Today's project: tear-down of an old pump, trying to make it work again. It had been working fine for about 50 years, then stopped working last year. I think that had something to do with wasps building a nest in it and parts of that nest got pushed down which might have messed up the mechanism inside.

This is what we in Sweden call a "gårdstolva" - Gårdspump Nr. 12 🙂

Seach engine comparison: Mojeek vs Duckduckgo

Today's search: "skitsystem"

Search result quality: Mojeek is better, includes quality links such as javlaskitsystem.se/ and "Boktips: Jävla skitsystem - boken om den digitala arbetsmiljön"

Privacy: Mojeek is better, uBlock Origin blocks lots of bad things for Duckduckgo but nothing for Mojeek. Also, Duckduckgo shows links to "facebook" and "youtube" which are very bad regarding privacy.

Winner in both categories: Mojeek

Went to the cabin this weekend, looking forward to eating some of the food I had left there last time.

"Let's cook some rice!" -- oh wait, no, I guess the mice have eaten all the rice.

"Ok that's fine, no problem, we still have that tasty muesli!" -- oh, no we don't. The mice ate all of that too.

There was a packet of ramen also that they chewed a hole in but they only ate about half of that, not as yummy I guess.

Lesson learned: need to put everything in glass jars.

Look closely and you can make out a dewy I spotted on my way to work this morning.

This seems like a fitting illustration of how many companies nowadays attempt to force-feed people various "AI" products. There should have been an "AI" label on the machine, you'll have to imagine that. 🙂

From Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times" film, 1936.

Watching The Wire again. Even though I've seen it like four or five times before it still beats everything else, nothing else even comes close.

Sometimes I've tried to understand what makes it so good, I think part of it is that I like the characters so much, they're so real and so human. I mean all of them, both the cops and the gangsters.

What do you think? Will there ever be another series that can match The Wire?

In Swedish, E-identification, FOSS 

This is to help folks understand why they should use -- Be like Jules!

poster for Centerpartiet spotted in today:

"Håll gränsen mot massövervakning" - means approximately "stand firm against mass surveillance" - Svante Linusson and Muharrem Demirok

Glad to see them pushing this important issue in the election. I hope it gets them some votes.

Election day is in two weeks, on June 9. Don't forget to vote!

"Mobile-zombie-free zone" sign spotted at a playground in in recently.

Ironically that made me pick up my own phone to take this photo, acting like another of those infamous zombies. In my defense I did not actually enter the playground, so strictly speaking I did not violate the sanctity of the mobile-zombie-free zone. Also, the phone ( yay!) was back in pocket directly without further zombie-like behaviour. 🙂

The sign says, literally, "The bushes die if your dog pees on them" (in Swedish).

near where I live in

Statyerna på torg har fått halsdukar idag, tydligen en hälsning från

"Stickar för klimatet"
"1,5 grader"
"Vi drar en gräns"

Walked past this on my way to work the other day. It's like that The Sound of Silence song

"and the sign flashed out its warning..."

but wait, the sign did not say anything about the words of the prophets, instead it said "oops" and "Microsoft" and "your computer is low on memory, close Google Chrome" 😄

Okay, let's heed the warning from this sign: never use Microsoft or Google products, for anything, ever. Don't let them fool you. Don't but their "AI" bullshit either.

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Reading "A German man's history" (Geschichte eines Deutschen) or "Defying Hitler", written by Sebastian Haffner in 1939 about the decades leading up to the Nazis coming to power.

Made me think about current Swedish politics.

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