Textures and technology. Music for evenings to refocus. https://soundcloud.com/chris-liebing/clr-podcast-481-phase-fatale  #soundcloud #longform_techno #music_to_work_to #phase_fatale #clr_podcast

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Im Zwielicht bleiben Aufgaben zu erledigen und Lücken zu schließen. Und somit teilen sich die Stunden in Blöcke, zerfasern, wachsen, überlagern einander und die anderen Lücken, die Leere, die man dazwischen gern weiß. Noch fehlt der Erfolg. Aber es gibt eine Idee einer Idee. Das allein motiviert oft.

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Evening listenings: This week, data centers are rapidly expanding into rural parts of Appalachia, and folks say they are having trouble finding information about these projects. Also, artificial intelligence (AI) is disrupting human art – including fiber arts like crochet.  And, folks are pushing back, like they always have — with song.  For certain reasons, I've been following the Inside Appalachia podcast for quite a while now, and while most of the topics they cover are at least inspiring this way or the other, like that whole Mothman story, this one strikes a particular chord with me in many ways.

Inside Appalachia

This week, data centers are rapidly expanding into rural parts of Appalachia, and folks say they are having trouble finding information about these...

#linkdump #podcast #technology_and_its_amazing_consequences #inside_appalachia

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(Generally exhausted by ignoring tech people explaining the world to others, online. And this kind of perceived superiority, this kind of entitlement to explain, to define, to set standards and rules in virtually every topic doesn't seem limited to a certain Silicon Valley crowd, they're just the most difficult ones because of the economic power to push forth their ideas.)

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☁️ Another afternoons grey under dense clouds but rain stopped for a moment. Pace quickens. Sleepy mind, trembling, hands cold with autumn and day but moving with the weathers.

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Short refresh cycles, fast task switching and lunch break but more like a nagging interrupt that, once accepted, will completely mess up all to come afterwards. Code structures. Configuration fragments. Even more code structures. Amazing to see how incredibly much the amount of components added to parts of the system has increased - very much unlike documentation and guidelines on how to handle these. Stepping out into the wind for a while. Consciously trying to avoid thinking about where this speed comes from.

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There are things to randomly pop up again here and make fall back into nostalgia. Such as this -

OpenIndiana Hipster 2026.10 released – OSnews

: "[...] OpenIndiana is a rolling-release illumos distribution, but they do release snapshots twice a year to serve as a base for installations, which they call Hipster. The project’s just released OpenIndiana Hipster 2026.10, and it brings a number of welcome changes. [...]" Interesting. I've been into OpenSolaris back when it popped up quite enthusiastically, used it on my daily working laptop, albeit for not very long, and also -

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- then and now used to write about this experience. Maybe worth taking a closer look yet again; never completely lost interest in this even after …

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There are things to randomly pop up again here and make fall back into nostalgia. Such as this -

OpenIndiana Hipster 2026.10 released – OSnews

: "[...] OpenIndiana is a rolling-release illumos distribution, but they do release snapshots twice a year to serve as a base for installations, which they call Hipster. The project’s just released OpenIndiana Hipster 2026.10, and it brings a number of welcome changes. [...]" Interesting. I've been into OpenSolaris back when it popped up quite enthusiastically, used it on my daily working laptop, albeit for not very long, and also -

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- then and now used to write about this experience. Maybe worth taking a closer look yet again; never completely lost interest in this even after …

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📷 Collecting all of todays light. #smartphonephotography #365moments #always_in_between #concrete_city

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(Manch frühe Stunde braucht Innehalten, um Vögel zu beobachten. Und Grundschulkinder, die in einem gar nicht so viel anders wirkenden Schwarm auf bunten Rollern über Asphalt und Pflastersteine klappern und mindestens genau so laut miteinander kommunizieren. Auch heute orientiert man auf Schleichwege vorbei an den großen Strecken, diesmal, weil die Kehrmaschine ihren Dienst getan und die Fahrbahnen mit einem feuchten, dunklen Film überzogen zurückgelassen hat. Die Tage werden kühler, die Handschuhe immer dringender, die Nachlässigkeiten unangenehmer.)

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☕ 6am. Kitchen but as quite an orchestra of noises. Supposed to get going, yet still trying to get inner forces controlled first.

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(Wieder viel zu früh nach viel zu kurzer Nacht: Sich selbst zusammensammeln, als eine Kollektion loser Blätter, einige beschriftet, einige zerknittert, einige unter Sonne und Wetter gealtert. Ein zufälliges leeres in Griffweite behalten. Holztisch, Bleistift, Korrekturrand. Übendes Gekritzel an einer unauffälligen Stelle. Und ein beherzt eingetragenes Datum, rechts oben. Bevor mehr Aufzählungen folgen. Und vielleicht Sätze. Mittwochmorgen, und für plausible Skizzen wird die Inspiration auch an diesem Tag nicht reichen. Habt es mild heute.)

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🌃 Die eigenartige erzählende Qualität von alten Straßenlaternen, des Nachts. Die Bilder, die sich in den Schimmer ihrer Kegel weben insbesondere in Stunden, in denen ein feiner Regen durch die Stadt treibt. Die Fassaden ringsum, die niedrigen Zäune, die Vorgärten und Dynamik von Mietwohnungen, die den verwitternden Strukturen immer wieder neue Farbtöne verleiht.

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A lot later and not completely there yet: City evening and the proximity of old houses, old streets, monuments of different kind and a bunch of tourists out here in changing seasons. Systems in maintenance mode. Inner state: Always a bit too tense, always a bit too noisy, always slightly off. Hoping for some soothing dreams. Have a soft night wherever you are.

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Music for afternoons while switching moods and phases of the day and going with a bit of focus for a bit longer. https://soundcloud.com/carmillasioux/carmilla-sioux-khidi-30-10-2026  #music_for_afternoons #soundcloud #carmilla_sioux #ebm #longform_techno #khidi

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Weiter im Nachmittag und immer noch grau. Nachbarskinder, Nachbarseltern bohren und hämmern, dass das Glas auf dem Schreibtisch kräuselnde Wellen trägt. Die Grenzen zwischen dem Spiel und der Arbeit scheinen heute fließend. (Ausgesetzte Telefongespräche. Verknüpfungen zu den Kalendern und Dokumentationen fehlen gerade. Und die Reaktionen auf Planverschiebung als Gradmesser für Prioritätsdifferenzen von Beteiligten. Konkreter wird es nicht.)

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Coldness of lunch break in between home office and street: No rain, no real fog, but still a kind of hazy moisture soaking clothes and covering hair and skin and soul. Surprisingly heavy traffic. Tools falling on the construction site, a few workers shouting at each other. Patience is wearing thin on everyont these days, it seems.

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📷 Some inner light some outer grey. #365moments #smartphonephotography #escapism #outerworld #autumn_colours

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Don't you ask, ever, again: "[...] The problem stems from a "don't ask again" user convenience feature to save developers from repeatedly having to give Claude Code permission to perform an action, a phenomenon known as approval fatigue. [...]" Guess there's interesting lessons to be learnt from that. Not sure where to start, though. Maybe talking about approval-based security and this wearing off at some point when popping up all too often. But also opaque tools, odd default behaviours, maybe lack of training of those using certain tools. Remembering the fact that secrets of whichever kind accidentially pushed to repositories is a re-occuring problem and caused interesting effects more than just once in the past. Here, too, however, availability of agentic tools that are easy to get …

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(Fenster öffnen, Fenster schließen, es regnet immer wieder und auf den dunklen grauen Dächer der Häuserzeile glänzt trübes Morgenlicht. Schon wieder kalte Finger. Akronyme. Instabile Verbindungen. Man wechselt zwischen den Aufgaben den Bildschirmen den Meldungen den Subsystemen und versucht die Muster zu erkennen, die sich in den Zeilen widerspiegeln. Irgendwo Sand in Getrieben. Oder Schraubenschlüssel. Es knirscht laut genug.)

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