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• Felicia Mello
UC Berkeley reclaims status as most selective campus in the UC system
I do hope you don't find this necessary. I've been using demo.rss.chat as a devel playground, mostly focusing on the API's behavior, and if it becomes read-only, I might as well do my hacking against the main rss.chat. Or bite the bullet and start running an instance locally, which I've been studiously avoiding.
We built our own dig
Why Buttondown spends so much time reading DNS records — and why we ended up building our own free dig tool to do it.
Daily multivitamin may help older adults stay independent
Taking a daily multivitamin may help older adults preserve the strength and stamina needed for everyday activities. After three years, users reported better functional health than those taking a placebo, although the preliminary findings still require peer review.
Easier install…
A new section of the setup process, explains how you can get in before setting up email.
There's a new commandline way to set up an account. Explained here.
In fact if it's just for you, you don't even need to set up the email.
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• Lynn Pernezny
Warding Off Vampires
The subject of vampires has come up a couple of times recently. When we were touring the covered market in Bordeaux while on our river cruise, one of the foods we tasted was pickled garlic. (It was delicious). Our chef, who was Romanian and leading the tour, pointed out to those in the group who […]
Puppeteer in the town square, 1943 #zabaleta #expressionism
Hans Holbein the Younger, The bowls of wrath, 16th century #hansholbeintheyounger