All Blips
#techpocalypse : Spotify to reduce headcount by 6%. newsroom.spotify.com/2023-01-2…
So my daughter, whom I read to every evening, loves fantasy but hates all-male heroes, which is why I started gender-flipping some books (at least partly). We just finished The Hobbit featuring Bella Baggins, but now she asked me to read Lord of the Rings to her because my wife mentioned Bella's niece, Frieda Baggins. Not long now until this house of cards collapses…
Google is concerned about chatgpt. And it should be - because chatgpt could completely upend the way we search the web. theverge.com/2023/1/20/2356385…
Good overview over trade offs when choosing the right tool for the job. It also discusses circumstances which might lead the „right“ tool to still be the wrong tool. buttondown.email/hillelwayne/a…
Amazon smile is canceled. That was always a weird one - poorly communicated, awkward to use on mobile and more. I for one no longer mix buying and donating. These two do not go well together.
More interesting thoughts: seths.blog/2023/01/amazon-smil…
I finally got around to updating my only windows machine to windows 11. it failed multiple times, took around 8 hours and now everything is slow.
But now I have a teams account and that's… something?!
Step 0 of building a house
Working on that Dad of the Year award
How it started: html is all you need. whitep4nth3r.com/blog/html-is-…
🥺: the best sudo replacement
xeiaso.net/blog/%F0%9F%A5%BA
#infosec #sudo #rust
Twitteriffic dies due to twitter closing down their APIs without notice. Twitterriffic was more than a 3rd Party App, their symbiotic relationship with twitter helped shape it. blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01/t…
Lots of flight related PII found on an unsecured Jenkins server. Some things never change, 20 years ago there were servers with admin/admin credentials, these days it's Jenkins. maia.crimew.gay/posts/how-to-h…
Funny programming languages: this article is a deep dive into obscure and satirical programming languages - starting with the mandatory description of Shakespeare. buttondown.email/hillelwayne/a…
Ikea catalogs but with messy rooms. Which is much closer to reality of course. reddit.com/r/midjourney/commen…
So the police was lying, or at least heavily exaggerating about #silvester. deutschlandfunk.de/silvester-k…
Not sure how I'm gonna deal with the fame, but I'll have you know that I now have ✨three✨followers.
#jacindaardern, PM of New Zealand, resigns, citing burn out. I'd not even have half her strength, considering that she gave birth while in office. bbc.com/news/world-asia-643272…
Since the 2 years are up, Facebook considers unblocking #Trump again. Why not, Facebook is a place of hate and rage anyways these days. spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/donald…
The right-winged H.G. #maassen will no longer officially comment on the German constitution, as the publisher does not want to be entangled in day-to-day politics.
Given how far to the right Maaßen has moved, this makes total sense.
faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/bue…
#Mastodon 's big flaw is finding others. The simple act of listing followers of someone else and starting to follow them is very difficult to do.
Wikipedia is getting a new look, after a decade of unchanged (IMHO poor) design. wikimediafoundation.org/wikipe…
Most of the of the carbon offset projects are worthless. From my point of view, we just care too little about the impact and sustainability of these projects. We are satisfied when trees are planted on our behalf, but don't care whether or not they grow or wither. theguardian.com/environment/20…
Self portrait of my 6 y/o
During the protests in #luetzerath , they have detained Greta Thunberg, which is showing exactly how serious we are about stopping the #climatecatastrophe zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgesch…