Category: Swiss walks
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Forgotten Blue Sky
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday as I was looking through apps I noticed that Bluesky had been offloaded and that I had not used the app in weeks, possibly even months. The reason for this is simple. Social media went from being a social conversation between individuals towards a monologue from Influencers to normal people, and…
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On Resolute Raccoon and Photoprism
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday when I was looking at Photoprism, and synching from one drive to two other drives, and a second instance I noticed that for some reason I only had the last two months of photos. I eventually noticed that the photos are now living in run/media/… rather than /media/… and it…
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The Ochsner Sport Runday Monday Signy Run
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor several weeks I have run with the Ochsner Sport Runday Monday Signy group. Last night the run began at the Abériaux parking before heading towards Gland and skimming the Domaine Impérial before then heading back through some woods towards the parking, before then stopping by a plage for a swim and…
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The Level Four Heatwave
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe are heading into a Level Four heatwave for the next few days and now people will realise that replacing gardens with parking, and individual villas with apartment houses was a mistake. Now is when people will realise that tarmac gets hot during the day, and radiates heat at night. Now is…
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On The Curious Incident of the Festival That Prevented Sleep
Reading Time: 3 minutesEurope is in the middle of a heatwave where the afternoon temperatures reach 33°c or higher, but where night time temperatures are just 20°c or even less. Local governments are saying “Avoid strenuous activities in the sun” and “make sure to keep cool”. They also offer going to churches or museums because…
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Running Upwards Along a River in Morges at Dawn
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSome people were watching the football last night. Others were working towards qualifying enough hearing loss at a music festival to get hearing aids. I decided that on Friday morning I would wake around 04:30 to run in Morges at 06:00. Many would see waking so early as a crazy and…
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On Caribana’s Noise Pollution and Geeky White Noise Solutions
Reading Time: 3 minutesLast night was the first night of the Caribana and for the most part it was quiet. It was quiet until 23:30 when one of the less competent sound gremlins got to the audio mixing desk and made it tremendously loud. So loud that I could hear the music clearly. If I…
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The Vintage Apple Watch SE 2
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor years I have been struggling with the Apple Watch concept. With the Series 4 it’s because a hairline fracture killed the touch screen functionality. That’s why I got an SE, and eventually the SE 2. Now, with both of these the screen survived, and with the SE 2 I got the…
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On Heatwaves and Getting Up at Dawn to Run
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe are entering the first Canicule of the summer today from Thursday and towards the 23rd of June. During this heat wave Minergie buildings, will climb towards 32°c plus, as will apartments. Cities will gather more and more heat energy and radiate it it. That’s when noisy music festivals can have deadly…
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Artificial Intelligence and Sports Apps
Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently Strava added MCP AI decorations, with the idea of making workout feedback more interesting and dynamic. In practice when Garmin Suunto and Runna did that they forgot a key aspect. Allowing humans to add real context. AI is a guessing algorithm, not true intelligence. It will look at data, but it…