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👋 I lie a lot. Also, I was actually born in a field.
🌍 A field in Surrey
🗣 Followers 23 · Following 9 · Logs 69 · Docked 1 year ago
I don't like shopping online for food and general groceries. Perusing is enjoyable, and I don't have to hang around for deliveries. Am I an obsolete relic of a bygone age?
💬 4 Replies · 1 Thumb · 4 weeks ago
The perils of reduction. "Relax - That lion is almost entirely empty space!"
💬 1 Reply · 2 Thumbs · 1 month ago
I'm going to propose that any politician who advocates war should also be prepared to serve on the front line, by public vote. Anyone who manufactures weapons should be top of the conscription list, and will be responsible for using the weapons they make. Population centres that are about to become batllefields have the right to summon war advocates and weapons manufacturers from both sides of the conflict, either to serve as human shields, or to help rebuild their homes. Or both, if they survive.
💬 4 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 1 month ago
I am genuinely shocked by the level of anti-Russian racism that appears to be deemed acceptable by British establishments like the BBC, who are now making musicians denounce Putin before being allowed to play at the Proms. This is sinister, no two ways about it.
💬 16 Replies · 4 Thumbs · 1 month ago
Wink Hackman, a great name I spotted in some mid-90s TV credits, searched up and found his website on niche TV production hardware. http://winkhackman.com/
💬 0 Replies · 1 Thumb · 1 month ago
@marginalia your grid search results are yet another small genius innovation. Such a good use of space. It's obvious now why we unquestionably stuck to column lists, it's because Google wanted the RHS of the screen for adverts, back in the day. A lesson to us all to question even the most ingrained stuff.
💬 1 Reply · 0 Thumbs · 1 month ago
I hate war. It's barbaric and wasteful.
💬 2 Replies · 10 Thumbs · 2 months ago
On the subject of cool Japanese musicians, Kenshi Yonezu recently did a pretty awesome PS5 promo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHP6-D-yBEw
💬 1 Reply · 2 Thumbs · 2 months ago
If your country's government has ever done heinous or even just questionable stuff militarily, do you hold yourself personally accountable for their actions, and do you punish yourself directly?
💬 8 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 3 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 months 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 · 3 months 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 · 3 months 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 months 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 · 4 months 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 · 4 months ago
Some pretty piano music: Ludovico Einaudi, Nuvole Bianche (White Clouds) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUCI-1vIbUo
💬 0 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 4 months 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 · 6 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 · 6 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 · 7 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 · 7 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 · 7 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 · 8 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 · 8 months ago
Vim 'K' and keywordprg. How do these things pass me by? One lifetime is just not enough.
💬 7 Replies · 1 Thumb · 8 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 · 8 months ago
The homepage of Erich Friedman. https://erich-friedman.github.io/
💬 0 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 8 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 · 8 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 · 8 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 · 8 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?