Tuesday, 26. August 12025
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The Indian Banta, the Japanese Ramune, the Austrian Kracherl – and their common connection, the Codd-neck bottle!

Relevant: Nimbu paani, the salty lemonade.

United in our diversity.

Source: preview.redd.it

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What My Daughter Told ChatGPT Before She Took Her Life.

Sophie left a note for her father and me, but her last words didn’t sound like her. Now we know why: She had asked Harry to improve her note, to help her find something that could minimize our pain and let her disappear with the smallest possible ripple.

In that, Harry (the chat bot, ed.) failed. This failure wasn’t the fault of his programmers, of course. The best-written letter in the history of the English language couldn’t do that.

Email is Easy (via lobste.rs).

Everyone knows what an email address is, right?

Friday, 22. August 12025
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Wiener Tofumanufaktur!

Restaurants, Café und Co.: Zahlreiche Neueröffnungen in der Leopoldstadt (via fragnebenan.com).

In der Leopoldstadt weht ein frischer Wind. Neue Lokale sorgen für kulinarische Vielfalt und beleben den 2. Bezirk mit kreativen Konzepten.

Some snakes, such as rat snakes, have been known to consume themselves. 😱

The ouroboros or uroboros is an ancient symbol depicting a snake or dragon eating its own tail.

The ouroboros entered Western tradition via ancient Egyptian iconography and the Greek magical tradition. It was adopted as a symbol in Gnosticism and Hermeticism and, most notably, in alchemy.

Source: clipartbest.com

Digitale Souveränität.

In diesem Artikel erklären wir, was digitale Souveränität bedeutet, warum sie so entscheidend ist – und wie Unternehmen, Behörden und Bürger:innen konkrete Schritte zur Stärkung ihrer digitalen Unabhängigkeit unternehmen können.

A simple website.

This website is a trip down memory lane. I'm not trying to tell you to stop modern web development. This website uses technologies not available at the time the content here is about. It works on mobile (tested in Firefox for Android) but you miss out on the background image.

VTSS: Can't Catch Me (via videos.antville.org).

Does not get everything right factually but still an excellent compilation.

The many, many, many JavaScript runtimes of the last decade.

( …) by 2008, it (Rhino, ed.) was the basis of the Helma runtime, nowadays known as RingoJS.