This time for real?

T seems like we’re getting only drizzles lately, no heavy rains. It’s worrying because the birds are literally banging their body’s against my doors for attention, they desperately want food. Today we fed several flocks in our way to and back from Town. They were “happy clappy” about it (we clap to get their attention).

Seeing the yellow ‘grass’ (if that can even be called “grass” at this point; it seems dead everywhere, many bushes and plants too, maybe not trees) is profoundly saddening. If it becomes this bad every year, and if all we have to show for it is chatbots (pyramid scheme basically) and useless data centres, then our species is doomed already.

became aware that this domain was no longer accessible over Tor.

I do not use Tor myself, but this site targets technical people, some of whom are Tor users.

I did my best to first affirm that there was a block on Tor; there was then a discussion on feasibility of undoing this.

Tor in schestowitz.com and www.schestowitz.com remains blocked not because of my personal choice; it’s a decision further up the chain.

Sorry.

This may impact some whistleblowers who wish to speak to me about corruption and report misconduct.

Orange = share of GNU/Linux.

spent a lot of time this morning looking through Cloudflare Radar to better understand OS trends worldwide.

Weekends are when most people do not work. This past weekend GNU/Linux was measured at over 8% but peaked at about 10%.

Cloudflare has vast data and given the scale of it all, it’s hard to dismiss as mere noise.

EXT week it is Rianne’s birthday and we plan to celebrate somewhere nearby. Technically we’re still on holiday for 15 days to come and we’re enjoying every moment of it. We spend more time offline and go to the park to feed many birds amid a worrying drought.

We predict that later this week some thugs in London will try to bully us again; it would be a giant own goal if they attempted to do so.

Yesterday I discussed with a friend how Web search is getting worse over time, maybe by intention (intent would be difficult to prove though).

Is there any in “Tech” that is actually still improving?

recognise that Joji in performing in Manchester tonight and my neighbour knows him. I had never heard of him until he was listed here and I checked his weird style. I didn’t know a thing like “Trip Hop” even existed.

Today’s music has become so strange. Who chooses winners and losers? How?

Simple and bland music is a shoddy form of art.

Mountains of debt as “economic activity”

think Rianne and I share the feeling that many companies (not just GAFAM) hide their true debt, fire people in secret, and basically bluff their way in this increasingly fake economy where “everyone is doing it!” (Cheating)

We spoke about this with Rianne’s parents today. It’s too easy to be critical of the likes of Amazon, IBM, and Google. Rianne brought up Microsoft as well.

It seems like legal action is heading IBM’s way now.

T seems like my suspicions or gut feelings were right and Manchester City will start the league (PL) with lowered morale after a devastating defeat on the first “Enzo match” which truly ‘counts’.

Arsenal did not do all too well in the friendlies, but today it’s having a Day Field in the field. Arteta no longer plays against his teacher and it starts to seem possible Arsenal can win another season.

The media might be brutal with speculations about Enzo’s future in the club. He’ll need to work hard to recover confidence.