Seven, with a help from the Doctor explores another aspect of being human - intimate relations. At the same time Voyager is visited by an ambassador of a very strict-moral race. Impressions… Read More

There’s multitude of Operating Systems to choose from. You may have been using something like Windows or MacOS and be perfectly happy with it. You can step up and use Linux, Haiku or e… Read More

Ok, this one is a difficult movie to write about. For a gajin it may come as a visually beautiful, but very convoluted movie. But inside, it’s deeply rooted in Japan’s history an… Read More

Baptism of Fire is the third novel in the Witcher saga. While I had not that positive reaction to Time of Contempt1, this time I loved every page. We start where we left last time: Ciri join… Read More

Oh how I love SciFi without action scenes! Sevarance is a story based on a great premise: an all powerful company is able to sever a person into two. One gets to live outside the company clo… Read More

Changing GNU/Linux distribution can be done on a whim, as underneath all of that you’ve got the same basic operating systems. With BSDs it’s not the same. One should try to under… Read More

Voyager meets Malons again. This time they need to act together, as the Malon’s ship is about to explode and destroy everything in radius of 3 light years. There is also a monster in p… Read More

Recently, I have stumbled upon The Cyber Vanguard1, a very Web 1.0 inspired website. I am much more of a Web 1.0 guy as I never fully got all that Web 2.0 zeitgeist. The last revolution here… Read More

It’s here, it’s finally here. Dune joins the very small club of SciFi books with amazing adaptations. When Part One hit the screens, people were amazed that it was so good. Now… Read More

I’d like to call myself a Dune fan, but I am not. I have finished my Dune adventure on Heretics and only now am I planning to finish the saga1 Though, I think this still puts me well a… Read More

There was a time when Patlabor was an established name. It was huge, it had Mamoru Oshii. Now, sadly, it’s mostly forgotten. Patlabor: The Movie is the first from the universe. I&rsquo&hell…Read More

There was a time when Patlabor was an established name. It was huge, it had Mamoru Oshii. Now, sadly, it’s mostly forgotten. Patlabor: The Movie is the first from the universe. I&rsquo&hell…Read More

Voyager employees help from a suspicious group calling themselves a Think Tank. Everything goes fine until the time of payment. The Tank expects part of payment to be Seven leaving Voyager a… Read More

There’s a new OpenBSDD release in See the full changelog on the release page. Reply via email Read More

Today, an article on use of AI systems for selecting and targeting Hamas soldiers was published by 972 magazine. The entire article is an essential read for anyone, but one paragraph especia… Read More

Checkotay undergoes a vision quest while laying in sickbay. Impressions After a great episode, we’ve come to this. I don’t care about any of this native-american plot that they a… Read More

We start with B’Elllanas and Parises wedding and celebration of successful enhancement of Voyagers drives. The ship is 2 years from reaching earth. The celebration is cut short, as Tor… Read More

I may have been a BSD devotee for almost year, but I have close to zero knowledge about it. I get by, I see the benefits, but it’s all surface level. It was the same when it came to Li… Read More

It’s a stain of my honor - I am a Pole, but I’ve never read The Saga. It’s not that I’ve never read any of The Witcher, but somehow I always stopped after the short s… Read More

It’s a stain of my honor - I am a Pole, but I’ve never read The Saga. It’s not that I’ve never read any of The Witcher, but somehow I always stopped after the short s… Read More

Voyager assists Varro - an alien species who live in a huge spaceship for the last 400 years. Kim falls in love with one Varros females, Tal, who are (as we learn) have surprisingly differen… Read More

Voyagers crew decide that it’s a good time to plan a heist on Borg and steal their transwarp coil. During the heist, Seven meets the new Borg Queen who has huge interest in her. We&rsq&hell…Read More

The plot Voyager encounters wormhole leading directly to Earth. Too beautiful to be true? We learn that it’s actually an alien creature that has the ability to project dreams and hopes… Read More

Bell Labs Let’s pause here and discuss a few things. Bell Labs was a research institute founded by no other, but the famous Alexander Graham Bell in 1876. It is known as one of the mos… Read More

Tuvok, Paris, and Doctor are stranded on an alien planet. Soon they meet Noss, who’s been trapped there for 14 seasons. She falls in love with Tuvok, and he can’t stop having fee… Read More

This is the best YT movie I’ve seen in months. It’s about elite, but half of the movie is about how BBC Micro works. Elite: "The game that couldn't be written" [w… Read More

Paris and Kim are forced to keep a holodeck program of Captain Proton running when they leave the simulation. Suddenly, a spatial distortion hit the Voyager. The ship is trapped and extra-di… Read More

A small info: all RSS feed from this site should now rock full content in tag. This is exactly correct, as full content goes into , but a lot of RSS readers ignore it. So, have fun! Comment… Read More

This is my first desk reveal post. I always liked those, so here we go. I share my bedroom/office with my wife. I am able to work remotely 5 days a week, so this is where I spend my days, an… Read More

Origins of time-sharing Let’s start our journey back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, engineers wore ties, and Barbie was first gaining popularity - the 60s. Nowadays, we have grown ac… Read More

After a longer hiatus, I am back watching Voyager. The previous episode was not memorable, so no review for now. But this? This is a WOW episode! Doctor learns that he performed a surgery on… Read More

Persona 5 took me close to a year… I think. It was a gigantic game with unbelievable amount of dialogue. It was also game I deeply enjoyed, despite not particularly liking anything ab… Read More

Persona 5 took me close to a year… I think. It was a gigantic game with unbelievable amount of dialogue. It was also game I deeply enjoyed, despite not particularly liking anything ab… Read More

Finally, in my series of discovering the roots of cyberpunk in American Cyberpunk I’ve seen a real gem. Colossus is a 1970 movie about a not-so-distant-future where Americans decide th… Read More

On the web of the past we had no all-knowing algorithm. To find something on the web, we were limited to two possibilities: to search for it, or to get it from other folks. And yet the web f… Read More

Occasionally I’m seeing articles about the benefits of blogging. It’s to be a way to socialize, or to counter the platforms. Both of those are true and great, But there is one mo… Read More

I, like many others, like to romanticize useless things. One of those things, up to recently, were Vinyl records. The two things that really drew me to vinyl are the expense and inconvenienc… Read More

Fun fact: I remembered close to nothing about this movie back. When I was watching the first, everything seems familiar. Here? Not so much. Guess Polsat consider the second one too expensive… Read More

I may hate YouTube as a service, but I even I can’t deny the quality of vlogs there. Even though I would strongly prefer to follow folks on PeerTube or Odysee, this will not happen any… Read More

Back in the glorious 90s, when kids still enjoyed linear TV, we had Polsat. In the post-communist Poland, this was the first western TV station. Filled with western movies, and western serie… Read More

I continue my descend into American cyberpunk cinema1. I spent my formative years watching Anime, art house and ignoring most of USA movies. This means I haven’t watched a lot of the c… Read More

First: I was an Apple fanboy, but damn. To get you up to speed: EU forces Apple to support different web rendering engines on iOS, which means full Chrome and Firefox are finally viable. As… Read More

I don’t think many artists1 visit my site, but no can can stop me from pledging you. Musicians, writers, game developers. Please, let me buy your stuff. Preferably directly from you. T… Read More

Cover blurp: Mighty Battles! Revolution! Death! War! (and his sons Terror and Panic, and daughter Clancy). The oldest and most inscrutable empire on the Discworld is in turmoil, brought abo… Read More

Cover blurp: Mighty Battles! Revolution! Death! War! (and his sons Terror and Panic, and daughter Clancy). The oldest and most inscrutable empire on the Discworld is in turmoil, brought abou… Read More

I just noticed that my entire primary computer status is wired now: network is running through a copper cable, audio is going through a cable to headphones, my keyboard and trackball are int… Read More

Talk about a surprise! I was expecting a schlock, but I’ve seen a nice move. A dumb one, but still. The plot is the biggest problem: a serial killer has an MRI and due to electric stor… Read More

Recently, I’ve become very angry with my iPhone. Not only Apple is actively trying to become the worse company in the business1, but the UI of the phone is getting worse with each vers… Read More

Every Monday I will try to post some music, just to brighten up someone’s day. I stole this idea from Ruben. Yes, it’s Thursday. And yes, it’s been a while. A lot of new Ja… Read More

Abstract: a very short introduction into the word of Org Babel. No other package seems to have had such huge impact on Emacs community as the introduction of Org Babel1. It made folks not on… Read More

I used to love buying physical books. I would still love to, but I am no longer able to. It’s not that the books are too expensive1. The problem is that I live in a typical European fl… Read More

It’s been a year1 since I said sayonara to GitHub and started hosting my own git. As it turns out, it is very easy. I used Stagit2 as my UI, but I grew tired of it. It’s easy, ta… Read More

The following is a short list of things I do right now. Now Watching Jujutsu Kaisen season 2 [since Jan 2024] Star Trek Voyager season 5 [since since 2023-02-11; series since 2021-05-28] 3rd… Read More

When I first started using The Web, sometime in the late 90s, I fell in love. Unfortunately, the love is gone. I don’t feel inspired, or energized. Most often I am anxious whenever a n… Read More

Abstract In this article I give a short, theoretical introduction to the idea of Literate programming Introduction Literate programming is not a subject that comes out often, except if you a… Read More

Let’s go back some 60 years into the past. Image buying a mainframe computer for a low price of 200k USD. You can not install any arbitrary software there, as the architecture is close… Read More

I am a software developer with a new-found interest in security. Childhood spent watching hacking-related entertainment didn’t go to waste. When I saw the hacking humble bundle, I knew… Read More

For quite some time I’ve been looking for a magazine to read. In my younger days, reading computer game magazines was the best thing. Way before the internet big tech ruined everything… Read More

I have no resolutions for 2024, as the last ones were dropped long before December. There is however one thing I wanted to do for a long time: to rely on Email more. So my project for 2024 i… Read More

It’s the New Year, so here are some cool links I’ve stumbled upon recently: The Web Renaissance Takes Off - Maybe the web is not lost? A very short opinion piece. Remember when M… Read More

As of today, my Reddit account is deleted. I have spent close to 10 years there, gathering some 10k karma. And now there is none. It’s not that I am against giving voice to marginalize… Read More

I have used many editors over the years. I’ve started with Notepad, then moved to Notepad++, Sublime Text, IntelliJ, and VS Code. Heck, I even Nova at some point. But only two really s… Read More

I am new to Emacs (a little over a year, with a break), so I am in outsider’s position. Most users of Emacs I’ve met have been using this editor for decades, and since it’s… Read More

We start where it ends: Paris is locked in Voyager’s brig, locked for 30 days. A really welcome narrative mechanism! The entire episode is a retelling of the story of how he got there… Read More

It seems that generative content from “modern” AI models has been with us forever. In reality this is still a new fad. The feeling is here because it seems that every few days we… Read More

Cool links I have stumbled upon the last week. EU agrees to landmark rules on artificial intelligence - the details are scarce, but I trust to trust the EU. Recently they have been on a stre… Read More

Earlier today I’ve stumbled upon a blog post called “Writing one sentence per line”. By a complete random dice toss, this is what I’ve been doing for some time. That… Read More

Like every good neckbeard, I have become much more interested in networking in last few years. I have no interest in becoming a network guy, but cybersecurity is on the radar1. Of course, th… Read More

The bane of existence for most of small pages: web crawlers. They create most traffic this site sees and makes my site stats overly optimistic. We can go with robots.txt, but what if it&rsqu&hell…Read More

(yes, this is the first linkblog post. But it’s the 49th week of 2023). Cool links I have stumbled upon this week. They don’t paint a pretty picture, but hey. At least we have fi… Read More

Yesterday evening I have finished FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS by Michael W. Lucas and Allan Jude. It is my “yet another” read from Michael W. Lucas (MWL) and “yet another” t… Read More

It is often said that you can’t own anything unless you have a physical thing in your hand. So, any digital purchase is not ownership. A Blu-ray is. … And in the case of “… Read More

Another step in restructuring done: Bloggy posts are now under “blog” section. I find it funny that the site now starts to resemble its first iteration, from way before I started… Read More

Creating Jails in FreeBSD is very easy. It takes few minutes to follow the official handbook and voilà! We’ve a dedicated container. But what can we do with it? A very common us… Read More

B’Elanna is attacked by a non-humanoid alien creature and her life is danger. Doctor creates a holographic representation of a famous Cardasssian exobiologist, Crell Moset, to help sav… Read More

Another simple episode. Seven of Nine is starts being controlled by people who were once assimilated by the Borg. During the course of episode it is revealed that is caused by a weapon Speci… Read More

image/svg+xml Ai Adobe Illustrator CC 2015 (Windows) 2019-12-10T00:00:54+01:00 2019-12-10T00:00:54+01:00 2019-12-10T00:00:54+01:00 256 72 JPEG /9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAgEASABIAAD/7QAsUGhvdG9zaG9wID… Read More

GPG keys If you want, you can use my GPG key to validate signature (all emails from me should be signed) or to encrypt a message. You can find the key here. Or you can import it directly cur… Read More

Following StarTrek, BSD now has its own section. You can see it here. I’ve rehashed old content, but this will expand soon - especially around using FreeBSD on my laptop. The section w… Read More

Since at least a year, I am a BSD type of a guy. My personal laptop is running on FreeBSD and this site is hosted on an OpenBSD server. Table of Contents FreeBSD desktop Early thoughts WiFi… Read More

This is list of hardware and software I use. Note, that I have two PCs (work MacBook and personal ThinkPad). I try to address this when applicable. Hardware Computer My company provides (and… Read More

The following is a curated collection of things I found funny or amusing. I have not created any of those, so everything under Funnies is not under the main site license. I am sure not all (… Read More

The greatest thing about serving aboard Enterprise-D was the crew. I loved each and every one of them. They felt like friends, like family. What helped to create that bond was the free time… Read More

This is lost of all pages on my website. I think it’s better to go into individual sections to explore, but this also exists. 2023-11-17 Crew of The Next Generation 2023-11-17 Star Tre… Read More

Chronological list of all updates on this site. 2023-11-17 Star Trek Is Now a Section 2023-11-10 Removed Plausible analytics 2023-11-07 Now on OpenBSD 7.4 2023-05-10 Ch-Ch-Changes 2023-05-03… Read More

Hey! My journey into madn… Star Trek is now a dedicated section. This is the first proper subpage created on my webpage as a result of me getting tired of blogging. I’ve started… Read More

The Next Generation consists of 7 seasons and 176 (DVD and original broadcast) or 178 (syndicated) episodes. People have counted this to amass to 7,832 minutes, or 130 and half hour. Well wo… Read More

Data, our Operations Officer aboard USS Enterprise was a Soong-type android. He was sure that his goal in life was to learn what it means to Human; to experience the world like his cremates… Read More

Hello and welcome to my little Star Trek fan site! Why Star Trek? Well, I consider it to be the greatest Sci-fi series of all time. However, I am not long-time fan. These are the voyages of… Read More

I have removed Plausible from this site. I need even more tracking that it provides and not having to pay is always a plus. As a replacement I am moving to ploting statics from logs using rr… Read More

Information sheet Name: Michal’s Sapka Website Established: 2022-04-05 Subpage count: 147 Generator: Hugo Running on: OpenBSD Hosted on: OpenBSD Amsterdam Web stack: Pf + Relayd + Http… Read More

Site stats Httpd unique IPsWeb server stats (for nerds) Graphs generated using rrdtool (1) Httpd responsesHttpd responsess for HTML filesHttpd responses for image filesHttpd responses for… Read More

As I’ve mentioned in my last previous posts, I am now working on a “A Newcomers Guide to BSD” book. The book will consist of four parts: Unix history and philosophy General… Read More

Virtual server hosting this site is now running OpenBSD 7.4. risa$ uname -a OpenBSD risa.openbsd.amsterdam 7.4 GENERIC#1336 amd64 Update went without any problems, just with a few minute lon… Read More

As a follow-up to my previous post, I have disabled tags from the site. I grew to consider them to be nothing more than annoyance. Next, I will create a dedicated BSD space where a “Ne… Read More

Recently, this site has had another phase of semi-hiatus which had two distinct reasons: I’ve been doing things with music theory (I’m not in a position to write about that), and… Read More

Every monday I will try to post some music, just to bright up someone’s day. I stole this idea from Ruben Schade. I love jazz. I’ve listened to it to some extent most of my life… Read More

I am not a keyboard fanatic or even an enjoyer. I’m a simple user with a particular set of requirements. Unfortunately, those requirements put me in the group of most demanding and wor… Read More

As much as I like FreeBSD, my laptop has mostly sat dormant for the last few weeks. It rocked an AX200, an excellent WiFi adapter unless you want to use it in FreeBSD. There were three reaso… Read More

As much as I like FreeBSD, my laptop has mostly sat dormant for the last few weeks. It rocked an AX200, an excellent WiFi adapter unless you want to use it in FreeBSD. There were three reaso… Read More