Spent quite some time fiddling around with my phone and Computers because of the iOS 16.1 / macOS 13 releases. Notes stopped syncing with my Macs (which happens with every major release). Reminders synced shared lists across different users and phones (wow, that usually also breaks on new releases), but it stopped syncing with my watch, so I had to take out my phone and look at it during grocery shopping (like an animal). I also tried out the eagerly awaited shared iCloud photo library, and ran into a lot of edge cases/bugs (the image and video counts stopped being accurate for me a while ago, but now they are just going crazy: edited images are converted to  tiff sometimes and then they cannot be uploaded to iCloud anymore and some images just refuse to be added to the shared library, etc pp). Maybe I have just too many notes, reminders, and photos.

Worked a little bit on django-cast to bring its dependencies up to date. There's a Wagtail RFC 71: support for responsive images that maybe makes my wagtail-srcset workaround obsolete. Would be cool if this is no longer needed. Planning to look into this in the next week.

Articles

• A World Without Why? | Achievable aesthetics over unachievable ethics, no?
• Science and Technology links (October 16 2022)
• Welcome to hell, Elon | Interesting social experiment. I'm curious about how this all will play out, but I wouldn't bet on the fediverse winning, sorry.

Twitter

• Dear White People, No one is asking you to apologise for your ancestors. We are asking you to dismantle the systems of oppression they built, that you maintain and benefit from. | Well, fair enough..
• i hate doing acid with other people. bro over here bugging out talmbout “is this really all there is”. can you please shut up i’m trying to hands-free cum
• 3 rules: -no wishing for death -no falling in love -no bring back dead people. I want to use Excel as a database. There are 4 rules.

Weeknotes

• Weeklog for Week 42: October 17 to October 23 | Johannes

Software

• Welcome to the Textual Tutorial! | Really well-done tutorial
• Common Plots | Lots of cool example plots in matplotlib, plotnine, seaborn, altair, and plotly.

Podcasts

• FG098 Philosophie kommunizieren (Forschergeist) | Learned about denxte which is about philosophy and happens to be located in my home town, so it's kind of relevant. 
• WR1418 Gaspreise, Großbritannien, Bank Run (Wirtschaftskunde) | Another great episode
• #815 (S.S. SHIPIT) (Bits und so)

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