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Johan Bové

Wondering that part of the charm and attraction of Christmas markets could come from a common nostalgia towards every day street markets in towns and a longing for more outside social life during the cold, clammy Winter days.

Johan Bové

Wondering how many Europeans know where the origin of the "black friday" promotions come from? Weirdly I haven't seen a single "black friday" here in Germany wishing us a happy Thanksgiving ... I guess any excuse for sending out more spam to promote doubtfully lucrative discounts is worth it?

Johan Bové

With the raging forest fires going around the Globe, I was wondering how the "Svalbard Global Seed Vault" is doing? What if all plants burn before we gather the ability to restore what was lost? cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault

Johan Bové

Wondering if the dry season in Western Europe has started.

Johan Bové

Wondering how long it will take for to be added to Amazon's Alexa devices. This would make both instantly more useful because of the ubiqutiousness of Amazon's devices and the power of OpenAI.

Johan Bové

A one year old silver mackrel male mainecoon cat, head, close up, relaxed, photo realistic #midjourney #ai

A one year old silver mackrel male mainecoon cat, head, close up, relaxed, photo realistic #midjourney #ai

Wondering if Midjourney actually found a painting of a Main Coon and also added the signature of the original artist in the bottom left?

A quick Internet search found these images:

- https://images.saatchiart.com/saatchi/1296793/art/6518775/5588451-UWDRWYLT-7.jpg

- https://i.pinimg.com/originals/19/6c/24/196c240cbf3384b02af56a8f2b81b4e1.jpg

Johan Bové

Wondering if someone made a framework comparison between , noting down the level of fun devs have with it and how long it takes to get to a productive level. Guessing won't be high in the top. On the other hand, looking at enterprise-readiness, and maintainability, it will score probably much better than most younger competitors.

Johan Bové

Noticing that the "local" feed of the instance I am on is getting as random as the federated one, telling me that it might be time to find a smaller community which I can relate to more. Wondering if Mastodon has plans for a circles-like grouping of people to follow to create more concentrated feeds?

Johan Bové

Seeing "suggested replies" in chat tools is freaking me out. I don't need an algorithm to analyze my communication for me. What's the next step? Turn it in "auto-suggested replies" and not have to deal with talking to people at all anymore? Wondering also: who exactly is requesting this feature except for it being a "business" case to be able to say your app is using "AI" as a hype-lingo-bingo check mark?

Johan Bové

Was wondering how much you rely on mobile data plans and how many GB you can use in a month?
I have 6GB per month and manage to use it all. Mostly because of video streaming.

Johan Bové

Wondering how much CO2 is used by running a personal file share server on NextCloud on a Raspberry Pi 3, with a backup to a local Qnap NAS system, which keeps an offsite backup on B2? My home uses renewable energy... Going to have fun figuring that out.

Johan Bové

Thanks for the link to that analysis. Interesting. Wondering if the situation improved a little in the last two years.

Johan Bové

Vice Squad - Last Rockers - (Live at the Granary, Bristol, UK. 1982) - YouTube

Last Rockers · Vice Squad (1982)

Stumbling through the rubble
My heads in a spin
I hear them fighting
No one that no one can win
I'm to young to die
To late to live
As politicians do the thing no god can forgive
time has come for us to die
No memories left to cry
No chance of a rebirth
All the last rockers
Hit and chant when they drop there bomb
Let us burn and smulter too
When we stir in the small radation
They wanna ruin the whole recreation
time for has come for us to die
No memories left to cry
No chance of a rebirth
All the last rockers
wondering round without a key
All we ever wanted was to be free
Our music was our only joy
And the government wants to search and destroy
stumbling through the rubble
My heads in a spin
I hear them fighting
No war, no one can win
I'm to young to die
To late to live
As politicians do the thing no god can forgive
on our statues still remind
Those who may come in future time
And we who fort on city streets
Have perished in atomic heat
time for has come for us to die
No memories left to cry
No chance of a rebirth
All the last rockers
They cannnot burn me from my kind
No dreams of death control my mind
Last rockers rule the world now
There's no one left to fight now


- BEKI BOND, DAVID BATEMAN

Johan Bové

Attention all US/Canadian Cartoon writers: actual Italians don't eat spaghetti and meatballs like you think they do. It's an Italian-American invention. Wondering how many US tourists get disappointed in their Euro trips every day.

Johan Bové

Wondering why Twitter makes it a big deal with people start following you, but not when you're being unfollowed.

Johan Bové

Replied to a post on werd.io :

A couple of years ago the SOLID project was pre-launched - but it hasn't really yet taken off the ground yet. Wondering what is holding it back to becoming a great base for SSI that is not blockchain based.

https://inrupt.com/solid/

For the record: I think you current avatar fits your site perfectly. No need to change it. :-)

Johan Bové

Wondering how much CO2 would be saved globally every year if we all switched our sites to run on ?

Johan Bové

Wondering what my son will think of daddy going nuts and dancing silly on UnderWorld - Born Slippy (Nuxx remix) in a couple of years...

Johan Bové

Wondering to set up a Wiki or not. Currently keeping everything on this site or in markdown files - enjoying the offline-first markdown files which I can sync through Syncthing. But perhaps I need something more powerful?

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IT and futures — John Conor Ryan

If you’re a disgruntled user of social media, or an entrepreneur or investor seeing opportunity in the wave of disenchantment, you’re wondering if alternative social media are important, or is “just” creating more walled gardens a bad idea? Instead, do decentralized intermediaries, such as T decentralization, dweb, indieweb, syndicated