Julian Ruf @julianruf@mastodon.social

I don’t necessarily agree with every single point or the chosen focus, but it’s interesting to see that the centralization vs. decentralization debate starts to appear on the focus on economic liberals

https://www.economist.com/special-report/2018/06/28/how-to-fix-what-has-gone-wrong-with-the-internet

https://www.economist.com/special-report/2018/06/30/the-story-of-the-internet-is-all-about-layers

https://www.economist.com/special-report/2018/06/30/blockchain-technology-may-offer-a-way-to-re-decentralise-the-internet

https://www.economist.com/special-report/2018/06/30/china-has-the-worlds-most-centralised-internet-system

https://www.economist.com/special-report/2018/06/30/how-regulators-can-prevent-excessive-concentration-online

https://www.economist.com/special-report/2018/06/30/there-is-no-single-solution-to-making-the-internet-more-decentralised

Some speculative fiction about AI that’s worth sharing it here as well

https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/1013220587580395520

Minimalist, but still full of energy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdcUyFgACY4

#np #nowplaying #music #electro

Having had the possibility to experience Beethoven’s Ninth performed by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the Prague Philharmonic Choir a few years ago is still something I’m incredibly grateful for

List of defending World Cup Champions that were knocked-out at the first stage of the subsequent World Cup

1950: 🇮🇹
1966: 🇧🇷
2002: 🇫🇷
2010: 🇮🇹
2014: 🇪🇸
2018: 🇩🇪

Given my obvious inability to express a thought in an unambiguous way with 500 characters from time to time, I should probably start looking at some blogging platforms for more complex thoughts

It’s so frustrating and I feel so bad when it comes to unnecessary misunderstandings

The Register definitely deserves a price for creative headlines

The state of Mastodon apps for iOS gets worse and worse. Most apps have seen their last major update 6–12 months ago.

The basic things still work but almost all new features introduced with Mastodon 2.0 or later are missing (e.g. custom emojis, ...).

Given my inability to code, the totally understandable time constraints of all the lovely FOSS developers and the lack of something like Twitterrific (for Twitter) which I could support by buying the app I don’t know how to solve this ...

Probably the most interesting thing I’ve read this week

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2018/06/22/ways-to-think-about-machine-learning-8nefy

From a German point of view the #worldcup so far is really nerve-wracking

Another day, another data security incident

This time the database of a hotel operator (Eventhotels) has been breached and contact data of hotel guests might have been compromised

Those German hotels are affected:

https://www.eventhotels.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Betroffene%20Hotels_Affected%20hotels.pdf

Here’s the notification from the operator of these hotels (Eventhotels):

https://t360f9c07.emailsys1a.net/mailing/60/1460489/3234814/2062/87f6d1e34c/index.html

Comic - Update and restart

Original Comic + Bonus Panel: https://lolnein.com/2018/01/26/updateandrestart/

Via https://twitter.com/LOLNEIN/status/1008810722661421058

Btw, I’ve opened an issue on GitHub about the Pixelfed / Apple photos logo issue mentioned in my #lasttoot

https://github.com/dansup/pixelfed/issues/295

Just noticed that the multi-colour version of the new Pixelfed logo is very similar to the logo of Apple's Photos app