ava's blog
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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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Whenever I descend into a mental health episode (often, but not always, triggered by cycle-related hormonal changes), there’s very specific signs both my wife and I pick up on. She usually notices it earlier than me, though. The pattern...
Just letting you know that my email address has changed from @pm.me to @tuta.com. The change is reflected in the footer and post template already. I don't know what I will do about the 400+ old posts that have the old email address...
I've read less this week than the prior one. I was catching up on a lot of recorded talks from re:publica 26, which I couldn't attend (those talks will get their own post!). I was also a tad busy with meeting people and doing the ring...
Not a webring - maybe some day - but an even cooler one! My wife and I went to the jewelry workshop our friends gifted us for our wedding last year. I had a moonstone at home I wanted to turn into a ring (yes, I do love big chunky gems...
Whenever someone talks about how they let AI improve their writing, I realize we are still taking the wrong things away from what good writing supposedly is. Not that I am the arbiter of good writing, but we can agree that at its core,...
img { display: inline-block; } rose It was my wife's birthday, and our wedding anniversary! Baked some cakes and had a great time. Mine is the Donauwelle attached at the bottom of the post, my wife baked the fruit cake. My friend who...
Thought that after my post on summary distrust, I could share a list of what I read each week. I technically prefer to process and digest what I read into blog posts, but not everything makes it into one, and this is a way to document...
Rishabh made an AI blog question challenge and invited me to fill it out. Let's go! 1. How was your first experience with AI models? I used to have fun playing around with NeuralBlender, and used it to inspire glitch art of mine that I...
Today I partially joked in a chat I think at this time of my life, I would like to have a nemesis. Everyone has people they don't like and find annoying, I do too. But a nemesis? There's something you can't stand about them, but you...
While I was at the conference, my wife explored Brussels on her own. As you might know, she doesn't have a smartphone, and the only similar thing she has is a tablet with only WiFi capabilities. Public WiFi is more and more common, but...
I've finished reading the Draft Guidelines for transparency requirement under the AI Act that are out for comment until the 3rd of June, and a variety of exemptions for law enforcement and similar actors greatly concern me. I haven't...
I have previously written about what resources I subscribe to (newsletter, RSS, manual checking) to keep on top of data protection law news, cases, new reports, recommendations by authorities, papers of notable personalities in the...
Among all this talk of European sovereignty and switching to European alternatives in a move to better privacy and less support of Big Tech, I wish for more emphasis on not just blindly copying US products and slapping an EU label on it....
I attended the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection Conference (CPDP) in Brussels for the first time. The conference has lots of different rooms mostly in the same building where multiple panels, workshops and other things are...
For the CPDP 2026, I was in Brussels this week. the cityThe inner city with all its cute little shops, fancy buildings and barely any cars was very charming. Have some pics. We spotted Super Dragon Toys on the way and had to stop there,...