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  • Ozzy Osbourne obituary - I can hardly believe it was 30 years ago I had Ozzy on cassette tape in my walkman every day riding to and from school on the bus. The sound of his voice and those electric guitars still haunt me to this day. Even if I listen to much less metal these days, he was foundational in my music and sound stack. Loved watching him on the reality TV tele stuff in later years. RIP. www.theguardian.com #

  • Could Belgium soon be reunited with the Netherlands? - The world keeps trying to break my foundations over and over again at the minute. I'll still love Belgium in whatever form it ends up in. I always loved that there was flemish and french in the same place. It was a bit edgy, you were always seing two cultures rubbing off against each other. But of course the way I experienced it, wasn‘t necessarily how others experienced it. I get that. I know this sounds stupid, but I just want people to be happy. www.brusselstimes.com #

  • ‘I love England so much’: From TV to pop, film to fashion, the UK is enjoying a cultural resurgence - It‘s been so strange growing up in between several cultures the way I have. This article jumped out at me a few days ago. I hope it‘s right in some way, but I don‘t think I want a replay of the britpop era. That was a weird time for me. I learnt a lot about England back then, and there were loads of aspects that I didn‘t like initially that I grew really fond of. As fun as it was, I think England has become so much more than that now, and it feels odd because everything has an undercurrent of unchartered territory at the minute, which could mean a lot of interesting possibilities. www.theguardian.com #

  • ‘The entire industry said no’: the story behind seminal teen comedy Clueless at 30 - I can‘t tell you how many times I have watched this movie over the years. Not for a long time now though. The strange thing is that as much as I‘ve been complaining about Gemini forgetting things, I feel like every few years when I read a piece about Clueless, I legit re-learn that Brittany Murphy died at 32. And everytime I get sad. It‘s so odd how these characters become a part of your life. This time I went down a rabbit hole reading about how she died, and that is some seriously bizare shit. www.theguardian.com #

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  • Devcontainer for Nix - I started wondering what other options were available for devcontainer setups and it occurred to me that this might be a great place where Nix could be useful. I haven't used it before but from what I‘ve heard it makes it very easy to build and configure your entire OS. Anyhow I went searching and found this project which looks interesting. github.com #

  • Photos: The Scale of China’s Solar-Power Projects - Some of these pictures are ridiculously mind blowing. The amount solar panels on regular people‘s roofs is very impressive, and looks to strike a good balance existing within places inhabited by humans, but some of the more industrial style installations are absolutely ghastly, and really have a sort of maximum dystopia vibe. www.theatlantic.com #

  • rcourtman/Pulse: A responsive monitoring application for Proxmox VE that displays real-time metrics across multiple nodes - The other thing I've been hearing about for quite some time now, probably a few years, is Proxmox which is an open source virtualisation environment. Everyone in the Linux communities are constantly going on about it. Feels like every man and his virtual machine has a Proxmox running in their home lab. Well, this project is a cool UI to proxmox, so you can see all your VMs and their utilization in one place. github.com #

  • Introducing Kiro - "A new agentic IDE that works alongside you from prototype to production" - Reading the blurb on this, it looks basically to be an advanced version of what I just setup with VSCode Devcontainers / Gemini / Backlog.md, a way to manage complex software development using advanced AI tools. Strange that this should find it‘s way to be just a few hours after I got my setup functional. Classic everything-you-can-do... behaviour from Worldo. This happens every time I build anything. Like 95% of the time, and I‘m not even kidding. I‘ve documented this on the blog a lot over the years. Hello old "friend". That aside, probably a sign that this is the direction things are going. kiro.dev #

  • Dollar Collapse and Network States with Balaji Srinivasan Ep#639 (TFTC Podcast) - Despite the somewhat gloomy title, this episode is ultimately very hopefull. Somehow amoungst all the failed podcast downloads and internet connectivity issues I‘ve been having, this episode found it‘s way to my phone. I really needed a dose of Balaji clarity to recharge the battery today. Faith in the world restored, at least for a little while :) podcastindex.org #

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  • How to Not Get Hacked by a QR Code - I’ve been going on about how great QR codes are recently, but it occurred to me that these could be hacked. Of course an attacker could quite easily encode a url pointing to a sketchy website full of malware. Obvious really but worth repeating since people aren’t completely used to using them yet. Be aware of where the QR code might have been generated. Check the url doesn’t look weird. Same rules basically as clicking on links in your emails. www.wired.com #

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  • Starship update with Elon Musk 2025 - The biggest vehicle humanity has ever made, they are planning to be building one of these every 3 days. That's 1000 a year. Same number of planes that Boing makes every year. Eventually transporting millions of people between Earth and Mars. Starting end of this year. youtu.be #

  • The great american diner - There's something that I find quite fascinating about diners. From a stylistic and design perspective, they somehow embody a whole ambience, and time period, and ethos, even a culture. It's the same part of me that likes websites. I wonder how many other such templates exist from other cultures in other parts of the world. en.m.wikipedia.org #

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  • Sergey Brin, Google Co-Founder (All-In Podcast) - In this interview from "All-In live from Miami", a lot of interesting discussions about Sergey's return to work at Google, and where he sees the AI boom going, and how he thinks it could impact every day lives. The thing with technical co-founders is they don't really do it just for the monday, they are all computer science enthusiast nerds, even the most successfuly ones. podcastindex.org #

  • Sam & Jony introduce io - It's a bit of an odd promo, like they are trying to be authentic and naturally awkward, crossed with silicon valley, crossed with gastro pubs. Yet it's kind of interesting. Are they talking to each other or the film crew? Or is this just what happens when you ChatGPT all day long? :) Looking forward to see what reality enhancement products they are working on. openai.com #

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