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instead of dying a little on social media
author: @skf
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We have to put an end to fossil fuel subsidies in Sweden and the EU. The Swedish government and their right wing friends in Sverigedemokraterna are proposing even more tax credits for aviation travelling at the same time as they want to dismantle much of the already established enviromental legislation.
Sadly, I believe that the upcomming EU elections will be a pure catastrophe for the enviroment and the struggle against global warming. I'm scared.
The best way to start ones sunday turns out to be with a cup of coffee and Ploums text
More then a month since I wrote something here. Due to health issues in the family I have put this tinylog more or less on hold. I wish that I could say that things now have gone back to normal but that would not be true, but I'm hopeful.
Fell asleep much too early so now I'm fully awake in the middle of the night. Have to search through the bookshelf after something readable, yet tiring.
I was just a bit blue when I wrote that. There is so much more to it than just nostalgia for me. Flexibility, less resource use and a lot more freedom. Even with access to the source code I do not have the knowledge to alter a GUI application. With pipes and a bit of shell scripting I can almost do everything on the command line. That is freedom for me.
For me as an outsider it is a total enigma how Trump once became president and are now on his way to win the next election it seems.
Maybe my love of the command line just is nostalgia. Happy memories from the early eighties of my schools computer with terminals (Norsk Data), 8 inch floppies and Basic. I wish I had said "I want to learn more".
My Swedish tinylog is up:
Edited: Sometime I have the need to express myself in Swedish online. I do boycotts all social media on the www so this is my solution to that.
Martin wrote: "I don't consume much. I live in an urban area, don't own a car, bike everywhere, don't buy inpulse purchases" - It is vital to be reminded often that you're not alone in trying to do as much as possible for the planet. To somehow feel that the things you do matter even though the road to safety is so long. Sometimes I even feel kind of hopeful.
=>gemini://gemini.clehaxze.tw/gemlog/2024/02-02-more-reflection-on-the-climate-and-myself.gmi Martin's Capsule - More reflection on the climate and myself
Edited. I am so disappointed in the Swedish Social Democrats. When the Green Party and the Center Party requested a vote of no confidence against the government's environment minister, they, unlike the left party, chose to abstain with a very poor explanation. With this victory the government can continue to dismantle the environmental policy we have had and at the same time lie about how good their environmental policy is.
Global warming: We are close to crossing the 1.5 degree limit, there are signs that this will happen already this year, 2024. Yet we, mankind, continue to increase emissions, use more natural resources, increase our purchases of unnecessary things, participate in armed conflicts and so on.
We are about as stable in our environmental thinking as a pair of maracas filled with nitroglycerin.
=>https://www.newscientist.com/article/2407266-world-predicted-to-break-1-5c-warming-limit-for-first-time-in-2024/ New Scientist: World predicted to break 1.5°C warming limit for first time in 2024
Some days, like today, the number of aha experiences is on another level. Happy.
I stopped using social media a while ago because I'm too sensitive to deal with rudeness, lies and so on. Until very recently I have seen Gemini as a sheltered place which was naive of me. Hopefully the level of stupidity is kept so low that the pleasure of reading interesting gemlogs is not lost. Again, I'm naive.
Read a gemlog post. It did upset me. It was about the war between Israel and Hamas. The author claimes that Hamas and the Palestinian people are "essentially" the same thing. Thats utter garbage. Untrue. A lie.
Edited: Happy new year. My new year's resolutions: none at all. I would just break them and as I'm not a politician it would just be simply lying.
Got sidetracked again. Why is it so difficult to stick to the plan when sitting in front of the computer?
I'm like a three-year-old... Except that a three-year-old learns faster.
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.
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
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.
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