social.noyu.me

“westphalian sovereignty” is a euphemism for the fact that nordrhein-westfalen isn't really very sovereign at all

oh, s3 is a very amazon service, isn't it? using it to serve images is really expensive for many use cases, but it's probably fine if you're… an online retailer

> looking for an example of a religious conflict
> guy offers me one
> ask if it's a religious conflict or an ethnic conflict where religion is an ethnic marker
> guy laughs and says it's a good example
> look inside
> ethnic conflict

damn, will the only legacy of the apple car project be that one gag from wwdc 2021 where they had a conspicuously visible car under wraps in the background of one section of the presentation, and then reveal that it's just craig federighi's car

fascinated by the yamaha qy10… they made a battery-powered midi sequencer that fits in your pocket, but doing that in 1990 required big sacrificies: only 8 tracks, 30 crunchy instrument sounds (+ 26 drums), no fx, a single-line lcd. i love the demo songs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X13vLaTOVIs

the computer industry died when it stopped making computers with a real physical presence. you can talk down to an iphone all you like but you can't talk down to an ibm mainframe. it demands respect

oh no, i've been so busy getting irrationally annoyed at how many ways europeans have found to make karl sound cooler than it is (charlemagne, karolinska, carolingean, charles…) that i missed that the americans have a fucking state called south karl whose big city is karl town

early iPhone app names be like
iHateMyself
iHaveNoSelfRespect
iAmGimmick
iLongForHuman Touch

Wovon kommt das Gear-Acquisition-Syndrom? Eigentlich ist es ganz einfach. Man sagt, dass „Neugier“ die wichtigste Eigenschaft der Musiker ist, aber viele haben sich verhört, und sie glauben, dass sie „neu Gear“ ist.

can't believe analogue gentrified famiclones