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I work on old motorcycles and cars. I do photography both digital and analog. Then I lift weights and finally I read a lot which also leads to me writing a bit about the interests that I have.

It can be difficult to find time for work :)

My own toughts on this is that it is hard to quantify. The end result of a quantity-related goal should be to spend more time reading and not necessarily reading more books. Finishing a book can take anywhere from a day to a several months. If you are too focussed on the quantity you risk selecting shorter and more shallow books to reach your quota. So my unscientific goal for the last many years has been around 12 books a year. Which I have been able to keep up for the last many years[0]. That is enough to keep me reading and not soo may that it would run the risk of impacting which book to read next.

With regards to having too many books to read then consider two facts. One is that there is no price or gain from having read a book if only for the fact of having to say so. Reading is not the same as understanding or learning. Second, interests change what you want to read today is not the same as you want to read in a month or year. So perhaps your list of books you want to read today is 100 books or more, but perhaps that list is reduced to 20 books by just waiting a year or two - who knows.

Don't stress about it - there is nothing to gain from that.

[0]: https://jesperreiche.com/books/

I get the scenario where people use "AI" for their purposes. That is of course a very real scenario. But the question I raises was in relation to the OP's point about "AI" taking over the World and exterminating humans.

The thing that puzzles me is "why". What would be the purpose? How would "it" obtain a sense of "I" and a purpose to keep "I" alive and to do what? What would "it" be?

Is it feasible to keep old MacBook up to date with regards to security patches? I have an old Mid 2014 MBP, but unsure how "dangerous" it would be to keep using it still?

All these replies makes me want to buy yet another battery for my old 2014 MBP. But the last two gave up very quickly - so any ideas as to where I can get proper batteries for the old MacBooks?

Thanks a lot!

My blog on github pages was heavily inspired by Tufte: https://jmreiche.github.io/

Wonderful comment! I was about to reply here, but it spawned so many thoughts in my head that I ended up writing a longer conversation with myself :)

(https://jmreiche.github.io/analysis-paralysis)

I have the Gen 9 X1 Carbon running Ubuntu. It has been my daily driver for years without any issues. Whether it is developer focussed can probably be discussed, but it has to be considered high-end.

Minimum Viable Secure Product, Minimum Viable Marketable Product, Minimum Viable Sellable Product.

I don't get it. Why do we need all these additions? Perhaps it is me who does not understand the meaning of "Viable". MVP is not a restricted, well-defined end-goal. "Viable" means viable for your case. You can fill in whatever you want. It does not mean "Viable" without security or "Viable" without "Marketability".

Okay this is cool as hell! I love the amount of practical engineering that went into this. You have earned yourself a new subscriber.

I like the concept of challenges you have on your blog. It is a good way to get out and shoot more.

I have a mix of digital and analog photos here: https://jesperreiche.com/category/photography/

I will by no means say that I followed or knew him. But the name was familiar and I suddenly remembered who he was and that I had his book on my wishlist for christmas. Sorry to hear about the loss.

I do like some of his approaches to life. There are some similarities between him and Richard Feynman.

Who comes to mind if I would like to follow some still living people that has this rebellious, "joire de vivre" way of life?

I haven't looked at SimpleNote before. So I will look into whether that might be a good fit for me. Thanks for sharing.

I sync to self hosted Nextcould via WebDAV as well, so I will give that a try. Thanks a lot!

I sync to Nextcloud. But I can see another responder to my original comment suggests a config change that I will try.

I have tried to switch to Joplin from Evernote twice. But each time I have ended up being frustrated with the synchronisation. It is just too slow in my opinion. Perhaps I have too many notes, but I will be looking for another alternative to Evernote that can work on my phone and Ubuntu.

I really love this thread. So many great websites, it almost reminds one of the good old days, where you could wander from one blog to another.

I have ended up with two blogs and by no means update them often enough. My personal blog started out as being tech-focused with a bit of photography and motorcycle content, but is probably leaning more and more in way of photography and motorcycles.

https://jesperreiche.com/

Hence I started a more simple static site generated from Github to handle the more tech-oriented topics. But as fate would have it, I have worked very little with any even mildly interesting tech-related subjects since then so the blog is a bit stale, even though I really like the design.

https://jmreiche.github.io/

Yes, I found a part-time contract as Solution Architect. I worked 20 hours a week over the summer, then it was 35 over the winter and now it seems like we will be back to around 20 hours over the summer again. For me it is ideal.

I am contemplating leaving the IT field completely, but haven't found the right way out yet. Until then I can better live with a 20-30 hour workweek than 40. And beeing extremly priviledged with high hourly rate, the trade off is not really there. Of course I could make a lot more money working 40 hours, but I would feel a lot worse.

I use the extra time to work on old motorcycles, photography and take mini trips.

The contract I took was the first part-time I had been presented with. But I have actually seen a few others since then. So perhaps there are more to be had in the future.

Thanks a lot for the "text-only" news site. Do you know any others like that?

What is the inherent issue with 2FA? I see the point about phone-number - that is absolutely valid. But if you could I would like to have a few more details about categorizing 2FA as cancer in general?

There probably was or will be. Whether it will coincide with life on our planet is probably a little less likely, although not ruled out in any way.

Are you building the MVP to make a product or to learn a new technology? If the former, then the stack you are most comfortable with. Let the challenges come from the product-side. If the latter, then take your pick based on the reasoning for learning something new. Be it job-opportunities, curiosity, whatever.

I think that this is a good summary of the problem. The incentives seems misaligned. And I am not sure that paying for content would magically make this disappear. Or if so, then the companies should offer completely different products to paying customers, not just ad-free experiences.

You are not your startup. And defining risky endeavours like entrepreneurship only by its outcome, is setting a trap for yourself.

"Giving up" never got the recognition it needs. You cannot pursue new goals without letting go of old. You cannot find a new girlfriend without "giving up" on the old.

Life is all about letting go and be open to where it takes you next.

Good luck on your journey. Although the place you are in now feels miserable you will look back at it as a defining moment where new roads opened.

Wow - how did you manage to get that opportunity?

I have made most of my money as a freelancer making weird integrations between legacy systems, migrating data that no one knew anything about, building or designing systems people weren't even able to formulate in any coherent way to me as a human and without having to change all the things they were certain they needed, when they found out that they really did not.

Building the thing right vs. building the right thing.

I am not saying that AI will not be able to revolutionize a lot of areas, but solving well known coding competitions are far removed from where a large portion of coders and technical people make their money.

I really think that Flickr has unrealised potential. One of the reasons photographers use Instagram is probably the ability to share their work with a wide enough audience and not just "photo-snobs". For years Instagram has been more or less hostile towards photographers, who just want to use the app for photo sharing.

Flickr, in my opinion has a wide enough base of people, generally interested in photography, to mirror some of the positive effects of sharing to Instagram.

It was no doubt better in the past. But there is still a lot of people on the platform and an okay amount of interaction.

In my opinion there is still a potential for rewamping the platform and make it even better.

That could also be correct.

But if I was under legal/contractual obligations, with Hetzner as my hosting provider, I would have their legal department confirm this.

Since Hetzner found the need for appending the paragraph I referenced, they must have become aware of something.