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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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“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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“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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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.