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• Links aren't performances

   29 Apr 2023   |      links 
  “For starters, it finds that publishing a link can be a “performance” of a copyrighted work, which meant that when Linkletter linked to the world-viewable Youtube files that Proctorio had...
  
  

• Running a Python script periodically in a Docker container using cron

   19 Apr 2023   |      til 
  Recently, my partner gave a great idea for utilising my old Kindle: generate a “newspaper” each morning from a bunch of RSS feeds, and email it to the Kindle using...
  
  

• A measure of how easily thoughts can be translated to action

   10 Mar 2023   |      thoughts 
  Recently, I’ve been using multiple different languages and frameworks (both at work and personally) and I’ve been thinking about why I prefer some over others. Ultimately, I think it comes...
  
  

• Yuri Felsen on love

   05 Mar 2023   |      quotes 
  “Like everyone, I have my own, maybe obsessive futile, maybe in some way authentic, vision: all of a sudden, I will imagine the entire homogenous world as it is revealed...
  
  

• Fixing php errors in a Nextcloud docker-compose configuration

   01 Mar 2023   |      til 
  I was trying to rescan the files in my Nextcloud server (running on Raspberry Pi 4 with DietPi), and kept running into some weird php errors. First error - “could...
  
  

• Musings on the power of cinema

   14 Jan 2023   |      thoughts 
  I’ve realised that going to the cinema makes me sad; a quiet, contemplative melancholy. Ennui. No matter the film, something about the cinema experience is meditative for me. I always...