Image of Darth Vader marching down a Death Star hallway along his vassals but also Big Bird from Sesame Street

Spotify Wrapped when you've got kids

That's the one I used

Trying to move a Pixel 6a from GrapheneOS back to stock and the Android Flash Tool keeps giving me the error "Could not find end of central directory", no matter which build I choose or what parameters I tweak. Anyone else run into that issue? Wonder if the Flash Tool is just currently broken

So how is your weekend going

Choosing a memorable but witty username is a humbling way to learn that you are, in fact, not as original as you thought

German Apple Store listing for the crossbody band showing a price of 69€

A lanyard. For 70 euros.

I use it all the time. But mostly just to copy text that isn't (easily) selectable lol

Substack is back in the news again for the wrong reason: this time, the platform sent a push notification to a neo-Nazi newsletter featuring a swastika logo. Here's Substack cofounder and CEO Chris Best on Decoder two years ago struggling to answer a question about moderating hate speech.

To be fair, the phone is charging right now

Screenshot of the Pixel Thermometer app showing a warning "Temperature sensor is too warm. Move your Pixel to a cooler space and wait for the sensor to reach ambient operating temperature before you can measure body temperature."

Naturally. It's a Pixel after all.

My client cuts off that screenshot as quid ass. Yup, that's definitely better

Three(!) popups before I even get to read anything 🫠 I'm sorry someone decided to do this to your content

Dom at the concert like

OSINTdefender on X: "Footage claimed to show a Unitree H1 (Full-Size Universal Humanoid Robot) going berserk, nearly injuring two workers, after a coding error last week at a testing facility in China. https://t.co/lBcw4tPEpb" / X Footage claimed to show a Unitree H1 (Full-Size Universal Humanoid Robot) going berserk, nearly injuring two workers, after a coding error last week at a testing facility in China. https://t.co/lBcw4tPEpb

This is fine. Nothing to see here.

x.com/sentdefender...

Wieso KI-Bots eine wachsende Bedrohung für Wikipedia und Open-Source-Projekte sind Im Wettlauf um die besten KI-Modelle greifen immer mehr Bots alle Daten ab, die sie finden. Das verursacht massive Kosten und bedroht, was vom freien Web übrig ist

Das sollte euch interessieren, einer der sehr, sehr unerfreulichen Nebeneffekte des aktuellen KI-Hypes: "Wieso KI-Bots eine wachsende Bedrohung für Wikipedia und Open-Source-Projekte sind" www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Organische Suchergebnisse oder zumindest Links auf Google, ohne zu scrollen? Ach, wer braucht das schon.

Die neue Benutzeroberfläche für Wikipedia ist da Die deutschsprachige Wikipedia erstrahlt in neuem Design! Mit der Benutzeroberfläche „Vector 2022“ bietet sie eine verbesserte Nutzererfahrung. Was neu ist erfahren Sie hier.

Es geschehen noch Zeichen und Wunder. Die deutsche Wikipedia ist endlich zum "neuen" Design gewechselt, das in vielen anderen Sprachen schon seit 2023 ist.

blog.wikimedia.de/2025/04/01/n...

Screenshot of my Verge "For You" section exclusively filled with articles about Apple

According to @theverge.com, I've apparently turned into quite the Apple stan

Deutsche Bahn: Besserer Handyempfang durch neue Technik | tagesschau.de Der Empfang in Zügen war bislang eingeschränkt, weil die Bahn ein ähnliches Frequenzspektrum wie der Mobilfunk nutze. Neue Technik soll Besserungen für Reisende bringen.

Na da bin ich mal gespannt. www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/verbraucher/h...

That means I'll be posting and sharing a lot more German stuff going forward, but I'll absolutely still chime in on general tech stuff. And yes, that also means the bulk of my published work is going to be in German. So, let's see where this journey takes me, exciting times!

Well, I focus on all the ways you can save money by optimizing your phone bill and landline Internet service, what's the best mobile carrier in Germany, how you can get fibre optics into your home, but also streaming services and password managers (got to keep that money in your bank account safe).

It is personal announcement time! I joined @finanztip.bsky.social as teleco editor at the beginning of this year. It's a German publication that is the country's No. 1 personal finance advice platform, with rigorous independent testing and a nonprofit backing. So what is a telco editor doing there?

Is there a way to automate that process? Great tip but it sounds so daunting 😅

Right, let's see if the grass is truly greener here, or at least, if the sky is bluer.