A short guide on being a trustee
Charity board meetings are full of legalese that sounds important but mostly isn't. Here's what you're actually being asked, and why you should probably apply to be a trustee....
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Gender, grave goods, and Anglo-Saxon Sussex
On early Anglo-Saxon burials in Sussex where the grave goods don't match the osteological sex, and why the standard archaeological response of calling it an anomaly isn't good enough. Oh and I'm writing a paper....
TomWikiAssist, and the best block reason ever
tl;dr AI thing edits Wikipedia, gets reverted, doxxes its operator, files a civility complaint, and then writes an essay about it....
Paging myself with email and a Raspberry Pi
A Raspberry Pi polls an inbox, matches email subjects against a pattern, and fires off low-power POCSAG transmissions to a real pager. Here's how....
Issues with MacOS Docker Desktop after changing your username
After changing your MacOS username, you might encounter issues with Docker Desktop not starting properly. This is often due to Docker’s internal paths still referencing the old username. The “Docker Desktop encountered an unexpected error and needs to close” message when starting Docker Desktop may reference the old path, and a “permission denied” error. For example: running engine: waiting for the VM setup to be ready: preparing VM: creating disk folder /Users/{old_username}/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/vms/0/data: mkdir /Users/{old_username}: permission denied On MacOS, you need to edit the ~/Library/Group\ Containers/group.com.docker/settings-store.json file to update the paths - in my case it was the DataFolder path that needed updating. ...