There is a surprising inconsistency with how columns are represented in spreadsheets I have never thought about. There is A, B, ..., Z, AA, AB, ..., BA, ...; if we assume that column indexes start from 0 (like rows), then A = AA = AAA etc.

That's clearly incorrect, so the table rows must be indexed from 0 while table columns are indexed from 1, right? No! If A=1, then Z=27, so AA=28, but we've already determined, that A stands for 1, so AA is basically 28 + 1. Ergo, column labels in spreadsheets are not indexes and they are pure nonsense. QED. :)

Vím, že se opakuju, ale Rusko musí shořet na popel.

denikn.cz/minuta/1948248/

V Kyjevě je milion lidí bez elektřiny, mrazy trvají

Kyjevská radnice hlásí kritickou situaci s vytápěním a elektřinou. Milion lidí je bez energie, 5600 bytových domů nemá dodávky tepla, 600 tisíc obyvatel z celkem třímilionové metropole už město opustilo. (NV)

^{Petra Procházková (Deník N)}

PSA: If you want to avoid a meeting, enforce 8 or more participants. Scheduling it will be almost impossible.

link.springer.com/article/10.1…

Scheduling meetings: are the odds in your favor? - The European Physical Journal B

Abstract Polling all the participants to find a time when everyone is available is the ubiquitous method of scheduling meetings nowadays.

^SpringerLink

(1/2) We are happy to announce a new milestone for transparency in #IzzyOnDroid: public metadata

Starting today, all info on all IzzyOnDroid apps is now publicly available on Codeberg in our new metadata repository: codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/repod…

You can now submit your updates to listed apps (e.g. AuthorName, links) directly via PRs – and we're looking forward to your contributions! We're now working on updating our documentation, to help you with this. Stay tuned!

=> continued…

so it turns out that when VS Code asks you “do you trust the authors of this folder?” what they mean is that it’ll auto-execute .vscode/tasks.json if it exists, which can include shell commands.

maybe that’s too many features. you can’t hold all these features. put a few features back

theregister.com/2026/01/21/cur…

(I will blog about the details next week)

Curl shutters bug bounty program to remove incentive for submitting AI slop

: Maintainer hopes hackers send bug reports anyway, will keep shaming ‘silly' ones

^{Simon Sharwood (The Register)}

Nigel Farage Breached The MPs' Code Of Conduct 17 Times, Watchdog Confirms
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/farage-registered-more-than-ps380000-financial-interests-late_uk_69709305e4b084d70182d794?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into UK Government @uk-government-FlipboardUK

Nigel Farage Breached The MPs' Code Of Conduct 17 Times, Watchdog Confirms

The Reform leader registered more than £380,000 of financial interests outside of the accepted 28-day period.

^{Kate Nicholson (HuffPost)}

🔴 Wat gebeurt er als Trump met één druk op de knop alle Amerikaanse systemen van Nederlandse organisaties uitschakelt?

We deden onderzoek. Wat blijkt?

🎓 81.4% van de onderwijsinstellingen raakt toegang tot documenten en e-mail kwijt

🏛️ net als en 72.6% van de gemeentes

🏢 en 70.4% van de grootste Nederlandse bedrijven

Dit en meer kun je vinden op zijnwealautonoom.nl. Daar verzamelen we van ruim 13.000 Nederlandse organisaties bij wie ze hun websites en e-mail hebben ondergebracht.

Dear #linuxaudio friends, what are your thoughts on my dream of a new #pipewire / #wireplumber app? 🤔

amadeuspaulussen.com/blog/2026…

A (new?) PipeWire & WirePlumber app… – Amadeus Paulussen

PipeWire and WirePlumber deserve better. 😝

^{amadeuspaulussen.com}

On this day in 1985, 41 years ago, Greensboro, NC, the city in which I grew up, experienced it's coldest temperature on record, -8 degrees F, or -22.22 degrees C.

I was alive for that, but being less than a year old at the time, don't have any memory of it.

My baby bedroom was the least insulated in that house, though, so that must have been fun keeping it at a reasonable temperature.

Mount Mitchell, NC recorded a temperature of -23 degrees F, or about -31 degrees C, on that same day.

honestly, the janky-ass superflous animations & effects even with all the “reduce motion” #accessibility options enabled seem to exist only to slow down my previously very snappy recent-gen (n-2) #iPhone – this isn’t event planned obsolescence, it feels like hastened obsolescence to make the #Apple money printer go brrr just a little sooner than usual, as a treat 😤

on a device that has the hardware to support 120Hz refresh rates, why am I ever seeing folders & icons get visibly drawn on my screen? 🤪

#LiquidAss #enshittification on display yet again 💩

If only we hadn't been right about #ageverification spreading in 2026. 😤

Let's keep fighting for #privacy and #anonymity 💪

Oh, cool. My NAS back at home is apparently suffering from Dying Power Supply Syndrome (DPSD) or something. It apparently improperly shut down twelve times yesterday, according to the logs.

Of course, it would do this just a few months after I spent over 2 grand replacing the storage on it with 8 new 12 TB hard drives, replacing the 6 TB drives that were all starting to die.

Looks like maybe a new NAS is in my future when I get back... whenever that is.

Brrr... new introduction time cause my old one is already outdated lol.

I am Sinclair-Speccy, your local resident computer nerd that can’t actually do a lot of tech stuff like people think. My primary interests are #Linux, #OldTech, and #OStan. You’ll usually find me boosting retro tech content and occasionally posting it myself, mostly retro tech ads.

My interest in emulation all started when I managed to run Yggdrasil Linux from the '90s (I know, so interesting /s). Despite having used XP as my first OS other older OSes (mostly Linux ones) interest me more if you look at the media I've posted on my account besides the tech ads.

I’ve moved around a bit online as I started on .art as my friend was there, then bitbang.social and now oldbytes.space.

One of my favourite niche fandoms is OS-tans which is turning operating systems and hardware into anime characters, though I tend to call them tech gijinkas. I even have my own tech gijinkas universe that is hosted on my site.

As for some other stuff I enjoy #mythology, #transformers, #cats, #fantasy, #nature such as #flowers and #plants and #animals, #steampunk, #starwars, #photography, #art, #space, #cyberpunk and #scifi... there is more but I'm not writing them all.

You can check out my website here: sinclair-speccy.github.io/The-… and I hope to expand it into a tech journalism platform or something, though motivation and its static nature kind of stop me...

Unlike in the past I'm not active as I used to be, sadly.

#RetroTech #Retro #RetroTechnology #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #Introduction