Alex Schroeder 🐝 @kensanata@octodon.social

The Latvian Radio Choir singing Rachmaninov's All-night Vigil, Op. 37 "Vespers". The best music for crying and programming, both at the same time. Here I am, tears streaming down my face, thinking about some data import into an Oracle database. And I keep thinking: this is the time we live in. Crying, chagrined, as the world slowly turns into a swamp.

If you know where to look, there are beautiful spots in Zürich. Autumn is here.
#Zurich #Photography.

"I’m feeling small because all these giants are standing on my shoulders!" – me, when thinking about copyright

A reminder of why I think deleting old posts on social media is important: "I don’t think they have much value going back months and years. I never read through years of tweeting history! This only benefits your enemies, never your friends." https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2017-04-27_Record_Keeping

I just came upon a wiki page with some outdated information and decided to fix it. First disappointment: I have to create an account. Second disappointment: I need to answer to type two invisible words. Which one is blocking it: Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin, uMatrix? Or something else? I just closed the tab instead.

These days, I don't listen to The Pogues, Tom Waits comes up rarely, and these last weeks there has been some Adele, Amy Winehouse, Nightwish and Evanescence. Hm. I also remember listening to Amnestoy Trio, Têtes Raides, 16 Horsepower, Stiltskin, Nirvana, M83 (Oblivion soundtrack), the Rogue One soundtrack, a recording of Rachmaninov's Vespers, some Arvo Pärth. It's … hard to pin down. #music

Music I apparently listened to in 2009:

Belle and Sebastian (625)
The Pogues (584)
Tom Waits (409)
Flogging Molly (391)
The Dubliners (297)
Radiohead (175)
The Cure (141)
Elvis Presley (119)
Bruce Springsteen (114)
Transglobal Underground (110)

I write this in September 2009 with stats for the 12 preceding months, I guess.
https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2009-09-24_Changing_Taste

Castle Hallwil #Photography #Switzerland

Running around lake Hallwil. #Photography #Switzerland

More plant life from the living room and the balcony. These weren’t taken with the phone.
#Photography #Plants

I’m m still still surprised to see my own blog posts in Mastodon: @kensanata.
via that RSS to ActivityPub service at https://bots.tinysubversions.com/convert/
It’s weird and definitely a lot less useful than a dedicated feed reader, but it’s here and now and new so I’ll keep it around for a bit.

Hah, mute this thread now! Here's another thing I don't like: starting your reply with "sorry … this article is bad and you should feel bad and …" I don't know these two people. Are they friends and that's how they talk to each other? Is the person who writes like that a stranger happily sorry-not-sorry?

When I read a reply saying "this article sucks" then I wonder: did you not have enough time and space to write a decent argument? And it's not venting, linking to an URL and saying it, no: it's a reply to the author. I'd like people to put some more effort into their replies.

I have a weird #gnome/#pureos problem: I've set it to switch to warm colors for the night. I must have done it twice, because – if I remember correctly – I switch on the laptop in the evening and the colors are warm. From 20:00 to 20:01 it switches back to a glaring white, and then it's back to warm colors. How weird! Any ideas what might be the cause of this one minute of brightness? (It's 18:22 local time so soon I will see whether it's still bonkers...)

Today we went to see a very small photo exhibition (+ movie) about a Swiss hardcore #punk band touring in #Indonesia.
https://www.elenikougionis.com/punk-auf-indonesisch
http://christiantaro.com/punk-auf-indonesisch/
https://hecklerpunk.bandcamp.com/