🔗 The disaster that is Portugal's attempt at data retention laws
Eduardo wrote an excellent piece for EDRi about Portugal's disastrous attempts at data retention laws. Here is a snippet:
💻 Small shell functions to make my life easier
📝 When the brain fuse goes kaput – or how it can be hard to express yourself
I was watching Shiza's Twitch stream around an hour ago, and at some point, burnout came up in the conversation. This made me think about what I've been experiencing, and it's eerily similar to burnout, although it's not the same thing, and there's more to it.
You may know this as brain fog. Covid brought this issue to the spotlight. The difficulties concentrating and lack of mental energy are severe issues in chronic pain (and we now know that it also occurs with COVID-19), and they're hard to deal with. But, at least to me, the worst part of brain fog is the cognitive impairment.
📝 Heart goes boom boom
My heart rate has been wacky, and one of the last medical exams I did picked up on that. No wonder: I'm always stressed because I have my life fsck'd up, I'm in pain 24/7, and I don't know if I'll ever be able to get it on track and stop feeling a ton of pain. To see if it's something potentially severe or nothing to worry about, I'm wearing a Holter monitor for the next 24 hours. This is the cyborg phase of my life.
I'm joking, but I'm a bit concerned. I hope this is a mild arrhythmia and nothing more, as my doctor suspects. I don't need any more health issues in my life.
🔗 Give Firefox a go for 2024
Screenshot by DR333AD, released under the CC-BY-SA-4.0 License
I just stumbled on an article titled “In 2024, please switch to Firefox”, which offers three compelling reasons for you to switch to Firefox. Being a Firefox user since it was called Phoenix or Firebird (I don't recall which one was the first one I used), I can say it's a terrific browser.
Don't worry. You can import your bookmarks, history, and passwords from your current browser into Firefox.
🎧 EDM playlist
Image from Unsplash
I created the following playlist for an online collaborative newspaper a couple of years ago. I was one of their editors in the TV & Tech section, but music has been a passion of mine for pretty much my entire life. My father passed me the love for music bug very early. There are photos of me listening to music with headphones when I was two or three years old. Later, in my teenage years, I had musical training for most of that time.
My love for music continued, so I decided to share some playlists focused on EDM on the website. The idea got the Music section editors' approval, so I created and published a few. This one was one of the last ones. I hope you enjoy it.
You can listen to it on Invidious, Youtube or use the embed video from Invidious below.
🎮 My favorite game series
One of my saves on FM24, using the game mode that allows you to create your own team. I started on the lowest Portuguese division available in the game.
I've been playing Championship Manager and, after that, Football Manager since 1995 or 1996. The name change was due to a fallout between Eidos and Sports Interactive around the mid-2000s, with the latter launching the Football Manager series after the event and the one that became successful. The new Championship Manager and its inferior gameplay disappeared into the annals of history.
My first game of this franchise was Championship Manager 2. A neighbor knew my parents had bought me my first computer, asked me if I had some floppy disks, and then made me a copy of the game.
📝 Noise is pain
One of the things fibromyalgia brought me is an increasing sensibility to noise. Things have become so bad that I get massive headaches, worse than the ones sinusitis presents me with. Of course, with them, I also get photosensitivity and an urge to vomit. If this shit continues, I'll have to stay at home during the holidays and birthdays.
💾 Wide images
Thanks to the help from the amazing Benjamin Hollon, this blog now has wide images. The CSS only applies to the post's first image, but it can be easily changed to apply to all the images in a post.
🎮 Euro Truck Simulator 2 on Linux
ETS2 screenshot showing Santiago Bernabéu Stadium
One of the games I've been playing is Euro Truck Simulator 2. I played the Windows version under Proton for over a year, maybe over two years, and the performance was good, considering I don't have a dedicated GPU on my laptop. However, after the 1.45 or 1.46 version update, the game performance decreased severely and crashed frequently.
I posted about this on Mastodon, and someone mentioned that the Linux version had good performance. I'd had issues with the Linux version a few years ago but decided to try and see how it performed. Surprisingly, the performance was better than when the Windows port worked well with Proton for me.