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👋 I lie a lot. Also, I was actually born in a field.
🌍 A field in Surrey
🗣 Followers 19 · Following 9 · Logs 60 · Docked 9 months ago
I once bought and XBox and Ark for my son for his birthday. It took until the next again day before he could play it. Updates required. Nothing has changed, except the updates are getting larger. I despise Microsoft and resent the countless hours of my life I have wasted over the years on their proprietary crap.
💬 5 Replies · 1 Thumb · 3 days ago
Antenna post on blocking countries by IP (not a good thing to do!) made me wonder what approaches people take towards hostile actors. Personally, I do almost nothing. fail2ban on some common stuff, maybe firewall the odd pointlessly persistent crawlers. On the whole, I just don't bother. For web servers, it always seemed like triggers on URL patterns should be a standard mechanism - like, there are few valid reasons an IP should be asking for wp-admin/ except me, right? Easy and instant IP block win.
💬 7 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 4 days ago
Belts and Braces. So I don't end up with my pants around my ankles... gemini://gemini.susa.net/gemserv_hack.gmi
💬 1 Reply · 0 Thumbs · 2 weeks ago
As if Twitter wasn't rubbish enough, seems they're adding downvotes so as to become even worse than Reddit.
💬 8 Replies · 1 Thumb · 3 weeks ago
Oi! Chris Were! Your Gemini server used to be there. Now my response is totally bare. Connection timed out - Failed to communicate with the Ser-Vayr!
💬 3 Replies · 6 Thumbs · 3 weeks ago
A BBC article on Scottish firm Finlays Tea, very plausible example of modern slavery. Shameful if true. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-60151820 Quote: the pickers claim they were routinely asked to work up to 12 hours a day without a break, for six days a week, earning in 2017 an average monthly wage of £100. Pickers had to harvest a minimum of 30kg (4st 10lb) of tea to be paid anything at all, it was claimed.
💬 1 Reply · 2 Thumbs · 1 month ago
Some pretty piano music: Ludovico Einaudi, Nuvole Bianche (White Clouds) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUCI-1vIbUo
💬 0 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 1 month ago
Consumer season is upon us. We have three contented children. We have all the bicycles we need, all the musical instruments we need, all the video stuff we need, and more lego than we should have. My relentlessly manipulated brain feels compelled to 'do the christmas thing', but everything I see looks like essentially useless crap. I don't know what to do. Please help me.
💬 10 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 3 months ago
@marginalia wrote an insightful post on search recency gemini://marginalia.nu/log/38-old-and-new.gmi - the idea that struck me most is that we over-value new content to our personal detriment. The Freshness Frenzy. Curiously enough, I don't follow 'the news', beyond a cursory glance at headlines. Even that is not necessary.
💬 1 Reply · 3 Thumbs · 3 months ago
A bit of a weird rant about Gemini made the HN front page. Not sure why some people get so triggered by what is really just a simple way to write and serve text over IP. We already have *loads* of stuff that's more complex than that, but pretty much nothing that's simpler. Maybe they're ideologically driven to complexity. Complexophiles.
💬 6 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 4 months ago
An article on WACOM Tablet Driver privacy violations. I found this via marginalia. Skip straight to the second half if you don't want the technical TLS hack back-story. https://robertheaton.com/2020/02/05/wacom-drawing-tablets-track-name-of-every-application-you-open/
💬 0 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 4 months ago
I'm concerned that British PM Boris means 'high inflation' when he persists with the phrase 'High Wage Economy'. Something does not feel right.
💬 1 Reply · 0 Thumbs · 4 months ago
Cauliflower leaves are delicious. I can't believe they've been going in the food waste all this time!
💬 1 Reply · 3 Thumbs · 4 months ago
It's interesting to watch the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, politicians, and the British press together push focus towards sexual offences generally, and away from the key issue: that they covered up at least three sexual offences of an officer who went on to commit a heinous crime. This is how trust is really eroded, I find it appalling.
💬 0 Replies · 1 Thumb · 4 months ago
Vim 'K' and keywordprg. How do these things pass me by? One lifetime is just not enough.
💬 7 Replies · 1 Thumb · 5 months ago
WWW94 - The first WWW conference. Indexing and Search were key topics. Also, a presentation on client-side Lisp! http://www94.web.cern.ch/WWW94/PrelimProcs.html You probably need to phrase-search the title along with author to find the presentations.
💬 4 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 5 months ago
The homepage of Erich Friedman. https://erich-friedman.github.io/
💬 0 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 5 months ago
Wholesale offer! A bushel of medical grade leeches, supplied in half-peck baskets. Two guineas five shillings, for the purveyor of fine remedies. Delivery €3.95 direct from our Düsseldorf warehouse (customs duties may apply, delivery time can't be guaranteed, product may deteriorate in transit).
💬 4 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 5 months ago
Just watched an old documentary on the history of BBS. Quite interesting. It's linked here gemini://gemini.spam.works/mirrors/shadowwolf/shadowwolfissue1.gmi
💬 3 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 5 months ago
The Internet's not dying. We're not all bots. I am certainly not a bot, but then I would say that, wouldn't I?
💬 6 Replies · 4 Thumbs · 5 months ago
Linting C feels weird and distracting. I don't seem to mind with any other language. Will I grow to love it over time?
💬 2 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 5 months ago
@marginalia Good post on discoverability. I've been doing this on Gemini gemini://gemini.susa.net/cgi-bin/links_stu.lua using a frictionless Firefox extension I wrote https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/send-tab-url/ It was (as usual) a proof of concept, it works and it's non-intrusive.
💬 3 Replies · 4 Thumbs · 5 months ago
Just thinking - Jonesworlds would make a good interactive fiction.
💬 0 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 5 months ago
If some local community group organises on e.g. facebook, and facebook's objective is to distract us onto their own, or their customers, agenda, does that mean that facebook is really a net loss for such groups?
💬 0 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 5 months ago
A beautiful talk by fungi photographer and naturalist Stephen Axford. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYunPJQWZ1o
💬 0 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 5 months ago
Verisign, the registrar for .com domain names, has decided to increase registration fees by 7% in order to milk the registry to make up for milk lost on certificates. It must be hard work, taking all that money. I wonder if we could pool our money and buy a TLD? Can they even be sold? Not sure I'd want to risk 200K applying for one, because bureaucracy.
💬 4 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 6 months ago
Following Sean Connor's post on logging, I found 4000 unique IP addresses in my server log from around 8 months of activity (the server's older, but I don't usually bother logging). That's more that I had expected. Plenty will be dynamic/mobile/etc. Might be interesting to quantify.
💬 0 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 6 months ago
I need a way to efficiently filter out common dictionary words from a list of strings, ideally using existing CLI tools or libraries.
💬 5 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 6 months ago
"If you're not embarrassed by your app then you've waited too long to release it" - Chris Kowalczyk, https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/2f72237a4230410a888acbfce3dc0864/lessons-learned-from-15-years-of-sumatrapdf-an-open-source-windows-app.html
💬 6 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 6 months ago
@martin Could we have more posts shown in the public feed? The last is only 1 day old, and I can't find a way to see anything older (other than Search).