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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I've recently decided to stop drinking anything caffeinated for a month. My top offender has been matcha, which has a surprisingly high caffeine content depending on the kind and the amount you consume. Second is other green tea, and...
I'm currently employed full-time working with pharmaceutical databases, but I'm looking to shift into job roles centered around Data Protection Law, like Compliance and Privacy, or Data Governance, preferably in the...
My wife is a historian, and sometimes, she likes to look up really old German recipes. One of those recipes was for strawberry soup from 1752. “Durchklaube die Erdbeer, und wasche sie schön, zuckers nach Genügen; gieß gemeinen oder, so...
Looking around the internet, it's clear that digital representations have become cheap, too perfect, and easily fabricated, and the offline world is increasingly the primary source of confirmation. It's really interesting to see this...
I enjoy media without actively participating in fandom. I prefer that over witnessing fandom drama or being influenced by the current consensus these spaces hold. Fandom is not without its use or effect on me, but I enjoy the more...
Read this one a little while before it came up in the Gazette’s book club, but now will finally write a post for it :) I picked it up in a book shop while browsing, remembering I had heard good things and that I had planned to read it....
I haven’t put much thought into Christmas since I moved out of my parents’ home, aside from selfmade Advent calendars. I’m not a big fan of visiting Christmas markets, as the trinkets there seem useless and overpriced, and most of the...
Some of you might be using browser extensions to handle the flood of cookie consent banners. Popular choice used to be the browser extension "I don't care about cookies", followed up by "I still don't care about cookies" when the former...
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...