gerikson

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   by gerikson 4y ago

   It's just finance cosplay.
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   by gerikson 4y ago

   The lack of any form of typeface styling makes even basic citations clunky in Gemini.
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   by gerikson 4y ago

   I've recently more or less ended my Gemini journey <gemini://gerikson.com/gemlog/gemini-sux/Winding-down.gmi> I think it's great the community still has buzz, and that it's probably still growin
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   by gerikson 4y ago

   (2018) An online acquaintance informs me this was a "thing" 10-15 years ago.
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   by gerikson 4y ago

   Dumping them for what, exactly?
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   by gerikson 4y ago

   Probably because his blog is for more planned essays. Twitter is good for one-off observations. I've personally started a "microblog" for that kind of stuff.
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   by gerikson 4y ago

   Twitter thread from Bret Devereaux with some critique of this piece. https://twitter.com/BretDevereaux/status/1528581923446181898...
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   by gerikson 4y ago

   I let Libreoffice know yesterday that their non-English pages were still pointing to Freenode, this was fixed.
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   by gerikson 4y ago

   It's back on netsplit's top 100 list at #7: https://netsplit.de/networks/top100.php I'm idling in the top 10 channels, it's semi-active in that people pop in and say stuff, but there's no inter
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    by gerikson 4y ago

    That's just a matter of haggling.
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    by gerikson 4y ago

    Modern implementation of .plan files: < https://plan.cat > The Gemini/Gopher browser Lagrange can handle finger:// links. < https://github.com/skyjake/lagrange#lagrange >
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    by gerikson 4y ago

    There are very few banks lending money to crypto speculators. People may have mortgaged their houses etc., but in those cases the bank gets the house.
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    by gerikson 4y ago

    You have 260 characters, and can create threads. I've read plenty of Twitter threads that are at least as persuasively argued as a similarly long blog post.
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    by gerikson 4y ago

    > none on retaining customer loyalty after an algorithm gets it wrong Textbook monopoly.
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    by gerikson 4y ago

    This article (in Finnish) shows which Finnish MPs are against joining NATO. That's not implying they are pro- current Russian government. https://www.hs.fi/politiikka/art-2000008684257.html
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    by gerikson 4y ago

    VCs are just as susceptible to being fooled as anyone else.
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    by gerikson 4y ago

    PowerShell is your friend now.
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    by gerikson 4y ago

    Google+ would like a word...
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    by gerikson 4y ago

    Clarification: Western US.
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    by gerikson 4y ago

    Automatic "away" notifications are the work of the devil.
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    by gerikson 4y ago

    TIL the US army has a garrison in Italy.
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    by gerikson 4y ago

    Boy will he be surprised when he returns to Twitter to find a smouldering crater presided over by a gold-plated statue of Elon Musk.
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    "Yuppies"? What decade is this?
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    Vulnerabilities Affecting Girault, Bulletproofs, and PlonK(blog.trailofbits.com)

    1 points by gerikson 5y ago|0 comments
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    Pretty much. There's a financial incentive for artists to participate in this. It's more or less a steady income stream, there's no touring, and there's no need to present an attractive public image to sell. Just create
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    Sweden is not a "weak" target just because it's not part of NATO. Invading, defending, and holding Gotland is not an easy task, especially as the Ukraine invasion has exposed the glaring deficiencies of the Russian armed forc
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    As far as I can see, the app in question is in the UK, which does not fund its police forces via fines. Of course other dynamics can appear in locales that do.
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    This does sound pretty dystopian but it's really no different from apps that allow people to report potholes, missing signage etc. The actual enforcement will be left to the police anyway.
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    I remember reading an interview with Adams in a Swedish photo magazine in the late 70s, early 80s. Even then "electronic imaging" was on the horizon, and Adams was looking forward to it.
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    by gerikson 5y ago

    She's taking a picture with her phone... The caption implies that this is from 1993, but it's a much more recent crop of cadets on a visit to Vares later.