30 years ago world was a different place, so I learned Russian at school. Struggled immensely. 15 years ago world had changed and I slowly forgot it. Especially reading in Cyrillic. Now world has changed even more and often even thought of it brings me dread. Except crochet patterns. One thing […]

Lasu, pareizāk sakot, klausos Life After Cars. Obligātā literatūra visiem, kas vēlas, lai bērnu drošībi pie skolas ierīko vairāk autostāvvietu.

Somewhere on the other side of Earth there is a mild summer day probably. Ok, I can wrap my head around that. What truly defeats me is that today while I was scrolling through British people posting pictures of first snowdrop flowers, my phone started screaming emergency alert about -30°C […]

@RitaGrin Jājautā, vai Eiropas big tech būs labāks par ASV vai Ķīnas? Kaut kāda ziņā jā - varētu labāk pakļauties regulatoriem. Bet ja neies vienā tīklā ar ActivityPub, tad man vairs neizskatās pievilcīgi.

Tā nav nedz satiksmes sakārtošana, ne drošības uzlabošana, ja projektēšanas izejas uzstādījums ir konfliktu radīšana. KGVC paredzēti vietām ar mazu gājēju un velo intensitāti, bet ielas posms pie stacijas peroniem tāds nav. Arī visminimālākais platums te neiederas. Labā/sliktā ziņa, ka velo […]

Ja ne pieciešams pie dzelzceļa stacijas sakārtot velosatiksmi, vai pašvaldība nolīgtajiem projektētājiem liek ņemt vērā jau 10 gadus spēkā esošo Latvijas Valsts standartu "Velosatiksme"? Bet protams, nē! Pašvaldība prasa velosatiksmi organizēt nenodalītu no […] [Original post on urbanists.social]

The most important bit of info at work today 😻

Me: while other people complain about Mastodon being too empty, I've somehow have accumulated borderline too much to read, I've noticed, I keep having couple day backlogs. Friend: well, the most important thing is to look at Foxes in Love and Sini's cats! Me: fair enough. No, but seriously. Yes […]

Finally deleted Instagram, my last Meta product. Whole account, not just app.

Today I learn that GoreTex is PFAS, one of the so called forever chemicals. Welp, it did sound too good to be true. Not that it changes much in my personal life consisting of leather boots and natural fibre clothing, but still it is sad to learn that relatively preveilant materials are bad for […]

Two minutes of zen. (An old video of a kinetic artwork that partner made during the pandemic lockdowns, found while installing the new phone.) #art #mastoart #woodworking

Ir uzskatāms pieprasījums pārejai Brīvības bulvāra alejā. Un arī iespēja, jo auto tāpat tur škērsām nebrauc, kamēr Brīvības ielai zaļš.

The pin cushion project is complete. Look at her wearing all her shiny jewelry! 😁 #felt #sewing #cake

Gave up on trying to figure out, how to make my recently made leg warmers stay in place with historical methods. Not only they are narrower just below the knee by pattern, but also I tried drawstring, two drawstrings, tying a ribbon, tying two ribbons. Nop. Finaly I […] [Original post on toot.lv]

Ejiet, izpaudiet viedokli, kā ir PAREIZI! https://parruna.app.ailab.lv/anketa/ (pāris minūtes, nav politikas, vajag audio izeju)

RE: https://mamot.fr/@ploum/115938794778974968 I agree with this wholeheartedly. We shouldn't create European versions of Google, Amazon or Microsoft, oligopols that benefit from vendor lock-in. Instead, we should have a commons based on open-source technology and standards, which can then be […]

Internetā neviens nezina, ka tu esi viedais ledusskapis.

I'm not a good #perl programmer, but I had to learn it for a specific tool and specific project and I keep coming back to it when I need "just a little script to transform this one text file..." So today was one such day when I decided to add a little function to my evergrowing code base of […]

My bootsoles have unglued themselves again, time to visit the local shoeman again. And once again he will explain me that the OG soles are very ungluable material, thus, nothing sticks to them. I should probably just buy a pair of new boots and stop torturing the old man. Too bad that boots that […]

RE: https://mamot.fr/@ploum/115923251561577968 Everyone who ever plans to be teaching and is forced to make their students take exams (especially in the academic environment but also outside) should read this. There is SO much to learn and think about from this post, not just about chatbots […]

Idea: "The unbillionaires list", to promote contributors to the common. A collaborative website that lists people who created something useful to millions but purposedly choose to put in in the common and didn’t earn money directly from it (or not as much as expected) Besides those listed in […]

Sometime since mid November Windows has decided that I don't deserve access to a Terminal app without loging into Store. Next two months will be absolutely hectic workwise, sadly I can't affor time to figure out how to reconfigure my bajillion development environments to Linux right now. Fun […]

This bizarre, hurried cut-and-paste Bluesky clone called "W" (wsocial.eu) says it will fill this huge gap in Europe where no social media platforms exist. Meanwhile... https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/fediverse-near-me_828094#3/25.80/29.79

For someone who has never played any Silent Hill and is not even particularly planing to do it... this winter I have quite a Silent Hill's music mood. Lazy bastards Tidal hasn't bothered to put in original songs with Mary Elizabeth McGlynn's vocals, but with some effort quite a bunch of covers […]

Vai arī parastajam krupim atņemt gada dzīvnieka titulu un piešķirt to Trampam.

Tezaurs.lv jaunā projekta ietvaros ir palaista vārdu un nozīmju ieteikumu anketa. Esiet maigi pret komandu, netrollējiet, un – laipni gaidīti! #Tēzaurs

Bet kādi būtu jūsu patiesie viedokļi par šo? bugout.eu/lv/product/7...

This is pretty wild www.propublica.org/article/spac...

Is there a way I can block, report certain songs in Tidal? I see that there is some at least wrong, but probably AI generated song attached to band Muse, Wikipedia knows nothing about it and I want to hear it never again. #tidal #muse #noAI

99% of smart home crap just feels like why is it connected to the internet? so it can get updates why does it need updates? because it's connected to the internet

I made a *first* version listing European politicians who still use or don't use X: https://leavex.eu/politicians/ At the moment, I just scraped data at the EU level, but I will add data from other countries. I want to start with Germany, France, Spain, and Italy. If you would like to help add […]

I don’t make the rules 🤷🏻‍♂️

I promised a black shirt to a friend. The good thing is that contemporary linen blacks are very good, very black even after intial aggressive wash. Bad thing is that I finally experienced that some sewing really needs daylight and we don't have it that much currently 😅

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are: 1. Getting up in the morning 2. Going to bed at a reasonable time

“Peace is not the absence of chaos. It is the presence of tranquility and joy in the midst of chaos.” - Debasish Mridha

Vai es tikko aizgāju nosvērt savus ziemas zābakus? Jā.

Soon-Tzu Speechley wrote this in 2020, ‘what if we write about American food the way they write about us’ “In a nation torn by racial conflict, one unlikely food unites. To those accustomed to chopsticks, the greasy parcel known as a ‘burger,’ a sort of split bao, is crude and messy. Yet it […]

Diez vai ir daudz valstu, kur var nejauši gadīties pierakstīties uz gastroskopiju pie veselības ministra.

I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside". I call bullshit, Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15⬇

Mom is tentatively reporting thatwith meds, moved litterboxes, lots of praises and a bit of shooing of the sofa in... certain moments... it seems that there are improvements in #catpee saga. At one moment Bolte got jelly that Bella gets so much praise, so now... everybody gets all the praise. In […]

Big corpos are full of shit and Linux is better than ever before. Those are facts. But let me present some others facts as well. People in general are mostly bad at change, most people need time, help and lot's of honest explanation to move on with the change. People are particularly bad with […]

One adjacent example of intentional miscommunication: the word "open" as applied to AI. An LLM cannot be "open source" unless you have access to the training data and methodologies. "Open weights" is a craven attempt to misdirect the word "open" — we might as well say that bunch of machine code […]

My new year's resolution is to continue ignoring all technologies that I am told ignoring will result in me being left behind. I embrace the being left behind. I will become a forest witch, speaking to myself in invented programming languages. In the dark I will twist little bits of wire […]

Happy New Year, y'all! 🎉 May your 2026 run as smoothly as a freshly rebooted device, with a touch of intergalactic glitter. ✨ #newyear #comic #nye

Nebiju gaidījusi, ka tik ļoti aizkustinās redzēt LTV1 Jaungada sagaidīšanas koncertā, ka divas dāmas dzied viena otrai "esi man tā, lai lidot ir vieglāk kā elpot un dzīvot", vienu no manām izsenis mīļākajām mīlas dziesmām.

Es zinu kaudzi argumentu, kāpēc lokāmais viš nav ideālais risinājums latviešu valodas dzimtes neitrālo vietniekvārdu jautājimam, bet dzīšanās pēc ideāluma ir lielākā reālas darīšanas ienaidniece. Tā nu es to trenējos atcerēties lietot par pazīstamajiem nebinārajiem cilvēkiem un situācijas, kad […]

Un Jaunā gada novēlējums no epasta.

Sometime this year local one-way car renting app #citybee reworked their app to not work with #microg anymore. Shame. Or as my brother would say: "nu kurš lūdza!". Then again, as they moved away from my town already more than year ago, I didn't use them that much anyway. But it was nice to have […]

This year I finally made the leap and brought couple household items more than 50 years old. It went better than expected. My hobbitish teakwood lamp for the living room is an absolute thing of beauty. And at last it gives me the warm, cosy and gosh-this-is-so-nice vibes I want to have in my […]