Petr Kirpeit

All articles are my personal opinion and are written in German. In order to offer English-speaking readers access to the article, they are automatically translated via DeepL. Facts and sources will be added where possible. Unless there is clear evidence, the respective article is considered to be my personal opinion at the time of publication. This opinion may change over time. Friends, partners, companies and others do not have to share this position.
All articles are my personal opinion and are written in German. In order to offer English-speaking readers access to the article, they are automatically translated via DeepL. Facts and sources will be added where possible. Unless there is clear evidence, the respective article is considered to be my personal opinion at the time of publication. This opinion may change over time. Friends, partners, companies and others do not have to share this position.

Paid climate activists of the last generation - video statement

Paid Climate Activists - In recent days, articles have been popping up all over the media stating that climate activist are being paid financially for their work. Some articles only include references, but not the exact sources and links. I have therefore done the work to follow up on a source and find the origin.

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The value of the birthday is digitally underestimated

Recently I experienced my 28th birthday, not that actively wanted to head for it, but well, as it happens, birthdays are somehow repetitive and that's interesting every year to see how many people actually congratulate you on your birthday.

Of course, you can forget about it, but in this day and age, anyone who is logged into a social network like Facebook or LinkedIn gets a notification of a contact's birthday. Facebook even has a Birthday page for own contacts, broken down when and who celebrates his next birthday, depending on the setting even the age.

LinkedIn doesn't have this, but there are notifications and I was personally a bit upset that more friends from Africa congratulated me via WhatsApp than my more than 500 business contacts.

5, a whole 5 people have contacted me, 2 from China with whom I have little to little contact, one contact from Pakistan and 2 from Germany with whom I share professional interests.

Isn't that sad? I think so, because the business world is not only about numbers and money, but also about interpersonal relationships. I don't have to know a person particularly well, I don't even have to agree on a subject, but I do take the time to write to the person who is important to me. Of course, in these 500 contacts I also have people with whom I have no contact, who never answer me or are simply not online or only occasionally read my opinion. That doesn't bother me. But I have at least 50 people on LinkedIn who are important to me and maintaining contact is relevant to me. Of these 50 people, none has written to me.

Even people I work with haven't contacted me, even though I've even noted their birthday in my contact information and Google reminds me too.

Do people just not care about me?

I don't know, but even on Facebook some of my friends from Tunisia didn't get a notification that it was my birthday. It's easy to blame Facebook or LinkedIn now, so it's even more important that we don't just rely on them, but actively engage with our fellow human beings, with whom we work, but also maintain friendships and care. Whether it's checking in on family or whether that friend is in good health.

Do yourselves and your contacts the favor, make yourselves thoughts to the birthday. It's a small effort to set a repeating reminder in the calendar, but in return your contact or friend will appreciate it more in the long run and then everyone will be happy and no one will be hurt. And it doesn't even cost you money to write happy birthday to a person.

Therefore check your Notification settings on LinkedIn and that your birthday at least for your contacts can be viewed, this is the only way LinkedIn can notify you.

Facebook allows you to set your birthday via your profile and what information should be available to whom, this is the only way your friends will receive a notification from Facebook.

It's not hard to be a good person and wish someone a happy birthday. The easier it is not to worry and lose friendships, and then the harder it is to apologize.

Use your digital calendar to get birthday reminders.

There is no excuse today for such social misconduct when you have

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Meta dies with the metaverse

Why the Metaverse is a disaster, Zuckerberg's value has plummeted from US$125 billion to just US$32 billion, and now even Costco Wholesale is more valuable than meta.

Personal opinion: Zuckerberg's decision was the dumbest of his life, because Meta is dying. 52% of the revenue has gone away. While Meta Horizon Worlds has 200,000 users per month, has Linden Lab's Secondlife 200,000 users per day.

Maybe Mark should have bought Linden Lab's sooner, would have had a better chance. I think I would probably invest in Linden Labs rather than Meta, which wants to forcibly change the Internet to create a monopoly, while Linden Lab wants to reach a solid branch of interested people

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Anton Gudim - Yes, but - the world is full of contradictions

Man, like life, is full of contradictions. Everyone has an opinion, and most of them are different from each other. However, most people are not aware of these contradictions and even reject them. The exception is the artist Anton Gudim. Meet with him today. With his fascinating comics, he will show us several perspectives on the same story. I hope that everyone will be able to understand and identify with these comics.

This Artist's 30 Sarcastic Comics Illustrate Different Perspectives on Things

 

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With VR glasses to death

Recently, an article appeared about the fact that the inventor of the Oculus, Palmer LuckeyThe game is a VR goggle that allows the person using it to die in real life as a result of a death in the game. I actually don't know how crazy you have to be to build such an apparatus. Even if it's just a thought-provoking idea, you should really think about the impact such a system will have on people. Will there be digital gladiator games in the future, where prisoners fight for freedom and all die except for one person and this person becomes free, like in The Tributes of Panem - The Hunger Games?

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According to a report in the "Welt am Sonntag" newspaper, the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology has paid around 156,000 euros into an association account used to finance the climate extremist "Last Generation".

This extremist group "Last Generation", is responsible for the fact that an ambulance could not reach a woman who had an accident. She was declared brain dead a few days after the accident.

The Federal Ministry of Economics supported the "Last Generation" with subsidies

 

 

 

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Why it's good that the blue check mark on Twitter should cost money

Why it's good that the blue check mark on Twitter should cost money

Elon Musk has bought Twitter, shocking for many, for many also a liberating blow from censorship of unwanted content. But Elon is a capitalist and his investment of several billion dollars, should also be worthwhile, the blue check mark, which is the symbol on Twitter as proof of a real person behind this account, should cost money and that, is good.

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Images are getting bigger and bigger - that's a problem

Images are getting bigger and bigger - that's a problem

For some time I have noticed one thing, the files are getting bigger and bigger, mainly images, since 4K, 8K and images with more than 30 megapixels are made, files are getting bigger and bigger, and that's a problem. Not because you can't handle it, but because these quality resolutions are not needed in everyday life and waste storage space, in the name of the technological mantra, bigger, better, further, higher....

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Why vertical farming companies need to catch up on the web

Why vertical farming companies need to catch up on the web

For more than 8 years I'm already a web developer and working in my self-employment, there come more or less known sites, technologies, CMS and stacks to eyes where you think to yourself "Hey, that's WordPress!" or "OMG, that's Joomla/Typo3 :O", some websites you can see that directly, with others I only need to read briefly in the header of the page source and know what this page is built with, what I'm dealing with, what theme is behind it, what plugins are used and who adheres to the DSGVO/GDPR or not, yes, I have so found some websites already, where the Google Analytics anonymous_ip was not set 😉 . But no one pays me to report other sites, nor would I get money to take care of the errors of another site.

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