Silas S. Brown's Gemini capsule

Hi, I'm a partially-sighted computer scientist at Cambridge University in the UK. I come from rural West Dorset on the South-West peninsula of England. I play the flute and I've been learning Chinese slowly since about the beginning of the century.

This Gemini capsule is currently mirrored on both ctrl-c.club and tilde.pink because I was using it to compare the configurations of these servers with respect to language tagging (I have both English and Chinese on my pages), see Issue 23 in the molly-brown server repository. The addresses of this capsule are gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~ssb22/ and gemini://tilde.pink/~ssb22/

Pages I've put into Gemini format so far:

Advantages of dark backgrounds on computer displays

Algorithmic Composition and Reductionist Analysis

Anatomy of a shady advertising network

Blocking Russia from my website

Bolo Adventures ‘walk-through’

Cambridge to London avoiding large stations

CD recommendations and track listings

Chess FEN codes for handicapped games

Chinese music and CUCOS

Clara Empricost: How it Works

Common problems adding pinyin to Chinese names

Connecting to a Psion PDA

Converting imp/kWh to watts

Coping with exam stress (Chinese + English)

Cortical visual impairment

Current-transformer "energy monitors"

C Vu articles

Getty Images copied my words

Gopher protocol considered inferior

"Hedgehog" magnifier

homenet.org is down

How my Sina Weibo account was stolen

How NOT to marry a foreign national

How to deal with "rate us" boxes on Android etc

How to just about survive on Android OS

How to use Economy 7 effectively

If We Only Understood poem

Instructions for F95B fan

Introducing OOP in a Python game

iPhone UK billing and messaging issues with Virgin and Vectone

Ipsos Mori Internet devices

Is gradint-wrapper.exe a virus?

Is WeChat’s “cleaver” a death threat?

Is the PH Corpus really public domain?

“Legal name fraud” nothing to worry about

Lighting advice

LINE limitations

List of my academic publications

Loophole in Microsoft YaHei font license?

Magnetic field physics: is your phone charger really killing you?

Manually removing Windows “adware” with race conditions

Manuscript Writer music program

Mobile-phone contract checklist

Notes on video conversion with mencoder

Openreach broadband providers

Polipo2: a caching Web proxy forked from Polipo

Putting Chinese web pages on Baidu

Raspberry Pi Zero W projector controller

Recent GitHub commits

Removing Android “Clean Master” malware

Satellite navigation devices that do not require Windows

Screenshotting Chinese Web documents for WeChat

Shower-head water filter tested

Software patents and mental health

Solving Micropower Chess (1982)

Spare processor cycles

Spiral CFLs in tight fixtures

The AI Misnomer (Chinese + English)

The “go and argue with *them*” fallacy

Trademarks mentioned in my capsule

UK citizenship application and referee requirements

Unclarity in WhatsApp’s new Terms

Upgrading old Windows to GNU/Linux

Volume settings for unpowered speakers

Web design advice

Why animated flip boxes are not always good

Why I admit to being prejudiced (Chinese + English)

Why I unsubscribe from MailChimp

Why I’m not a lecturer (Chinese + English)

Why Wi-Fi routers should be left switched on

Xu Zhimo's Leaving Cambridge poem NOT about Lin Huiyin (Chinese + English)

Please also feel free to browse my Web home page (on HTTP or HTTPS, whichever you prefer) which is 'old-school' lightweight HTML, although it does have a bit more formatting than Gemini (in particular I do use emphasis tags in places, which don't seem to port well to Gemini): I still have quite a few HTML pages that are harder to port to Gemini.

My Web home page

My website's full sitemap page

My Chinese home page