Notices by Julian (julianruf@mastodon.social), page 4

@SlowRain Out of interest, which company are you referring to?

@JPEG Your welcome :) For completeness, here are some current screenshots

@JPEG Notifications work fine (I only use them for mentions). I just got one because of your toot and the one before was on March 17, 09:33 AM.

Self Vs. Self - Pendulum Feat. In Flames

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJE1_Jm6gtw

#NowPlaying #np #music

@unfa @alexbuzzbee the issue seems to be resolved now, so most probably it really just was a stupid mistake they didn’t know about before

The development of the 15 most valuable companies over the last 19 years offers some interesting insights:

- demise of big tobacco (Marlboro)

- Fast & strong growth of Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, …

- some „older“ companies manage to be relatively strong over long time horizons (GE, Mercedes-Benz, …)

This is an interesting article about how kids feel and react when they realize that their parents / environment have put their life online without their consent

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/02/when-kids-realize-their-whole-life-already-online/582916/

Opportunity rover on Mars taking a photo of its own shadow

Image Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission, JPL, NASA

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190217.html

@SlowRain In Germany this is the case for quite some time now. Shoes, T-Shirts, Sweatshirts, ... are especially popular here. Having said that, since sneakers became a big thing in fashion the the amount of people wearing things by Adidas & Co has increased significantly.

What shocked me the most about this (now deleted) article by the European Commission about the copyright law debate is how it’s written:

Patronizing, propagandizing, picturing critics as a mob, not responding to criticism in a productive manner, ...

https://web.archive.org/web/20190215114522/https://medium.com/@EuropeanCommission/the-copyright-directive-how-the-mob-was-told-to-save-the-dragon-and-slay-the-knight-b35876008f16

Turning stubs of trees into feeding sites for birds is a nice idea

@js You’re right, the way I’ve phrased it isn’t 100% correct as both problems still aren’t fully solved (sorry, English isn’t my first language)

I’m 100% with you that the lack of a robust & intuitive read position mechanism is a downer, because like you I like Mast for many other reasons (functionality, design, open source, …)

Let’s hope that @JPEG will find a good solution soon. I’m quite sure that this then will also lead to some 5 star reviews as the rest of the app is excellent

TIL about the reasons behind the end of four-engined airplanes like the Airbus A380 or the Boeing 747

1. Today engines are so powerful that an airplane can always reach an airport even if one of two engines fails

2. Modern two-engined airplanes are much more efficient than four-engined airplanes

3. Customers enjoy point-to-point instead of hub-and-spoke connections that are now possible with smaller two-engined airplanes

I still believe that covering your webcam is a good idea (just to be sure), but this is an interesting point:

"I have never understood the mass paranoia over laptop webcams — which have in-use indicator lights, which I’ve seen no evidence can be circumvented on Macs from the last decade — and the complete lack of similar paranoia over microphones, which cannot be blocked by a piece of tape and which have no in-use indicator lights.“

https://daringfireball.net/2019/02/on_covering_webcams

Don’t know whether there was a change to Pixelfed or iOS or both, but adding Pixelfed to my home screen now creates a nice little (web) app

TIL that you can subscribe to most Mailchimp newsletters via RSS as well

Usually you have to find one issue of the newsletter (for example in the newsletter archive) and then click on the RSS button in the upper right