Blatant DMCA Violations
When enacted in 1998, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was necessary for the United States to comply with treaties for the protection of copyrighted works in the digital age. Though…
Biking From Keuekenhof
You are spending the better part of a (hopefully) gorgeous afternoon walking the impeccably-manicured grounds of Keukenhof: enjoying the plethora of tulips and flowers, ascending the windmill to get views…
Book Review: The Transylvania Trilogy
The Transylvania Trilogy, or Erdélyi történet in Hungarian, is, at its essence, a romance novel: boy (Bálint Abády) grows up with girl (Adrienne Uzdy); girl enters loveless marriage; boy expresses…
OPNSense VPN Server
I deployed an OPNSense router for my home network about a year ago, running on the exceptional Protectli Vault 1610 and could not be more pleased with how everything functions:…
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…