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Jan 16, 2023 from Home on Random effect

Web processing with Gnus

This is a post about reading news using an Emacs package called Gnus instead of a traditional web browser. Gnus gets a lot of bad press from the Emacs community, but I think it is a very effective ...

Jan 14, 2023 from Anirudh Oppiliappan

2022 in review

Late again because I was busy packing Quite possibly the “fastest” year I’ve experienced—it feels like yesterday when 2022 began. I think I did a lot last year, contrary to previous years where I f...

Jan 13, 2023 from Joybuke

Ideology obscufation and abstractions

Most ideologues are rolling in their grave due to their follower's abstraction obsessions. This article is a more refined version of a draft of a previous article I had. The previous article attack...

Jan 12, 2023 from Latest entries from petermolnar.net

I ended up with a Zigbee smart home because the alternative was hurting my ears

I've been eyeing with FIR (far infrared) heating for years, long before we got to buy our current house. Now we have it, and while it's certainly not a cheap way to heat, it feels lovely; getting h...

Jan 07, 2023 from [tekovic.com~]#

Configure Lenovo Thinkpad T480s fingerprint reader on Debian Bullseye

The fingerprint sensor on Lenovo Thinkpad T480s is not supported by libfprint, so you can’t use it out of the box. Thankfully, there’s a project called python-validity based on open-fprintd that’s ...

Jan 03, 2023 from Joybuke

The Law Is the Internets Biggest Enemy

None of this is legal advice, I am not a lawyer, and this notice is legally required for me to say People like to shit on libertarians a lot, and sometimes for good reason, however, if there is any...

Jan 03, 2023 from William Lyon's Blog

Spatial Search Functionality With Neo4j

Radius Distance, Bounding Box, and Point in Polygon Search With Graphs

Jan 02, 2023 from Hammy Havoc

Setting Up My Blog within the Fediverse via ActivityPub

tl;dr: I now have a self-hosted presence within the fediverse via ActivityPub, which distributes content from my hammyhavoc.com blog. You can follow this from all good ActivityPub-supporting projec...

Dec 29, 2022 from The Schizophrenia Diaries

Kabbalah for Schizophrenics (Or: Spending Too Much Time in Atziluth)

Around the beginning of August, after some dabbling in it, I unexpectedly got really into tarot reading. Down various related rabbit holes I went, often trying to generally get (back) in touch with...

Dec 27, 2022 from Lorenzo Setale's Blog

Switching to Helix: My Experience and Tips

I recently switched from Visual Studio Code (VS Code) to Helix as my primary text editor. I wanted a more efficient and powerful modal editor for working with Go, Terraform, YAML, and other languag...

Dec 25, 2022 from ~gallant

The Blurring of the Public Square and the Megaphone

I originally envisioned writing this post some time back - in early 2022, Twitter escalated its dark patterns, requiring accounts (or viewing on a phone) to see certain content. My draft sat long e...

Dec 21, 2022 from Joybuke

Markets, Darwinism, and Trade Unions

People are always shocked to hear that I support trade unions (conceptually that is). If you haven’t picked up on it by now, I’m right-wing, in fact, incredibly right-wing and since right wingers, ...

Dec 19, 2022 from Joybuke

We Cant Save the Old Internet (But Lets Try Anyway)

Anyone chronically online knows about the “old internet”, both the literal old internet and the nostalgia bait, nouveau “old internet” that is populated by contrarian hipsters (such as myself) who ...

Dec 18, 2022 from Luke Salamone's Blog

Paper Summary: Dual-Encoders in Ranking

In Defense of Dual-Encoders for Neural Ranking by Menon et. al. discusses the question of why dual-encoder (DE) models, also called Bi-Encoders elsewhere, don’t match the performance of cross-atten...

Dec 15, 2022 from Joybuke

The Dissident's Masochistic, Schizo-allegiance

Dissidents to our current regime find themselves in an unfortunate type of war: a war against themselves. A good portion of those dissidents roaming around today, rather they be trumpsters, communi...

Dec 13, 2022 from Silence Calling

The One

In search of whom

Dec 12, 2022 from Joybuke

The Political War isn't actually political

This may come as a shock, but our current political situation isn’t all that political. It’s a situation, it’s a problematic situation, and it is as it seems when it comes to the parties involved, ...

Dec 11, 2022 from Mr. Money Mustache

The California Effect

One of the reasons I don’t write as often these days is that my life has gradually evolved into a Personal Finance Bubble.  The people around me have learned to be purposeful with their money, whic...

Dec 06, 2022 from Joybuke

Delete Your Account, They Wont Miss You

One very common misconception that I see online is that your social media accounts are important because “that’s where your friends are”. This line of thinking is more common among the chronically ...

Dec 03, 2022 from Tim Bachmann's Blog

IndieWebifying my Website Part 1 - Microformats and Webmentions

This site now supports sending and receiving webmentions and surfacing structured data using microformats2.