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He passed away in a hospital on Hawaii at 20th of March. https://www.instagram.com/p/DWG8c5BAKPd/?utm_source=ig_embed

Since we don't have this thread here yet, let's start it, because not every movie or tv series needs an own thread. I've been watching a documentation about the production of "Fitzcarraldo" by Werner Herzog. A very insane movie with even insaner actor Klaus Kinski and director Werner Herzog...

The first two episodes of "Starfleet Academy" aired, so it's a good time to discuss them a little bit. Ok, first the setup: the show plays in the 32nd century, in which the Discovery has been stranded, after the burn. So if you are no fan of that timeline the show is not for you. Starfleet is...

Swiss citizen Erich von Däniken, world wide known author of a vast array of pseudoscientific books all dedicated to the thesis that aliens visited Earth in prehistory died at age 90 at 10th of Jan. His rise to fame started with the release of the book "Chariots of the gods?" in 1968. According...

World famous French pinup girl, actress and later animal welfare activist Brigitte Bardot died at age 91.

Singer and composer Chris Rea died at age 74 after short illness in a hospital Monday morning. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c51y93wqv5po

I have been playing around with the Antigravity Code Editor by Google under Windows. It offers the integration of various programming LLMs, including Gemini, Claude and GPT. I have been using Gemini Flash. My prompt was actually quite simple: Create the classic game "Millionaire" from David Ahl...

German Music producer Jack White (born as Horst Nußbaum) died at age 85 in Berlin. During his career White sold over 1 billion (!) records. He was found dead in his home. International hits produced by White are amongst others "Gloria" and "Self Control" by Laura Branigan and "When the rain...

World renowned British primatologist Jane Goodall died at age 91 today. She became famous in the 60s when she discovered that chimpanzees are using tools, until then science thought that only humanity is using tools and no animals. She was on a speaking tour in California.

The Italian diva Claudia Cardinale died at age 87. She was in the same league as Gina Lollobridgida and and Sophia Loren. Famous movies include Federico Fellini's 8½ (1963), Luchino Visconti's The Leopard (1963), and Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). Other notable movies from...

Since other countries got their own threads I thought one about Germany could be interesting as well. So let's start with one of the most well known German companies visible in everybody's daily life in America, Australie, the UK and many other countries: Aldi. Actually there are 2 Aldis...

Pope Francis died at age 88. Last time there was a non-european Pope in Rome was Syrian-born Gregory III in 741. He was also the first Jesuit to be elected as Pope. To his supporters, he was a principled reformer who strove to modernize the Church and make it more relevant to a fast-changing...

The corpses of Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa have been found at their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Hackman was 95 years old, his wife 63. The circumstances of their deaths are unknown, there is an active investigation going on right now. Hackman won 2 academy awards, one for...

Since Elmo renamed twitter.com to x.com the unfurling of their links is not working any longer. Given the fact that we often link here tweets, we need unfurling for x.com like we had for twitter.com. Kthxbyebye.

VVO is performing quite slow for me since a few days, when e.g. opening sub forums and other stuff. It takes typically now 5-10 seconds until site loading begins. Maybe others are having issues as well?

Let's have a little challenge using AI to create images. The rules are simple: create a picture you love for the given motto, and post it here with your thoughts/story about it. After a few days when no new images do show up, we call the round closed and anybody who likes can come up with the...

O.J. Simpson passed away at age 76. He was a famous NFL player and actor turned criminal later, also suspect of murdering his wife. https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2024-04-11/oj-simpson-dead

Hi, topic says it all: I am looking for a state of the art and well supported mesh bento furry body. Since I've got no clue about it, which labels should I take a look at?

In case you've always wanted to checkout ChatGPT or similar, but distrust OpenAI about keeping your privacy, there's now a solution: Ollama! Ollama allows you to run the LLM of your choice on your CPU or GPU, supported OSes are Windows, MacOS and Linux. First you need to download it, but it...