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Cake day: July 25th, 2023

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  • Personal experience, obviously:

    1. enforce time limits on apps (like 45 min messaging/social per day), e.g. using built-in tools => frees a lot of time
    2. streamline communication, i.e., do not be available 24/7 for mail, chat, etc. Instead, define time windows to check and answer your channels
    3. Use some Pomodore timer [1] to focus on specific tasks for a few hours. Minimize distractions as far as possible in that time window.
    4. Sleep. Working tired is a black hole for time management.
    5. Do sports/seek nature to keep the stress level down.
    6. Plan honest to your capabilities, sometimes the 80% solution will do (yes, this can be hard to accept)
    7. A simple hand-written checkboxed ToDo list per day is helpful, take 5-10 minutes to compile it before your day starts.

    [1] Goodtime













  • Hatte nicht die CxU auch Spaß mit der Rechtslage für das Remigrieren von Partei-Postern vor der Wahl… da waren dann amüsanterweise gps-tags montiert.

    Aber im Ernst: Es ist eher unklar, ob das Wiederaufstellen (a) geahndet, (b) in geplanter Richtung geahndet, © in den entsprechenden Kreisen als negativ wahrgenommen und (d) bei den massiven Geldflüssen aus der 10⁹er-Riege den gewünschten Effekt hat.

    Insgesamt sehe ich das Zerstören von Plakaten als fragwürdig - in diesem Fall empfand ich den offenbar zufällig entstandenen Trump-Schattenriss immerhin als dunkel humorvoll.

    Weniger invasiv wäre es möglicherweise Trauerkränze mit ‘Unserer lieben Demokratie’ Spruchbändern davor abzulegen - aber den Graben in den Köpfen wird auch das nicht schließen.




  • Kann man auch als podcast nebenbei hören (via newpipe oder so). Ist schon empfehlenswert. Nichts ganz Neues dabei, klar, aber grade in Punkto Tierschutz - aber nicht nur - war das ein sehr offener Austausch.

    Und was mich immer besonders freut: Geprägt von gegenseitigem Respekt und echtem Interesse.



  • I always found the actual challenge to decide what to get rid of once the duplicates where found.

    Some tools I tried would also ask file-by-file, which I found a bit useless for thousand of files. Yet, I cannot even express a set of rules to decide this in general, so I’m not blaming the tools.

    In particular, with picture collections I also came to the conclusion that some redundancy is probably ok rather than accidentially deleting data that I duplicated on purpose and simply forgot why.





  • Nuclear power is usually not abandoned for being dangerous, but because it’s weirdly complex to keep it safe as compared to the alternatives [1]. This makes it one of the most expensive ways to produce energy (at least given European regulations). Also, the raw material is expected to be quite rare relatively soon.

    I guess this may be more about the way caveman made their fire… and the multi-billion cavedollar structure for holding the magic stone can be annoying.

    [1] reading other comments, I feel like it is necessary to clarify that by alternatives, I do refer to green energy like wind, solar and water, plus energy storage.

    I agree that atomic energy is preferable to fossil energy in almost all regards. The most convincing aspect for me is that you can see, pack and store your by-products, at least somehow, while CO₂ emissions can only insufficiently be handled using carbon capture and storage (CCS).

    People tend to understand dangers with visible effects easier (impressive boom) than indirect effects like climate change (less impressive, slow motion, yet possibly apocalyptic boom).