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    The Imperfectionist: The life-changing magic of not tidying up:

    Impose too much order on your notes, and you eliminate the serendipitous connections that are how ideas arise.
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    šŸ”– freemediaheckyeah

    FMHY - Freemediaheckyeah: The largest collection of free stuff on the internet! Software, guides, torrenting, that kind of stuff. Have fun :-)
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    šŸ”– Discover the IndieWeb, one blog post at a time.

    Indieblog.page: Discover the IndieWeb, one blog post at a time. I love the Open Random Blogpost in my bookmarkbar. At least once a day I just click it a few times to see what pops up. And it’s almost always a delightful surprise. Highly recommended and I’d wish it had some direct ties with a micro.blog directory/discovery or with the blogs and pages on the omg.lol community.
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    šŸ”– Emissions from ChatGPT are much higher than from conventional search

    Emissions from ChatGPT are much higher than from conventional search ā€¢ Wim Vanderbauwhede: it is possible that the emissions from a ChatGPT query are more than a hundred times that of a conventional search query
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    Bluesky moves towards federation

    More interesting news from Bluesky: Toward Federation and an Open Network. A significant portion of my Twitter network has migrated to Bluesky. While I don’t feel as comfortable there, I do miss this old network being around. However, if Bluesky evolves into a truly open network, I can utilize my Micro.blog account to follow them again and they can follow my micro.blog account. In essence, I don’t need to be actively present on Bluesky to access engaging content.

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    I have no idea from where this blogpost got into my 20+ Sunday-afternoon-random-tab-extravaganza but Paolo exactly describes how I do my exploring and spelunking on the web. I just click links. From status posts to blogs to “about”-pages. From there to other networks, blogrolls, categories, tags, lists, “side projects”, work-related blogs and so on… It is the best way to discover new stuff on the web.

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    Browsing in my RSS feeds and I see this post by @jack why he loves orgmode for archiving todos. I can relate. Not that I use orgmode. I try every now and then but I get into config-rabbitholes really quick. But since Iā€™m reviewing several parts of my online life, why not give it a go again?