And then again I don’t miss it at all. And I have the feeling that that aspect will grow stronger in the next months.
Photoshop CS6 started to launch with a specific file open. Turns out there was a .psb file in
Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop CS6/AutoRecover
Removing it while PS wasn’t running fixed it.
As time takes its toll what might have been a stream ones turns into a trickle. Such of which we could just witness. 43 presidential minutes condensed into the above. What nonsense. This is all that POTUS did during that time. Watching TV, clicking on nonsense links and tweeting out random crap that adds nothing to the world. Even his ardent followers can only react with ‘yeah, he is right’ to such nonsense. There is nothing there. Really isn’t. As he would say it: “Sad!”.
As if there would be no epidemic. As if there would be not seismic shifts in the global power landscape. As if there would not be a climate crisis.
So, I saw John Green talk about art that was never finished a few days after it came out. The book he referenced titled “unfinished” seemed interesting. It was available on AMZN for around $50 in the US and about the same in EUR. So I ended up buying it over here. Turns out the seller didn’t have it. So I thought I buy it in the US and pick it up the next time I am there. Books are valid for a while. No need to have it now, just nice to have it eventually. When I looked today I can still buy it. But for a price that is more like: “So, you really want to have this, huh?”
Long story short: Impulse buy books! This was not the first time. Specially if something gets featured somewhere it is good to be fast.
Bluetooth is everywhere. In all sorts of flavors and configurations and capabilities. Our Golf 7 is the absolute nadir of the my user experience though. With Apple and Android handys alike connection is super slow to establish and sketchy.
We tried to update the car software. Kind of makes sense: After a couple of years and millions built, sold and driven it might be that ‘new shit came to light’ as the Big Lebowski would have said it.
The latest software took a while to download and install. Did not change anything. We asked Volkswagen (this was early 2019, but bluetooth still is troubling) and they told that everything would be in perfect harmony and there would be no updates.
Not surprisingly VW canned the head of their software division with the rather strange name car.software.org
Not over bluetooth. They have bigger fish to try. But the attitude that the company seems to have towards software is not surprising, given how they handle software updates for mundane but also frequently used things like bluetooth.
Patrizia Schlossers “Spannervideos – das heimliche Verbrechen” wurde gerade auf der ARD ausgestrahlt. Ich habe nur die zweite Hälfte gesehen. Mir hat die Sendung sehr gut gefallen. Das Thema geht vielen nicht so einfach und klar von der Hand. Angenehm war die Abwesenheit von Bildanteilen die Frauen darstellen. Leider ist das nicht immer in gut gemeinten Stücken so. Auch hilfreich war die klare Herausarbeitung eine verbesserten juristischen Lösung.
Täter werden gerne in diesem Genre in the Tonne getreten, manchmal dann 5 Schnitte nach halbherzig verpixelten Szenen die eigenartig unmässig lang den Bildschirm füllten. Das war hier nicht der Fall. Die Situation der Opfer klar zu machen gelang ebenso wie die Situation der Täter. Natürlich ohne dabei für Verständnis oder Toleranz auf der Verbrecherseite zu werben. Das geht. Und Frau Schlosser hat klar gezeigt wie.
Für solchen Journalismus zahle ich wirklich gerne Rundfunkgebühr. Die öffentlich rechtlichen Medien weiß man vielleicht erst richtig zu schätzen wenn man 23 Jahre im medienumsatzreichsten Staat der Welt lebte. Vielleicht ist der NDR doch das beste am Norden? Ne. Der Marketing Spruch ist immer noch blöd. b
Today Elon Musks car company was “worth” more worth than Toyota, Volkswagen and Honda combined. Those three together made 67 times more cars than Tesla does. Since stocks are not about cars but about future profits, the people seem to think that with each car 67 more profit can be made if it sports the T emblem on the hood.
THAT is NUTS
How much more time people do the people of this planet have each day since they use SSDs and don’t have to wait for hard drives any longer?
On top of that is the improved output since people have less chance getting distracted since the machine can be as fast as they are.
Balls made from rubber bands get much less attention in 2020 than in 2002.
While many news sites complain about adblock, what ‘outbrain’ peddles seems to go through on reddit and other sites for me. I think it is pretty annoying if images of naked women get used to drive attention and clicks. “Well if you look” might be what some people say. Sadly it is not so easy. Men are wired to look at women. No, that does not excuse any look. Especially when it would have been a person in real life that you would have looked at. You simply don’t unless you are in a relationship with her and she is ok with it. In takes an effort to guide behavior like this. Having to exert that effort while I am reading something is annoying. I don’t care if you make money by tricking people in clicking on stuff like this.
I don’t know the media landscape in New Zealand. “Herald” sounds somehow trustworthy to me. But they seem to peddle in junk info when they headline:
Covid-19 coronavirus: Superspreader – woman infects 71 people in 60 seconds in elevator: CDC study
It actually happened in China, and it seems that the traveler returning from the US infected only one person in said elevator.
Junk info and clickbait has been a problem during pre Covid days. Now it is on a different level though: Good information is our only weapon against this thing. It spreads. Only thing we can do against it is to spread good information faster so that we can change the way we behave. It does not help when 10% of people do a 200% effort. With other things it does. Pretty much how most societies run and work. Only few women and men came up with the great stuff that muggles like you and me benefit from every second. When mitigating a virus you need to change the way a majority of people works. You need to alter what around 1/3 of people do. The rest will fall in line. Peoples behavior is usually very aligned with that of the people around them. No matter how “individual” people feel or claim to be.