vinc

> I like to think (right now please!) of a cybernetic forest filled with pines and electronics where deer stroll peacefully past computers as if they were flowers with spinning blossoms.

Another thing that would be great is to use that to identify the news that really matter and mute the rest.

I could imagine a prompt containing something like "As a person that likes A, B, C, D, and F, does the following has a potential to be interesting to me: ..."

When it's not enough I switch to text browsing via rss and gopher/gemini.

Wikipedia Current Events is very important to make sure that I'm not cutting myself completely off from the world, and after years of using it it's good enough when complemented with the local news from the people around me.

Nice domain hack for a photography hosting app. Only one user over the last decade. It made absolutely no money but it doesn't cost me much to host it so it's not an issue at all.

It's open source in case anyone would want to run it and I'm in the process of updating the app.

My only regret is giving up on implementing Activity Pub years ago. It could have been interesting for the app to take part of the fediverse.

This a very simple personal website where I write about the various things I care about from time to time.

[1]: https://github.com/vinc/moros

[2]: https://wiki.osdev.org

I started two years ago and I'm finding that project very fulfilling with lots of areas to explore. For example I recently bought an old ThinkPad to have another reference computer and played with Coreboot+SeaBIOS to understand the BIOS better. I'm also reading about the early history of Unix and how some features I'm implementing where developed in the first place. It's never ending and perfect!

I think the main issue is that the app is not intuitive, so you have to sit down and take the time to memorize how to do stuff with it before you need to do it live on the road. And I've never done that, my bad, I really should take the time.

The first winter I didn't have proper clothing and it was really hard. But now I have all the right gear and it feels very comfortable and natural. It's interesting. Also when Spring arrive I really get to enjoy it, the connection to the nature around is strong.

The only issue is finding the right gloves for typing on the computer, I haven't found any good ones yet.

Oh and in the morning I have to remember to quickly warm up my macbook pro otherwise the cold make it shut down. If it wasn't the work laptop I would use something else, the metal case is not pleasant when it's really cold.

Then I implemented a little FUSE driver in Python to read the disk image from the host system and it was wonderful to mount it the first time and see the files! https://github.com/vinc/moros-fuse

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22922582

But you are right that there will not be a unique solution to the transportation problem. In warmer climate we already have (electric) cargo bikes that are nice for moving kids around in the city, but we'll need more innovation for colder climate and longer distances. And that was exactly my point.

Thanks to our computers that keep track of every seconds elapsed since Unix Epoch, I can use them when I want to convert from my personal system to any other system or vice versa:

  $ geodate 51.1789 -1.8262 $(date +%s --date "12:00 +0100") --format "%c:%b"
  45:33

I've been using centidays (and dimidays) for a few years now and it works well for me as a personal time keeping system in combination with local time (at local noon the sun is at its highest point in the sky and the clock shows 50:00) and a lunisolar calendar. More on that here: https://geodate.org

A centiday is precisely 864 seconds, and 4 centidays is almost equivalent to 1 hour (3456 seconds) so it's not too hard to make rough conversions.

I made a little Fitbit app so my watch could display the time (with the longitude given by the GPS of my phone) and I have a sundial in the garden that works just as well. It's quite fun to play with time keeping systems.

I did an estimation once for Western Europe using FAO stats[1] and by switching to a vegan diet we could roughly double the size of the forests, that's a massive scale! It'll help fighting the climate crisis and it'll also help solving the species extinction crisis in Western Europe. And the cool thing is that we don't need to wait for all the human population to switch overnight to a vegan diet, reducing meat and dairy consumption is a perfectly valid first step that everyone can do! The more people switch diets and the more space will become available for rewilding.

We can already see plant based diets becoming more and more popular, and at the same time it seems that flexitarian diets are also getting quite mainstream. I think there's hope on that front at least.

[1] https://vinc.cc/essays/changing-our-diet-for-a-wilder-world/

I'm the only one using it so there's absolutely no coordination problem, and it's great :3

But yeah use local time for personal time, and Unix timestamp for everything else!

It's pretty basic, I know GIMP have a reason to make it more complicated and painful, but I don't agree with it.

The first year you just watch the land, see what happen naturally with the seasons. And then oh shit, so many things to do to get ready for the second year!

I'll definitely share the experience in the future. At the moment I'm still doing a tone of learning and trying to reproduce the basics of what I saw in the past years. There's so many things to do just to get through the winter and be ready for the next growing season.