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Apple's full statement: The consumer electronics industry is facing an unprecedented challenge. The rapid expansion of AI data centers has created an extraordinary surge in demand for memory and storage. We have never seen a component...
Yesterday was Make A Terrible Comic Day, which I only learned about in the evening, while I was already working on yesterday's post and a different, super secret website, but "if you are aware of the existence of make a terrible comic...
So, this whole "to buy Coffee, or not to buy Coffee, that is the question"-thing got me thinking a bit more: In my original post on the topic I made a call to "normalize giving" and I've been thinking: are there more ways of doing that,...
I woke up with a migraine today. This happens sometimes. Often, paradoxically, after a night of more sleep than my typical amount of way too little. As I was slowly gaining consciousness I discovered an email from Ko-fi. Someone had sent...
A couple of days ago I, like apparently the entire Indie Web, came across that "No, I Won't Buy You A Coffee" blog post, and, oh boy, did that hit me at the "right" time. In it the author complains about the "rampant capitalization and...
This is a Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere (POSSE) test, using EchoFeed to post to Bluesky. Lets see if this triggers once or twice. x-post on: Bluesky
This is a Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere (POSSE) test, using EchoFeed to post to Mastodon. (some of this is probably going to look weird, which is what I'm testing) x-post on: Mastodon
It's the first Sunday of the month which means it is time for another Digital Independence Day. And unlike last month the website DI.DAY is now available in English! Every first Sunday of the month, we celebrate Digital Independence Day:...
Grrrnd Zero Algorave 2026 is happening right now and all night long, if you’re into that sort of thing. more info over on grrrnd zero LIVESTREAM ON YOUTUBE (I’m still not a huge fan of the name of the genre as rave makes it sound less...
It is the first of May which means it is May Day, or Day of Work/Labor Day here in Germany, a day where you, ironically don’t work. I just learned yesterday that in the UK May Day isn’t on May 1st, but the first Monday of May, which,...
My first computer was a Commodore 128D, a successor to the Commodore 64. It had different modes you could boot into, but I almost exclusively used the C64 mode, so basically I had a C64 in a much less iconic form factor. The “D” stands...
This post isn't going to be about the typical criticisms of generative AI, but a specific experience I've had (semi-)recently that made me realize another downside of it. -- A couple of months ago I was going to participate in a game jam...
One thing I’ve learned about myself over the years is that I want to watch movies, but I want to have watched tv shows. Of course it isn’t black and white like that, there are exceptions on both sides, but broadly speaking, with movies...
People think that discipline is all about doing the thing, but it's not, it's about not doing all the other things one could be doing. Not dividing your attention. Not listening to all the distractions. Ignoring their call. But isn't...
starting a weekly recap kind of thing where i'm reflecting on the posts of the week, but also other notable events - an incomplete, semi-random selection of things done, read, watched, listened, etc. not sure what the format is going to...