It's been a while since the pandemic has brought masks to the awareness of anyone that wasn't required to wear them before. It's also been a while since the general public was mandated to wear them. I still wear masks, though. I wear them in the supermarket, in public transport, in bigger meetings, conferences and...

Thinking back to being in school, a specific class might have been challenging when experiencing it for the first time. Now imagine repeating that same grade, same class, same contents, same exams each year. You’d be bored out of your mind at some point, obviously. You've heard these things a hundred times now, and...

I've recently decided to stop drinking anything caffeinated for a month. My top offender has been matcha, which has a surprisingly high caffeine content depending on the kind and the amount you consume. Second is other green tea, and black tea. Third is the occasional coffee I get elsewhere, or flavored cubes to...

I'm currently employed full-time working with pharmaceutical databases, but I'm looking to shift into job roles centered around Data Protection Law, like Compliance and Privacy, or Data Governance, preferably in the 📍Nuremberg/Erlangen/Fürth area 🇩🇪, where I am relocating to from NRW. My current role in drug...

My wife is a historian, and sometimes, she likes to look up really old German recipes. One of those recipes was for strawberry soup from 1752. “Durchklaube die Erdbeer, und wasche sie schön, zuckers nach Genügen; gieß gemeinen oder, so du willst, süßen Wein daran, treibs durch und lass es nur einen Sud aufsieden:...

Looking around the internet, it's clear that digital representations have become cheap, too perfect, and easily fabricated, and the offline world is increasingly the primary source of confirmation. It's really interesting to see this happening, because it's not something I would have ever seen coming five years ago....

I enjoy media without actively participating in fandom. I prefer that over witnessing fandom drama or being influenced by the current consensus these spaces hold. Fandom is not without its use or effect on me, but I enjoy the more passive, indirect parts of it more. I like being able to research in a wiki someone...

Read this one a little while before it came up in the Gazette’s book club, but now will finally write a post for it :) I picked it up in a book shop while browsing, remembering I had heard good things and that I had planned to read it. Good to know: Meta is trying to combat this book pretty hard and got a gag order...

I haven’t put much thought into Christmas since I moved out of my parents’ home, aside from selfmade Advent calendars. I’m not a big fan of visiting Christmas markets, as the trinkets there seem useless and overpriced, and most of the (expensive!) food is not something I’ll eat. All the crowds and risks make me...

Some of you might be using browser extensions to handle the flood of cookie consent banners. Popular choice used to be the browser extension "I don't care about cookies", followed up by "I still don't care about cookies" when the former was bought up by Avast. These browser extensions try to block the cookie banners...

Here's the list of questions in different languages. 1. What did you do this year that you’d never done before? Got married, stayed in hotels with friends, visited France, had a butterfly on my hand, finished up 45 ECTS in education, started volunteering for noyb, visited a conference in my desired field :) 2. Did...