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Every once in a while I remember the Mastodon instance where I have my photography related account (photog.social) aggressively blocks other instances, making me kind of isolated from a good part of the fediverse, and thinking I should move instance because of that. But then life goes on.
The antidote to ultra-capitalistic platforms whose main goal is to keep you inside their walled gardens can be traced back to the very origin of the World Wide Web; (…).
Nowadays, I start to feel anxious when the software I use becomes unmaintained. At some point, it either won’t support where it’s meant to run or, much worse, is a good candidate for a malicious attack. One of my cornerstone plugins for Obsidian (Periodic Notes) is exactly in that situation: it still works, as it’s a fairly straightforward plugin, but it hasn’t been updated for years, so I’m starting to look for options, maybe this one.
By the way, I’m not complaining about people who stop working on their projects; after all, we all have a life outside the internet.
Because teenagers are teenagers, their young imaginations tend to overpower their ethics.
The recent “Lake America” issue (regardless we outside US no seeing the name change) is a good reminder that the “degooglization” and “desiliconvalley-ization” also includes maps, and there are good EU based alternatives.
Amazing how, in 2026, of all Logitech MX keyboards the only one comes in PT layout is the regular MX Keys, and even more amazing is that there’s not even an MX Keys Mini…
A few days ago I wasn’t really in the mood to do Linux distro-hopping, not even test-driving one on a VM, but I might make an exception for DHH’s Omarchy, regardless of sometimes finding him a bit creepy…
You notice how the internet more centralized every time each of its behemoths has a hiccup, like today. This it it wasn’t Amazon or Google, but is has been a complicated day over the Github.
Update - The degradation affecting Git Operations has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability. Aug 17, 2026 - 18:23 UTC
How AI made me use pen and paper more
It’s funny how things sometimes have unexpected outcomes. For a long time, I considered myself a digital, keyboard-driven guy. I saw the value of analog—of writing with pen and paper—but I always felt the information was somehow lost, or at least complicated to retrieve. So, for a long time, my entire note-taking process was either on my laptop or my mobile.
Enter AI.
Now, I just take old-school, pen-and-paper notes, scan them with an AI tool, and add them to my Obsidian vault. Obviously, OCR and text recognition aren’t new, but now I can just take a photo and have my scribbles converted into a Markdown file in the exact format I want.
Nowadays, I find myself actually missing my pen and notebook—something that hasn’t happened in years.