Yulqen

That’s the Six Nations over with then. Overall, a poorer performance by Scotland, finishing fourth with two victories.

Time for Toony to go.

Full of the usual trepidation about tomorrow’s game between 🏴Scotland and Ireland 🇮🇪.

As much as I would like it to be otherwise, I predict a 12 point victory for the Oirish 🤮.

Actually put out a blog post: I’m a below average intelligence programmer.

What a day yesterday! And what a result. Duhan van der Merwe is on another planet.

Monster day of rugby today - Scotland v England at Murrayfield, and I will be in attendance. Very excited, hopeful and fearful at the same time, and looking forward to a pre-game swally with friends.

Went swimming this morning with Harvey. We enjoyed it, but I miss the old pool with its flumes and wave machine. The new one is kind of boring.

The best public swimming pool we’ve ever been to is this one in Lerwick, Shetland. The Rapid River Ride and Outdoor Lagoon make all the difference.

Can the mighty Scots beat the wounded French, today?

Here is one reason why they could - Big Bad Duhan in full flow:

Sourcehut is now gone. Well, all the repositories are gone anyway. Going to give it or day or two before obliteration. Thanks Sourcehut!

In the process of moving out of Sourcehut.

This is not necessarily a reaction to the recent DDoS attack suffered by them, which resulted in a week long outage, but that hasn’t helped. The founder of Sourcehut probably knows more than he is letting on about why Sourcehut were targeted so precisely. It wouldn’t be a surprise if it eminated from a faction of the internet intolerant of his often outspoken political [socialist] views (e.g here, here and here to pick out some recent ones).

I really like Sourcehut and what it stands for: simplicity, freedom, no Javascript, use of email, etc, but I only went there on the first stop on my journey towards eventual freedom from the likes of Github. The next step for me is self-hosting at git.yulqen.org using cgit. See you there!

HIYA!

Been toying with Stable Diffusion again and making dark images. Where this interest in crucifixes and other ecumenical artefacts in waiting rooms come from, I don’t know, but I have a history of trying to make photorealistic scenes like this in Blender too. (What are those little hook/ledges under the seat of the chairs in the Blender image??)

Stable Diffusion

Me, using in Blender in circa 2011