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kevinteljeur

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Dublin 15, Ireland. Nobody wants to read what I write once they’ve read what I’ve written. I assuredly will write it. I also post occasionally about coding, bird-feeding, photos of things, cycling, and drawing (once in a while).

I architect and develop web systems to move data for a very big non-commercial organisation. I'd love to make something that improves the world for everyone though. Maybe one day?

he/him. #nobot

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It’s wild how fast Tesla went from those cars you see and go “ooooh fancy and green!” to “lol what fuckwit is driving that junk?”

kevinteljeur ,
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@vampiress I’ve described the rolling urinal elsewhere here as an inverse halo product.

It has occurred to me that the man is deliberately tanking the company as some exit strategy before the terrible business plan catches up with him. But probably he’s just stupid.

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why is everything in the galaxy terrible now

kevinteljeur ,
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@RikerGoogling Alex Kurtzman

vampiress , to random
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User Interface design is wild

And by wild I mean hard

kevinteljeur ,
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@vampiress There’s also a space between giving the user what they want and what they need, which I’ve always found tricky to navigate.

vampiress , to random
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A year since I randomly met this one at a bar.

We've no idea WHEN we began dating it just kinda... happened organically. So today is the closest we have to an anniversary.

Our first date was taking film cameras out for a photography walk, followed by me cooking us dinner.

Perfect date.

kevinteljeur ,
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@vampiress Here’s to more!

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Round-leaf Sundew. It still astonishes me that we have wild carnivorous plants in Canada. I would have assumed they would be some weird isolated island.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/218485893

#plants #Vancouver #photography #nature #naturephotography #bloomscrolling #nikon #iNaturalist

kevinteljeur ,
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@rodbotic In Ireland too, and I’ve always been intrigued by it. Where these are found you’ll usually also find a couple of other types, such as Butterworts. It’s amazing!

I looked it up to get the name right and apparently we have Canadian pitcher plants too? https://www.ipcc.ie/a-to-z-peatlands/carnivorous-plants-killers-in-the-bog/

kevinteljeur ,
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@rodbotic We have North American Mink and Grey Squirrels too which have both done a lot of damage. But we are where we are.

Hope you find them and post a photo!

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DuckDuckGo, the search engine I use as my reliable alternative to Google, is down.

In other news, I've discovered that I know absolutely nothing about anything. I don't even know how socks work, or what air does. I'm lost.

kevinteljeur OP ,
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@vampiress What if I need to leave the house, or forget how to breath?

(Seems that the browsers themselves have driven a lot of this; the address bar is just a search engine pipeline now)

kevinteljeur , to random
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On the BBC’s new ‘Famous Five’ series, and how George might originally have been effectively trans. I'm straying out of my lane a bit here (sorry), and The Mary Sue is never shy of hyperbole, but it might interest some of you (I didn't know a lot of this): https://www.themarysue.com/bbcs-famous-five-controversy-explained/

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@vampiress I was wondering if BBC were doing that thing where they sort of can't do things at once with a character and went one way instead of the other? But very interesting to me to read that Blyton was actually going with it. I just hope that the BBC runs with it instead of folding. It's rough in the UK right now.

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I have to admit I was massively skeptical but... the Fallout TV series absolutely rules? I’m nearing half way through and jesus hell I'm loving it more with every episode.

kevinteljeur ,
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@vampiress This is an endorsement!

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I'm luke-warm on the John Wick films generally. Love bits of them, other bits feel like they outstay their welcome.

But I do love two things SO much:

  1. They love video games, and it shows not just in the action scenes but in the nature of their worldbuilding - hidden hotels, weird currencies, etc.

  2. Stahelski and to a lesser extent Leitch have absolutely put the nail in the coffin of Hollywood’s obsession with Shakeycam action sequences.

kevinteljeur ,
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@vampiress [JJ Abrams looks uncomfortable, starts fidgeting]

vampiress , to random
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FWIW with the currently ongoing search engine Discourse… I did use Kagi, paid for it, for a while, but it's a REAL suss company and its heavily AI focused.

These days I use a combo of DuckDuckGo and Stract.

kevinteljeur ,
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@vampiress I wanted to switch to Kagi (their search results really are quite good) but I feel like DuckDuckGo is a balance of decent results and a reasonably transparent business model.

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Good Friday cycle. (Posting a bit late) 1/2

Photo, landscape, exterior: A selfie of a middle-aged man in red, white, and black cycling gear wearing a cycling helmet.
Photo, landscape, exterior: An obelisk in a park, trees in the distance.
Photo, landscape, exterior: A view down a canal, towpath on the left, trees on the right.

kevinteljeur OP ,
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@vampiress Aha, that’s what you get when it rains constantly for 9 months!

vampiress , to random
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Starship Simulator looks very excellent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzxU8KJCC5c

kevinteljeur ,
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@vampiress Someone has finally managed to recreate Star Trek: The Motion Picture

kevinteljeur ,
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@vampiress Excellent!

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Star Wars is a science fiction story which posits the question: what if all planets had just a single biome?

kevinteljeur ,
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@vampiress This got exponentially worse with JJ Abrams getting involved with any franchise, because I think he fundamentally doesn’t understand any of the physical nature of, well, anything.

kevinteljeur ,
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@vampiress @troldann @ALWyvern To be fair, Andor finally introduced the idea that maybe humans are the problem.

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    @vampiress The Leto Supremacy

    kevinteljeur ,
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    @vampiress The trailer has strong ‘So now you’ve seen the whole movie edited down to an extremely violent couple of minutes, you really want to see it, right?’ vibes

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    kevinteljeur ,
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    @vampiress Oh wow! Interested to see what you make of that.

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    kevinteljeur ,
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    @vampiress I had a pre-surgery assessment over the phone a couple of weeks ago and the lady was very impressed with my condition (I guess because of my age) and full of compliments, but it was, you know, like someone delighted with how functional all of my organs are, it was… unsettling

    kevinteljeur , to random
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    There’s a really weird thing in Fingal, North Dublin where the main selling point of attractions is how close they are to the airport. Presumably because as soon as you get off the plane, your most pressing problem is how to get to, for example, a model railway display.

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    @vampiress

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    kevinteljeur ,
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    @vampiress A lucky escape, maybe!

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    kevinteljeur ,
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    @vampiress Can it be serviced? I keep meaning to do mine. Had it since 2011, same age the child (not a coincidence).

    kevinteljeur ,
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    @vampiress Hmmm… What about espresso machine, right, but with AI

    kevinteljeur ,
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    @vampiress 😂😭

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    kevinteljeur ,
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    @vampiress I’m sorry to hear it. Fuck them. I hope you’ll both be ok.

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    kevinteljeur ,
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    @vampiress Cool!

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    @vampiress HOW CAN THESE NOT BE STOPPED? It sort of validates my idea that mobile phone operators have no idea how their infrastructure works (I worked for one for a few months a decade and half ago, I doubt it has improved)

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    @vampiress I’ve definitely seen it! I thought Flipboard started out with accepting RSS feeds, or maybe it was something else?

    kevinteljeur , to random
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    Watched 'The Creator' with the child over two nights this week. It went surprisingly hard for a 12s movie. A lot to take in. Reminded me a lot of 'Tales from the Loop', although it's never cited as an influence.

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    I endorse this movie, by the way, it's not that deep but it's good on dystopian spectacle. I was just surprised at what passes for 12s these days. It sort of answers my question whether or not I can put on 'The Matrix'.

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    @vampiress This is it. 'Jaws' is 12s, where a man is graphically bitten in half by a shark. I think 'The Matrix' is 15s because it has drug references and explicit violence, and of course the whole concept.

    I think the 'The Creator' had more swearing in it than 'The Matrix' too.

    Anyway, I'm just always trying to feel my way around what's appropriate. I saw 'Alien' when I was 10 or 11 or so, with permission of my parents to stay up and watch it. Traumatised.

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    @vampiress My brother saw 'The Terminator' when he was 14 or so. Movies have more stuff in them now for younger ages, but we're all more careful about what our kids get to see, I guess.

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    @vampiress I used to be into this stuff too but it’s just Feedbin (a paid lean RSS aggregator, very nice) and this place for me now. It’s funny how it has all come back to how it was 20 years ago.

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    19 January 1902 | A Jewish artist David Olère was born in Warsaw. In 1918 he emigrated to France.

    In March 1943 he was deported to Auschwitz where he was forced to work in Sonderkommando. After the war he showed the horrifying world of gas chambers in drawings & paintings.

    A painting showing a man in a striped camp uniform. A number can be seen tattooed on his exposed arm: 106144. The man is kneeling and collecting food into a bag. Next to him lies a doll. In the corner you can see a red triangle with the letter F and the number 106144. In the background you can see a building with a chimney from which fire and smoke are coming out. You can also see a cart with corpses being pulled by prisoners and also the fence of the concentration camp.
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    @auschwitzmuseum It is unfortunate that even today, atrocities such as this can take place such as in Gaza right at this moment, and yet experience pushback in the International Court of Justice. Never Again.

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    @vampiress Oh wow

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