https://www.alojapan.com/1225556/hokkaido-2024-looking-back-on-rapidus-bears-and-shinkansen/ Hokkaido 2024: Looking back on Rapidus, bears and shinkansen #2024InReview #animals #Bears #BulletTrains #chipmakers #Hokkaido #HokkaidoShinkansen #HokkaidoTopics #Hunting #rail #rapidus #Shinkansen #tech #北海道 Semiconductors, bears and trains were just some of the major news topics in Hokkaido this past year, and are expected to continue to dominate local news coverage in 2025. Here’s a brief rundown of all three. Rapidus moved forward this y…

With 2024 now behind us, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on the growth and achievements we accomplished as a community last year, and celebrate the incredible support we received from the FOSS community throughout the journey. #FDroid #yearinreview #2024inreview #foss #Android

https://f-droid.org/2025/01/21/a-look-back-at-2024-f-droids-progress-and-whats-coming-in-2025.html

For my final summary of 2024, let's take a look at the best and worst movies and video games, both old and new, that I reviewed during the year. This video is in three chapters: my top ten favourite movies of the year, then my single favourite and least favourite movies and games in a handful of categories, and finally ranking everything I reviewed during the year. https://youtu.be/3IAG6XUV3Vk

#selfpromo #film #movies #gaming #videogames #2024recap #2024inreview

A new video is now live on my YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/OpHJluwK57Q
🎞️ 🎬 🎥
What's in it?
🫖 A personal review of the first 11 months of my YouTube channel and the 25 videos I managed to publish in 2024.
🫖 An assessment of my success by reference to YouTube's analytics.
🫖 A broad-brush picture of where I'm hoping to take the channel in 2025.
🫖 New Year's Greetings to all.
🎞️ 🎬 🎥
#video #yearinreview #2024inreview #yearahead

@wonka
Ja, darüber wurde diskutiert. Es wurde sich dann für die Bezugnahme auf das "positiv getestete 9-€-Ticket" entschieden. Drum dieses Sharepic 😃.

Jedenfalls waren bei ziemlich niedrigen Temperaturen 🧊 dick eingepackte Menschis 🥶 bei unserer ersten #CyclingRebellion 🚴 🚴 🚴 dabei. Auch die Polizei, die die Einfahrt in die improvisierte #Fußgängerzone bewachte, war "dicker" als gewohnt ... 😁 ❄️
Die Dunkelheit wurde für Projektionen einer Jahresrückschau genutzt. 💙

#2024inreview #XR #nuernberg

A Book App Used AI to ‘Roast’ Its Users. It Went Anti-Woke Instead https://www.wired.com/story/fable-controversy-ai-summaries/

🤖 #ReadingApps #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #2024Recap #2024InReview #FableApp

Apparently I didn't ONLY putz around and pound Salesforce into my brain in 2024, I actually made a few things too, aside from writing blog posts.

I finished https://deadscorpionranch.com in March, which is my home lab and has all my projects linked. I guess March is a productive time for me, judging by the past two years? I finished making https://oldtimeywebportal.neocities.org in March 2023. Wonder if March 2025 will be as productive.

I made one more weird project website I don't have up yet, but is fully done except for embedding one thing, or something. Will probably finish that this year.

I fully finished writing 4 songs last year, too- which I will hopefully record this year. Would be great to make a new EP. I met a local drummer/engineer, so we will see how that goes.

And then there's all the other weird ideas floating around in my head. 🤣

#WebDev #WebProjects #2024InReview #2025Goals #2024Projects #2025Projects #writing #recording

In 2024 I wrote more on my blogs than I ever have, and I'm not sure how or why. Maybe from my time here on Mastodon, the creative juices flowing everywhere, etc. I wasn't making a concerted effort to do so, it just happened.

18 posts on https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com in 2024 (which is definitely a record), and many on https://animatedtvblog.wordpress.com, which surprises me even more. As semi-active as I've been on the cartoon blog for the last 10 years or so, I didn't remember writing much there this year. But when I looked and counted-- 14 posts! 🤣

Here's to 2025 and whatever I end up writing this year. There's few plans or methods to my madness other than bits and scraps I scrawl down either physically or digitally. I do have 8 blog post drafts started for space time tech that I'd like to finish a few of in 2025.

#writing #blogs #blogging #2024InReview #creativity

Good riddance to a kidney stone of a year #2024inreview

Auch das war 2024 ❤️❤️❤️❤️🌹
#2024inreview #2024review #Jahresrückblick #family #WasWirklichZählt

Dammit! I didn't eat enough cheese in #2024inreview #regrets

2024 in review: We had one job

This year seemed to be on a pretty good course up until maybe 10 p.m. Nov. 5. I’d enjoyed personal accomplishments like seeing a total solar eclipse turn day into dusk and then watching a rocket launch turn night into day, my country in general seemed to be making serious progress on multiple fronts, and then we seemed poised to close the door on our bizarre infatuation with Donald Trump.

Sigh.

I don’t like the decision Americans voters made, but that choice stands and we now can only deal with the consequences of it. Which in the context of my own work probably means writing a lot of stories about moves by the new Trump administration to stall, stop or reverse Biden-administration initiatives in such areas as broadband access, information security, renewable energy and competition.

Those initiatives have figured in much of my coverage this year, but I also took advantage of my freelancer status to cover stores in space, transportation and aviation that I would have struggled to get to as a staff writer somewhere. Almost 14 years into self-employed existence, I continue to treasure that flexibility to call my own shots.

Of what I wrote in 2024, these pieces stand out and stand up to me at the end of this year.

• After Google killed off its Google Pay app in favor of Google Wallet, I had fun at PCMag teeing off on that firm’s hapless and incoherent approach to tap-to-pay payments.
• Reporting for a Wirecutter explainer of the Federal Communications Commission’s new broadband-facts labels for Internet providers led me to ask Comcast why its labels didn’t list its modem-rental fee; the company then revised its labels to include that surcharge.
• In May, I got into the policymaking weeds in a piece for Light Reading that explained how political dysfunction led to the FCC losing the authority to auction off wireless spectrum that it had held for decades.
• Going to Southern California for the Vidcon conference gave me an excuse to spend a couple of days rolling around Los Angeles in Waymo robotaxis, after which I shared the experience–including how poorly some human drivers on my trip did relative to Waymo’s software–with PCMag readers.
• Before heading out to Black Hat in Las Vegas, I wrote a lengthy feature for Fast Company looking at how the Biden administration had tried to lead industry towards better infosec without the benefit of new legislation.
• After that event, I explained to AARP readers why you don’t see burner phones or laptops at hacker conferences.
• The debut of RCS messaging in iOS meant it was time for me to take Google to task for failing to convince Google Voice, the digital-calling and messaging service that Google owns, to support that Google-anointed upgrade to text messaging.
• A visit to Boom Supersonic’s facilities at Mojave Air & Space Port, followed by interviews with sometimes skeptical aerospace and airline experts, led to a Fast Company look at that firm’s hopes to bring back commercial supersonic travel.
• After my first visit to the Kennedy Space Center for a launch since 2018, I told PCMag readers why watching a space launch is awesome and how they might experience that awesomeness themselves.
• In late November, I advised PCMag readers how to check if a seemingly familiar Bluesky account actually is legit and offered Bluesky users a few tips on how they could clarify their identity on the platform–advice that too many boldface names have continued to ignore.

Travel to conferences took me back to Brazil for Web Summit Rio for a second year and added Lithuania to my countries-visited list, while travel to events (some sponsored by organizers) returned me to places like London and the Bay Area. Some of the best parts of those trips were not the places but the people–I’m still not done catching up with friends I’d last seen prior to the pandemic. And one of the best parts of every single trip was landing at National or Dulles and then coming home.

(You can see a map of those flights after the jump.)

I created the map below at the Great Circle Mapper site, following the instructions Tiffany Funk first shared in 2016 at the One Mile At A Time blog. The predominant shade of blue represents flights on United and codeshare and same-itinerary flights on Brussels Airlines, Lufthansa, Swiss, GOL and airBaltic; other colors, some of which may be impossible to differentiate, represent American Airlines (red), TAP (green), British Airways and Copa Airlines (other hues of blue), and Alaska, Avelo, and Southwest Airlines (still more shades of blue).

Map generated by the Great Circle Mapper – copyright © Karl L. Swartz. I updated this post after publishing it to add a screengrab of the map to avoid display errors in Chrome and other browsers; in other news, that site needs to add support for site encryption to avoid those errors.

#2024Election #2024InReview #businessDevelopment #businessTravel #conferences #freelance #freelancing #Trump #yearInReview

Been a minute since I've been active here... sorry about that. Finishing the year on a high note, here's my best of 2024: https://www.rickberk.com/gallery/my-best-photos-of-2024/

#bestof2024 #yearinreview #2024inreview #photography #photo #landscape #landscapephotography #buyintoart #mastoart #art

Just did a year-in-review of my photos. Of all the photos I took, I feel like this one really captures the majesty of 2024.

#yearinreview #2024inreview

Kurzes #2024inreview Fazit: Es war privat ein eher trauriges und herausforderndes Jahr. Danke an alle, die mich anderweitig abgelenkt haben und an alle, die Verständnis dafür aufgebracht haben, wenn meine Reaktion mal später kam oder ganz ausfiel. Trotzdem muss ich 2025 kürzer treten, das hat der Congress deutlich gezeigt.

Today in “Samuel Pepys’ Diary Reimagined”:

“If years could speak, I wonder, what would be the last words of this one?”

https://babumenos.com/SPDR/#a2024-12-31

#NewYearsEve #NewYear #Review #2024InReview

Another great positive news source to bookmark - and a great list of ‘86 Stories of Progress in 2024’ https://fixthenews.com/86-stories-progress-2024/ #GoodNews #PositiveNews #FixTheNews #2024inreview

Jennifer Brooks: "Minnesota outdid itself this year, creating a foodstuff that overshadowed even the pickle popsicles of 2023: Deep-fried ranch. They turned a liquid into a solid into a snack and it was hilarious."

Brooks: An incomplete list of things that went right for Minnesota in 2024
https://www.startribune.com/brooks-an-incomplete-list-of-things-that-went-right-for-minnesota-in-2024/601200607

#Minnesota #2024InReview #hinterlandia

Let's wrap it up - #2024 has been a tough year on a global level and bittersweet on a personal level, but we still have a long way to go, so we can end it with a quote from #PauloCoelho.

#2024recap #2024inreview #trump #musk #uspol #USPolitics #eu #europe #HappyNewYear #HappyNewYear2025

One of the world’s most inventive cultures should have a better phrase to define 2024 than "futehodo". https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2024/12/31/japan/japans-word-of-the-year/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #nihongo #vocabulary #2024inreview #kanji #language #buzzwords