I went into the opening show of the Olympics in Paris, thinking I‘d just watch a few countries walk in and wait for who‘s lighting the fire. I spent all 4 hours in front of the TV, fascinated. That show was incredible! They destroyed this ceremony for all future cities to come. Just… wow 🥇🗼🇫🇷
@ner3y hatten lange Pause, fast zerbrochen… vor zwei Jahren dann neues Album und seit dem auf Tour, inklusive ihrer Greatest Hits. Lohnt sich 👌
Sportfreunde Stiller, live at Freilichtbühne Killesberg, Stuttgart
I love it when you can feel that the band has as much fun playing their music, like everyone else has listening and singing with them. Great atmosphere, great concert, lots of my favorite songs and a good friend. Great evening 👌🎸🎶
Good friends are the ones you see again after 2.5 years and it still feels like yesterday, you talk for hours on end and it’s always too short. Lovely day 🍀
You’d think they’re at least trying to be kind of serious… maybe being aware that the whole world is watching… and then Hulk Hogan shows up. That’s everything one needs to know.
A country that’s short of completely failing and is not only loosing their war on misinformation and tinfoil hats, really needs more unregulated possibilities to spread more misinformation and conspiracy theories, based on services that screw over every single person and business on earth, with the sole purpose of becoming even richer…
Yeah… I think Gruber has figured it out.
unpredictable nature of the European regulatory environment
They are aware in which country they’re actually operating in, right? Banana Republic > People who care. Got it.
Daring Fireball: Meta Won’t Bring Future Multimodal AI Models to EU
Another big win for Thierry Breton and Margrethe Vestager
Well… it actually is. And Gruber might as well fall from his high US horse one day. Maybe give it some thought… Maybe some Europeans are quite fond of their government not bowing and kissing Big Techs asses. Seems ok to find lousy excuses to not even try to not exploit their users.
@heyloura oh, I‘m very interested in this! Curious to read a long term review. I‘d like to get out of the iOS ecosystem a bit, but I‘m just not sure about the everyday usage of these other systems. But I‘m a huge fan of the Fairphone concept.
@manton the whole world is in a downward spiral. It will take a very long time to get out of it again… but I sure hope you‘re right 💪
I think I won’t post anything remotely related to politics anymore on my blog. It’s simply too dangerous. Great times we live in 👍
@eurobubba I wish I had your optimism… But the world is just crazy. Even if it won’t be Trump… wherever you look… just more crazy…
Whoever did this, did a disservice to the whole world. Trump will win now, no matter what Biden will do, even more certain… The world will lose. Thank you very much for nothing.
Woof. That week was crazier than I thought. I‘m still braindead and extremely exhausted, but I can’t really sleep. Let’s see if some movie will help. 🍿
What a week. Feels like Friday coming to a close already, but it’s still a full day of work left. Woof. I enjoyed it… but I wouldn’t mind being done for now 🥵
@chrisaldrich thank god it’s sold out 🤣
@chrisaldrich I already have problems to find enough space for all my keyboards 🫣 For typewriters I would need a separate shed in the garden 😉
And another beautiful thing arrived today… The infamous Apple Adjustable Keyboard. I’ve been looking for this since quite a while. It’s so weird, I had to have this! (Some people might think I have a mental issue 😉)
And here’s the IBM Model M from yesterday:
Call me crazy, but l love Stage Manager on the iPad just like I do on the Mac. It’s not perfect, but it works great for me!
From today’s run 🏃♂️ Not the best idea 🥵 The good thing: no sauna necessary anymore 💪
@numericcitizen I remember driving to Plitvice and seeing lots of destroyed houses or churches with bullet holes. All in beautiful scenery. That war is long gone, but somehow it’s still there.
@numericcitizen oh! I‘ve been there… love this place!
Why is it, that every small idea has to become a humongous undertaking when thinking about the details 🤔 In other news: I finally ordered a Raspberry Pi. Now I have to think about what to do with it 🙃
I could not agree more: The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse
If you pinned me down and had me choose one album… I think it might be The Blue Album.
Holy smokes… what the hell. 30 years… this album was a defining moment in my musical brain forming process. I love this album so much! 30 years… 👨🦳 Weezer - The Blue Album LIVE | Spotify THIRTY - The 30th Anniversary 🎶
@Gabz you‘re not alone with this… I feel exactly the same way… Thanks for sharing.
Bullshit… what a lazy ass excuse to play the blame game.
Recently, I have work enough to do to occupy three people. Usually, I catch up on some things in the evenings, sometimes until late at night. That’s not really sustainable and after a really shitty and long meeting today, I’ll leave things be. Some days are just not worth even being annoyed.
I do all my task management in Obsidian. Mike Schmitz on The Sweet Setup has a great overview of what’s possible with it. I learned some things and will optimize my workflow 🙃
If you decide to give task management in Obsidian a shot, there’s a mindset shift you have to embrace before it will click:
Location doesn’t matter.
This is the key thing that made this work for me and it’s the reason I love doing this in Obsidian. It frees me up. Tasks can be written everywhere! No Inbox or anything necessary anymore. Tasks are just there and collected where needed. Really amazing!
@pratik agreed 👍 Also: history shows, that lots of the keynote stuff will a) not work as good as promised b) come in reduced form 1 month before next WWDC or c) never be mentioned again, ever 😉
@pratik yes, that's true. And there's no solution, so maybe not a "problem" in itself. But a large (maybe paying) user base is cut off, earning the developers less money. But specialized apps will always provide more functionality. DayOne is a great example.
It's very funny though that they gave a design award to Gentler Streak last week, and today they announced (a basic but still very important) feature set of exactly that app 😉
@pratik I didn't keep track of everything, but I remember Password Managers, Tiling Window Managers, Note Taking Apps, Equation Solving Apps, some Fitness Apps, and of course parts of Widget Smith … emphasizes one of the many risks for developers on the platform.
@jsonbecker There's a lot in there that nobody needs or will use of course, but integrating your personal context and being able to work with apps using natural language is the most outstanding feature I think. It doesn't "just" create text or "just" generate an image. It's how these things are seemlessly integrated into everything, how they transform your handwriting and typed text into your handwriting… stuff like that. People will mostly not realize, that they use AI. And I don't think anyone needs to watch this 1.75h long ad 😉
Sounds like an Apple Fanboy, but I really think they get the AI thing right. It’s integrated, personal, private. The AI companies say “Here! look! Cool Technolgy! Future! We’re not killing us all (we’ll totally do though)” Apple puts this technology into actual use that’s relevant to a normal human.
@vincent it‘s so refreshing to see a plain and simple website for once. Should be a good example for others…
@hutaffe this video of the founder though gives a different impression. Although, I can't verify if and what is actually new with the display. Really interesting thing…
@jsonbecker oh! Interesting, thanks for the pointer! The early review Om linked to looks promising. I'll still wait for more reviews, though. I'm really intrigued, and it somehow feels like betraying my reMarkable 😉
@cliffordbeshers @odd That‘s the difference of when I would make that photo vs. when an actual photographer makes that photo. Seeing the potential in a scene is a great skill on its own. To me this would look like a pile of garbage, and my photo would like a pile of garbage, if I even took it 😉 @maique makes it a piece of art. Really great 😊
@jean thank you for making this such a special corner of the internet! It wouldn’t be the same without you. And good luck with your new endeavors! I‘m looking forward to reading your stuff. It’s an Inspiration to see someone set out to accomplish their creative dreams 💪
@sebastian Guuude ✌️