Geeking - podcasts
Google announced that they are shudding down Google podcasts and will move the functionality to Youtube Music. In the meanwhile I am probably switching to use Antenna Pod as my main podcast player. In order to sync episodes and subscriptions between devices, I am looking at running one of these services locally:
- gpodder2go command - github.com/oxtyped/gpodder2go - Go Packages
- podsync — Rust application // Lib.rs
Idea: if I ever want to play with cloud - look at using one of the above items to run as a service for public.
Geeking
- Trying to use clifm - command line file manager
- Set up immich for my photos stored on network drive.
- Finished this Chat GPT intro course ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers
Geeking with my son
- Got a micro:bit. Connected that to his tablet running Scratch. Yay! It looks cool.
Cooking
- Cooked eggplant in an Airfryer
- Cut in half, oil and sal.
- Cook for about 10 minutes at 200C and 5 more minutes at 180C
Reading
Finished reading A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17) by Lee Child | Goodreads
Listening
Australian Certified Practicing Accountants do skepticism too. They just released 4 podcast episodes related to fraud:
This four-part podcast miniseries exposes the underbelly of financial fraud, from Ponzi schemes and invoice fraud to romance scams and more.
Introducing Crime By Numbers, a new INTHEBLACK podcast
It’s a bit tricky to navigate their website: so here is the links to the 4 specific episodes:
- Crime By Numbers: Romance scams – the price of fake love
- Crime By Numbers: Unravelling million-dollar man in the middle schemes, the invoice fraud that costs millions
- Crime by Numbers: How experts unravel Ponzi schemes, from Bernie Madoff to Melissa Caddick
- Crime by Numbers: How the experts expose financial statement fraud
To listen
Watching
Food, global climate change, GMO, medicine, skepticism
- Scientists Fire Up the World’s Largest Fusion Reactor for the First Time
- World Population Estimated at 8 Billion
- Scientists build yeast with artificial DNA in a major synthetic biology advance
- Bill Gates-backed carbon dioxide removal startup Graphyte launches | Fortune
- Yadea unveils 99 MPH electric motorcycle that charges in 10 minutes
- Sweden Gov Announces ‘Massive Expansion’ of Nuclear Energy
- Lake Onslow option | Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment - new NZ government is stopping this though :(
Skepticism, freethinking (Lithuanian)
IT Links
- huggingface/distil-whisper
- Microsoft pushes the boundaries of small AI models | Semafor
- Microsoft officially launches Loop, its Notion competitor - The Verge - loop.microsoft.com
- Foliate Linux eBook App Ported to GTK4, Adds New Features - OMG! Ubuntu