How bad can you be as an actor? How flat can you reproduce what you just learned to say as dialog? Netflix Unfamiliar: YES 😅

The #berlinale is somehow different this year. There are tons of tickets left, and it's easier than ever to get them. So if you want to see nice indie movies and are in Berlin this week: do yourself a favor and get a ticket and join the fun 🫶.

BREAKING: Das Landgericht Chemnitz hat den Beschluss, mit dem die Beschlagnahme des Adenauer SRP+ durchgeführt wurde, soeben als rechtswidrig eingestuft! Die Beschlagnahmung des Adenauer SRP+ war damit: rechtswidrig. Der illegale Einssatz der Polizei Sachsen beim CSD Döbeln hat damit ein Nachspiel.

Oh noes, #koka36 declared insolvency 😭. If you don’t know them: they are THE place in Berlin where you went to buy tickets. https://groove.de/2026/02/17/koka36-kreuzberger-konzertkasse-meldet-insolvenz-an/

So I started getting back to Linux half a year ago. And it’s doing really great. So great that I am now knee-deep into a spec of something in the Linux infrastructure and trying to figure out how to improve it 🥰. Thread incoming. If you have audio or video playing, you can see it and […]

Is there a site that I give a random GitHub Repo, and it generates an easy digestible changelog HTML output that has all the changes of all real releases? I hate that I have to click through tons of release pages to understand what changed that also includes hundreds of beta/dev releases 🫠.

We are now at 9.1 on the idiocracy scale. Level is rising.

With AI every week brings us a new low point. Curious where we end up at the end of the year 🫠😅. https://mas.to/@osma/116072950851639506 (Sadly this is really dangerous stuff that can have dire outcomes for people AI is writing blogposts about)

Movie 1 of 5 in 7 days 🥰

The important thing you should understand about the maglev plans of the #berlin #cdu: There is a planned tram line that is beeing cancelled for this. The Maglev is the distraction that keeps the cars going. They know the maglev makes no sense. The tram would be the cheaper and better solution […]

Interesting one. Swedish payment company Klarna is behaving like a debt collector (incassoburrau) in NL, but didn't register as such as mandatory unter Dutch law. Which is considered to be a crime, according to Dutch law. nos.nl/artikel/2602...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/116062636716280821 It is fantastic that one of the focus items for this year is #webvtt. As a developer working for a bigger German TV network, I really struggle with that browsers a lot. https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop-webvtt 🫶

I can relate to this 😅 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vAg64gMO2wM #coda

Sometimes all you need is to update the font you use in your terminal. If you also need a fresh look to get the "new toy" feeling, here is a nice one that I switched to yesterday: Maple Mono https://font.subf.dev/en

When megastars like Beyonce or Bad Bunny do a Super Bowl halftime show, the music and production is always incredible but they're also loaded with meaning on every level. I loved hearing about all the themes and context for what Benito was doing during the whole amazing show […]

Good morning and hello new color and icon design on wishlephant.com 🥳 . This is the first step of a major design overhaul of the site. The old design was over 7 years old and needed a serious overhaul. Hopefully Wishlephant looks really nice at the end of this year. Hope you love this first step […]

When I grow up, I want to write like this: https://iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-05-github-actions-killing-your-team/

So what music on Bandcamp is getting you into lets-do-this-i-will-code-high-energy? It's bandcamp friday and I need some new tunes.

For my drum training I would love to have a iPhone app that helps me loop a section with: - Easy select start/endpoint. Ideally with beat detection to create beat perfect loops - Counter to first play and then loop without counting - Filter out drums or other parts of the song. Does this […]

I am really enjoying my music setup now. I am trying to go back to buying music, like everyone else here apparently. Going through my old archive and cleaning up the metadata (hey past me: why you so sloppy?) Currently using Jellyfin as a server and Gelly/Manet as music clients.

You call it "AI context compression" I call it "telephone game, but with computers"

Days since I had to stop a dude harrasing his ex girlfriend in a public situation: 0. Seriously dudes, if you see a man attacking a women, try to help her. Don’t look the other way like so many others did today. She is now safe and I could de-escalate the situation luckily. It’s weird that […]

I really love Mastodon, but it’s practically impossible to have a representation of a small business here. You get piled with “this has to be opensource!!1!”, “why do you charge money for this?” and so on. I and others tried so many times to basically move Instagram accounts here, but the amount […]

RE: https://clacks.link/@attoparsec/115991518126278746 When the Chinese requested allowance for a 200k satellite constellation, I wrote in a chat that Musk will answer with 1 million. And I was correct 🤦‍♂️.

The polish cert published their report of the attempted hacking of their infrastructure by russian hackers. https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/01/incident-report-energy-sector-2025/

Hey #parents in Germany: there is an Aptamil recall. https://www.lebensmittelwarnung.de/___lebensmittelwarnung.de/Meldungen/2026/01_Januar/260130_17_HE_Babynahrung_Danone/260130_17_HE_Danone_Meldung.html Please boost so that everyone sees this.

Parcel delivery people expect everyone to get email notifications nowadays. They simply don't put a note where to find your package into your postbox. Which means that if a person sends you stuff without tracking, you will never receive it. It will end up at a random post office, wait for 7 days […]

Good news dear cinephile folks in Berlin: Kino International now has an opening date. It will be back on the 26th of February <3 https://www.yorck.de/kinos/kino-international

If you look at all the things that Tim Cook is doing and then think: “This is the perfect time, I will now join Apple” 🫣🤔

OH: Deutsche bank prosecuted for money laundry. Is no tradition holy to people anymore?!?

Look what you did. You made Springsteen write a song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKSoxG1K7w

Just looking at the amount of work that went into this thing trying to sell something the core audience isn't buying shows how badly Mozilla chose when it comes to the new CEO https://bsd.network/@dch/115968952449549217

Fred Rodgers famously said that you should look for the helpers in news reports to not be scared. To not loose hope on humanity. Sadly the helper got shot 10 times into the back.

PSA: The BVG stopped all tram operations in Berlin.

Today is one of the days that I really love the 3-wheel cargo bike we own. Icy street conditions? Get out of the way cars, here I come.

Finished migrating image storage to Hetzner S3 for https://wishlephant.com this morning. And now Hetzner S3 in fsn1 has an outage. Great timing 🤡😱

One of my favorite art forms is "music video". So much so that when I got asked to work in a music video startup, I said yes and had one of the best phases of my life. Luckily that medium still exists. Even without MTV. The new Harry Styles video is a great example of what that medium can do […]

The favorite time of the year for me starts soon: Berlinale. The thing you might not know: they always have an amazing collection of kids movies. My kid loved every movie we saw there. Please do yourself and your kid(s) a favor and enjoy at least one movie there […]

Look, I don’t need a smart toaster. The only new feature that it should have (and haven’t found on the market): Go back to the base setting. Sometimes folks in this household change the dial. And don’t turn it back. Sent from me looking at a burned toast. Again.

Someone in a 8 people call drops a cheech & chong gif and says “lol look at this random dude” and nobody knew this was from cheech & chong up in smoke nor did anyone knew them. I am feeling old now. 🫠😅

RE: https://sfba.social/@drahardja/115925677903748103 Ben Afflecks take on AI

OMG, just realized something: The bad design language of the new Star Trek is just liquid glas turned up to 11. It’s glas everywhere. Including all UI problems. Did Tim Cook say “i like THIS” while watching it and one of his goons ran with that?!

I tried to watch the new Star Trek show, but couldn’t continue after 40 minutes. Does this get better?! Please say yes.

Yesterday I wanted to check what the current status of glucose monitoring via watch tech. What I found was tons of AI slop pages compating non existing watches with glucose sensors, trying to affiliate link those watches, slop pages saying existing watches already can do that, fake studies for […]

Next week the https://papiberlin.de dads are meeting again at BrewDog. And this time it will be even easier to find us 😂. Join our slack if you also want to join 🤗

How to figure out if an app is written by an Austrian company: 1. Try to register 2. Check if they have a title field with things like "Dr.", "Prof." and so on that is longer than your 3-week vacation packing list. 3. Hooray, you found one

Puh, das #fediverse ist nach wie vor ein Auf und Ab. An anderer Stelle hatte ich mich gerade voll gefreut. Der Umgang mit @AwetTesfaiesus zuletzt dagegen ist schlimm. Dabei ist sie hier durch engagierte Kommunikation aufgefallen, die wir doch als wünschen. Und dann macht sie Vorschläge aus […]

The list of bridges that need to be replaced in the next 15 years in #berlin is getting longer and longer. https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/jede-sechste-brucke-in-berlin-ist-marode-diese-175-berliner-bauten-mussen-abgerissen-werden-15138364.html Warschauer Strasse and Landsberger Allee are […]

Days since we had to use the Wayback Machine as external backup because someone deleted all things (not me this time) and the only backup was @internetarchive : 0 😅 Will make another donation tonight. This service is one of the best things on the web.

Newest low in school parents group chat We will get a new class teacher. She is coming back from parental leave. Some parents now complain that she cannot be a good teacher because she will be sick half the time. Would the same parents complain if this was a man? And this is in a group of […]