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Alt aber schnell

Ich habe mal mein altes Blog von 2012 und vorher angeschaut (auf blogger.de) und bin erstaunt, wie gut und schnell das noch läuft.

CleanShot X 5.0 introduces Studio Mode to turn a screen recording into a polished video

CleanShot X 5.0 is a major macOS release for screenshot capture and screen recording. It introduces Studio Mode, a new workspace and video editor for preparing screen recordings after they are capt...

“I’m Not Dead Yet!” Reverse Polish Notation Calculators You Can Still Buy

“RPN isn’t exactly the way people calculate with pencil and paper, and it certainly wasn’t derived from the slide rule, but there is a similarity in the way you work. With a slide rule, you general...

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 09-02-26

My throat is irrtated, my nose is stuffy, and I have a slight headache. It’s ragweed season. Unrelated: It’s time for our daily Pook-Emu Bee links. 1 | Dating App Adds Feature Allowing Men To Filte...

Starbucks Japan reveals new Tsukimi Moon-Viewing drinkware and gifts for autumn 2026

New “Bunny Autumn Festival” collection celebrates the rabbit in the moon with sweet design details.  As we enter September, people across the nation are beginning to take notice of the encroaching ...

First Terrestrial Mammal Footprint Discovered in Antarctica

A team of paleontologists has discovered on King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands, the first fossil footprint unequivocally attributable to a terrestrial mammal in the Eocene of Antarct...

Daily News Stuff 2 September 2026

Imagine Edition Top Story Anthropic has announced its new frontier models, Claude Mythos and Claude Fable 5.1. (Anthropic) Are they any good? No, because - Anthropic pledges to try harder to keep m...

SwiftData: Optimization Starts with Modeling

Once a dataset grows large, SwiftData lists start to stutter. This has been the performance complaint I've heard most often these past few years. Once you actually spend time on it, you find that t...

Does the shingles vaccine prevent dementia?

It’s a little complicated

John and Narses

I thought we'd elaborate a little on the conflict mentioned yesterday about the taking of Ariminum (modern Rimini) by a Byzantine force under a general called John, also known as John the Sanguinar...

Gboard's Rambler Rewrites Your Intent

Rambler can fundamentally change the intent of your writting. There is no way to control it, nor catch what it does.

An Honorless Move! Ubisoft Decides Linux isn't Worth the Effort

For Honor is being kneecapped on Linux, and by extension, the Steam Deck.

2026-09-02 09:16: I've recently switched to Gnome's default apps for email etc. So instead of #Thunderbird doing...

I've recently switched to Gnome's default apps for email etc. So instead of #Thunderbird doing all the things, I have Geary, Calendar, and Contacts. Most of the time I only need email, so it's nice...

Fyre Festival

The Bahamas · 2017 · Scam — Entrepreneur Billy McFarland promoted a luxury Bahamian music festival through fake financials and celebrity hype, stranding attendees in disaster tents before being sen...

Detecting LLMs

I am not good at detecting when a piece of text has been produced by a large language model (LLM from now on). Very often I read a post shared on a link aggregator, to later check the comments and ...

Movies / TV - July & August 2026

Feels like I didn't watch a lot of movies the past month or so, mostly because I've been working my way through all 15 seasons of ER lol. Movies Oppenheimer (2023) Watched on 2026-07-17: ★★★★★ Oppe...

Why Texas toll roads stay tolled.

How debt, reserves, public transfers, and concession rights keep Texas roads tolled after construction.

I Don’t Have a Smartphone…

I Don’t Have a Smartphone… …or, at least, I wish I didn’t. "I don’t have a smartphone," is what I tell people and professionals nowadays. This allows me to cut the crap about companies insisting th...

Drifting

This morning has so far been going well, but almost too well. I've been feeling more manic these last few days, which was much scarier when I was a bit younger. But now with more experience under m...

Handedness