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knirirr

knirirr@mamot.fr

<p>Research Software Engineer (previously a virologist), also involved in historical <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/fencing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fencing</span></a>, living history and amateur <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/jazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>jazz</span></a> (double bass, mostly). Not very interesting.</p>

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    I remain astonished that one can pay &amp;gt;£600 for varifocal lenses and they&amp;#39;re still rather poor for the simple task of looking at a 14&amp;quot; laptop screen on my lap.

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    Received an email from Amazon KDP asking me to do a &amp;quot;tax interview&amp;quot; for paying US tax. Logging in reminded me that they&amp;#39;re holding any changes to my account hostage until I send them a scan of govt. ID. I&amp;#39;ll send ID to the likes of Amazon when hell freezes over. So, I&amp;#39;ve requested KDP account deletion. The Renaud book is still available via Lulu (who also annoy me) and I haven&amp;#39;t had any purchases for a while anyway, so good riddance.

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    In a meeting with a Miro board to be used for ... something I can&amp;#39;t quite work out. Even once I found that switching to vanilla Chrome would fix the horrible lagging, it&amp;#39;s not a fun or easy experience.

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    At a #jazz jam depping on guitar tonight. The drummer complained that I wasn&amp;#39;t giving him a strong enough indication of the 1. But, there was a bassist present... I suspect the drummer normally listens to the manouche guitarists playing 4-to-the-bar who couldn&amp;#39;t make it on that occasion rather than the bass player. Scandalous!

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    I don&amp;#39;t recall seeing this message on stock Android, but perhaps I&amp;#39;m mistaken.

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    It seems unusual to play electric guitar at a jam without someone saying it&amp;#39;s too loud and someone else that it&amp;#39;s too quiet.

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    RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/117509377339919227 Fastmail does look rather good, but switching is hard. Anyone know a good alternative to Proton Pass, Drive and VPN?

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    Looking at https://proton.me/community I see that they&amp;#39;ve only got one service with a Mastodon presence. Disappointing.

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    For some reason finding this when I return to my work computer in the morning winds me up. I feel it has &amp;quot;why are you hitting yourself?&amp;quot; vibes.

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    It appears that the party whose canvasser was displeased that I refused to shake his hand is planning on building &amp;quot;detention centres&amp;quot; (for the rounding up and deportation of foreigners) in regions which have primarily voted for their political opponents. Do they not think this sounds even a little villainous?

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    There will be some &amp;quot;exemplary improvisations&amp;quot; at this jazz gig, apparently: https://smng.org.uk/event/music-on-mondays-dave-marshall/ The audience will, however, have to listen to some of my improvisations as well.