Category: Featured
Books in June 2026
Read Erewhon by Samuel Butler. A utopian novel from 1872; I read this one chiefly in the hope it might explain Frank Herbert's choices of technology in Dune and the Butlerian Jihad (see what he did there?), and the…
By Andy Slack
Fixing proprietary media on Vivaldi 8.1 running on Slackware 15
On install (or startup) Vivaldi fetches a prebuilt, Chromium patched, FFMpeg binary to support proprietary media (H.264 and AAC). However the ones currently fetched depend on glibc 2.35, while Slackware 15 ships with…
By ruario
On Imagination
Are you living in your imagination or do you exist more in the real world? Albert Einstein's most famous statement on the subject is: "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination…
Pets and wildlife
I am writing this on a Tuesday. We have had our dog about six months. Her name is Matilda and she is about two years old, more or less she is a toddler and a Husky-mix with too much energy. Sometimes too much energy,…
By mossyquartz
Welcome into the world of Vintage Computing!
Hello World! This is my first post on my newly created blog about Vintage Computing!…
Yet another blog (intro)
Hi, I'm one of the people who didn't know there was such a thing as vivaldi blogs xD (I'm a cringe millenial as you can see by the use of "xD")I do have tumblr and lots other places where I post but, I don't know, would…
By ghinitchi
New Blog Who Dis?
It's funny. I have been thinking about how much I wanted to set up a regular ass blog again, you know like blogging used to be back in the days before everyone started larping as "influencers"? Well, if you've come…
By vargsyster
Period Trackers alternatives
Period trackers are special in the life of a lot of people, especially girls and women since we started to know more about our bodies, the influence that it has in our daily life and viceversa. There are many period…
By Kimby
Thought of today
What was the slogan in the film *My Big Fat Greek Wedding*?“Whilst we Greeks were philosophising, creating and developing culture and enlightenment for humanity, you were all were climbing trees.”🐒🐵👻🤡Here is proof of my…
By patkav
AI Sovereignty Without Copying the Hype
Yesterday I posted on Mastodon that the US export-control decision around Anthropic’s Fable 5 / Mythos 5 models showed why AI sovereignty is important. Today I came across Cory Doctorow’s article, "AI digital…
By ghrasko
On Linux Writing Software
The writing software I use is not what you might expect. It is not what is advertised to writers—It’s not Plottr, it’s not Ellipsus, it’s not Google Docs or whatever happens to be trendy right now. It is Vim. Vim is Vi…
By c.a.
Titillating Tales of Lady Giants by the Seashore
Imagine if you were out with your mate, minding your own business, having a row along the coast and you do a double-take. "Am I imagining things, or were those hills not there the last time we passed by?" "Those aren't…
By bandywillow
