Notices by Bastian Allgeier (bastianallgeier@mastodon.social)

Manuel @matuzo gave a really good overview of fancy new color features in CSS at @btconf

This is powerful https://youtu.be/2iPqZVONltU?si=5jxMa_8MJBlmvs7L

I shared a very personal post a few month ago and then unlisted it from my site. It's a tough one and I was very worried about attracting the wrong folks with it or getting into painful discussions. But a lot of really wonderful conversations followed. Especially with people from the US.

I think it's the right time to post it once more. Maybe it can help you in some way or another: "My Grandpa was a Nazi" https://bastianallgeier.com/notes/grandpa

Sometimes I need such simple visualizations to really grasp what we are doing.

A liter of gasoline produces 2,37 kg of CO2. If you fill up a VW Golf 12 times (50 liter tank), you’ve put its own weight (~1,4 t) in CO2 into the atmosphere.

I’ve put a lot of cars into the atmosphere in my life :(

I grew up a few km away from the border to France. My classroom was 100 meters away from the Rhine. I was in 9th grade when they opened the borders. I was in 12th grade when they introduced the Euro. Visiting other countries in the EU suddenly felt truly magical. "Fuck you" to all politicians in this country who are currently destroying this magical idea for pure populism, to appease some fascists. It's all about staying in power - as if that helped - and I couldn't despise them more for it.

Zen Browser looks interesting. Gecko engine but with an Arc vibe https://www.zen-browser.app/

With every new hype and crash in the tech industry, it just feels more and more like there's basically nothing meaningful left in big tech to contribute to a positive future for the planet, but we all need to keep pretending to not make it look completely pointless and embarrassing.

Need to put Sticker Mule on my "never buy from those guys" list: https://x.com/stickermule/status/1812280776362168539 🤯

@manu I haven’t seen him here yet

It's just a gut feeling, but it seems to me that the AI hype has already started to fade. There are still some of those hype moments, but most of it has hit mainstream already and is either categorized into "useful", "gimmick" or "total crap" The "OMG, this is magic" or "OMG, AI is going to kill us tomorrow" period on social media seems to be over already.

Or I just don't see that stuff anymore because the algo already found out that I'm not super impressed.

@StefanMuenz Ich hatte exakt die selbe Erfahrung schon auf Youtube mit nem neuen Account. Es ist so unfassbar gruselig.

Yesterday, Selenskyj gave a speech at the Bundestag and the far-right AfD and the weird new far-left-right-pro-Russia-something BSW left the plenary. Their sponsor Wlady would probably not have been happy otherwise.

Today, the German Onion (Postillon) wrote that the democratic parties now decided to put up a Selenskyj stand-up display to get rid of the fascists for good: https://www.der-postillon.com/2024/06/pappaufsteller.html 🤣

How many 100-year floods does it take per year to no longer call them 100-year floods?

„Better is now“ by Stefan Sagmeister has many fantastic points. But I’m sorry to say that his thoughts on climate change are built on the idea that we can undo our mistakes in many fields. But this does not apply to the climate in the same way. If we hit a tipping point we cannot undo that. That’s the very foundational concept of a tipping point #btconf

@reichenstein @marcthiele We should found a fan club. He does a really good job at this. He's the only tech reviewer I'm still watching regularly. I'm really no longer interested in the entire genre of tech reviews - or new tech in general. But his videos are far more than just that. His conclusions always contain very interesting thoughts on the future, on the role of tech in our lives, on quality, pricing etc, etc.

This is the part where EVs really start to play an entirely different role than just as a car.

1. huge home battery with the potential to get you through power outages for a couple days
2. helpers to balance the grid to not let excess renewables go to waste

Tibber is starting their grid reward system in Sweden and Norway and it's awesome. Your car battery starts to serve as virtual controllable excess storage for the grid and you get paid to provide it as such.

There's a German article about it: https://www.heise.de/news/Tibber-Wallbox-Netz-verkauft-verteilte-Regelenergie-9695619.html and I also found a really great short explainer video, which seems to be unintentionally listed on the Youtube channel of the voice actor and not Tibber, so it might not be fully official yet :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4lYV8utCMM

Sometimes marketing is all about waiting long enough for your audience to forget about the 80s and 90s.

I love how ALDI celebrates this brilliant new design that saves 40% of plastic by removing the plastic lid.

Doktor Whatson is a German science communication channel on YouTube. To debunk common myths and media coverage about burning EVs, they invited an expert and instructor from the Berlin fire department and just let him talk for 20+ minutes https://youtu.be/hZEyRdlB6S4?si=4CBiuDlwRKVtLsqM

What a refreshing format in times of endless bullshit.

We joined 15.000 people in Heidelberg today with friends and the entire family to protest against fascism and the AfD. The first big protest for the kids. It was so good to see so many people united against Nazis ✊ #NeverAgainIsNow