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.

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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?”

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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!

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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!

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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.

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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!

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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 😉

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Woohoo! I just uploaded my first YouTube video. Of course I uploaded videos before, but never published them, because they were party videos with SingStar or made some tests for apps I developed that uploaded videos to YT.

But in the last days I were part of the Online Marketing Rockstars 2018 event and I put a small camera to my office’s point of view and created a small timelapse video at the entrance of the first fair exhibition hall, where all the visitors entered the fairground.

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Just reached my 2 years! Two years of my slim down challenge. See here a pre-post comparison:

It was and still is a lot of work to keep this status. It’s real fun, not to be a seat heater for the couch, but to keep moving regularly. Some people would say „too regularly“.

At the beginning I was concentrating on walk as many kilometers as possible per day to force my body to burn calories. In the last months I changed my training to gain more mass again, this time not by increasing fat but growing muscles and I think that’s the better way of life 😎

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You know that: It’s christmas time with the family and you have food. Much food. More or less tasty. And more or less healthy. More less. And in the end you do everything to avoid food dumping, because thousands of people are dying hungry every day.

Of course, this could never happen to US. After all most of us have built up huge fat reserves, that we can skip 10 christmas parties without starving. But even when we humans know, that we did something wrong, we don’t always fix those failures.

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