Alex

they/he, il. Wikipedian and book reader, mostly. Localization and sociology enthusiast.

is my blue your blue?

Found via Frills. Mine is 174, which means turquoise is green for me. Seems like I’m extremely normal as the average seems to be around 175 (and the « official » boundary in HTML is 180) 🙂 I really need an orange-red and a blue-purple one now to stop constantly fighting with people about colours.

Le journalisme est toujours aussi important

Liked No, the news is not information junk food by

Ben Werdmuller (werd.io)

(Voici mes notes de lecture sur cet article.) Oui, il y a plein de problèmes avec le journalisme mainstream, dont le fait que leur métrique principale soit l’engagement plutôt que la qualité de l’information. Le vrai objectif du journalisme devrait toujours être un électorat informé et capable de faire ses choix. Quelques conseils de Ben…

August 2024 in review / Récap d’août 2024

Hi! Let’s keep the personal updates short this time: I have left Meta I’m on holidays and my first week was spent in the Vercors, at a lovely camping I wrote about: How decentralization doesn’t solve the attention economy (originally a Lemmy comment which I copy-pasted because I want to keep an archive of it)…

fandom

Liked Fandom.txt (the library of alexandra)

i have to admit, there are parts of the internet i no longer traverse. my desire to be caught up to the minute, or know everything there is to know about …

Camping le Vercors

Checked into Camping le Vercors

J’ai passé cette semaine au Camping Le Vercors à Autrans. C’était super, c’était tout doux, alors j’ajoute le camping à ma carte de lieux recommandés ! Les raisons pour lesquelles j’ai aimé : Accessible en bus (+ une petite dizaine de minutes à pied), un peu moins de 2h depuis Grenoble pour moins de 13€…

a better place

me (as a joke): I don’t believe in leaving the world a better place than I found it my partner (in their most disdainful tone): okay, wikipedian

ubuntu

For many years I « didn’t like Linux ». Turns out I had always been told that as a Windows user I should use Ubuntu. I now have Linux Mint, which is also super close to Windows, but actually nice to use. Highly recommend it if you, too, « don’t like Linux ».

Understanding Paralympics classifications

Liked Paralympic classification (lexi.global)

LEXI is the system that explains parasport classification, which groups athletes and enables competition.
Unisex figures use traffic‑light colours to illustrate areas of reduced coordination, movement or vision.

An excellent and clear website, super useful! Thanks Sébastien for sharing!

Adhérer aux assos

Hier soir on discutait avec un copain de l’importance d’adhérer aux associations. On a parlé de deux cas spécifiques, le syndicat et Wikimédia France (si ça vous étonne, vous tombez probablement sur mon blog pour la première fois). Je vous propose un résumé, qui devrait s’appliquer à toute asso qui fait du plaidoyer et de…

The mining of the public domain

Liked The mining of the public domain by jessamyn (librarian.net)

A colorful circular fan type image showing a sun with a face rising above a green hill, the smiling moon looks on from the site
“Public.work is a search engine for public domain content.” The site claims to have over 100,000 public domain images. This in and of itself is not that special, but th…