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A close-up of a round, fluffy seed head (dandelion-like) on a thin stem, backlit by warm late-afternoon sunlight with a blurred street scene and parked cars in the background.

Found this in the street last night around sunset.

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Via Patrick (@ppb1701@ppb.social) on Mastodon:

fun fact anker docking stations are NOT designed to swap the usb cord between computers. ymmv but it landed me in the "usb last connected...." loop. I think i finally resolved it completely unplugging everything from the dock, rebooting the machine, and then making the anker software update/repair the firmware. It finally settled down. GEESH. You'd think that'd be basic functionality that a dock or usb hub might float.

#usb #anker #windows

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Found the power brick for this Atom x5-Z8350 1.44GHz, 4GB RAM small form factor PC. It runs Win 11 (that's what it came with) but sllowwly. Not sure what I'll do with it. It's too slow to do anything with the Windows GUI. Maybe something headless? Ideas welcome.
#windows #linux #hardware

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I was thinking about #Obsidian, a growing knowledge base and linking. In the beginning, as you make notes on a topic, you don't make links because you don't know the facts are related yet. It would be cool, and maybe a good use of AI, if there were a tool that could go back and link all your notes and build the knowledge graph. Think of one of those boards in detective shows where they just start pinning facts to the board. Victim, crime scene, suspect 1 then some clue is revealed and everything links up and you have a case.

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Via Techmeme (@Techmeme@techhub.social) on Mastodon:

A survey of 1,692 US physicians: over 80% use AI professionally and the most common use cases are medical research summarization and clinical care documentation (American Medical Association)

https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/ama-press-releases/ama-ai-usage-among-doctors-doubles-confidence-technology-grows
http://www.techmeme.com/260314/p1#a260314p1

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Via Nicolas Hoizey (@nhoizey@mamot.fr) on Mastodon:

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“Templater snippets (for Obsidian)” by Zach Young

🔗 https://zachyoung.dev/posts/templater-snippets

Snippets I’ve written for the Templater Obsidian plugin.

#Obsidian
⚓️ https://nicolas-hoizey.com/links/2026/03/12/templater-snippets-for-obsidian/

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Via Writing Slowly (@writingslowly@aus.social) on Mastodon:

ROOTS - Return Old Online Things to your own Site That’s what Lisa Charlotte Muth is doing at her website. And that’s what I’m doing with posts like Some urgent note-making questions find answers - bringing scattered material back together.

#IndieWeb #PKM #Blogging #NoteTaking #DigitalSovereignty https://lisacharlottemuth.com/bringing-everything-back-to-my-website

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Via anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖 (@anna_lillith@mas.to) on Mastodon:

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA TRIBE TO GET BACK 125 ACRES OF ANCESTRAL LAND STOLEN DURING GOLD RUSH

Julie Watson/ Associated Press/ Mar 20

California’s Yurok Tribe, which had 90% of its territory taken from it during the #GoldRush of the mid-1800s, will be getting a slice of its land back to serve as a new gateway to Redwood National and State Parks visited by 1 million people a year.

#LandBack #Yurok #California
Northern California Tribe to Get Back 125 Acres of Ancestral Land Stolen During Gold Rush | KQED

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Via Spocko (@spocko@mastodon.online) on Mastodon:

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This could be "the largest data theft in history." - @alaw202@masthead.social

The Inspector General at the Social Security Admin was WARNED about the massive risk DOGE was taking with our private data, but the #DOGEBros wouldn't stop.

Chuck Borges, former Chief Data Officer of the SSA, quit & became a Whistleblower so it would be taken seriously.

On @nicolesandler@mstdn.social he said Congress should be jumping at the heels of #DOGE Bros to get the truth.

Check it out #Infosec friends
https://www.youtube.com/live/SxeRutsIqDw?si=9CwFV8HB2M77NEdd&t=2677 #uspol

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Blood test may predict women’s dementia risk up to 25 years early, study finds | Fox News https://www.foxnews.com/health/lurking-dementia-risk-exposed-breakthrough-test-25-years-before-symptoms
#science

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Via Kyle Gordon (@kyle) on Mastodon:

I wish there was some way of joining #Obsidian to my browser, such that when I search for something I get a popup saying "You have extensive notes on this after researching this exact issue 3 years ago and have since forgotten about"

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Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures, displayed over an illustration of books.

Spotted this at Barnes and Noble last night. "Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Top down view of a cup of coffee with a design of two hands coming together where the fingers form a heart shape.

I had this cappuccino yesterday and my first sip turned the barista's design into the heart hands symbol 🫶
#coffee

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Faded mural of a human heart made of vines and flowers with text below it that says Bloom from Within

Bloom from within. Going through some of pics and this caught my eye.

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Scott Kingery

I spent some free time over the last week or so rebuilding my site. I had moved to Pico CSS about a month ago because I wanted something more modern than I was using. I needed something simple enough that I could wrap my head around how it works and easily drop it in without too much fuss. I find CSS to be a bit of a mystery. If I hack on it long enough I can get things to a good spot but it doesn't come naturally and I'm no artist.

This week was all about the frontend. I've been using Obsidian as the editor of choice because it works with Markdown files natively. My site is made up of static HTML generated from markdown by Eleventy (11ty). I was using a Vault (Obsidian's word for where your files are stored) for my Personal notes and another Vault that housed all the markdown and asset files for my website. That has worked well but there is a lot of overlap. My brain had to keep track of what was in my personal notes and what was on the website. So, I decided I'd combine the two.

One huge advantage to using Obsidian as your frontend is the ability to use the Templater plugin. This lets me create a temple for a blog post and another for a garden page. It will even auto name and move the file to the correct folder.

I keep a Digital Garden on my site so my idea is that I will continue to flesh that out and merge some of the notes that were hidden in my personal notes over into the Digital Garden. One nice thing is that in my Obsidian vault, everything is indexed so if I do move a note from one folder to the other, it is easily found in my local repository.
What about private notes? The default folder in my Obsidian vault is NOT one of the public folders. This means I can edit a post or keep a private note and it won't get published until I move it to the right folder. Also, I have 11ty ignore certain folders at build time so nothing from there gets published. Additionally, it's not like I keep info that is that private in my Vault.

On the 11ty side, I took the opportunity to completely rewrite my .eleventy.js file. This is the core of 11ty that tells it what to include, which plugins and filters to use and what to simply pass through. It was a mess after a bunch of experimentation with different things. I also implemented photogabble's awesome plugin that adds wikilink and wikilink embed support with tracking of backlinks.. This makes using Obsidian as the front end even easier because making a link to another note is as simple as typing [[noteName]] and 11ty will render it correctly as a web link when the site is published. They wrote more about the plugin here: Adding Wiki Links to 11ty.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out. I've either over-complicated things for myself or made it easier to do my "digital gardening". Either way, it was fun to figure out.

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It's been a while since I posted about my favorite Fediverse client, Phanpy https://phanpy.social/. It's a web app that works well on every device from desktop to mobile. It handles long threads like a dream and skillfully manages reposts in a unique horizontal scrolling UI. On a wider screen you can enable columns and keep on top of everything at the same time (if you used Tweetdeck on the bird site back in the day, you'll love it). I honestly can't imagine being part of the Fediverse without it.
#phanpy #feditips

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A mural depicting two hands forming a heart shape against a textured brick wall. Below the hands, there is a small red heart drawn. The artwork uses a monochromatic style for the hands, contrasting with the colorful brick background.

Valentines latergram. This mural spot has been repainted since we were here over Thanksgiving.