Axel Leroy

Table of ContentsPreparationDay 1: Plane tripDay 2: CarnivalDay 3: On the roadDay 4 & 5: Porto de GalinhasDay 6: Is the honeymoon phase over?Day 7: Back to RecifeDay 8: SairéDay 9: Feeling sickDay 10: Recife Antigo, take twoDay 11: OlindaDay 12: Forced day offDay 13: Seeking natureDay 14 & 15: Going back homeFootnotesHello, and welcome to a new kind of articles on the blog: travel logs! These are notes from past journeys, written at the end of most days and wer

On July 28th, Jorijn Schrijvershof announced the incoming closure of toot.community after burning out from dealing with spam, moderation and technical issues. It is perfectly understandable, and I am thankful for the three years I spent on his instance. The fediverse being this wonderful and decentralized ecosystem, I deployed my own GoToSocial instance and moved to it. Even though my followers followed me to the new instance, my posts did not and, without any intervention, will disappear…

Back in May, I had the opportunity to watch A.I. Artificial Intelligence for the first time. Given that my only exposure to the movie was its appearance on VFX Artists React (YouTube) (a great show by the way!), I was not really sure what to expect. While its story and writing have many flaws, I was surprised by how relevant it still is and the amount of parallels I was able to draw with today’s latest craze, Large Language Models (LLMs). To begin with, the movie is set in a not-so-distant…