Notes
Just fleeting thoughts that pop into my mind. Or perhaps things I’ve been thinking about that don’t really warrant a full-on post.
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Taking my first steps with YunoHost (Y U No Host) for most of my online needs. After a couple of false starts it seems to be coming together.
Tagged: Own Your Data
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lolz
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The Babysitter
Not to be confused with the 1995 erotic, straight-to-video film starring Alicia Silverstone. 2017’s The Babysitter is a violent, fun watch and completely ridiculous in all the right places. I was recommended this by a friend and did really enjoy it. I was surprised that it was a 15 though. Looking forward to watching the…
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Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
The “Final” chapter. Lolz. I enjoyed the film for what it was — the gathering together of a bunch of young people for Jason to pick off one by one.
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Friday the 13th part 3
Friday the 13 part 3 was a lot of fun. I didn’t enjoy it quite as much on the whole as I did part 2, but it was still a great ride. And it was great to finally see Jason don his infamous hockey mask. I found myself wondering about the director’s taste when I…
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Deleted my Google account
It’s been a long time coming, but I have finally deleted my Google account. Good riddance.
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You know what? Fuck Google. Just when I think I couldn’t hate them more. Exporting my previous uploaded music (about 100gb worth) from their Play Music service. Do they put the songs into Artist / Album folders? Nope. Instead they package it up into 54 zipped folders and stick random songs along with loads of…
Tagged: Grinding my gears
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Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
After seeing so many good things said about it, and seeing some many gorgeous photos taken in it, I finally started playing Hellblade. My first impression is that this game is so thrilling to play, once the combat begins to open up. There is a really interesting “perma-death” mechanic which, although I don’t fully understand…
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The Last Mix Tape’s Top 100 Songs of 2020
I’ve just listened to a couple of songs recommended by The Last Mix Tape website and loved them all. Figured I’d go one better and work through their Top 100 songs of 2020.
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Started working on a side project I’m calling “Pitch”. It’s an end to end encrypted website starter inspired by SiteJS by the Small Technology Foundation. Got a basic vue app set up with the vue-cli but now can’t work out why my private key generator sometimes returns what I expect — a Uint8Array — and…
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Lead to the river, midsummer, I waved A ‘V’ of black swans on with hope to the grave.All through Red September with skies fire-paved I begged you appear like a thorn for the holy ones — Nymphetamine. Lyrics by Dani Filth