I spent the whole of last week with people from the AI industry. There were founders of companies that do things with AI and their techies who are in charge of it. And what I heard was really bad.

continue »

For certain reasons, I had to implement HLS Push for web delivery at Akamai in the past few days, and I’m so annoyed that I have to blog about it.

continue »

Twitch has published some new information about the new DJ program, which starts next week on Thursday, on August 1st, 2024.

This program is a reaction to the fact that it has been unclear for years how you can actually “legally” stream music on Twitch. With the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the world, for many DJs, virtually came to an end. Events and therefore their gigs were canceled, and some people and even companies had to fear for their existence.
Streaming on Twitch came at just the right time. And the music industry was like, “Are we a joke to you?”

continue »

A few days ago I wrote about how „excited“ I was about the BlueSky export format because I wanted to fill my social page.

Today I wanted to do that with LinkedIn. I had to wait almost 24 hours for my 207 kB export. You have to build such slow systems first.

The wait was really worth it (not!) because in the end I somehow only wrote five real posts. However, I could only take over 4 of them because the fifth one is simply gone. GONE!

continue »

This week was really exhausting, I tell you!

Monday and Tuesday in London. Directly 23,500 steps put down on Monday, when I went with the colleague through the city.
I was a little afraid that I wouldn’t get there at all, since the news was full of airport reports that didn’t encourage me much. You should be at the airport two to two and a half hours before departure so that you get your flight in time. Well, I was through security after 9 (nine!) minutes and then got to spend a nice 3 hours at the airport. Yeah!

continue »

Do you already have some followers on TikTok? Maybe you’re even a minor celebrity? Well, then you’re probably not overweight, poor, or unattractive - however you want to define it all.

On The Intercept, internal guidelines for TikTok moderators have been published, which arguably prove that the Chinese platform deliberately favors pretty, rich, slim - in other words, what is somehow described as attractive in various minds - and ranks them higher in order to attract and keep more people on the platform.

continue »

It’s just not funny anymore!

Last week the package Node-IPC got a dependency that simply deletes files from the hard disk after detecting a Russian IP of the user and creates a file on the desktop to demonstrate against the war.

The developer probably got a few pizzas and a visit from the local police after „some“ complaints, including from NGOs. Of course he didn’t remove the dependencies in a commit, but just did a force push on the master to an old git state. So that in 2 years nobody will know what kind of shit he built.
But the hard part is: version 11 is still in the NPM repo. He probably can’t get it out of there. So you have a malware in NPM, but no code for it anymore. Yeah!

continue »

Has it really been almost 4 months since the last blog post? And every time I take myself again to blog more.

And now I try it again, because there are a lot of things floating around in my head. But that follows in the next few days 😉

continue »

Due to the lack of alternatives you’re currently faced with 3 big questions:

1. do I want a virtual assistant? And if the answer is „yes“:
2. do I prefer Amazon’s Alexa?
3. do I prefer Google Assistant?

For many people in Germany, the answer to the first question is: „For God’s sake, no! A spy like that won’t come into my house!“
You may stop reading now, this article is not for you.

continue »

I was on the road these days and thought that I could try Youtube Music, which I have anyway thanks to the Google Play Music subscription.

Several weeks ago I synchronized my favorite playlist to the phone, so I was forced to test the offline functionality on the plane.

Music is playing - what could go wrong?

Said and done: headphones on, music on. So far so good. YT Music only plays the music of Youtube videos that were recognized as music. So if you have also favored a lecture, it is not to be heard.

continue »