Spot the black-tailed deer!

Clue: there is more than one.

#photography #nature #VancouverIsland #BritishColumbia #VancouverIslandWildlife

@anwagnerdreas indeed. I'm a big fan of this work by Alcaras and Ricci, in which they introduce the notion of configuration work https://hal.science/hal-05421828v1/file/Alcaras%20and%20Ricci%20-%20Configuration%20Work.pdf

Our study shows empirically what that work looks like, corroborating the self-reports they gathered, and showing how people recycle patterns they know from human interaction

Yashica FX-D Quartz, Street Candy Street Savvy 400

Une amie étrangère vivant en France aurait besoin d’aide : séparée mais pas divorcée de son mari français, elle a un permis de séjour. Son mari a collecté 4000 euros à la CAF en leurs deux noms sans qu’elle ne le sache et elle doit rembourser au risque de perdre son titre de séjour. Elle vient juste d’apprendre ça.

Si vous avez un contact qui est pro de ce genre d’affaire et qui peut l’aider, ça l’aiderait énormément.

[Read in full on NHAM]

Agatewards by gribbles

Here at NHAM HQ we’ve been very fortunate to have been given advance listening of the upcoming new release by gribbles (ahead of our exclusive first play of the album on TIBtv at 8pm on Friday 4th September).

To be released on boutique, Lincoln-based label Yellowbelly Records, it’s called Agatewards, an old northern word used in Lincolnshire meaning ‘to walk a while with someone on the way home’.

An appropriate title gribbles suggests, for the album walks a little way with Alfred Tennyson and characters from his Lincolnshire dialect poems, before spending a bit of time together travelling through music that was inspired by them.

It was while crate digging at a record fair in Chesterfield that gribbles discovered Mr Edward Campion and Mrs Edith Burgess (both leading authorities on the Lincolnshire dialect in their time) reciting some of Tennyson’s Lincolnshire dialect poetry in the late 1960s and early 1970s. gribbles, himself a Lincoln lad and keen electronic musician, couldn’t resist the opportunity to get his sampler out…

The album begins with some familiar “na’then”s and “ow yer meggerin’?”s, given a Yellowbelly remix.

From then on we’re fully in gribbles’ fair hands. Tennyson’s dialect, rebooted some 50-60 years ago, are boosted once more, in to the modern day via the compelling beats, beeps, sweeps, textures and transitions that are so wonderfully in character with the evocative vibe we’ve come to know from this Lincs layer-maker.

A few of the tracks may be familiar already to gribbles afficionados or those who watch TIBtv (Three Knocks), but with twelve tracks in total there’s a lot of fresh material on here.

It’s a joyful piece. A celebration that should itself be celebrated. A thoroughly enjoyed perambulation with Campion, Burgess, Tennyson and Thorpe through Lincolnshire past and present. It’s fair to say this album is a spot more than fair to middlin’!

The very first play of this album anywhere in the public sphere will be at the NHAM Release Party on @TIBtv at 8pm on Friday 4th September so do come and join us in the live chat to hear the album in full among friends.

In the meantime check out gribbles’ extensive back catalogue on @mirlo and follow him in The Fediverse: @gribbles.

Ethan has blogged about the decision here: https://ethanzuckerman.com/2026/08/27/my-personal-contribution-to-the-us-canada-trade-war/

I sincerely wonder what they think "exciting moderate" means.

“Canada’s willingness to support research that challenges commercial and political threats to democracy is deeply necessary at a moment where authoritarianism is on the rise around the globe”

https://www.ft.com/content/8cc488a5-54c2-41f9-8b87-327ff591be6a

- @ethanz, who is moving to McGill University

Salmon eater.

#photography #bears #nature #wildlife #VancouverIsland #BritishColumbia #VancouverIslandWildlife #Canada

We've been getting a lot of questions about how the Internet Archive digitizes books.

The short answer: page by page, by hand.

You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it.

Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: https://blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/meet-eliza-zhang-book-scanner-and-viral-video-star/

We are counting down to the European *BSD event of the year! 😈⛳🐡

Big thank you to our bronze sponsor: Genua
https://www.genua.de/

If you haven't secured your spot yet, now's the time!
https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org/

📅 You can check out the program at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/schedule/

See you in Brussels!

EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪
September 09-13, 2026

#EuroBSDCon #EuroBSDCon2026 #BSD #RUNBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD

@mattgemmell @CosmicTraveler "let's go fishing on Lake Gun Crime! I bet we can catch a tommy gun!"

met a fella

@jbz Freddie Mercucy type mustache tech YouTubers be like "I really love Linux but i would never ever use it as a desktop OS unless it's an agentic distro sponsored by Israel."

@campact hat eine sehr wertvolle neue Aufklärungsseite zu sogenannten "Empörungsmedien" auf die Beine gestellt. Schaut unbedingt rein und teilt den Link mit euren Kontakten ✊

#Medien
#Tipp

https://www.campact.de/empoerungsmedien/

@ljs 🥰🥰🥰❤️❤️❤️

@Photo55 were you able to read my blog post?

I have shifted my policy on not redoing people's patches for them given the schloppgeddon, but what fucking sucks is that a big part of my job is now:

1. Sashiko reports 'not related to your patch but' (it REALLY has to stop doing that).
2. Somebody takes that and does a patch.
3. I spend time reviewing and realise that person will probably never be able to do the patch in a way that works
4. I now have new work do and also the pain of telling somebody their patch is being redone.

That's repeating over and over and over again and it's just not sustainable.

Too much in the kernel is based upon entitlement to other people's work and it really has to stop.