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  • The Long Form Troll

    The Long Form Troll

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    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…

  • Refactoring and (A)I

    Refactoring and (A)I

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesFor two days I have been migrating my blog from Hugo to Eleventy via the markdown pages, and the photos via Ghost Export for WordPress. In the process I achieved a goal, and then AI broke things, so I achieved them again, and then AI broke them again. The favourite thing for…

  • Gemini and Context Splicing

    Gemini and Context Splicing

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesImagine that you’re out for a walk. You’re looking at the landscape and taking photos with your camera or phone. At the same time your GPS watch, or phone app is recording your location every second. What remains of the walk is a gps track that has a resolution of one set…

  • The Importance of Trying AI

    The Importance of Trying AI

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesFrom what I see the aim of AI companies is not to provide human beings with great tools to speed up work flows, to automate menial tasks, and to enhance our daily work lives. It is to replace us. For this reason I don’t like that there is so much hype about…

  • On the Importance of Media Literacy in the Smartphone Era

    On the Importance of Media Literacy in the Smartphone Era

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesWithin the last two weeks children have headed back to schools. As a consequence of this schools, towns, villages, and ‘states’ are banning mobile phones for children and teenagers. In theory this is a fantastic, and simple solution. In practice this is failing society. Plenty of adults, from my generation, and younger,…

  • Historic Photos and Facebook

    Historic Photos and Facebook

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of the reasons for which I keep using Facebook has to do with peoples’ sharing of old photos, paintings, sketches and more. I love to see photos of Nyon, Morges, Neuchatel Lausanne and other places through time. Recently I saw a photo of La Dole with a group of children skiing…

  • Playing With Computers

    Playing With Computers

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesThere are two types of computer users in the world. Those that use them for what they need to use them for, and those that play with computers. In the 90s an English teacher was frustrated by the grammatically incorrect “playing with computers” because for him, and others people play computer games…

  • HowNOT2 Videos – Climbing Safety

    HowNOT2 Videos – Climbing Safety

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesIn scuba diving and aviation safety is a discussion that takes place before and after every dive or flight. It is discussed every time divers meet up. With climbing safety is important too but the focus is different. “This is how you should belay, this is how you should climb, this is…

  • Listening to Podcasts While Walking

    Listening to Podcasts While Walking

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesRecently I have been listening to plenty of [Late Night Linux](https://latenightlinux.com/) podcasts. I like them because they’re half an hour long, the adverts are half way through the show, and in general I don’t feel that they’re filling time to fill one and a half hours of podcast time. Plenty of other…