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instead of dying a little on social media
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Why do organizations and companies use bad technology and ill-conceived solutions on their websites? Today, I have had to fight, among other things, to be able to donate money to the Red Cross and Amnesty and to be able to buy movie tickets online. Surely the meaning is that contributors/customers should have a pleasant experience?
Having the flu, rearranging the furniture, Christmas is relentlessly approaching. Happy times, yes indeed.
COP28: The agreement is, as expected, a big disappointment. The oil producing countries and the oil industry won as usual. The biggest loser is humanity, led by the island nations.
An interesting subject and most interesting reading. Yet again, someone that has got too much attention without getting his facts scrutinized.
Be aware of Energy Transition doom proficy
Thought I had an idea on how to solve a problem using a bash script. After two hours I suddenly discover that I was completely wrong from the beginning. Well, now I know how not to solve the problem.
Just spotted the receipt for my laptop when going through a box with papers. My trusted and beloved Toshiba was bought 2012-03-24. It's still going strong (knock on wood). For a command line user as myself it's still completely sufficient but I'm taking backups weekly. I dread the day I will be forced to replace you.
Found my old CD's with classical music yesterday. Have started to convert them to .mp3 from the command line (ffmpeg) but it's a bit tedeous. Task for tonight: write a shell script to automate the process.
Used awk today for the first time in months. I've got a memory like a goldfish so my own documentation of awk came in very handy. If I don't document what I do on the computer I would have to start from the beginning and learn it all again. By the way, markdown rules.
From permacomputing.net: "In a time where computing epitomizes industrial waste, permacomputing encourages the maximizing of hardware lifespans, minimizing energy use and focusing on the use of already available computational resources."
Never heard of permacomputing until today. Better late than never.
Found permacomputing via
We need more of Richard Stallman, not less
A gemlog post by ploum i enjoyed reading.
COP28: A declaration from 20 countries to triple the nuclear power capacity by 2050. I feel sick.