Norm Tovey-Walsh

@ndw
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By way of #introduction, I'm an inveterate hacker of markup (XML, HTML, SGML, TeX, JSON, DocBook, RELAX NG, XML Schema, Schematron) and wrangler of bits (XProc, XSLT, XQuery, Java, Scala, Python, JavaScript, C#). Author. Photographer. Occasional cook. Frequent bottle washer. Employed by Saxonica. Resident of Wales. Website tinkerer, https://norm.tovey-walsh.com/
Homepagehttps://norm.tovey-walsh.com/
LocationSwansea, Wales
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Server migration as a displacement activity. (I'm fighting with a big refactor in my XProc implementation and it's not going as well as I'd like this afternoon, so I'm doing something else for a while.) Theory, as I understand it, says y'all will migrate with me. In practice, if my next toot never arrives or doesn't come from toot.wales, something went wrong!

Grilled American Cheese crisps. Kindof the right flavor at first, then an overwhelming assault of onion powder. #food #crisps #Photography

https://so.nwalsh.com/2024/06/29/185614

Grilled American Cheese

Microblog posting from 29 Jun 2024 at 19:56:14 +01:00.

So… a weblog by norm

I'm not seeing a credible solution to Britain's housing crisis from any of the parties. It's all "Here, have more unsustainable debt", or "It's the immigrants' fault", as they pander to elderly NIMBYs.

When I see a party that will tax second homes and buy to lets into oblivion, control rents, come down hard on dodgy landlords, rebuild the social housing stock, and build build build like it's 1948, then I will sit up and take notice.

Until then, my country has nothing to offer me.

The irony is not lost on me that the Internet Archive went out of its way to acquire the physical versions of millions of books and loan them out carefully and in a limited way, and is facing a near-extinction-level event over it, while for-profit and VC-backed companies are just stealing people’s content and making up excuses to validate the bad behavior.
Zeitgeist

Save your screeds. Save your online yelling about any of it.

VOTE.

Can't believe Little Bobby Tables is all grown up and has had their first kid, Ignore All Previous Instructions
Friendly reminder: companies are not focused on where #AI can be more useful to people. They are focused on where it can make these companies more money.

Not only did we prove our universe was a simulation, but we’ve probed the hardware our simulation is running on.

Well, I say “hardware”, but we think our universe is running under a hypervisor, collocated with other universes. And thanks to a communication backchannel vulnerability in that hypervisor, we’re able to talk with one of those universes.

Now we think we’ve found a privilege escalation, so once we’ve contacted all the other universes, we’re going to try and get root.

#MicroFiction

The boss makes a dollar,
I make a dime
That was a poem
From a simpler time

Now his boss makes 1000
While I make a cent
And he's got employees
That can't make the rent

When the CEO makes a million
And we don't make jack
That's when we riot
To take it all back

Now Mr investor
If this seems extreme
I have to remind you
It beats guillotines

(from a user on Reddit)