Journal Entry For 2026-03-18
[Trying out a new "outline style" of journal post.]
- I liked this video: https://youtu.be/c0VHypPaVM8?si=BU6dC3XAPrmagHfC about not wanting to take on sponsorships and instead rely on Substack[1] and Patreon.
- I have installed a couple more things on my VPS:
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- Yamtrack to track things I've watched (on Jellyfin and beyond)
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- Miniflux and Wallabag - these are meant to maybe replace Readwise Reader[2] which is relatively expensive, whereas spinning them up on my VPS that is already paid for cost me nothing extra.
- Important for me is that Wallabag's annotations can find their way into my Obsidian vault, if that doesn't work as easily as I want it to, then I might pay the premium going forward.[3]
- Miniflux and Wallabag - these are meant to maybe replace Readwise Reader[2] which is relatively expensive, whereas spinning them up on my VPS that is already paid for cost me nothing extra.
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- Interesting points about the natural/unnatural distinction as regards to horses (mostly) and bees: 🎓 On Geldings and the 'Natural' Social Order of Horses:
- »As Alice Roberts argues in Tamed, the distinction between natural and artificial selection is a tricky one:
- "Describing artificial and natural selection separately is a false distinction. It doesn’t really matter that it’s humans — rather than the physical environment or other species — that are mediating the assortment of individuals into those more or less likely to successfully reproduce. You wouldn’t make this distinction for any other species."
- Roberts uses the example of honeybees selecting for flower traits. Nobody calls that “artificial” selection. But when humans do functionally the same thing — choosing which stallions breed, castrating the rest — it does start to feel “unnatural.” Usually I find myself arguing that domestication is just a particular type of symbiotic relationship... but the natural vs. unnatural distinction is too useful to disregard even if I do genuinely think that humans are “just animals” in some important senses.«
- »As Alice Roberts argues in Tamed, the distinction between natural and artificial selection is a tricky one:
- I continue to enjoy using Jellyfin, I gotta say.
- I continue to (claim to) be too burned out to sit down with a book. I started to read a book for men who are going to be dads soon, but that's about it when it comes to long-form content. My Kobo is gathering dust.
- part of that is my excitement for Slay The Spire 2 - playing it myself and watching Twitch Stream VODs about it
Yuck. But I also get it: People got to eat. In a real sense as well as a "want to live a normal live" sense. ↩︎
[Talked about this before](RSVP Eleventy). I didn't like FreshRSS - even though it's PHP and therefore possibly hackable by me - so I switched to Miniflux (written in go I believe). ↩︎
Just the fact that I can highlight and annotate from my feedreader directly is already a little bad. But maybe not bad enough for paying ~90€ a year. Do I of all the people have to develop a feed reader/rss client that can handle this - meaning support highlights in feed reader articles directly by syncing them to wallabag automatically in the background? Seems like a hard task. But it'd also be a killer feed reader app... ↩︎
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