BlogFlock

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RSS Parrot is a simple Fediverse service that does one thing and does it well: Follows an RSS/Atom feed of your choice, and relays it as a Fediverse account you can follow from Mastodon, Akkoma, GoToSocial or any other ActivityPub-compatible service. For example, you can follow my website’s updates…

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Similar to StreetComplete in that it lets you pick a theme and edit OpenStreetMap using a set of guided questions. It has a different set of features that it looks for and a different set of properties it’ll guide you through, so it can be worth using both. I…

Debian offers cloud images that you can plug into a hosting provider and run instead of spending time going through the installer. Most of them assume you’re going to use the host’s system to set up the your login credentials.

There’s also a “nocloud” image intended to run on a…

Administrative note: I’ve moved these reviews from my old site at Hyperborea.org to KVibber.com.

I up the newer site as an IndieWeb-style profile a while back, and this year I decided to move past the name I picked for a mythical location in a half-remembered 50-year-old movie 25…

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Mrs. Davis arrived at the perfect time: just as the Chat-GPT-fueled “AI” hype machine was shifting into high gear, here was a story of a surly nun battling a world-dominating AI with a folksy name.

Except…that’s not the story.

Considering the number of times it swerves to reveal that…

Last night the whole family got into a multiplayer Minecraft game for the first time in a while. Weirdly enough, *one* system was showing way to many materials as copper. Even stuff like snow. WTF?

Well, we realized it was after 7 PM local time, which meant on UTC time…

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Proverbs is like a giant board of Minesweeper, only instead of marking explosives (and tiggering sudden death when you make a mistake), you slowly uncover a giant pixellated painting adapted from Bruegel the Elder’s Netherlandish Proverbs (1559). And when I say giant, I mean giant. I’ve logged almost…

Greg Keyes

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One of the things I like about Greg Keyes’ books is that he doesn’t stick to the ISO Standard European Medieval Fantasy setting. (In fact, the first time I read The Briar King I was disappointed that it was so clearly Renaissance Europe.) The Wind that Sweeps…

Nextcloud Calendar and Contacts are solid cross-platform alternatives to iCloud’s equivalents, and Tasks is good enough I’ve been using it for several years.

When I started collecting reviews in one section of my website, I decided to stick with the goals I had here on the Tech Tips section: Keep the pages small, avoid loading scripts or extra images where styles or font symbols would do. So I kept using emoji for category…