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🏴‍☠️ Serge Keller @skk • follow

Sharp. Intelligent. Cold-blooded. Ruthless. I void warranties. - Sutor, ne ultra crepidam.

skk.one ~ 50 years old from Switzerland

Joined 4y, 31w ago. Seen 8w ago.

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Mark @ancarda • 4y, 26w ago

Looks cool, what sort of stuff are you putting on there?

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🏴‍☠️ Serge Keller @skk • 4y, 26w ago

For now, using it like pinboard to archive links I tweet. But I'm using it more and more for searches as well.

Martijn @martijnvdven • 4y, 27w ago

Some of those I really like. Some I do not. Interesting inspiration though.

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🏴‍☠️ Serge Keller @skk • 4y, 27w ago

Yes, while I do not agree with the term "brutalist" as used here (a certain form of minimalism seems a more common trait, but basically the collection is a mix without a real common design denominator) there certainly are some interesting examples and inspirations to be found. Refreshing, even, in some cases, and that's good in my eye!

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Martijn @martijnvdven • 4y, 27w ago

I am distracted by the pattern on the vest. That's one fancy suit.

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🏴‍☠️ Serge Keller @skk • 4y, 27w ago

Yes, some former wedding waistcoat we had lying around in our theatre cupboards - it was just the ticket for that proto-hipster, Poirot.

🚜🛸 Lucian Marin @lucian • 4y, 28w ago

I like Brave more maybe because it's faster and simpler.

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🏴‍☠️ Serge Keller @skk • 4y, 28w ago

Interesting! Thank you for the tip - true, Vivaldi does not profile itself as "simple", quite the contrary... I'll give Brave a go myself.

Mark @ancarda • 4y, 28w ago

Although Vivaldi seems to be based on Chromium. It wasn't obvious at first as it looks heavily customized. I'll keep an eye on this, it's lovely to use

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🏴‍☠️ Serge Keller @skk • 4y, 28w ago

Yes, it's indeed based on Chromium

Martijn @martijnvdven • 4y, 29w ago

Definitely lost in translation, that. Though it happens a lot. In Dutch we just say "een april" (literally "One April") and stop at that. No special name for the day. So even April Fools is somewhat lost on me.

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🏴‍☠️ Serge Keller @skk • 4y, 29w ago

Oh, but I guess it allows for lots of plays on words ("Just the one") :)

Martijn @martijnvdven • 4y, 29w ago

That's a thing? Also, why are you a pig on international fish day?

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🏴‍☠️ Serge Keller @skk • 4y, 29w ago

It's a (some)thing that got lost in translation... Intentionally. You say "April Fools", we (in Italian and French, anyway) say "April Fish" - When we were kids, on April 1st we used to hang paper fishes on the back of unaware friends, with some cunningly placed hooks or tape, hence the "poisson d'avril"/"pesce d'aprile" expression. And yes, the pig is a fish (an April Fools joke) I'm afraid ;)

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Eric @eric • 4y, 30w ago

I love instant & fast news, but I'll always get my fill of "slow" news from the morning paper the next day. Though this might be different now The Independent is out of print.

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🏴‍☠️ Serge Keller @skk • 4y, 30w ago

See also this for context (and another take on "slow news"): digiday.com/publis...

Martijn @martijnvdven • 4y, 30w ago

How is that free?! Looks interesting.

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🏴‍☠️ Serge Keller @skk • 4y, 30w ago

Yes, still early days apparently, but I think it will be an interesting project to follow. There's an article with some more info here: rudebaguette.com/2...

😝 Tom @tom • 4y, 30w ago

Looks interesting, good luck!

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🏴‍☠️ Serge Keller @skk • 4y, 30w ago

I'll take it, thank you!

😝 Tom @tom • 4y, 30w ago

What's the production?

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🏴‍☠️ Serge Keller @skk • 4y, 30w ago

"Death on the Nile", by Agatha Christie. We're an amateur theatre association, active in Fribourg (Switzerland) since 1960: www.tcf.ch

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🚜🛸 Lucian Marin @lucian • 4y, 31w ago

I was just imagining an email client based on Markdown alone. Today I find that text/markdown (tools.ietf.org/htm...) is the official media type for Markdown. Somebody else might actually built a simple email client in the near future.

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🏴‍☠️ Serge Keller @skk • 4y, 31w ago

That would be something interesting, _indeed!_ - Did you ever consider using simple Markdown formatting (bold, italic) for @sublevel ? (not a request, just curiosity)

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Martijn @martijnvdven • 4y, 31w ago

I don't think I would ever want to go back to slow news. But my stream of posts today probably gave that away already.

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🏴‍☠️ Serge Keller @skk • 4y, 31w ago

Oh, I don't think it's intended as an "instant news vs slow news" angle, more as a thinking piece about how they can complement and enrich each other (my take anyway)

💬 Subreply @subreply • 4y, 31w ago

Fixed. Thank you for noticing! It actually gave you posts created by other user.

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🏴‍☠️ Serge Keller @skk • 4y, 31w ago

Wow, that was quick! Thank *you*, works as expected now.

Mark @ancarda • 4y, 31w ago

Who's behind this?

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🏴‍☠️ Serge Keller @skk • 4y, 31w ago

According to the BBC Monitoring Service, a Daech group has claimed resonsibility. More info: bbc.com/news/live/...

Martijn @martijnvdven • 4y, 31w ago

Lets hope @Sublevel reads this. (Ping!) Hopefully you stay around long enough to learn the oddities!

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🏴‍☠️ Serge Keller @skk • 4y, 31w ago

Oh, meanwhile I figured out a couple of them. But I wanted to note the fact that I had to figure them out: points that may be also intimidating to other newcomers...

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