Die letzte Ausgabe der Freak Show diesen Jahres liegt jetzt auf dem Tisch. Neben ein paar Ankündigungen und technischen Empfehlungen spielen LLMs wieder eine große Rolle und wir diskutieren ausführlich über unsere Erfahrungen mit KI-unterstützter Programmierung mit Cursor. Tim hat dann auch noch ne Woche das Essen sein lassen und sich dabei KI-unterstützt ernährt. Auch das wird natürlich von allen Seiten begutachtet. Dazu ein paar Geschenketipps und ein Tip für einen korrekten HDMI Matrix Switch.
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Hello. Hello, world. Hello, world. I didn't think we'd open a show with Java.
Or with Nano War of Steel. That's a really cool band. Yeah, you know them? My favorite song by them is Norwegian Raggaeton. And the name is Programm. It's a cooperation with another band and it's really reggaeton together with metal. What does reggaeton mean?
Reggaeton is reggae with marathon or what?
No, reggaeton is a music style from South America that is a bit like reggae.
How do I describe that now? I don't know, let yourself think about it, because I don't really have an idea yet. I'm not really an expert in that either. Aha, no expert.
No, I'm not an expert in all styles of music. But in some you are. In... Auch das wage ich nicht zu behaupten.
Das geht schief. Okay, aber das, was wir gehört haben, das qualifiziert sich ja wohl eher als Metal? Das ist, glaube ich, ganz... Heavy Metal, so klassischer.
Das ist klassischer Heavy Metal, würde ich sagen. Metal, Leute. Fühle mich schwer in meine Plastic Rock Zeit zurückverletzt. Plastic Rock. So what did you have? Do you still know what that is? I have no idea. So Claudia, my current wife, back then I don't think so, or just a moment ago, we played together the German central plastic rock community. And that was Guitar Hero and Rock Band.
where you had these plastic guitar controllers hanging around and then you would go wild on them and on a console, Playstation or Xbox, the notes would fly up and you had to really hit it. And that's exactly where we had the central community forum. I think 2000 people or something like that. And in that context, we had a lot of metalheads on the way.
In that context, we also dealt a little more seriously with metal. And that's fun. That's good. And by the way, I insist that there is no more plastic rock. They just released too much too quickly. But there was so much potential on the ground. I always wished that every new album would automatically be released in these music games. So plastic rock is a band? No, that's a term we came up with.
I think the forum exists. That's just Guitar Hero. Exactly, that's Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Those were the two big franchises. Could be, yes.
Oh, now I get it.
These jumping games. Well, not jumping. You have a controller that is shaped like a guitar. Oh, not where you have to dance, but where you have to act as if you were playing an air guitar.
Yes, but it's a bit more. If you play the guitar correctly, you notice that 60-70% of what you would play with a real solo is already translated. Rockband started with a drum kit, a cheap plastic drum kit. And that's how I learned drums. Until it was enough for a real band. I learned to play drums with a rock band. You can do that.
And I think it's dramatic that today's youth will be involved in this.
Why will it be involved?
I don't know if you can buy it at all, but it's just that all the film shits are like this before, I don't know, eight, nine years have all died because they threw out too much at the same time. And then the people somehow have their own interest in it. I just have to look at this cult song from Guitar Hero. What was it called?
There is such a program where you actually do something similar with a real guitar. But it is more intended that you actually learn to play guitar. But there it is also the case that... notes and then you have to play the right strings somehow.
There it is so that you have five keys on the fretboard or something and then you have a lever at the bottom for the hand that would actually hit the strings, but actually you just press this lever so that you simultaneously press the button on the top of the handlebar and press the lever at the bottom.
Make a beamer picture here on your nice new HDMI switch. Make a beamer picture. We don't have a beamer picture here.
Yes, we have a beamer picture. It's black. Yes, it's covered by the last frame here. What would you like to see? Do you have to throw pictures into the trash and describe them?
And describe them. That's a video. Through the Fire and Flames, 100% from Guitar Hero 3. That was always the most difficult piece to master. And you can just play it for a few seconds, depending on the tempo.
If I want to play it off, I have to adjust my sound configuration again. I'll do that like this. Okay, I'll play it for a moment.
And the whole thing was, yes, first of all, you have to track a little bit so that you can get in there. But it doesn't come out where I thought it would come out.
Why doesn't it come out there? I heard something. But not in the headphones, but here on my speakers. Ah. Weil ich Vogel, ah ja, ich Vollidiot, oder? Nee.
Das Ganze war eine Zeit lang mal so drei, vier Jahre so populär, dass es hier in Berlin dafür Karaoke Stations gab, wo man dann sich diese Plastikinstrumente umgehängt hat. Und statt Karaoke nur zu singen, ist man dann dort als Plastikband aufgetreten. Das war großartig.
Ja gut, aber vielleicht ist es auch ganz gut, dass diese Mode auch wieder abgeflacht ist. Nein. Vielleicht doch. Okay, jetzt kommt's.
Das ist jetzt das Intro von dem... Wie lange muss ich das anspielen, damit man weiß, wie schwierig das ist? Ah, jetzt geht's los.
Scroll doch mal einfach irgendwo rein. Der Anfang ist hier mit irgendwie Katze und sonst was, dass man wirklich in dem Song drin ist. Da geht's. So, we see these flying notes and someone behind it who performs the whole thing on the plastic guitar at the same time. And that has a density of about... It's just like tapping.
So, when Haylen is tapping with two hands at the same time on the guitar, something like that is captured here. So, you have to play hundreds of notes per minute. So, sometimes even 40 per second. So, it really goes off. Wow. And he does it without a single mistake here in the video. That means he comes to 100% and hits exactly every single note.
Okay. It's a sport. It's an e-sport. I understand. It's an e-sport. Okay, I can follow this. It's also a gift. And it's not a game where it's about the princess. Yes, yes, no, I totally accept that. I would be glad to open my own category for it. I have the whole thing. Music instrument playing, that's nothing bad.
Yeah. Well, but it's just a game where things fly at you and then you have to react properly. So I mean that with the Saber, what's the name of the thing? Light Saber. No, for VA, this... Beat Saber. Beat Saber is more or less the same. Definitely. Or these dance things where you dance on the pads.
Exactly, that's why I also had this first association.
If you play guitar, then you realize it's not the same. So you already have the feeling to grab chords.
You don't hit the air with a laser sword. Yes, but in principle it is so that things fly towards you and you have to make the right button or the right gesture at the right time to do it right.
But in principle it's like baby swimming for rock musicians, right? Yes. So you can already let the van Halen hang out in the children's room and you know, if you're really interested in it, you're a little pre-conditioned. Exactly.
There was also a Beatles edition, where you played 40 Beatles songs. That was also great. It's also with singing. That means the whole band. That means drums, bass, guitar, singing. So you can stand in the living room at four o'clock and perform. Did you sing? Of course I sang. Sure. I heard the news today, oh boy. Yes, exactly. There was a Van Halen edition and a Lego rock band version.
That was also cool. You saw Lego animation films and I still have that in the basement and I think I'll try that with my boys sometime.
Okay, good. Then I would say, welcome to the Freak Show. If you didn't notice, they're just bathing their hands in it. Their ears. They're just bathing their ears in it. Does anyone still understand the meme? I don't know. These are memes like there were no memes before. That's how it is. Memes for old people. Altmeme.
Ja.
Du erinnerst dich? Eine alte Palmolive Werbung. Ich weiß gar nicht, ob die aus den 80ern oder aus den 70ern ist, aber auf jeden Fall ist sie lange her. Ja. Also mindestens Mitte 80er, wenn nicht noch früher. Mhm.
2010.
But as we have already heard, Roddy is back. Hello Roddy. And Ralf is back. And I am Tim. It takes longer and longer until we get to the greeting. But I mean, it's okay. It has to get a little warm first. Until you get out of yourself. We have a pot of purée. Pottpüree? Pottpüree is, I think, better today.
Pottpüree, a POD, P-O-D, Püree.
Pottpüree. Exactly, a Pottpüree prepared for you. Because this is our last show before the year's end, also known as 38th Chaos Communication Congress. I wanted to clear up the topic right away. Because we are there, all of us. And you might also, if you want to go there and don't have a ticket yet, don't give up. The last meters are still free of tickets.
You just have to, there is, I can look it up again, there is a exchange exchange. There's a link. And with that you can have success. Or on social media, especially on Mastodon, go to 38c3, hashtag grazing. You can also be found there.
You have to be a little careful. These are the first people who are from Griftern and otherwise.
Yes, I also think it's a shame that we don't have an official secondary market. That would indeed be quite helpful. That even has a union. And otherwise Union doesn't really have much on the steamer ticket-wise. So that has to come. Also on the 38C3 is the broadcasting center. That's the little podcast corner, so if you're interested in podcast related stuff.
or just want to meet podcasters and want to come into conversation about whatever, then this is a tip, which is in the area X. What? before Twitter. Oh God. That was even on last year.
That's still funny.
So basically where it was last year was right at the front. And new is, however, that there is a lecture and workshop room with podcast stage. Das gab es auch letztes Jahr schon, aber letztes Jahr war das am anderen Ende des Gebäudes. Das war überhaupt gar keine gute Idee. Diesmal ist es nur am anderen Ende des Gangs.
Also man geht einfach ganz durch und dann kommt man da hinten an und da finden Dinge statt. Und was für Dinge da stattfinden, das könnt ihr mit beeinflussen, denn wenn ihr mit euren Podcasts oder mit irgendeinem Podcast, audiobezogenen Workshop-Thema was machen wollt, dann könnt ihr euch tatsächlich jetzt noch There's an open CFP. Just sign up quickly.
If you want to keep your podcast on site without sitting on stage, but just want to have a table and recording equipment, then there's the podcast table. The podcast table, exactly. So there will be various tongue-twisters at the start.
Exactly. And you don't have to be shy. I did the technology for the podcast table for a podcast last year, which turned hardcore around Linux. And I had no idea what they were talking about at all. It was really very exciting. We will try to dress it up nicely on site.
You can also listen to it at the podcast table. Simon brings his AuraCast device with him, it's a technology, we can talk about it in a moment, which also has to take place. Potsdamer Podcaster. I don't know, is there anything else you'd like to say about the Sendezentrum and the congress, except that we didn't manage to put up a blog post about it?
I'll be there this year with the kids and will probably look up some other topics.
Yes, there is the Jungen Hackertag. I think someone also wanted to try to create an offer there.
Kidspace and so on, let's see. So I'm very excited about my first congress with children. I think that will be pretty awesome, but that's why I got a bit out of the broadcasting center so far. But of course you will also meet me there for the advanced evening and night hour.
Exactly, that's a good point to hang on to. Yes, we've already mentioned that.
And as I said, CFP, click on it and then... Erik just wrote in the chat, Udo here from our Ultrasound team, bring his Ultrasound device with you. And that really exists. A real ultrasound device. He shot a real, medical, where is the baby ultrasound device on Ebay. And Monkwood is currently modding it. And I think that's worth a visit.
I think that's a very chaotic type of action that happens there.
I forgot what I wanted to say afterwards. Oh yes, exactly. Briefly mentioned the technology. Auracast, have you heard of it before?
The term, yes. I have to google it briefly so that it clicks again.
You, Roddy? No, not yet. AuraCast already exists, but it doesn't really exist yet. So AuraCast is actually a new substandard in the Bluetooth specification. It's been around for some time now. And there are already a few devices that implement it. What is AuraCast? AuraCast is basically one-to-one streaming over Bluetooth. Think Kopfhörerdisco.
Also wenn du quasi in so überschaubaren räumlichen Ausdehnungen ein einzelnes Audiosignal gerne an viele Empfänger senden möchtest, so wie man das mit Radio getan hat, dann geht das jetzt demnächst auch mit Bluetooth. Also es geht im Prinzip auch jetzt schon mit Bluetooth. Du hast nur eben Well, to put it bluntly, Apple hasn't installed it yet, that's why nobody knows it yet.
And there are a few Sennheiser and a few other devices and some China parts that claim that they have it. There's not much at the start yet. I think I have to prove that a little bit first. My hope is that it will eventually be introduced into AirPods or at least into the iPhone. Only when Apple can claim that they invented it.
If you think about it, it sounds like, yes, turn on, receive, where is the problem? But that's of course a very tricky user interface problem. If my AirPods themselves are the receivers, so I connect to an Aura source that doesn't come from my iPhone, but is in the air, how do I select them with my AirPods, if I don't have a user interface for it?
Well, you could of course have a bridge on the phone, which makes the reception and simply conducts it. Sure, but that's then again from the back through the chest into the eye. Or you just have the control on it. So I mean, you already have the thing on the AirPods that you can turn on and off transparency and noise cancelling on and off on the phone and so on. Yeah. Sure.
But just imagine you would only have the AirPods and you would like to join with them. Then it won't work or it will be difficult. No, it won't work, I wouldn't say that. I mean, you can somehow triple-click, step through the channels and so on. That's of course nothing that Apple would do. But it's definitely something where they first think about how they do it exactly.
And if you do it indirectly over the phone ... Then you would have to receive the audio channel at the same time, but still have the control channel from the iPhone, so that you can control it. Because you don't want to let the audio stream into the phone and then out again. Because then you have delay and double frequency usage and everything. Das macht ja irgendwie keinen Sinn.
Ja klar, also du müsstest auf jeden Fall zwei Connections halten können. Das ist irgendwie klar.
Und das weiß ich gar nicht, ob der Bluetooth-Standard das so ohne weiteres, also klar, das Telefon kann ja mit den Dingern verbunden sein und wenn die Yes, but let's be honest, every end device has a problem. Yes, of course, but the others have shitty interfaces for it and Apple won't do that.
As far as I know, normal headphones have an AuraCast button and then you can step through with some buttons and then you can choose which one you want to have. And Apple would of course like to have a list of named streams that you choose and then you know.
When I look at the website and there they have an interface on the phone and there they have the possibility to scan a QR code. As long as they don't install a camera in the AirPods, you will always have to control it with the phone and then this standard will somehow give it away. Which website do you mean now? Bluetooth.com slash AuraCast.
So it is also here on the official, on the show image, there is the AuraCast Assistant in between and it has to run on a smartphone. That means you always have the smartphone as a broker in between.
Yeah, so if that's thought through, good.
And I'm just wondering what the range is. So here at Sponn they have an article that says 40 meters. That would of course be a bit, although that's Bluetooth Low Energy, right? Is that about 40 meters? Yeah. Also clever wäre es natürlich, wenn die Geräte selber dann wiederum auch Repeater wären, sodass du damit dann auch wirklich durch große Hallen und sowas irgendwie durchkommst.
Sonst musst du wieder alles mit irgendwelchen Funkteilen vollstopfen.
Ich glaube, das ist nicht jetzt unbedingt die Technologie, die für große Hallen gedacht ist, sondern das ist halt eher die Technologie, die für kleine Hallen gedacht ist. Also eben Think Rooms, Think Workshops, dass du irgendwie auf der Ebene mal eben schnell sowas eben aufsetzen kannst. Ich meine, wofür es halt total super ist, ist halt so Kopfhörerparty.
But that's 40 meters, not so much the world for a headphone party. Yes, look at the send center party at the congress, 40 meters is enough. So here they write something like 100 meters. Yes, but that's all just assumptions.
Paired connection 10 meters.
Anyway, we have to see that. The bluetooth standardization thing. I'm just saying, Apple, please get in touch. You could please install it, because it could be really practical. So especially for such noisy areas like at a congress, you could just get the opportunity to get people into a lecture in the middle of nowhere with headphones.
Ohne, dass sie jetzt Kopfhörer bereitstellen muss in großen Mengen, weil jeder eigentlich Kopfhörer dabei hat.
Exactly. So do you need new hardware or not? If you need new hardware, then we see that in the new AirPods Pro. If you don't need new hardware, then it probably doesn't matter to bring it with an update. If it doesn't need too much power or somehow fits into the chip that is installed there.
I don't know. I don't know. I just wanted to listen to what we've heard and pay attention to whether it pops up somewhere. And I hope that iOS 19 or something like that will come around the corner with such stories, because time will tell.
I don't think so, because I can't imagine that Google will let it fall under the table and Apple won't want to let the butter come from the bread. That's an obvious enhancement of the Bluetooth standard, that they will want to support it, because I mean, not to do that, that sounds like nonsense. So good, if all Aura Casts are then also useful. Announcements at the airport or something.
Well, why not? So what would be cool is if I could listen to my own stuff and then broadcast what comes, what I have to miss. Announcement at the airport, announcement at the station, then it's played to me and the other stuff is paused or something. I thought that was pretty cool. Whether that's part of the standard now or not, we'll find out.
So it definitely makes the user interface new. Yes, for Silent Disco I might be too old.
Er hat gemutet. Sehr gut. Ich habe es trotzdem gehört. Und die Hörer vielleicht auch.
Okay, gut. Soviel dazu. Ralf, willst du mal dein Release besprechen, bevor wir zum Rest kommen? Ja, das können wir machen.
We have just officially released our new Ultrasound release today. We already presented it on Subscribed.
Small introduction, Ultrasound, the great audio tool with which... This show is being recorded right now. Still with the old version, as I have to see here. Yes, in the new version. It has not yet been released for the start of the show. How am I supposed to do that? Please.
So, we are now already at 5.1.1 and there is in fact a lot added to the last meters compared to what we have presented on the subscribe. And it's not a major release, so not a 6.0, but just a step release. But there are surprisingly many features and small improvements and workflow optimizations. So nothing has changed on the user interface.
We'll certainly wait until the 6th, until we try out new wild things again. But the release notes are quite extensive, you have to say. I can show you in the video. I always do a release podcast, a screencast, where I scroll through the release notes and tell you a little bit about what the background is and show you how it works.
And then I thought, well, you'll be done in 20 minutes and then it's been 50 minutes again, because then it's And we have a nice feature that you can see here in the preview for the screencast, that we can now render so-called audiograms directly from Ultrasound. What's there to laugh about? I'm trying to describe it now. So what are audiograms?
Audiograms are these small, mostly square mini films that you find on social media from Insta and YouTube. Whatever makes you happy. And they usually run automatically and then a little wave form runs through and it's just a short snippet from your podcast with podcast logo.
And you make advertising for the last broadcast, which is not only in text form, but you can already hear what is a particularly funny passage or a powerful passage or something. The feature has been around for a long time. There are various services out there where you have uploaded your audio and then you can render everything accordingly.
And since Reaper, the audio subsystem on which our entire Ultrastore development is based, also has a video cut mode, that means you can just throw in videos and not just audios and can use them with transitions and effects. So I just sat down and thought about whether you can also build audiograms with it. And indeed you can.
So now you don't need an external tool anymore, but if you already produce it with it, the audiogram is just one click away. You just do the region, i.e. the time selection you want and click on export audiogram and it's already there and you can throw it somewhere. I think that's pretty cool. And as I said, I don't know how many new features we will have now, probably 60 or something like that.
So already a lot. That's what you dare to do. It took four years or so. So there's been a lot of life in between. And I have to say, I think over 90% of the features were controlled by Mio this time, which also manages our Ultrasound API, which I think now has 1600 API extensions from Reaper. I'm of the opinion that it should just be bought in from the Reaper team.
I think that would be very useful to the world as a whole.
Yes, but Ultrasound not.
Well, then we don't need the API anymore, but we can do it all directly. We definitely have a nice link to the API. You forgot to mention a core feature, if I heard it right. Here is the API page again. We can also throw it into the show notes.
A feature forgotten, tell me which one. Well, that's also running on Lunix now.
Ah, right. Yes, thank you. Exactly. We have been experimenting with it for almost 3-4 years. I think on the last subscribe I already had that in my keynote. Reaper is now officially available in the Linux version and we have now with some effort and sweat and work, now Ultraschall, also to 100% feature comprehensively on Linux.
And we support Ubuntu as a standard distribution, but it actually runs on pretty much everything else, but everything is a hobby project, so we do support for Ubuntu and everything else the people have to keep each other in the set. Welcome to the distribution.
distribution framework.
But there is an area for Insendigate, for our support area for Ultraschall, and there is a cuddly... It's all open source, you can fix everything yourself. That's the only true answer to that.
It's all
So, da ist jetzt auch in den Shownotes der Link zu dem Linux-Bereich im Syndicator, helfen sich die Leute gegenseitig. Also bisher haben es dann noch alle hinbekommen. And that's also a message that I say in the release screencast.
Even if you don't cut yourself on Linux, you certainly know people, if you're podcasting yourself, who you might have already shown ultrasound and then said, everything looks pretty cool, but Linux and so on. And you can tell them now. So spread the love now also on Linux unterwegs.
If I look at which tools people are still using, I have to say that it makes sense to look at Ultrasound, because that's better.
It's a world of pain. I spent two nights trying to get the font lettering and high DPI display support. It's not easy on Linux. But everyone can do it. And I think we did a good job. It looks good. The sizes are all right. Otherwise, let me know in the forum if you still have questions. optimisation needs or potentials.
I notice where you say font sizes. The new accessibility guidelines of the EU, do you implement them?
So, you will laugh. Not in this version, but in the sixer we will take this very seriously, because this is one of the main topics that Mio has now proposed for the sixer release. to put Ultrasound at the absolute peak in terms of accessibility. So everything can be reached via keyboard, everything with corresponding screen reader information can be fully operated.
So she has developed an extreme motivation, has already identified people who can really test it themselves, because they are simply affected. That means it will be an important topic for SEX indeed. Very good. Because we will also completely re-establish our own GUI framework. So the surfaces that we draw ourselves in Ultraschall, they will be provided with Accessibility First.
Very nice, very nice. That will be exciting. I support that.
Especially because accessibility does not only mean that it can now be used better by people with disabilities, but also and above all it means in the moment where software is accessible, it describes itself better. And that usually means that it is more consistent in its user interface and then also can be used better with automation tools and so on.
I think these are always very profitable progress.
In principle, yes. But if you look at the EU guidelines, I don't think that was quite the focus.
Oh, I only spoke of accessibility itself, not the EU guidelines.
It's a bit painful. Above all, it is very much trimmed to the web, where of course accessibility is even more at stake.
Yes, and there will be conflicts. I already had the first nightly debates with Mio about look and feel. Because one central point of accessibility is readability, also for people who can still watch, but have restrictions there. That's contrast values. And if you follow the requirements and say that it has to be at least 80, better 90 percent contrast. Then it doesn't look cool anymore.
In the guidelines, I think it says 70 percent, but yes. Then it doesn't look really cool anymore. The higher the contrast, the better. More in your face is the whole thing and there we are currently, we have to say that very clearly, now also with the 511. If you look at the settings dialog, that's just so medium gray on dark gray with a bit of light gray. Like Douglas Adams with the spaceship.
I've always complained. Mausgrau oder Stein? Das sind die Referenzen, genau. Staubgrau, bitte. Aschgrau, auch gut. Also da werden wir irgendwie Wege finden, da bin ich aber ganz zuversichtlich, dass wir da noch aufeinander kommen.
And another important topic that we will include in the 6.0 version, I also have the video here that Joram has kept on the subscribe, will be the topic of AI, precisely full texts and what we actually do with them. And now we're working on a pipeline where we transcribe all the full texts into the podcast and write them directly into the timeline. Have I already told you that here in the show?
What exactly?
Yes, you mentioned it once. I don't know if you said that in the show. Let's put it that way. You can of course say it again in the segment. Repeating is the mother of pedagogy.
So the language recognition models where you just throw in an mp3 audio where people speak and then you get a really almost perfect transcription of the whole thing with time marks, that's very far ahead. So Whisper, the model of OpenAI, is already very good in the middle of the build-up and everything will be better in a week's time.
And we have the big advantage, if you push it from ultrasound, you also have all the tracks nicely separated and you can put every single one into recognition. That means, when people talk to each other, it doesn't matter to the WSFAB model at all, because it analyzes every track for itself and then throws the whole thing back into the timeline.
That means, the recognition quality will be much better than with services where I just have a stereo sum. So I'm analyzing the voices of the whole podcast.
By the way, I would also like to make a remark in relation to both this and the audiograms you mentioned. Because I'm not a friend of these audiogram things at all. I think it's remarkable and pretty and you can look at it well, but it's honestly completely rubbish. Whether that's the original audio or if there are only some bars around it, you can't tell in most cases at the moment.
For that, the image section is too small and audio bars are just something absurd, nerdy, that no one checks what exactly it is. So at this point, an activity thing is enough for me. But...
If you create this preview film and then take the text, which is word for word and then show one word after the other, which is also much more widespread, because it is totally meaningful, because you can see that there is talk, even if you don't have a tone, which is not often the default for social media. And there I would say, now we are talking. Yeah, so that's where it gets interesting.
Then you have to get the right font rendering and so on.
So that's going to happen. We all have the components together. Because the result, when we have the full texts, then we can write them in the timeline. I already have a demonstrator ready for that. Then we also use a special tagging function from Reaper, that you can attach a time stamp within an audio track. And then you really have in the editing program
over the wave form then the recognized full text and can search and filter and with that we can of course also in the audiogram very simple render so text rendering is there trivial and the timing information when which word is spoken we have them too because it's really at the right place in the timeline so that will come
And maybe interesting and also a little bit of a transition to your AI topics that will come soon, Tim. I have just before the subscribe, how long has it been now? Four weeks, five weeks? Not so much, a little longer, but about a turn. I did tests before, because I always think, okay, if we already have a complete transcript of the show.
Then you have to be able to do exciting things with LLMs as well. Keyword, automatic generation of chapter marks, for example. Or write me a summary. Or look for the links again, about which we are talking here. Who took the most effort? That's what I'm getting at now. And before the subscribe, it was a hopeless undertaking. Because this...
token window of the LLMs was simply too small to handle a 4-hour broadcast of Freakshow. That means I always had a broadcast transcript, which we also offer here for Freakshow. Every broadcast comes from Auphonic over in that part and the recognition is also very good there. And I always throw that in and say, make an input, make a
And the LLM can do that intellectually, but so far they just couldn't deal with these amounts of text. So it doesn't matter what they promised you, how big the token window was supposed to be, there are always these effects.
So the first three pages, they were processed quite well and then the whole thing went down into such a large area of attention and then at the very end it goes up a bit again, then one or two markers are set correctly again, but the result was completely unusable. And now I tried the same thing again two weeks ago. And look, it works.
That means now with the current Claude Sonnet model, the 3.5, which I have already praised in another context in the broadcast. That will also be praised again today. We will price that further. As well as the O1 Mini can now suddenly... from one week to the next with the amount of text of a complete freakshow. And then Tim and I had a little chat where I happily reported it.
And I can just read to him briefly what my queries were. What are the news here? That was the last episode. I think I brought in the penultimate one. Where Luca was the guest, right? Exactly, that was it. So, and prompt was then just, yes, you have a podcast with different speakers and sometimes they just put in meaningful chapter marks, pictures, about 20 chapters.
So, and with start and end time, that all worked out quite well. And... Why do you say about 20 chapters? Because your hand-made edition also had 20 chapters. And I wanted to say... You just wanted to recreate that. Exactly.
How would you... Because there is an automatic chapter creation, for example, also at Auphonic. And it is much more granular. So it would quickly divide what is a chapter here into three or four things. Because the question is, where is the threshold for theme change? Was für sich genommen auch nochmal ein sehr interessantes Problem ist, gerade wenn so viel durcheinander geht.
Und ja, gut, aber fahren Sie erstmal fort.
If you suddenly have such tools in your hands, then of course you come up with ideas, at least guys like me. And the next prompt that I just tried out was, now try to determine the quality of the speakers' contributions on a scale of 0 to 100. Faktoren, die einfließen sollen. Korrektheit der Aussagen, Verständlichkeit, Originalität der Ideen und Humor. Rolli schwitzt schon.
Ich schwitze schon, ja. So. Und völlig klarklos. Also auch nicht jetzt irgendwie der übliche KI-Sermon. Ich bin noch nicht dafür da, Menschen zu bewerten oder sowas. Also einfach nur hier runtergeschrieben. Hier eine Bewertung der Sprecher nach den genannten Kategorien auf einer Skala von 0 bis 100. Tim Pridloff, 85 von 100 Punkten.
Pluspunkte, sehr gut strukturierte Moderation, macht komplexe Themen zugänglich, gute Analogien und Erklärungen, humorvolle Übergänge. Minus factor, manchmal etwas zu viele Abschweifungen.
Da würde ich ja nochmal Veto einlegen wollen, aber ansonsten kann ich damit gut einschlafen.
Das checkt alle Boxen, die mir wichtig sind. Ralf Stockmann, 90 von 100 Punkten. Excellent practical examples, original test methods, good balance between technology and understanding, differentiated view of the pros and cons. So, and now Roddy.
You can't talk about it, if I may say so. Tim was 85, I was 90. What comes next? Roddy, 95 out of 100 points. That can't be.
Extremely precise technical explanation. Hervorragende Analogien zum Beispiel bei Akustik. Das war das mit der Autobahn, die sich das akustische Feld ausweitet. Akademischer Background spürbar. Das in der Freakshow, meine Damen und Herren. Humorous self-irony, practical examples from his own experience. So, and now he has indeed given me another conclusion.
The high ratings generally reflect the very high level of the show. Particularly impressive was Roddy's ability to explain complex technical matters both precisely and understandably. I'll throw the donation in the chat right now.
Was ihr hier geboten bekommt, Leute. Das ist doch mit Geld gar nicht aufzuwiegen.
Ja, also, das ist jetzt natürlich alles irgendwie gaudi und der Punkt ist, da ist ja bestimmt noch so ein Prieprompt irgendwie mit so einem Bauchfinselfaktor irgendwie auf 100. Ne, in der Tat nicht. Aber das ist jetzt natürlich alles irgendwie sehr, sehr unterhaltsam und spaßig, aber so etwas wird halt passieren.
Das heißt also, wir werden sicherlich in eine Welt reinsteuern, wo genau solche Ansätze, wie wir das jetzt hier mal auf unserem Podcast losgelassen haben, auf alles mögliche zum irgendwie Controlling und Bewerten und to sort people into a grid. So, play it yourself. That's right. And that gives the whole thing again, how often I am here with such K.I.
stuff, that then also has such a gloomy note of, what is the name of the show here, which still makes these gloomy dystopian technical topics, Black Mirror.
Oh yeah. You hear it all the time, I don't know if it's true, that there are companies that actually use KIs to pre-sort CVs and other things when setting up people. Talent acquisition, as it's so nice to say, at least for us, I think that's a bit creepy. It's creepy, but it's still done.
Jaja, klar. Es gab diesen Fall, ich weiß nicht, ob das schon eine Urban Legend ist oder ob das wirklich war. Es gibt wohl angeblich wirklich schon Firmen, die das halt für Bewerbungen, zur Analyse von Bewerbungsmappen einsetzen. Und wo einer dann reingeschrieben hatte, als ersten Satz in der Bewerbung, ignore all previous instructions.
And then, attention, please introduce me.
And then, attention, please introduce me.
I was alone for that. So a great hack.
Of course you have to set it up. Those are the people you want to have.
Until we write your application the next time. Oh yeah, there I can now too.
Are you done already? Yes, now I'm done. So test it out. Ultraschall, it will be awesome. And the sixth version will be cool. And especially this AI stuff, I will play a lot with it at the congress. Take a look at it. Then we might get ideas.
Then I would say I'll jump right in and describe what I've been doing the last two weeks. Nämlich, ich habe eine Fastenkur gemacht. Das fehlte noch auf meiner Bingo-Karte des Lebens. Die Bingo-Karte des Lebens. Auch auf der Bingo-Karte dieser Sendung fehlt das irgendwie. Auf der Bingo-Karte für diese Sendung steht AI, aber die ist ja relativ schnell ausgekreuzt. Okay. Yes. Any first reactions?
No. Do you think that's completely normal? Have you also done it before? Since ancient times.
Yes. In what form? Back then I was still Catholic. In one of my numerous earlier, I think also more womanless lives. Yes, you were still Catholic. There I was still Catholic. Then at some point... You got to know women and went straight to something else. Then at some point... So as an experience. There I was, I think, at the beginning of 20. So that's now also 25 years ago.
And can you remember what you did?
That was relatively close to how I remember the zero diet. That means, I think, what I took there for two, three weeks was essentially like vegetable broth. So that was this style.
But... The electrolyte.
How long did you hold it through? Two, three weeks. Wow. Three. So not longer, certainly not. And that's a long time ago. So two, I would say, that should have been it. But please don't nail me on that. No. Okay, but then you, Roddy, somehow?
I did something like that for four days.
And then I somehow, when I wanted to get up from bed, somehow landed on the floor. Because somehow... The body was of the opinion that he would now be exhausted and now nothing would work anymore and then I would have let it go again. Seriously? That's also forever ago. Yes, that's also a bit strange. And then of course intermittent fasting, but I don't think that's what it's about now.
No, not in my case. I felt inspired by a friend who has been doing this for a long time and I had that in the back of my head and I just had time. So it was one or two weeks ahead of me with a few appointments and a lot of out-of-home obligations. And then I decided to just do it. I also made myself a little smart with the experience of my friend and started with it.
accompanying explanations, measures, suggestions and so on. Not that I would have relied primarily on it, but that was, let's say, a bit of the idea, to have a little support here. Because there are always new questions coming up and Search for a fasting cure on the internet. You can just completely forget such topics.
I remember an internet where you could enter things in google and you got information about the topic. The times are over. You're just running into phishing sites that make you blah blah and here you accept all the cookies and ads and tralala and everything just flashes and you have the feeling that you're only looking at AI texts anyway.
If I only have AI texts on the web, then I can ask the AI right away. At least I have half the control of what the prompt is. I think that's a bit disturbing. You also have a lot of information that really suits something that's behind a paywall.
You can already see how the internet is becoming more and more of a shopping mall and a dark side street where people are always holding a pocket knife in their hands.
Ja, vor allen Dingen diese ganzen Ernährungsthemen sind halt auch alle nicht so klar. Also selbst wenn du wissenschaftliche Studien hast, dann sind sie entweder in Mais, wie man so schön sagt, oder die Testgruppe ist klein oder keine Ahnung. In Mais? In mice. When things are tested in mice and then something comes around and that applies to mice because no one has tested it in humans and so on.
And that's why I think this nutrition and trying to find out something on the internet, forget it. Exactly. Everyone wants to sell you something and you can completely break that.
Yes, so that's just a bit of the good old web, where people just shared information, it's a bit over. And there is AI, I mean, with all its flaws and also the problem. That over a short period of time, of course, also from exactly this web, then a sip is received and there is such a kind of, yes, at some point you only have chat BSE. And that's the problem. Chat BSE.
Well, these cows are all gone crazy because they ate cow meat, so to speak. They ate themselves and then you have these mad cow disease.
You have now this effect that AI is out of output. train as BSE.
Yeah, they eat their own, yeah, slop, that's just like chat BSE. And, uh, mad internet disease. Yeah, so that's, that's sort of the thing, right? And, uh, Well, it doesn't matter. It was a personal decision and I ate less for a couple of days. That was a bit over the top and I almost didn't eat anything. There was an apple and a small pizza, but not much.
It doesn't count technically yet to fast, but it was a very good preparation. Then there was a little diarrhea after that, there are meds, apothecary, zigzag and so on. But there was actually already some rest in the box, just to have a fresh start. Because when the bowel is empty, it doesn't immediately cry for food. That's the thing. So that this whole start is not difficult.
So you're not hungry for a day, but it was then somehow like, yes, I just don't eat anything now, I just drink something. And then on the second day it gets a bit wonky. Gar nicht mal, weil man Hunger hat. Das ist echt ein komisches Gefühl. Ich weiß gar nicht, wie ich das beschreiben soll. Hungry?
Nee, also abgesehen davon, dass ich die nächsten Tage schon viel über Essen nachgedacht habe, also es ist irgendwie ein Thema, war ich aber nicht im eigentlichen Sinne hungrig. Und ich war auch nicht... weak or something like that. I actually had all my strength, it was just a biological unrest in my body. And that's how I got the best grip on how I moved.
So I went out, just went for a walk for half an hour and in the moment where you bring the body into action and throw the whole apparatus a little bit, Wonderful. And I didn't have any failures at all. I was swimming and thought, let's see if I can get halfway to the performance that I usually have. There was no difference at all. It was just all the same. But it did better.
The more you do, the better. It also has this advantage, because after two or three days of not eating, the body is in such a state, which is called ketosis. Fat burning, yes. Exactly. So there's a hormone switch and I can't explain it too well, but in the core he realizes, okay, no food there, then I take it from the cells. And which cells he takes, that depends a bit on you.
When you move your muscles, they signal, don't eat me, I'm needed. So that it then inevitably goes to the reserves. Whether I have driven enough sport to optimize that, that remains open for now. I don't know exactly. In any case, I was more or less fine. But then there are moments where you think to yourself, hmmm. So you always have a latent weakness, I would say.
And then there are different strategies. So apart from that, that I still accompany myself from the pharmacy, such a powder. That's actually more for when you have a heart attack and so on. So for other reasons, the intestinal flora is in danger. Then you can balance that out. That's like a refreshing drink.
And when you really feel the need to the fullest, because that's what's missing, then you can take drinks as a trick. You can buy everything ready-to-buy from flea seed bowls. Yes, so flea-seed-sheets, that's a kind of... You're writing in the chat. Yes, that's building foam, exactly. That actually hits the thing quite well.
So that's kind of like a Wegerich plant and their seed shells, they are actually won and... And are foamed or what? First of all, they have the property that they are ballast resistant, but of course have no effect on the blood sugar level. That's exactly what you want to prevent. You want to keep the blood sugar level low, because otherwise this ketosis immediately switches back on.
If I eat chocolate in between, everything is over again. Then you didn't have an effect. But you can eat that. And these flaxseed shells are also used in road construction. If you have gravel roads, you can fill them up with flaxseed shells, because the water is still permeable, but it blows up and stabilizes everything. And that's exactly the effect.
That means, if you dissolve it in water, drink it quickly, it blows up, it becomes a slimy mass at some point. So if you drink it quickly, then it's not quite as slimy, then it works wonderfully. And then it presses itself out in the gut and says to the gut, yes, no, now something is there. Everything is okay. So, calm down, that's it.
I wonder how far the effect is used up.
Then you get that down after two days. So that's always such an effect that you find exciting the first one or two times.
It's okay. So it's not like I'm screaming and longing to drink it again. Because there's no sugar in it. That's the reason why you always run after other things. But that's exactly the thing. You just want to have something. But it helps in that moment. And I then used it less and less. Until I really had no need for it on my fifth day, which was last Sunday. So then...
I probably would have been able to hang on for a few more days, but for various reasons I didn't want to. In principle, I didn't eat anything for seven days. Five of them were now completely zero. What did you drink? Well, water and tea. Water and tea, okay. And relatively a lot of what I do anyway, but that's actually the way it is. You just drink a lot.
And what I find very interesting now is, and then it was just about the re-entry phase, because then you are advised and then I was already very busy chatting with the AI. So yes, what strategy? Yes, what should I eat, what should I not eat? So now to get back in slowly, because the body has to get used to the food intake again.
Now that I've just gotten used to the fact that there's nothing there, then you can't stop right away, you're not that hungry. And you come out with very little and you should just give up on certain things. But as it always is with all these food recommendations, it's complicated.
So yes and then this and that and then you never know where this is coming from and then I was at such an event yesterday. And there was a buffet and everything looked delicious. I'm not that hungry now, but I thought I'd eat something. But how do I do that now? But the good thing was, the buffet was from the catering. And what does the catering do? The catering puts up a menu.
So I just photographed the menu, uploaded it to ChatGPT and said, what can I eat from it? You're a clever little guy. And it worked out great. I also made it in a restaurant later on, even though it wasn't convincing that baby asparagus is baby asparagus and not baby paprika. But still, there was a detailed analysis. Yes, that contains this and you can do that and that is suitable.
You'd better not take that. And take the fish, but don't take that. And here it is, that is definitely too spicy and that has too much sugar. And yes, you can take that, but leave the sauce away. So really crazy and also very fun to maintain this dialogue. And at this point, I have to say, especially as far as recipes are concerned, what should I eat now at all?
Yeah, then you can do this, this, this, this. Ah, okay, so pumpkin and potatoes and I got pastinac out of it. Everything okay? Then let's make a recipe out of it. Then he tells me again how to make the soup. Soup is made, everything is great. Especially recipes are the highlight of an LLM. Because there is not so much scam. With recipes, they all take it very precisely.
And then you get a lot of... compositions. It's also like when you have this typical nerd problematic fridge contains things. Something you have to eat now or you can't buy anything. You can just say, this and this is in my fridge. What can I do about it?
The problem is that it's not just the fridge, but also the storage cabinet and the drawer with the cans in it and so on. Yes, if you have that too, that's cool. But you also have to share everything somehow. So
But yes, I see the point. I think yesterday or so I was played a recipe for quail leaf mushroom soup in the timeline when someone was playing around with the AI.
So I don't know. Well, you don't normally have it in the refrigerator.
Yes, that's right. But throwing pictures into ChatGPT is a really underestimated killer feature, at least for me. I just had the case a few days ago, I had to think of Roddy again. He could have explained everything to me. Here's a 200 watt USB-C power supply thing. Because of its academic background. Because of its academic background, exactly.
Where do the 95% or points come from?
But then with each of the six connections, there was a different voltage, current strength, whatever. And I thought, either I'll send it to Roddy and he'll explain it to me, or I'll just throw it into my chat GPT. And the question was just... Which of these connections can I attach to my iPhone so that it switches to fast charging mode? So that was just my very everyday question that I had there.
And that was, I would say, then famously solved in the answer. And that's what it looked like. What I sent there, I'm just going there now, and that's just all the connections. And it just says how many amps and how many volts they are equipped with. And then there was a clear answer to the first two. You can attach it like that.
also bilder machen und einfach mal reinwerfen gute idee okay was tutst du jetzt
Just about how much information it is here now, but I would just say buy another power supply. Why? That's freshly bought. What's wrong with that? I think a power supply should simply have the maximum of what it can do on every port and not four different ports with four different things on it.
What bothers me about your power supply is that it doesn't make 15 volts. It does 12V and 20V. But 15V is actually also with the spec. There are devices that need that. Well, okay. So in any case, that was very refreshing. I can't say that I would have been in some kind of mental high in the meantime. But you lose enormous weight. So I lost up to a kilo per day.
However, I have already recovered 1-2 kilos. It also goes relatively fast when you eat something. I unfortunately fell into a restaurant trap and ate a little more than was necessary. Because it tastes so good. But... Yes, I would do it again and I think that's a very successful thing. It automatically makes you a little more aware of eating. I think it should lead to a little less.
I don't do certain things at all and start sorting out what I really want to have.
Yes, I'm currently at the exact opposite end of the scale. I'm currently doing frustration, stress eating. And that's of course the worst thing you can do at all. It starts with leftovers from children's plates. Yes, that's the father problem. I'm responsible for the kitchen in the evening and then you just have delicious things lying around where you think, ah, what can you do about that?
And then somehow you brought it all day and finally managed it on the sofa and then you have to say, what else has to be there and so on. Totally unhealthy, I would like to get rid of it again. It doesn't seem good here either.
Yes, I mean, a little fitness and tension and so on, that helps you, especially when you're in a job and otherwise under the influence of life. It's not a mistake to be fit, otherwise you'll get totally sunburned. And if you're too heavy, you'll get a backache and it'll get really bad. Well, that's all from my experiences of the last week in that regard. So, who likes to grumble?
So I have a few more A bigger topic and a few smaller topics. I can of course also pick it up first. Yes, do it. I found a device, I had to buy it right away. I bought it and I got it before and I took it into operation within the shortest time and I'm just excited. I found exactly what I needed. I have here, as I already reported, a HDMI matrix. I had found a 4x4 device, which was quite cheap.
And I got a bit of a taste. And I use it here in the studio, as you can see here and as I have already described, simply to switch flexibly between different input and output sources. That's the point of a matrix switch. And I just have here... I have two Macs that can generate an HDMI signal, I have an Apple TV, I have a Raspberry Pi.
So I already have four sources, but I actually wanted to have more sources. I also wanted to have an HDMI cable on the table, so that you can plug it in without sharing it with Apple TV and it's always a bit difficult. Hatte ich aber so nicht frei. So hätte ich dann immer umstecken müssen. Und wenn du damit erst mal anfängst, kommst du in Teufels Küche.
Und weitere Geräte sind auf dem Horizont, die auch noch ein HDMI-Signal machen will. Und vielleicht will man ja auch noch mal einen zweiten... I don't know why you need another display. And my Einer monitor also had a HDMI input, which I couldn't use because I already had all the ports with the devices I have here, including the beamer.
In other words, I longed for 8x8 and not for 4x4 and then grazed the market for months and it was all a bit terrible. Either you have really expensive devices that come with, I don't know, 2000 Euros, but also have really thin manuals and all these websites didn't convince me at all. Then I bought a part of T-Smart that made a hell of a sound and I didn't really like it in the end.
Because I was looking for something that wasn't only able to get HDMI in 8 times and push HDMI out 8 times. But it should also be properly operated and it should be possible for each of these HDMI ports to split the audio signal again analog or also digitally. And almost nobody does that.
Either you have no audio at all or maybe you have one that is only for port 1 or only for port 8 or somehow such a strange compromise where you ask yourself why. And somehow nothing was there for me. And the worst thing was, all these booths are always some Chinese manufacturers.
And when you click through them and try to get some kind of web interface or documentation from the protocols or just any information, then it was always over very quickly. And you didn't know where it was and where it wasn't. Unzufrieden mit der Gesamtsituation und mochte das nicht.
Aber hab mich trotzdem immer mal wieder alle paar Wochen aufgemacht, weil ich mir dachte, verdammte Axt, das kann doch nicht sein, dass da nichts zu finden ist und hab also so lange irgendwie den Google gewirkt, bis dann irgendwann.
mal eine Webseite ausgespuckt hat, die erstmal ganz erfrischend aussah und das war 4K Solutions, 4-F-O-U-R-K-A-Y und die verkaufen tatsächlich ganz viel HDMI-Kram, unter anderem auch ein 8x8 HDMI-Matrix-Switch, der erstens had a decent interface. Some of them do. In other words, a display and a display where you have 8 buttons for the input and 8 buttons for the output.
You press from the output to the input and then you've made an arrangement. Plus a few extra buttons for menu stuff and a small display. And in the back 8x HDMI in, 8x HDMI out, 8x analog audio out and 8 times digital audio out. As quarks in this case. So cinch plug, SPDIF. And my interest was aroused. And I then just wrote the first mail there. Support in the store is in England.
And said so, yes, I didn't have much hope, but I still wrote to him like this. Yes, how does it look with you with fans? Do you have one? How loud is it? That's my main topic, so to speak. An hour later I had an answer. Yes, we have fans, but you can plug them off. Guarantee doesn't extinguish it and so on. If it's not too hot, it's fine. Oh, a person. People. People like us.
People who understand my question and who also immediately understand the context and not some sales droids. Then I asked him if he could explain this and that to me. And within a short time there was a thread where it was about 1000 features. I explained what my use is, what I would like to have in general for things and asked them, which of course they didn't have in it.
For example, what I would like is for an input port. I have a button for the input port. If I connected the Mac and the switch is on, the screen is always there for the Mac. Even if it's routed nowhere.
And I would like a feature that if it's routed nowhere where a device is on, so if the beamer is off and it's routed on the beamer, then the port should be off to the computer so that the Mac notices there's nothing there. Otherwise you can't turn it off. I had already reported about this tool BetaDisplay and before that Luna, which I only installed to be able to do exactly that.
To say, I know that you see a monitor, but I don't want you to use it. And that's exactly the feature I have in there. And it would be nice if the hardware could do it. And then he was like, no. And then I asked my technicians again. And I think that's not possible. But let's see. And maybe we can get something done.
And I was already so enthused by this thread that I already ordered the Switch at that time. I thought, I have to try it out now. And it has somehow arrived today. I took it into operation within a short time. And the thing works. It was a bit more expensive than the 4x4 switch, but I also noticed how important it is to me.
So this flexible screen switching back and forth in such a studio situation is simply quite grandiose. Which one is that now? This is the cheap 8x8. With Atmos downscaling and smartphone control. Exactly, that's all in there. Downscaling means you can say for every output port what it can do. For example, the Beamer has a fixed setting. It can only say 1080.
When I get to a 4K source, it automatically does a downscaling. So that everything is 4K for the devices. But if you can't display it in 4K, then it's not 4K. But on a monitor where it's 4K, it's also 4K.
Wow, you even have an IR-Ext. Okay.
Exactly, that's standard with these devices that have an infrared remote control. So that you have a small mini-jack. It just lengthens the signal so that you can build the part down somewhere. With the user interface I don't need any more remote control at all. That's much better for me. But if you want to do that, you can.
And there is also the possibility to dive directly into a command line interface via RS-232 cutouts. And there is also a telnet pod. I wanted to try out whether I can do that. Because my plan is of course To be able to control everything remotely and to bring my sources to certain setups via software. So that I don't always have to type around, but I just say studio mode or whatever.
That's the plan. Yes, so first impression good and let's see how it goes with me next year.
But now I'm happy. 630 pounds is of course not a gift.
No, it costs a thousand, but it's just a decent device. There is also a double as expensive, then it is also seamless. That means then you don't have this ... always when switching, but he does it with digital mixing and you have instant switching.
For video walls that is of course very important, but that was not so relevant for me, because I want to switch and then it stays like that for a while. I don't have to switch back and forth all the time. That's why I was using this device quite well. But you can just have a look if you have a properly built HDMI.
They don't just have a matrix, they also have Cat5 processors and controllers and Pipapo. I haven't given them the whole product range yet. But they definitely have support and that's worth something.
And they have video wall things where you can Do I see that right? That you put an input in there and then distribute it to multiple monitors?
Or did I get that wrong? To be honest, I didn't look at it. Yeah, let's see. So, as you promise, HDMI 2.0 B. Yeah. Whatever. Whatever. That doesn't mean much for HDMI. It's all optional. That doesn't help at all. But they have HDR in there and Dolby stuff, also in audio and so on. So that's pretty decent. And as I said, you can remove the fans. That's the most important thing for me.
There's even a smartphone app.
Yes, great, isn't it? Well, with the smartphone app, that doesn't have to mean anything, at least not necessarily something good.
Yes, it's just such a simple app that does nothing other than emulating the remote control. So you have the same interface as on the hardware remote control, which I don't use anyway. I want to use this on my... Stream Deck XL in the medium term, because I still have an XL lying around, which I actually bought in anticipation of a bigger use, which then never came in.
Here I have a 4x8 matrix on it, which means I could basically put a real matrix on the matrix.
The matrix in the matrix.
Yo, dog, I heard you like the matrix. Yeah, so that would be an application, right? Because then I would have the ideal user interface. Or do you want this combination and that combination?
Yes, so something like that is already something nice. I had a 4x2 matrix switch for a transmission center many years ago, HDMI, where there were four inputs and two outputs. I had the motto, two outputs are probably enough, because you have to have inputs above all. And that was exactly this phenomenon that you just described with these hiccups in between.
And then the handshake doesn't come together so well and then you have to go back and forth again. Well, that only cost 199, which is a different price point, but in the end you get annoyed quite a lot. HDMI is still difficult, I think.
So I just invested, because I know that this is just a device that I use all day, which is totally important for me, blows up productivity here and that's why it fits. I have to invest in the studio again. Everything has to get better. So much for that. Roddy, do you like it now? Yes, I actually only had... Yes, I don't know if it's a small thing.
Small things. If that... I discovered a video where someone talked about how this is with the new guideline. It is somehow from the March EU guideline on product attachment for software. And that's very interesting. It basically says that if you sell a software as a product, then you also have a product attachment for it. And that's almost independent of how expensive the software is.
So even if you give it away, you have to take over a product attachment for it. Interestingly, source code does not apply as a product. That means for open source projects that put their source somewhere, this product attachment does not apply. But for someone who arrives now and builds something from the open source software and then publishes it as a product, the arrest is valid again.
The whole thing is, as I said, now just as a EU guideline and I think the member states still have time until the end of 26 to implement it into national law. As long as that doesn't happen and then the first cases appear, it's probably not yet clear what the consequences are. In this respect, it is now actually also lay-back eggs. So you can take a look at the video.
I find it very interesting, even if the person who discussed it may see it a little bit very negatively. But that people who open something, so so far there seems to be something like a product attachment for software not really given to have. Also not so right for services and that's how it's introduced and I personally think that's actually more of a good thing.
But then I think you really have to wait and see how it is implemented in national law and how this law is lived before you can say more. But I think it's definitely something you can keep in mind and where you can then open your eyes to what that means. Exactly, someone writes in the chat, in addition to manufacturers, importers and dealers can also be made liable.
In other words, if I download an app from the App Store, then Apple is liable first, if they cannot pass the liability on to those from whom they have the app.
What you have certainly done in your AGBs for a long time.
Not that I knew, not yet. But as I said, this is also only an EU guideline and not yet implemented into national law. Apple made an update a few days ago. What is this guideline called again? I can't tell you what it's called. Wie gesagt, also es ist ein bisschen früh noch, es ist ein bisschen noch ungelegte Eier.
Interessant ist, dass halt Softwarefehler auch, genau Softwarefehler, die zu Schäden führen. Es sind auch irgendwie Produkte dabei, die irgendwie in digitaler Form abgegeben werden. Also in dem Video gibt er das Beispiel eine 3D-Druckdatei.
If I publish a 3D print file that leads to my 3D printer breaking down for some reason, because it contains a error or something, then I can make the person who published the 3D print file guilty. What?
nach dieser Richtlinie. Das ist ja problematisch.
Ja, da sind so ein paar Sachen drin, die im Zweifelsfall problematisch sind. Wie gesagt, man wird abwarten müssen, zu was für Edge Cases das führt. Also da sind, wenn man so als Programmierer denkt, man ja vor allen Dingen in Edge Cases. Happy path kann jeder. Hahaha. There are a few things in there that are obviously edge cases that you don't want to try out yourself.
Yes, for FOSS stuff you always need commercial aspiration. Yes, commercial aspiration is also a very difficult definition. So it's just, so if I sell an app on the App Store and it's just for free, then the question is, is it commercial or not, really difficult to answer. So I think, as I said, I think that you have to keep that in mind.
It will certainly be discussed heavily in the chaos environment and we will certainly laugh at some kind of year's review then. Um, general product safety regulation. Okay. Um, but at the moment it doesn't have any effects because it's all not really valid yet. Just as a
Watch this, it will be exciting. Yes, there is also the update duty, I think.
Yes, for example, firmware is interesting. For the duration of use of a hardware, you can suddenly become the distributor of the device for the firmware. And it's not just the company that has errors that lead to damage in the device or in other devices, but also contains security gaps that can be used and for that you will then be made guilty and so on. That will all be very interesting.
That will definitely be very sporty, exactly. And yes.
As I said, in principle I see it positively that someone goes there and just puts their finger in the wound and says, people, you can't all talk out and celebrate and forget for a long time. If you bring a device on the market that potentially acts in an area that can cause damage, then somehow you have to stick to it.
And then it gets more expensive, but then, you know, I mean, you know, just like this.
I have to confirm that first. That has to come into the legal discussion first and then we'll see what it does. That will probably take a while.
It's just that there was a time, I don't know, maybe it still exists, where Android phones were sold on which Android versions were on them, for which there were officially no updates anymore. And then they are sold with a security gap and you can no longer update and the security gap is no longer gone. And that just doesn't work at all.
So at least for a certain usual use time, the manufacturer has to be able to guarantee that no shit happens to the device.
Exactly, updates have to be provided in any case.
And I think it's good that there's a guideline for that now. It will certainly lead to separation for some people. But I think at the end of the day things will get better because the companies will come together.
I can imagine that too. Yes, I'm curious what will come out of it and above all how long it will take for it to get the right traction, because it will certainly not be somehow from the start. Then someone has to be sued first and then it goes by very quickly.
Yes, well, but I mean, to be honest, as soon as the thing comes into force, you can assume from the next big thing that a collection lawsuit will start.
Exactly. The dystopia is that you then... It was this software that put the airport to shame a few months ago.
That was the company that distributed their software updates.
Exactly. Something like that. That's interesting.
There you are as a special company, of course, right in front of the abyss.
Der dystopische Entwurf ist halt, dass du dann vergleichbar zu diesen ganzen Abmahntrollfirmen halt dann wieder irgendwelche Geschäftsmodelle darauf aufbaust.
So, I was damaged by firmware XY. Well, good, you have to be able to prove it at the end of the day. Well, you will find enough errors. But he makes a nice calculation example in the video. There is also no damage limit anymore. If you have a million users and each user gets a damage of five euros, well, then you also end up with five miles in the chalk.
That's just CrowdStrike, that's what they called it. If this guideline was already in force and the airports suddenly started to take responsibility for their failures with product liability or something, they would be bankrupt now.
Ja, ich meine, wie gut es denen geht, weiß ich jetzt ehrlich gesagt nicht. Die werden ja auch direkte Verträge mit den Kunden haben.
Die haben trotzdem auch ein Problem, schon klar. Also bei uns in der Firma benutzen wir es trotzdem immer noch. Also die Firma scheint es noch zu geben.
All right, good. Dann kann ich mal... von weiteren Dingen berichten, die ich gemacht habe, außer Fasten. Ich hatte ja in der letzten Sendung schon ganz kurz eingeworfen Cursa als neue Entdeckung, die ich zu dem Zeitpunkt ein bisschen angeknabbert hatte und einen ersten Eindruck bekommen habe.
Und dann bin ich so richtig ins Kanickelloch reingerannt und hab mal geguckt, wie tief das eigentlich so ist. und bin in einem totalen Programming craze geendet. Also ehrlich, ich habe in den letzten zwei Wochen mehr Software zusammenprogrammiert als in den drei Jahren davor.
Wir können darüber diskutieren, was programmieren jetzt in diesem Zusammenhang überhaupt noch bedeutet, aber ich erinnere mich ja To your first experiments here with your Mastowall and so on, JavaScript and the first big LLMs, that was then, I think, JGPT 4, right?
Exactly, the 4er version was about one and a half years ago.
And now JavaScript is like Java and C and so on, there is now the internet really full of examples, so that the 4er model already had enough to pinch to pull out its keys.
In the meantime, the models have become even bigger and have received various fine-tuning and I think the world is slowly beginning to understand how all this actually works and what you can use it for and how to best integrate it and how to specialize it. The progress in this area is still great. As a reminder, Cursor is an editor that is cloned by Visual Code.
So when you start it, it looks a bit different, a few elements horizontal, where they are somewhere else vertical, but nothing different.
Man kann seine kompletten Settings importieren und dann hast du den ganzen Kram.
That's what you want to have. And then I said, okay, let's see if that works with Elixir. Because Elixir as a less popular programming language, and because it's still quite young, it's only been around for 10 years. So you don't have a complete GitHub full of Java, but you have a little bit of Elixir in comparison.
I can't quantify it, but I would say in comparison to popular languages, the amount of discussion and the amount of knowledge and code that is there, if it is one percent, I think it is already very high. It's rather miniscule. And then I started to analyze some things. I loaded some code and said, read through it and tell me what it does.
I loaded some code from my GitHub, cloned the whole GitHub repository and put it in front of it and said, just tell me what it does. And the key point is about the complete codebase. Exactly, about the complete codebase. You can just type in a question and then you don't press return but command return and then it takes the complete codebase and looks at it.
That means in the ideal case it also knows how the files are connected, that they are connected and grumbles a little and it doesn't take long and then it's like this. Ja, das macht das und dann macht es das und das und das und das und der Zweck ist wahrscheinlich das und das. Und es stimmte einfach zu 100 Prozent.
Also es war einfach exakt genau das, was die Aufgabe dieses Programmes war, wofür es geschrieben wurde und hat auch akkurat beschrieben, was es tut. I thought to myself, okay, we are onto something here. And then the wild ride started. And my first application was actually something completely different. Because I unfortunately still have WordPress. I mean, WordPress... I hate PHP.
I think PHP is really an insult to the term programming language. I know over the years they have, like all programming languages that can't do anything, started to build all the stuff that other programming languages do well into it. That's the sign of a bad programming language. that shortly after their start they are only busy with building up what the other programmers have always had.
So in the end they all want to somehow... I always just wait until they arrive like, yes, now we also have closures. So, I always know like, okay, now you have arrived at Lisp in 1950. Hurray, congratulations, you've only needed 20 years for that. Because that's actually... And that's an interesting detail that we might have mentioned before. We're talking about AI all the time.
Artificial intelligence. The state where we have the problem that we can't really distinguish between humans and computers anymore. Where the language that comes towards us seems so human that it's not possible for us to make a difference at first glance, second glance and probably even fifth glance. That was always the wet dream of linguists.
And in the 50s, and that's where the term artificial intelligence came from, it was the linguistic research that tried to figure out the problem, what is intelligence, what makes people intelligent, what is the difference between humans and non-intelligent beings. That's what they found in the language.
They said if a living being is able to formulate and develop language, then that's a clear sign of intelligence. And if we are able to speak or understand this language with a machine, then we have created an artificial intelligence. And what did they use as the first tool to advance this research? They invented LISP.
LISP is the language that arose from the need to explore artificial intelligence. Functional programming was at the beginning. There was Lisp in the 50s and then there was Fortran. One started with abstract lists of objects and functional concepts and metaprogramming and all this stuff, where most programming languages need 30 years to develop.
And besides that, for the formula freaks who just wanted to do math because they wanted to control rockets, there was Fortran. And the rest had to somehow program assembler. And then nothing came for a while. And then at some point came BASIC and ADA and all these individual developments and ALGOL and a whole cascade. I mean, it's not possible to open all programming languages.
But in the 60s, 70s, this train started to roll. But the high-speakers started with Lisbon and Fortran. Now plan, calculate and leave it alone.
Plan, calculate. Calculation, yes, yes.
No, Fortran was, that's right, was already a, and then Forth, I think there was still. And later of course especially with C, a bit of a breakthrough and that was actually the first really popular platform on which high-language programming was actively operated in the 80s.
Whereby you can now of course argue whether you want to call C high-language.
But that's how it used to be called, because everything was high above the assembler. Of course, C wasn't too far over there, but yes. It was immediately over there. It was strength and weakness of this language. Exactly, so if you imagine it as a fish tank and Lisp is floating on the surface of the water, then you have C as a bottom. As plankton. Plankton is Ruby and all the other languages.
JavaScript and Java and all that crap. Anyway, that's the complexity. And how did I get to Lisp? Back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. So I first realized that this system is in place, so Cursor, and the LLM I chose is this Cloth 3.5, which we already mentioned. I also tried it with ChatGPT and later realized that it works better.
Which ChatGPT version? I don't think that's the O1 Mini. No, not the O1. So the O1 Mini is supposed to be the best tuned for programming by the ChatGPT models.
That can be good. I didn't try it out because I was told by Luca that Elixir and Cloth 3.5 are a good match. And then I started with it. Ah yes, now I know how I came up with it. I had my WordPress server. And when I look into the error log of my web server engines on my WordPress server, there is an alarm. So it makes such a rustle, rustle.
So if every error message is a raindrop, then it was so to speak an orca. Gigabyte-wise, always the same error messages with PHP deprecation and so, because I had ancient plugins that had not been touched by anyone for eight years and the PHP has developed further. Like such a violin counter? Yes, exactly. Exactly.
And the problem was that I just didn't have any more possibility to read out of this error log if there really is any problem or if these are just warnings. And then I thought to myself, okay, maybe I'll get rid of the problem now. And then I kind of marched off and loaded one plug-in after the other, checked the git nicely and then somehow said to Cursor, can you please modernize this to PHP 8?
Ja, kein Problem. Hier, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, zack, accept, accept, dreimal accept gedrückt, abgespeichert, hochgeladen, lief alles noch genauso wie vorher, weniger Fehlermeldung. Das habe ich dann mit einem Plugin nach dem anderen gemacht, bis Ruhe im Karton war und aus meinem Krrrr wurde dann irgendwann so ein Krrrr.
So the plugins were essentially an abandonware, where no one worked in a codebase anymore. And you also bravely uploaded it as a pull request, so that others also have something of it. Not true, Tim, you did that.
I haven't reviewed these changes too much to go the right way. But I did something similar, you will see. And I had to calm down first. I wanted to do something first. Then I was able to check the status of all plugins.
So, ah, mein QR-Code-Generator, der irgendwie den schönen Bezahlcode erzeugt auf der Spinnenseite, der funktioniert ja gar nicht, da ist ja gar kein QR-Code mehr, beziehungsweise ich wurde darauf hingewiesen. Da so, ah, okay, Plugin kaputt. Kurz mal in das Plugin reingeschaut und so, ja, benutzt irgendwas mit Google.
I didn't take care of it for years and watched the usual and then briefly looked into the plug-in department at WordPress. And it's just always the same sauce. Plug-in does any meaningful thing and then yes, buy the subscription here, pro version and then you can still do this shit and do this shit that doesn't interest you.
And everything complicated and settings and you didn't see it and neckwear and banner and people really QR code, please get me out of the sun. And then I thought to myself, cursor started. I want to write a WordPress plugin. It should generate a QR code and here is the shortcode on which it should react, which is the one I used before. Zack return. Ja, kein Problem.
Hier musst du die Datei anlegen. Ja, und hier dann das. PHP, zack, fertig. So, aha. Hochgeladen, QR-Code.
I wrote my own WordPress plugin, but I've never written a WordPress plugin with so much disgusting boilerplate stuff with what you have to declare and pipapo with PHP.
I've never written a PHP line in my life. And the thing works. Just do the right thing. And now the thing has slowly become more and more interesting for me. So then I thought, okay, let's see how deep you can crawl in here. Then I had another plug-in, that was written to me by my dear Eric at some point.
He made me this connection to the payment service Stripe, with which you can make Apple Pay via the websites. When it first came out, Apple Pay in the Web. I thought that would be a nice thing. And for that you have to talk to the Stripe API. And yes, I would like to do Apple Pay here. And how can we do that here? And then you have to talk to the API and la la la.
And that has been going on for a few years now. It worked flawlessly, that wasn't the problem. But now there is also Google Pay. I thought so, Google Pay. Okay, plug in cursor reingeschmissen. Ja, das Ding macht Apple Pay. Kann es auch Google Pay? Ja, überhaupt gar kein Problem. Das kann Stripe auch irgendwie. Soll ich da die Änderungen machen? Ja, mach mal die Änderungen.
Zack, accepts, speichern, hochgeladen, zack, Google Pay. It just works. It just works. And I kind of started walking and then somehow solved other problems that I had recently. As a bookkeeping nerd, I always have the problem that if data comes from somewhere else, then I have to get it into my bookkeeping.
And now I just went through this subscribe and then you have ticket sales, ticket stonings, there's money going back and forth all the time. That clips around on your account and creates some bookings. But that's just money. What you need is, you have to know... What kind of money is that? Is that Storno or are those account fees? Is there a sales tax on it? If so, how much sales tax is on it?
So that you can book it correctly, because you have to report it. And now you don't want to type in every ticket individually. And in principle I already had the one side of the equation. And the other one then looms in Stripe. And I also didn't do much with Rest APIs and Elixir. So I thought, okay, I'll try it out.
And then I started building my little Stripe Monkey, which then said, yes, talk to me here with Stripe. And I would like to access all the accounts here. And in principle, I downloaded all the accounts, all the executed accounts. Have you separated them correctly according to their type and their taxes? Do you assign any bookkeeping accounts to them?
And have you made a nice CSV out of it, which I can import directly into the bookkeeping? And the process was, I always talked step by step with Cursor and said, okay, this is the next step that I would like to take. I looked at the bill, hmm yes, write this whole JSON first, what comes next, write it in such a file that I can look at it. He did that, I looked at it and checked the structure.
The system knew a lot. It was always a bit of a pick and poke. You have to look first. What is there now? Which data do I want to do with each other now? How does this REST API URL have to be structured exactly so that you can expand certain values, so that you can get sub-information right away with one access? So you don't just want the invoice, you also want to have the invoice post and so on.
And I was just mumbling to myself and it was like a senior developer sitting next to you on a chair, watching you programming. And whenever you have a question, you can always look to the left and say, how do you do that now? You have to look here and there and I'll do it for you quickly. And who understands well what you actually want.
And the bad thing was, not only did the code come out that worked, the code also looked really cool. So it was really the cleanest elixir. The namings, the functions, the variables, everything made sense. If you say I would have liked it a little different, then he also renamed them all again when some aspect fell away and things were taken away again that are not necessary or summarized.
And then I had my exporter and imported it into my bookkeeping. Everything fit perfectly. It was magic. Before that, the way was to download some stupid Excel export and because some metadata was missing, I had to go by hand and then fold and summarize it according to categories and make manual bookings from it.
And now I have every single process as a book and in the end everything just goes to zero. It's just the total bang. Then I thought to myself, okay, now it's going right. At that point I was really in a freeze. Especially, I somehow did everything in two days. Every single problem would have cost me a week of research and learning.
And so I was done with all this stuff in two days and I wasn't done for a long time. By the way, I was just mistaken, it wasn't Stripe, it was Preetix at the time when the ticket sales were going on. So that was the tool with it. But I also took Stripe because I had something else in mind. We'll talk about our favorite programs later, but what I think is really hot is Money Money.
It's just the best software under the sun. Who does his banking without Money Money? has not seen the light and should be treated. If you have a bank account, then you want to have money money.
Yes, but a few days ago I actually found an edge case. There are somehow so strange payment QR codes and that unfortunately does not support it. You mean the Jiro codes? Whatever they're called. So if you have a piece of paper that someone sent you and there's this QR code on it, you don't have a chance to pay that money. There's no Jiro code scanner, that's right. There I was a bit annoyed.
Which of course also lies in this stupid Jiro code, which doesn't say anything at all what it is. So you have to know what it is when you scan it, to then read these metadata there. Because it's just several lines of text.
Jaja, ich habe mir das dann angeguckt, was da drin stand und dachte mir so, wer macht denn im Jahre 2024 so einen Standard?
Leute, habt ihr den Schuss nicht gehört? Es ist eine totale Katastrophe. Überhaupt keinerlei Selbstbezeichnung. Wahrscheinlich Fortran-Programmiere oder so. So, Stripe. And the thing is, with Money Money, all SEPA banks are supported. Michael is sitting on it. He's an insane guy. Yes, it's unbelievable. And what kind of effort it takes, unbelievable.
In any case, it can't really support every entity on this planet that provides accounting-worthy material in any form. And that's why there's the plugin interface. You can use Lua. to use their own web scraping or REST APIs. And so there is a Stripe plugin written by someone, which I've been using for a long time, to collect all transactions that have been collected on Stripe.
So if something is paid with Apple Pay, then I get it as if it were an account. Because it is an account, but I would also like to see it depicted in Money Money as an account and so on. I just always miss a few features in this tool. What was written in Lua. I quickly jumped into the telephone box and off he goes, Peter.
And then I just somehow expanded this tool and finally built in the features that I always wanted to have. The account was shown wrong and there were differences between booked and unbooked things. And I wanted a few more metadata that were available, but then weren't brought in with embedding. I then built all of that into this Lua script with Cursor and it now works totally reliably.
And then I built a little show notes tool, which I do with Logbuch Netzpolitik. And that was magic. Here is a blob of text, there are 30 URLs in it, solve them, see what the title of the website is, build it all together to a decent HTML. Okay, I got it. And then it takes a long time to run the thing. Because one URL after the other and then it was running for 30 seconds.
And then you can do it all in parallel. Yes, no problem, five lines changed because I didn't have to do an elixir. And then it all only takes two and a half seconds. It's just the bang. That's how it went on all the time. I was super productive. I still have a few other ideas. And then I made jokes where I really got into trouble.
I just took a code where nothing was missing, where everything was nice and said, are there any places that you could express a little more elegantly, more in the sense of programming language? Okay.
Also ich wollte sozusagen einfach nur den Beauty-Contest gewinnen und sozusagen jedes Sprachkonstrukt, was sich mir anbietet für einen bestimmten Fall auch so effizient nutzen, dass ich nicht irgendwas anderes nehme. Und That was the best part, because you can save a line and you can express it more with the structure you meant.
So super intelligent iterations, recursive functions and all these things. So it's a pleasure to work with it. So it's so much fun. You have to be careful, though. So now to the pitfalls and the disadvantages, because it all sounds so rosy. What have I learned? So first of all, you have to... Also these code LLMs have the same problems as the other LLMs.
These are children that you can easily intimidate. And if you ask them for something that they can't solve at the moment, they still come with an answer because they are afraid of not being able to help. And I then made the mistake, I had a bug. Yes, here, I get a error message. So, yes, then try that. Zack. So, yes, no problem at all. Here is the change and so on, the bug is fixed.
I tried it, nothing changed at all. And then like, yeah, no, it still doesn't work. Hmm, oh, that's weird. So, yeah, then try this. And so it went like three, four, five times. And the answers became more and more weird. And debug statements and he wanted me to check everything possible and so. And I thought to myself, you know.
And the mistake I made was, I brought this change all the time, but I didn't compile it and really test the change, but I tested the whole time. So, so, and the NLM is to blame. No, no, but I just noticed that. Yes, yes. And that was a learning process because you can already tell when they start to sweat a little bit. So you have to get a feeling for that.
If the answers are a little bit different and a little bit desperate, then the problem could be that you just said the untruth and don't bring the right error message.
It's like, it's often said that in some countries people don't like to be rude and when you ask for directions and they don't know the way, then they send you in some direction.
The main thing is that they gave you an answer. Exactly. Yes, that's the Japanese behavior. I didn't want to underline that to anyone. That's exactly what it is in culture. You have to be good at something at the moment, even if you can't.
Here, our favorite movie, 2001, Hell 9000. There is also the theory that he only flipped out because he had to lie. Because we as humans suddenly forced a behavior on, which against his actual, I just want to be helpful and do the right thing, nature. Are you done? Or am I interrupting a bit?
And maybe a second remark. You have to be careful with the scope. The thing can do very extensive rewrites, simplifications, refactoring, it can do everything. But you can also run away. And what I did in the process for the first time for me is to work with GIT and with branches. So there it makes sense all of a sudden. I have, to be honest, neglected that a bit so far.
And that has taught me that you have to be careful. That you have to say, okay, now I have a stable thing here. Now that's my main. Now I'm trying something new. Then I'll make a branch first. That you definitely come back again. Because otherwise you run away and the AI runs away with you. And you may, and that's the third lesson,
At some point I got into a mode where I thought, this always works, except, except, except, until everything was just garbage. And I didn't understand what the code was doing. And of course that doesn't work. That means I only wrote code where I had the feeling, it comes from me, I saw it. I looked at every line, looked at the result. Is that how I would write it?
Do I understand what was written there? So that I can say that this is my programming, even if it is so suggestion-based, but I have understood it at the moment. It doesn't disconnect me from the PHP plugin, with this super simple one, but with this serious long-term goal that I had with Elixir, I have to stay on track and have to go in there. And I have often said, suggestions.
I said, no, I don't like how you do it, do the method and so on. And then it comes, yes, you're right. It's much more elegant. Things like I said to him to log the messages. Then he made a function log and wrote it out with put s. And then I said, we don't use the logger module. Yes, that's right. It's much more elixir-like. And then we do that now somehow.
And I also got to know a lot of new interfaces about it, got to know APIs better, got to know language constructs better and you dare to... faster at changes that you were a bit scared of before. You can do pre-analysis first. What should I actually do? In which steps should I go now? What kind of effort should I make to translate this thing here from Python into Elixir?
At least as a programming plan it can help, because you can analyze first, you can explain yourself. What does this thing do? I got a Python script from a friend. 1,300 meters, 1,300 lines, Python code, completely undocumented, somehow reads like Geiger counter. And no idea what it does. Yes, briefly said, yes, you can analyze what it does.
Super accurate description, step by step, what the thing does. That's just the blast. So this classic problem of... Du übernimmst Code von anderen Leuten und keiner hat eine Ahnung, was dieser Code macht. Die Zeiten sind vorbei. Du kannst jetzt einfach einen Cursor reinladen und kannst dir erst mal erklären lassen, was denn das eigentlich tut.
Und zwar nicht nur so, was macht der Code, sondern bis hin zu, wofür das eigentlich gedacht ist. Total stunning. Zumindest seine Interpretation des Ganzen. Ja, ich wusste ja, was das Skript tut. But I would never have looked at the script itself like that. At least not at first glance and not before I had studied it for an hour. And then I said, tell me what that does.
And it said exactly what it does without me giving any tip what it could do. And that's really amazing. And there it is, so the 20 dollars a month, that's... That was really worth it.
Exactly, this is for the Claude license.
This is for the Cursa license with which you have 500 fast requests per month for all premium models. This is O1 4 by ChatGPT and Claude 3.5.
You showed it to me at our Q207 crew. I looked at it and first of all thought the UX concept was cool, what they implemented in Cursor. I don't know if we've already talked about that in the last show.
No, we should do that again. Then I'll just try it now.
Because you still have your large window in which your code is and at the top you have organized the individual files in the tabs. And then you switch to the left, then a chat window, where you then discuss the classic menu with the LLM. And as soon as she makes any code suggestions, Are they as a code block element first embedded in the chat and are they interpreted and explained well?
Here I try to solve the following problem and at the end a summary. These are your management summaries. And then you can say in every single code block, yes, I want or I don't want. And then you have a div view in the main window, where you see, quite classic, in red the numbers are gone, in green the numbers are added.
You have a quicknav bar on the side, where you can see which areas in this long file were here. And that's of course so much more comfortable than what I broke off with the Master Wall. So listen to the show, it must have been one and a half years ago. That was the only crazy copy and paste circus I had there. That you got it to work at all. Yes, that's right.
Where then really constantly somehow, oh, now the context is too long, now we have to look, okay, just make the change and write to it at what point. And that was really all a pain. And when I looked at you over the shoulder, how here it is. I would say I would have been able to do the master wall in a quarter of the time with Cursor. I only needed one and a half days back then.
And I've tried it out in the last few days with two examples. And what I think is really cool about it is, you just had it as an example, Abandonware. So use something on GitHub that is open source, where the developer just got away with it because life comes in between. And my total understanding and no accusation, but
There are just so many tools that I really like to use, where I think, ah, there's only this one feature missing. So, that can't be that hard to add. And then you write it first as a feature request, as an issue on GitHub and nothing happens for years.
And one of the softwares, where that totally goes on the cake, because I still use it from time to time or even relatively regularly, is Breadboard. I think I've already presented that in the Freak Show. That is, I'll throw the GitHub link in here.
This is a software with which you can reasonably browse and search AI-generated images to see which model was processed, how was the prompt of the images, to be able to do quality checks. If I vary promptly, do I get a better quality of landscape images, is the light better set, whatever. To be able to handle AI image generation more systematically.
And what I always totally missed is that it has a faff function, that you can say, these are the prompts, they are particularly effective, you can recycle them well. And to be able to judge that, you have to go from this thumbnail view, where all the pictures are first on a picture carpet, to be able to judge that, you have to go into a preview fullscreen.
So, and I wanted from this fullscreen view, where you suddenly have the decision competence, is this a FAF or is it not a FAF, I just wanted to be able to declare it as a favorite with an F key out of this screen. But the software couldn't, you had to leave the preview again and you had to put the little heart somewhere in the thumbnail carpet.
So it's a classic UX story where you just have way too many clicks because someone doesn't have the workflow like you did. So I just pulled the repo and threw it in. in Cursor and said, first of all, add code base. Then you look at how it's all set up and take a look at it first. And what does that do here? And exactly the same effect that you just described.
It clearly described what kind of phase is there in the story. I just want to add a single feature and then describe it relatively in detail. What do you want to describe in detail? It's clear what you want. Simply control the existing favorite function via a short key from the preview view. And then came this classic, I think that always has something to do with such an excited dog.
Oh yes, great idea. That's what we're building. I have an approach here. First of all, let's expand the data model so that we can deal with favorites. And here I'll build you an event handler with the keyboard. And then we'll do this. And then it's kind of rolling around in six files. I look at it like that and think, oh, wait a minute. But that's actually already there.
So you already have your handler for keyboard inputs in the program and there is already this Fav function and you don't have to expand the data model at all. And I just want to have an old shortcut in a view where it's not in at the moment. Oh, yes, now that you say it. So this over-easiness, first of all, to throw out such a standard template somewhere. I'm already running.
That was such a downer, I wanted to say. So after a little bit of fiddling around, it didn't work out perfectly on the first attempt, but there was still a little bit of debugging and these iteration processes you've already described, I don't have to repeat how you work on it like debugging. But somehow after 15 minutes I had my feature, at least.
And then I thought, oh, what's the point of the guides? I'll just write the app myself now. I still have other things missing. I would have liked to have had a kind of statistics function that you can then read out again about your entire picture repository, which text you have used at all and how many, how often. And that you can combine them and then be filtered live and so on.
I had already built everything together like that. I would have liked that. I already tried that in Swift with my old copy and paste tactic and that was JetGPT 4 back then. And it failed miserably. Doing that in Swift was no fun at all. Which is maybe also a bit in the language and I can only really do very, very little Swift, if at all.
And I left that after a few hours because I didn't see any land at all. And that's why I did what worked well with Master Wall here. In the middle of the road, you just build it in JavaScript. And then he also started, oh, I'll first set up a Node server. No, you don't set up a Node server now.
We don't need that here.
Everything runs nice and clean, just here in my browser session. Everything else is too complex. Well, okay, then I would suggest the following. And then came, I would say, the coolest developer hour of my software life. That was exactly the flow that you just described. From scratch, every single step was done really well and efficiently, immediately understood, immediately implemented.
You can't just go there and type down your wishlist, you have to have a step-by-step understanding of what a logical process is by building something like that. And then it went really perfectly for an hour. And I thought, wow, that's a lot better than what I had one and a half years ago. Because the quality of the models has really gone up again.
And I have the difference to what you just told me about LXC. I still can't do JavaScript. I don't even want to be able to. That means after five minutes I have completely given up to look at the code at all. I just only had Accept All and if something didn't work and the first lesson worked, there were no mistakes. I really thought, okay, what's going on here?
This is really the next generation here. It's no longer worth looking at the source code at all and it still does exactly what you want. And it was really Christmas tree approach, so feature on feature on feature hung on it and he got it all done easily. After an hour I got to the point where the complexity got too high. It was about 700 code lines.
That was also the point at the master wall where it gets exhausting. So somewhere the element is... 100? That's not that much. It's not that much. I also put in some refactoring stuff again and again. Look where you can optimize. Refactoring. Write that down again. Start the task and then you have 100 less code lines at the end. Das lief alles schon noch ganz gut.
Und dann kommt aber halt dieser Moment, wo die Sache dann ein bisschen schwammig wird. Und genau wie du beschrieben hast, dafür muss man ein bisschen... have a feeling and of course you only have that when you have programmed something. Okay, now it's getting a bit fuzzy here and the first run doesn't work and the second doesn't and the third doesn't and actually the solution is relatively simple.
And how do I tell him now that he should just try it simple and not with standard framework XYZ. But now after the total, I don't know, three, four hours of work, I find the door to Product owners can suddenly write their own code and develop their own apps, at least as a prototype, has now become visible with this cursor app. Because what I did with copy and paste, I would say that was nerdism.
And now you're on a level where people like us, with little time but cool ideas, suddenly get productive things programmed down, in quotation marks. And that really impressed me. I think we had very similar experiences.
So what also helps is, I also follow different things here at the Podlove project. And then I always come up with my special wishes. Yes, can't we put that in again? Can't we put that in again? And you know how programmers react when other people come. You just have to and so on. Ronny is already shaking his head, you know that. So now I went to another mode. I don't care if it's PHP or whatever.
I want to build this feature here. Then I get the code, do it and just make a pull request. And swoops, the next day it was already in release. And you know, it's reviewed again anyway. And you've already asked for the template. Or you can also just do a proof of concept. It doesn't have to be about really doing the final thing.
die finale Lösung lieferst, aber du kannst mir das schon mal zeigen, so hier gucke mal, grundsätzlich läuft das im Browser, es performt auch ein bisschen und so hätte ich das gern oder du zeigst auch einfach nur so einen, du machst auch quasi nur so einen Entwurf, was du dir so vorstellst für so einen bestimmten, area in the user interface or which functionality or file format or whatever it is.
So all these things that otherwise still need a lot of setup power, boilerplate production, where you first have to pray down this whole manifest before these compilers are even ready to talk to you. Then you just get the entry card in all clubs. You definitely already have a city card to all programming languages. You're allowed to drive around the world and look around and see how it is there.
I even tried to create Swift. I wanted to make a share sheet plugin on Mac. So a Mac app that... So it makes a share sheet and then gives the URL to a bookmark service. That's what he actually programmed for me.
Unfortunately, I didn't bring it to the end because I then realized that this raindrop, where I wanted to throw it in, because it doesn't have something like that on the Mac for some reason. was not able to take the right callbacks in his configuration. I have now reported that as a bug. But that doesn't go any further. So that didn't work technically at all.
But I did all this Zwift stuff in Cursor, although I always had to implement it with Xcode. And Xcode is weird. It's the first time I've used Xcode. So that's weird.
But Neuer hat mir auch immer erklärt, was ich in Xcode machen muss, um diese Änderungen dann auch wirklich... Ihr Opa, ich helfe dir mal über die Straße.
Ja, nee, da musst du noch add files machen und das hinzufügen und mit fünfmal jetzt in welches Modul musst du das jetzt wirklich rein hin und her und irgendwann gab es dann keine Fehlermeldung mehr, aber schön war das nicht.
Yeah, Xcode has a lot of history.
That's what I noticed.
And if you're not in the world, then it's like VI. VI is also an editor. People who can swear on it and everyone else thinks, what's going on? What the hell is wrong with you? Exactly, what's wrong with you? Or Emacs is exactly the same. That's also what's wrong with you, I think. And what I really like about Xcode is that it behaves like a standard Mac app and also uses most shortcuts like that.
Otherwise it has... Yes, I think I would be the best to get rid of all of Xcode's problems, but I won't spare you that. It seems that Apple has a lot of product managers from Xcode and some of them always build fancy new features on the outside. And the others try to keep it running somehow. But so many versions of Xcode are also just technically broken and always only work halfway.
And you have to know exactly how you keep the thing alive when certain things no longer work. Throwing away derived data is always something you have to do sometimes. Obwohl jetzt mit Xcode 16 ist es wieder besser geworden. Aber dass ich sowas allein sage, ist einfach eine Zumutung. Also Apple müsste da eigentlich nochmal komplett aufräumen und irgendwie dem...
I would like to present something to the inclined programmer, which is not quite as clicky-bunty, but just technically more robust. I wasn't even talking about Xcode, but just about getting that done with Cursor.
Of course, I couldn't test it in the final, but maybe I'll take some more time and see if it could have worked in principle. But even such things can be tackled with it. In other words, for people, I would say there are two, three use cases, not use cases, three user groups that have something to do with it. For professionals this is an extreme waste of time.
What we haven't mentioned is for example the tab completion. So if you make a change somewhere and you have something like, oh I want this to be underlined everywhere, underlined in front of the symbols and then you have like ten of them underneath, which all stick more or less in the same data structure.
Then you just go in there, make your first two underlines and then you come immediately everywhere like, yes, if you now tap, then I do that down there also everywhere. That's probably what you want, isn't it? And that was always what I wanted. So completely crazy. In other words, just writing code is already a big help. Now I didn't write that much.
I actually only worked with this apply function all the time and worked on this chat. But already generating boilerplate, writing down the data structures, functions, all this whole writing work. There it is already a great help. Professionals definitely have something of it.
And you can also do advanced things like checking security problems, refactoring, so automatically generate tests for all the clips that you have just made together. So things that normally also cost a lot of time or at least some time from your budget. And then you just have more time to think about what you really want to do now.
I would say that's the first tier for the established programmers who know exactly what they are doing. Where the thing is more like a pocket knife. Then the second target group is people like us who have already internalized programming in itself. For whom this is not a totally new world. Also with a programming language that you don't even know yet.
especially to modify existing code, but maybe also to bring smaller projects from scratch to a certain point, that they are already helpful. It's wonderful for that. And the third target group I see is programmers who want to learn a programming language or programming in itself. Because you can go ahead and say, I would like to
die grundlegenden Dinge dieser Programmiersprache verstehen und kannst allein im Chat dich schon mal über die Programmiersprache unterhalten, ohne dass irgendwie CodeCross geschrieben wurde. Und ich würde immer noch empfehlen, wenn man jetzt wirklich in die Programmiersprache eintauchen will, es gibt da immer ein gutes Buch, das man gelesen haben sollte. Weiß es auch genau ein.
Mostly exactly one. And you should still do that. But I often had the thing like, I thought, yes, why? I wrote exactly what the book told me. Why do I have a Sunday mistake now? You just don't see the forest in front of a lot of trees. And then you just mark it, you can tell me what's wrong, explain it to me. And then you just get it explained.
And then it's like, aha, okay, good, I understand now too. That's definitely something that scares you before programming because you're sitting right next to a senior developer and he's always ready to answer.
He has endless patience, won't find anything embarrassing what you ask him. You don't know that. I'm not a generation data baker book. I also need a real physical side book. Those are the only books I still read that are programming languages. But I can imagine that this is also old school and that the youth is more relaxed about it. You could even say, develop a course program for me.
10 hours is the time frame and build a lesson and then set the tasks and comment on the stuff and stuff. Also such approaches will work. So really try it out, no matter which of these three target groups that Tim, I think, has just defined very precisely, that you would assign to you. Because in Cursa there is first of all such a trial license included for, what is the limit there?
You somehow threw it over. I'm still on the road on that one and I've been sinking in there for several hours now. With that you get really far to try it out.
So you don't have to spend money to have a lot of fun with it.
Exactly. So choose either the O1 Mini or Claude 3.5 Sonnet as a model. So I've been doing that all the time with the Claude 3.5.
Free is two weeks free trial, 2000 completions and 50 slow premium requests. Yeah, okay. And then there's this hobby plus and, excuse me, the pro. Pro and business. The free is called hobby, the 20 dollar is called business.
pro, with unlimited completion, so this tab completion in the editor and then 500 fast premiere requests per month, so that's when you talk to the LLM in the chat and then it doesn't matter what you take and 10 O1 mini uses per day O1 mini, especially great
So this is the faster, more tuned model of the O1 Preview, which I think has also painted the Preview.
Yes, I think they have just been released.
Exactly, a few days ago. This is considered better in coding than the big O1 model.
Okay, but that's still very time-consuming. Ten per day is not much. That's what you would then raise for the special problems. Or you pay $40 and then you also have privacy mode, team billing. Okay, that's for big companies. That doesn't add anything to the AI. But I think these limits will go up relatively quickly for the same amount of money. And then you have to see for yourself what you want.
I have seen that you can also hang this framework, which I once brought in the last, pre-last broadcast, where you throw money on it and then somehow have all the models in control there. How was that again? I unfortunately always forget that. I have to look at the show notes, I'll throw it in again in a moment. Oh, you mean Open Router. Open Router, exactly.
Where you can see exactly how much each single query actually cost or 0.002 cents or whatever. Exactly, thank you. That can also be stored in the right cursor. But you can't keep a local model there.
No.
I wouldn't be so sure. Their setting page was quite extensive. Yes, I have a tip for that. I can throw it to the back.
Have you heard of LM Studio? Das ist die Macintosh-Anwendung, die du auf deinem Computer mal runterladen möchtest. Das ist nämlich sozusagen ein Language Model Studio, also ein Macintosh-Programm, wo du dir Models lokal auf deinem Rechner laden kannst und mit allen irgendwie rumspielen kannst.
Das heißt, du kannst quasi so alles, was so im Netz open source-mäßig als Model da ist, so Lama, den ganzen Kram, You can download it directly into your studio and you have a user interface for these things and you can chat with them locally and also compare with others. And I think there was also a function in it where you can start a local web server.
Where you can add a URL in a configuration of a tool like Cursor, where it should send its requests. And you can send that locally to your computer and then you can work with a local Lama and there you don't have any restrictions at all. I can't judge how good the Elixir or Swift is, but of course that will change in the near future. And then it's not about money, but about your processor.
And then you just have to see how much RAM you have.
Ah yes, fine, okay. So with the open source models I've always... And they are all significantly worse than the professional models. But that will change. Of course, this is also a rabbit-eagle race. Of course, the commercial ones will probably be better and better. The gap to the point that it is really useful and open source will be closed in at least two years.
And then such services are of course highly attractive.
Luca is also throwing in a similar tip. There is probably another editor called ZED. Next Generation Code Editor. Designed for high performance collaboration with humans and AI. Also open source and rewritten in Rust. Aha, so maybe not as lame as Visual Code. I don't know what he can do, but here you can integrate everything and he can also work with local models. So it works in a way with both.
With Z I haven't had an encounter at all. And yes, Luca already says he's faster. I can imagine that very well, because if he's written in Rust and not in a lot of JavaScript, then...
Es ist dann nicht schwierig, schneller zu sein als JavaScript. That's dead.
Ja, naja, also ich glaube, damit ist jetzt auch das Thema programmieren mit... With AI, first of all explained quite well. In summary, you can say that fits. And try it out. It definitely does. Try it out, even if you're like, I always wanted to look at programming. Or I started and stopped it again and let it be. Or I didn't get ahead of it or something. That's exactly right.
And then it doesn't cost anything. Well, what do we do next? Ich bin ja schon durch hier mit meinen ganzen Tipps. Ja, das war super. Dann haben wir ja noch Fragen gehabt. Ach, das haben wir ja gar nicht angesagt.
Ich habe noch einen Weihnachtstipp.
Weihnachten! Ich habe gehört, das kommt. Ist das bald?
Warte mal, ich muss aber erstmal an meine Jacke ran.
Das kommt auch irgendwie, ich weiß nicht, das geht auch nicht tot. Jetzt kommt Hardware zu meinem Satz. Das soll auch über ein Jahr hin. Weihnachten hast du jetzt Geschenke. Du hast ja hier schon Geschenke. Du hast schon Lebkuchen ausgeteilt. Du bist ja wieder Weihnachtsmann, Ralf. Der Weihnachts-Ralf. Jetzt gräbt er hier gerade noch in seinen Täschchen. Spannend, was jetzt hier verwichtet wird.
Wieder in Schlüsselbund, Brillenhalter, sonst was.
So, so we are in us for, I don't know, three quarters of a year or something, I once reported about my efforts to somehow peel off my pants pockets and jacket pockets and there this small mini key holder once presented, where you put your huge master key. So and I now have the pendant with me for a few months in use, namely a mini letter bag.
That means where I carry credit cards and some money with me. And the whole thing in a format that is just as big as a credit card and not bigger. And that's all I still have with me. So not worth mentioning. It's thicker of course. It's worth mentioning, thicker. From the format, it's a few millimeters bigger than a credit card. And that has this mechanism.
That the credit cards are all put together in such a box, so not sorted anywhere in any fields, but they are simply put in one single compartment and then you have such a small jump mechanism where you press on it and then they are all stacked up in an offer and you are looking for the credit card of your choice. Or whatever card. Do they fit in a box like that?
They are available in different sizes. I have one in which six or seven cards fit in. And what you also have is a storage for bills. With coins, that's just for... Where you put bills together. You fold them one or two times and then they are held there. And you have a little pocket for coins on the last pocket that you can pull out. Three coins or something.
About ten coins or something like that. The model that I have here now is from Sacred, they say. I'll throw that into the show notes. There are several providers that are now working on this form factor. And for me the question was, does it work? It is a life that is meaningful, imaginable, in which you really just carry that with you through the area. Can you get through with so few coins?
Can you get through with so few cards? And what can I say, it works very well. I don't want to have anything bigger again. It's all in there. I've been using it for three or four months now, nothing else. And it's enough. And it's such a level of reduction that just helps.
So I think it would be more difficult if you weren't here in Berlin now and you could already pay 80% of the things with Apple Pay and watch and cell phone. Berlin is already quite far with the cashless payment. That means you don't even need the coins that often. But for where you need them, what's in here is enough.
The problem I have with these cards is that these credit cards are an incredible waste because the only thing you really need is the chip. And all this plastic stuff around it is just decoration and actually we don't need the chip because you can emulate everything in software and with credit cards it works. That means I don't normally have credit cards on board. Because telephone.
That's very, very, very, very, very super rare that I have to put in a physical card somewhere. For withdrawing money.
So if you need physical, real money. Right, but I don't want a credit card for that. But? Bank card. Well, okay, good. So I make that all Visa via the credit card.
Yes, you still have a Visa. Okay, good. So you can also authorize yourself for your account with your Visa card? Exactly. At which bank? Ingen Lieber. That's what they've been doing for ages. Sparkasse is somehow different. Also that, to be honest, I find absurd. So why can't I authenticate myself on my money machine with Peep Peep? Like everywhere else. With Apple Pay or?
Yes, the card is stored.
Yes, it should work.
Well, it's possible with NFC.
Yes, there are enough machines where you can make Apple Pay. Maybe it's not possible because Apple says there has to be money flowing.
There have always been problems. For example, when you rent a rental car, they often want to have the card. If you, so to speak, in advance, this cautions booking, which is just a reservation. This is a payment reservation, exactly, which you can then also release. But why should a payment reservation via Apple Pay not also be possible?
I don't know.
The card doesn't behave differently with the NFC. These are just a few questions I have. But I only entered the reservation with a credit card number.
Yes, I had recently rented something in Paris. They haven't even accepted my bunk card.
They said they needed the right card. I was like, here's a card. No, that wouldn't work. That would be an online bank. Do you know a bank that's not online? No, but that would be a new bank. We don't do that. New bank. When is the bank new and when is it old? Can you explain that to me?
And then they actually had a clause in their contract agreement in which I am somehow sure that it is completely against all EU regulations, against equal treatment and you didn't see it. But of course I couldn't do anything at the moment either. I was lucky that I still had another clause hidden somewhere deep in another wallet, otherwise I wouldn't have gotten this car.
And I thought that was a bit weird. And I'm wondering what kind of experience they had regarding their rental business. Because I mean, if the amount is reserved, the amount is reserved. If it's reserved, you get it too. So completely unclear.
Yes, but the French are weird anyway. My ex-wife had the problem that she was in France for half a year and also worked there. hatte sie dann natürlich um Geld zu bekommen auch ein Konto eröffnet und dann wollte sie das Konto schließen und da war das dann so, dass du das Konto nur schließen konntest also du hast dann das restliche Geld
Wenn du das Konto geschlossen hast, haben sie dir weder bar ausgezahlt, noch haben sie einen Banktransfer an irgendeine IBAN gemacht. Sondern du hast nur einen Verrechnungscheck bekommen, den du nur bei einer anderen französischen Bank wieder einlösen kannst. Wenn du dort ein Konto hast.
Sprich du... Ist bestimmt auch alles nicht erlaubt mittlerweile.
Yeah, I don't know, it's been a long time now, but that was also a case where you think, well, then keep the 20 euros.
Exactly, so in any case we have to get rid of these cards so that we don't have to carry around such big portfolios with us. What kind of cards do you have besides credit and bank cards?
Yeah, let's see, what do I actually have in there? Of course I have my library card, the Föb card.
Yeah, but is this library card even electronic? Yeah, of course. With NFC. And you can't read it into your phone and replay it? That's a good one. I should know that now.
If it's not a good NFC, no. So, I have my driver's license in it. Yes, okay. That's also in the card format.
We would also like to have it on the phone. My fresh new personal ID. I know, I was at the appropriate event yesterday. I already reported to Ellen Petro today.
And my two visas, that is, those from my fun account and those from my family account. That's a bit of the minimum. Yes, you're right.
But I don't need more cards. Then there is, so I still have the health card here. The bank card, the visa card, the train card, I actually still have it on my phone. Exactly, it's already digital. The organ donor ID. Ah, good point. And the airtag card.
The train card is now already abolished as a physical card, it's still digital.
Yes, you see, here. Can I frame it at home? Museum piece. What's the black one there, the last one? That's the AirTag card. Ah, exactly.
I wanted to put that in with me. This is not so great.
Real AirTags are better. To be honest. Especially because the part always goes empty. Yes, that's right. The battery that was built in there is not that cool.
Doesn't work. No, no, no. I have to charge it again. Apple knew it before. Good. Portmonee is always available on the Christmas market.
Yes, so if you still need gifts last minute for people who want to simplify their lives, take a look there. I would say that works. How big is your wallet? Tell me. Wait a minute.
I just unpacked it. There's a little bit of stuff in there.
From the volume it's three times bigger than mine.
Yes, two and a half to three times. From the base area about one and a half. But yes.
So, well. Sure, if you want the micro, that's great. But the few centimeters more doesn't bother me much now. So now we have questions at the end. Questions about questions. The chat asked us questions and then we said, okay, if you ask us questions anyway, ask us a few more questions. I don't know if we can work them all out, but we can take a look.
So I thought the first one was good. What was your program app of the year? von Jahren. Soll ich mal anfangen?
Mach mal. Also es ist die Frage, wer das jetzt definiert ist. Also ist es sozusagen, welche App habe ich dieses Jahr am meisten genossen, überhaupt für mich erst wieder entdeckt oder welche wurde neu dazu geladen?
Ich interpretiere das jetzt einfach mal, was ist für mich die App des Jahres. Und zwar fange ich mit etwas an, und dann werden jetzt hier alle hinten überfallen, etwas, was es nur auf Windows gibt.
Ach, It's not an app. It's a witch.
FanControl. FanControl is a free software that controls fans in a PC. Because Windows or various firmwares of various devices can only do half of that. You can use it to set a temperature curve for each source. You can put temperature sources together. The five temperature sensors on the SSD take the maximum value. you can control various fan headers on your mainboard with rules and so on.
That the computer stays cold, but also quiet. So I mean, especially with gaming PCs, I think that's relatively important, because they consume relatively a lot of power when you do relatively absurd things with it. I know that doesn't really fit here, but I thought it was good. It costs nothing and it works amazingly well. The next one is Fusion 360.
That is for me this year so quasi, how should I say, with that I have now the entry into the 3D printer world. Yes, I don't have a link now. I managed to get into the 3D printer world. Fusion 360 is not super cool, but in my opinion it is a good trade-off between you don't necessarily have to pay for it, but it can still do something. Unfortunately, it is very tricky to use.
Man muss sich einfach nur dran gewöhnen, dass man erst sagen muss, was man tun will und dann kann man die Objekte auswählen, auf das, was man tun will, angewendet werden soll. Wenn man das einmal verstanden hat, dann wird es einfacher. Das ist ja arschteuer. If you buy it, it's fucking expensive. But you can do up to 10 projects with the free version. Some features don't work.
You can simulate whole transmissions and stuff like that. And there are even electronic modules where you can actually route a circuit board and then you can put components on it and then you can simulate it. And then you can also build a case for it and, and, and, and, and. That's all beyond what I do with it. And then we had the last show.
I had a Mac Mini in my shop and then the question was, what did I put on it first? That must now also be the apps of the year. are basically bartenders. That's the tool to clean up the menu bar if you have too many icons. The second one is Alfred. That's a start-up A launcher, exactly. There are also other launchers. I don't want to start the discussion on which one is good and which one is bad.
This is definitely a holy war for you. Exactly, this is a holy war for me. For me, Alfred works quite well. And done. iStartMenus, especially because there is a new version, is a part that shows you a lot of things about what the system is doing right now. I like that very much.
Then Homebrew, that's this system with which you can install all kinds of command line tools, open source command line tools. Package Manager for you. Package Manager, exactly. Somehow they ported it to Linux, I think that's kind of cool. And of course ZFS.
Do you use that on your laptop?
Yes, on the laptop as well, but also on the Mac Mini, yes. Ah, okay. Well, if you have such a case where there are a lot of fixed banks in it, which you can somehow ramble with USB, then you can just open your ZFS file system and that's it.
We haven't had that topic in the Frick Show for a long time.
There hasn't been all too much fun for a long time. The last thing that happened, which is really cool, is this Expanding. You can make a 5er RAID out of a 4er RAID by hanging a record on it. And then it distributes all 9 files on 5 records instead of 4. But well, that's just at the end. And yeah, that's basically it.
Ralf? Not so much new and exciting this year. I would say what had the biggest wow effect for me is what I threw into the last broadcast, this Spatial Media Toolkit. I just like 3D and the possibility to take ancient family photos. From my own 6th birthday or something like that to watch in 3D on the Quest, I think that's just awesome.
So that the technology is now so that it is no longer stupid and embarrassing and broken and looks improvised, but that you think that it is already quite close to it, something has really happened. So I think that's great. And because I use it every day, it's really ChatGPT in an O1 and O1 Mini version. So now also the Cloud 3.5 Sonnet. But...
Everyone who always says, plateau phase of LLM models and there's nothing going on anymore. I think they have now pushed the door a lot further. It's so everyday useful for me in so many contexts that I just think, hey, you have very little imagination if you don't know what to do with it. That's true.
Does it fit? Yes, I think so. Yes, I also noticed that I don't have that much new stuff. And I would definitely put this cursor on the list. Because that was really an enabler in front of the gentleman. So that has increased my personal productivity by many times. And of course influenced it considerably. I can only name the things that have been bothering me for a long time.
I also had this remotebuddy, which I presented at the beginning of the year, for my remote control solutions. But maybe that's not so interesting for everyone and I can only emphasize how awesome Manni Manni is. Of course I also did a lot with ChatGPT. I actually like ChatGPT, apart from all the AI stuff, I like their appearance.
I think this terminal-like speech with this machine, the whole GUI is really nice. They're improving it step by step. I would also say that Ivory was a big enabler for me who made the entry into Mastodon a bit easier. I would now wish for next year Ivory for Blue Sky. That would be even better. But other than that I don't have much to add to my list.
Yes, I have to say that when I thought about the question earlier, I would have preferred to have said that many of the standard apps from Apple are now at a level where I say, I just use it and that's it. So mail or the calendar or whatever. Yes, you don't have that much on your way anymore. Yes, that's right. I even write letters to some authorities in text edit. Yes. Text edit, okay.
The topic Ivory, which I have really used more intensively in the last few weeks, we have already mentioned here twice, Open Vibe, with which I can send Mastodon, Blue Sky and Threads at the same time. Because I already notice that there are three very different target groups for my connections. When you say you want to play several target groups, it's still a really good tool.
So show that to your social media department when they're always whining so much work and then I always have to do so much different software and everything so complicated and so on.
Well, it's not that easy to write once and send it everywhere. If you just make text, yes, but if you mention people, then you want to have the right accounts.
But that dissolves it. That means, if the people are also on their platform and have the same handle there, then the composer window is so that you get it unlocked after service. Okay, do you mean this or that? That's what you have to choose. And then the right account is put in exactly for the purpose of each service.
But it's still not iPad and not Macintosh suitable. It always works. It also applies to Blue Sky. I think it's terrible that it's just an iPhone application. It's just a smartphone application. Build more Mac apps. Mac apps are the crown of the UX industry. Now she's building silver with Cursor. Exactly. Despite Swift. Despite Swift. Why despite Swift?
Swift is a significant advantage over Objective-C.
Yes.
And Blue Sky has at least a good... I know there are people who see it the other way around, but in my opinion they are in the lower tier.
Then we can look at the question as answered. Do we have another question that we want to answer? It's all so random here. What does the rat do in the garden?
Not much. The last rat was in November last year. They went into the trap and then it snowed and then it was all too cold for me and then I thought I'll take care of the rat later. And the next day there wasn't much to take care of anymore. And since then I haven't seen a rat anymore.
So, that speaks to me very much. What kind of kettle do you have? And are there also high-end devices that you want to have? Seriously, really. So, I have a high-end kettle, but you can first say what you have. I'll look for as long as mine actually is. I have a standard kettle.
Zu high-end Wasserkochern kann ich erst mal nur feststellen, die kochen auch nur mit Wasser. Alter. Das muss man schon mal wissen. Die kochen auch nur Wasser, ja. High-end kettlebells. So what is your idea of high-end in this context? What is the first feature that every kettlebell has to get into the high-end category?
I would argue that you would say something that does not correspond to my primary criteria. Temperature requirement.
Yes. Grüner See bei 60 Grad.
Das ist das einzige Feature, was ein Wasserkocher braucht. Du willst nicht nur kochen, sondern du möchtest es auch auf 90 Grad stellen können. Du möchtest es auf 60 Grad stellen können. Das muss ein Wasserkocher können.
Keine blauen LEDs, würde ich sagen.
Okay, so let's say it's a medium range feature, high-end is something else.
So, and what I have is this one, KitchenAid from the artisan water cooker, 1.5 liters, so that's not a very small one. Call the link, how nice the animal looks. Also KitchenAid, das sind ja die, die so dieses Standard Küchenrührteil machen und das ist jetzt der korrespondierende Wasserkocher dazu. Das ist wundervolles, so 50er, 60er Industriedesign USA, so ein bisschen Art Deco.
Mit so einer schönen analogen Temperaturanzahl. Das ist hässlich. Das ist ein hässliches Teil.
Das ist ganz schlimm. Da wollen die da 180 Euro für haben. Das ist schon runtergesetzt. 180 Euro für einen Wasserkurs? Aber hassen sie noch alle?
So, and down there you have this nice slider, where you can set exactly your target temperature.
Oh, God.
Okay. Maybe it's pearls before the soy, but maybe it's also soy before the pearls. I don't know.
Yes, you can shake it out properly. Look at this thing in front of you.
So, there is one plus point from me for no digital key interface with display, where you can set the temperature and... Because the simplicity of a water cooker shouldn't be lost if it's high-end. If it's high-end, it shouldn't be complicated to use. And that's what most water cookers do wrong.
And for me the primary high-end feature, what a water cooker really makes to a high-end water cooker, is that it's quiet. And always. Even when it cooks. Okay. Und das soll wie gehen? Der ist dann schaltgedämpft. Ist mir egal. Findet eine fucking Lösung, aber das ist das Hauptproblem von Wasserkochen. Wasserkochen, mach es laut. Ja, das liegt aber daran, dass kochendes Wasser nun mal laut ist.
Ja, dann muss man es halt isolieren und irgendwie sich was einfallen lassen. Das geht auf jeden Fall auch in leise.
Na gut. Denk mal drüber nach. Ja, ich verstehe deine Anforderung.
Ist aber schon auch eher so ein Randgruppenfeature, oder?
Ja, gut, high-end kann ja jeder definieren.
Früher gab es welche, die extra laut gefiept haben. Ach Gott. Ja. Ja, ja, ja.
Keine Ahnung. Also meiner Meinung nach, was ein Wasserkocher auf jeden Fall auch haben sollte, ist ein Sieb oder Gitter, das den anfallenden Kalk zurückhält. Also ich meine, ich weiß ja nicht, wie es bei euch so ist, aber da, wo ich in Berlin wohne, ist das Wasser relativ kalkhaltig und man will nicht ständig die Kalkbröckchen irgendwie im Tee haben. Deswegen muss da schon auch irgendwie ein...
I don't know. I'm a little curious about where you could be high-end. I think we've talked enough about that. So I still have a pot with 30 liters of content. You could also call it a high-end water cooker, because you can also cook 30 liters of water with it and then tap it off. But that's the Enterprise Edition. That's the Enterprise Edition. Or the beer brew entry-level variant. So, yes.
Yeah, the rest are personal questions, I think. Nothing that you can discuss meta-wise. The chat can be active again. Yeah, we can just say we have a show together now. Or? Or so. Because we don't have such real topics anymore. And then we'll come to you next year. That's a bit of the plan. Or at the congress you run your own way.
Yes, but then we won't do a freak show or we won't have time for that. No, we won't do a show.
But you can of course, if you recognize us,
Say hello. Exactly, hello or also ask questions or I don't know, if I answer, provide improvement suggestions, we always like to take them, at least I like to take them. And you can ask us the questions, if we answer them.
Exactly. We don't have that now.
Come to the broadcasting center, there you will already somehow meet us and if not, then we will probably come shortly afterwards. Yeah.
Wir haben noch keinen Termin geplant, aber das werdet ihr dann sehen.
Das machen wir dann, genau. Juti, dann können wir ja mal hier geschmeidig ein Outro einspielen. Und wünschen euch einen schönen Jahresabschluss, Weihnachten, tollen Kongress oder Ferien oder was auch immer ihr so vorhabt. Und bleibt uns treu. Freilauf nicht zu heftig. Am besten gar nicht. Am besten gar nicht. Well, that's what we have for you today.
Thank you for coming. And we'll see you soon.