I wouldn’t want to know that. Imagine even if you get to know only a part of that knowledge, for instance, you get to know that you will die on a Tuesday or within a specific month. With that information in mind you would dread every upcoming Tuesday (or a specific month) and in the end it all may lead up to a self fulfilling prophecy.

Back in the 90s our school had one room with a permantently installed TV set. Class was taking part in this room once a week. When we all behaved - and we did! - we were allowed to watch MTV in this room for the last remaining 15 minutes of the lesson. It was the time where boy groups and Euro Dance music was at its peak. For us 5th or 6th-graders this was the most important thing every week.

The last time I bought a map was around the early 2000’s. I drove to another city and bought a city plan along with a newspaper. I used both to search for appartements to visit and rent while being there for the whole day.

The last time a physical map got handed to me was when I registered as a citizen in yet another city I went to study for. Students who moved there were handed a shoulder bag filled with some brochures along with a map of the city and a book with the timetables for all public transport routes as a welcoming gift. That was in 2007.

An excerpt from a related article from the same website:

And making the low-budget movie meant long hours and, as the title suggests, a lot of running. “Run Lola Run” finds its 20-something protagonist in a race against the clock to help her boyfriend replace a drug dealer’s bag of money that he lost. Most movie stars would sign up for a few triathlons or employ Usain Bolt’s trainer to get ready for such a gig. Not Potente.

“I didn’t do any preparation really,” she admits. “I was probably smoking two packs of cigarettes a day at that point. And I was doing all this running — I was running in rehearsals, I was running when we shot all the different takes, and I would run again so we could get the sound right. I was carried along by all this energy.”

Ah, the 90s… It was still is a great movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_Lola_Run

Perhaps there will be a time in the future when we look back to when everything was “just” flat design. Meanwhile the UI will adapt the aesthetics of AI generated imagery which will be the new design thing then. Everything will look overly saturated but also a bit blurry, like AI generated landscapes. .

Or not. It depends on what data an AI will be fed with. Maybe it goes Frutiger Aero all over again (at least what the AI interpretation of Frutiger will be) since AI generators could be fed with the existing examples of such an era. We would have gone full circle.

I didn’t know. I thought it was some old painting which depicted something in a totally different and unknown context, like so many others in this communtiy. It is never too late to learn.

That’s an interesting one. When I was a child I liked the smell of new books and magazines. They had a rather pleasant odor. But since a couple of years now fresh-printed things smell just awful. I think the ingredients of the ink or the paper have been changed.

What a waste of resources. Millions of devices will now add to the landfill, despite nothing is wrong with them in terms of technical funtionality. Just because Spotify wants them do be discontinued.

It should be law that when a manufacturer decides on discontinuing an otherwise fully functional product in such way, they should be forced to publish the source code of the software used for the respective device as well as any other resources for free so that users of these devices at least have a chance to repurpose it.

This also stands for any “smart” / internet-of-things-devices where the main functionality is reliing on the operation of a server. When the servers discontinue their services your device is basically a brick with no other functionality.

As it has been pointed out by others, research data shows that plastic bottle caps are a significant part of trash that is washed onto beaches. In order to prevent that bottles now come with tethered caps. From this point of view this measurement might be understandable. But does one really lose the caps of these bottles that often? Is this really the problem?

Where I live these kind of bottles are part of a deposit system. When you return them at a supermarket you get your deposit (25 Cent) back. This alone ensures that these bottles barely end up anywhere in the enviroment in the first place. When these bottles are returned at the supermarket, all of the bottles do have their respective caps screwed on. This method is practical, as you can collect these bottles wtihout having to deal with leakages of excess liquids.

I never had any issues regarding that the cap is still attached to the bottle, which could be an issue when it comes to recycling these bottles. One major problem when it comes to recycling of plastics is that it is crucial that these plastics are separated by the material they are made of. That is why it is impossible to recycle compound materials, as they can’t be separated from each other (i.e. tetra pak, tetra bric). The most common way of getting rid of these kind of packings is to burn them and use their heat for generating electricity.

These plastic bottles on the other hand can be recycled easily, as they consist of only one material (PET) - given, that the label is made of the same kind of plastic like the bottle itself.

I don’t know if the bottle cap is made of the same material (PET) or if this is another kind of plastic (ABS, PS, …). Making these bottle caps from the same material as the bottle itself would impose a greater impact than tethering them onto the bottle.

At first glance this measurement sounds like a low-hanging-fruit-greenwashing-attempt that hurts nobody. Very similar to the ban of disposable plastic cutlery or the ban of plastic straws. Don’t get me wrong - I think that these things are an important step towards reducing pollution and garbage overall, but did you ever ask yourself: “How does the garbage get into the ocean in the first place?”

There is an eerie resemblence between the smallest neuron and the largest structure in the universe - Galaxy Filament

Ads in, before, and after videos suck.

But wouldn’t be an ad, which is displayed during a paused video one of the least annoying? Because, when I pause a video, I’m usually doing something else (bathroom break for instance, or, when staying at the computer, doing something in another browser tab or in a different program) and I’m absent from the video. Also, I can mute sound easily (one push of a key on the keyboard - which is a workflow that has to be executed then in addition to simply pausing the video and therefore would be annoying).

Or did I miss anything else crucial? Do you pause videos and stare at the paused video without doing anything else?

Anyway, this probably won’t be a problem if you use an ad blocker. Or if you download the video.

Back in 2565 BC cameras weren’t that advanced like they are today. Due to the long exposure time these people had to stand still for several hours in order to avoid too much blurriness of the photo. You can see that the people in the background (middle left in the photo) were moving slightly as the photo is a bit blurrier compared to the foreground.

Distraction is just one click away.

Springt dann wenigstens ein gesetzlicher Feiertag für uns alle dabei raus? Oder ist das dann eher so was wie der Weltspartag?

Aller Wahrscheinlichkeit nach wird dies eine Veranstaltung werden, die mit viel Tamtam und viel Beweihräucherung sehr beschönigend auf die Herausforderungen der Streitkräfte eingeht. Keine Erwähnung wird der desolate Zustand von Material und Arbeitsbedingungen finden - man kennt ja die zahlreichen Meldungen (ein Bruchteil der Panzer, Uboote, Flugzeuge sind einsatzbereit, es gibt keine Schlüpper für die Soldaten, Nachtsichtgeräte müssen mit Kameraden geteilt werden,…).

Wie schon weiter unten erwähnt, lockt man eher diejenigen mit einem solchen Veteranentag an, die man lieber nicht in der Bundeswehr hätte.

Bad Wolves - Zombie

“House of the Rising Sun” has been covered numerous times. The most known version is from The Animals. I was today years old when I learned that this is the original version of the song. However, my personal favourite cover version is from BTO.

Another well-executed cover version is of the song “Johnny B. Goode”, covered by Peter Tosh, beause it is tranferred into a different music genre.

Kurzgesagt
Last Week Tonight
Veritasium
Map Men
Rob Words
Mr.Ballen
melodysheep
Space Matters
Technology Connections

These are the ones I watch regularly. Most of these channels offer educational content.

I bet that is on purpose.

An interesting Article, why journalists - not police - found her whereabouts:
https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/deutschland/daniela-klette-verhaftung-gesichtserkennung-pimeyes-100.html

Some parts translated into Englisch below:
Journalists had already tracked down the ex-terrorist, who had been in hiding for 30 years, in Berlin last year. In the rbb podcast “Most Wanted: Where is RAF terrorist Daniela Klette?”, Khesrau Behroz and Patrick Stegemann report on how they followed up on a listener’s tip and, together with an expert from the Bellingcat research platform, pursued concrete leads in Berlin.

The method: Michael Colborne from Bellingcat uploaded old mugshots of Klette to the site Pimeyes - an AI tool for facial recognition on the internet. Private photos apparently showing Klette appeared in the search results.

Klette had been in hiding for 30 years, but Corborne’s search only lasted 30 minutes, according to his own statement. After their research, the two podcasters even visited the Berlin club where Klette had trained for a long time under the name “Claudia Ivone”, says Khesrau Behroz in an interview with ZDFheute. They also discovered a Facebook account for Klette with the false name. However, the trail was lost in the club - Klette had not appeared for training for years, they said.

But if it was so easy for journalists to track down Daniela Klette in Berlin and even find out her cover name - why did the investigating authorities have no trace of the former RAF terrorist for so long? Couldn’t target investigators have simply fed Pimeyes with the mugshots?

In principle, the use of such tools by the police is subject to strict data protection limits. Photos obtained in the course of investigations may not simply be passed on to third parties by the police at any time. When asked by ZDFheute, the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) stated that the use of such facial recognition tools is only legally permissible in the context of a court-ordered public search. In Klette’s case, however, this has been the case for decades.

It is unclear whether the podcasters’ findings ultimately led to Klette’s arrest. According to the police, the decisive tip-off came from the public last November.

This would be the Movie Posters, A.I. generated: