  It never ceases to amaze me how the e-bike community will rehash every discussion the motorcycle community has had for decades. Helmets and helmet laws, speed limits, licensing, sharing space with cars, risk perception, exceptionally risky riders giving the whole community a bad look, the general population only seeing a leisure device where everyday utility exists, price, theft deterrence, luggage options, weather concerns …

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  I've been idly researching alternative smartphones. It's a complete waste of time, for a number of reasons, but I'm curious, so it happens. A common design I'm seeing is a fingerprint reader built into the side of the phone, usually as part of the wake button. Every reviewer loves it, "Look how my thumb just naturally rests on the reader when I pick it up!" Their *right* thumb. I rarely pick up my phone with my right hand. My phone lives in my le...

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  Hard not to see it as An Omen that Gitlab went 503 at the exact moment I was ready to submit my first patch to a project hosted there in years. 😬

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  Quick shoutout to Inkscape as the best open source developer experience I've had in a while. Instructions for getting set up actually worked. Finding a bug to start with was easy. Response to my merge request was quick and friendly. I've lost the post that linked me to their work toward a version 1.5, but thanks to y'all for boosting it!

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  It's snowing leaves and hailing acorns in the north country.

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  Someone is scraping my fedi instance. I'm taking it offline for a bit.

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  Now back online. According to awstats reporting on my server logs, the scraper was Facebook. Probably ought to add a rule for that bot somewhere…

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  Just finished my first ever playthrough of Super Metroid. Finished in 11:16 with 71% of items found. More importantly, had a good fun time doing it. Enough that I'd consider playing more … but probably in search of the missing 29% instead of reducing time.

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  Remember when I asked for USB-C hub & cable maker recommendations? It turns out I had more to learn about what I needed than just who makes good equipment. https://blog.beerriot.com/2026/04/17/usb-c/

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  Are you looking for a reliable, do-it-all motorcycle? Look no further than this 2011 Suzuki DL650A V-Strom, located in northern Wisconsin, USA. This has been my commuter, my tourer, my weekend sunny backroader, even my light off-roader a few times. It has plenty of power for everything - even two-up riding, with full luggage, on the interstate. At the same time, it’s fuel-efficient at a reliable 50mpg. I didn’t expect to ever sell this bike, but my motorcycle use has shifted over the past coupl...

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  Brand new woodworking video, up on PeerTube first! I shot this footage almost a year ago, and then stalled on editing it when other projects came up. People being excited to see my older woodworking videos come to PeerTube, has given me the energy to pick this up again. Look forward to two more videos in this series soon! #woodworking #video #PeerTube #MakerTube RE: https://makertube.net/w/6TiiH4n8sN9Tn5nWp4QYch

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  After a couple years away, I fell back into the bad habit of scrolling Reddit recently. It's still trash, and a scroll through it does not improve my mood in any way. But there's always *new* trash, so like a raccoon I dive back into the dumpster, hopeful for a tasty morsel. But when I loaded Reddit this morning, instead of showing me the day's horrors, it dropped a "Prove you're human" overlay on me. I hope that's a permanent fixture. I...