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2025-03-27
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Windows 10 end of life is becoming a hot topic both at work and locally.
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[[Bookmarked]]
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[[Geology]]. Parts of the crust, parts of the atmosphere
- Inner core, outer core, mantle, crust?
- Troposphere, …?
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Fuck me, [[snap]] is still taking up so much drive space.
- I don’t have a lot to spare!
- I had to install slack via it the other day. Probably that.
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Maybe, but kf6-core24 is taking up the most space - 10.7 GB.
- What’s caused that to be installed?
- Dunno. It’s something KDE-related. But according to checking
snap connections on various installed snaps, nothing is currently using it.
- Removing with extreme prejudice!
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Also
/var/lib/snapd/ is gigs big.
- Cleared
/var/lib/snapd/cache/.
- Copying some of the above into [[Clearing up drive space used by snap]] for reference for next time…
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[[How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century]]
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[[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]
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Traveling to the US today!
- As I write this I’m typing on my laptop on an American flight from [[Heathrow]] to [[Durham]].
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I’ve been reading and listening to audiobooks:
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Yesterday I thought again quite a bit about:
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[[light]]
- led me to read [[photon]] in Wikipedia, very nice article!
- [[momentum]]
- [[entropy]]
- Quiz: what do momentum and entropy have in common?
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[[Waking up]]:
- It turns out there’s going to be a community meetup in Zürich on [[2025-04-01]]!
- Maybe I could check it out. For more, see the email from [[2025-03-22]].
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I need to do somthing to bring [[todo]], [[do]], [[next action]] and such under control :)
- To begin with I think I just need to re-pick one as the ‘root’ and start going through it and try to keep my actual priorities at the top.
- It’s going to be painful (because of the amount of stuff I’ve amassed! and the fact that even after all this I won’t be able to have all my todos there because I have a parallel life at work…) but probably worth it, so maybe I should just get right on with it.
- -> done! I refactored [[todo]] a bit, and went through very old todos and actually found them even done. Maybe there’s a tune to the chaos I seem to operate in after all, at least some of the time ;)
- I think having an offline wikipedia could be nice. Or a language model that I can run locally, albeit slowly, but hey… that will come :)
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I enjoyed reading [[The discrete charm of the Turing machine]] by [[Greg Egan]]. This was in [[Instantiation]]; previously (in February) I read [[The Best of Greg Egan]], a selection of his short stories, and enjoyed them a lot!
- He’s definitely one of my favorite living writers.
- Now I’m giving [[Binding Chaos]] a taste, after finding it on my [[Kobo]] and also mentioned in my long term todo mentioned above.
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Travel day!
- As I write this I’m on the second plane today, about to tale off from Heathrow towards Raleigh.
- Ladu Burup’s day as I leave — I will miss her! She’s in good hands though.
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[[nostromo]] died today!
- after almost dying many times.
- I thank them for their service! beautiful computer.
- [[paramita]] was ready to take its spot.
- [[bouncepaw]] told me about [[xremap]] today! it looks great, like it could fix several issues I had in the back of my mind with the input layer in wayland.
- New day but I’m working on my todos on [[2025-03-21]] :)
- I implemented [[chill]] today (late yesterday) to set the light levels at home to a nice late night/hacking level using [[home assistant]], that was somewhere on my todo list :)
- I read about [[router7]] by [[stapelberg]].
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[[todo]]:
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I started packing for the [[us]]:
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Things I want to do during the upcoming trip:
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I met [[smurp]] today!
- It was great!
- I got a [[cal]] after seeing it at his smurp.com/cal and previously.
- [[zine]] -> [[us]]
- I cleaned the house in the morning while I was logged onto [[Flancia meet]] (quiet instance, but that’s alright of course) and it felt good to start the weekend that way; I did kitchen and bathroom floors.
- We had a tough conversation with [[AG]] today, but I think it was the right thing.
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I wrote a script named [[Burup]] to disable the laptop’s keyboard and touchpad so Burup can sleep on it while I continue to use the external keyboard and mouse for browsing/coding :) [[Claude]] helped me find the best way to do this in a 2025 Linux + Wayland install, my first impulse was to reach for xinput but that doesn’t cut it nowadays :) [[libinput]] CLI is reasonable though.
- I think I need to also disable the trackpoint (nipple/joystick that comes with Lenovo laptops) as somehow she still was able to move focus while I was typing this :) The situation is already much improved though.
- I found the card of a barista who once made a good coffee for me somewhere in Osaka: [[Kota Ikenaga]].
- Loved the [[15 minutes]] flow
- Played [[The Reluctant Groom]], plus [[Lady Burup]]‘s song :)
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Back here something like 22 hours later, on the other side of the night and day and half there over :)
- Work including oncall was occasionally heavy but still good, felt productive. Worked late and advanced some threads enough, but not as late as yesterday!
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[[Lady Burup]] needs to lose some weight, will continue noding the process in [[burup forever]] :)
- I also want to lose 2-3kg or convert them from fat (mostly in my abdomen) to muscle, I’ll try to do this in the following 1-2 months and report back. I currently weigh 76.5kg (I’m ~190cm tall).
- So we’ll do it together, I say! :
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I’m back!
- In [[computer space]] (and time!)
- Travelling was great but I’m looking forward to catching up with projects.
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[[Agora]]:
- Discussed [[2025]] with [[Timur]] in [[Flancia Meet]], also discussed [[Betula]] progress which is very exciting!
- Thought about [[Fediverse]] integration, [[auth]] and data providers.
- Also about simpler and more opaque stuff like [[autopull for numbers]]: number [[n]] should pull e.g. [[prime/n]] because that’s a related node for all integers.
- Hmm, what was by [[root node]] again…? :)
- Picked up my laptop after long. This has been quite an offline vacation!
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In [[Buzios]] this week, reading about:
- Also reading a compilation of short stories by [[Greg Egan]] :)
- After a day by the beach, we went on a walk with [[AG]] to a lookout point near [[Ferradura]].
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Back noding in [[neovim]] to make sure I keep my travel setup running.
- I could also move to running [[bull]] locally in [[guanyin]] while I travel…
- Started the day nicely with [[AG]].
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Then did [[Sadhana]], things around the house, and advanced on many threads :)
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Thought about:
- [[primes]], and again [[prime gaps]], which I now associate with the number #14 because 14 is a first notable prime gap on 113 - 127, and it easily answers ‘prime?’ for an interesting range
- I updated the [[index]] of my garden after long, I think it’s a bit improved.
- I donated 2x early today.
- I also opened a lot of backlogged correspondence, asked for a [[tax return extension]] (until 2025-09-30) and bought some gifts :)
2025-02-01
- Having an absolutely tedious time trying to figure out why the WiFi keeps on dropping out on some of the devices in our house.
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[[bull]] now supports tabs in editing mode :)
- enjoying it a lot!
- I am thinking of which other quality of life improvements could easily be added to [[CodeMirror]] if Stapelberg agrees.
- [[vim mode]] is probably going too far? :)
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I realized I broke links in [[Agora graphs]] when I pushed the update to remove jquery; I know why, I just need to remember to fix it tonight after work.
- Noding this from [[bull]] in today’s page in the Agora, meaning anagora.org/2025-01-27; I wonder if this will create a 2025-01-27.md file or somehow just a ‘bare’ 2025-01-27 file. I’ll know soon enough :)
- Had lunch with [[Stapelberg]] and it was great as usual. We discussed work and open source; bull and the agora.
- I finally bought the tickets for Argentina and Brazil! It feels nice to get that out of the way.
- Work was fine!
- After work, there was a short Social.coop [[TWG]] meeting with [[Dan Phiffer]] and it was great.
- [[Lady Burup]] is very beautiful and a great companion as always!
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Spoke to [[Jack Park]] after a while, I’m glad!
- I signed up for deepseek.com to try [[deepseek r1]] and I found it quite good to begin with. Then I signed up for its API.
2025-01-26
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I’m on the [[train back to Zürich]] from Bern.
- I went to a meeting organized by [[Welle]], an organization working in [[human rights in Iran]].
- Then I met [[LP]] and we had dinner and a long chat, it was great!
- I will try to work on the Agora while I’m on the train, but maybe I will also just write and read and see where it goes :)
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[[Readers of the future]]
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I read about:
2025-01-24
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Listening to [[The Word for World is Forest]]
- From [[libro.fm]].
- Really enjoying it. The reader is great.
- [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] mercurial as always.
- Though, when I say enjoying it… it’s a bit grim. This Don Donaldson character is a nasty piece of work, pure American colonialist.
- I went to bed a bit later than expected, at around 3am, but it was a productive night and I still managed to sleep enough so I have no regrets :)
- The [[dishwasher]] repairperson came over, fingers crossed I’ll have a dishwasher again! Not having it (after only a few years of having it) really made me appreciate it specially.
- Then I plan to [[work]] mostly on [[AI]] stuff today.
- Then we might go to [[Manor]] with [[AG]] :)