Mooie, melodieuze progmetal van Karmanjakah uit Zweden. Jullie luisteren naar het titelnummer van hun meest recente CD Diamond Morning. Er zit wat minder herrie in dit nummer dan wat ik normaal prefereer, maar hey, wel relaxed dit.

Dropbox founder Drew Houston is stepping down as CEO after 19 years and will become executive chairman, with product chief Ashraf Alkarmi set to take over after a co-CEO transition period. CNBC reports: Drew Houston founded Dropbox
nearly two decades ago at age 24, eventually becoming a household name in Silicon Valley and the first tech entrepreneur to take a company from the Y Combinator incubator program all the way to the public market. Now, at 43, Houston is ready to do something else. [...]

By almost any measure, Houston has had a great run at Dropbox, helping pioneer the cloud storage market, competing head-to-head with Google and Apple and building a net worth of more than $2 billion, thanks to substantial ownership in his company. But in the land of outsized expectations, Houston has overseen a company that peaked too soon and never became a generation-defining brand.

Dropbox's current market cap of just over $6 billion is down by half from the high price on its first day of trading in 2018, and is below the $10 billion valuation it was ascribed by private market investors in 2014. [...] In its latest quarterly earnings report, Dropbox said it has more than 18 million paying users, and the service remains popular with media professionals, graphic designers, architects, and others who share files and photos as part of their daily work. "Part of me has always thought, oh yeah, I'll be the CEO of Dropbox until my last gasp of my career," he said. "There's never a perfect time, there was no part of me where I was like, 'oh, this date is the date where it's going to happen.'"

Since Alkarmi joined Dropbox from Vimeo in late 2024, the company has "become a lot more responsive to our customers and is taking bigger swings on innovation," Houston said. "I trust the right leader," he said. "The company's in the right place."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

How a partial obscuration phenomenon is impacting Darwin's sunsets. A beautiful optical illusion has been impacting sunsets in Australia's north, with a little-known weather phenomenon appearing to split golden hour into different coloured beams.

SergioQ79 - Osanpo Photographer - has added a photo to the pool:

Un uomo in giacca si ferma davanti a un izakaya dopo il lavoro.
Legge il menù con calma.
Nomihōdai 120 minuti (dovrebbe essere un all you can drink), birra, whisky, sake, piatti semplici.

Probabilmente la giornata è stata lunga.
Forse sta solo cercando un motivo per entrare senza sentirsi in colpa.
Ma l’odore che esce dalla porta sembra avere già deciso per lui.

Dentro c’è luce calda, fuori la sera continua lenta come spesso accade a Takamatsu.

仕事帰りの男性が居酒屋の前で立ち止まる。
ゆっくりメニューを読んでいる。
飲み放題120分。ビール、ウイスキー、日本酒。普通の居酒屋メニュー。

今日は長い一日だったのかもしれない。
理由を探しているようにも見える。

でも、店の外まで流れてくる匂いが、もう答えを出している。

店の中は暖かい。
高松の夜は今日も静かに続いていく。

A man in a suit stops in front of an izakaya after work.
He quietly reads the menu.
120-minute all-you-can-drink, beer, whisky, sake, simple dishes.

His day was probably long.
Maybe he is just looking for a reason to step inside without overthinking it.
But the smell coming from the entrance already seems convincing enough.

Inside there is warm light. Outside, the evening moves slowly, just like Takamatsu usually does.

SergioQ79 - Osanpo Photographer - posted a photo:

Un uomo in giacca si ferma davanti a un izakaya dopo il lavoro.
Legge il menù con calma.
Nomihōdai 120 minuti (dovrebbe essere un all you can drink), birra, whisky, sake, piatti semplici.

Probabilmente la giornata è stata lunga.
Forse sta solo cercando un motivo per entrare senza sentirsi in colpa.
Ma l’odore che esce dalla porta sembra avere già deciso per lui.

Dentro c’è luce calda, fuori la sera continua lenta come spesso accade a Takamatsu.

仕事帰りの男性が居酒屋の前で立ち止まる。
ゆっくりメニューを読んでいる。
飲み放題120分。ビール、ウイスキー、日本酒。普通の居酒屋メニュー。

今日は長い一日だったのかもしれない。
理由を探しているようにも見える。

でも、店の外まで流れてくる匂いが、もう答えを出している。

店の中は暖かい。
高松の夜は今日も静かに続いていく。

A man in a suit stops in front of an izakaya after work.
He quietly reads the menu.
120-minute all-you-can-drink, beer, whisky, sake, simple dishes.

His day was probably long.
Maybe he is just looking for a reason to step inside without overthinking it.
But the smell coming from the entrance already seems convincing enough.

Inside there is warm light. Outside, the evening moves slowly, just like Takamatsu usually does.

Thomas Hawk posted a photo:

• Winger could travel to Spain for a medical this week

• Clubs in talks over deal that could be worth around £70m

Newcastle and Barcelona are in advanced negotiations that could conclude with Anthony Gordon exchanging St James’ Park for the Camp Nou.

For some weeks Bayern Munich had been favourites to sign the England winger but now Gordon is on standby to fly to Barcelona on Thursday or Friday in order to complete a medical.

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The moment I clicked through to the Caught In Joy YouTube channel, I knew I was going to love it. The description:

Over 80 albums designed to focus, flow and reset. Instrumental electronic music for you brain to wander.

And from the website:

Caught In Joy (Karol Pokojowczyk) is a multi-instrumentalist based in Florida, passionately dedicated to live composing, hardware synthesizers, and tape recording - a completely independent music project. I strive to create four albums and visual performances every month, entirely by myself.

I started my professional life as a software engineer and later became a serial entrepreneur, with a few successes along the way. After more than 30 years of working, I saved enough to fund my dream: building a home studio where I could finally focus fully on music.

In the past three years, he’s released 80+ albums and other performances, which are available for purchase on BandCamp. I’ve only had time to listen to bits and pieces of a few albums & videos, but I know a bunch of them are going into my Underscore collection very soon.¹ (via johnny decimal)

1. Underscore is one of my favorite things I’ve ever built because it’s simple, it does exactly what I want, and I use it every day. ↩

Tags: Caught In Joy · music · video

DEN HAAG (ANP) - De Verenigde Staten zijn "teleurgesteld" dat Nederland de verkoop tegenhoudt van het bedrijf achter DigiD aan een Amerikaanse onderneming. De VS en Nederland hadden eruit kunnen komen, meent de Amerikaanse ambassade.

Het kabinet maakte dinsdag bekend de overname van Solvinity door Kyndryl te blokkeren. Solvinity levert het platform waar DigiD op draait. De VS zouden door de deal in bepaalde gevallen toegang kunnen krijgen tot de vertrouwelijke gegevens van veel burgers waarover DigiD beschikt en dat risico wil het kabinet niet nemen.

De Amerikaanse ambassade "begrijpt en respecteert de verantwoordelijkheid om essentiële infrastructuur te waarborgen en gegevens van burgers te beschermen", laat zij in een verklaring weten. "Hoewel wij geloven dat extra tijd voor overleg het mogelijk zou hebben gemaakt een weg te vinden om aan gerechtvaardigde zorgen tegemoet te komen" mag Nederland erop rekenen "dat de VS nauw met hun Nederlandse partners zullen samenwerken om de belangen van beide landen verder te beschermen".

Opheldering

Amerikaanse investeerders zullen opheldering willen over de gang van zaken, zei ambassadeur Joe Popolo woensdagochtend op een veiligheidsconferentie in Den Haag. Als Nederland handelsblokkades opwerpt "gaan we ons zorgen maken" en daarom voert hij naar eigen zeggen doorlopend overleg met Washington.

Mogelijke terechte zorgen moeten worden bekeken en opgelost, zei Popolo. Maar premier Rob Jetten begrijpt volgens hem "dat onze landen moeten bedenken hoe we samen optrekken, dat het goed is om Amerikaanse bedrijven te hebben die willen investeren in de Nederlandse economie. We kijken ernaar uit samen te werken met de minister-president, die in mijn ogen echt wil dat we een oplossing vinden die voor iedereen werkt".

BEIROET (ANP/AFP) - De Israëlische krijgsmacht (IDF) heeft heel Zuid-Libanon verklaard tot "gevechtszone" en inwoners opgeroepen te evacueren. Dat meldt de Arabischtalige woordvoerder van de IDF op X.

Het gaat volgens Israël om het gebied ten zuiden van de rivier Zahrani. Eerder op woensdag riep Israël inwoners van de dichtbevolkte stad Tyrus al op te evacueren.

"Alle gebieden ten zuiden van de rivier worden beschouwd als gevechtszone", aldus de woordvoerder op X. De Zahrani stroomt ongeveer 40 kilometer ten noorden van de grens tussen Libanon en Israël.

Ondanks de wapenstilstand tussen de Libanese regering en Israël vinden er vrijwel dagelijks aanvallen plaats op het zuiden van Libanon. Volgens de Israëlische regering is dat nodig om het noorden van Israël te beschermen tegen aanvallen van Hezbollah. Het land zegt hier ook een bufferzone voor nodig te hebben en heeft daarom huizen verwoest aan de grens.