Had my call with the CEO and a load of execs, had to take it from a park around the back of the Tate gallery as there was nowhere quiet and private enough.

Got roasted but fucking smashed it. CEO thanked me profusely for turning around a $10m shit show.

The fucker who caused all the drama tried to attribute some of the success to someone on their team who had absolutely nothing to do with it. I let that shit slide, for today. Record will get set straight, served ice cold, corporate climbing motherfucker.

Christmas isn't cancelled ✊

I see that Fernando Pereira is donating to OpenReview (with a public announcement) because he apparently cares about "open science" or "open research" or some such. That's news to me.

He is the Google VP who wrote a condescending, bizarre, what was meant to be anonymous, "privileged and confidential" letter which was then sent to the HR department, instructing me and my coauthors to retract our Stochastic Parrots paper.

I was considering setting up my #immich server for a while now, but ept putting it off because I thought migrating the photos from iCloud to immich would be hard. Several how to's explained you had to download the photos from Apple's privacy website in bulk, or export them on your Mac as separate files.

So, finally put to work: I made enough room on my Mac to export all of them, I exported all photos in original quality from the Photos app to some directory on the Mac, and setup my immich server.

Then, finally, being able to login on the mobile immich app, I see a simple 'backup' toggle. I can select all albums in the iOS Photos app and switch "enable backups" on.

Just like that, it uploads everything to my new immich instance. This couldn't have been easier. All my prep work wasn't needed.

So, if you have been holding off, don't. This is so easy.