Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a vocal critic Donald Trump, was reelected Sunday in a result that provides relief to critics of widening U.S. influence in Latin America.

With 100% of the vote counted, Brazil’s electoral court announced that the soon to be 81-year-old Lula had a lead of nearly 4.4 million votes over opponent Flávio Bolsonaro, giving him 51.8% of the total vote. Bolsonaro quickly refused to concede defeat and asked for the election results to be annulled after an evening of chaos at some polling places that followed a last-minute decision to extend voting by two hours.

Bolsonaro is the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, whom Lula defeated to take the presidency in 2022.

Lula’s triumph bucks a regional trend of victories for right-of-center presidential candidates allied with Trump. It also means Latin America’s largest economy, with a GDP of $2.6 trillion per year, will likely continue defying Trump’s demands, despite the pressure of increased tariffs.

AI used, but this post is not AI.

As previously mentioned, I have some photos I want to name. They come in like 20261019_12345678.jpg, which is a date and then a timestamp. The problem in this use case comes when I am reviewing photos taken within seconds of each other. Reviewing them later, is the best photo 20261019_12345678 or 20261019_12345987?

I'm aware that I can use a Digital Asset Manager (DAM) for this task. These are what semi-pro photographers use, for example digiKam or DarkTable. I think my approach can integrate with other tools nicely. This is about making filenames more useful and less ugly. The files can still be sorted after that point. That approach cannot be automated, and this is about minimal intervention. I intend to use a DAM to sort these photos further.

So the task becomes adding English words to filenames. The only hard part is getting a suitable list of English words. After searching and asking here, I didn't find any that were tightly dedicated to being non offensive and extremely boring. My list is also focused on computing and filename related uses, so ambiguous words of that nature ("program") are also excluded.

This wordlist could be nice in any situation where a raw timestamp, hash, or set of words ("Charming Ferret") is used. It's meant for humans. Machines don't need to read English and they don't get offended. I will use this for photos and voice memos to start.

Starting wordlist:

• I combined SLIP 39 and BIP 39 for about 1500 words. The final wordlists were 278 and 156 words long (156 has fewer filename collisions, explained below).
• I added 5 words to cover X and Z - xeno zeal zest zeta zinc

I used Sonnet 5.5 to create an app that allowed me to hand-label the 1500 words as "boring" (good) or "not boring" (bad). I labeled A-D myself and then sent my labeled data and the categories to Claude and had it spit out the rest. Overzealously removing "good" words is not a big problem because I ended up with 278 viable words anyway. Claude's list of "good" words contained over 80% good words. I don't think I removed more than 50 words from its list.

I also tried to give this job to Jev, but it didn't seem to understand the problem. It may be too subjective or esoteric (does a model that small understand "wave" can be colloquially a file type?).

Good properties:

• high edit-distance between words in a short number of characters. (BIP 0039 does this in 4 characters)
• non offensive
• non exciting (see my last post)
• all 26 english letters covered
• not too many words with the same first 3 or 4 characters (repeat, replace)

Frowned upon word types:

• filename collisions: using my computer as a testbed (5 million files and folders), I used Everything to exclude the most prolific words and first-4-char substrings. "Program" had 840k results. "ease" had 386k results, many from "release". "starting" is the most prolific in beige-156, with 30k results. In the larger beige-278 list, results range from 840k for program, to 50k for install, to 40k for axis.
• anything exciting. Colors, good/bad opinions ("exciting", "impressive"), animals, etc. were frowned upon. I wanted to avoid implying anything about the contents of a file from the filename.

The wordlists are in the comments.

Vincent says "Our cloud data is absolutely secure, so you don't need to worry"

What the fuck does a WiFi Access Point need a cloud connection and an account for? Other than spying on me?

Well, it was possible without this a few firmware updates ago.

Fuck you, TP-Link!

Something to watch, something to share around.

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Hi everyone,

It's been a while since I last posted here! I'm happy to announce that we've released Portabase 1.34!

Repository: https://github.com/Portabase/portabase (on the road to 2k stars)

For those unfamiliar with Portabase, it's an open-source, self-hostable backup and restore platform designed for data retention, disaster recovery, and homogeneous migrations.

Until now, Portabase supported 10 data sources (including PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB and Docker volumes).

With v1.34, we're introducing our 11th data source: files and directories!

There are 3 ways to back up your files:

• Archive (logical backup): creates a full .tar.gz of the selected directory.
• Snapshot (incremental): uses Restic under the hood to provide incremental backups with deduplication, reducing storage usage.
• Sync: synchronize files and directories to a destination. This is a direct copy, not a restorable backup.

What's new in 1.34?

• Support for file and directory backup/restore (obviously)
• UX improvements and UI fixes
• Multiple security fixes, thanks to users who reported vulnerabilities
• DACPAC support for Microsoft SQL Server (in addition to BACPAC, and native BACKUP DATABASE support is also on the way)
• Helm chart improvements

Important: If you're upgrading and want to use the new file and directory backup features, make sure to update your agents as well.

As always, if you encounter a bug, please open an issue on GitHub. And if you like the project, consider giving us a star! It means a lot to us and helps the project gain visibility.

Thanks to everyone using, testing, contributing to, and supporting Portabase!

Today’s game is some more Portal 2. I stayed up later than usual tonight and finished up the Single player. It was nice going back through Portal 2 because it’s one of those games that hits well at the ending no matter how many times I play it. Listening to Cara Mia Addio at the end made me cry a little. Part nostalgia (Portal 2 is one of those games that have been with me a long time) and also just it’s really moving to me.

One thing I noticed this go around, is that I like all the signs in the game. Just stopping and reading it is super amusing. There were a bunch I really liked. But my two standouts were the one above and this one:

I think going back through Old Aperture has also given me a new appreciation for it. It was one of my least favorite parts of the game. but just slowing down and going through it with the aesthetic and the music and the SFX? I definitely like it a lot more.

Anyways. I’ll be sticking with this a little bit longer. I have a few achievements left before 100%ing it. And since it’s not a lot of work I figured I’d do it. And plus I’d like to go through the Co-op again with friends, or, well. One friend though if somehow someone coughed up a 4 player mod for the game all these years later that would be cool. No idea how the puzzles would work though