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Ein
Interview mit Heikedine Körting.
Sie lieben Hörspiele? Dann ist die Chance groß, dass diese in in
einem kleinen Studio in Hamburg-Rotherbaum entstanden sind. Dort
produziert Heikedine Körting, 73, seit mehr als vier Jahrzehnten die
Bestseller des Genres. Wir haben sie besucht. [...]
Neue Trends und neue Technik kommen und gehen, das weiß Körting nur
zu gut. Nur eben in ihrem Studio setzt sie mit Leidenschaft auf
Altbewährtes. Die Aufnahmegeräte und Mischpulte von Telefunken, an
denen gearbeitet wird, "werden seit 1989 nicht mehr hergestellt", sagt
Tontechniker Hans Joachim Dethlof – mit einer Mischung aus
Unverständnis und Respekt für die Arbeitsweise seiner Chefin. "Und die
Tonbänder müssen wir in Frankreich bestellen, weil sie nur noch dort
von einer Firma vertrieben werden."
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“Magnapinna
Squids - Deepsea Oddities”
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“The
strange loophole that transformed Berlin from tenant’s paradise to
landlord’s playground.”
This loophole for furnished temporary apartments provides a way for
landlords to extract exorbitant rents. The average rent across all
flats in Berlin is €7.67 per sq metre. But furnished temporary
apartments are routinely listed for more than €30 per sq metre, and
sometimes as much as €50. [...]
Berlin is fast becoming a city that prioritises the needs of
investors and landlords over those of tenants. What was once an
affordable haven for alternative culture is becoming inaccessible
for those unable to shell out thousands on rent, excluding the
low-income groups that made the capital what it is today.
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“How
to build an awesome chemical reaction car.”
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“The True Power Center of Germany
isn't Berlin.”
The unspectacular urban landscape of a city that is neither uniquely
beautiful nor overwhelmingly ugly has led many to ignore it as they
travel onward to larger cities that have captured the global
imagination. Yet this provincial facade is highly deceptive. For a
region of 8 million people that is widely mocked for being boring,
Lower Saxony has over the past three decades generated power networks
that play a central role in German politics. [...]
Growing up in Hannover, I experienced an environment that was both
small enough for everyone to know everyone else in political,
business, and cultural circles yet large enough to be connected with
global flows of information and capital. With Hannover as its
provincial metropolis, Lower Saxony is defined by a parochial
cosmopolitanism that shapes the social outlook of its political elites
before they go on to major roles in national politics. To understand
the German government and its distinctive approach to policy, it helps
to first understand Lower Saxony.
related:
“Die Macht vom Maschsee. Hannover regiert halb Deutschland - woher
rührt das?”
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“They
hacked McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines — and started a Cold War. Secret
codes. Legal threats. Betrayal. How one couple built a device to fix
McDonald’s notoriously broken soft-serve machines—and how the
fast-food giant froze them out.”
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“The
quest to save the world's largest CRT TV from destruction.”
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Postmodern
architecture: TV-am television studios, London.
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An essay about Turbo Pascal
7 by Kevin Boone.
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Rewriting wipEout,
by Dominic Szablewski.
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cobble_stone:
The Texture of Your Childhood.
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NTSC-CRT
is an NTSC encoder and decoder in C89.
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Making
of: Grand Theft Auto (1996)
Visiting the DMA Design studios in Dundee.
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The MiniDisc Wiki.
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My
Taipei Quarantine.
Now I was locked in a room with nothing to do except order from
Taipei's extensive delivery network. Soon mopeds from every quarter
of the city were converging on the Santos Hotel, and the poor chair
outside my door groaned under a pyramid of dinners.
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Curse
of the Colonel, an urban legend.
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Cool,
but obscure X11 tools.
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[objc retain];
live streams about Objective-C and GNUstep.
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Building
a PS1 style retro 3D renderer.
related:
Haunted PS1 Demo
Disc, a community attempt at building cursed PS1-like
games. I especially enjoy the look and feel of
散歩 - Walk
which is clearly reminiscent of the first Silent Hill game.
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JNR
Privatization: JR's First 10 Years and Future Perspectives (1997)
Exploring the reasons behind, the process, and the outcome of
detaching Japan's railway system from the state. This is a bit dated,
so take it with a grain of salt.
(also as
PDF)
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The
metaverse is bullshit.
Ever took a step back, looked at how things are going in this world,
and thought: “now what we really need is more distraction and
consumerism!”
Rich people do so, apparently.
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Everyone
is beautiful and no one is horny – mainstream films are becoming
as puritan, clean and soulless as a freshly renovated street in
Munich.
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Paris
between the Wars (1919–1939), lots of beautiful pictures in
there.
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Dubai
is a parody of the 21st century.
Smooth-brain dictator plus construction equals dumb shit.
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Engines of our Ingenuity,
No. 2137: Tenement Houses.
The logic of these buildings was clear enough, but you can imagine
the horrors they'd bred after a generation. They were dark, dank,
overcrowded fire and disease traps.
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ObjFW
is a portable and lightweight framework for Objective-C.
It also supports obscure platforms such as AmigaOS, Haiku, the PSP and
Windows.
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Dishwasher salmon.
An advantage of the method is that the prepared dish does not
smell. There is nothing preventing one from washing the dishes at
the same time, provided that the package is tight enough.
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Blood
type personality theory.
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Dʒɛmɪni is a
Gemini server
written in Racket.
I deployed it on this very site
and it was straightforward to grasp and setup!
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Why is
X not written in Lisp? (1998)
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View from the
Top: Craig Federighi.
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Ein Interview mit Dieter Meier und Boris Blank.
Vor Jahren besuchte uns eine Journalistin vom Frauenmagazin
‹Elle›. Zuerst hat die Frau mich interviewt, danach Dieter. Wenig
später kamen zwei Kinder von Dieter von der Schule nach
Hause. Irgendwann fragt die Journalistin Dieter: ‹Sind das Ihre
Kinder, Herr Meier?› ‹Will ich doch hoffen›, antwortete Dieter.
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Perl
5.34 has been released!
Featuring native try/catch and
a port to 9front.
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Firefox
is getting a new look on June 1.
I do not mind the redesign (apart from the atrocious tabs made by
people who apparently do not understand the concept of a tab), but
there is something else that bothers me.
Mozilla had already implemented a major redesign in 2017. Have desktop
applications really changed that much since then? No, they have
not. This is unnecessary.
Update (2021-07-20): It's been almost two months and I still haven't
gotten used to the new tabs. I doubt I ever will.
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the
zoomers are trying to input cheat codes into reality
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A
look back at Sony's iconic Vaio computers.
The PCV-90 looks stunning... if only we could carry this design into
the present day!
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Shin-Yokohama Ramen
Museum, for "serious connoisseurs."
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Doom as
a tool for system administration.
"I am proposing a new mapping for managing system loads. As
mentioned above, people frequently talk about "blowing processes
away", and the Unix command to destroy a process is "kill". This
suggests a metaphor for process management. Each process can be a
monster, and the machines can be represented by a series of rooms."
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bruno-simon.com —
wroooom! eeeeek!
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Yamauchi No.10 Family Office. I love
everything about this. Make sure to click on the logo and turn on the
speakers.
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Michael Reeves
taught Spot – the policeman's wet dream from
Boston Dynamics – how to piss beer.
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For some reason, YouTube has recently begun to recommend me Dark Academia
mixes made by user "oliviaalee." It doesn't feel new and exciting, apart
from the hype train, but the video titles are hilarious:
Basically, every dark gifted kid movie ever.
Comparing the trend with cottagecore, Vox reporter Rebecca Jennings notes that "the
simple act of putting on a blazer and reading
Dostoevsky is far more doable."
Because of course it is.
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This is gonna be fun.