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title: February 2020
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pub_date: 2020-03-01
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After lots of flights and traveling around came the calm. A month to get
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everything in order, sort my routine and start gettings things done.
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[](./image.jpg)
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## Conferences
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- Fosdem 2020 [^link fosdem 2020]
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We were nearby for DevConf so we just went a few days here. I forgot
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how packed and difficult going to some tracks is... but we managed
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to attend some interesting talks and meet with some friends there,
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which is always a plus.
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## TVShows/Movies
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- Finished watching Friends, again. It was so my player 2 and I had a
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20m episode series to watch at lunch/dinner. It still make me laugh.
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- Finished watching The Good Place [^show2]
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Interesting show. The first season is what I liked the most, and
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the show is a good overall to watch while eating or something,
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short episodes (~20m), comical and with good actors. The show
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mocks humanity in every way possible, the sad part is that most
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of that is totally true! The ending kinda surprised me and made
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me think a little bit.
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- Started watching Money Heist [^show3]
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We flew through the entire first season in a flash, and we're now on
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the second (which it doesn't seem as good as the first). I liked the
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first one a lot, even if there were some stuff that didn't make much
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sense. Totally recommended.
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## Books
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- Finished reading The last wish [^book1] by _Andrzej Sapkowski_
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As many people I started reading this after watching the TV Show (but
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haven't played the game yet).
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I was scared that it would be too similar to I was already seen but to
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my surprise, even though some of the events tell the "same story" (on
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a sense) are different enough from what I saw on TV.
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I did enjoy it though it was short in length, but in exchange you
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don't necessarily need to continue reading the rest of the books if
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you don't want to (right away) because it contains a tale per chapter
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that even if they are a full story when read in full it doesn't put
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the reader in a position where it needs to read the rest.
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I recommend it if you like the fantasy genre, is a light read, short
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and self-contained.
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- Started reading The Magicians' Guild [^book2] by _Trudi Canavan_
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## Videogames
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- Started and quickly dropped (and refunded) Warcraft 3: Reforged
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[^game1]
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I didn't manage to finish the "classic" Warcraft 3 back in the day, so
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even after the critics and so on I decided to give it a go. Huge
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mistake. The game is not prepared for wide-screens, it doesn't help
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that the UI covers most of the screen either, my units keep getting
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stuck on trees around and the game crashed on me a few times (and I
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only played the tutorial and one scenario). My first though was...
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well, since I have the classic one on my account let's just play
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that... but no, the classic version now download the Reforged game
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with the classic graphic pack. Even if you are a HUGE Warcraft fan,
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you shouldn't pay for this. Luckily Blizzard knows and they do instant
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refunds for the game.
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Blizzard, please release classic Warcraft III on Good Old Games as
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you've done with the two previous entries. [^gog-war1-2-bundle] I just
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bought and downloaded them just in case you decide to _Reforge_
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everything. [^gog-petition-w3]
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- Started and dropped Assasin's Creed Origins [^game2]
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I was in the mood of playing some of these open world games, and I had
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this in my uPlay account already waiting as a gift for purchasing an
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nvidia graphics card. The game looked good but it seems it was
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horribly optimized since I had constant frame drops and AI glitches.
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I tried some stuff to make it better but nothing worked. It killed the
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inmersion so much that I just uninstalled it.
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- Started playing Wolcen [^game3]
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To play with some friends (though I've played mainly by myself because
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of schedule issues). It's an action RPG that aims to be good, but
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has still some bugs (it released this month).
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- Played some Clash Royale [^game4] and Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp
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[^game5] on mobile.
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The first one just because, the other because of the hype of the next
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Animal Crossing game releasing soon for the Switch.
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## Articles
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- Google Maps Hacks (incl. video) [^article1]
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On how the virtual world affects the physical world.
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- Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust [^article2]
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Article from Discord Engineering on how they switched a specific piece
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of their infrastructure to Rust.
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- **[VIDEO]** OVER-TOURISM - Is sustainable tourism possible? - 観光公害
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[^article3]
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An interesting video about how tourism has evolved in Japan over the
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last years.
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- Fucking laptops [^article4]
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The honest state of the laptop industry. It reminded me when I wanted
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to switch my laptop and no option seemed good enough even in the
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highest price ranges.
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- The World We Leave Our Children: How I became a free software
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extremist [^article5]
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- The boss who put everyone on $70k [^article6]
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- **[VIDEO]** How Crash Bandicoot Hacked The Original Playstation
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[^article7]
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I love this kind of war stories (as the series name) of what tricks
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developers used to do to accomodate to old hardware. Really
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interesting.
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[^link fosdem 2020]: https://fosdem.org/2020/
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[^show2]: https://www.tvtime.com/en/show/311711
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[^show3]: https://www.tvtime.com/en/show/327417
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[^book1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40603587-the-last-wish
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[^book2]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28249.The_Magicians_Guild
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[^game1]: https://warcraft3refunded.com/
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[^game2]: https://www.origin.com/esp/en-us/store/assassins-creed/assassins-creed-origins
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[^gog-war1-2-bundle]: https://www.gog.com/game/warcraft_bundle
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[^gog-petition-w3]: https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/warcraft_iii_frozen_throne
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[^game3]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/424370/Wolcen_Lords_of_Mayhem/
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[^game4]: https://clashroyale.com/
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[^game5]: https://ac-pocketcamp.com/es-ES/site
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[^article1]: http://www.simonweckert.com/googlemapshacks.html
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[^article2]: https://blog.discordapp.com/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to-rust-a190bbca2b1f
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[^article3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSqHp0DLRJc
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[^article4]: https://drewdevault.com/rants/2020/02/18/Fucking-laptops.html
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[^article5]: https://lunduke.com/posts/2020-02-19/
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[^article6]: https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-51332811
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[^article7]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izxXGuVL21o
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