Category Archives: Life
Session instant messenger is fraught with serious problems
24 hours ago, I permanently shut down the Session open group server sog.caliban.org. A dump was made of the server’s PostgreSQL database and preserved for posterity and even potential future resurrection. The dump contains the full history of every group … Continue reading
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Free speech
xkcd 1357 presents a cogent, yet naively simplistic and ultimately one-sided view of free speech. Indeed, things go awry in the very first frame, in which it is claimed that free speech amounts to no more than one’s ability to … Continue reading
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Tagged cancel culture, free speech, political correctness
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Is there life after life?
Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3. Is there anybody out there?
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Quick, nurse! Pass the defibrillator!
If you are reading this, you are probably lost. If you are intentionally here, I can’t imagine what brought you. This blog hasn’t been updated in two and a half years. In that time, the trend of individuals moving material … Continue reading
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The Holiday Is Over
The summer holiday is over, although one could be forgiven for failing to have noticed that it had ever begun. Eloïse is back at school, but now a fully fledged eersteklasser. The transition was painless; enjoyable, even. All of the … Continue reading
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