Pi-hole, finally.
That is all.
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I’m really enjoying having a BirdNET-Pi although I am worried that although it is possible to run it on a Pi Zero, it really doesn't perform very well. At least, not in my hands.
Sweet peas are up after only a week!
Food Notes from an American Prison
”I like to say that I was a garlic smuggler for the mafia, which I was, but there’s more to the story than that.”
@ehasbrouck reflects on his time in a federal penitentiary, where the kinds of cooking Italian maximum security inmates get up to would have been completely unthinkable.
Rabbit Quest Geohashing 20260209-W-AY68OD
* On foot
* 41.8867, 12.4664
* 9 February 2026
* 428.77 ppm CO2
* [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=41.88865&mlon=12.466397#map=14/41.88865/12.46640&layers=H)
How very pleasant. Today’s quest was just to the side of what some people cite as the jewel of the Renaissance architecture, [Bramante’s Tempietto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempietto_del_Bramante). I couldn’t get any closer today, though I have been inside on other occasions.
“Let the scientists and their interpreters fight it out over single nutrients. Eat food and enjoy your dinner.”
Noted on this day in 2010, still noteworthy today.
https://www.foodpolitics.com/2010/02/confused-about-nutrition-eat-food/
“Boar’s Head reopens Virginia deli meat plant tied to deadly listeria outbreak”
I’m sure it will be absolutely fine.
https://apnews.com/article/boars-head-listeria-recall-plant-reopens-a840cee98af425971d5da3c658d5013d
Just putting the finishing touches to tomorrow's podcast episode, and this seemed inappropriate.
@amble Congratulations on the new look for Rabbit Quest. One problem. When location is on, the zoom seems to be fixed. If I zoom out, it zooms back in automatically. Otherwise, I love the new look. Much clearer.
#Rabbit_quest
Transportation modes would be great. https://mastodon.social/@dawarich/115992309474158318
Fell at the first. I have a Pi Zero, not a Pi Zero W2. I wonder whether my local seller is actually a shop that I can walk into, rather than only an online distributor. It would be nice if they were, but I cannot even try until Monday.
OK, let's do this.
Setting up a mobile BirdNET-Pi to eavesdrop on our feathered friends.
Surveillance as it should be.
I wrote about a way round the EU directive on single-use plastics
Would you actually put them in the dishwasher and re-use them?
A medieval pushmi-pullyu
https://mastodon.social/@medieval_illuminations/115976858388253903
Spero Che anche Roma si fa
https://poliversity.it/@rivoluzioneurbanamobilita/115971331639329426
New Eat This Newsletter 294: All wet
* A water sommelier walks into a spa ...
* Never mind food prices, how did water get so costly?
* Arizona attempts to keep Saudi Arabia out of its aquifers.
All the news that's fit to drink at https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-294-all-wet/
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Help wanted.
I migrated a site to a new host (Hetzner) yesterday. Spammers can apparently reach the site, but I still can’t.
Is there anything I can try?
https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/alas-i-am-not-a-server-admin
There's a new paper in PNAS [1] (paywalled) showing that zoo populations of mammals in North America and Europe are getting older because zoos will not do what is needed to maintain species sustainably.
Which is by no means a new problem, though it is good to have data. [2]
[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2522274123
[2] https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/better-breeding-in-zoos
Resurrecting this post from 2011 because I can, and because you may find it intersting.
New Eat This Newsletter 293: Normal Service
Parmigian-Reggiano’s Hail Mary pass
Gastronationalism in Italy and the Levant
Gourmet undead
Read it at https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-293-normal-service/ and while you’re there, consider signing up.
It's all very well having my own domain and online home, but an attack by malicious spambots is enough to make me reconsider my “freedom”.
One is also up against the plethora of tutorials and guides that are almost useless to me.
The United States Needs Fewer Bus Stops: https://stream.jeremycherfas.net/2026/the-united-states-needs-fewer-bus-stops
Pasta e ceci, just the job on a cold winter night. Cold indoors, I mean.
Eat This Newsletter 292: Eat Real Food
The big news is the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The big question is why anyone thinks that suddenly American eaters are going to start doing what the guidelines say they should.
Still, I can't ignore the big news, so I've linked to pieces from Marion Nestle and Kevin Klatt, both of whom have more to say on the subject than I do.
https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-292-eat-real-food/
Reminiscing about the old days of using an iPod in the car and thankful for my current setup, based on #Navidrome
and Tailscale
As I promised myself late last year, rereading for the first time, not quite 60 years on.
Dragged myself upright to post this monthly report. Now it’s back to bed. https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/monthly-report-2025-12
Last bake of 2025, first loaf of 2026
New episode: Cooking in Maximum Security
Very unexpected, on the one hand, to learn that prisoners in Italian maximum security prisons have a right to cook in their cells, and yet also somehow fitting. And the ingredients they can get; kid goat, for example, and red wine for whatever needs it. Also, the sheer inventiveness of creating the tools they need and that they can't just order from the commissary.