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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.

Dec 01, 2022 from Silence Calling

O' Himalayas

O' Himalayas Where do you start and end?

Nov 30, 2022 from Lorenzo Setale's Blog

Handling Secrets should not be complicated: Mozilla SOPS

Managing secrets in Git repositories has been one of the biggest issues when I write code. I have used multiple solutions based on the complexity and how many things I have to do in case of leaks. ...

Nov 29, 2022 from luc rocher

Misinterpretation, privacy and data protection challenges – putting proxy data under the spotlight

A summary of evidence I gave at a workshop hosted by the Centre for Data and Ethics Innovation (CDEI) at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, on the risks of using data proxies for b...

Nov 28, 2022 from Silence Calling

O' Himalayas

Still Majestic Unmoving You stand

Nov 28, 2022 from ~gallant

Life is Context - Language is Specificity

"Aaaaarrrrggggh!" What does that mean? It could mean I stubbed my toe - or it could mean I dropped something. Somebody may be in mortal danger - or maybe they just read a disagreeable headline. For...

Nov 28, 2022 from Home on Random effect

Vim's ~ in Emacs

For a bunch of reasons, I recently decided to stop using Vim emulation in Emacs, and switch to a different modal keybinding system. But that’s a topic for another post. One of the things that Vim d...

Nov 27, 2022 from Luke Salamone's Blog

My Favorite Antimaia Games

This is a follow up to When Suboptimal Minimax is Better. After running 400 simulations, I can conclusively say that opponent modeling is pretty cool. The TLDR on opponent modeling is that if we ha...