Category: Featured

How to use face detection on digiKam

Face detection on digicam not working? Not getting any results? Feeling like you're just doing something wrong? Reading the manual doesn't help? I was in the same spot, and it turns that while the app is technically…

By lonm

A man's best friend

I've always had animals in my life - dogs, cats, rabbits, tortoises, guinea pigs, various budgies. And goldfish. In my childhood mostly, as my parents thought it would be good for my development, I suppose:…

By travellinbob

Why the smart ones don’t lead?

I was asked recently the following questions: Why intelligent people are not allowed to rule and get the world out of its dire situation? Why capable people are not permitted to have power and organize or manage things…

By Cezar

Stolen & Published

How I discovered that someone stole one of my infographics and published it without giving credit.…

By Cezar

Stubby Bee Apiary at Rath Farms - October Update

This is the end of the 2024 season. I was neglectful in keeping up with his blog this year. I will try harder next season. …

By prstebbi

The Heart and The River

London, the night, the river... All passing in their own time. The great city - by day a vast tumult of activity, By night the dark city; shadows and light; romance and mystery. The river ebbs and flows beneath bridges,…

By toomuchrose

The beginning of a story

I have already shown something about this cluster, in a recent post, but this time, I can guide you to enter right into – so to speak – its heart. The heart, that is, of the young cluster of stars called NGC…

By mcastel

Could the Faroes Help Scotland?

This video… about tunnels in the Faroes sparked off my interest:

By lonm

Forget Snap and Flatpak, I use Vivaldi tarballs

The advantages/disadvantages of classic tar packages Back in the old days (long before Snap, Flatpak or AppImage), if a software producer wanted to offer a "universal Linux package" they would offer a tar package…

By ruario

Does Mastodon Have A Future?

On 2024-09-23 I read that another Mastodon instance is calling it quits. StrangeObject.Space will shut down at the end of the year. You can read their post at…

By publicwolf

AI Programming has completely missed the mark

I recently read an article about outages from AI generated code, and I have read similar stories in the past year about failings in quality metrics when AI generated code is used. When I was researching Developer…

By lonm

A comprehensive review of common search engines

Hello and welcome to yet another technology-fuelled rant from yours truly! Today’s topic is search engines, those little websites all browsers use that allow you to find other websites, given a query by the user (that’s…

By willuk

Share Vivaldi with your friends

Your friends deserve a more powerful browser.

Here's the link to download Vivaldi, the browser I'm using: https://vivaldi.com/
Thank you!