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Neuer Digitalminister Wildberger bekommt 4,47 Mrd. Euro. Doch wie viel davon fließt in echte digitale Souveränität – etwa in OpenDesk von ZenDiS, die freie Office-Alternative zu Microsoft? Milliardenetat schön und gut – aber was nützt er, wenn am Ende wieder nur Lizenzen verlängert werden?
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Bundestag gibt 4,47 Milliarden Euro fürs Digitalministerium in 2026 frei
Erstmals verfügt das Digitalressort über einen eigenen Finanzplan. Der Breitbandausbau wird mit 2,3 Milliarden, die IT-Infrastruktur mit knapp einer gefördert.

THIS IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE!
I think the SFTP server is down again. Expected files not in our INBOX and it happens on a semi-regular basis and usually after a weekend.
On my Linux box I had a very simple CHRON setup to run a specific BASH script. On my work WIN11 machine I have automated running a specific program every Monday morning checking for a specific item.
It should be trivial to do the same on the servers instead of buying software to verify that the servers are w…

#FotoDerWoche weiter im Herbstmodus.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/index.php/2025/10/18/photo-of-the-week-autumn-in-the-garden/

Photo of the week: Autumn in the garden
Ich bleibe beim herbstlichen Thema. Hier ist der wilde Wein (der vermutlich kein wilder Wein, sondern ein anderes Rankgewächs ist) erst dabei, sich rot zu verfärben. Heute strahlt die ganze hintere Gartenecke in leuchtendem Rot. Sonnige Oktobertage sind mit das beste am Jahr.

3 #PositiveDinge gestern
- mein Shepherd's Pie kam gut an und war mal eine gute Alternative zum traditionellen Kartoffelsalat mit Würstchen; wenn ich es noch mal koche, grabe ich mit einer Gabel aber deutlichere Berge und Täler in den Kartoffel/Rüben/Cheddar-Brei, damit er schöner bäckt und bräunt
- Singen im Gottesdienst und Christmette
- verhältnismäßig harmonischer He…

Flip side of this: ~3 years ago, I got automated calls from “RBC Visa”. I ignored them.
Then my card stopped working.
So I called the number on the back of my card and said as much.
The agent gave me a hard time: “So you JUST IGNORED our calls about this?”
“No; I didn’t know they were you calling.”
“How did you not know they were us?! It says ‘this is RBC Visa’ when you answer!”
“That’s indistinguishable from fraud.”
He did not like that. He thought …

Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, and sexual assaults in several states,
warns a law enforcement bulletin issued last month by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The bureau urges agencies to ensure officers clearly identify themselves and to cooperate when civilians ask to verify an officer’s identity—including by allowing calls to a local police precinct

FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

The New York Times, AP, RCFP, and other media organizations back an effort to block a new Texas law requiring app stores to verify users' ages (Wendy Davis/MediaPost)
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/411151/new-yor…

New York Times, AP, Others Ask Court To Block Texas Law Restricting App Downloads
"The Act renders wide swaths of speech at the very heart of the First Amendment's protection presumptively off limits to minors when accessed through apps -- a critical channel of distribution for news organizations," news organizations argue in a proposed friend-of-the-court brief filed Wednesday with U.S. District Court Judge Robert Pitman in Austin.

"We feel accountable to our religious tradition. And just as accountable to our own intuition. When we have a question or a challenge on our religious tradition, we don't abandon our religious tradition, nor do we assume a posture of submission or sacrifice towards our own intution. That is not what the Talmud does, instead, we think harder, think more critically, think more carefully." Sammanfattar bra min syn på bibeltolkning och vrf Talmud är ett så storslaget dokument

R. Aviva Richman: Why Talmud is the Bedrock of My Faith - Ta Shma
The Talmud has often been subject to misrepresentation—viewed as esoteric or overly complex—yet it holds profound power as a centerpiece of Jewish tradition. How can Talmud and Talmud study anchor an approach to Judaism that speaks to the challenges  and dangers of our moment? How can its embrace of complexity, argument, and multivocality offer a model for living a thoughtful and principled Jewish life in our uncertain times?  Source sheet: https://mechonhadar.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/…

Improved Bounds for the Index Conjecture in Zero-Sum Theory
Andrew Pendleton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11976 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11976

Improved Bounds for the Index Conjecture in Zero-Sum Theory
The Index Conjecture in zero-sum theory states that when $n$ is coprime to $6$ and $k$ equals $4$, every minimal zero-sum sequence of length $k$ modulo $n$ has index $1$. While other values of $(k,n)$ have been studied thoroughly in the last 30 years, it is only recently that the conjecture has been proven for $n>10^{20}$. In this paper, we prove that said upper bound can be reduced to $4.6\cdot10^{13}$, and lower under certain coprimality conditions. Further, we verify the conjecture for $n<1.…

Achieving Meaningful Collaboration: Worker-centered Design of a Physical Human-Robot Collaborative Blending Task
Nicky Mol, Luka Peternel, Alessandro Ianniello, Denis Zatyagov, Auke Nachenius, Stephan Balvert, J. Micah Prendergast, Sara Muscolo, Olger Siebinga, Eva Verhoef, Deborah Forster, David A. Abbink
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12340

Achieving Meaningful Collaboration: Worker-centered Design of a Physical Human-Robot Collaborative Blending Task
The use of robots in industrial settings continues to grow, driven by the need to address complex societal challenges such as labor shortages, aging populations, and ever-increasing production demands. In this abstract, we advocate for (and demonstrate) a transdisciplinary approach when considering robotics in the workplace. Transdisciplinarity emphasizes the integration of academic research with pragmatic expertise and embodied experiential knowledge, that prioritize values such as worker well…