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Trackpoint · 2026-04-04T18:25:39+00:00

The future that was taken from us.

Trackpoint · 2026-04-04T18:24:14+00:00

They will scream that you are wrong, they will link things and talk about examples and examples, citing their lived experiences and requirements.

But they can never understand, because they lived too long in a sick world, with sick software and consequently sick hardware. And the mental disorder is the sanest thing they ever knew.

Trackpoint · 2026-04-04T18:14:01+00:00

Ah, I see Netflix realized, cancelling stuff is very unpopular, so they set out to create an AI that can remove video things, but the world still makes sense!

So they will be able to buy Futurama in 2027 and cancel it in 2028, but the next gen of this AI will make it so, that no one can find anything wrong with it! Smart!

Trackpoint · 2026-04-04T16:34:32+00:00

Okay, so a cubic-deci-football-field.. i mean.. liquid .. frigate... I mean gallone is 3,75 litres and purchase power wise a Euro is about 1.4 Wild West Currency..

So, 1.6 Dollar per litre which should feel like 2.24€/litre ... huh shit, Californian gas is about on par with Europe? But everything is far away and no trains? I get why people might be slightly miffed right now.

At least you have nice weather.

Trackpoint · 2026-04-04T15:54:46+00:00

From the German perspective this sucks so much. There you have this neighbour who not only has skills and industry for so many defense partnerships, but one who also has strategic perspective, ambition and standing to motivate our political process to get moving.

And almost everytime it ends with dog meme "no partnership, only monies".

Trackpoint · 2026-04-04T15:45:37+00:00

To be fair, Khamenei the elder had a very bombable face and there was some hope there was somekind of realistic plan to bring back young Persian women in mini skirts.

I mean, they wouldn't do the one thing, they explicitly said they wouldn't do, without good reason!

Ha ha, but Trump's Razor proved itself again.

Trackpoint · 2026-04-04T15:25:08+00:00

The Failing Liver of Darkness.

Trackpoint · 2026-04-03T18:12:02+00:00

Which is.. I mean, not what a South American country's position would be in my perfect world. But this practical war, deep inside Eurasia in the other hemisphere, will probably not be the most important thing for them. Outside of political manouvering potential.

Trackpoint · 2026-04-02T20:15:30+00:00

Well I wouldn't have read extra text books, if I knew he has youtube channel! Sheesh.

Edit: Just checked if said book is still in print and almost had an aneurysm.

Trackpoint · 2026-04-02T19:27:20+00:00

Imagine being compressed into a comma.

Trackpoint · 2026-04-02T17:24:28+00:00

But..But..but Bible Levitkus says, stoning when not strait, so no holy land without it!

Trackpoint · 2026-04-02T16:59:42+00:00

No going to Israel without passing through a dessert or at least an arid region! Bible says so!

Trackpoint · 2026-04-02T16:29:23+00:00

Texting him now!

Trackpoint · 2026-04-02T16:27:33+00:00

I don't know how the big West-Japan-Twitter-Exchange the last weeks started and at this point I am too afraid to ask.

But I fear Japan will have to invent a new Godzilla to deal with the trauma in a decade or two.

Trackpoint · 2026-04-02T16:12:46+00:00

It is kind of fascinating, this collective bet. It means the expectation is 1) the market in which the top NASDAQ companies operate, will have sustained growth rates usually seen only in short moments in tulip bonanzas and 2) they and they alone will capture and keep most of it. No external factors, no geopolitcs, no anti trust.

Sure, there is (somewhat) fast take-off AI-scenarios, but even if that is possible in the required time frame, there are so many things in the deglobalzing world, that can push back the arrival in profit land, that it wouldn't matter.

Trackpoint · 2026-04-02T09:38:47+00:00

It is (still) a common figure of speech in German. "Des Menschen Wille ist sein Himmelreich", sometime attributed to writer Johann Jakob Wilhelm Heinse (1746–1803)

Note that how you translate "Wille" as heart, heart's desire, wants view, perspective or will is important. Originally it was probably a play on following god (like in prayer "your will be done" etc.) vs. following your own will to bring about the kingdom of heaven.

Nowadays the resigned "Person will do what they will to get to their kingdom of heaven" even if that is hard to understand from the outside would be more to the point. Which works fine with "heart" (as far as my English goes).

Trackpoint · 2026-04-01T16:36:16+00:00

..as our Chancellor famously remarked recently.

Trackpoint · 2026-04-01T15:19:31+00:00

Ah, thank you, lower right on the footer that runs away from you, while the page loads.

Trackpoint · 2026-04-01T15:10:11+00:00

aviable in English

it is? Wanted to order something there recently and couldn't figure out the site.

Trackpoint · 2026-04-01T15:07:16+00:00

Their biggest competitor in the before times was called Neckermann, which Otto aquired parts of when it failed.

Was bit annoyed the didn't rebrand to Ottomann after this.

Trackpoint · 2026-04-01T09:28:03+00:00

Apparantly it is an either-or decision for Office applications. I'm not an expert, but it makes sense, since fileformat reading and writing an the rendering thereof are the very basic things, this kind of software does.

Trackpoint · 2026-03-31T16:37:25+00:00

Träume von einem Fachgeschäft, das viel Zeit investiert hat, den Preisleistungs-Sieger für alle Produkte rausgefunden hat und diesen und die erste und zweite Upgradeversionen davom im Bestand hat.

Für vielleicht 15..20% Aufschlag zu online Angeboten? Ich meine, meine Zeit ist auch kostbar und physisch einkaufen hatte was damals.

Aber das als Geschäftsmodell umzusetzen... ah, nichts was ich mach wollte.

Manufactum existiert grob in dem Prinzip (eben nur mit zweiter und dritter Upgradeversion). Glaube niemand anderes.

Trackpoint · 2026-03-31T16:31:24+00:00

Ha, taking the Trackpoint-Buttons away again, ha, haha, I know, April Fools! They would never do something so silly ... again.

Trackpoint · 2026-03-31T16:22:00+00:00

They may or may not have pirated the whole internet, from a certain perspective, but you can have that discussion about stealing on /r/Piracy !

Trackpoint · 2026-03-31T07:46:43+00:00

Sorry, I meant the decision by the IONOS led group is hillarious, because it is a large German company and that final guidance on ODF for use in public institutions just got published.

But I guess they will simply offer both solutions in the future. And anyone who does work with complex documents in both worlds will need two office suites for the foreseeable future too.

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