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richard
@admin-richard@www.main-vision.com

I am a media asset manager, camera operator and more. I hike, cycle and climb in my free time. During the COVID-19 pandemic I am blogging on a daily basis to keep a record for future generations.

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  • My AI Teacher

    Reading Time: 4 minutesToday I want to discuss something different. I want to discuss using AI as a teacher, rather than as a tool to replace us. For a few days I have been playing with the Instagram json file that I got when I requested my archive. With this json file I thought about…

  • Removable Batteries are coming back

    Reading Time: 4 minutesBy a large majority the European Union has voted to bring back user replaceable batteries to mobile phones. This is fantastic for one reason, over all others. I keep my phones for years, not seasons. Over that time the battery health degrades. As it degrades the battery life goes from lasting an…

  • Flawed Thinking and Cleaning

    Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Unilateral Solution I stopped making a mess because I came up with unillateral solutions, until I found the ideal one. I experimented with skewers to remove the mud from shoes, I experimented with rubber boots that I could rinse under a tap. I tried with spare shoes in the letter box. …

  • From Instagram Archive to PHP Website

    Reading Time: 4 minutesThree years ago I stopped using Instagram because I was tired of seeing influencers and adverts rather than by the people I chose to follow. The cherry on the cake, that pushed me to dump Instagram is when they changed the location of the Post button from the left corner to the…

  • Swimming Pools Per Capita Map

    Reading Time: 3 minutesToday I learned that Switzerland has a map that shows which communes have the most swimming pools per capita. Nyon has 50 swimming pools. That’s 2,3 per thousand people. Blonay St Legier has 336. Collonge- Bellerive has 491, as you’d expect.  Switzerland has, on average, one swimming pool per 155 people. They…

  • Podcasts and Social Media

    Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen you listen to podcasts, and you read articles, and you visit websites you always see Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and Instagram, to name the giants. In every podcast episode you hear the guests say “You can find me under this name on this network, and the same name on that network.” The…

  • Linear Bike Rides

    Reading Time: 2 minutesAlmost all of my bike rides are loops. The reason for this is that I am a single person, so I usually need to end where I start, either to get home, or to get to the car. This means that if I do a 30km loop it has to return to…

  • A Desire to Dump WordPress

    Reading Time: 2 minutesIn theory WordPress is a fantastic tool to write a blog, without needing to learn to code. In practice I am tired of WordPress and I have been tired of WordPress ever since they started to use blocks, and ever since I noticed that it uses React.  React and Meta I know…

  • Cycling From Haute-Morges To Nyon Along the Top

    Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday I cycled from Haute-Morges to Nyon along the top. I did this because I was curious to see what route the GPS would recommend. The natural thing to do would be to cycle downhill towards Rolle and the lake.  The Route Instead I cycled upwards towards Montricher. From there I cycled…

  • On The Any Distance – Workout Tracker

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI watched the Apple keynote and thought “This is demonstrating a dystopia, with the Pure Vision Goggles, rather than a eutopia. A dystopia where everyone is alone, working in VR, rather than surrounded by people. The dystopia continued on with an app. In the age of two factor authentication they want to authenticate…