Saturday, 12. April 12025
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So that’s why the ChromeCast experience has become so shitty!

Google would rather ruin its products than pay Sonos, and that's unacceptable.

Monday, 7. April 12025
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Putins hybrider Krieg: Verschwörung, haha, was haben wir gelacht.

(…) was passierte, als klar wurde, den Bauschaum hatte kein Klimaaktivist, sondern mutmaßlich Putin zu verantworten? Es ging nicht etwa eine große Debatte darüber los, was eigentlich die deutsche Politik gegen russische Wegwerfagenten tut, die hier größtmögliche Angst und Verunsicherung verbreiten. Nein, die Angst vor kriminellen Ausländern wurde bis ins Delirium geschürt, und die Letzte Generation wurde als kriminelle Vereinigung angeklagt.

Relevant: Der neue Westen.

Sunday, 6. April 12025
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Unicode space characters (hopefully) sorted by their widths:

200b |​| ¹
200c |‌| ¹
200d |‍| ¹
2060 |⁠| ¹
feff || ¹²
200a | |
2006 | |
2007 | |
2009 | |
202f | | ²
205f | |
2005 | |
0020 | |
00a0 | | ²
2008 | |
2004 | |
2000 | |
2002 | |
2007 | |
2001 | |
2003 | |
3000 | |

¹ Zero-width
² No-break

Use them like this in HTML: e.g. | | becomes | |.

Saturday, 22. March 12025
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Andrea Dworkin.

In 1983, Dworkin published Right-Wing Women: The Politics of Domesticated Females, an examination of women's reasons for collaborating with conservative men for the limitation of women's freedom.

Relevant: Excerpt from Chapter 3 of “Right-Wing Women”.

Alza.cz – eine Alternative zu Amazu und Temon? 🤔

If you don’t see this everywhere, you are not paying attention.

Accusation in a mirror (AiM) is a technique often used in the context of hate speech incitement, where one falsely attributes one's own motives or intentions to one's adversaries.

Ein Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres: Dämonen. Besessenheit und Exorzismus in der Geschichte Österreichs.

AI's effects on programming jobs.

These new developers will know how to think in a structured way, they will know principles of how software should function architecturally, but they will know less about programming language constructs and syntax. They will be architects more than developers, instructing AI to put together software for them without needing to know about "low-level" implementation, by which I mean the code. The same way current coders don't need to think about how assembly code works.

Source: seldo.com

Hacker Laws – Laws, Theories, Principles and Patterns that developers will find useful.

Betelgeuse.

I sit here at my computer trying to think of words to describe how impressive this image is to me. The best I can do falls so far short of acceptable that I will not even try... The wonder and awe of an image like this is why I love astronomy so very much. Thank you allowing me the pleasure of seeing it.

Relevant: The Incredible Adventures of the Hera mission – The cosmic roadtrip.