Nicholas A. Ferrell

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https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/white-album-vibes-in-tokyo-mirage-sessions/

I have been writing about my play-through of _Tokyo Mirage Sessions FE: Encore_(see prologue, chapter 1, and first intermisson takes). I am in the middle of chapter two […]

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https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/another-nlj-11-18-25/

I suspect that most people who follow this site know that my main project is _The New Leaf Journal. _We control two domains for NLJ: thenewleafjournal and newleafjournal dot com. But there are […]

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https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/unaffected-by-cloudflare-outage-11-18-25/

From Macy McCue Bell in _The Washington Times_ this morning (link):

> Many internet users woke up Tuesday morning and logged onto social media, video games or news sites […]

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https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/bike-lanes-and-damico-11-17-25/

I recently wrote about ordering Copper Moon’s “White Christmas Blend” coffee beans. In my first article (I noted the arrival of the beans in a second article and can now confirm it is […]

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https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/re-why-i-dont-need-a-steam-machine-11-17-25/

I read a fun post by Wouter Groeneveld at Brain Baking titled _Why I Don’t Need a Steam Machine. _The post ends with a humorous twist that I will refrain from spoiling […]

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https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/my-gift-lvl-9999-unlimited-gacha-tv-anime-name-analysis/

I subscribe to Anime News Network’s feed. I saw the following headline: _My Gift Lvl 9999 Unlimited Gacha TV Anime Reveals 5 More Cast Members, 2nd Promo Video_ […]

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https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/re-firefox-ai-11-14-25/

I use Firefox. I have mostly missed its new “AI features,” but a good post by Cybrkid alerted me to Firefox’s newest in-development AI “feature”: AI Window. Cybrkid is (correctly) nonplussed […]

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A large black two pound bag of Copper Moon Coffee, White Christmas flavor, with a small Copper Moon postcard.

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/copper-moon-white-christmas-coffee-arrives-11-13-25/

Five days ago, I wrote about ordering Copper Moon White Christmas coffee after an entry in my feed reader caught my attention. The coffee has arrived.

It arrived as […]

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https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/tokyo-mirage-sessions-fe-encore-intermission-1-2-impressions-11-13-25/

After finishing chapter 1 of Tokyo Mirage Sessions FE: Encore, I learned that there are between-chapter intermissions. The intermission allows you […]

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https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/cade-cunningham-and-chris-webber-11-13-25/

I read that Detroit Pistons guard Cade Cunningham scored 46 points on 45 field goal attempts in a 137-135 ovetime win over the Washington Wizards on November 10, 2025. This […]

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https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/2025-veterans-day-proclamation/

Three years to the day, I covered the first Veterans Day Proclamation, issued by then-President Dwight Eisenhower 51 years to the day. The proclamations continue. On November 10, 2025 […]

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https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/tokyo-mirage-sessions-fe-ch-1-impressions-11-11-25/

I finished chapter one of Tokyo Mirage Sessions: FE just over three weeks after completing the prologue. I published a short “impressions” post after finishing the […]

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https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/the-dangers-in-my-heart-movie-psa-11-10-25/

Anime News Network reports that “ _The Dangers in My Heart: The Movie,_ the compilation film of the television anime … will get a theatrical elease in the United States […]

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https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/re-the-thumbs-up-reaction/

Over on Brain Baking, Wouter Groeneveld offered a critique of the thumbs up reaction emoji, noting correctly that it is an _at best_ ambiguous response to substantive messages. I largely […]

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https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/agreeing-with-amazons-perplexity-complaint-11-09-25/

From a November 4, 2025 CNBC report:

> Perplexity AI accused Amazon of “bullying” on Tuesday after it received a letter from the e-commerce giant demanding it […]

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https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/chancellor-bowman-11-09-25/

The New York Post reported on what it believes are the five front-runners to be the next New York City schools chancellor. The article leads with the most well-known name of the bunch, Jamal […]

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https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/linux-kernel-enabling-ms-c-ext-09-11-25/

I was going through my Miniflux feed items this morning when I saw a Phoronix headline: _The Linux Kernel Looks To “Bite The Bullet” In Enabling Microsoft C Extensions_. “I’m […]

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https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/upgrading-openwrt-on-my-netgear-wax-202-ap-11-08-25/

I use a NETGEAR WAX 202 router running OpenWrt as my wireless access point. Unlike my router (MikroTik hAP ac3 running MikroTik’s RouterOS), it does not update […]

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https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/ordering-copper-moon-white-christmas-coffee-08-11-25/

Back in May I published a NLJ article titled _Failing to Try Airport Illy Coffee Vending Machine_. While researching the Illy vending machines, I came across a […]

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https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/espns-new-gambling-partnership-11-07-25/

Beginning in 2001 and running through the end of my tenure in high school (at least), I regularly watched ESPN. I still watched it at times through 2015 or 16 or so, which when […]

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https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/the-real-loser-of-nycs-mayor-race-11-07-25/

According to Joseph Burns writing for City Journal, “while the final tallies in the 2025 NYC Mayoral election] identified Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa as the losers, the […]

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https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/arduboyfxc-coming-in-dec25-11-06-25/

The Arduboy is a rare example of an open source video game console. The company just announced that it is releasing a new model in December 2025 with USB-C and link cable (how […]

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https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/mullvad-ending-leta-11-06-25/

AlternativeTo reports that Mullvad VPN is shutting down Leta, its soon-to-be-former privacy-centric Google Search proxy, on November 27, 2025. I have been a Mullvad customer since 2021. I […]

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https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/times-of-londons-fake-de-blasio-quote-10-29-25/

_The Times of London_ found itself in an awkward journalistic situation when it printed an article featuring fictitious quotes by former New York City Mayor Bill de […]

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https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/google-chrome-goes-https-by-default-10-29-25/

Through Hacker News, I read that Google Chrome will go HTTPS by default with the release of Chrime 154, which is apparently slated for October 2026. I have not regularly […]

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https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/senator-cruz-on-political-antisemitism/

I read interesting remarks by Texas Senator Ted Cruz on antisemitism at the 45th Annual Night to Honor Israel, courtesy of a Volokh Conspiracy post by Josh Blackman. After noting […]

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https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/hacker-news-referrals-10-28-25/

I saw a very unusual number of views in my Statify stats. The source was… Hacker News? While I have had a few dramatic Hacker News successes on my main site, _The New Leaf Journal,_ I […]

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https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/firefox-privacy-focused-direct-results-psa-10-28-25/

I covered how to disable Firefox’s new AI “features” in my previous post. While browsing my feeds, I came across a new AlternativeTo post on another […]

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https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/resource-disabling-ai-features-in-firefox-10-27-25/

I came across a guide on Flamed Fury to disabling new AI “features” in Firefox. I run Firefox with Arkenfox and a separate overrides file. I had not noticed any AI […]

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https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/chromium-watch/

I read a Hacker News thread about a new Android browser called Helium Browser. Helium is an open-source browser project based on GrapheneOS’s Vanadium, which in turn is based on Chromium, adding […]

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