A 50-something French dude that’s old enough to think blogs are still cool, if not cooler than ever. Also, I like to write and to sketch.
https://thefoolwithapen.com/
You need better air flow.
I had the same issue as a student, when I lived in that pocket-sized 1 room ‘apartment’ with barely any airflow coming through a single and tiny window. The only solution I found to be working was, each morning, to lift the mattress and store it on its side with the bottom/downside face part of it not facing the wall, and let it like that for the rest of the day. The air would do its magic.
I also raised the bed frame that was very close to the ground.
+1 to this. Beside our phones there is no smart device in our home (and when not in use, they’re turned off and stored in a box to limit their ability to spy on us). No TV, no Alexa, no smart light-bulbs, no smart thermostat, no smart doorbell,…
Heck, I even stopped using my Kindle (and completely quit reading DRM-protected ebooks) because I had enough of Amazon ‘monitoring’ my reading habits.
F*ck that, I want privacy. If digital can’t give it to me, I’m going back to good analog ;)
Also, as an ex-lifelong Mac user (started in the early 80s) our PCs have been running Linux for a few years now, and so far I’ve not morphed into some kind of geeky-hairy-creature. I’m still as bald and as neatly shaved as I always have been, and I’m barely any more of a geek :P
There is one Windows machine still running at home, the one my spouse must use for her work. That being being said, seeing how great the USA-EU relationship have been since Putin’s orange angry puppet has started his new show in the oval office, and knowing the rather specific field my spouse is working in I would not be surprised if her bosses suddenly realized using Windows was not the brightest idea ever and decided to switch everyone to a less spyware-filled and a less US-owned OS alternative. We will see. Meanwhile, the webcam and microphone are constantly covered, and the PC itself is unplugged from the network (Ethernet only) and from the wall-plug after hours. Paranoid & excessive? Maybe… I’d rather be paranoid than be sorry I was not enough ;)
I love this movie so much. First watched it as kid it made a deep impression on me. Still does, some 50 years after I first watched it.
Luke, is that you?
Fasting. Hard to make money off not eating food.
FFS, don’t give them ideas!
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I halved my weight and I still eat plenty (even chocolate, pastries or things like that, just… a lot less and never industrially made), I replaced me eating shit (literally, industrial are feeding us shit) by me eating actual food (and enjoying preparing it), and I also retook control my body, muscles and joints, by starting to move it… like it is was designed to. We’re not designed to sit on a couch or in front of computer all day long (be it to work or to play).
Thx. I hope so too.
Thx, and yep it doesn’t take much room ;)
I 100% agree on that, no discussion. I was just pointing out the fact that quite often a ‘I have to’ should be written as ‘I’m used to’ ;)
Its a great choice for those who can, but some people have to travel for work.
We (my spouse and I) decided to stop using planes the day we realized the environmental crisis we were heading to. That was in the early 00s, some 25 years ago. And be it for work or for personal reasons we have not used a plane since then.
Work was the easiest to solve for us: video + phone are often enough and when they’re not a local correspondent we can mandate is more than able to deal with whatever needs a human presence (edit: it was a little more difficult for personal travels, but nothing impossible either). I have no doubt it’s not always possible, but I’m also pretty confident it’s often possible, it’s just… not the usual way people think about it ;)
I would suggest to not cross the US border as a very fine way to protect from them. That’s what I do but I may be too extreme?
What are the ethics of using AI to imitate art styles?
I don’t understand the question.
AI has no ethics, AI doesn’t copy or steal, no more than a photocopy is stealing the pages of the books it copies. AI is not a person.
The persons writing the code of the AI to make it able to ‘learn’ (aka remix) from existing art and artists are the one stealing art and artists. As well as the user asking that AI to ‘create’ new art hoping to make some money out of it while knowing 100% that it’s pure copying from other artists.
Sure. But don’t worry, our bright leaders have obviously considered that tiny little potential but veeeeeeery unlikely issue the day they decided to rely on US-tech. They must have a backup plan. They did have a backup, right?
Beside Windows and Office, thinking about all the European data that US clouds have been tasked to ‘safekeep’ for us by our so very lucid leaders, the same leaders that have persistently refused to listen to the few people around here telling them that maybe that was not the fucking smartest idea ever to let go of that control on our essential data… I do wonder how many vital, key or even just nice to have European services will instantly stop working if the US was to ever pull the plug?
I also wonder if my bank would still be able to work? And what about my medical data?
Not that our US friends would ever do such a thing to their dearest European allies, obviously they love us (read the last few paragraphs).
USA + EU = BFF & <3
+1
We use that too. It’s less impactful than using a clim and it’s still enough for us.
Thx for the info. It’s also that I don’t want to intrude on anyone’s privacy—like I would love if by default my online privacy was respected—so I don’t want and don’t try to know who’s coming unless that person wants to reach me, in which case I offer a few ways to do so that are more or less private and/or privacy-friendly.
I used WebP instead of AVIF
It was the other candidate, but on average I did get smaller files with Avif and I went that way.
You might want to consider finding a way to have images be optimized automatically during Hugo’s build, to avoid having to do it manually every time.
That’s a good idea. Will try to see what I can do, thx!
We don’t have to resort to JavaScript or server-side scripts to decide which mode to use. Heck, we don’t even need the button anymore!
Thx so much! I will check into that.
Shadowserver visits your site a minimum of 10 times daily, so don’t worry! You have visitors.
Who would have thought so? I have visitors! And not just anyone some serious ones. I should probably tidy up a little more and maybe get some more tasty cookies for them to feel more at home?
More seriously, even though it’s not what I would call a surprise I had no idea something like this existed. I’m much more surprised imaging them reading that highly suspicious content I sneak-in between the lines ;)
How are you managing dark mode? When I go to your site it’s white.
I use the Dark Reader Extension on every single website, including mine. I don’t want scripts on my website and I could not figure out a way to have a dark/light switcher without any JS) ;)
lmao, my real code that runs for thousands of visitors daily:
I doubt I have such a thing as a single daily visitor (not even myself) but who knows ;)
that’s why, as a mere user myself, someone that will never be able to write a line of code, let alone develop an app, I still want my apps do be Free/Libre software. I want for those many more competent people all over the world to be able to identify any such a turd and flush them down the drain. I don’t trust any corporation to do a good job at that, even Apple (disclaimer: I use an iPhone…)