TribesmanJohn

@kagi.com Hi Kagi Team? Any update on when the free search portal is appearing? I'm waiting to demonstrate the power of Kagi to colleagues who don't want to sign up for a trial in a bid to convince them there's a better way to search :)

Glad to hear Safari Extension Support coming, because the FF/Chrome Extensions for 1Password just do not work on iPadOS and have been a major blocker for me.
Only other thing on my wishlist would be iCloud Private Relay support for feature parity.

The World's Largest Camera's First Photo: 5 Gigapixels Showing 10 Million Galaxies One of humanity's greatest achievements.

Stunning first images from the new Vera C Rubin Observatory - “The Cosmic Treasure Chest”

rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-f...

Petapixel Article:
petapixel.com/2025/06/23/t...

#astronomy #astrophotography #photography #science

Double Rainbow! After an utter downpour for 10 mins.

#hobart #Tasmania cc:bsky

A certain location in Hobart is seriously taking this piss in charging $26 for what amounts to a Chicken Salad Roll.
(Crumbed chicken breast, lettuce, tomato, cheese, aoli).

#hobart cc:bsky

ISS SSTV Expedition 73 - CQ DE VK7BEN Between the 5th -12th May, there was a special ARISS/Russia SSTV expedition celebrating Victory Day on May 9, representing the victory of the Soviet Union over Germany in WWII. Conditions were challenging with the timing of the SSTV transmission intervals often resulting in being only able to receive one complete image in the 9-11min AOS ... Read more

Some of my received SSTV Images from the ARISS Expedition 73 SSTV Mission.

https://www.vk7ben.au/2025/05/14/iss-sstv-expedition-73/

#hamradio #amateurradio #sstv #ariss cc:bsky

Any sort of technical search actually getting me to technical pages, rather than sponsored links to a page which would tell me that I could do what I wanted by using sponsored product.

I think you should wait until the pre-polls come in :)

A photo of David Mitchell dressed up in Nazi-esque uniform, looking concerned, with the quote "Let's wait until pre-polls come in."

Happy World Password Day from Australia! May you forever enjoy hunter2.

#infosec #cybersecurity #passwordday2025 cc:bsky

We truly live in a techtopian hypeocracy and it is driving me insane, having just received yet another training course advertisment for “Generative AI for Everyone”, promising “Practical Exercises in crafting AI Prompts and optimising Outputs.”

#techtopian #hypeocracy #betteroffline #antiai cc:bsky

I mean yea...some of the things from LTT (like the FreeNAS incident a couple of years back) have certainly made me wonder what the hell is going on over there.
I agree the Linux Desktop has improved a lot, but will remain niche without it being adopted wholesale in the business space.

Classic Australian Television Part I I am not particularly fond of YouTube. From it’s humble beginning to it’s inevitable enshittification, It maintains a market monopoly of 98% for video sharing services1. Perhaps one goo…

Blog Post - Remembering Classic Australian Television Part I
blog.tribesmanjohn.au/2025/04/clas...

Bush Tucker Man, Malcolm Douglas, Alby Mangels oh my!

#blogs #australia #television #1980s

And a shout out to @edzitron.com because his articles are really what inspired me to write anything at all and helped me believe I was not the only one out there who thinks LLM's are not society's saviour.

Fed Up with AI Hype I’m fed up with narrative that current “Artificial Intelligence” development is going to be all things to all people or a major AI breakthrough will be just around the corner, aga…

I am probably going to be eviscerated and cancelled for having a negative opinion about Generative AI, but having spent months raging about the current state of the internet, I put some words around it.

https://blog.tribesmanjohn.au/2025/04/fed-up-with-ai-hype/

#blogs #generativeAI cc:bsky

Running MMSSTV Under Linux - CQ DE VK7BEN Blog - VK7BEN gets the MMSSTV software working under Linux using WINE and provides information on how you can do this yourself.

Very pleased with myself in getting the Windows MMSSTV App running under Linux using emulation. That's going to make sending a lot easier.

https://www.vk7ben.au/2025/04/21/mmsstv-linux/

#amateurradio #hamradio #sstv #blog #smallweb #linux #wine cc:bsky

ARISS SSTV Event 26 -Humans in Space - CQ DE VK7BEN Over the past week, amateur radio operators have been enjoying receiving SSTV images from the International Space Station (ISS) celebrating April 12, the International Day of Human Space Flight. As yo...

Blog Post - ARISS SSTV Event Series 26 - Humans in Space.

www.vk7ben.au/2025/04/15/a...

I'm truly enjoying receiving SSTV Images from Satellites and ISS :)

#amateurradio #ariss #sstv

A Tiny SI4732 Receiver - CQ DE VK7BEN VK7BEN Receives an Si4732 based mini SDR radio receiver in the mail and shares some thoughts about it.

I had a tiny tiny radio arrive in the mail today, and it’s quite fun :)

https://www.vk7ben.au/2025/04/10/a-tiny-si4732-receiver/

#amateurradio #si4732 #gadgets #electronics cc:bsky

Switching QSO Logging to Wavelog Over this past week I have taken a leap of faith and moved my contact logging platform to Wavelog.  Ever since I first obtained my amateur radio license some 20 years ago, I have used Ham Radi…

Finally a new radio blog post! Switching my logging software to Wavelog.

https://www.vk7ben.au/2025/04/09/switching-qso-logging-to-wavelog/

#amateurradio #blogs #SmallWeb cc:bsky

Is there any chance you could update your blog post to explain what “1 Million Tokens” means in real terms for people who are not familiar with GenAI Pricing? how many page summaries could that be?

https://flakyj.blogspot.com .

More impressively the US’s National Library of Medicine has many papers written on the phenomena: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/?term=predatory+journal

I really didn’t expect there to be this much coverage of it!

#scams #infosec #academia #spam cc:bsky

I have been thoroughly going down the rabbit hole of predatory academic journals and conferences (!) this morning after my mail message blocklist hitting a milestone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_publishing

Which led me to https://beallslist.net and then to the highly entertaining

Absolutely stunning footage of the Firefly Blue Ghost landing on the moon. The HD vision of the moon and landing is almost unreal.

https://youtu.be/NpHhEybJdxg?si=GcVrFwyfyVaKPGpo

#space #blueghost #firefly #moon cc:bsky

I don't know why I bother trying to mulch the garden, it seems within a couple of hours the blackbirds have dug it all out of the garden and back onto the paths and lawns. rinse and repeat.

Infuriating.

I know I didn't say Kagi Mail. Like most others have said, there already plenty of players in this space, please stick to providing a great search platform.

I am having one of those very dangerous periods of idly browsing a boat sales site and thinking “I have enough money for that”…..

cc:bsky

restoration.

https://pulsetasmania.com.au/news/cartela-in-crisis-iconic-tasmanian-vessel-partially-submerged-in-huon-river/

#tasmania cc:bsky

Incredibly sad news overnight on the back of the Wooden Boat festival, with the 100+ year old Cartela partially sinking at Franklin after years of inaction for her

The last of my photos from the 2025 Australian Wooden Boat festival have now been uploaded (an extra 38). Mostly new photos from the Sail Parade.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/vk7ben/albums/72177720323661152

#awbf2025 #hobart #tasmania #australia #photography cc:bsky

[2/2] James Craig side on.

#awbf2025 #hobart cc:bsky

https://flic.kr/p/2qKArXX