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After years of wanting to move, I'm now finally arranging things. Last year has been filled with grief and I was hoping that this would allow me to move on.
But what seemed to be a joyous step, is quickly turning into another source for grief. The place I'm moving away from is now speaking to me, singing a nostalgic tune.
I'm doing well but I wish for rest and belonging.
The sculpture "Love" by Ukrainian artist Alexandr Milov, shown at the Burning Man festival in 2015.
For some reason "AI is just like watching Netflix" is back in my feeds so I took that as a sign to update my data tracking for Netflix. The company's energy use rose 1% from 2021 to 2024.
Compare that to:
Google: 71%
Nvidia: 88%
Meta: 96%
Microsoft: 119%
Where are all the multi-gigawatt, tens-of-megatonnes gas-fired data centres being proposed by Netflix? Are governments frantically rushing fast-tracking laws for video streaming?
Ditto:
'Why are you still on Bluesky too?'
'But did you *delete* your Twitter account?'
’You said you switched to Proton mail too, oh that’s bad, once someone at Proton said something’
It’s nice to see new neighbours move into the Fediverse. It feels unwelcoming to see people immediately interview them about the purity of their intentions. Or telling them You’re Doing It Wrong. They've just arrived on a journey away from Big Tech. Maybe they'd prefer to be offered a seat and a cup of tea.
Ik liep al een hele tijd rond met het gevoel dat ik mijn frustratie over AI van me af moest schrijven en er iets over moest publiceren (een blog, een lijst, ...)
Dat heb ik nu eindelijk gedaan!
Omdat ik het idee van @cgsunit zo geweldig vond, heb ik haar zine genaamd "Why GenAI Sucks And You Should Not Use It" in het Nederlands vertaald en de tekst op mijn website gezet.
De wereld in één keer verbeteren lukt niet, dus dan maar in hele kleine stapjes ☺️
Finally decided to brew another imperial stout. Was waiting for the weather to get nicer as this kind of yeast really likes to be warm.
I hope its going to be comfortable enough for those little one celled rascals to nom on the sugars.
Google has news on what you will need to do for still being able to sideload apps:
* enable developer options
* confirm that you are not tricked
* restart phone and re-authenticate
* wait one day
* confirm with biometrics that you know what you are doing
* decide if you only want unrestricted installs for 1 week or forever
* confirm that you accept the risks
* enjoy the few apps that still have developers motivated to develop for a user-base willing to put up with this
RE: https://chaos.social/@grote/116257002625921666
I quote boosted this before focusing on the 24h delay, but the worst part is having to enable developer options.
Fairphone: Settings -> About phone -> Build number (7 taps)
Samsung: Settings -> About phone -> Software information -> Build number (7 taps)
Given the steps differ per device it is impossible for any third party app store to give clear instructions. To top it off, the first 3 taps give *no feedback* at all.
Even worse, some apps refuse to run on devices with dev mode enabled.
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Ketan Joshi
Ciara
Roots
Ralph
Torsten Grote
Sylvia