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I upgraded two virtual machines to Alpine Linux 3.24 last night. One worked perfectly. The other came back up after reboot, but the services it runs didn’t start up (reminder to self: this is why you don’t run upgrades late at night), and when I logged in (fortunately SSH was…

The last time I went to Las Vegas was almost 20 years ago, after the last of the big themed resorts were finished and the city was moving onto more generic (but still glitzy) casinos and hotels. (We still have a pair of shot glasses from “Paris.”)

It’s bigger…

Between Google trying to bury its search under an “AI” chat and me moving most most of my website over to a new domain, I’ve been checking to see how well-indexed the old and new pages are at various search engines.

“Marineland of the Pacific” seemed to be a good…

★★★★★

I finally cashed in a trial subscription offer for Apple TV and watched the first season of Murderbot. It’s absolutely pitch-perfect.

Alexander Skarsgård, Noma Dumezweni and David Dastmalchian are the stand-outs as Murderbot, Dr. Mensah and Dr. Gurathin (in part because they have more to do than the…

A story’s been making the rounds about a software project that enforced a no-LLM-use policy by using prompt injection to delete itself. An “AI” agent-using coder filed a bug report (understandable), but filled it with a bunch of long-winded, clearly LLM-generated comments.

I looked at those comments. I can’t…

★★★★½

Forbidden Solitaire presents itself as an over-the-top gory horror dungeon crawl from the 1990s where the mechanic is playing card games to fight monsters. But it’s framed as a flashback: you’ve found an old CD-ROM of a forgotten (and rumored to be cursed) video game. As you play through…

I remember a brief period shortly after Instagram introduced in-feed advertisements when I was getting mostly travel ads that consisted of well-composed scenic landscapes and cityscapes and sponsored nature photos. Which…well, was fine! They blended in with all the scenic and nature photographers I was following! I almost hit…

I’m considering starting the 100 Days To Unload challenge to post 100 times to my personal blog over the next year. I’m going to include any new posts I make on my personal website, including the tech tips and reviews sections (which is where I’ve mostly been writing these…

Last month I moved all the tech tips from my old site at Hyperborea.org to KVibber.com. Along with the move, it needed a new name since it’s not at Hyperborea anymore. I went with “KV Tech Tips” because it’s both my initials and a common abbreviation for Key-Value, programming…

★★★★☆

Just a hotel, nothing fancy. Clean rooms (if a bit small), comfortable beds, free WiFi and plenty of sockets for charging your devices, decent breakfast, friendly staff, free parking. Again, just a hotel - not a casino, not a resort, no theater, no bar, not even a pool.…