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#FamilyAdminDay: Der Feiertag des familiären Technikbetreuers
Am 26. Dezember ist wieder der FamilyAdminDay – Tag der vielen großen und kleinen Technikhelfer, die nicht nur das Fest der Feste technisch am Laufen halten.

In recent months, DDR4 and DDR5 RAM and SSD prices surged dramatically due to an ongoing AI chip shortage and panic buying; some RAM kits now cost 3x as much (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/1

GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere
Some RAM kits are over three times as expensive as they were three months ago.

heise | Im Bestandshaus: Warum Wärmepumpen echte Alternativen zu Öl/Gas-Heizungen sind
Fraunhofers zweite Studie zeigt Fortschritte bei Technik und bestätigt: Luft-WP sind fast so effizient wie Erdwärme, aber viel billiger.

Hey um let's run a #Chaos event at Dorian Lounge (FRA)!
https://www.dorian-lounge.com/
They can host 300 people, and a 3-day event would cost about EUR 8k including gear, so that's easily covered…

Dorian Lounge – Raum für unvergessliche Momente
Die einzigartige Eventlocation am Flughafen Frankfurt verbindet modernes Ambiente und eine technisch perfekte Ausstattung.

Weiß denn jemand von euch zufällig, weshalb die ersten, ursprünglichen Post-It gelb waren?
Edit: Offenbar war es Zufall, weil im Nachbar-Labor gerade eine größere Menge gelbes Schmierpapier rum lag, das der Erfinder des Post-It für Tests benutzte.
#technikgeschichte #bürogeschichte

Taking up all the remaining oxygen in the room right now is AI hype,
exemplified by Jared Kaplan, who is quoted in this article:
-- ⭐️ --
"I spoke to Jared Kaplan, co-founder of Anthropic, the company behind the chatbot Claude.
He was a physicist the last time we spoke.
As a grad student at Harvard in the 2000s, he worked with the renowned theorist Nima Arkani-Hamed to open up the new directions in amplitude research that are being actively pursued today.

Is Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard? | Quanta Magazine
Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Texans vs. Chargers prediction, odds, start time: NFL Week 17 Saturday picks by model on 53-37 run

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/texans-chargers-prediction-odds-…

I'm installing and tweaking #Immich, a really neat "Google Photos" like app that runs locally. It uses ML to do face detection and other neat features. I've been tuning my server and needed a better way to measure performance, so I vibe wrote a helper script. If you run Immich, this might be useful to you:

GitHub - rubix1138/immich_eta: Script that queries the Immich API and calculates and ETA
Script that queries the Immich API and calculates and ETA - rubix1138/immich_eta

Montreal-based Vention raised a $110M Series D to scale its physical AI platform into manufacturing plants worldwide, taking its total raised to ~$216M (Madison McLauchlan/BetaKit)
https://betakit.com/montreal-industrial-ai-scaleup-vention-raises-1…

Montréal industrial AI scaleup Vention raises $110-million USD Series D
Company says it crossed $100-million CAD annual run rate as it looks to expand in Europe.

Vergangene Woche lief hier als Album der Woche bevorzugt Erwachsenenrockmusik aka AOR: Shelter der deutschen Indie-Rocker Dead Guitars, erschienen 2015. Musik hören so wie früher, wo man wegen wenig Taschengeld nur alle paar Wochen ein neues Album kaufen konnte und deshalb das, was man schon hatte, wieder und wieder abspielte. #rocknroll