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I'm a week post radiation; I'm still very red, and I have some raw patches in my armpit / outer edge of the breast. I assume this is mostly because I did not do the same prevention there, because I did not realise I needed to.

This means I am doing a lot of going topless; it is fortunately still warm enough to be doing that (although it is down to 22°C at the moment, and even with the door shut I'm a tad cold). I ran out of the ointment the hospital gave me, then the healing gel i was using, and the replacement artisanat found isn't as good.

I have found a couple more books to fit the reading for the fiction part of my project, so I'm going gung ho on that. Am a little frustrated that I keep finding books from the USA, rather than anywhere else.

I have not been keeping up with DW. I've just opened about 20 posts and I think I'm going to end up closing them having skimmed. I have, instead, fallen face first into Heated Rivalry fandom, and very much appreciate chaosmanor sharing their sources for fic. (I have not seen the show, nor read the books. This is unlikely to change. Youngest has been reporting back on the show).

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March 25th, 2026: Last night I went to go see NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE on the strength of the recommendation of your friend and mine CHIP ZDARSKY and I gotta say, I haven't had a more fun time at the theatre in a long time! You may consider this a recommendation - go see NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE! – Ryan

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1. Plug-in solar power could be in UK shops within months

(tags:solarpower uk GoodNews )

2. What is a polite way to say "I have to poop" as a woman? (the responses are hilarious)

(tags:funny women society poo )

3. Even Scotland's richest back higher taxes on the wealthy, poll finds

(tags:polls tax wealth Scotland )

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https://jmason.ie/2026/03/25/100103a.html

• Debunking zswap and zram myths

  This is pretty compelling. I like this example:

  We have some concrete numbers to show this in practice. On Instagram, which runs on Django and is largely memory bound, we ran a test where we moved from their existing setup (with swap entirely disabled) to a setup with disk swap and zswap tiering. Django workers accumulate significant cold heap state over their lifetime, like forked processes with duplicated memory, growing request caches, Python object overhead, you get the idea. The results were twofold:

  • We achieved roughly 5:1 compression. That's a huge benefit for such a memory bound workload, and also enables us to consider further stacking workloads.
  • Enabling zswap reduced disk writes by up to 25% compared to having no swap at all(!).

  As you can imagine, as a result of this test, Instagram has been using zswap for many years now.

  Tags: kernel compression memory linux ops performance swap zswap zram

https://jmason.ie/2026/03/25/100103a.html

I wonder at what birth year over half of people have never seen a western.

Obviously very young people won't - but if we look at people age 25-40, who have had a chance to watch a bunch of movies, I wonder if outside of classic movie afficionados you'll have seen many people see any. The last minor resurgence would have been Tarantino's Hateful Eight and Django Unchained, and I don't think either of those were that massive. Before that you're probably back to Dances with Wolves and Unforgiven, which is now around 35 years ago.

Which would mean that the main cultural touchstone for young people would be Red Dead Redemption 2, released in 2018 and the 4th best-selling game of all time.

(Curiosity triggered because in the most recent University Challenge nobody recognised John Wayne.)

Ardnakelty has no time for Guards. The townland will run its own investigation, spreading unseen beneath the official enquiry like ancient trailways underlie the brash modern roads; it'll reach its own conclusions, and deal out its own justice. [loc. 1069]

Third in the trilogy that began with The Searcher and continued with The Hunter. Cal Hooper's life in the small village of Ardnakelty seems settled: he's more or less engaged to Lena, and Trey is finding friends and possibly even romance. Then a young woman -- Rachel, fiancee of local big-shot Tommy Moynihan's son Eugene -- is found dead in the river. ( Read more... )

Posted by Farbod Shahinfar

https://blog.apnic.net/2026/03/25/demystifying-performance-of-ebpf-network-applications/

https://blog.apnic.net/?p=97744

https://blog.apnic.net/2026/03/25/demystifying-performance-of-ebpf-network-applications/

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https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260324.html

Is gravity the same over the surface of the Earth?

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260324.html

Posted by John Kovalic

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https://dorktower.kovalic.com/?p=19969

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The kids are watching an episode of SpongeBob where he's failing to write an essay. It is, frankly, stressing me the fuck out.

Posted by Salo linkspam

https://doi.org/10.31274/isudp.2026.216

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https://doi.org/10.31274/isudp.2026.216

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https://news.risky.biz/risky-bulletin-github-is-starting-to-have-a-real-malware-problem/

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https://news.risky.biz/risky-bulletin-github-is-starting-to-have-a-real-malware-problem/

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You may value their lives above your own; I cannot do so, for to me you are worth far more than all of them. I will not obey you in such a case, and as for duty, I do not care for the notion a great deal, the more I see of it. [p. 196]

Audiobook reread: I first read this as an arc in 2005, and reread in 2019. I still love this book a great deal, and had a better sense of the pacing when I listened to the familiar procession of events. Splendidly read by Simon Vance, who gives Temeraire a very slight 'foreign' accent, perhaps hinting at his mysterious origins. I'm so tempted to buy the audiobooks of the whole series...

Posted by Geoff Huston

https://blog.apnic.net/2026/03/24/the-why-and-what-of-the-cidr-report/

https://blog.apnic.net/?p=100101

https://blog.apnic.net/2026/03/24/the-why-and-what-of-the-cidr-report/

https://blog.apnic.net/?p=100101

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260323.html

What's happening at the end of that street?

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260323.html

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