veith

@veith@mastodon.social

From Germany, in Western Canada #yyc

There’s no right way to live a wrong life

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mwichary, to random
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Unpopular opinion, but I think the third one was the best one.

(The current one’s conflation of trackpad with directional arrows is strange, and the buttons are harsher to press.)

Apple Remote, metal and black (2009)
Apple Siri Remote, first generation, black (2015)
Apple Siri Remote, current generation (2021)

veith,

@glennf @mwichary So you two won’t be cooperating on the remote control book then?

arstechnica, to random
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Study: “Smarter” dogs think more like humans to overcome their biases

Both the shape of a dog's head and cognitive ability determine degree of spatial bias.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/12/study-smarter-dogs-think-more-like-humans-to-overcome-their-biases/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

veith,

@arstechnica Did a human write this?

verge, to random
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The four podcast stories that will shape 2024 https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/20/24010208/podcast-2024-layoff-ai-spotify-apple-rogan?utm_content=buffer6cb21&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bufferapp.com&utm_campaign=buffer

veith,

@verge I love how podcasts are such a wide medium now that I, listening to tons of podcasts all the time, can read this article and find nothing in it that’s in any way related to my podcasts listening experience.

sdw, to random
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I am begging Apple PR to understand that absolutely nobody is insane enough to put a fucking iMac on a kitchen island while you are cooking. end the madness

veith,

@sdw I find that not hard to believe at all? Computers go wherever they are needed. In my experience it’s mostly the professionals who think it should be on a desk.

mekkaokereke, to random
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Lots of talk about the Atlanta restaurant scene, and why service is so "bad." I'm here to tell you that the problem is me! And customers like me! Because we select for the types of restaurants that Atlanta has.🤷🏿‍♂️

I ate at Milk and Honey Atlanta 2 days ago. Took over an hour to get seated, and they forgot us twice. Took another 45 minutes for food to come out. And yet I will be back first chance I get!

Because I took the first bite of the biscuits and gravy appetizer, and wow.

#BlackMastodon

veith,

@mekkaokereke Sounds all great except the part with wanting to turn over the tables quickly. I’ve never in my life even thought about that before coming to North America.
Also “excellent service” needs a definition. For me, it’s absolutely not interrupting my conversation with service questions and taking my plate away as soon as I put the fork down and yet every restaurant I tried over here that supposedly has great service does that.

robyn, to edmonton

Y'all I,,,

#ABStorm #HeritageClassic #yegwx #Edmonton #yeg

veith,

@robyn I didn’t think this could be real but it’s still, up. WTF?

arstechnica, to random
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This is how we could possibly build paved roads on the Moon

Lasers melt a regolith-like material into pavers that could be used for lunar roads.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/10/this-is-how-we-could-possibly-build-paved-roads-on-the-moon/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

veith, (edited )

@arstechnica It’s funny how we’re already thinking about turning other celestial bodies into parking lots before we even meaningfully made it there. When I said ‘funny’ above, what I meant to say was ‘sad’.

tagesschau, to random German
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USB-C statt Kabelsalat: Einheitliches Ladekabel kommt bis Ende 2024

Das Laden von elektronischen Geräten soll künftig deutlich leichter werden. Bis Ende 2024 wird in Deutschland der einheitliche Ladestandard USB-C für Smartphones und andere Geräte vorgeschrieben.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/usb-c-kabel-standard-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#Elektronik #Technik #USBC #Handy #Smartphone

veith, (edited )

@tagesschau ‘Einheitlich’ ist ein prädikat das ich mit USB und seinen 47 verschiedenen Kabeltypen noch nie verbunden habe. Mal wieder alle Probleme auf den Techsupport abgewälzt anstatt was zu Ende gedacht.

glennf, to random
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Backronyms are insidious. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/backronym Siri is not an acronym—it's just a name! https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/10/05/woman-named-siri-has-had-to-change-her-name-since-ios-17 But the human mind desires patterns and stories. About 99% of the stories you’ve heard that XYZ is actually Xavier's Young Zebra or whatever (like f*ck is not F.U.C.K., sorry) is false, an artifact of bringing order to the chaos of philological evolution.

veith,

@glennf I found this to be a thing mainly in the anglosphere. Maybe it has to do with the shorter words in English or something but I never encountered this type of folk etymology in German.

glennf, to random
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Larry Lessig should really stop speaking to the press. He routinely says things as bafflingly ridiculous as this. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/09/they-studied-dishonesty-was-their-work-a-lie “Trust me” is one of the biggest red flags you can ever utter.

veith,

@glennf As long as about 2 overworked people in their unpaid spare time do the reviews based on which one unpaid editor has to make a decision in their spare time, without support from any support from people actually trained for data handling and such, this will not change. Some people will do what they can, others will find ways to put in less effort.

gruber, to random
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I’m surprised the setup process for every new iPhone still asks whether you want to use FaceID with a mask when 99+% of people aren’t wearing face masks any more. There are lots of features that a small percentage of people use, but they don’t get asked in the device setup process.

veith,

@gruber It mitigates a limitation of FaceID that always existed to a degree and always will. Even if you only consider the US, nurses, woodworkers, spray painters have and will keep wearing masks, why introduce a regression for them. Also all the things already said by others about how COVID’s not over.

veith, to random

@MonaApp My timeline doesn’t show all posts. I’m currently 7 days behind. Trying to catch up I’m loading new posts as needed when at some point the button for that just doesn’t show up and my timeline jumps straight from 7 to 2 days with no hint that posts are being skipped.

veith,

@MonaApp I get that an app can’t hold unlimited # of posts but I’d really would like to be able to access every point in time on my timeline and not be limited to the last few days. I had hoped with loading posts on demand as Mona does this would be possible. But even if this is a necessary limitation, the interface should somehow hint at posts being skipped.

veith,

@MonaApp I understand you’re busy and people probably have endless ways of using your app. I’d appreciate if you could tell me if this is expected behaviour, a bug, or if improvements on this are planned. Thanks for your great app otherwise!

veith,

@MonaApp Ok, thanks for letting me know. That’s a frustrating mastodon limitation.

glennf, to random
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The printers are giving us a lot of trust. We can roam the plant. We're having a lot of ongoing discussions. Marcin’s book has taken over their biggest and second-biggest press, large parts of storage and the bindery. We are troubleshooting stuff in real time—amazing prepress folks are paired with amazing management and press people. The book is going to be so good because of all the collaboration happening when we hit snags due to reality and material things. (Penmor Lithographers! Use them!)

veith,

@glennf Is that more or less standard procedure or do you have a special arrangement with them? Or neither and everybody’s constantly wondering why these dudes are roaming the plant?

veith,

@glennf Another data point for ‘establishing early that you’re not-difficult about the right things’ being a good strategy in life (for the appropriate definition of ‘right’).

TechConnectify, to random
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So, I just made some fudge from a recipe that says to chill it once poured into a greased pan.

Given feedback on the fridge video... do y'all just never ever do that in Europe? Because, yeah, the little red fridge would not handle that well at all but I got a lot of folks being like "well, duh, you just don't put warm things in the fridge, everybody knows that" in the comments.

We don't know that because - get this - our fridges can usually just handle it!

veith,

@TechConnectify I don’t think many European fridges fit a pan anyways. But, yeah, I remember the drill, you don’t put warm things into the fridge and cross drafts will make you as sick as air conditioning. It is known.

veith,

@TechConnectify My mum had her last fridge returned twice because she could hear the fan in it. Definitely a different fridge culture. Efficiency and noise are top priority for most, everything else derives from that.

veith,

@TechConnectify I have a wider theory that the prevalence of forced air furnaces primes North Americans to accept high background noise levels. So far my mum hasn’t visited during heating period but I bet she would be losing it completely when the heat would come on at night.

veith,

@TechConnectify Works ok for me too but there sure was a transition. Before I moved I mostly knew the idea of white noise from spy movies.

glennf, to random
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London and Paris both had informal dine-in/take out options that are dramatically cheaper (and generally far higher in quality) than almost anything in America. I am curious about this because both cities have outrageously high retail rents. I am guessing the cost of labor, while higher than the US, is effectively less due to state support—I assume lower turnover, better health? How does this work?!

veith,

@glennf I’m wondering about that too in reverse and the only thing I can come up with, maybe outside of New York, is density. If you can sell the best shawarma as fast as you can manage to throw them over the counter rent becomes more marginal. That changes expectations what something’s worth, gets ingrained in culture, -> cheap street food more or less regardless if everybody can live from it.

glennf, to random
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Jet lag has kicked my butt from the UK to PDT this time. Worst I've ever had despite sleeping well and at local night! Five days and I'm still out of whack.

veith,

@glennf For me flights east usually are worst to deal with, since that way I have to sleep when my body doesn’t want to. Flying west I just have to fight to stay awake, which apparently is easier for me to do. Thought that was somewhat universal but maybe there’s a psychological element of being jet-lagged at home vs. abroad.

arstechnica, to random
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It’s summer and that means disturbing swim advisories. Here’s our top 5

Behold the most nauseating and mesmerizing swim advisories floating around.

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/06/its-summer-and-that-means-disturbing-swim-advisories-heres-our-top-5/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

veith,

@arstechnica Also your child will drown and you’ll never forget the look of their dying eyes just out of reach if you ever let them get more than 3 feet away from you. Some people/systems can drain the joy out of everything… 🙄

glennf, to random
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@gruber On Mastodon’s stalled growth: because it achieved scale of network effect and doesn’t require growth to succeed, just usage and participation, this size might be ok?

But, also, Mastodon doesn’t encourage amplification, outrage, and obsessive engagement. It might simply be less addictive than Twitter. (Bluesky, for what it’s worth, seems much less engaging to me than Twitter but also less addictive too.)

veith,

@glennf @gruber I get that and I’m very happy for you. I’m mostly just reading and never really was exposed on Twitter (privilege, I know). Being very much a completionist with a necessarily limited timeline, I used to profit from all the means of amplification a great deal. That being said, I do think the Fediverse is the much more humane approach. Not quite sure how to square that for me personally.

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