Change of plans

HE weather has gotten rather awful, so we might not visit the park to feed the birds. We did, however, manage to work on some articles, prepare some very nice good, and have hours-old talks with family. We’re only a few days away from October. That marks a year since the trial in 2025. In 2027 we still plan to (at least try to) go to the UK’s Court of Appeal.

To understand what we went through see this latest article in Techrights.

No actual verdict, just hypothetical

n this month one year ago I published “The Mind of the ‘Hulk Hogan of UEFI’” after a long run in the nearby park and after feeding 100+ birds (some jumped on me as they were really voracious). One part of it aged well and still resonates: “Garrett would ask/invite a Microsoft/GitHub/GNOME/Mono ally (whom he knows and spoke about for years) to file another lawsuit from the US, using the exact same legal team, because merely reporting that someone strangled women is the real issue? The reporting was done 3-4 years earlier, i.e. out of time for any libel claim.”

That someone decided to sue me for mentioning physical abuse of women does (to this date) make me proud. I invite more men to sue me for talking about crimes against women.

He also hates animals, like many psychotic men do. No empathy whatsoever.

Another day in Mayfield

t was sunny again today. Quite warm, too. We went to Mayfield Depot/Park and Rianne said it was “not bad”; the lawns there are very nice, sort of like a PL football pitch (almost). They’ve clearly spent a lot of money on that. We didn’t buy anything as we had brought our own drinks from home.

The week is nearly over and we plan to go out again this afternoon (feeding the birds a third time for today) because we assume it might be the last warm-ish week. It’s officially autumn now and the trees are all still green. Soon they will be naked.

This year we appreciate the simplest things – even more then prior decades – and next year we believe we’ll find exposure/access to media, as our case is being escalated up the political chain.

Simple is funner

think there is a common perception or this widespread belief that when people are young they want to collect, to publicly boast about it, to keep accumulating “stuff”, then flaunt to peers and strangers. They seek affirmation. It’s not so gender-dependent a phenomenon and it has not much to do with “nesting” or “hunting”. It’s about insecurities and compensating for them.

So they hoard, they want big and complicated (extensive) things “in volume”. That is particularly applicable to habitats (homes). When people get older and more mature they may wish to give things away, want to move to smaller places for a simpler life with less maintenance to be done, less to worry about (less inside one’s mind).

The age factor is less to do with having to give things away at death; it’s not much to do with the physical difficulties of keeping intact large places or many rooms/units (sometimes with garden).

In practice it seems to boil down to mindset or mentality. The consumerism brainwash has less sway on older people, who learned from experience they can no longer conflate ownership with happiness and that having more than the minimal (bare minimum) required, e.g. life-sustaining medication, can become a burden.

What’s the point hoarding 100 pairs of shoes when you have only 2 feet for instance?

In geeks’ spheres it is the same. Young people install a lot of things (I was guilty of this too) and as they grow older they consolidate and try to simplify or cement workflows.

The human mind does not work well in parallel. It is an inherently serial machine, with ’round-robin’-type thinking relying on paper notes or memorisation.

Less is more (productivity).

already mentioned, back in July, that British police has a case (with Crime Number) for the death threats we received in connection to Americans or thugs who work for American companies (represented by hired guns in London). The person who investigates this case “has now gone off on long term sick” (according to a colleague), but the case is still open.

As of 3 hours ago, one of them who is connected to the threats issued a public veiled threat and it should not be taken lightly. 2 months ago he failed to attend his own hearing (this was wilful, he made this choice), now he is trying to compensate for it with threats made online, from America, via social control media.

Stay classy. Remember this is the man who is the principal purveyor of restricted boot and who landed restricted boot in Linux. It’s causing problems this month. It impacts many millions of people.

Plan to go to the park won’t work

planned to take Rianne to the park today (to feed the birds), but after the weather forecast said sunny afternoon, then (last night) sunny morning, it now seems to suggest little sun and instead light rain.

The likely implication is, I’ll write and publish more articles today. I have some good topic on the way, including material about the Linux kernel.

Animations that are simple work, the plot/story matters more than CG brute force

t is midnight now, so tomorrow is our anniversary and we plan to watch an old film in the weekend. We’ll be busy celebrating until Monday. Our life is simple, so we enjoy simple things; a simple life must not be conflated with a lack of productivity.

It’s sad that the “modern” and “digital” society (consumption oriented) wants us to think that the more gets wasted, the better it’ll be.

This is a fallacy.