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馃懡 kevinsan


馃憢 I lie a lot. Also, I was actually born in a field.


馃實 A field in Surrey


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=>/kevinsan 馃懡 kevinsan

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

=>/kevinsan/448664be55e443c4906848f7ba1099f8 馃挰 1 Reply 路 0 Thumbs 路 1 year ago


=>/kevinsan 馃懡 kevinsan

So, just discovered the name for when I see clouds seemingly pour down the side of a large hill or mountain. Katabatic Flow.

=>/kevinsan/5ead19db89154aafa00bda23ab37fe15 馃挰 2 Replies 路 1 Thumb 路 1 year ago


=>/kevinsan 馃懡 kevinsan

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/

=>/kevinsan/eadf598bec56468a92eaeb57ce855283 馃挰 0 Replies 路 0 Thumbs 路 1 year ago


=>/kevinsan 馃懡 kevinsan

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.

=>/kevinsan/a382007e5eb548dc8fd7cbefdce6acc8 馃挰 6 Replies 路 0 Thumbs 路 2 years ago


=>/kevinsan 馃懡 kevinsan

I don't think I have ever got an answer from official Microsoft community posts. It has always been clickbait-tier 'content'.

=>/kevinsan/730e6678e3ab40edac0fef6ba245a86c 馃挰 5 Replies 路 3 Thumbs 路 2 years ago


=>/kevinsan 馃懡 kevinsan

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.

=>/kevinsan/e8dc969828ed4a4c8ad4c423739aadef 馃挰 1 Reply 路 2 Thumbs 路 2 years ago


=>/kevinsan 馃懡 kevinsan

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.

=>/kevinsan/0b1e7f19ccff452682a6d1cfeb43835a 馃挰 0 Replies 路 2 Thumbs 路 2 years ago


=>/kevinsan 馃懡 kevinsan

Aldous Harding may be my new favourite person. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyZeJr5ppm8

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=>/kevinsan 馃懡 kevinsan

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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=>/kevinsan 馃懡 kevinsan

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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=>/kevinsan 馃懡 kevinsan

The perils of reduction. "Relax - That lion is almost entirely empty space!"

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=>/kevinsan 馃懡 kevinsan

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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=>/kevinsan 馃懡 kevinsan

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.

=>/kevinsan/21e2606d183a4edaa0e957b2b98dfa42 馃挰 16 Replies 路 4 Thumbs 路 2 years ago


=>/kevinsan 馃懡 kevinsan

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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=>/kevinsan 馃懡 kevinsan

@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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=>/kevinsan 馃懡 kevinsan

I hate war. It's barbaric and wasteful.

=>/kevinsan/02cf9f94756742949e2bd28c227b59b6 馃挰 2 Replies 路 10 Thumbs 路 2 years ago


=>/kevinsan 馃懡 kevinsan

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

=>/kevinsan/67ef688aaed647fd971a43cf475e618f 馃挰 1 Reply 路 2 Thumbs 路 2 years ago


=>/kevinsan 馃懡 kevinsan

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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=>/kevinsan 馃懡 kevinsan

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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=>/kevinsan 馃懡 kevinsan

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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=>/kevinsan 馃懡 kevinsan

Belts and Braces. So I don't end up with my pants around my ankles... gemini://gemini.susa.net/gemserv_hack.gmi

=>/kevinsan/7fec499ab9224fb5bfbe302a530a1dee 馃挰 1 Reply 路 0 Thumbs 路 2 years ago


=>/kevinsan 馃懡 kevinsan

As if Twitter wasn't rubbish enough, seems they're adding downvotes so as to become even worse than Reddit.

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=>/kevinsan 馃懡 kevinsan

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!

=>/kevinsan/999ce718add94a369ae6be0b0f61b9bd 馃挰 3 Replies 路 6 Thumbs 路 2 years ago


=>/kevinsan 馃懡 kevinsan

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.

=>/kevinsan/e53adba74043423db8560125d5f68194 馃挰 1 Reply 路 2 Thumbs 路 2 years ago


=>/kevinsan 馃懡 kevinsan

Some pretty piano music: Ludovico Einaudi, Nuvole Bianche (White Clouds) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUCI-1vIbUo

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=>/kevinsan 馃懡 kevinsan

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.

=>/kevinsan/65bc0a4555614112899cfc6b4e561b29 馃挰 10 Replies 路 2 Thumbs 路 2 years ago


=>/kevinsan 馃懡 kevinsan

@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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=>/kevinsan 馃懡 kevinsan

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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=>/kevinsan 馃懡 kevinsan

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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=>/kevinsan 馃懡 kevinsan

I'm concerned that British PM Boris means 'high inflation' when he persists with the phrase 'High Wage Economy'. Something does not feel right.

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