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I just completed all 25 days of Advent of Code 2019! #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/

In 1949, Claude Shannon was characterizing information loss, and needed a term for the degree to which information is scrambled. Visiting mathematical physicist John von Neumann, he received the following advice: "You should call it entropy... nobody knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage."

Had quite an adventure in hardware debugger land at @… Mesh Night, last night, but we managed to get the bootloader onto this board by way of a Pi Pico Zero and the debugprobe firmware (after failing to make the Tigard do what we needed—certainly our fault, not Tigard’s).
Fun little project. Really rewarding to see it work, despite being way out of our depth on …

Anton Hill (@anthill@zeroes.ca)
Attached: 1 image Bought a RAK19713 card on a whim for a #meshcore or #meshtastic hobby project. Seems that it needs to be flashed with a GPIO harness once to enable loading custom firmware over the PCI-express USB. Am I reading this right? @foulab@chaos.social is this something I could do at your workshop? https://docs.rakwireless.com/product-categories/wislink/rak19713/firmware/#flash-the-arduino-bootloader

I wanted to post mountain photos more regularly again! So here's one trail from last year where I started really early to avoid the heat.
It was a hike that I did alone and met just like ... 2 or 3 people. Oh and I was glad to have a water filter with me!
I spotted a spring on my way up and - knowing that I'd come pack to it later - I didn't have to use my water sparingly.
Enjoy!

Breakthrough Quantum Test Resolves a Major Cosmic Mystery https://www.404media.co/breakthrough-quantum-test-resolves-a-major-cosmic-mystery/

I'm watching JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 3x24 "Heart Attack (2)" #JoJosBizarreAdventure

Heart Attack (2)
Koichi manages to survive because Echoes Act 3 made Sheer Heart Attack heavy, but then the murderer, Yoshikage Kira shows up! Feeling intense anger…

Arthur C. Clarke: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Me: "Therefore, any sufficiently complicated technical problem is indistinguishable from a curse."
#infosec #sysadmin

A look at the deluge of AI computing power set to come online in the coming years; Epoch AI expects the number of AI chips in use to double every nine months (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactiv…

A Deluge of A.I. Computing Power Is About to Come Online, Fueling Major Leaps
The number of A.I. chips that provide the computing power to advance the fast-evolving technology is doubling every nine months.

"There are also mounting economic costs of falling behind. As of January 2026, more than 80% of European AI chatbot users relied on OpenAI's ChatGPT. That means European data — the raw material of the modern information economy — is flowing primarily into American algorithms rather than European ones."
No! This completely misunderstands what the advantage of a European stack should be. I don't care much whether my data goes to an American or a European company.
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How the EU became a digital colony — and how it might break free
European lawmakers and analysts warn that reliance on US artificial intelligence and digital services is a strategic liability, spurring calls for ...

Weather forecast was about rain and maybe lightning ... so we just biked to your lokal mountain and did a quick loop in high humidity.
#hiking #bayern #mountains