Today, for the first time in my life, I have heard my father say fuck, with a volume and pronounciation that made clear that he meant it. Still a bit baffled.

Out of the 64 individual current admins inside the groups my @TheReportBot manages, only 17 ever started in private. Seems to work just like people like it without them having the need to configure it. Nice!

That being said, the bot only has about 30 active groups it manages, so its not big either. The demand for it is pretty low, it was only developed for my own use

Delay: about 55 minutes.


That must suck if you are on that train.

Remember that? Said train company can charge you a 40€ fee now if you dont have a mask/wear it incorrectly \o/

Time and time again when I use regex, I am astonished by how much I love and hate it at the same time.

Today I deleted WhatsApp. I had a talk with a colleague about it and realized that there is nobody on there who would not be able to message me here on Telegram, either directly or over a mutual friend. So there is that I guess.

A lot has happened over the course of the last five days. Basically over night, I became active maintainer of NewPipe's website repository, and they released a big new version on the third of October. Writing the release blog post over this insane amount of changes was a very controversial task and I am glad to not having to do this again, I hope. Please check it out though, https://newpipe.schabi.org/blog/pinned/release/newpipe-0.20.0/

And today, we released a new major version of the python-telegram-bot library, V13. Also check it out, over here: https://t.me/pythontelegrambotchannel/88

And last but not least, its October, and the #hacktoberfest started. Remember to check it out and participate if you want to give your favourite open source projects back some love this month. You just might get a T-Shirt out of it.

Hi guys, story time.

I started working full-time. I had to convince some of my colleagues who I am going to work closer with to get Telegram since I didn't want to use WhatsApp. That lead to some of them discovering this channel (and also subscribing 🎉) and inspired one to start his own channel. Naturally, I subscribed to that channel as well. His last post was about how he discovered a certain song after experiencing a rough night, waking up in the train where he realized that he missed his station by a long shot and while finding a way home rediscovering that song in the history of his music app. After reading that story, I listened to the song and immediately added it to my own music list. Its pretty good, check it out:

The 1975 - If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know)

Another day, another post.

Today I wrote a little channel forwarding bot. Since I had to unlink my discussion group in order to not have comments enabled (don't like them), the discussion group didn't get posts from this channel automatically. I decided to change this and wrote the little script to auto send, pin, and edit the posts of this channel into the discussion group. It was also my first project I tried type hinting in, and the first one where I used Defaults \o/

As usually, you can find the project on my GitHub page, here: https://github.com/Poolitzer/channelforwarder.

Have a good day.

About a week ago, the German band "Die Ärzte" released their studio Album Hell, eight years after the last release of one and a bit of a break in their public appearance as a band.


It took me until the day before yesterday to listen to it, but I am very glad that I finally did it. While I have been a fan of their work for a while and like a lot of their songs, they were able to reinvent themselves once again. They fit a wide variety of styles into this release, as well as a tremendous amount of instruments - they are known for just having a guitar, bass and drums on stage/in their "normal" work. Some songs are slow and almost minimalistic, while some others have a driving beat. A lot of their texts are really thought through, while also having some simple feel good songs included. As usually, they expressed a lot of their stances towards varies issues within our society, which I really enjoy.


I would even go so far and say that my mother, who really dislikes their music whenever I play them on speakers, will find at least one song in this album which she will like (actually, mother, if you read this, go ahead and listen to it, even though you are busy, I know - love you ❤️).

Without further ado, the link to their album: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mXkb4IRNodvn9dOykzj42-fGzU1hTH78E.

Give it a listen if you enjoy a bit of punk rock, or want to understand my random thoughts above. And sorry if you are not German, they don't have any English songs on there :()

After a call with my mother right now, I feel obligated to tell you that she otherwise likes to hear music almost as loud as I do (guess where that came from) and we do have a shared music taste in broad areas of what we listen to.

"Okay I did it mother. Thanks for calling me. Yes, I like talking to you as well. Yes, I love you as well. Yes. Bye."

😘

(Also, #TodayIlearned that bot edits do not show up in recent actions and my code is not broken, yay \o/)

Heyho.

I just lost my phone in a train. If you call me and I don't answer or some random person does, that is why. It is an Android so resetting it to the factory state is quite simple, that is why I do not have my hopes up too high of getting it back, but we shall see.

Anyway, since Telegram just works, you probably will not see much of a difference interacting with me. Have a good one.

Alright, I got it back, someone picked it up and left it for me at a shop. Thanks to my mother for calling the phone😘

Hello world.

A telegram bot project I wrote about a year ago and deployed half a year ago finally sees the light of open source: https://github.com/Poolitzer/birthdaybot.

Hope you can find some use in it.

Doing a jigsaw with my family :)

Happy new year everyone (at least in the CET).

WhatsApp belongs to Facebook. This shouldn't surprise anyone. But with changes to their Privacy Policy on the Fourth of January, they allowed themselves to share data they collect from you with Facebook. You have to agree to these changes or you won't be able to use WhatsApp from the 8th of February on forward.

Since they use End-to-End encryption, they can't know the content of your messages, as they don't get tired to tell you - but Facebook doesn't even want this. What they can and will gather about you though is meta data. Which phone number writes when with whom, is online how quickly after phone number X or group with X-Y phone numbers in it writes them, etc. You can get a very good overview of someone's social network with just this data. If you don't believe me and speak German, take just one hour of of your day and see what David Kriesel was able to gather out of public data of an online newsletter agency, Spiegel-Online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YpwsdRKt8Q

Speaking about German, German news article about the changes of WhatsApp's policy:
https://www.heise.de/news/WhatsApp-aendert-Nutzungsbedingungen-Daten-werden-mit-Facebook-geteilt-5005893.html

And an English one as well :)
https://9to5mac.com/2021/01/06/whatsapp-share-your-data-with-facebook/

If you were sad because the guy in the video and the topic looked/sounded cool but you only speak english, fear not, I was just pointed to a translation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYviBstTUwo&feature=youtu.be

And, since someone else would have pointed me to that in the foreseeable future, the open source ccc media link where you can select for yourself which version you want to hear (last post for today, promise)

https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7912-spiegelmining_reverse_engineering_von_spiegel-online#t=242

Today marks the date of my first bigger dish I made together with my flat mate: Self made pizza, the way my mother knows from her childhood and taught to me (in half an hour via a phone call today). I made a couple of pictures along the way, which I am going to send in an album. If you want to reach the caption of the images, you have to enlarge it (speak: Touch/click on it):