Phil Maeser

received a replacement iPhone 15 Pro Max and set it up clean on iOS 26. wild how different it feels. Fresh battery, fresh setup, zero baggage. way snappier than my 2-year-old unit on the same software. zero lag, great performance, and the battery just keeps going.

iPhone 17 Pro: Aluminum Frame vs. Titanium Frame, Which One Is Better? Apple has moved away from the titanium alloy on the iPhone 15 Pro to aluminum again on the frame. For everyday users, this may seem like a minor detail, but for engineers, material scientists, and con...

wanna know why your iPhone 17 Pro shows dings while your 15/16 Pro barely blinked?

I found a genuinely insightful article comparing aluminum and titanium: weight, heat, rigidity, the works.

I definitely walked away smarter.

www.samaterials.com/content/ipho...

love to see that

The one Steve and Jony had in mind.
Before the hunt for every last dollar began.

Because the people who are crazy enough to think a phone should serve them, not own them,
Are the ones who are truly free.

You can call them luddites, disagree with them, say they’re missing out, or pity them.
About the only thing you can't do is distract them.
Because they choose when to engage.
They push their own lives forward.

And while some may see them as crazy,
We see the original vision.

Here’s to the ones who look up.
The disconnected.
The rebels from consumption.
The troublemakers for the algorithm.
The calm pegs in the noisy holes.
The ones who see a tool, not a trap.

They're not fond of the feed.
And they have no respect for the endless scroll.

Majer & Amoura – die 2 wahrscheinlich besten Fußballer im Kader – erst nach Minute 70 zu bringen, nachdem man seit Minute 55 mit 0:2 hinten liegt, spricht Bände ..

this!

Bluesky now platform of choice for science community It’s not just you. Survey says: “Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky”…

“Scientists Are Flocking to Bluesky. Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves.” Via @wired.com

Urbanists too.

Check out #UrbanistShoutOut.

22.08.25: ditched all my subscriptions today!

why pay monthly for digital stuff I barely use? price hikes prove this model helps companies, not users.

If I want to see a movie -> I pay for it. same for music. same for apps.
just like in the real world 🌎

#SubscriptionFatigue

RWTH-Studie: Bidirektionales Laden belastet die Batterie kaum - electrive.net Die Haltbarkeit von E-Auto-Batterien wird meist in der Anzahl von Ladevorgängen angegeben. Kommen durch das bidirektionale Laden weitere Ladevorgänge dazu,

„RWTH-Studie: Bidirektionales Laden belastet die Batterie kaum

… The Mobility House Energy und die RWTH Aachen haben die langfristigen Auswirkungen von Ladevorgängen betrachtet – mit Fokus auf V2G.“
www.electrive.net/2025/08/04/r...

and we should definitely continue donating

This could be anywhere, this could be everywhere.

building a social media platform in a market dominated by Meta is undoubtedly one of the most challenging tasks. rooting for @jay.bsky.team and team 🤞

Overall quite disappointing, as every year

My #WWDC25 takes:

1) Liquid glass is beautiful but a UX nightmare
2) Free on-device LLM access for developers could give iOS a huge advantage
3) Promoting ICE (F1 & Aston Martin) clashes with Apple's green image
4) iPadOS is closer to macOS now (-> but honestly, just use a Mac)

Had a chat with adidas support for a return label and the conversation was oddly in-between—a bit bot-like, a bit human, but it worked. Didn’t need a real person to get what I wanted.

I suspect they’re using Salesforce’s Agentforce now. Anyone else notice customer service getting more “hybrid”?

Lawsen suggests that future studies should be designed to distinguish between reasoning ability and output limits, examine the solvability of puzzles, and use complexity metrics that reflect computational difficulty.

Lawsen highlights three main problems: Ignoring token budget limits, considering unsolvable puzzles as failures, and inadequate scoring methods that do not distinguish between errors in reasoning and output truncation.

Alex Lawsen of Open Philanthropy has criticized Apple's AI research paper as flawed, arguing that the results are based on experimental design flaws, not fundamental limitations of thought.

to save you some time

as they should!

Young people sue Donald Trump over climate change If they’re successful, they’ll stop executive orders boosting fossil fuels. 

Young people sue Donald Trump over climate change

I predict not even 50% of people will adopt Dia & therefore TheBrowserCompany will go away fairly soon.

Another example of “what could have been”

Very sad to see since Arc was and still is a great product

Was ist schlimmer?

The interesting thing about capitalism is that it's entirely incompatible with the future, so we've just decided to get rid of the future and keep capitalism for a short while

die Zeit, in der Mehrheiten den Kurs der Politik bestimmen, scheint erst einmal vorbei zu sein - traurig

Wahnsinn. Dieser nie dagewesene Anstieg der CO2-Konzentration in einem Jahr ist jenseits aller Erwartungen und müsste in zig Sondersendungen erörtert werden, wenn wir als Gesellschaft noch bei Trost wären. Müsste... gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...

ich sehe, dass man vorher Hörbücher auf #Spotify konsumieren konnte, allerdings wurde das Angebot mE deutlich verbessert:

- eigenständiger Bereich inkl. Suche
- erweiterte Funktionen, wie Lesezeichen, Sleeptimer etc
- Erweiterung des Katalogs

Spotify hat quasi BookBeat integriert, kostenlos.

Katy Perry kissing ground after space flight

Kein Ding, wir versuchen nur gerade, irgendwie ein Überleben auf diesem Planeten zu sichern, während ultra-reiche Promis für einen 10-Minuten-Weltraumflug in eine Rakete steigen und das dann 'historisch' nennen.