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):

Check it out I bought myself a desk pad.

Does someone in here know an open source digital will project?

It should at least send a recurring "still alive?" mail and, if I am not, send a message to mail addresses I choose.

I am not able to find anything like this and am thinking of creating my own solution for this, but I'd love to not having to do this :)

I own a Nintendo Switch. Saturday, for the first time, I wanted to play with some friends together online (yay covid). Sadly, Nintendo's online system does not include a voice chat on the switch, so we resorted to discord.

This results in the issue that I either play with sound over loudspeakers, thus resulting in a bad time for my friends because they obviously don't want to hear the sound of my game and me not hearing the sound from the speakers as well because I have my headphones on, or play without sound. The second option is bad because I use sound to orientate myself in games.

The solution came to me when I realized that PCs support audio input. My flatmate luckily had an AUX to AUX cable, so I grabbed that from him, connected the headphone jack from the switch with the Line input jack from my computer, told Windows via Sounds => Recording => Properties of Line In => Listen that I want to listen to this device, and I am all set. I hear the sound of the game now in the headset I connect to my PC, and I can talk to my friends with out them having to endure the game.

Solving problems can be very satisfying :)