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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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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 du willst, süßen Wein daran, treibs durch und lass es nur einen Sud aufsieden:...
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 happening, because it's not something I would have ever seen coming five years ago....
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 passive, indirect parts of it more. I like being able to research in a wiki someone...
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. Good to know: Meta is trying to combat this book pretty hard and got a gag order...
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 (expensive!) food is not something I’ll eat. All the crowds and risks make me...
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 was bought up by Avast. These browser extensions try to block the cookie banners...
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, started volunteering for noyb, visited a conference in my desired field :) 2. Did...
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 day, a random feed is selected from our database and added to the timeline....
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, families, and local organizations as the way forward. Instead of trusting big...
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 something new or weird, though. Idea 1 Social media site where you can’t leave a...
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