Category: Switzerland
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J’accuse Akismet and Fediverse Spammers
Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently every post I wrote got a dozen or more spam messages. As a result of this flood of spam comments Akismet or another app said “You need to pay due to the volume of spam comments. It struck me as tremendously unfair. Most blogs have little to no income, so if…
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What if Linkedin Was a Jovial Chat Rather Than Self-Promotion
Reading Time: 3 minutesYears ago I saw that a UN organisation were looking for an archivist on Twitter so I got in touch and within two days I had signed a contract for work. In another spontaneous act of curiousity I saw that Adecco Geneva was looking for people that weren’t afraid of heights, so,…
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On Performing Rather Than Conversing
Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday I went for a run and someone asked “Are people running or not?” and I answered yes. The person wanted to be added to the Whatscrapp group but I couldn’t add them because I have no privilieges within that group. I can’t post. I can’t share the group. I can vote…
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The Rise of the Long Form Reel
Reading Time: 3 minutesRecently while using Facebook and Instagram I noticed two things. The first is that photos are almost gone. The second is that videos went from being a few seconds each, to a few minutes each. This means that if you open the FB or IG apps and begin to watch a video…
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Why Walkable Journeys Would Free Us From Cars, Bikes, Buses and More
Reading Time: 4 minutesScience et Avenir wrote an article about why we should cycle as much as the dutch. They think that we should cycle instead of taking the car for short journeys. I disagree. For me, if a distance is less than three kilometres then it can be done in half an hour or…
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Libro FM and AudiobookShelf Are Seamless
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor years I was very happy with Audible, until it was bought by Amazon, and then I felt the desire to move away because I didn’t want to feed a monopoly. It is through my desire to break free from Audible that I began to experiment with stripping DRM from books, first…
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Walking Along a Dry Lake Bed in the Vallée De Joux
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNormally there is water where I walked yesterday. At first I walked along the stones, where it was dry. After a moment I decided to take off my shoes and begin to walk through the mud and sediment. In so doing my feet sank as deep as my ankles. The mud…
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The Morat-Fribourg Race Success
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I ran from Morat to Fribourg in a race with 17,000 other people. One of them was wearing a 34kg suit of armour. Most were in shorts and t-shirts as you’d expect. The challenge for me, wasn’t to race. It was to run the distance, without exhausting myself, without pain, and…
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The Novel Experience of Running an Unfamiliar Route During a Race
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt is amusing that I would be nervous about a linear path that goes from A to B. I am nervous because I haven’t had the race experience yet, although in recent weeks I have experienced two triathlons, once walking, the second as a volunteer, and I experienced a crtiérium a week…
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Running a Longer Social Distance
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Sunday I will be running 17km in a running event. My goal isn’t to be fast. My goal is to run 17km without getting exhausted, and without suffering too much. Two or three weeks ago I ran a social 18km or so and I felt fine at the start but as…