FailForward @FailForward@social.cleverlibre.org
Exploring, failing, backtracking, just to identify the only viable path forward. And then scarred, stumbling forward into the future. Learning.
Boring and steady. Knowing little and questioning a lot. Mostly harmless.
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This is an experimental scrapbook space. A collection of stuff I want to keep in a form somewhere on the spectrum between a blog and a shoe-box full of scraps, cut-outs, quotes, links and reading notes and sometimes my own silly thoughts about them.
Perhaps it might be of marginal interest to others too, but I don't care that much.
Joined Jan 2021
@academicalnerd A second thought: I like your writing there actually with all the mistakes, misspellings and odd formulations. It reminds me of Lomography. You are a Russian, you are probably familiar with it: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D0%B8%D1%8F. It's a way to take pictures which are technically screwed up in a way which turns out to have a certain poetic appeal. The same holds for that piece of diary you wrote :-). Keep going, forget about spell-checker, you do it primarily for yourself, not for the world.
There's this other, actually serious thought I learned from somebody close to myself. I liked to take pictures of buildings, landscapes, things. The person did not like them. The point was, there were no people, there were no memories, nobody can relate to a building, a lamppost or a river, unless it's somebody's memory. I internalised that. Best photographs are those which you can put into an album and look with fondness in the eye 20 years later. Maybe the same holds for personal notes and diary entries like yours. Who cares for errors, when what you read breaths your inner self onto your face 20 years later?
@academicalnerd Haha, funny that you ask. Let me put it this way:
> Huge showlakes were hanging in the air when she excitedly exclaimed in a high voice: _"Imageni a mab!"_ It was the moment when stubs of shoal revealed wastages of pets in a trigonal cappuchino puddle.
🙂
Honestly, unless it's my own writing or some formal setting, I am very forgiving about others' language faux pas. I try to get the big picture and yours came to me clearly, despite places where the text was clearly messed up with typos, or incomprehensible formulations :-).
@academicalnerd Snake-oil peddlers sandwiched into what sounds like a date.
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@FTM_nl@newsbots.eu The actual image you want to have here is this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7yBVgkSnWg
> First you've got to get on board
> You've got to spread your wings
> You've got to take a chance
> If you want romance
> And fancy things
> -- [The Weepies/Fancy Things](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7yBVgkSnWg)
@piggo I use Voice Aloud Reader by Hyperionics: https://www.hyperionics.com/atVoice/
My understanding is that it uses Google TTS engine underneath and that is immensely configurable (voices, pitch, accents, etc.) It does automatic recognition of languages, so it picks a suitable voice for you. And surprisingly, it works very well on non-English texts too - including Czech.
I even "read" novels from Project Gutenberg this way. It's of course still somewhat "machine"-like, but it's getting better and better. Intonation (probably based on reading interpunction) is so good sometimes, that it transfers the tension from the content quite well. All in all, very usable for me. Still far from proper audiobooks, but getting close enough...
@piggo The problem is that later there are still other things to read later still, so you never find time to process the stuff left for later - there is no later! 😛
My "Read it Later" is a Text-to-Speech app. As I am commuting on a bike a lot, or just walking my dog, the thing (the phone) then reads the stuff to me in a sequence without me interfering. That's the only way I managed to get to eventually process those "read it later" pieces.
Once it grows first proper leaves (beyond the first two), try this: https://identify.plantnet.org/
It's actually quite good (that AI which can recognise plants and seeds).
@ktemkin Because it just does not work that way - people just fool themselves that it's a magic metabolism thing. If you properly count calories, you quickly realise that you'll never get there by exercising more alone (unless you exercise A LOT). Calories restriction is the only thing which really works. On the other hand, getting to positive terms with one's own body is another healthy thing. Weight loss/management is not an easy project for anybody. Take care and good luck there!
@jwildeboer I know very well. The thing is, at least EP elections are synchronized cross-border. National are not, so I guess it would be a new level of mess for national governments. Not speaking about the simple observation which would be outrageous to many people: foreigners getting a say in "our" parliament. I only hope this will shift a bit in my lifetime - these are extremely slow processes.
As of 2019, 3.3% of EU citizens were living in another member state (and the figure is growing). That's about 17Mio people who have very little say into affairs in the country of their residence!
Exploring, failing, backtracking, just to identify the only viable path forward. And then scarred, stumbling forward into the future. Learning.
Boring and steady. Knowing little and questioning a lot. Mostly harmless.
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This is an experimental scrapbook space. A collection of stuff I want to keep in a form somewhere on the spectrum between a blog and a shoe-box full of scraps, cut-outs, quotes, links and reading notes and sometimes my own silly thoughts about them.
Perhaps it might be of marginal interest to others too, but I don't care that much.
Joined Jan 2021
