From An alarmingly concise and very hinged summary of what it was like to build this site from scratch

“Yes, nearly everything about the platform felt worse than it did when I first started using it over a decade ago. ... Someone with even a modicum of clout should really coin a catchy term that everyone else can repeat ad infinitum until it loses all meaning. I’m not clever enough.”

Like, er, enshittification? Or was this an example of self-deprecating humour designed to flush out a reply guy?

I’m not clever enough to decide.

#rabbit_quest #geohashing 20240529-W-BU4212

* On foot
* 53.360765, -6.253028
* Thursday 18 April, 2024
* 424.03 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap 

My first ever rabbit quest that involved an actual landmark.

Latest episode, I talk to Eleanor Barnett's about her book Leftovers, which made me think that wasting food is the default human behaviour. Only shortage can stop us doing it. Her solution is to advocate for a new appreciation of the value of food. Is there time?

https://eatthispodcast.com/leftovers

* On foot
* 41.882223, 12.448771
* Thursday 18 April, 2024
* 424.12 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap

In the park, and well off my normal paths.

I have been looking for a way to syndicate from here to Mastodon, and landed on the KnownMastodon plugin. Unfortunately, that did not work for me. I did a bit of digging and discovered that the error was in a piece of Mastodon authorisation code and that cdn has implemented a fix, but that did not seem to have made it into the code I downloaded. Further digging revealed that the fix was actually by crscheid and that even though they had created a proper pull request, that had not been merged either. I did what any sane cargo culter would do, downloaded the fix, stuck it in my site, crossed my fingers and tried again. Lo!

#IndieWeb

* On foot
* 41.885496, 12.441411
* Sunday 24 March, 2024
* 423.7 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap

Another walk in the park, but here's the thing -- the bicycle quest was actually marginally closer than the walking one.

* On foot
* 41.886868, 12.440913
* Sunday 17 March, 2024
* 423.58 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap

After two long days in front of the computer, happy to see the quest in the local park again. The photo is facing directly away from the location.

That’s my take on the agricultural unrest happening across Europe.

Of course we would not be here if we still relied on peasant farmers and the meagre surplus that could be extracted from them without actually killing them. Nevertheless, today’s farmers are not their descendants.

Just one item in the latest Issue of Eat This Newsletter.

https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/shokuiku/

* On foot
* 41.8765579, 12.46266
* Saturday 24 February, 2024
* 423.34 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap

In the garden of a nunnery.

* On foot
* 41.895401, 12.453739
* Friday 23 February, 2024
* 423.32 ppm CO2
* OpenStreetMap

NB: The bicycle quest was a lot closer than the walking quest, but it was still a good long walk of 7.5km round trip.

Also, while the quest itself was visually boring, it was very close to the Russian Orthodox church, which is less so.