Blog: tech

Bye, social media

2020-11-10 by dino

I have erased Reddit, Facebook and Twitter apps from my phone. Previously I’ve done the same with Instagram, which I believe is the worst SoMe of them all. This is something that I wanted to do for many years now, but there was always some excuse not to do it (family, friends, whatever…).

Recently, I read a fine book Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now written by Jaron Lanier. Some of the arguments are: You are losing your free will, Social media is making you into an asshole, Social media is undermining truth, Social Media is destroying your capacity for empathy, Social media is making you unhappy, and Social media is hating your soul.

While social media really can (and could) be a great platform for exchanging ideas, opinions, and having constructive and enriching discussions, it has become our enemy, because people and the system behind it use it primarily for economic/capitalist benefit, which doesn’t care at all for interests of individuals and even societies. So, I want to make at least a longer break from it, and seriously, I don’t want to be an asshole (as Lanier puts it) nor someone whose data and online activity is being used and monetized by these unscrupulous and dishonest digital conglomerates.

Et menneskes teknologivalg

2020-06-24 by dino

Jeg har ofte undret mig over menneskets manglende vilje til selvbestemmelse i næsten alle henseender af vores liv og dagligdag. Spørgsmålet om vores fri vilje har man diskuteret siden de tidligste græske stoikere frem til i dag, men en udtømmende relation om fri vilje og det emne jeg omtaler i denne tekst vil jeg gemme til en anden gang. Udover den eksistentielle del, har jeg altid været interesseret i, hvorfor vi mennesker ikke har større nysgerrighed, når det kommer til valg af vores computere, mobiltelefoner og andet teknologiudstyr. Som udgangspunkt vil jeg tage mig selv som et eksempel.

Void Linux

2020-05-12 by dino

Even though I am mostly using Linux distributions that are based on Debian, I have recently stumbled upon a very neat, minimalist distro called Void Linux. It is an independent distribution, designed from scratch, and thus not based on other Linux distributions. Void Linux is a rolling release, similar to Arch Linux, meaning it delivers continuously updates to applications and the system. What it makes it interesting in my opinion is its minimalist structure. When you install it, Void Linux doesn’t have a lot of applications installed. This can actually be a little bit of a pain, since it doesn’t even come with bash-completion, an essential package that helps complete inputs and commands when using a terminal.

GNOME and free software under attack

2019-11-01 by dino

A month ago GNOME was hit by patent troll for developing the Shotwell image management application. They stated:

Left 2 Die

2019-10-02 by dino

I took you out
before you died.
So long, my noisy friend.

Linux Mint

2019-09-20 by dino

Det hele startede som en joke. Jeg snakkede med en ven og vi kom til at diskuttere den stigende ustabilitet i Microsoft Windows. Jeg begyndte at igen opleve den frygtede Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) efter mange, mange års fravær på min Windowsmaskine. Derudover snakkede vi om stigende privatlivets krænkelser, især fra de store techgiganter Facebook, Microsoft, Google og andre. Disse virksomheder lever af deres brugeres informationer, som hele tiden samles, sorteres i og sælges videre til andre virksomheder, eller de udnytter selv for at servere flere reklamer for os. Som man siger, hvis et produkt er gratis, er du selv et produkt, og det er netop, hvad vi, brugere, faktisk er blevet siden vi begyndte at bruge Facebook, Gmail, Instagram, Windows og YouTube. Disse produkter er ofte gratis i en eller anden forstand, men virksomheder, som står bag disse tjenester, samler hele tiden oplysninger af deres brugere og anvender dem som de lyster, oftest er det nok i en eller anden kommerciel form.

Generacija N: Površni svijet vrtoglavih brzina

2017-08-24 by dino

Nije nikakva tajna za većinu ljudi da živimo u vremenu u kojem se mnoge stvari u našoj svakodnevnici dešavaju izrazito brzo i dinamično. Stotine miliona ljudi je uhvaćeno u beskrajnoj binarnoj spirali u kojoj neumoljivo vladaju društvene mreže kao što su Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit, Snapchat, Viber i drugi. Osim enormno velike količine digitalnog sadržaja, za sve njih je zajedničko to što se sve u njima dešava munjevitom brzinom. Jedan tvit za nekoliko minuta nestaje u beskrajnom moru drugih tvitova, objava na Facebook se vrlo brzo utopi u mnoštvu drugih objava, vijesti i reklama, a video na YouTube-u zamijeni hrpa novopristiglih i još popularnijih snimaka. Na autostradu virtualne egzistencije nekoliko milijardi ljudi u savremenom društvu treba dodati još i korištenje pametnih telefona preko kojih se dodatno i još brže ulazi u gore navedeni virtualni svijet društvenih mreža.

SpaceX

2017-05-02 by dino

Jučer, 1. maja 2017, SpaceX raketa je poletjela u svemir u visinu od 166 kilometara i spustila se uspravno odakle je krenula. I sve to u roku od devet (9) minuta. Izgleda fenomenalno da se čini da je urađeno pomoću specijalnih efekata, ali nije.

NAS

2016-12-04 by dino

This little machine is my new toy – it’s a Synology DS116 NAS server. So small, yet so powerful and versatile. I can access my files from anywhere, I can listen to my music, get to my photographs, share them with the family or friends, have my own calendar, mail, databases and so much more.

Why didn’t I get it sooner? Merry Christmas to me.

Games in 2015

2016-01-13 by dino

I played several games on my PC machine in 2015, but I finished these games on the list. Not all were great games.

Min nye computer

2015-12-20 by dino

Den 11. december 2015 modtog jeg min computer eller rettere dele, som jeg samlede til en computer. Jeg bestilte Intel Core i5-4460 3.2 GHz Quadcore, bundkortet B85, 8GB DDR3, kabinettet Fractal Design Define R5 og strømforsyningen Corsair CX 600M. Samtidigt tilføjede jeg mit grafikkort ATI Radeon HD6950.

All my cell phones

2015-01-25 by dino

I remember how I was very reluctant to get a cellular phone in the beginning of this millennium. I simply did not like the idea of having one in my pocket. I know, although I was only in my 20’s, I had some anti-modern ideas at the time. The reason I got one was I moved away from my parents in the beginning of 2001, and of course I wanted to be able to talk to them when I or they wanted to. For the last fourteen years I owned ten (10) cellular phones, so let’s register them for posterity.