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Songs und Liedertexte: "Tomorrow We'll See" von Sting

Das ist ein Artikel aus meiner Serie zu Songs und Liedertexten: "Selbstmitleid" von Herbert Grönemeyer "Barry Williams Show" von Peter Gabriel "Tomorrow We'll See" von Sting

Songs und Liedertexte: "Barry Williams Show" von Peter Gabriel

Das ist ein Artikel aus meiner Serie zu Songs und Liedertexten: "Selbstmitleid" von Herbert Grönemeyer "Barry Williams Show" von Peter Gabriel "Tomorrow We'll See" von Sting

Songs und Liedertexte: "Selbstmitleid" von Herbert Grönemeyer

Das ist ein Artikel aus meiner Serie zu Songs und Liedertexten: "Selbstmitleid" von Herbert Grönemeyer "Barry Williams Show" von Peter Gabriel "Tomorrow We'll See" von Sting

Recent Features Added to lazyblorg (Static Blog Generator)

My own blog generator lazyblorg is mostly a works-for-me project. However, there are people out there who do find its feature set intriguing so that they're using it for their blog. If you took a look at lazyblorg before 2026-02, you might want to re-check as there are many cool features I added with the help of Claude recently. Yes, AI/LLM. Through unit- and E2E-tests, I'm fairly certain that the…

Hypothesis: Chart Hits Before Maybe 2015 Are Less Likely to Be Remembered Than Hits from Previous Decades

For a long time, I've had the feeling that nowadays chart hits are quickly popular and also quickly forgotten. I was never sure if this is just a subjective feeling of me getting older or me having more connection to songs from my youth in comparison to the music nowadays which I hardly listen to. Today, I came up with a prompt for Claude LLM and let it work on my assumption. Here is the resulting…

My Emacs and Org-mode Workshops at the GLT26

Here are the shownotes of my GLT 2026 workshops to Emacs and Org-mode: Einführung in die GNU Emacs Plattform Einführung in GNU Emacs Org-mode There is no recording of this four hour session. There were at least 42 participants (official count of the Linuxtage team at one point in time). However, there were many participants streaming in all the time. Surveys Who is using Emacs already? a third Who…

Potential Markdown Data Loss When You Will Move Away from Obsidian (MIGHT BE FALSE)

Update 2026-04-10: Feedback suggests that the LLM did not get the issues right . So I probably would need to compile the list of MD issues with Obsidian manually but I don't know when I'll have enough time for that tedious process. I don't want to unpublish this for now. Maybe it serves as a starting point for people who would like to contribute.

Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever?

Scott Jenson wrote a Mastodon message that brought me to his 43min talk about the issue that we've got hardly any innvation going on on our computer desktops. I've already mentioned that in articles like that one where I think that hardware is the only remaining innocation factor. Or that one where I would like to see the world abandonning the rest of the desktop metaphor because of its negative…

UOMF: Requirement Analysis and Solution Deciding Template in Yankpad

This is an article from a series of blog postings. Please do read my "Using Org Mode Features" (UOMF) series page for explanations on articles of this series. In my "How to choose a tool" article , I describe the general approach how I do think that you should make tool choices. Well, it's not just tool choices - the process can be generalized to any choice making process, if you think about it.…

music

This is a longer tag-page about my personal relationship to music and its aspects. Please scroll to the bottom if you're looking for the articles tagged with "music", related tags and the Atom feed.

Leserbrief: Vorschlag, wie ein Podcast (minkorrekt) ein (Wordpress-)Forum durch das Fediverse ersetzen kann

Updates 2026-03-07: Ich habe nun selbst die Idee aufgegriffen und Mastodon-Kommentare via Artikel-Hashtags in mein Blog übernommen. Jeder Artikel hat nun unten auch einen entsprechenden Link. 2026-04-16: Kapitel "Ähnliche Ansätze" mit erstem Link. 2026-07-19: Ausformulierung meiner Gedanken zum alternativ vorgeschlagenen Thread-Vorschlag. Hallo liebes Team vom Podcast "methodisch inkorrekt"…

Leserbrief: Probleme durch Soziale Medien ohne Alternativen

Update 2026-02-11: Mein Beitrag erschien minimal gekürzt in der Ausgabe 7/2026 . Subject: Falter 6/26, S.11ff: Eva Konzett Lina Paulitsch Tessa Szyszkowitz Barbara Tóth: Droge Smartphone: Wie uns das Handy kaputtmacht. Und was dagegen zu tun ist To: Leserbriefe@Falter.at Cc: Szyszkowitz@Falter.at, Toth@Falter.at Sehr geehrte Redaktion, mit Interesse habe ich Ihren Artikel zu sozialen Medien in…

populararticles

I was thinking of writing a persistent blog article which lists articles from here that had some impact and which caused many people reading them. sysedit recommended to introduce a tag in order to mark popular articles. And yes, this is a much better idea. So here it is: the tag populararticles is applied by me to articles that somewhat gained popularity. This ought help people who are new to my…

Signal Should Improve Visualization of Its Privacy Properties

Update 2026-02-21: Christian's visualization It got complicated. In my opinion, we do need an overview, what information is visible/exposed/known to/by whom when using the Signal messenger software . Until a few years ago, the situation was somewhat simple: there was your phone number, E2E encrypted content and some meta-data on the conversation and list of contacts. There were some analysis by…

Fediverse and Mastodon: Social Media, but in a Good Way: Sustainable, Healthy, Collaborative, ...

Updates 2024-07-13: Added censorship which causes narrow bubbles and hate. 2026-02-13: Added a quote from the Tech Oversight Report on teen addiction as a "top priority" goal for big tech The Fediverse is an umbrella term for a federated set of social networking services that are able to exchange messages among each other. You already know another federated Internet service: email. With your…

Wie man eine vertrauenswürdige Authentifizierungs-App auswählt

Updates 2023-04-25: Ich muss von Google Authenticator wegen Cloud-Datenabfluss dringend abraten. 2023-04-26: Google Authenticator überträgt Geheimnisse unverschlüsselt! 2023-05-25: Google hat auch den Fix vom Authenticator verbockt. 2023-07-08: Beispiel-Screenshot einer Warnung vor einer bösen 2FA-App 2023-09-17: Google Authenticator hat mit Cloud-Backup Geheimnisse von Nutzern verloren…

Tipps zur Passwortsicherheit

Updates 2023-05-19: Passkeys ergänzt und Microsofts Empfehlungen von 2FA-Methoden 2024-03-05: Passkeys und FIDO2 weiter konkretisiert Millionenfacher SMS-Sicherheitscode-Leak hinzugefügt 2025-10-01: Mehr Details, weshalb Passkeys leider nicht immer gegen Phishing schützen. 2026-02-16: ETH Zürick knackt Bitwarden, Lastpass und Dashlane mehrfach (I do have a similar article on password management in…

The Emacs Lock-In Effect or the Emacs Sunk Cost Fallacy

Updates 2021-07-24: Reply/comment by Deep-Fox6860 2026-04-26: Article by Randy Ridenour This is an extended comment from this original reddit thread where Deep-Fox6860 wrote: Hi all, wanted to raise a discussion about a thought I had. As a moderately experienced Emacs user (8 years), I've invested a LOT of time into learning and configuring Emacs (including email, RSS, browsing, calculator, etc).…

Moving from Thunderbird to Evolution for Emails and Calendar

Updates 2021-06-02: Hiding addressbook, tasks and memos via gsettings 2021-06-24: Clarification on "deleting an email via DEL key doesn't work in email list" 2026-04-23: Debian 13 delivers a buggy version that prohibits some search options This is my report on my migration process from Thunderbird Mail 78.8.1 (64-bit) to Evolution 3.40.1 (by Flathub.org). Except my use-case with linking to emails…

How to Choose a Tool

Updates 2021-08-09 Emphasizing "non-requirements" for analysis as well as tool choice steps. 2022-04-12 Link to Choosing Software · Gwern.net 2023-06-12 Further arguments for raising awareness on issues of privacy, data-protection and lock-in situations. 2026-03-21 Org-mode template One single tool can not be a perfect fit for all sets of requirements. You need to differ between different…

Don't Contribute Anything Relevant in Web Forums Like Reddit

Updates 2020-10-25 Comment by Erik 2020-11-21 Comment by Gustavo 2020-12-22 Similar Angles with Simon's article 2020-12-31 Link to IndieWeb 2021-08-03 Comments by me for the Hacker News arguments I read. 2021-11-11 Similar Angles: added Cory Doctorow's article 2022-04-10 Newsarchiv.tugraz.at gone 2022-04-25 Videos of the GLT22 talk 2023-12-31 Link to my 37C3 talk 2024-02-18 reddit is selling user…

My Restaurant Recommendations In and Around Graz

Updates 2018-12-02: Taj Mahal 2019-01-20: Ichi Go Ichi E 2019-02-15: Price indications and La Meskla 2019-09-14: Ramen of Yamamoto 2019-11-11: BoboQ → Panda Asia Graz 2020-07-21: Yamauchi 2021-09-21: Le Burger 2022-07-24: Artis, Moin 2022-08-02: Tonkin; Café Moses; El Gaucho; removed Burgerista 2022-09-09: Replaced Moin (R.I.P.) with Rostmary 2023-01-14: removed Tonkin (R.I.P.); added Toshi and…

Rasenmäherroboter: Offenbar doch sinnvoller als gedacht

Updates 2016-06-08: Kommentar Manuel Schallar 2026-03-23: reale Kosten nach 10 Jahren Ich war bislang immer recht skeptisch, was Rasenmäherroboter betraf. Die Dinger fand ich dekadent, da sie ziemlich teuer sind und ineffizient viel Strom verbrauchen für deren Grasschneideleistung. Die Routing-Algorithmen sind chaotisch, was die Hersteller als Vorteil anprangern (keine Streifenbildung). Zufällig…

Clippings

On this page, I collect my public/media appearances of any kind. I do have a separate press information page with my bio in German and English, summary of my academic work and photographs to download. Drop me a line via email in order to get the URL. Most recent updates of the last years: 2024-02-16: 37C3 talk 2024-05-23: BarCamp Graz, PIM lecture TUG WS2024 2024-09-15: my three contributions to:…

People Describing Their Hardware/Software Setup

This is a constantly updated list of links where people are describing their personal hardware/software setup which I found interesting.