Category: Swiss walks
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On Algorithms and Impossible Conversations
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn the Fediverse you can follow everyone on an instance, or you can follow the people that you want to follow. Hypothetically you can follow key words, and with time follow more people, and eventually find a community. On Threads, BlueSky, X, Instagram and TikTok what you see is selected by algorithms,…
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The Long Form Troll
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday there was a post about someone filming people with Meta Glasses without permission and someone was offended by the fact that someone would record people without permission so I pointed to the need for talent release forms and more in order to share content showing other people. One troll said the…
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Garmin and Two to Four Weeks of Waiting
Reading Time: 2 minutesA few days ago I think I ran and then swam. While waiting for lunch I noticed that the Garmin Forerunner 570 had a bit of plastic sticking out of it so I pulled on it, to see if it came loose. It didn’t. It stayed put. It appeared to come from…
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The Carbon Footprint of AI Written Books and a Rating System For Environmental Impact
Reading Time: 3 minutes— title: It’s worth considering a new rating system for AI generated content such as books. According to [an article in The Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/daggermouth-novel-bestseller-ai/688067/) AI written slop in the form of Daggermouth is best selling AI fiction and my first thought is that this is awful. It’s awful because AI can generate books…
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The 6AM and 8AM Run
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you had the chance to get up at the crack of dawn to run with a group at 6AM, have breakfast, coffee, and then head to another town for an 8AM run, would you? Hypothetically that’s what I could do on Friday morning but in practice I think that it involves…
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Opportunistic Charging
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt is easy to think “I fill the my car once I reach a quarter of a tank, and to keep that attitude once you get an EV. With faster charging cars this works well but with others the concept is flawed. Today I drove to Geneva and back to drop into…
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When the Alarm Doesn’t Wake Us
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday morning I set two alarms for 0600 because I wanted to wake, have some free time, and then run at 07:50/08:00 but I don’t remember it waking me. I remember looking at the phone or watch and seeing 07:53. With the heat wave making sleep difficult, followed my a music festival…
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The Sleepless Night Challenge
Reading Time: 2 minutesNear where I live there are three or four music events and two of them are multi-day events. Last night when I was walking home I noticed just how much noise was bleeding from the festival and it polarised me into commenting on it, on Strava. When I walked in town two…
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On Community, Social Media, and the Failed Third Space
Reading Time: 4 minutesFrance and Belgium have recently banned children and teenagers younger than 15 from joining social media. To me this illustrates that my desire for social media to be social networks that were feature rich is dead and buried. In effect it has been dead and buried since Lockdown got normal people to…
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The EV Pay Per Kilometre Tax
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn the last two days I noticed several posts speaking about an upcoming tax for electric vehicles that will charge people per mile driven, as there is with petrol cars. In theory people will be charged a flat fee for the first year, and then per kilometre from then onwards. I…