Bitbucket Using SSH Keys
The announcement that GitHub would train its AI on your code unless you opted out prompted two actions on my part: Immediately change my Github settings to opt-out. Identify a…
Forum Groningen
Groningen is the largest city in northern Netherlands, the sixth largest in the Netherlands, and the province capital. Today it's home for two major university with an estimated 25% of…
Book Review: Swastika Night
Swastika Night is yet another World War II alternative history where the Axis Powers - Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire - defeat the Allies and now occupy the defeated…
“Chicken Are Decent People”
This sign reminded me of a George Carlin riff from his 1996 Back In Town HBO show: Here’s another question I have. How come when it’s us, it’s an abortion,…
Museum To Go
After paying for admission to the Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt, I was handed this Museum To Go card. As someone explained, you tap the card on devices throughout the museum for…
Computers IRL #12
[NB: 70 degrees is 70°C or 158°F and not 70°F!] Yes another example of AI misbehaving: PocketOS's company database deleted by AI despite instructions to require confirmation before executing any…
Caricatura Museum Frankfurt
The Caricatura Museum was an unplanned, unexpected gem found on a day trip to Frankfurt, Germany: it hadn't yet opened, so I continued on to Frankfurt's other sites and museums…
Phone Books
Not all that long ago, while traveling overseas, I'd find a phone booth and call my family to confirm I was still alive. I even memorized my AT&T calling card…
For massages? Yeah, sure….
Left, a magazine advertisement from the 1950s; right, a storefront in Frankfurt, Germany saying Believe me, it's only for massages. Apparently nothing has changed in seventy years. Despite women's sexual…
Computers IRL #11
As seen on a Köln, Germany U-Bahn: No image found. The URL on the right takes you the description of the digital improvements completed on the public transport system: modern…