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Digital NomadSep 8, 2026

I’ve had a Flickr account since 2008. My own photostream sits past 4,800 photos now, and for a long stretch of that history it wasn’t just a place I put my own pictures. In February 2009 I wrote a HOWTO on this blog about posting straight from a Nokia S60 phone to Flickr, because, as I put it at the time, “a lot of my clients in the educational sector are starting to use Flickr as part of their online teaching.” I wasn’t a bystander watching open education discover Flickr. I was helping build the on-ramp for it, in a professional life spent almost entirely in EdTech, first at DETAFE, then building learning management systems at Brightcookie for over a decade. Then, in 2011, I wrote a different kind of post on this blog, “Facebook - good riddance!”, deleting my account and declaring myself done with a company I’d never trusted. I illustrated it with a Creative Commons photo pulled straight off Flickr, credited to a photographer going by cogdogblog. That habit, reaching for a CC-licensed Flickr image whenever this blog needs one, has held for 15 years since, and it’s still the workflow described in this site’s own editorial instructions today. This isn’t that kind of post. I’m not celebrating anything.

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The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and teaSep 6, 2026

PSA on RSSAmplifierBot and BriskBot

I discovered two new bots in my server logs last week: RSSAmplifierBot and BriskBot. They come from RSS Amplifier and Brisk News respectively. Bot sites are built by Profullstack, Inc. I discovered that RSS Amplifier, unbeknownst to me, had been crawling New Leaf Journal's ATOM feed and re-publishing (albeit they would not describe it as such) the entire contents of my article under the RSS Amplifier banner (note it appears it took entire articles because I offer full-text feeds; it had […]

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Digital NomadSep 4, 2026

Enclosure by Good Intentions

Every few years a piece of infrastructure I care about gets a new licence, and the reason given is some version of the same sentence: we need to stop the big players strip-mining this. I have written that sentence myself, more than once. The instinct is sound. A digital commons that nobody defends gets enclosed, and the people doing the enclosing rarely announce themselves. So when Mark Qvist, the person behind the Reticulum mesh networking stack, replaced its MIT licence with a custom one built to keep the project out of corporate AI training sets and out of weapons systems, I understood the motivation completely. I just think it was the wrong move, and that the tool he actually needed was already on the shelf, tested, and free.

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The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and teaSep 2, 2026

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 09-02-26

My throat is irrtated, my nose is stuffy, and I have a slight headache. It's ragweed season. Unrelated: It's time for our daily Pook-Emu Bee links. 1 | Dating App Adds Feature Allowing Men To Filter Out Women Who Support Lindsay Clancy (The Babylon Bee. April 27, 2026.) An all-timer from Babylon Bee. 2 | Iconic, stained glass ‘Watertower’ above Brooklyn Bridge Park dismantled (Mary Frost for Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Sep. 1, 2026.) I'm a fan of the watertower. I am sure I have a photo of […]

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The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and teaSep 2, 2026

Knowing Someone Through Games

I read a post on the Strange Voyages blog titled 9 Games to Know Me (HT Bubbles Weekly). It caught my interest because the concept struck me as similar (albeit not identical) to my September 2023 article titled Ranking My Big Impression Video Games (see simple list version), wherein I ranked the 12 video games that left the biggest impression on me. The author at Strange Voyages states that he put the list together for his 32nd birthday, which would have him being born in August 1994. Thus, […]

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The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and teaSep 1, 2026

Pokémon is Older than Tamagotchi

I read an August 31, 2026 article in SoraNews24 titled Tamagotchi evolves into a ring for its 30th anniversary, preorders now open. I had a Tamagotchi at some point in the 90s, but I do not think it left a big impression on me. But this headline made me think. Pokémon celebrated its 30th anniversary on February 27 of this year. Is Pokémon older than Tamagotchi? I would have probably tentatively guessed "no" had I been asked before seeing this SoraNews24 article, but the headline suggests […]

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The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and teaSep 1, 2026

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 09-01-26

For the first time in about a week (if not a little more), I do not have a tight work deadline. Thus, I present you with a relatively leisurely edition of the Pook-Emu Bee to kick off September. 1 | Expression After Hit By Car (Ojai Raptor Center (via Owl’s in Towels). Oct. 11, 2024.) That raptor has seen more things than the original raptors. 2 | GrapheneOS might skip the Pixel 11 series over the lack of MTE hardware security support (Paul for AlternativeTo. Sep. 1, 2026.) Pixels […]

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The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and teaSep 1, 2026

Fujinokawa First Kyoto-Born Rikishi to Reach Sekiwake in 198 Years

The 2026 Aki banzuke (September Grand Sumo tournament) were released yesterday. 21-year-old Fujinokawa, one of the smallest wrestlers in the top-division, was expected to make his san'yaku debut after finishing 8-7 at maegashira-1 in July. The more burning question was whether he would make his san'yaku debut at Komosubi or the higher Sekiwake rank. Sekiwake is is for Fujinokawa. In makin. The Yomiuri Shimbun reported that Fujinokawa is the first Kyoto-born sumo wrestler to make the san'yaku […]

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The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and teaAug 31, 2026

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-31-26

We bring August to a close with one Pook-Emu Bee for the road. 1 | Understanding And Dealing With Kim Jong-Un’s Resilience (Mario Alexis Portella for American Thinker. August 31, 2026.) I attribute Kim Jong-un's resiliance to his looking at everything. 2 | Israel Continues Elimination Campaign Against October 7 Perpetrators and Gaza Terror Commanders (Vijeta Uniyal for Legal Insurrection. August 29, 2026.) There seems to be a growing correlation between having participated in October 7 […]

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Digital NomadAug 31, 2026

One Protocol, Many Engines: Reticulum's New Rust Implementations

When I wrote LPWAN Meshes: Reticulum, Where I Landed earlier this year, I covered Reticulum as Mark Qvist’s reference Python implementation: rnsd, Sideband, NomadNet, all built on RNS. That was accurate at the time, and it undersold what was already starting to happen underneath it. Reticulum was never meant to be a Python project. It is a protocol, and a protocol with only one implementation isn’t decentralised yet, it’s just a single point of failure with good branding.

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The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and teaAug 29, 2026

Kan Gao on Why He Uses RPG Maker

Kan Gao is the creator of the successful indie To the Moon series. I am not personally a fan of To the Moon. I tried the first entry and it just was not working for me, so I never finished. But despite not being a fan of the series, I read with some interest a recent Automation West interview with Mr. Gao. Automation West asked Mr. Gao why he chose to make To the Moon in RPG Maker instead of a different tool or engine. Mr. Gao replied: It was the tool with the least friction capable of […]

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The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and teaAug 28, 2026

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-28-26

Pook-Emu Bee will be taking the weekend off, first for Newsletter Saturday and probably for Sunday, so let us finish this work week strong before I return to my day job. 1 | Study Linking Solar Farms to Bird Loss Draws Scrutiny in China (Jiang Xinyi for Sixth Tone. August 28, 2026.) I found myself scrutinizing the claim that the Chinese government is focusing on solar because it is concerned with China's carbon emissions. 2 | What the $131 Billion F-15 Contract May Mean For the Air Force […]

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The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and teaAug 28, 2026

Adam Douglas’ List Page Links Bookmarklet

I saw a post in my feed collection by Adam Douglas titled Extract and Review Web Page Links Using a Bookmarklet. As the title suggests, he created a bookmarklet which "will create a new local web page with a page heading of 'List of Links Found', source web page address, total count of links found, and an unordered list of each link found on the source web page." I have confirmed that it works as promised. Very neat. You can find the bookmarket and full explanation in his link.

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The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and teaAug 27, 2026

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-27-26

I have a deadline today, so while the weekday Pook-Emu Bee streak continues, this will be another minimalist entry in my ongoing series. 1 | Israel: Law Adopted to Preserve the Memory of the October 7, 2023, Massacre and Commemorate Heroism (Ruth Levush for Global Legal Monitor. August 26, 2026.) A sound law. 2 | Model Owl in a Towel (Wildbase Hospital [via Owls in Towels]. August 24, 2026.) That is a [small] statuesque owl. 3 | How a Ukrainian commander sped through the ‘kill zone’ […]

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The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and teaAug 26, 2026

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-26-26

I have a rough three-day work-stretch ahead of me, but the weekday Pook-Emu Bee links streak must continue (I will however compromise on feature images today). 1. Brainless TikTok trend causes $2,000 in damage to SoCal home (Daniel Farr for the New York Post. August 26, 2026.) States and localities should consider sentence enhancement provisions for crimes committed for social media consumption. 2. EXCLUSIVE: US Investigators Have Proof That UNRWA ‘Social Worker’ Caught on Tape […]

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Digital NomadAug 26, 2026

No Gateway Required: Mesh Telemetry Versus LoRaWAN's Centralised Model

Part one and part two of this series covered how Reticulum and MeshCore actually move a sensor reading: LXMF’s delivery methods and Propagation Nodes on one side, a purpose-built sensor role and CayenneLPP encoding on the other. Both are genuinely decentralised, no shared infrastructure required beyond the nodes themselves. This closing part asks the question that decides whether that matters for a given deployment: what does the alternative, LoRaWAN, actually require to do the same job?

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The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and teaAug 26, 2026

Learning About Cassette Types

I read an article by Mark Tyson for Tom's Hardware titled Maxell brings back classic 1970s cassette tapes — 1970s ferric formula is custom-made for vintage PC data drives. I have many VCR memories, but I do not have many audio cassette tape memories despite being old enough to remember when they were readily available in stores. But while I came to this article for a cassette revival story, I stayed for some fun cassette facts. I summarize below: The revived 1970s cassette tapes being […]

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The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and teaAug 25, 2026

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-25-26

I have been busy today, but the weekday streak of Pook-Emu Bee links continues. 1 | California political candidate facing six years in prison after listing dive bar as home address (Marina Peña for the California Post. August 24, 2026.) This plan was dumb enough to make me wonder whether she lives in a dive bar. 2 | Summer Wars: An Anime With A Cautionary tale About AI (The Ghastly Mirror. August 24, 2026.) I watched Summer Wars with a friend a long time ago (maybe 2014-15). I recall […]

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The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and teaAug 24, 2026

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-24-26

We're back from the weekend with a new edition of the Pook-Emu Bee links. 1 | OpenAI builds dedicated ChatGPT experience for teens with parental controls and study features (Eric Revell for Fox Business. August 18, 2026.) This is heartwarming and all but what if the kids just went outside and tried reading once in a while? 2 | Google Opposes Site Blocking in Europe as U.S. Piracy Blocking Plans Gain Momentum (Ernesto Van der Sar for Torrent Freak. July 11, 2026.) Sometimes Google does in […]

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The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and teaAug 24, 2026

Burger King Surpasses Wendy’s

Fox Business reported on August 9, 2026, that Burger King surpassed Wendy's as the (distant) second largest burger chain in the United States after McDonald's. According to the report, Wendy's had passed Burger King in 2020 and held the runner-up spot for six years, but their fortunes have reversed: Burger King reclaimed the No. 2 position as its U.S. turnaround gains momentum, with domestic same-store sales jumping 8.5% in the second quarter. Wendy’s, meanwhile, reported a 7% decline in […]

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The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and teaAug 22, 2026

Headlines That Say “I Ran Out Of Ideas”

I came across a New York Post opinion column by Lydia Moynihan titled The Gwyneth Paltrow AI controversy only hurts women. This may be rich coming from someone who, in the last month, has published reports on a free air conditioner and free printer left out for the taking in Brooklyn, New York City, but really? When I see that headline, I think "I have a deadline and no ideas, let me scour social media for something to write about." Far be it from me to tell other internet writers how to […]

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Digital NomadAug 22, 2026

Sensor Data Over MeshCore: Pull-Based Telemetry and CayenneLPP

Part one of this series looked at sensor telemetry over Reticulum, and landed on a specific trade-off: Reticulum gives you cryptographic primitives (Destinations, Links, LXMF’s delivery methods) and leaves the shape of a telemetry deployment up to you. MeshCore takes the opposite approach. It has an actual sensor node role, a standard payload encoding, and a query model built around telemetry specifically, not general-purpose messaging repurposed for it.

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The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and teaAug 22, 2026

Against “Like Them, but Better”

I came across a short post on @iamgregb (I assume by Greg B) titled "Like Them, but Better." It's Not. In the post, he makes the case against "[a] social media strategy focused entirely on the competition," explaining that "I want to choose your product because it's a unique proposition" rather than because it is not a different project. As the author of The Positive Case for Good Tech, I could not agree more, and state that "I am Greg B" in the "I am Spartacus" sense. I will add an […]

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The Emu Café Social - A tranquil cafe with coffee and teaAug 21, 2026

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-21-26

It is time to wrap up another perfect five-for-five Pook-Emu Bee work-week before we take tomorrow off for Newsletter Saturday. Life Updates I shared a photo of my new (Ebay, so "new") Wacom One drawing tablet yesterday. While the "drawing" works as expected, I cannot get it to display an image. I think the annoying Wacom "X cable" is the issue, so I am ordering a replacement from B&H to see if that is correct before I move for a refund. In any event, I tested it on different computers to […]

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