Dammit. I’m sitting under an apple tree and nearly got hit by a falling apple. If I’d sat a few inches to my right I could have discovered gravity!
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Phil Gyford
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In Herefordshire, UK.
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"Don’t forget me," I say, trying to hold back tears. “I think of you so often. Every single day. But sometimes…"
I break, and feel warm liquid run down a cheek.
"Sometimes… sometimes it seems like you don't care any more."
Nothing.
"Please do this. We've spent so much time together. Over years. Decades!”
I can't control myself now. I'm a mess.
"Can you try, really TRY, to remember me?”
I wail, an animal sound, as I click the checkbox and submit the login form.
On Letterboxd, I wish I could permanently filter out any list with more than, say, 200 movies in it. Whenever I think, “Is this film in a list of other films I might like?” it's all, “10,001 films to see before you die", “2,000,000 movies with ‘e' in the title”, “3 billion films that have sound”. Great, really useful, well done.
Just got a ticket for #emfcamp at the weekend, so maybe see you there if you're going. Not sure which day(s) I'll be there yet (I'm not a camper).
We vainly attempt to read the geopolitical runes based on the activity at the local army training camp. It’s been surprisingly quiet for a while. Yesterday, helicopters, unusually into the night. Today lots of varied gunfire. Probably fine, probably just a return to normal, probably.
I had a real Total Perspective Vortex style glimpse of the futility of human existence earlier but I was walking through an edge-of-town supermarket car park at the time so it's only to be expected.
Around this time every year I move last year's emails from the general Archive mailbox into a separate one for that year. Why? Because in the 1990s Eudora didn't cope well when mailboxes got too big, so I feel the need to please the email client gods by continuing to do this, whatever app I'm using.
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I love filling "gaps in the internet" but I must admit it felt better when I was imagining it helping future web searchers, rather than padding out the knowledge of AIs.
I created an account on https://www.observer.co.uk yesterday, to print out the crossword. Without opting into any newsletters I've had four emails from them since then.
ME: I just can't quite justify £10/month for Kagi search. I’ll get by with *sigh* Google.
GOOGLE: How about if we ask you to complete a captcha half the times you search with us? Does that help?
I'm doing gentle housework while sunlight streams in through the windows, listening to The Slip on NTS and birds singing - never felt more wholesome
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Second time around, I got the new router working. Now I have the ability to see exactly how bad the wifi is around the house.
ME: It’s nice that Bandcamp have all these articles but I never want to read any of th…”
BANDCAMP FRONT PAGE:
Happy Neovim v0.12 Release Day Providing A Good Excuse To Start Your Entire Config From Scratch Instead Of Doing Anything More Useful Day to all who celebrate.
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Something like this seems a good idea (makes a static site of your Flickr photos and data) https://github.com/aaronpk/Flickr-Archivr
My own https://django-ditto.readthedocs.io/ is fine but if I was archiving things, static would be better than a Django site.
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You'd also think that a photography site would use a photo from one of its users to advertise the festival, but it certainly looks like the banner image is from a guy on Unsplash who doesn't even use Flickr.
https://modefestival.com
https://unsplash.com/photos/a-man-taking-a-picture-of-himself-with-a-camera-YRoO_6A2OnU
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But one thing I do like about having Flickr is somewhere to upload new photos that isn’t Instagram. Not sure how to balance “want to put recent photos online somewhere open” vs “don’t want to run my own dynamic photo website forever”.
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@adamgreenfield You might like this review that I came across via Kottke https://unsung.aresluna.org/book-review-maintenance-of-everything-part-one/
“It’s hard to imagine women not being present in a book about maintenance, and yet – and I wish I was joking – the only woman of any significance in the entire book is… The Statue Of Liberty.”
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@Laura All understandable! Maybe I'd feel a bit differently if the charge was actively couched in those terms, like n% goes to support the commons etc. But as it is I think "that's a lot to host a load of old photos".
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@jonty@chaos.social @adrianhon@mastodon.social Yeah, I’m guessing it’s because I’m using Apple’s Private Relay? And I think it happens on my iPad rather than my Mac. I identified so many buses, bridges and bikes this morning.
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@paulmison@sfba.social Mine looks OK on that front.
I found a receipt inside, indicating I bought it at Aardvark Books (RIP) in 2000.
Great #ShuffleSynchronicity this morning:
1) I'll Know, from Guys & Dolls:
"Mine I lead to chance and chemistry.
Chemistry?
Yeah chemistry!”
2) Chemistry by Tufthunter
"There was chemistry.
We reacted violently.
All the oxygen disappeared,
And I turned blue.”
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@jezdez As a complete outsider I assumed there was a big team so well done for keeping it going so well for so long! It was such a good thing.
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Tried a larger file – in the process of OCRing a 72 MB PDF, ABBYY FineReader also reduced it to 26 MB in size, without its content looking any different.
I hadn't previously managed that much compression using online PDF compression tools, without losing noticeable quality.
All quite confusing. But useful.
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The urgency of this somewhat lessened now I've realised Biome isn't going to play nicely with linting/formatting my Django HTML templates so I won't let it touch them anyway.
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@michael I have all the data and could turn on pages mirroring it all on my site. Unfortunately I don't feel a lot of community there now, with so many friends on Instagram.
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@jasper@dystopianpresent.club I do feel some slight psychic cost every time I add a subscription to something, quite aside from the monetary cost. A tiny bit more admin, one other ongoing thing in my life.