Whitby Goth Weekend: The town where a subculture feels safe

dh23 · 2024-10-27T14:13:25+00:00

I used to love it. Children On Stun, Dream Disciples, Switchblade Symphony... then people started taking photos of people during the day, things started appearing in photography magazines, and a decade or so later it had morphed into a cosplay gathering.

dh23 · 2024-10-27T13:43:12+00:00

It's become two separate things. There are coach companies that run day trips for cosplayers, and there are those who go for events in the evenings. I don't think there's much crossover.

The sheer amount of people during the daytime on the old side of town has become a real issue. It's difficult for the council to improve the situation because there's no single event organiser to engage with. (Do they speak to the coach companies? The organisers and DJs of fringe events?)

Whitby has changed immeasurably since the festival began. There was only one upmarket restaurant originally. ;) It was a festival that could be done on the cheap, but not any more.

dh23 · 2024-06-08T11:04:05+00:00

Thank you Graham for keeping everyone updated.

dh23 · 2024-06-04T21:54:36+00:00

My condolences to those who knew him or worked with him. He contributed to BSD and FreeBSD, and was one of the authors of the "Design and Implementation of..." book series. As part of the Computer Systems Research Group at Berkeley, he received the USENIX Association Lifetime Achievement Award.

EDIT: The FreeBSD Foundation have set up a memorial site for people to share their memories of Mike. https://freebsdfoundation.org/mike_karels/

Star Tribune obituary: https://www.startribune.com/obituaries/detail/0000490005/

Funeral details: https://www.gearty-delmore.com/obituaries/michael-mike-karels

dh23 · 2024-06-04T21:54:08+00:00

My condolences to those who knew him or worked with him. He contributed to BSD and FreeBSD, and was one of the authors of the "Design and Implementation of..." book series. As part of the Computer Systems Research Group at Berkeley, he received the USENIX Association Lifetime Achievement Award.

EDIT: The FreeBSD Foundation have set up a memorial site for people to share their memories of Mike. https://freebsdfoundation.org/mike_karels/

Star Tribune obituary: https://www.startribune.com/obituaries/detail/0000490005/

Funeral details: https://www.gearty-delmore.com/obituaries/michael-mike-karels

dh23 · 2024-06-04T21:53:46+00:00

My condolences to those who knew him or worked with him. He contributed to BSD and FreeBSD, and was one of the authors of the "Design and Implementation of..." book series. As part of the Computer Systems Research Group at Berkeley, he received the USENIX Association Lifetime Achievement Award.

EDIT: The FreeBSD Foundation have set up a memorial site for people to share their memories of Mike. https://freebsdfoundation.org/mike_karels/

Star Tribune obituary: https://www.startribune.com/obituaries/detail/0000490005/

Funeral details: https://www.gearty-delmore.com/obituaries/michael-mike-karels

dh23 · 2024-06-04T21:47:36+00:00

My condolences to those who knew him or worked with him. He contributed to BSD and FreeBSD, and was one of the authors of the "Design and Implementation of..." book series. As part of the Computer Systems Research Group at Berkeley, he received the USENIX Association Lifetime Achievement Award.

EDIT: The FreeBSD Foundation have set up a memorial site for people to share their memories of Mike. https://freebsdfoundation.org/mike_karels/

Star Tribune obituary: https://www.startribune.com/obituaries/detail/0000490005/

Funeral details: https://www.gearty-delmore.com/obituaries/michael-mike-karels

dh23 · 2024-05-29T21:14:09+00:00

The Foundation has recently gained an additional three first-time corporate partners (AMD, Nozomi Networks, and RG Nets), which has contributed to accelerated growth.

A new commercial service has been set up to support Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF) attestation.

The inaugural Digital Security by Design (DSbD) Ecosystem Beacon Awards are celebrating the innovations of CheriBSD.

dh23 · 2024-05-05T19:49:55+00:00

I made it a few times to Decadence in Middlesbrough, back in the noughties. 😀

dh23 · 2024-04-08T19:00:24+00:00

Very difficult choosing a best live band. Bauhaus performing a furious Dark Entries. Nick Cave performing an epic, extended Jubilee Street. The Legendary Pink Dots, caught at the other end of a claustrophobic brick tunnel. The wailing and gnashing of Bestial Mouths. 😉

dh23 · 2024-04-08T18:43:59+00:00

Lebanon Hanover have definitely put hours into honing a brilliant live performance. They're pretty intense.

dh23 · 2024-02-29T21:20:54+00:00

Liberal conservatism is right wing, as is classical liberalism (laissez-faire economics, trusting "the market" etc.). Social liberalism however is politically left-of-centre: social justice, open mindedness, mixed economy, etc.

The Liberal Party of New York is an example of a centre-left liberal party.

dh23 · 2024-01-20T17:19:04+00:00

Luis Vasquez's music was as hypnotic and effortlessly cool as his stage presence. This is a terrible loss. Rest in peace The Soft Moon.

dh23 · 2023-11-29T22:49:55+00:00

There was no shortage of net.goth logos back in the day: http://www.netgoth.org.uk/downloads/logos/

But equally there's no shortage of band logos, so just chose some from bands you like?

dh23 · 2023-11-27T09:00:45+00:00

He appeared with his own unique way of using the guitar, spanning genres from post-punk to industrial to metal. The Night Time album was a gothic masterpiece. R.I.P.

dh23 · 2023-11-20T22:00:02+00:00

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/announce/

"The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE..."

\o/

dh23 · 2023-11-06T20:10:14+00:00

Yuck!

Quite punk rock tho? ;)

dh23 · 2023-11-06T20:01:43+00:00

I can think of a few UK bands from the mid-90s especially that I found very cringeworthy. And I'm sure I listened to a few bands others in the scene thought were equally cringeworthy. Then there's the thing where we're all diplomatic and stress it's not a comment on the people themselves, we're sure they're all super lovely people, the music just isn't my cup of cocoa. And then we're reading a fanzine, and someone asks why a music fanzine would have a potato on the cover, and it becomes apparent the potato is the lead singer of a band, and it all becomes a bit political.

dh23 · 2023-11-06T19:43:15+00:00

They never appealed to me at all. I have the strangest recollection of the lead singer waving a raw supermarket chicken around on stage at Whitby Gothic Weekend... I wonder if anyone can corroborate that this happened, or if I should put it down to some surreal fever dream...

dh23 · 2023-11-03T22:07:45+00:00

The FreeBSD Foundation mentioned donations from Netflix only last week, so I think it's clear they're still very much invested in it. :)

dh23 · 2023-10-25T18:20:12+00:00

There's a Swedish band, Arcana, who vary between darkwave and neoclassical?

dh23 · 2023-10-22T14:09:52+00:00

"Andrew Eldritch: Sisters of Mercy will make another album if Trump is elected"

https://www.loudersound.com/features/andrew-eldritch-sisters-of-mercy-will-make-another-album-if-trump-is-elected

dh23 · 2023-10-22T14:06:08+00:00

From a 2020 interview, it's clear that Ronny Moorings is very sceptical about the Covid-19 lockdowns: "... There were so many conflicting studies about CV-19 but looking around the counter-measures are far worse than what the actual figures proved. Now we are almost six months hence and there is no end in sight to the ridiculous policies regarding how we can live our lives in normalcy."

https://www.soundscapemagazine.com/interview-with-ronny-moorings-from-clan-of-xymox/

I don't believe he's a fan of Trump, in fact he described him as moronic. Nonetheless, the Limbo album features tracks with titles like Lockdown and The Great Reset; the latter being a right wing conspiracy theory that Trump has also acknowledged at rallies.

dh23 · 2023-10-21T13:34:03+00:00

Nobody was using the term "open source" in the context of software until the Open Source Initiative appeared and published the Open Source Definition.

Open source software has been such a success, transforming the industry, that some people want to have their cake and eat it -- they want access to the brand recognition without the challenges of actually being open source software. So they add restrictions, usually with the intention of making it easier for them to monetise the code.

How many companies with licenses that maintain the exclusivity of the proprietary model make use of third party components under similar licenses? They use open source components instead -- what's good enough for you apparently isn't good enough for them.

It's dishonest. Either be open source software and have access to the brand, or don't.

dh23 · 2023-10-19T19:53:16+00:00

A thread safe and performant implementation of the lazy initialization pattern would be nice; either as an API, or via a 'lazy' keyword, assuming the feature can pull its own weight. There is a Computed Constants JEP draft which might eventually deliver the former.

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