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馃棧 Followers 1 路 Following 1 路 Logs 5 路 Docked 7 months ago
People cannot distinguish a smartphone from Internet anymore. I come to this reading a comment about a downshifted couple https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSSzEGYa_sk At one point the guy, who proudly owns a dumbphone, shows his laptop with Internet connection. A comment point out that he is an hypocrite and a clown. The smartphone is a portable device with a touch screen, designed to be always online. Social apps are designed to be addictive. The PC with Internet is another device, less portable and more customizable. The issue of this time is smartphone + Internet + social networks. Jonathan Haidt correlates mental disorders in youth w. the iphone 4 commercialization. Are we living in a cyberpunk nightmare?
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Yesterday on a train I've seen more people on books. Less smartphone, more books. You can spot more smiles and a better atmosphere. "Always on" and mobility were traps and maybe something is starting to light again under the ashes.
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Self-promoting a new entry on my capsule about sarcasm in tech and research fields. Against progress, against trying new things, strongly biased, just to win an argument. gemini://chirale.org/2024-06-22_ssp.gmi Tell me what you think. I suppose it's a minority view of mine.
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I spent a few hours this week putting together 122 lines of bash code to convert old Wordpress and Django articles into my next gemlog. About 160 articles are suitable for porting from RSS Feed and JSON export. I've used pandoc, gemgen, sed, jq, grep, recode, xmlstarlet for conversions and a-h/gemini go server to test the output. Working at the index today: it's amazing that an append by two differents script and then a sort -r can make a decent index if you use the date --iso format as .gmi file prefix. Older article atm is from 2007. I'll dig deeper, looking for even older chunks of memories to make this a time capsule. ^^
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For several years I have been dealing with mold on the walls (brick and plaster, not wood). This year my campaign went like this: 1. Treatment with specific sodium hypochlorite products (7%) to superficially remove the mold. Ozone (O3) to kill spores remaining in the room (= 2ppm, 60 minutes). Air the room. 2. After a few days, pass a specific wall sanitizing product on the affected areas (50% water, 50% product). 3. After a few days give the second coat (30% product, 70% water). Will I have won the war against mold? I will find out next year.