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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 71 · Docked 1 year 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?
💬 5 Replies · 4 Thumbs · 10 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 · 10 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 · 10 months ago
Just thinking - Jonesworlds would make a good interactive fiction.
💬 0 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 10 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 · 10 months ago
A beautiful talk by fungi photographer and naturalist Stephen Axford. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYunPJQWZ1o
💬 0 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 10 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 · 10 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 · 10 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 · 10 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 · 10 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).
💬 2 Replies · 6 Thumbs · 11 months ago
@marginalia, great article on IPCC report. While I agree, realistically I foresee a world of slightly less conspicuous consumption at best.
💬 3 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 11 months ago
SmolZINE's pretty good, curation takes a surprising amount of effort. Thanks! gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/
💬 1 Reply · 4 Thumbs · 11 months ago
Quite a good short-read on Death of the Good Internet. https://www.theringer.com/2021/7/21/22586870/google-reader-ode-end-of-the-good-internet
💬 2 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 11 months ago
Luakit is my new best friend. It's been working great so far. Maybe this will be my acid-test for web sites - if it doesn't work on Luakit, then I refuse to use the site.
💬 1 Reply · 0 Thumbs · 11 months ago
vim-cheat40 is an extensible vim cheatsheet that runs inside vim. It's really quite good, it provides the kind of memory-aid that are normally provided by GUI menus
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I prefer the audio-only TrendyTalk, video's a distraction more than anything else. I discovered hexdsl's experimental radio service proudly! served via https at https://hexdsl.co.uk/radio.html
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Bring your Lagrange identities to Bebop by copying the .key and .crt files to ~/.local/share/bebop/identities/ and editing ~/.local/share/bebop/identities.json ( e.g. { "gem-url": ["name": "kev", "id": "2b6c417f..a18d"], ... } )
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@marginalia Astrolabe II was interesting. I found that IP address was a strong indicator for spamminess, and wrote a batch host lookup using dnsjava (org.xbill.DNS) to query a DNS server I set up on a VPS (to avoid possible ISP rate-limits) and dump results to a SQLite db. My db will be stale now, but it was interesting data.
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Today, I was finally whipped by Let's Encrypt (the right thing, for all the wrong reasons) to migrate an old server to the ACME_V2 protocol. "Only 0.6% of servers were still using V1" they assure us, hiding a big number behind a small percentage. Thanks Neil Pang for acme.sh.
💬 0 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 11 months ago
Installed Arch for the first time today. They sure make you work for your installation - I'm impressed. I'm a bit of a Debian die-hard, but that might change.
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Just remembered to moan. I discovered Google require fine-resolution location to be enabled for me to use Bluetooth LE on my phone. Please offer me some reasonable justification for this, because I'm not normally a hateful person.
💬 4 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 11 months ago
systemd borked my raspberry pi because a removable volume had been, um, removed. that is not a good thing. maybe systemd is not a good thing after all.
💬 3 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 11 months ago
For the weebs: https://spikejapan.wordpress.com/
💬 0 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 1 year ago
Turns out I have a total of 362 tabs open in Firefox. Does anyone know a good therapist?
💬 12 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 1 year ago
Lucky Bag Links now has a section for Awesome-* curated links. There are currently around 4k links in the pool. gemini://gemini.susa.net/lucky_bag_links.gmi
💬 0 Replies · 5 Thumbs · 1 year ago
Why doesn't the BBC make a TV program on Ad Blocking and Tracking. They show so much shit these days, nothing genuinely useful or helpful.
💬 0 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 1 year ago
Being forced to watch Eurovision atm, the only time of year I contemplate divorce. Eurovision is like the musical equivalent of an in-flight magazine!
💬 4 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 1 year ago
So, who buys the freenode drama and has moved to irc.libera.chat?
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https://github.com/mininet/mininet Software Defined Networks simulator