ava's blog
ava's blog
Ava
I’m Ava and I'm writing about my thoughts on tech, data protection law, my health and little creative projects.
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Here's the list of questions in different languages. 1. What did you do this year that you’d never done before? Got married, stayed in hotels with friends, visited France, had a butterfly on my hand, finished up 45 ECTS in education,...
Last 'cool links' post was in July! I really dropped off there for a while. What I read or watched worth sharing since last time (that I didn't lose sight of): Blog/Website Discovery Sortition Social - a community RSS feed reader. Every...
A while ago, my brother-in-law asked around friends and family if anyone wanted to join the (private) cloud/file service he spun up. Practical, right? Many outside the corporate web believe in smaller services within friend groups,...
These aren’t genuine proposals to fix social media sites, but thought experiments that I wonder about in terms of how it would affect online discussion culture. Wouldn’t mind seeing it on alternative platforms that want to try out...
Since September, my health has been declining again. I had a flare up in my spondyloarthritis mostly, causing inflammation in specific joints, especially the sacroiliac joints, and parts of my upper spine that feel like a knife in my...
I wish you reading this a lot of blessings, rest, and acknowledgement of your hard work. May all your wishes come true :) Here are my wishes and goals for 2026. Passing all my exams. I really wanna be done with my Bachelor’s degree as...
The title is poking fun at the type of person at work that implies young people are lazy while doing jack shit too, and I use ‘Boomer’ colloquially, meaning not just the late ones born 1955–1964, but also the some of the early Gen Xers...
The past few months, I have thought a lot about aging, retirement and disability a lot. I’m often surrounded by people who take their health for granted, and where degenerative effects on the body are something they leave to their future...
My predictions! With a little humor. Take it with a grain of salt, only did this for fun as a little creative exercise, but maybe you agree or wanna write your own? in: Textures and color becoming big after our years-long focus on very...
A while ago, I wrote about intentional times of boredom for easier task switching, because I noticed there was an inner resistance when I had let go of a task in favor of another. In response, I gave myself the space and time to just sit...
I can empathize with using AI sometimes; like when a search engine shows no fitting results, or when searching for a loose synonym or jargon with a vague description. Another use case would be generating silly, annoying filler text no...
I sometimes wonder if we have too uncritically accepted the marketing narrative of social media companies about how connectivity is always good and preferable, and that they as the mediators always need to be the ones facilitating it in...
It’s 1970. You walk into the store, grab a bunch of apples, go to the cash register, pay with cash, and walk out. What kinds of data have been automatically processed about you while doing that? Very little. Most likely, none, as CCTV...
Both my wife and I are going through the annoying process of trying to search for new jobs. I’m still at my current one, but I want to see if something better is out there in the region we wanna move to. But it is absolutely nuts. How...
Content warning: Brief mentions of disordered eating habits. Whenever I am deeply and actively involved in my passion topic (data protection law), I don’t care about the superficial stuff anymore. Writing, researching, talking to others...