Heute habe ich's dank Garmin am Abend noch mit Mr. #Winterbrompton #rausgeschafft, trotz Sommerpneu, im Gesicht pieksendem Schneeregen und #frostpendeln-würdigen 0℃. Ziel war einerseits, he…
The S&P 500 fell 1.5 percent on Thursday, as concerns grew about oil prices rising amid the prolonged conflict in the Middle East.
The Stoxx 600, a Pan-European index, fell 0.6 percent.
Stocks in Asia, where countries import vast quantities of oil and gas, slumped broadly on Thursday. Major benchmark indexes in Japan closed just over 1 percent lower, while Taiwan fell about 1.5 percent. The Hang Seng Index in Hong Kong fell a little less than 1 percent.
For #MountainMonday I share this view from a recent hike.
The 300mm zoom lens zoomed me into this area. It would be a blast to walk there. Yet this is a protection zone that noone should enter in winter to give wildlife some peace.
Well, I was happy to see that scene with the soft snow ... just beautiful (to me at least)
Kremlin pushes for closed-door Ukraine talks, says Alaska summit understandings are foundational: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/10/kremlin-pushes-for-closeddoor-ukraine.html
«Wie sicher sind Apple-Geräte wirklich?
Apple-Geräte gelten als vergleichsweise sicher. Doch sind sie wirklich sicherer als Windows oder wiegen sich Nutzer nur in falscher Sicherheit?»
Apple ist doch auch nur eine Glaubensrichtung was unter anderem auf *BSD aufbaut. Es ist extrem Closed-Source und auch deswegen funktionieren ihr Versprechen auf Hoffnung.
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Kevin Limonier, géographe : « Il n’existe aucune limite Š ce que l’on peut imaginer en matière de déstabilisation de l’adversaire dans le cyberespace »
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2026/
Waymo and Waze launch a pilot program to send pothole data collected by robotaxi sensors to the Waze for Cities platform and Waze app, starting in five markets (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/09/waymo-…
Following federal cuts to history-focused organizations, the president of the Canadian Historical Association, Colin Coates, sent this letter to Marc Miller, the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture.
One thing might not be obvious: Coates's reference to Carney's recent Quebec City speech suggests Canadians' need for historical context right now. He doesn't agree with Carney's claims. In fact, most Canadian historians would dispute them.
I'm looking for 12 testers using Play Store for an Android app I built with Claude AI:
Widekey Keyboard. Each key holds two characters. Tap once for the left, tap twice quickly for the right. (No autocorrect, no word prediction, no swipe typing.)
Intended for people who find standard touch keyboards on small screens imprecise.
Free, no ads, no data collection, Apache 2.0 open source.
Please send me a DM with your Android account email if you're interested.
The Karpeles Museum,
a true hidden gem of downtown Santa Barbara
and an important free museum for all to visit,
is set to close because the building is being sold.
Perhaps some local collective or organization could buy the building and continue to lease the collection of documents and artifacts from the Karpeles family?
The building has an upstairs and courtyard that would be a perfect venue for all sorts of live events
— in the not-so-distant past the …