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I tend to forget how much Use Your Illusion I sags in the middle. At their worst, Guns N Roses are just a more distorted version of The Rolling Stones, with a lot less swagger.
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I started reading an actual, physical book today. Att skriva , the Swedish translation of Stephen King s On Writing . I also keep listening to Count Zero . I m thinking about Bobby Newmark s mother, filling her mind with the life of others trough sim stim . I m thinking about myself, almost always with AirPods in listening to podcasts and [ ]
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I finished Neuromance yesterday. What a thrill ride! As I wrote before, it s a novel that I ve read a couple of times but I m pretty sure this is the first time that I read the English original and not a Swedish translation. Also, it was a really long time ago that I read it last [ ]
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Quick note on Neuromancer: The way Case speaks to and uses Dixie Flat-line feels very similar to the way we use AI chatbots today.
Cyberpunk
My most recent listen, after The Sandman: Act III, is William Gibson s Neuromancer . It s a novel that I ve read a couple of times before, but that before is now the distant past. It s definitely an important part of my science fiction origin story, and something that I ve liked a whole lot because I ve wanted to [ ]
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After finishing Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption I sort of lost the plot on audiobooks for a while again. That meant a lot of podcasts for a few weeks but then I got into the audio drama version of Neil Gaiman s The Sandman: Act III. I ve listened to Act I and Act II in the [ ]
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Nighttime, just days after Midsummer Nights Eve. I m sitting on the backyard deck, an old fashioned next to me and my hand on my computer keyboard. This is probably my absolute favorite part of the year.
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Got tipsy and went down several YouTube rabbit holes. From Nick Cave Kylie Minogue to Miley Cyrus, to Taylor Momsen fronting Soundgarden to a whole bunch of Ozzy tributes. How did I miss that Jenny from Gossip Girl can rip through Rusty Cage ? Why haven t I noticed that Chad Smith is a fantastic drummer? [ ]
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In an earlier post today I made a reference to the Tears in rain monologue from Blade Runner which, naturally, lead me to its Wikipedia page and had me reading it to myself multiple times, hearing Rutger Hauer s voice in my head. In doing so, I made a connection to a post about Pluribus for [ ]
An old post by Dave Winer that still rings true, uncomfortably true
If you programmers still don t want users running servers, then I propose you look at your thinking a bit, and wonder if you re perhaps a member of the computing priesthood, trying to protect what you do from the unwashed masses? If so, you re on the wrong side of history, imho. The inexorable process of tech [ ]
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Copilot is for entertainment purposes only. It can make mistakes, and it may not work as intended. Don t rely on Copilot for important advice. Use Copilot at your own risk. – Microsoft: Copilot AI is for entertainment purposes only, not important advice Mashable This is from Microsoft s own terms of service. They say it s [ ]
In the world of Pluribus, creative work is a monumental event
A quick thought on Pluribus. From what I understand it s been conceived over many years, meaning it was not originally intended to be about generative AI. However it most certainly became partially about that. One scene that feels like a commentary on genAI is the scene where Carol has started writing again and how delighted [ ]
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Also, yesterday the whole family 🎞 watched Super Mario Galaxy. The kids liked it and had a great time at the movies, and therefor so did Linn and I. However purely as a movie it s almost offensively mediocre. Minimal plot, no real character moments, just a bunch of noise.
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I ve been watching Pluribus for the past week. Right now I only have the final episode left. Really loving it.
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YouTube is f*cking broken these day, with the amount of ad breaks.
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First time grilling this year
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I söndagskvällens Agenda pressas partiledaren Simona Mohamsson om partiet faktiskt kommer att rösta rött till att släppa fram Ulf Kristersson (M) som statsminister om han ämnar bilda en regering där Sverigedemokraterna ingår. – Ja, säger Mohamsson. Mohamsson (L): Kommer rösta rött till Kristersson om SD ingår i regeringen (Sveriges television)
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Mohamsson (L): Kommer rösta rött till Kristersson om SD ingår i regeringen (Sveriges television) Vallöften behöver hålla i fyra år. Det här löftet höll i mindre än ett halvt år. Förtroendeingivande.
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Nu är det upp till Sveriges liberaler att visa att vi är just liberaler, inte Folkpartister. (Stöd)rösta inte på ett parti som kramar om den som uttryckligen säger att liberalismen är hans fiende. För liberalismens skull hoppas jag att Liberalerna inte sitter i riksdagen efter valet i höst.
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Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them. I started listening to the audiobook of Dune the other day. This quote felt very timely.
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It s been more than two weeks since I last wrote about my progress with the game. Back then I wrote a list of things to work on and I ve been chipping away at it, to the point where all the bullets on that list is completed, save for one. The enemy should have some kind [ ]
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I continued to work on the game yesterday. My goal is to put at least some work into it every week. I would really like to have a more ambitious goal, but I would like it to be achievable, so therefore I m keeping it small. I needed to back up a bit and redo some [ ]
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I spent a lot of time today on my game. I d say that I ve reached my goal for the day. When an enemy catches up to the player in the overworld, the scene switches to the action scene. There is a player object (with an ugly sprite) in the action scene and it can move [ ]
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As I wrote the other day, I ve taken up video game development as a hobby. I don t have any aspirations of making this into anything more than a fun pastime, for me by myself and for me and the kids. The kids and I are working on our first game together and while I m trying [ ]
A new hobby
I ve been thinking about getting into video game making as a hobby for quite a while now and during winter break I finally gave myself some time to get into the basics. While Ebbe was playing with one of his friends in a play land (not sure what to call that kind of place in [ ]
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Integrasjon av Cleverio i Home Assistant (Hus Hage Hobby Hus)
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The Fairphone (Gen. 6) with /e/OS I’m just leaving this here for now.
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/e/OS Is Better Than Android. You Should Try It (Wired) This looks very interesting.
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What du you actually use your smartphone for? Which are those things are the same that you used it for five years ago? Ten years ago? Fifteen?
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How I added my iCloud calendar to Home Assistant via CalDAV (~/tobiesen) This worked for me.
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I started playing The Plucky Squire yesterday. I got interested in it from the Fully Ramblomatic review of it but never looked into whether I could play it on the Switch or not. Fast-forward to last Friday when I dropped Iris and a friend of at the movie theater. I went into the library to [ ]
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Yesterday I managed to get both of the kids outside to play in the snow, which I m very happy about today. During the afternoon the temperature crept above 0° C, so the snow is melting now.
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On my way to work.
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It worked! When I connect my phone to the charger, if it s after 22:30 and I am at home, all lights turns off. This post on the Home Assistant forum was really helpful. Now I ll need to add Home Assistant to Linn s phone as well and at her to the mix.
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Every now and then I try to set something up in Home Assistant but every time I do it feels so clunky. Still, I want to wrap my head around it and get it working because I really like the idea of it. If I ve managed to get things working the way I want, when [ ]
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More snow today. Here s the view out of the kitchen window.
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The first snow fell early yesterday morning. Here s a photo of the patio late last night as it was starting to pile up. We ve officially entered winter.
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A quick slice-of-life photo, cooking dinner while catching up on some YouTube videos.
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Yesterday Linn and I decided to take a spontaneous sauna visit. It was a fairly quick visit to be able to also do all the chores necessary of a Sunday but it was totally worth it. Very relaxing and a *fabulous* night sky outside.
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Spent most of yesterday outside, working on the carport with lots of help from Sverker. It s not done done, but it s reach a stage where it s done for the season. Once spring arrives I ll do more work on the roof.
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Never got around to posting this yesterday. My home office desk, full of little index cards to plan out a university course for the spring semester.
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Two different lectures in two different courses today. Been a long time since I ve done that. Years ago that was what a lot of days looked like but these days I do a lot more administrative work. This photo is from lecture #2, on sound for tv studio productions.
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Pretty much the same photo today as yesterday. The only difference is that today I used Resolve a lot more than Pro Tools. Also meetings.
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Today I worked from home for the entirety of the day, prepping for lectures and doing admin. Got some quality work done before lunch but then it got harder to focus as I also had electricians here, working on electrical wireing to the carport, Ebbe needed to be picked up from school and so on.
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I spent a large part of the working day today recording in the studio. The purpose was to record the same thing with different acoustic settings in the room to be able to demonstrate it s effect to the students.
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Om du är polis eller ordningsvakt och anmäler en person för att hen kallar dig för tönt , då bekräftar du att du är en tönt.
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I took a break from King after The Langoliers and instead dove into Neal Stephenson s Termination Shock and it grabbed me instantly. What a thrill ride thus far!
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I finished the audiobook of Stephen King s The Langoliers from Four Past Midnight the other day. I really liked it! I remember watching the tv movie (tv show?) of this story in class back in high school but I remembered very few things about it. I remembered the main premise, Dinah, and how terrible the [ ]
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It seems like I ve neglected my Reading page quite a while. As is apparent for anybody still reading this piece of the internet, I m also blogging very infrequently these days. Some days I feel bad about that, some days I feel like that s the beauty of blogs and RSS. If anybody subscribes to me they [ ]