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Пик цветения
У нас возле дома окончательно расцвело моё любимое дерево. Каждый год я жду тех нескольких дней, когда его роскошная крона заполняется пышными розовыми цветами. И вот, эта пора снова наступила.
Нет, ну вы только посмотрите на эту красоту! Сложно представить, что пару недель назад это были лишь голые ветки.
Кстати дерево это растёт возле одного из самых симпатичных теремков нашего района.
Вот он. У него и тропинка от тротуара к крыльцу тоже обрамлена цветами: тюльпанами, которые сейчас как раз тоже расцвели.
По-моему, мне очень повезло жить по соседству с людьми, которые привносят в наш уголок Бруклина столько красоты. Ведь могли бы просто забор поставить,...
про цветы (и животных)
сегодня я буду пыльной розой, сказала я детям, выходя из ванной в майке соответствующего цвета, - сегодня я не чувствую себя цветком сакуры; ну почему же пыльной? - растерянно спросили они
цветком сакуры я была вчера, и это было прекрасно, но сегодня, вместо того, чтобы пойти в сауну, я снова была просто мамой, а в результате превратилась в пыльную розу; но это все еще лучше безумного енота (да, того самого, полоскуна), в котором я пребываю регулярно
Tidbyt without the company
Remember the Tidbyt? It’s a super low-resolution, internet-connected, wood-paneled display that I wrote a review of it back in 2022. It’s been on my shelf for years now, showing the time, weather, warning me when the UV is going to be high. In 2023 I used it as an excuse to learn some Rust, to render custom graphics. It’s a toy, a distraction, a worry stone for me to work on when I need something open-ended and low-stakes.
Anyway, the company that made the Tidbyt is no more. They got acquihired by Modal, a company that makes...
Undeterred
The churn of experimental AI development, to push innovation and hype attention, perpetually grinds out fresh LLM models that thrill speculators and surprise skeptics. Beyond the hype of DeepSeek, Ollama and Manus etc. our anxieties peek in realisation of it’s insatiable energy appetite.
Media has never been more thoroughly homogenised, distorted and counterfeit at our expense. Shattered context fragments and crumpled shells litter the disinformation pathways. Exploitation of natural resources is on a runaway course in pursuit of unbridled capital gain, whilst a whirlwind of environment catastrophe makes landfall. The daily drama of oligarch drawn maga corporate and transnational capital gorging,...
Recently
Whether it’s cryptocurrency scammers mining with FOSS compute resources or Google engineers too lazy to design their software properly or Silicon Valley ripping off all the data they can get their hands on at everyone else’s expense… I am sick and tired of having all of these costs externalized directly into my fucking face.
Drew DeVault on the annoyance and cost of AI scrapers. I share some of that pain: Val Town is routinely hammered by some AI company’s poorly-coded scraping bot. I think it’s like this for everyone, and it’s hard to tell if AI companies even care that everyone hates them.
...Personal tools
I used to make little applications just for myself. Sixteen years ago (oof) I wrote a habit tracking application, and a keylogger that let me keep track of when I was using a computer, and generate some pretty charts.
I’ve taken a long break from those kinds of things. I love my hobbies, but they’ve drifted toward the non-technical, and the idea of keeping a server online for a fun project is unappealing (which is something that I hope Val Town, where I work, fixes). Some folks maintain whole ‘homelab’ setups and run Kubernetes in their basement. Not me, at least for now.
But I have been tiptoeing back into some...
Summary of changes for March 2025
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of ChangesIn the above illustration, little Ninj is going through a first-aid kit, looking through our supplies to see what needs to be topped off and what is out-of-date. Rek drew a list of suggestions on what to include in both a first-aid and a medical kit for the Rabbit Waves project, we plan to add more items soon(thanks to everyone on Mastodon who suggested additions! It'll be in the April update).
We will spend the first few days of April participating...
The Aberfeldy Stories project 2025
This Spring and Summer we are shining a light on people’s stories in our Poplar neighbourhood and beyond, through workshops in creative writing, music making, podcasting, comedy, performance, radio and storytelling.
Using our emergent approach, we are inviting you to co-design the programme with us. We want to know about your interests, skills you’d like to develop, stories you’d like to tell and ways in which to tell them. Together we will work on creating a film, a podcast series, a book, a music video, a collection of short stories, a radio broadcast, an anthem, a comedy night, a theatre performance,...
Blue Ghost
Пока мы следили, как у клоунов получается рулить страной (получается из рук вон плохо), мы пропустили грандиозное событие. Частная компания Firefly Aerospace впервые в истории осуществила успешную посадку на поверхность Луны:
Это грандиозный успех частной космонавтики. На странице миссии можно почитать подробнее о целях и планах на этот полет. Или можно просто посмотреть на красивые фотографии.
Кстати, замечу, что это та самая компания, которую американские регуляторы отжимали у украинского предпринимателя Максима Полякова в 21-22-м году под предлогом, что он-де потенциальный шпион.
the most damaging claim the US could hit Polyakov with was that he hailed from Ukraine, which is near Russia, and that Russia is an enemy of the US...
Summary of changes for February 2025
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February.
Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added Dinghy gelcoat, Week 10, Week 11, and Week 12 of the Victoria to Sitka logbook. Updated solar with new pictures and corrected information (this page used to be called solar tips). Nebu, released a spreadsheet editor. Grimgrains, added a new recipe: Stovetop zaatar pizza. Store, added maritime flag stickers for sale. Rabbit Waves, added a new page: Emergency Bag. Updated Morse Code with Flags page with animations, released a printable zine(see how...