I have an HP laptop running Photoprism, and two Raspberry Pi 5 running Immich. One of the Pi devices is running Immich, solo, and is made accessible via Tailscale when I am on the move. Photoprism runs on the HP laptop and is not available at all times. When the laptop sleeps, Photoprism is not available. This means that I have to consciously decide to ingest the photos to photoprism....
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Using Photoprism and Immich in Tandem Across Three Machines — Apr 8, 2026 -
On Blogging, AI, and Antisocial Media — Apr 7, 2026There are two types of people in the world. Those that live alone and those that don’t. People that don’t live alone go out for a day of sports, adventure and work, and then come home and can have hours of conversations, or being ignored by their children, spouses or others on antisocial media....
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A Quiet Whatsapp Experience — Apr 6, 2026For a year or more I was part of GoSocial, because I’m curious. The experimental community is based on Whatsapp group chats. There is “one” chat per city, whether Nyon, Bale, Lausanne and others. I was part of Lausanne and Geneva. The first thing that struck me is that the community uses a chat client but that chats aren’t possible in the town groups, and they’re discouraged in event specific chats....
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The Woodpecker Walk — Apr 5, 2026It would be tremendously easy for me to go to Pampigny and do the usual three or four walks. Today i didn’t. I decided to explore a new route. Rather than walk up to the walks, and then turn, and walk along fields, I went into the woods....
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Saving Energy with Convivial Cycling — Apr 4, 2026I have seen either the same headline, or a similar headline three times. It speaks about the revival of nuclear energy as a solution for Europe’s energy problem. Given how Europe gave up on COVID zero as soon as vaccines arrived, I’d strongly recommend against nuclear. If governments don’t follow through with COVID zero and human health, then how can we trust those same governments to keep us save from nuclear radiation and disasters? A quicker, cheaper, and more instantenous solution is to encourage people to live and work within cycling distance, either of their office, or public transport to their office....
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On a Slow Puncture and the Cyclplus AS2 Pro — Apr 3, 2026This is an experience review, rather than a product review. During yesterday’s group ride I noticed that my rear tyre was feeling flat. I stopped to re-inflate it because the problem seemed minor but I made the mistake of not closing the valve properly before setting off again so the inner tube problem, that might have started as a slow leak became a more serious problem due to the damaged valve....
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The Zero Second Not a Number Strava Mystery — Apr 2, 2026Yesterday I noticed that I had an unusual workout that was getting likes. It had zero minutes of exercise, zero distance travelled, and NaN speed in km/h. In other words I had a track that should not have been counted by Strava as a workout....
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On the Blank Page and Time Spent Thinking — Apr 1, 2026The more I read about AI generating blog posts and other content, the more I feel that we should write for ourselves, rather than our readers. I noticed, recently, that no one is reading my posts. There could be three reasons for that. The first is that what I’m writing interests no one. The second is that when I disconnected Jetpack I broke integration. The third possibility is that posts are being read, but because they are federated I get no feedback on audience....
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The White Noise Roomba — Mar 31, 2026Some people like to listen to music but those people don’t like to use headphones or earphones. The result is that you hear it, whether you want to. That’s why, sometimes, instead of using a fan for white noise, I use a roomba....
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A Script to Trim Podcast Ads — Mar 30, 2026The BBC recently injected ads into all of their podcasts. Before you start listening to a podcast you get the "This podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. For a long time it was cross promotion but recently that switched to two to three French Swiss ads in a row, before the start of a podcast and then cross-promotion for other ads....