Sebastian @hinterwaeldler@mastodon.social

‚Bezos is known as an especially abrasive leader, giving feedback such as “Are you lazy or incompetent?” “If I hear that idea again, I’m gonna have to kill myself,” and “Why are you wasting my life?“‘

#amazon #bezos
https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/20/22585470/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-space-amazon-customers

During the industrial revolution, things got cheaper, and this higher quality goods were chosen for the same task, says this article. Good thought.

https://rootsofprogress.org/cost-quality-and-the-efficient-frontier

Sooo, I'm sorting all the links that I collected over the last year, and my #readinglist backlog is at 114 articles. 😢

"Being enthusiastic is worth 25 IQ points." - Kevin Kelly 👍

"In the video, the presumed future queen and king of the United Kingdom (also known as Kate Middleton and Kate Middleton’s husband) laugh and chat awkwardly in what looks like their home." #theverge 👍

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie3w5uvj-Eo&t=25s

May the 4th be with you, happy #StarWarsDay! 🙂

I hope improving my bookmark-management brings my online life forward a bit. Sharing links across devices, saving interesting stories for later, and always having references at hand during conversations. No more "I think I've seen it on the internet somewhere..." 👍

Ok, I found a server to install #shaarli again, let's see if I like it:

https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli

New #Pixar movie, trailer looks great as always: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYfJxlgR2jw&t=35s

I don't have a webserver available, and thus can't try any of the nice #selfhosted stuff out there... I should change that! 😄

Some months ago, I switched to #pocket as bookmark manager, but it's pure garbage. I hate the reader view which destroys websites, I hate that it tries to make me a paying customer, and I hate that everything is slow.

I think I will switch to a barebones solution like #shaarli: https://github.com/shaarli/Shaarli

"Healing grid" - Stare at the center of the grid for some seconds, and you'll see the outsides healing. NICE.

seen on https://kottke.org/21/04/healing-grid-optical-illusion

Yep, this is indeed how I see the world with strong glasses... Orange and blue edges everywhere, due to chromatic abberation...

https://micouy.github.io/blog/chromatic-aberration/

One of the things that make paid video-on-demand (#netflix, #prime, etc) worth the money are subtitles. I really like subtitles, and pirated movies don't have any.

I stumbled upon this captivating story about a guy that's paid for doing nothing: "The Forgotten Employee":

https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/

I think this is #Signal announcing that they are counter-hacking the data forensics tool Cellebrite? 🤣

https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/

Nobody: ...
#Apple: We put a faster processor inside.

"The good news is that uncertainty doesn’t have to be this terrible thing that we hate and need to avoid. In fact … we can find joy in uncertainty."

Good blog! https://zenhabits.net/delight/

I watched another #JamesBond movie yesterday, and I felt "Octopussy" is one of the better films of the series. Sure, there's a lot of hollow action scenes, and juvenile humour, but it's also more interesting than other movies. Fabergé eggs, East-Germany, Circus-people, discussions about nuclear disarmament, etc...

This guy reviewed the book "Why Nuclear Power Has Been a Flop" by Jack Devanney, and it seems quite interesting:

For example, some thoughts on having as little radiation as reasonable: "What defines “reasonable”? It is an ever-tightening standard. [...] Actually, it‘s worse than that: it essentially says that if nuclear becomes cheap, then the regulators have not done their job."

https://rootsofprogress.org/devanney-on-the-nuclear-flop?utm_source=hnblogs.substack.com