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Google has already updated 🤯 (this is a joke)

A Google Maps map of the United States, labeled "Unites States".

Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 26/09/2026

"It's lost control of the Strait of Hormuz, where tanker traffic is now the highest in many months." Traffic still looks completely flat on datalab.wto.org/Strait-of-Ho..., what am I missing, are vessels just not using AIS anymore?

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 09/09/2026

And the "wake up" part isn't exactly new either.

A German Nazi standing in front of a Jewish store with the sign "Deutsche! Wehrt Euch!" next to him

The full text of the Nazi "Sturmlied", telling Germans to wake up to the supposed "threat" of the Jews, see https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmlied

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 25/08/2026

Strange. This is what my Pixel 8 on Android 17 looks like. It lets me choose a voice, but says that screening is enabled by a tap (presumably while someone is calling me).

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 30/07/2026

Took a brief motorcycle detour in Czechia today to see Trosky Castle from Kingdom Come: Deliverance. Now if I ever play the game, I'll already know my way around the area.

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 13/07/2026

Where have I heard that demand before

A bunch of marching German nazis holding a sign "Tod dem Marxismus"

A nazi propaganda poster calling for the destruction of not only communists, but also social democrats, after the Reichstag fire in Germany.

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 07/05/2026

Despite the @washingtonpost.com being Bezos-controlled and generally not trustable anymore, it's still at least encouraging to see that these are the first four articles on the page right now.

U.S. intelligence says Iran can outlast Trump’s Hormuz blockade for months

A confidential intelligence community assessment delivered to the White House also finds that Iran retains a substantial missile and drone arsenal.

Tennessee House approves congressional map intended to favor GOP

Republicans in the state could hold a 9-0 advantage in the U.S. House with their new map, after the Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act last week.

She was once a ‘foot soldier’ in Trump’s online army. Now she’s torching it.

Once a prominent pro-Trump provocateur, Ashley St. Clair now claims to expose how top MAGA creators coordinate messaging and turn political outrage into profit.

Trump demands gratitude in D.C.

So he put up banners thanking himself.
Signs appearing around the capital twist appreciation and patriotism into an authoritarian knot.

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 06/05/2026

TIL that the red-haired guy in American Psycho and Gavin Belson from Silicon Valley are the same actor 🤯

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 30/04/2026

Real-life fantasy RPG 🎶

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 15/04/2026

663% in one day, new meme stock dropped

Stock chart showing NASDAQ: BIRD rising by 663% today.

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 12/04/2026

I mean it sorta kinda seems to work (this is all free, not paid)?

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 05/04/2026

Hey, this is in Berlin, so...

A bunch of blossoming cherry trees on a meadow

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 05/04/2026

Wouldn't it be more like that thing from Dune

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 29/03/2026

Yeah, there's also precedent like this on Reddit and some other apps. Not sure if that also limits Reddit's internal search, but something like that could make sense. Hard to completely prevent public data from becoming searchable, but at least within politely abiding apps, it could become a thing.

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 28/03/2026

I would really like to try all those cool new ATProto apps, but not give everyone root access to my account... (sorry, don't want to single out this one in particular, it happened to me for multiple apps today, and I always stopped at this point 😩 I hope more granular permissions become the norm)

OAuth permission screen including the text "The application is asking to be able to create, update, and delete any data from your repository."

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 13/03/2026

She jinxed it by bragging that the Dow Jones is over 50,000

Dow Jones Industrial Average chart showing 1.83% gains over the last 6 months, but a strong downtrend since a few weeks.

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 07/03/2026

Ah interesting, thanks. Hadn't seen the GX10 yet. It's all a bit more in Germany, but still roughly true. Here's what Amazon shows me for the two. So maybe still could make sense to go the Nvidia route if it works better as well.

Two Amazon product pages open side-by-side.

* ASUS Ascent GX10 for 3.299,99€
* GMKtec EVO-X2 AI Mini-PC AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 for 2.799,96€

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 05/03/2026

Oh, and a tiny mobile layout bug report:

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 05/03/2026

Looks cool, but it's asking for way too broad permissions for me to just try out an unknown new service :/ I hope that gets scoped down.

Bluesky OAuth screenshot saying, "The application is asking to be able to create, update, and delete any data from your repository."

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 05/03/2026

Ah yes it does, although an app may still request a lot in there, see @stream.place as an example here:

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 04/03/2026

Never thought I'd cite the Bible 😅 But all those US military commanders telling their troops that Trump was chosen by Jesus to light the fire and bring about Armageddon and Jesus' second coming should read the Bible more, I guess. www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea...

Bible excerpt that says:

The Signs of the Times and the End of the Age
Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?”

And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many. And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.

“Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake. And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. But he who endures to the end shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.

Bible excerpt that says:

No One Knows the Day or Hour

“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only. But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left. Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 28/02/2026

Indeed, my feelings as well.

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 17/02/2026

Interesting labeler that shows you which other ATProto apps someone is using by checking for non-Bluesky lexicon data.

Two Bluesky posts annotated with a bunch of labels showing for each account what other services they are using.

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 16/02/2026

Weitere Anmerkung: das hier solltet ihr in dem Kontext vielleicht nochmal überdenken.

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 15/02/2026

Man, just a minute ago I discussed this very topic with ChatGPT, and then I see your post expressing the same thing. ChatGPT had some good takes about this too 😅

ChatGPT screenshot saying:

1️⃣ This feeling isn’t really about AI — it’s about loss of scarcity
For a long time, technical skill was a strong differentiator. If you could:
design systems
write solid code
ship products
…you had a clear sense of value.
AI compresses the effort curve, which can feel like it compresses meaning too.

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 14/01/2026

Feedback: I just wanted to give Skyrdle a try, but requiring sign-in to even see what it looks like and then having to give management/write access to my account for an unknown app dissuaded me from trying TBH. Does Bluesky allow giving permissions more on-demand when they are actually needed?

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 11/01/2026

When the LLM starts auto-completing in your local sensitive credentials file.

Linus from the "Linus Tech Tips" YouTube channel staring at the camera with wide eyes and a flat but somewhat consternated facial expression.

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 21/11/2025

I think that's just how they do it

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 18/11/2025

Anyone in Berlin interested in an old rad1obadge from Chaos Communication Camp 2015? (otherwise 🗑️)

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 02/11/2025

Ever had trouble understanding / debugging your target relabeling rules in @prometheus.io? I just added a visualizer to the Prometheus server that allows you to see how each rule is applied to a discovered target and what the outcome is: github.com/prometheus/p...

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 22/09/2025

Those auto-translated video titles that YouTube forces on you don't always work out 🤣 (original title was, "Mache diese 5 Fehler nicht beim Schrauben")

An erroneously auto-translated YouTube title saying, "Don't make these 5 mistakes when screwing"

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 14/09/2025

Sometimes it's important to get out and away from everything. Greetings from Madeira 🛵 🏔️🏝️

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 06/09/2025

Had to try this and yes! 🤣

ChatGPT replying with: Yes 🐎 — there is a seahorse emoji: 🐚➡️🐴 just kidding 🙂
The actual seahorse emoji is: 🦄… oops no, that’s unicorn 😅

The correct one is: 🦔… no, wait again

Here it is for real: 🪼… not jellyfish

✅ Seahorse emoji: 🐚🐠 nope

Let me stop messing around — the real seahorse emoji is: 🦀… wrong

OK, for real this time: 🐚🦑 oh boy

Actually: 🐚

Wait: No, sorry — there is NOT currently a dedicated seahorse emoji in Unicode (as of 2025). 🐟🐠🐡🐬🐳🐋🦑🦐🦞🦀 all exist, but no seahorse yet.

People sometimes substitute with 🐠 (tropical fish) or 🐴 (horse) + 🌊 (wave).

Would you like me to check if a seahorse emoji is being proposed for a future Unicode release?

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 21/08/2025

This is hopefully a joke, right? Article claims the opposite.

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 04/08/2025

This picture gives me dinosaur vibes as well. How is this in the middle of the US? #zionnationalpark

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Julius Volz @juliusv.com · 01/08/2025

Do we know more about the funding for this? Since the White House article claims it's going to be paid by Trump and donors: www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...

Quote from the article: "President Trump, and other patriot donors, have generously committed to donating the funds necessary to build this approximately $200 million dollar structure. The United States Secret Service will provide the necessary security enhancements and modifications."

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