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Rip whoever died in this rest stop

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serviceperson hat meine verabschiedung interpretiert wie sie dachte. vielleicht vergessen, dass die erfahrung "recht gehabt aber pech gehabt, lol was willst du machen" war


ich fand es als kind immer sehr verwirrend, dass "der mensch hat gute nerven" (edit: oder auch "nerven wie stahlseile") das gleiche bedeutet hat wie "der hat keine nerven" (bzw "ein mensch ohne nerven"). aber letztere formulierung habe ich nun schon echt lange nicht mehr gesehen

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dit is berlin! kopflose ratte inner pfütze zwischen den tramschienen. foto erspar ich euch

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A pair of pigeons has made its home in the tree in our yard, and when one of them woke me at 6:52 am on a Saturday by screaming (technical term) right in front of my balcony door, I decided to do a little 5 minute craft project. Let's see if the pigeons like it.
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nice! cute & well crafted. let us know, if it works. I have a similar problem here. 😊✌️
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the birds outside my windows don't even mind the real cat sitting on the windowsill and making silly noises



was hat es eigentlich mit diesem phänomen auf sich, dass deutsche schmunzeltwittergroßaccounts (und jetzt vmtl auch welche auf bluesky) sich mit namen und/oder bild englischsprachiger komiker und sitcomfiguren präsentieren? chevy chase, alf, etc.? das macht soweit ich das weiß anderswo niemand...


if you're calling it an Essential Mix, it better be all A-minor acid tracks


"A.I." folgt nach einem ungünstig getimeten Tippfehler leider den 3 Gesetzen von Asimove

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"This video is only available to Music Premium members" :(


ich so: ein (1, in zahlen: EIN) deutsches comedy-video von unter 1 minute länge anguck

youtube so: WIR HABEN DA ÜBRIGENS AUCH FASCHISTEN DIE SICH LUSTIG FINDEN GUCK MAL GUCK HIER SIND VIDEOS VON LISA ECKHART UND DIETER NUHR GUCK DOCH MAL WILLSTE KOMM KLICK MAL



ich will das eigentlich nicht, aber es geht mir so endlos auf den keks, wie selbstverständlich fast alle leute "scheinbar" statt "anscheinend" verwenden. ich habe so lange versucht, da still zu sein, aber es frisst mich auf. ich will die anschreien! was mich das schon an kraft gekostet hat, mich da zurück zu halten! ich muss vielleicht mal ne phase einlegen, in der ich mich unbeliebt mache und was dazu sage - einfach aus self care. falls ihr davon betroffen seid, nehmt es mir bitte nicht übel. und sagt einfach IMMER "anscheinend", dann seid ihr auf der sicheren seite.
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Ist es nicht vielmehr so, dass »scheinbar« beides bedeuten kann und man also immer »scheinbar« sagen muss, um auf der sicheren Seite zu sein?
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häh? nein, "scheinbar" heißt ausdrücklich und ausschließlich "nur zum schein", also dass es in wirklichkeit anders ist, als es aussieht. "anscheinend" beschreibt ohne aussage über die tatsächliche lage, wie es von außen wirkt.


Quentin Tarantino must be beyond livid that someone else is getting to direct "Attack of the 50-Foot Woman"

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Ich tu den Swag in den Einkaufswagen

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Happy "software vendor emails asking you not to update to the latest MacOS version" day!





Aus der Reihe "häufig verwechselte Redewendungen":

Ein zweischneidiges Schwert (etwas funktioniert eigentlich, hat aber gewichtige Nachteile) vs. Zwickmühle (wie man es macht, ist es falsch)



Weird hardware people, heads up! A true surprise in terms of running Doom:

The country of Belgium.






(dt.) Geschäftsessen = (engl.) My Dinner With Andreh


a weird thing happened today when i was working with automation curves in ableton live: normally, when i alt-click and drag a curve segment, i can bend it such that it curves toward one of the values of the points that it connects, making a sharp corner at the other end. but somehow, i managed to do something with just alt-clicking and dragging that instead produced an s-shaped curve, that would curve toward both points and have a fixed center point halfway between the two both vertically and horizontally. i have no idea how to replicate it - i managed to do it three times today, but i wasn't able to pinpoint what i did differently, if anything! i googled for the situation, and intriguingly, all i found were people on reddit this happened to, just as baffled as i am, going back several years, and *no solution at all!*

it is very mysterious! people in the comments misunderstand a lot at first, because it's weird to describe, and there are other ways to arrive at these s-curves, but nothing in the manual describes how to access the functionality with just mouse/curve interaction, and no menus.

one person on reddit made a video: https://www.reddit.com/r/ableton/comments/kmacsh/how_did_i_create_this_s_automation_curve_accident/

if anyone has a clue how to replicate the behavior, drop me a line?

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free product idea: candy bananas, but one in 50 is actually a clove of garlic

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the only time to get into new services from people out to make money is right at the beginning, sprout no roots, leave at the first sign of squeeze

things are only worth using while they bleed VC money

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(engl.) open carry = (jap.) shogun

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Fraghafen Flunkfurt??!

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i had an hourlong search for a computer problem yesterday, it was very annoying. well, to be perfectly fair, the search was actually for a solution, the problem was right there

i was talking to my friends on jitsi, and they couldn't hear me well because i was half as loud as everyone else. i checked all the options in jitsi that could influence the mic volume, and, when i was sure everything was maxed out, looked at the browser settings, which were all fine. still quiet.

next stop: windows sound source levels... and: aha! the mic was set to loudness level 66. perfect - just put that on 100, bam! close dialog, start talking like everyone... else..? wait.. why am i not louder than before? open windows settings again: mic level 74. what?

i repeat: what?

set microphone level to 100. go to conference call. speak. go back to windows settings. microphone level is somewhere between 60 and 80.

what??

as we then managed to find out, it was that whenever i stopped speaking on a video call, my microphone pickup level would automatically lower itself.

i could watch the slider jump in the windows settings dialog after i'd made a noise.

well, that meant a fun little pre-easter treasure hunt! it took me a good long while to find all the distributed and hidden windows settings that could have influenced that! some of them were in windows for workgroups 3.11 styled dialogs. you know you're deep in the bowel of an OS when the graphics start looking like the mid 90s.

anyway, i found all of those settings and neutralized them!

and the problem didn't go away because that wasn't what caused it!!!!

fuck!!!

so i started googling, like a chump, for further ideas... turns out the internet is chock full of guides to MY SPECIFIC PROBLEM [SOLVED FOR 2024]!!!! how convenient! pay no attention to the seven-fingered spokesperson

i tried all their solutions for 2024, like going through all the messenger software i had that wasn't even running and adjusting their settings, where available, that sounded like they could automatically change the volume; cause apparently that's something apps can do, change the OS level microphone input volume! i did not know that!

in any event, it wasn't zoom or skype or discord or what have you. the problem persisted.

things were complicated further by how my windows is in fucking GERMAN and none of info on the troubleshooting websites in english is googleable directly because i don't know the phrasings of the errors and descriptions and names to google for
so i had mostly german help results

at some point i just started to randomly guess at likely english keywords, and that's when i eventually found the culprit:

it was an experimental flag in fucking chrome that would change the system-wide mic levels through, uh, i wanna say .. WebRTC? i had never heard of any of it

what??!

anyway, now i can set my stupid webcam volume to 100 and it will stay there and not drop to 66 after i say hi

and it only took most of my morning!

(if you read all this... about 60 times as long as it took you to do that!)

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oh, by the way: the flag was set not to "enabled", not to "disabled", but to "default"! with no indication what the default is or where it is determined, and by whom! no indication of whether it was currently on or off either! what an abysmal user experience
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audio is once again cursed

on the one hand, I understand why it is like this, on the other hand OUCH OOF WHY



TIL that there are more then 20 species of squirrel, and only one of them is proper cute (the red one)


what's more important in acid music, the 303 or the pitched-down sample of a guy going "acid!"

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enter ”Jesus Loves The Acid” by Ecstacy Club. High-pitched 303 all the way ftw! :D
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well, it does have the ’acid’ vocal too. Win-win all around :)
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none of the above, it's a prominent 909 ride on every beat 😎


flabbergasted to find out that "ball bearing" is stressed on the bear and not the ball


nobody:

youtube automatic CCs: fractal brownie in motion



google ihr arschlöcher warum kann man bei suchergebnissen für straßennamen plötzlich nicht mehr zu google maps wechseln? seid ihr bescheuert?

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jetzt gerade wieder hass auf google wegen dieser scheiße
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workaround der für den moment funktioniert: erst auf images gehen, da taucht der maps-button dann auf


i guess this is what you would call an unhinged jaw