Brainstorming. ChatGPT and co. are slightly better rubber ducks. Which helps to sort my thoughts and evaluate ideas.

Also when researching a new topic I barely know anything about, it helps to get useful pointers and keywords for further research and reading. It’s like an interactive Wikipedia in that regard.

Aus der Sicht von Selzer sprechen die Themen Datenschutz und Datensicherheit für eine Loslösung von den US-Konzernen. “Die US-Behörden können relativ leicht an europäische Datenbestände herankommen, um sie zu analysieren.” Offizieller Grund für eine solche Datenanalyse sei die Terrorabwehr. “Aber man kann so etwas natürlich auch ganz schlicht zur Wirtschaftsspionage nutzen”, meint der Experte vom Chaos Computer Club.

Besonders lustig:
Sei ein Unternehmen, das besonders von ausländischer Industriespionage betroffen ist.

Nutze Microsoft-Kram für den Großteil deiner IT Infrastruktur. 🤡

Nah, that’s just “recommended for you” based on your personal interests. Trust the algorithm. It knows better what you want than you yourself! /s

Blender for 3D modeling, sculpting, animation, rendering and (simple) video editing.

Several movies were either made (almost) entirely with Blender (Flow, Next Gen), or in parts (e.g., Captain America: The Winter Soldier, SpiderMan 2, The Midnight Sky).

It is also used by many (indie) game devs.

Speaking of games: Godot is an awesome 2D/3D game engine, which gained a lot more momentum after the Unity fuck-up. It’s licensed under the MIT license. Among a plethora of smaller indie games it has been used for financially successful and/or popular titles by indie and non-indie devs alike such as Brotato, Cassette Beasts, RPG in a Box, Endoparasitic, Dome Keeper, Sonic Colors: Ultimate, and several more.

Give it a try if you’re into game development!

“invisible radio wave”

Whed have radio waves not been invisible to the naked eye?

Every political or economic system I know of could work quite well, if all the participants of that system would come with the required charactetistics.

Capitalism could work, if no one was a reckless greedy asshole.
Communism could work, if no one was a powerhungry reckless asshole.

Democracy could work, if no one was a reckless powerhungry greedy asshole. Heck, even a dictatorship could work, if the dictator was benevolent.

All of those systems are doomed to be exploited because they don’t take humans as they are and try to make the best of them, but because they always require some ideal circumstances, which are hard to achieve and are in practise not sufficiently widespread.

There are modifications to all of those systems, to make them work better. For example, humanistic capitalism. But still, there is no perfect system yet.

It seems that the best we can do is to create a system with self-correcting mechanisms incorporated, such that all the good and the bad of humans are taken into consideration, nurturing the good and reducing the bad. Democracy comes close to that, as it allows, discusses, demands and implements change and makes this process accessible for everyone. Still, it has it’s own pitfalls and I am not sure whether a single democracy exists that actually works well.

And capitalism doesn’t? How much food are we wasting? How many people are dying of starvation right now?

Great. We found out that Google is evil. Again. Could we now please get rid of them or at least stop using their products?

We all are. Microplastic, yaay!!

Why do you think it’s trash?