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Pretty cool. Tesla offers cars to test drive in many Swiss villages. Scan the QR code, enter some data, and the Tesla app grants 2-hour access. Very convenient and a great customer experience. They are parked at places like gas stations or supermarkets.

While my 7 year old VW Tiguan was being inspected, I test-drove the new VW Tayron (a longer Tiguan) on winding roads in a hilly forest. I liked it overall, but the progress over 7 years of development was a bit disappointing. Next is testing some more EVs.

Dutchies, interesting role for you: Innovation Counsellor at the Dutch embassy in Bern. Lead the innovation team and strengthen strategic tech & innovation relations between the Netherlands and Switzerland. Seems super interesting. werkenvoornederland.nl/vacat… @Swiss_NL

Does the unsubscribe button in Apple Mail really work?

Take me back! Thanks @tomorrowland for sharing this 15 years later. Back then, I would never have expected to look back on this with this feeling. Peak times. youtu.be/IGaRF6dwRkQ?si=lS9v…

This glowing Apple logo was the biggest flex in university, 18 years ago.

Switched to @bevel_health for health / fitness and cancelled my Strava subscription. Wasn't getting enough value from the paid features anymore. Still keeping the free Strava account for the community though.

After 3 weeks of traveling, @bot handled 80% of the expenses and the backlog of invoices from service providers. It attaches each expense to the corresponding bank transaction, fills in the required details for tax and accounting, and archives the emails for compliance. Administration of expenses usually takes me 1 hour per week, and much more after traveling. Only printed receipts remain a manual pain point, but taking a photo directly with my phone helps a bit. The remaining 20% are either printed receipts or from companies that cannot email an invoice and are cumbersome for @bot to get (password protected dashboards).

Always in sync with @bot

Name your company and your product that AI understands in one go. I'm seeing more Vesus, Veezus, Jesus, and Vee Jesus these days.

Why can @bot schedule a calendar invite based on whatever input from anywhere and @MSFTCopilot cannot do it when I'm manually prompting it into Copilot in Outlook itself?

Bring the loop to Switzerland!

How awesome is Spotifast, a native and fast Spotify player. Original Spotify app is electron. Best thing is you can install the perfect Winamp theme, which runs very smooth and brings back totally the vibes from that era. Thanks @paolino!

Enjoyed the group ride in the rain after the endless hot summer in Zurich Unterland.

The eclipse from Zurich, Switzerland. Trees from the Lägern. Didn’t expect the photo would turn out this well with the trees. Also kind of lucky or I’d have missed the complete show.

This is exactly the kind of discussion we have with companies working with photos. AI can definitely help enhance a photo and make it look better. But once it starts hallucinating (sponsor names changed?), or pushing everything toward a beauty bias, you’re freezing a great sporting moment and turning it into a fake reality. That should not be accepted. People, and especially kids. look up to athletes and start thinking it’s normal to present yourself digitally enhanced toward some beauty standard. Years from now you’ll look back at these photos thinking they’re authentic, when they’re just a fake reality. What a shame. And it’s not only happening in sports photography. We’re seeing the same thing in school photography. That’s especially worrying when it involves young people. Youth are already becoming more insecure when the digital version of life looks so different from real life. This has real consequences and, in my opinion, needs to stop.

Recharged in the Alps the last couple of days