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Apparently it's possible to use Vim for 25 years straight, without going to that donation page. So the person who told me and I finally sent some coins. 😇

 

As usual, Ben Thompson has one of the most interesting and well-thought-out points of view to offer regarding the Amazon/Whole Foods deal: https://stratechery.com/2017/amazons-new-customer

 

As a Cologne native, having made my way through maybe half of the massive variety of Kölsch brews that Oregon has to offer, I'm sorry to inform my fellow Kölners that the best Kölsch is not being brewed in Cologne these days.

Having also lived in Bavaria, I must add that best Helles is a close one, in favor of Bavaria imo, but some brews over here are kicking Augustiner's ass to the moon. However, Hefeweizen is not even close. Which is why most of it is being imported here, understandably.

 

Sound advice for anyone having bought crypto tokens, whenever prices drop: http://shouldipanicsell.com/

 

Good news, everyone: the Retro ThinkPad is a thing: http://blog.lenovo.com/en/blog/retro-thinkpad-its-alive/

 

Call me when someone goes to prison. Until then, we have to assume they'll get away with a fine (a.k.a. taxes on their fraud, a.k.a. the state participating in it after the fact), as usual. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jun/20/sfo-charges-barclays-bank-executives-ceo-2008-qatar...

 

"Verdict: The Surface Laptop is not a laptop. It’s a glue-filled monstrosity. There is nothing about it that is upgradable or long-lasting, and it literally can’t be opened without destroying it. (Show us the procedure, Microsoft, we’d love to be wrong.)" https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Microsoft+Surface+Laptop+Teardown/92915

 

The city of Cologne is counting cyclists in various hotspots, and publishing the live data: http://www.eco-public.com/ParcPublic/?id=677

 

"E.U. member states today agreed on an ambitious new open-access (OA) target. All scientific papers should be freely available by 2020, the Competitiveness Council—a gathering of ministers of science, innovation, trade, and industry—concluded after a 2-day meeting in Brussels."

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/05/dramatic-statement-european-leaders-call-immediate-open-acce...

 

9 years in, there's apparently still nobody at GitHub who wants to render 72-character-line Git commit messages without breaking them apart.

 

Sending and receiving OMEMO-encrypted messages across Conversations and Pidgin now, thanks to Germán's research and experimental libpurple plugin: https://github.com/manchito/libpurple-omemo-plugin

 

"Today’s release completes Firefox’s transformation into a fully multi-process browser": https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/06/firefox-54-e10s-webextension-apis-css-clip-path

 

Every car should have a "courtesy horn". Or two. So much road rage is just stemming from missing means of communication. It's as if you were navigating a crowd on foot and instead of a friendly "excuse me" you could only ever shout angrily at everyone around you. https://youtu.be/lv8wqnk_TsA

 

Success: In addition to clothing, I could even fit a sleeping bag in the main compartment of my 25L backpack for this trip.

 

"Where's your bag?"
"This is all I have."
"Ok, put it on the belt... and now, where's your actual bag?"

 

... according to https://im-in.space/users/kdy/updates/3646 it's a Firefox issue and not specific to Twitter. I have yet to see it on other websites myself.

 

Tonight at the Berlin XMPP Meetup: "Germán Márquez Mejía introduces the end-to-end encryption technology “OMEMO” and his implementation for libpurple."

https://www.meetup.com/Berlin-XMPP-Meetup/events/240728843/?rv=ea1&_af=event&_af_eid=2407288...

 

Sternfahrt Berlin was rad. Tens of thousands of cyclists, awesome custom bikes, riding through the city and on the Autobahn, all in perfect weather.

 

Tomorrow Berlin will see the biggest bicycle demo ever. Here's where and when you can bring your wheels and join: http://adfc-berlin.de/images/stories/Aktiv-werden/Sternfahrt/Sternfahrt_2017/adfc-sternfahrt-2017_01...

 

I'll be in PDX for two weeks from next Thursday on. Visiting friends, going camping, attending IndieWebSummit, and hitting the taprooms. \o/

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