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👋 I lie a lot. Also, I was actually born in a field.
🌍 A field in Surrey
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Cauliflower leaves are delicious. I can't believe they've been going in the food waste all this time!
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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.
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Vim 'K' and keywordprg. How do these things pass me by? One lifetime is just not enough.
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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.
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The homepage of Erich Friedman. https://erich-friedman.github.io/
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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).
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Just watched an old documentary on the history of BBS. Quite interesting. It's linked here gemini://gemini.spam.works/mirrors/shadowwolf/shadowwolfissue1.gmi
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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?
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Linting C feels weird and distracting. I don't seem to mind with any other language. Will I grow to love it over time?
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@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.
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Just thinking - Jonesworlds would make a good interactive fiction.
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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?
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A beautiful talk by fungi photographer and naturalist Stephen Axford. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYunPJQWZ1o
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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.
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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.
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I need a way to efficiently filter out common dictionary words from a list of strings, ideally using existing CLI tools or libraries.
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"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
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@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).
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@marginalia, great article on IPCC report. While I agree, realistically I foresee a world of slightly less conspicuous consumption at best.
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SmolZINE's pretty good, curation takes a surprising amount of effort. Thanks! gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.