Notices by Julian (julianruf@mastodon.social), page 6

After probably almost a decade I’ve just watched „A Beautiful Mind“ again. It‘s definitely a really good movie based on a special biography.

@dansup In my opinion getting things right is much more important than getting things out fast. It’s about enabling great experiences on all levels and not about prioritizing a feature for the sake of having implemented a feature.

The Frozen Wild Dnieper River

Credits: NASA/ESA/Thomas Pesquet
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/the-frozen-wild-dnieper-river

Alexander Gerst’s video letter to his grandchildren from the ISS has touched me deeply

(in the end it’s also a letter to us, reminding / challenging us to take care of planet of earth)

"this fragile spaceship called Earth is much smaller than most people can imagine“

With translation to English in a box below the video (ESA):
https://www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/Videos/2018/12/Letter_to_my_grandchildren

With translations to English added on top of the video (YouTube):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UfpkRFPIJk

Useless (but fun) knowledge:

The correlation between „divorce rate in Maine“ and „per capita consumption of margarine“ is 99,26%

Via http://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

According to this article hackers have automated real-time phishing attacks against SMS based 2-factor-authentication and they’ve already targeted more than 1000 accounts

While any kind of 2FA is still much better than none, being able to do phishing at scale makes SMS based 2FA much more vunerable than before

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bje3kw/how-hackers-bypass-gmail-two-factor-authentication-2fa-yahoo

This is a super interesting and thought-provoking interview with a documentarist:

https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/12/06/the-antidote-to-civilisational-collapse

My favorite quotes:

"Science has gone from being an optimistic source to a pessimistic source. Politics has gone from being dynamic to being static and managerial. And tech has brought in a system of feedback management that’s so seductive that we’re trapped.“

"People want a big narrative. What people don’t want are rants and columns. They want a story out of which you can draw ideas."

There’s a new open platform aggregating economic data from currently 45 providers such as the OECD or Eurostat

https://db.nomics.world

You can also retrieve the data via an API or integrations for R and Python.

@inmysocks Die Sendung mit der Maus with all its protagonist really is (children) television at its best. I think I even had a plush Käpt'n Blaubär back then.

@inmysocks as a German, I just have to ask you if you'd tell me what show you’re referring to?

It’s probably around 20 years ago that I’ve played snake for the first time on my dad’s Nokia phone

Today I’ve found out that @WAHa_06x36 has a really beautiful version of this game in the iOS App Store in which you have to play on different 3D objects

A bit more challenging than the original one, but it’s a lot of fun

https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/milksnake/id1125486477