@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, normally I just use s browser to open PDF, but we had actually create one and it needed some special Acrobat features. Afterwards I immediately uninstalled it again.

Not having a great experience with Acrobat Reader. What the heck is Adobe trying to achieve with all of these popups and annoyances?

Half of Germany’s car owners are trying to get their cars washed today.

If AI coding machines become mainstream in less than ten years no human will be able to understand how any digital service works any more.

Even AI coding machines will need to rotate their access credentials every 90 days.

Going to have to reinstall my Yunohost server one of these days as the packages no longer seem to be updateable.

The show “One Day” is well worth the watch.

I’m in need of some nineties rage against the machine right now - sleep now in the fire

Asked an “AI Assistant” (Perplexity) to summarize my introduction of my homepage and then I asked it to give me some book recommendations I might like, and the thing actually nailed it.

The way things are going, we’re never going to make it to Alpha Centauri.

I arrived at a phase of life where waking up after 6:30 feels late.

What the heck is a Devil’s Haircut anyway Beck?

‘The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.’ RIP Alexei Navalny (1976-2024). https://youtu.be/AHDueubF0QY

So I had three espressos before 11:00 - today’s going swell.

Wishing I could do accents like Trevor Noah can.

Found a new CLI timetracker assistant named Watson. Works really well.

“no-code” and “low-code” is still someone else’s code.

I’ve been enjoying my Fairphone 3 since January 2020. Not planning to change to a newer phone soon.

Of all the Daft Punk hit songs, ‘Around The World’ is probably still my favourite.

Played our first “Ticket To Ride” boardgame today.

Listening to classic rock with my six year old son on a Sunday afternoon - what can be better than this?

Lost my wallet with my IDs and bank cards. Would have been worse case if I had lost my phone. Still, it’s a waste of time and it will take weeks before I get all my cards back.

Got a Dr checkup and the screw in my hand hasn’t moved. That’s the good news. Bad news is that there seems to be something going on with the internal healing. Nothing to do but wait.

Late fees for public libraries are not fines, they’re extra donations to keep the organisation going.

Why isn’t inkjet printer ink simply replaceable like the windscreen wiper fluid in our cars? Why does it have to be so expensive and complicated?

The German indie sci-fi movie “Das letzte Land” was an interesting watch.

Anyone else noticed how the current date and the climate are more resembling Blade Runner each year.

Hoping for a good 2024.

I fell with a stupid e-scooter and have been waiting at the hospital now for more than three hours. Not worth it. I almost broke my left elbow and right hand wrist. Got lucky because I was wearing a helmet. Not going to try that again. The wheels slipped on the wet zebra crossing paint in a turn.

This is the best time of the year - BEFORE the Christmas holidays - when most are hopefully looking forward to spending good times with family and friends. And I do wish you too.

Looking forward to losing the muscle memory in my fingers of entering passwords into forms during my two week vacation.

Pretty cool how one can post to the Internet with a single curl command.

My last working day of 2023 is going strong! Just a couple dozen things left to take care of.

Actually funny that Germans wish each other a good slide into the new year every year, as if the rest of the year is too high a target to grasp within that wish.

Decided to block the threads.net domain on Mastodon. I am happy with reaching the people that are part of the current Fediverse. I have no need to add more celebrities and brands and whatever to the Mastodon instance I have been enjoying.

Reading The School Of Life by Alain De Botton, Page 65

Gotta admin that Ms’s Playwright test framework is really powerful.

90% of web apps are just fancy forms.

Creating stories together with a five year old is fun.

I just realize that today is still WEDNESDAY and not THURSDAY.

Instead of formal todo’s I have the option to create items in a plan in the morning that is valid for the coming day. Plans can be related to todo’s.

Thinking of building a simple “Things our kids say” database form, using Node, Express and SQlite3. Going beyond simple text files.

Having a tough time gathering my thoughts sometimes. So many appearing and bursting through.

So what’s the age of the oldest garment you still ocassionally wear? I think for me it’s this blue hoodie I got when I was 20 or so.

After seeing Google’s Gemini video, will everyone now need to invest in one of this pointing-downwards camera stands for the home?

Doing this thing where I do one-word status reports and logging them in a file.

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -Robert A. Heinlein

When is most of humanity going to realise that we’re all stuck on the same space vessel, hurling to the vast and empty space together, and have limited resources that cannot be replenished from some other planet.

Had my first toast-sandwich today and it was incredible.

We rely too much on Bluetooth. Even on Apple devices it sometimes is a very broken technology. We cannot trust not having cables around with the old trusty USB.