Matt Seymour @realmattseymour@qoto.org

Since installing Pi-Hole for my home network more than a third of DNS lookups are being blocked. General web browsing is so much faster as a result.

@arteteco @peterdrake @rnitsch it isn’t trash. It’s maths. Maths is maths so from that perspective the paper is fine. That it can be seen as legitimising a contended and potentially deeply problematic hypothesis is why there’s a problem. Politics comes into this of course. Some will argue that idea should be discussed and not suppressed. Other will say that it’s unhelpful to add fuel to a particular fire whilst claiming not to. I can see both sides of this.

@arteteco @peterdrake @rnitsch To be fair, this paper itself is maths. I'm a mathematical idiot, however the concept behind the paper of Greater Male Variability Hypothesis is, as far as I am aware a contended idea that is far from proven. A maths exercise is all well and good, but if it serves to strengthen a disputed idea, I can see why it would end up being shelved.

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Yes, as made available today.
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@gwmngilfen you can get poe breakout adaptors to provide 5v usb. But it’s going to cost much more if it’s a marginal benefit.

@gwmngilfen I’ve used poe adaptors and a poe switch which has the advantage of allowing remote restarting.

@peterdrake @rnitsch The entire work sounds like biased pseudo-scientific nonsense.

There’s also a hurdy gurdy.

I’m standing near someone with a sackbut which gives me great pleasure.

Awh yeah.

At the excellent Kiosk coffee in York

@rhiannonrevolts @iona it’s not rare to consider a minister to be so ignorant but quite another to have one so brazenly admit it.

We've moved on to Jeff Buckley - The Last Goodbye. This is a damn fine playlist.... damn fine.

Listening to music from the 90s I'm struck by how much mastering has changed. Most of this stuff will have been recorded to analogue tape and quite a lot will have had an entirely analogue mastering process too. Compared to music released more recently it's really light on the bass. Take me a while to mentally readjust to this being a balanced and natural sound.