Notices by Sebastian Gräßl (bastilian@mastodon.social)

@thomasfuchs That reminds me of the "Styriagra" case, where Pfizer sued a farmer for selling blue coated seeds as "Styrian viagra". :D

you can put it on and into everything and it'll make it better. no matter what.

Austrian pumpkin seed oil is life.

@thomasfuchs I've started to burn all my iTunes/Apple purchases onto an Audio CD, as a backup, and rip them again to remove the DRM. :D

@thomasfuchs Another exhibit:

It feels like it's got something to do with video playback.

Any video stops playing and other tabs show weird artefacts and i have to restart Safari for everything to work normally again.

Has anyone else using Safari noticed a lot of crashes?

The Royal Institution just posted **Carl Sagan's 1977 "The history of Mars", Christmas lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDyx6f5J6ro**

... next year it's gonna be 20 years since I got my first job as a web developer... damn. time flies. huh.

They actually invited @thomasfuchs, if I remember correctly, but he referred them to me, because I was probably one of the few other people in Austria who knew about Ruby on Rails. :D

This is me ~20-ish years ago at a conference in Vienna (re)presenting Ruby on Rails (with an Apple iBook G4 borrowed from a friend)

also, I'm old.

What the heck is this "Semantic Index" they keep mentioning...

It's 2024. I'm looking into getting a Blue-Ray burner for backing up data longterm on M-Disc Blu ray discs.

@thomasfuchs Yeah, that is the worst!

I've been involved in events where there were just a handful of speakers and only about 50-100 attendees, and no one had to pay anything and all accommodation and travel costs for speakers were covered by sponsorships.

And I'm certain that it can be scaled up. And I'm not saying conference should be free, but I doubt that 500 or even 1k€ tickets are justifiable.

If your conference ticket is more than 200-300€ I won't take it serious, because it's probably a conference just to make money.

@thomasfuchs I see what you mean, but i think there is not much difference. Some Electron apps do actually pull resources the same way as they would in a browser, but use caching mechanisms to not always do it. Slack and Discord do things like this I think to have 100% parity between web and "desktop".

@thomasfuchs well, every Electron app essentially.

@notjustbikes

Millions and billions of money, almost literally pulverised. ... i don't get fireworks.