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Saturday, 28. September 12024
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We spoke with six Ukrainian young adults who joined the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 2022 to defend their country.

Source: preview.redd.it

Relevant: Aerial Object Detection.

It's hard to write code for computers, but it's even harder to write code for humans.

I sometimes think the challenge of designing for the 1st time user is similar to making a pop song. The producer will listen to the song a thousand times. But still the 999th time they hear it, they need to imagine what it sounds like to a person that hears it the first time, which seems… super hard.

Source: erikbern.com

Segmented type appreciation corner.

Duplicate of #11630 😅

Friday, 27. September 12024
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Long live hypertext!

What makes the Internet the Internet is the ability to hyperlink. Without it, you’re in a walled garden, and those have an admission fee: your self, proxied by the record of your entire online life.

Thursday, 26. September 12024
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Tears roll down your face
There was nothing left to say
How much I loved you
And I wish that we could grow.
— Sharon van Etten, How it ends (O.S.T.)

Wednesday, 25. September 12024
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Something went wrong – Ways out of the JavaScript crisis.

When your Rust-based build tool churns out 20 MB of client-side JavaScript in milliseconds and your dev server hot-reloads those 20 MB in milliseconds, you don’t feel the devastation this causes for your users.

Source: i0.wp.com

I did not know there is “The Great Divide” in JavaScriptLand… but then again, I am living under a hard place.

Cocteau Twins: Aikea-Guinea.

The Infinite Conversation – A never-ending conversation between Bavarian director Werner Herzog and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. (Via conspirator0.substack.com).

This project aims to raise awareness about the ease of using tools for synthesizing a real voice. Right now, any motivated fool can do this with a laptop in their bedroom. This changes our relationship with the media we consume online and raises questions about the importance of authoritative sources, breach of trust and gullibility.

Just a phase they’re bro-ing through.

Even the most cynical of us have to agree that Zuck’s new workout regime, haircut and gold chains are a dramatic change for the better. Elon’s penchant for leather jackets considerably less so. But the gold medal for dramatic self-case surely belongs to Peter Thiel who reportedly takes blood transfusions from youngsters to keep himself spritely.

Tuesday, 24. September 12024
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kuenstlerbundbadenwuerttemberg 3 x 48 Stunden: Rückblick auf die Woche 3.

Relevant: tine-schumann.de.