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馃憢 I lie a lot. Also, I was actually born in a field.
馃實 A field in Surrey
馃棧 Followers 23 路 Following 9 路 Logs 78 路 Docked 2 years ago
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
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So, just discovered the name for when I see clouds seemingly pour down the side of a large hill or mountain. Katabatic Flow.
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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/
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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.
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I don't think I have ever got an answer from official Microsoft community posts. It has always been clickbait-tier 'content'.
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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.
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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.
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Aldous Harding may be my new favourite person. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyZeJr5ppm8
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My ISP, Zen Internet appears to be blocking www.rt.com. I don't know whether I'm sad or angry.
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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?
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The perils of reduction. "Relax - That lion is almost entirely empty space!"
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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.
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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.
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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/
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@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.
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I hate war. It's barbaric and wasteful.
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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
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Belts and Braces. So I don't end up with my pants around my ankles... gemini://gemini.susa.net/gemserv_hack.gmi
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As if Twitter wasn't rubbish enough, seems they're adding downvotes so as to become even worse than Reddit.
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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!
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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 拢100. Pickers had to harvest a minimum of 30kg (4st 10lb) of tea to be paid anything at all, it was claimed.
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Some pretty piano music: Ludovico Einaudi, Nuvole Bianche (White Clouds) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUCI-1vIbUo
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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.
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@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.
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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.
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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/
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I'm concerned that British PM Boris means 'high inflation' when he persists with the phrase 'High Wage Economy'. Something does not feel right.