Why did my wife and I move aboard Wrack in old age?
Being homeless and out of options was part of it but I was also haunted by my own words in this 2021 interview for Anna Iltnere's When I Grow Up project, in which I described myself as a 'castaway'.
beachbooks.blog/2021/10/20/kid…
There's also this, @rek and @neauoire:
Castaway C.C. O’Hanlon
Traveller and diarist C.C O’Hanlon spent most of the first half of his life at sea aboard a variety of vessels until marriage, children, and ill health held him ashore. Now in his late 60s, living …Sea Library
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Thanks for the idea @snufkin_vc
Noticed the festive makeover of the Nextcloud Community forum? 🎄
It might have a holiday glow-up, but our forum doesn't take breaks... 💡 If you have a Nextcloud deployment challenge you want solved before 2026, this is the best place to get answers.
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A place to discuss Nextcloud, get help, and meet other friendly people :)Nextcloud community
#FreeSoftwareAdvent day 15: Nextcloud
SyncThing is great for synchronising files, but I also have a self-hosted Nextcloud server. If I only wanted to synchronise files, I'd probably just use SyncThing, but I use Nextcloud for things like CalDav for calendars and CardDav for contacts as well as files.
More recently, I've also started using Nextcloud apps. In particular, I use News for RSS feeds, Notes for simple notes, and RePod for podcasts. The apps accessed through the Nextcloud dashboard on the web have minimal functionality, but it's enough for me. In the case of News and Notes, I also use the official Android clients, which also offer mininal functionality, but again, I don't need any more. For podcasts, I mostly listen using AntennaPod on Android, which I'll talk about tomorrow.
It's worth noting that there are companies that will host Nextcloud for you if you don't want to self-host. At least some of them have a free tier if you don't need a lot of space.
Nextcloud - Open source content collaboration platform
The most popular open source content collaboration platform for tens of millions of users at thousands of organizations across the globeNextcloud
Hello everyone!
I'm making a port of the Kilo editor by antirez (originally in C) to #uxntal AKA kibi (I'm not sure it will be around 1 "kibi"lines of code lol!
But I'm also porting the awesome tutorial by snaptoken teaching how kilo works.
I'd greatly appreciate if someone could take a look (maybe even follow along the tutorial) in order to get feedback.
git.sr.ht/~ismael-vc/kibi/tree…
I'm aiming for no previous Uxntal experience required!
Best regards.
🚨 #Microsoft 365 price shock: From July 2026, prices rise by up to 16.7%.
Now is the best time to break free from vendor lock-in.
What are your favorite #MS365 alternatives? 🔓🇪🇺
➡️ tuta.com/blog/microsoft-365-pr…
#DigitalSovereignty #deMicrosoft #OneClickAway
Microsoft 365 price shock: Better quit vendor lock-in now! | Tuta
Starting July 2026, Microsoft plans a huge price hike for Microsoft 365 of up to 16.7%. Time to look for replacements.Tuta
A while ago I wrote a script to convert #uxn .icn files to .png. For my #DecemberAdventure I wrote an accompanying script which converts .png files to .icn
This has the effect of pixel-izing the image and I can control which pixels get converted to black or white based on a threshold applied to their R, G, B, alpha values. It also allows me to load any png into Noodle and draw on it!
I am a bit slow when it comes to programming, so my Adventures tend to be limited. But I’m glad I got this done
Malayan Flying Fox Pteropus vampyrus
The Malayan Flying Fox, known also as the Large Flying Fox, Giant Fruit Bat, or Kalong, is an ethereal creature of the tropical Asian night. With wingspans reaching 1.7 metres, they are the largest…Palm Oil Detectives
Weihnachtszustellung von #DHL immer so:
"Ihre Sendung wird morgen zugestellt!"
"Ihre Sendung kommt heute!"
"Ihre Sendung wird bald zugestellt!"
"Ihre Sendung wird gleich zugestellt!"
"Leider konnten wir Sie nicht antreffen und bringen das Paket daher zu einem Paketshop ca. 500km entfernt von Ihnen und die Abholung kann frühestens nach Weihnachten erfolgen. Also vielleicht."
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#Astana
#photo #photography
#spring #outdoors #city
#architecture #bridge
#darktable
#creativecommons #ccbysa
oh wow that's a pretty glitch 
when i was initially writing uxn-pebble, the first rom i tried to run was catclock and the results were..... eldrich
(took me a while to find this image in the concat discord server logs)
Discover the ultimate gaming experience with the Highend Streaming PC Ultra 9, featuring a powerful RTX 5080 g
Discover the ultimate gaming experience with the Highend Streaming PC Ultra 9, featuring a powerful ...ericola (GETTR)
Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: The unstoppable rise of renewable energy
"In Sept, Chinese President Xi Jinping declared at the U.N. that his country will cut its carbon emissions by as much as 10% in a decade, not by using less energy, but by doubling down on wind and solar.
To many, the continued growth of renewables now seems unstoppable—a prospect that has led Science to name the renewable energy surge its 2025 Breakthrough of the Year."
Not AI 😎
science.org/content/article/br…
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Only 3% of international climate aid going to transitioning communities, says NGO report
New report on funding to slash carbon emissions finds startlingly low engagement with the people affectedDharna Noor (The Guardian)
A new study reveals that, within a small area in central Florida, mosquitoes fed on a whopping 86 different species of animals, capturing nearly all the vertebrate biodiversity in the area.
#science #mosquitoes #biodiversity
news.ufl.edu/2025/12/mosquito-…
In echo of Jurassic Park, mosquitoes capture entire ecosystems in their blood meals
Within a small area in central Florida, mosquitoes fed on a whopping 86 different species of animals.news.ufl.edu
palmoildetectives.com/2023/08/…
How to get into coding (and cooking?) from scratch? 🧑🍳
Learn from Nextcloud contributor and maintainer of the famous Cookbook app, Christian Wolf.
Listen to the latest episode of the Nextcloud Podcast:
nextcloud.com/blog/christian-w…
Christian Wolf's open source story and the Cookbook app - Nextcloud
In conversation with Christian Wolf, a long-term Nextcloud contributor and maintainer of the famous Cookbook app.Nextcloud
Ach schade, zwei offensichtlich deutschsprachige Akteure auf Englisch. Ich weiß ja, Reichweite und so, aber sorry, so manches kann man einfach besser in der eigenen Muttersprache erklären.
Discover how to take full control of your photo library with a self-hosted PhotoPrism setup at home.
itsfoss.com/self-hosting-photo…
What Google Photos? Self-Hosting Photo Storage with PhotoPrism Using Docker in My Homelab
PhotoPrism offers one path toward that goal of data ownership. With PhotoPrism, your vacation photos don’t become training data for someone else’s business model. They remain what they actually are, your memories, under your control.Bhuwan Mishra (It's FOSS)
Our article on the Firefox a AI 'kill switch' was updated, with a note from the new Mozilla CEO gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/fire…
Firefox dev clarifies there will be an AI
The saga continues! A Firefox developer has taken to social media to note there will be some sort of "kill switch" to completely remove AI features.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
> Firefox will always remain a browser built around user control.
Than why can't I access about:config in Firefox for Android? That was one of the reasons why I switched to Ironfox.
Underside and upper of a branch with, what I think might be, a Netted crust fungus (Byssomerulius corium).
County Clare, Ireland.
Cormacscoast.com walking tours
RE: mastodon.social/@Gargron/11573…
I'll elaborate. I believe we're in an AI bubble. AI companies are pushing the overton window on AI discourse. They want the most extreme anti-AI sentiment to be "Sure, it's an overhyped technology right now but there will be reasonable applications down the road". I want to see pushback on this. It doesn't matter if I can disable some AI feature in the settings. The fact that Mozilla is jumping on this bandwagon is deeply disappointing to me.
I've finally switched to the @Vivaldi browser. I've been using Firefox for as long as I've been on the internet, but the focus on AI means it's no longer the browser for me. Thankfully unlike Chrome, Vivaldi supports the uBlock Origin extension which is the most important extension for being able to browse the web nowadays.
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How our food choices cut into forests and put us closer to viruses
As the global population has doubled to 7.8 billion in about 50 years, industrial agriculture has increased the output from fields and farms to feed humanity. One of the negative outcomes of this t…Palm Oil Detectives
Red Hat's latest move.
itsfoss.com/news/red-hat-acqui…
Red Hat Buys an AI Safety Company, Promises to Open Source Its Tech
The new addition brings custom AI security and safety tooling to Red Hat.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
📷 Olympus 35UC
🎞 Kodak Gold 200
#olympus #olympus35uc #olympus35sp #kodak #kodakgold #filmphotography #photography #analogfotografie #35mm #35mmfilm #france #provence #marseille #fensterfreitag #windowfriday
Linux has got its first Rust CVE!
itsfoss.com/news/first-linux-k…
The First Rust CVE in Linux Kernel Only Makes Your System Crash
Greg Kroah-Hartman announced this alongside 150+ C code vulnerabilities that were addressed.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
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Endangered Grey Crowned Cranes are a regal and graceful bird of Uganda, Tanzania, DRC, and Namibia. Help them to survive and join the boycott4wildlifePalm Oil Detectives
Were they voted on? Are they continually re-evaluated based on community input? Were they set by the founder(s) (@ntnsndr?) in stone, like a written constitution?
I'm also interested in some specifics of what the rules mean:
Does the prohibition against transphobia cover respectful critique of the ideas of the transgender movement or is it just about actual hateful speech?
Also, what does the community do immediately when someone starts breaking the rules and causing trouble?
Does the rulebreaker get put in a sort of "time out" until a decision gets reached?
Devine Lu Linvega
in reply to wrack • • •wrack
in reply to Devine Lu Linvega • • •As I wrote, I didn't think we had options. It has been a marginal existence, a matter of old age and geographical displacement, and our health has had a significant impact, particularly in the past 18 months, but I love being back on the water and *that* has been restorative, inspiring, and challenging (the longer passages). I am, by nature, a sea-dweller, a waterman (hell, eight of my paternal and maternal great great grandparents sailed on square-riggers to Australia from England, Ireland, and Newfoundland in the 1830s) as much as I am a traveller. I'm never quite as 'whole' when settled, especially ashore.
Despite Wrack's age and sea-worn condition, I suspect we've had less problems than those you've described aboard Pino (although Wrack is nowhere near as pretty). Her hull and decks are heavy lay-ups, the keel fully encased. She needs a solid force four to sail well but she's a reliable and surprisingly dry beast when the sea is up. Her rig is low profile, modest and over-supported. Her sails are old but well-maintained. The engine had a 'moment' at the end of the long p
... show moreAs I wrote, I didn't think we had options. It has been a marginal existence, a matter of old age and geographical displacement, and our health has had a significant impact, particularly in the past 18 months, but I love being back on the water and *that* has been restorative, inspiring, and challenging (the longer passages). I am, by nature, a sea-dweller, a waterman (hell, eight of my paternal and maternal great great grandparents sailed on square-riggers to Australia from England, Ireland, and Newfoundland in the 1830s) as much as I am a traveller. I'm never quite as 'whole' when settled, especially ashore.
Despite Wrack's age and sea-worn condition, I suspect we've had less problems than those you've described aboard Pino (although Wrack is nowhere near as pretty). Her hull and decks are heavy lay-ups, the keel fully encased. She needs a solid force four to sail well but she's a reliable and surprisingly dry beast when the sea is up. Her rig is low profile, modest and over-supported. Her sails are old but well-maintained. The engine had a 'moment' at the end of the long passage to Sardinia from the Alboran Sea but we've serviced her attentively and by and large, she's been trouble-free.
She'll probably need a major refit at the end of next season but by then, probably, so will we.
Our biggest problems, with the boat and our lives, in the past few years, are rooted in our poverty and lack of social support (public health, pension, etc.) and adequate income. We're doing our best to change that.