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  Cover crops on swales makes sense to me... Annual cover crops to add nitrogen and mulch; - vetch - cow pea Then seed in perennials. The one thing that i did not connect with before is that swales on the landscape is designed to be a tree growing system, eventually a food forrest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0nVPsyITFo I have so much reading ahead of me... #Growing #Gardening #Permaculture #FoodForrest

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  RPi Zero + LCD in an altoids tin; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j262kCYZxZI

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  In between everything else today, been working on a pair of laptops, getting them to, A) boot, B) boot from floppy, C) find a working floppy, D) writing a bootable operating system to that floppy. somehow I prefer this mess to UEFI and booting from USB storage. the oldest laptop has no USB ports. the next oldest has one USB port. one. and HDDs that range from 4-8GB. for the love of DOS software that has to have an actual hard ware serial port. why? to program radios, of course. #ham

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  Another nice video from Will documenting model railway layouts; Murtoa in HO Scale | A Victorian Railways Layout https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_UD6Y_R1ok #modelrailway

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  It is fascinting looking at the logs for the mastodon server. Looking at the endless stream of requests for known vulnerabilities in php apps. Today I added 4.208.0.0/12 to the block list. Yet another Microsoft IP range... Sorry if this you hosting your fediverse instance on azure. It is time to move off the cloud if you want to maintain independance with your apps.

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  TIL, https://www.tribblix.org/about.html Tribblix is an operating system distribution derived from OpenSolaris, OpenIndiana, and illumos, with a retro style and modern components. The base kernel and commands come from illumos, with everything else rebuilt from scratch. Tribblix isn't just a spin or repackaging of another illumos distribution. It's a completely independent distribution that, ...

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  Interesting story about the Lateen rig; https://www.southernwoodenboatsailing.com/news/freddie-mercury-and-lateen-rigs #proa

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  Today I discovered the notion of #CosyCore In unrelated news, it is now the time of year where I turn the electric blanket on as the first thing when getting home after work in the evening.

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  What a novel concept, news on a map; https://www.opennewsmap.net/doku.php?id=onm:in_outback_sa_platypus_fossils_discovered_with_teeth_from_25_million_years_ago

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  This is extremely short sighted; https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-05/albanese-government-slashes-funding-inland-rail-project/106644902