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Traditional English Grammar parser and associated tools and source code. Can't help feeling we're being 'dazzled' by the illusions of neural nets.
https://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/index.html
So, just discovered the name for when I see clouds seemingly pour down the side of a large hill or mountain. Katabatic Flow.
Here's a list of Nitter instances, including up/down reports for anyone who hates Twitter but has a few people they like to follow. https://xnaas.github.io/nitter-instances/
I'd be quite grateful if nobody could interrupt me right now, I'm pondering whether using 'could' rather than 'would' implicitly denies the other party any agency. I see a lot of coulds where I would choose would.
I don't think I have ever got an answer from official Microsoft community posts. It has always been clickbait-tier 'content'.
There was some recent edict in Europe telling shops not to run aircon with doors wide open. The real energy crisis is not about what we 'need' but what we waste. It's shameful.
All these posts about retro gaming and fantasy consoles reminded me that Stunt Car Racer on the Amiga was a masterpiece. It should be recreated.
Aldous Harding may be my new favourite person. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyZeJr5ppm8
My ISP, Zen Internet appears to be blocking www.rt.com. I don't know whether I'm sad or angry.
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?
The perils of reduction. "Relax - That lion is almost entirely empty space!"
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.
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.
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/
@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.
I hate war. It's barbaric and wasteful.
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
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?
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.
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.
Belts and Braces. So I don't end up with my pants around my ankles...
gemini://gemini.susa.net/gemserv_hack.gmi
As if Twitter wasn't rubbish enough, seems they're adding downvotes so as to become even worse than Reddit.
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!
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.
Some pretty piano music: Ludovico Einaudi, Nuvole Bianche (White Clouds) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUCI-1vIbUo
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.
@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.
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.
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/
I'm concerned that British PM Boris means 'high inflation' when he persists with the phrase 'High Wage Economy'. Something does not feel right.
Cauliflower leaves are delicious. I can't believe they've been going in the food waste all this time!
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.
Vim 'K' and keywordprg. How do these things pass me by? One lifetime is just not enough.
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.
The homepage of Erich Friedman. https://erich-friedman.github.io/
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).
Just watched an old documentary on the history of BBS. Quite interesting. It's linked here gemini://gemini.spam.works/mirrors/shadowwolf/shadowwolfissue1.gmi
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?
Linting C feels weird and distracting. I don't seem to mind with any other language. Will I grow to love it over time?
@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.
Just thinking - Jonesworlds would make a good interactive fiction.
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?
A beautiful talk by fungi photographer and naturalist Stephen Axford. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYunPJQWZ1o
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.
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.
I need a way to efficiently filter out common dictionary words from a list of strings, ideally using existing CLI tools or libraries.
"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
@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).
@marginalia, great article on IPCC report. While I agree, realistically I foresee a world of slightly less conspicuous consumption at best.
SmolZINE's pretty good, curation takes a surprising amount of effort. Thanks! gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/
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
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.
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
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
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"], ... } )
@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
For the weebs: https://spikejapan.wordpress.com/
Turns out I have a total of 362 tabs open in Firefox. Does anyone know a good therapist?
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
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.
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!
So, who buys the freenode drama and has moved to irc.libera.chat?
https://github.com/mininet/mininet Software Defined Networks simulator
"Ok kids, you have no choice. Just leave the XBox to update the game and hate Microsoft with all your heart while you're waiting."
I can read Gemini stuff just as well with Lagrange, Geminaut, Amfora, or *netcat* in Bash! That's the beauty of simple gemtext markup.
Just installed an LXC container running Debian 10, on a KVM guest running Debian 10, on a Debian 10 Intel server. It's Debian all the way down. I feel something is wrong with the world.
Anthem to the Ad-Tech industry - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrwjiO1MCVs
Anthem to twitbooks defectors - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWd9mqC80BU
Anthem to Silicon Valley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejU5YAHN3vQ
My lucky bag of links - gemini://gemini.susa.net/cgi-bin/links.lua You do have to forage a bit, it's quite fun.
Working through last year's Masterchef, it feels weird watching any TV after so long. Kind of comfy.
Thumbs-ups are nice, friendly, supportive. All good things, and I'll probably use them too. My point is that (on the twitbooks), they satisfy ego or commercial gain. My ego feels the need for validation, and while I recognise it, I don't like it. I should write my opinions regardless of popularity.
Thumbs Ups brings the popularity-contest gaming that twitbooks do into Gemini. I don't think it belongs here.
It's too late to be thinking up first posts. As my dad liked to say when I was a kid: GET TO BEDDDDDDD!!!