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2025-04-21
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OK, finally sorted out that issue I’ve had for a while: [[File error: Getting attributes, Permission denied, /run/user/1001/emacs]]
- It was because when I was logging in as the second user, I wasn’t using a full login shell.
- i.e.
su neil when I needed to use su - neil.
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Windows 10 reaching end of life after 10 years is fine. Windows 11 hardware requirements not supporting a whole raft of perfectly adequate machines is NOT acceptable.
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[[TPM 2.0]]. [[Secure Boot]].
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Mi [[mamรก]] me contรณ de la vez en que mi papรก le pegรณ, ella hizo la denuncia en la comisarรญa antes de escaparse a la casa de los padres y los hijos de puta de la comiserรญa llamaron a mi papรก y le avisaron para que la fuera a buscar.
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Mi [[tรญo]] desapareciรณ tres dรญas despuรฉs de que mi papรก (que era de la derecha peronista) lo llevรณ a un embarcadero de Tigre a una reuniรณn de montoneros.
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Good day at work!
- Started cycling season by biking to work, which was great :)
- Then good progress on some fronts, and a pleasant evening at home with Lady Burup and working a bit more.
- Thinking about the future in a pleasant way.
- TIL about [[Mahasthamaprapta]], one of the two attendants of [[Amida Nyorai]]/[[Amitabha]] with [[Avalokiteshvara]]! Gemini told me about them, a.k.a. [[Dashizhi]] in feminine form.
- I must call the [[veterinary]] (for a checkup)
- Life goes on! I try to enjoy it.
- It was great catching up with friends more as of late, online and offline.
- Work is tough/intense but OK; I’ve been feeling productive and I’m looking forward to working more on some projects.
- -> [[next action]]
2025-04-05
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[[Read]]: [[A System for Writing]]
- Very useful.
- It’s clarifying lots of things I’ve been doing a bit unguided.
- I’m taking lots of reference notes from it.
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I find that statements that start with ‘[[I]]‘ such as ‘[[I am]]‘ or ‘[[I like]]‘ are good ways of starting on a path of making main notes. As you’ll start to make a train of notes to back up why you are or why you like something.
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[[Bookmarked]]:
- [[Espaรฑa 2025]]
- I attended an AI conference today in the morning, it was great! I met interesting people.
- I worked on AI, Partitioning, Rollouts.
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Then I did [[Flancia]]!
2025-04-01
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Philip has put a great page together on your options at [[Windows 10 end-of-life]].
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I occasionally have the deep misfortune of ending up on [[Amazon]]. Talk about [[enshittification]]. Endless random brand names, 50 random variations of the same crappy product. ‘Sponsored’ products. This is not a site that cares about its users.
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[[Las Jaras]]!
- It was a great day all in all, I had enough bandwidth to do what I needed to do and start the week well; did also some planning for the upcoming months.
- Had lunch with [[Stapelberg]].
- Worked until 19 or until 21 depending on how you count, I count the latter.
- Threw [[476]] in the [[co2]] meter; it’s 17 * 28.
- [[Midi]]
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I talked to my mum and it was great.
- We are making travel plans :)
- I played [[Minecraft]] with [[Timur]], I appreciated it!
- Then I reviewed and cleaned up notes, iterated on projects, spent time with Burup. It felt healing.
2025-03-30
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[[Doughnut Economics]] has a nice, simple definition of what a [[system]] is.
- "So what is a system? Simply a set of things that are interconnected in ways that produce distinct patterns of behaviour โ be they cells in an organism, protestors in a crowd, birds in a flock, members of a family, or banks in a financial network. And it is the relationships between the individual parts โ shaped by their [[stocks and flows]], [[feedbacks]], and [[delay]] โ that give rise to their emergent behaviour"
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[[Bookmarked]]:
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[[Wasteland]] has a nice description of [[Oil]]:
- "Most oil deposits are thought to have been laid down between 10 and 180 million years ago, when dead zooplankton and algae sank to the seafloor and were buried in layers of sediment, before being slowly transformed into hydrocarbons by heat and pressure and time"
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Via [[Chris Aldrich]] (| Chris Aldrich), this looks good: [[A System for Writing]].
2025-03-29
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[[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]
- [[Apple]] started making the most money when they had the platform through which they sold apps made by others and took a percentage of all sales.
- A form of [[Rent]].
- [[Google]], [[Amazon]], others as well.
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I guess this is where it’s quite similar to [[platform capitalism]].
- I guess Varoufakis is saying it’s something qualitatively different, Srnicek is saying it’s a new evolution of capitalism.
- Either way, seem to be in agreement that it’s big, new, and bad.
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[[Bookmarked]]:
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[[Life]] wants to be; life doesn’t always want to be much; life goes extinct; life goes on.
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I’m returning to a bunch of fleeting notes I’ve logged in orgzly over recent months, that haven’t made it to the garden yet.
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, โฆ?
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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 timeโฆ
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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 Zรผrich 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: