2026-08-18 20:37:42
Hab ich's mir doch gedacht:
https://www.srf.ch/play/tv/10-vor-10/video/10-vor-10-vom-18-08-2026?urn=urn:srf:video:6ddfe5c7-f24a-45b0-a391-3aa002763b17
Wer sicher sein will, dass er der …
Hab ich's mir doch gedacht:
https://www.srf.ch/play/tv/10-vor-10/video/10-vor-10-vom-18-08-2026?urn=urn:srf:video:6ddfe5c7-f24a-45b0-a391-3aa002763b17
Wer sicher sein will, dass er der …
10 Jahre „Botti“: Vom Messenger-Bot zum heise-Maskottchen 🤖
Botti feiert seinen zehnten Geburtstag: Ein Blick auf die Geschichte des heise-online-Bots vom Messenger-Bot bis zum heise-Maskottchen.
https://www.
I would rather spend 10 hours reading someone else's source code than 10
minutes listening to Musak waiting for technical support which isn't.
-- Dr. Greg Wettstein, Roger Maris Cancer Center
Hiring a hit man is not a crime of violence -- even in cases where the killer fulfills his contract and his employer is convicted in the conspiracy, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week.
In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel vacated two felony convictions that stemmed from a pair of contract killings negotiated to settle an oil well dispute in North Dakota.
The court found that although trucking and drilling magnate James Henrikson had paid Timothy Suckow tens of…
2026 NFL season: Top 10 contenders for Comeback Player of the Year https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-nfl-season-top-10-contenders-for-comeback-player-of-the-year
“That is factually not correct,” says the news anchor for things that are *checks notes* factually correct.
This is the V-for-Vendetta levels of propaganda that people in the US are subjected to on a daily basis.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/s/V2GwQLZoGL
Looks like the war with Iran will be ended only by regime change.
Which regime is still an open question.
The Alphabet Workers Union sends a layoff protection petition with 4,500 signatures to Sundar Pichai, calling for guaranteed severance and buyout options (Sanya Mansoor/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/16/google-workers-la…
I had salad for dinner and I am now counting the minutes until my ultimate demise.
Der Elefant im Plenarsaal, ich sag nichts mehr dazu: „10. März 1950: Alt-Nazi Wolfgang Hedler hetzt im Bundestag gegen Widerstandskämpfer*innen und Jüdinnen und Juden. Herbert Wehner und andere SPD-Abgeordnete prügeln ihn daraufhin aus dem Parlament. Ein Sinnbild für den Kampf um die junge Demokratie“
Top 10 Dallas Cowboys of 2026: George Pickens Chasing Massive Payday https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/top-10-dallas-cowboys-2026-george-pickens-chasing-massive-payday
Imprison opposition, “win” elections.
“Lev Shlosberg…senior member of Russia's liberal opposition party Yabloko, was pronounced guilty of "public actions aimed at discrediting…use of the Armed Forces…Russian Federation" & sentenced to 11 years & 1 month in a penal colony…”
“‘A single person is imprisoned, yet fear seeps into the hearts of millions,’ said Shlosberg in his closing remarks.”
Multi-modal sensory substitution for visually disabled users: initial design and evaluation of the #SoundCeption app https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-31308-9_45
A happy, explorative trip in the sun! 🌞 🌼
(Only interrupted every 40m by a high-risk, life-or-death situation, where anytime an #SUV could have exited and crushed her. 🤷 )
#urbanplanning #parenting
Gamedev/graphics/graph theory people: right now the filter graph editor (imgui-node-editor) in ngscopeclient uses a simple spline curve when drawing edges from one node to another, ignoring everything in its path (i.e. edges can cross nodes).
Is anyone interested in trying to rework this to add a bit more intelligence to the routing? It needs to be fast with up to a few hundred nodes in a typical worst-case scenario, and generally "stable" (small motions of a node should not …
2025 war die #Wärmepumpe erstmals die am häufigsten neu installierte Heizungsart bei Modernisierungen.
Ausschlaggebend war vor allem der deutliche Rückgang neuer #Gasheizungen und #Ölheizungen
Wie korrupt ist #Trump?
Hier hat sich jemand die Definition der UN hergenommen und das in ein Modell gegossen. Damit wurden dann die Präsidenten der #USA verglichen. Der Vergleich ging dann auch noch in Richtung Marcos, Suharto und anderer.
Wenig überraschend ist die aktuelle Präsidentschaft mit Absta…
Biggest Criticism of Kubiak’s Raiders Offense Is One Word: Preposterous https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-biggest-criticism-kubiak-offense-one-word-preposterous
Im Guardian einen schönen Abriss über die Geschichte der Computertechnologie-als-Demokratisierungsutopie gefunden.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/aug/18/the-long-read-democracy-v-the-machine-digital-ag…
Tillgången på färskvatten minskar oroväckande snabbt på många håll i världen – inklusive Europa
Orsaken är klimatförändringar och människans kraftigt ökande vattenanvändning. https://www.dn.se/varlden/planetens-forrad-av-farskvatten-fortsatter-att-minska/
AI film startups are setting up studios in Hollywood, using US and Chinese AI models while touting lower production costs and a way around traditional financing (Robert Booth/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/16/directors-embracing-ai-fil…
fullerene_structures: Fullerene molecular structures
Fifteen networks of carbon atoms and the atomic bonds that connect them within molecules of fullerenes, from 60 atoms up to 6000 atoms. A bond is defined to exist whenever the distance of two atoms is less than 1.5 angstrom.
This network has 180 nodes and 270 edges.
Tags: Biological, Chemical, Unweighted, Spatial
100 Jahre ev. Landesverband #Kita
#Ostfildern
Ich bin immer der Sonderfall, alle anderen sind der Default.
Deswegen stimmen republikanische Abgeordnete für Abtreibungsverbote „die böse Allgemeinheit soll das nicht dürfen, die verhalten sich nicht verantwortlich, und überhaupt ist Abtreibung Mord“ und fahren mit ihrer Tochter in den Nachbarstaat, um „diesen Unfall wegmachen zu lassen“, denn das ist ja der Spezialsonderfall.
Deswegen stimmt Spahn als Gesundheitsminister gegen Leihmutterschaft (für die Allgemeinheit) und…
Doing a lot of file tidying up having recovered my old Drobo disks last week. realised I had an Evernote account but had not used it for years. Had to download the desktop version to export 700 notes from 2009-2019 - as ENEX files. Imported them straight into Apple Notes!
Next big job is consolidating all the images I have recovered and getting them into Iris.
Summary of the measures relating to EVs in the EU's Electrification Action Plan (and related initiatives), alongside the general adjustments to network tariffs, connection conditions and taxation
https://energy.ec.europa.eu/publications/co…
GitHub Actions for the R language: Makes automatic testing of your R package much easier and making sure your package works on different OS and R versions is a matter of just a few lines of yaml: #rstats
Kinder, die wieder und wieder und wieder geärgert werden, treten manchmal irgendwann zurück. Sie treten aber nicht zurück. #jensspahn #justthinkin
Hmpf, dicke Finger im 2. Versuch
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Second Dog is recovering from surgery. It's been a week since her spay, and we've been wondering when High Energy Collie would return.
As for us, younger child brought back a fever and sore throat from school, as they always do after about a month. They gave it to me.
So yesterday, having taken a few days off work, I had finished a round of Feeding Kids and Administering Medicines and was settling down for a very much needed nap. Second Dog appeared, in a perky mood, and…
Destroying rare books to stave off large language model collapse seems like a far cry from recursive self-improvement for generative 'AI'.
I want like a pastebin but for static sites.
You point a CLI at a directory and you get random.example.com afterwards.
Should support wildcard certs from LE
Ideally self hosted - and S3 backed so the service can run ephemeraly with just a SQLite index to site maybe
This seems like a thing they should exist yet can’t find it?
POL-NOM: Zeugenaufruf nach Verkehrsunfallflucht Bad Gandersheim (ots) - Tatort: 37581 Bad Gandersheim OT Wrescherode, Im Zöllischen Sieke 10 Tatzeit: 16.07.206, 16:10 Uhr - 18:00 Uhr Der bislang unbekannte Fahrzeugführer touchiert einen ordnungsgemäß am Straßenrand abgestellten Pkw. ... https://www.presseportal.de/blauli…
Irrsinn in den Bergen - Social-Media-Wahn! Touristen stürmen die Dolomiten #News #Nachrichten
Twente treedt op bij boerenprotest: tractoren voortaan geweerd van snelweg
https://nos.nl/artikel/2627292-twente-treedt-op-bij-boerenprotest-tractoren-voortaan-geweerd-van-snelweg
> De burgemeester van Enschede zegt…
some shells at an entrance to a cave
#shells
Looking for some #DCCRPG action this Saturday? (Sorry for the short notice.)
Walter's Burly Griffins is #Canberra's only Gongfarmer’s Local, dedicated to running the #DungeonCrawlClassics
Bitte an Menschen, die im Rundfunk interviewt werden: Beginnt eure Antwort nicht mit „Naja“! Das klingt so, als würdet ihr nicht auf die Frage antworten wollen oder können. Ich höre dann nicht mehr zu. Wollt ihr das?
The Battle of Britain's 'hardest day' https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-collection/explore-by-time-period/second-world-war/the-battle-of-britains-hardest-day/
iPhone Duo: It’s twice the phone, for twice the price, in half the number of phones, or something, whatever, we really don’t care anymore, just give us your money so we can afford our Prozac.
An analysis of 60 of the largest planned US data centers: they could together produce 101.5M tons of CO2 per year, or ~7% of US power sector emissions in 2025 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8158cb5a-4bbd-43fd-b329-15a54e8422c8
The Discord Server to fill that xterm-sized hole in your spirit:
https://discord.gg/rgN3yzHg8G
Top 10 Dallas Cowboys of 2026: George Pickens Chasing Massive Payday https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/top-10-dallas-cowboys-2026-george-pickens-chasing-massive-payday
How exactly does one darl?
I keep hearing people say someone is "darling" but to me it looks like they're just sitting around not doing anything in particular
RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116774309298367911
I don’t think LLMs will be with us for long,
at least not in their current form.
But I do think that we’re living through a period of generational damage, one that will take years to repair -- if not decades. …
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Das #RKI schätzt bislang 6.830 hitzebedingte Todesfälle im Jahresverlauf.
Wegen der außergewöhnlichen #Hitzewelle könnte die tatsächliche Zahl jedoch deutlich höher liegen.
Parallel weist das #StatistischeBundesamt
Android 17 QPR1: Letztes Update für Pixel 6 und 6 Pro
Das Android 17 QPR1 befindet sich mit der Beta 9 auf der Zielgeraden zur Veröffentlichung im September. Laut Google ist es das letzte Update für das Pixel 6.
https…
Q&A with WHCA president Jacqui Heinrich about her role, Trump plane swap in Turkey, why the annual dinner is important, Karoline Leavitt stepping down, and more (Michael Calderone/New York Magazine)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/j…
RE: https://social.tchncs.de/@Lapizistik/116931724762521190
Ach ja, wir müssen das übrigens überhaupt nicht auf Kapitalismus oder so schieben, Arschlöcher gab es schon immer und sie gedeihen in unterschiedlichsten Systemen hervorragend.
Kapital…
iPhone Duo: Because capitalism has officially run out of ideas.
Oh, this is just too funny. The my pillow guy, Trump's pick to run for Minnesota governor, isn't even registered to vote in that state.
https://www.startribune.com/mike-lindell-trumps-pick-for-governor-isnt-registered-t…
After an hour with Android XR glasses, I understand why Google is betting everything on this #Android
Hungary Closes the Last EU Loophole for Wild Animals in the Circus Ring https://vegconomist.com/politics-law/hungary-closes-last-eu-loophole-for-wild-animals-in-circus-ring/
The US Treasury sanctions Iranian crypto exchange BitBank, saying it sent hundreds of millions to the IRGC and helped Iran operate a Strait of Hormuz toll booth (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/09/18
Anyone know how to get rid of an old ionization smoke detector (Am-241 based) in or near kitsap county WA? My local household hazmat site won't take them for some reason
Top 10 Dallas Cowboys of 2026: Expectations for Brandon Aubrey are Higher Than Ever https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/top-10-dallas-cowboys-of-2026-expectations-for-brandon-aubrey-are-higher-than-ever
Die globalen #Süßwasserreserven gehen zurück.
2025 war für Flüsse weltweit eines der trockensten Jahre seit mehr als drei Jahrzehnten. Gleichzeitig schrumpfen #Gletscher und Schneemengen.
Durch den
Independent reporter Carlitos Ricardo Parias, who has 100K TikTok followers, nears 300 days in ICE detention, the longest a journalist has spent in US custody (Adam Rose/The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2026/08/16/ricardo-parias-ice-detention-j…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@egghat/116928608789638821
So, liebe Regierung, mag ja sein, daß die Entwicklung dieser wundervollen neuen glitzernden magischen Technologien, die dieses Problem mit dem Klimawandel lösen sollen, der beste Beitrag wäre, den Deuts…
Sources: ECB President Christine Lagarde asked Greece to block Binance's MiCA license in June at the last minute, aiming to protect the bank's "digital euro" (Angus Berwick/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/chr
RE: https://social.spejset.org/@wimi/116936514369166653
Wonderful!
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A convicted felon, chronic liar, and rapist goes on TV and says some nonsense about the yellow peril. Who's stupid enough to believe that crap? Is there no bottom to this barrel?
Just 10 months ago, NASA asked three companies if they could do something nobody had done before.
Could they build and launch a satellite to save a $500 million astronomy mission at risk of crashing back to Earth?
What’s more, could they do it in less than a year on a tight budget?
Katalyst Space Technologies, a startup founded in 2020, presented the most compelling solution.
“They came back with a response that was technically and programmatically plausible,
an…
Nächstes Apple TV 4K könnte deutlich flotter werden
Statt einem Mini-Update steht bei Apples Multimediabox offenbar mehr an: Der neu verbaute Chip soll deutlich beschleunigt werden, so ein Leak.
https://www.
Top 10 Dallas Cowboys of 2026: Expectations for Brandon Aubrey are Higher Than Ever https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/top-10-dallas-cowboys-of-2026-expectations-for-brandon-aubrey-are-higher-than-ever
Favorite upside down laptop brand?
Dak Prescott Lands in Top 10 of NFL QB Rankings With Bold 2026 Prediction https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dak-prescott-lands-in-top-10-of-nfl-qb-rankings-with-bold-2026-prediction
SBC-Linux DietPi 10.7 verbessert Netzwerkkonfiguration
Die Linux-Distribution für Einplatinencomputer DietPi 10.7 bessert einige Fehler aus und verbessert die Netzwerkkonfiguration.
https://www.
Sources: China orders some state-linked entities to uninstall a government-tailored version of Windows 10, ahead of its February 2027 retirement timeline (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-18/china-ax…
Dak Prescott Lands in Top 10 of NFL QB Rankings With Bold 2026 Prediction https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dak-prescott-lands-in-top-10-of-nfl-qb-rankings-with-bold-2026-prediction
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Fürs KI-Training: Google kauft interne Daten der insolventen Spirit Airlines
AI inference chip startup Etched raised $700M led by its new server rack customer Jane Street at a $21B valuation, up from $10.3B after raising $300M in July (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/…
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Fürs KI-Training: Google kauft interne Daten der insolventen Spirit Airlines
iPhone Duo: Kamerasteuerung da, Aktionstaste nicht
Trotz anderslautender Gerüchte kommt Apples Foldable mit einem eigenen Kameraknopf. Komischerweise reichte es aber nicht für eine Aktionstaste.
https://www.