I had not heard of this book. I just read the interview, both parts, and I must say, I did not think it possible, but I think I love Nana Visitor even more now. I will definitly buy and read her book.

Meh, das ist doch Einfaches Hören.

Mein Alter hat mich früher immer gefragt, was bei mir für ein Lärm aus dem Zimmer kommt. Ich habe versucht, ihm zu erklären, dass das Musik ist - er hatte Probleme, das zu glauben.

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Naja, das bekannteste Saruman-Zitat lautet ja:

Ich habe dir bereitwillig die Chance gegeben, mir zu helfen, aber du hast den Weg des Schmerzes gewählt!

Nur scheinbar ist im Bereich Internet die Politik seit Jahrzehnten im Hardcore-Kompetenz-Defizit

Das ist die gutmütige Interpretation. Wer schon was älter ist, erinnert sich vielleicht noch an den Herrn Minister Schwarz-Schilling.

Von Wikipedia:

Um das Kabelprojekt zu beschleunigen, setzte Schwarz-Schilling darauf, Privatfirmen an der Kabelverlegung zu beteiligen. An der Projektgesellschaft für Kabel-Kommunikation mbH war mit der Sonnenschein KG auch die Firma seiner Frau beteiligt, in der er die Jahre zuvor als Geschäftsführer tätig war. Seine Anteile an der Sonnenschein KG trat er erst wenige Stunden vor seiner Ernennung zum Postminister ab. Käufer dieser Anteile war der Nixdorf-Konzern.[12] Auch seine Entscheidung, Kabel aus Kupfer zu verwenden, traf im In- wie auch Ausland auf Verwunderung: Es war bereits Anfang der 1980er Jahre abzusehen, dass Glasfaserkabel die „Technologie der Zukunft“ ist.[13]

Während seiner Amtszeit war Schwarz-Schilling als „Kohls affärenreichster Minister“ bekannt. Auslöser dieser Affären waren meist die Verwicklungen des Familienunternehmens seiner Frau in Schwarz-Schillings politische Entscheidungen.[14][15]

I have a Fairphone 4, as well, and I bought it for the very same reason. The previous phone was not a high end model, but it worked well enough for me until the battery just died from one day to the next. Was nothing I could do as it was glued and soldered, and there was no way for an amateur like me to replace it, so all of that still working hardware had to be recycled. That first made me angry, then it made me think, and I looked around and found the FP4 with its promise of being able to replace not just the battery but everything else as well, as well as extensive, long term software support. I have seen two major Android version updates already, and regular security and feature updates, so I am very happy with my buying decision.

To be honest, I thought that trailer was very weak. I am not sure it would make me pick up the game if it was free - and I loved the original VtM:BL.

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No spooky eyes, no extra limbs, no eery smile? - 100% real, genuine photograph! 👍

Seriously, any one of these would have made a better entry than Swift. Of course, Swift is much more visible than these, but while no billionaires should ever exist, she is far from the worst.

Like Milei’s strategy, Trump advisors see a leaner, stripped-down bureaucracy as the key to long-term national wealth.

I rather suspect that “national wealth” would have to be interpretedas their personal wealth, not the wealth of the nation or any of its non-billionair populace. Policy by billionairs for billionairs.

kompakten

Warnung: Ihre Definition von “kompakt” könnte möglicherweise abweichen.

What an MVP.

Welp, looking at that face, I guess you can never leave again.

Soooo… what’s for dinner today?

(re)Ditched Windows on my PC a while ago, still have to use Windows at work. Just checked my work laptop running Windows 11 (standard laptop, not a “Copilot+PC”) - sure enough, that Recall shit is installed and active. Disabled it, and made a post in our main company Teams channel with screenshots. Will be interesting to see if there are any reactions to this.

To find out if it is active in Windows 11, open up ‘cmd’ and use: (typing this from memory, hope it is correct)

dism /online /get-featureinfo /featurename:Recall

to disable it, you need a ‘cmd’ instance with admin rights:

dism /online /disable-feature /featurename:Recall

You can just imagine the zombie like voice wailing “Haaaaaambeeeerdeeeeeers!”

With this guy, more like dank energy.

I’m reasonably sure this is not entirely correct. My understanding is that a replicator works similar to a transporter, in that it turns pure energy into matter according to a known pattern.

No Bruce, the people that complained simply stopped buying and playing Bethesda made games. The people who bought that stuff are different people.

This is what gcc 13.2.0 makes of it in Linux:

So basically just loading the string and calling ‘printf’ from the libc.