2025-11-30 11:23:00
Microsoft is increasingly shrill in its desperation to get people to love it's 'AI' service, 'Copilot'... https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/11/28/you-heard-wrong-users-brutually-reject-microsof…
Anthropic says over 60% of its business customers use more than one Claude product, a trend it began noticing after Claude Code's rise in popularity (Richard Nieva/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2025/11/28/anthropic-enterprise-claude/
How to Shop for Obamacare When Subsidies Are in Limbo (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/health/aca-obamacare-enrollment-health-insurance.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251101/p3#a251101p3
Legacy Python Bootstrap Scripts Create Domain-Takeover Risk in Multiple PyPI Packages
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered vulnerable code in legacy Python packages that could potentially pave the way for a supply chain compromise on the Python Package Index (PyPI) via a domain takeover attack.
:python: https:/…
[BLOG] BitBastelei #671 – USB-C-Mini-Heizplatte G3061 https://www.adlerweb.info/blog/2025/11/30/bitbastelei-671-usb-c-mini-heizplatte-g3061/
Berlin airport temporarily halts flights over suspicious drone sighting: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/01/berlin-airport-temporarily-halts-flights.html
from my link log —
Setting a wallpaper in less than 250 Kb: A practical guide to reducing Rust's runtime RAM usage.
https://www.lgfae.com/posts/2025-11-21-SettingAWallpaperWithLessThan250KB.html
saved 2025-11-30
It's so annoying that you can't add images to quote posts on Mastodon, this prevents a whole oeuvre of really funny shitposts
Games with lots of lore really need a mobile app that allows me to read the 16 novels worth of documents and interviews when I’m NOT in front of my gaming device
Ui ui ui....
Eigentlich wollte ich heute mal die aktuellen #Batteriestatistiken erzeugen lassen, aber die Software hat den #Raspberry Pi gesprengt. 🤣
Muss den 💩 erstmal umschreiben. 🤓
Over on Blue Sky there is a thread telling you how to plot your own data in it too.
Very nice tools.
https://bsky.app/profile/soechting.bsky.social/post/3lnxhusma4k26
Acclaimed ‘Inconvenient Indian’ reveals he’s not Indigenous
“At 82, I feel as though I’ve been ripped in half, a one-legged man in a two-legged story. Not the Indian I had in mind. Not an Indian at all.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/11/30…
Great brief blog post by @… and I agree - 'The internet is far from being dead': https://michal.sapka.pl/weblog/2025/internet-is-far-from-being-d…
Global anti-feminist backlash gains ground after decades of equality gains | International | EL PAÍS English
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-01/global-anti-feminist-backlash-gains-ground-after-decades-of-equality-gains.html
how does uber's website manage to be so awful
they're worth how many millions? i could make a more responsive website in two weeks. they have hundreds of people on staff
Drilling for 'cleaner' natural gas in the North Sea - with low methane leakage - will only reduce global greenhouse gas emissions if it keeps an equivalent amount of 'dirty' natural gas - e.g. US shale gas - in the ground. Which remains to be seen.
What Now? Handling Errors in Large Systems
https://brooker.co.za/blog/2025/11/20/what-now
Since #Trump’s re-election, warnings that his use of presidential power to advance personal interests is corroding American democracy have grown ever louder.
☑️ All the president’s millions: how the Trumps are turning the presidency into riches
(This is a compliment)
Geen persoonsgegevens voor Big Tech-lobbyisten! | WeMove Europe
https://action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-11-dpc-ireland-petition-NL/?referring_akid=16801.1140952.VhuFml&source=mailto
> Een voormalig lobbyi…
»Progpunk«
Musikkritiker, ey. 🤡
"Only nine countries doing well on municipal waste recycling, EU auditors say"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Recycling
RIP. I still somedays wonder if England is a
conspiracy of cartographers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/theater/tom-stoppard-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.408.oLlI.bsuFiedfqyJ5&smid=…
Nun, da ich auch bei winterlichen Temperaturen affogiere, zerhackt die Kohlmeise draußen solidarisch die Eisschicht über ihrem Badewasser.
It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"He [Sol] who moves the tepid day with gleaming chariot."
Ovid, Heroides 4. 159
🏛️ Helios driving His quadriga, Roman silver disc, 3rd century CE, found in Pessinus (Ballihisar) in
Samson is a professional loiterer #dogsofmastodon
Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Many aquatic animals are described as "filter feeders" but this is not functionally correct since it would require water forced through a mesh. Instead, most zooplankton, including copepods, are suspension feeders. They create feeding current gyres using appendages, and use spiny modified ones (maxillae) to intercept individual algal particles and move …
The full Weekend Reads report is on vacation this week, it will return next week. But we don't want to leave you with nothing. Here is one piece that might have made it into the top 5:
* The Input Stack on Linux
https://venam.net/blog/unix/2025/11/27/input_device…
Ces expressions de la langue française dont on ignore l’origine
https://www.lemonde.fr/la-matinale/article/2025/11/30/ces-expressions-de-la-langue-francaise-dont-on-ignore-l-origine_6655413_4866763.html…
Salesforce: online Black Friday sales grew 6% YoY to $79B globally, including $3B in US sales driven by AI agents; Adobe: US online sales rose 9.1% to $11.8B (Joan Verdon/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joanverdon/2025/…
Jake Broe: How UKRAINE`S "land-for-time" strategy is EXHAUSTING Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/01/jake-broe-how-ukraines-ampquotlandfortimeampquot.html
from my link log —
Lazy linearity for a core functional language.
https://alt-romes.github.io/posts/2025-11-26-lazy-linearity-popl26.html
saved 2025-11-27
The Everest Group is demanding $6 million from Iberia Airlines as a ransom to stop the data it stole from being leaked or sold.
https://www.paddleyourownkanoo.com/2025/11/29…
#Steady #Artikelupdate
Ich habe neu verkündete, weitere Pläne zum #Jobabbau durch KI im letzten Abschnitt ergänzt. Manager sind ziemlich lernresistent.
So. This is a nice visualisation tool to play with! Bothe #ERA5 and ESAcci datasets visualised for the whole world.
It would be fantastic to see it updated for the last 10 years.
#SciViz
https://www.lexcube.org/
College Student Is Deported During Trip Home for Thanksgiving (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/us/politics/college-student-deported-thanksgiving-texas.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p46#a251130p46
WITCHCRAFT!! https://mastodon.world/@paulschoe/115558305386505942
[BLOG] Ranttime: SPAM https://www.adlerweb.info/blog/2025/11/23/ranttime-spam/
Crypto promoters saw Trump as their savior. Then reality set in
“Bitcoin and other crypto assets are once again demonstrating that they are among some of the first assets to decline among broader economic uncertainty,” the indispensable crypto observer Molly White wrote in March
ht…
Hühnerbrüste statt Keulenfleisch (davon halbe Menge von jener im Rezept, Gewürzmenge aber gleich gelassen), Handvoll Cashews statt Cashewmus, natürlich auch andere Kartoffelspezies. Bombastischer Geschmack. #nommention
Dark Dhamma — Gefährliches Schweigen
Hannah und John sehnen sich am Ende ihrer Weltreise nach Ruhe. Sie melden sich in Südkorea für ein Schweigeretreat an, um dort intensiv zu meditieren. Die strengen Regeln bringen sie an ihre Grenzen.
🔊 1) https://www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/urn:ar
Looks like the Peacemaker In Chief is gonna go blow up some Venezuela for Thanksgiving. 🇻🇪
😢
#war #TheAmericanFascist #venezuela
https://climatejustice.social/@PeterRu/115633789030686012
A look at how David Sacks' work on AI and crypto in Trump's WH benefits his investments, those of Silicon Valley friends, and the All-In podcast he co-hosts (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/3…
Frankreich: Macron wirbt für Verbot von Handys auch an Gymnasien
Der französische Präsident Macron kündigte an, dass Schülern der Oberstufe die Benutzung von Smartphones ab dem nächsten Jahr "wahrscheinlich" verboten werde.
Ukraine's Anti-Corruption Court sentences former tax chief to 6 years in prison: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/01/ukraines-anticorruption-court-sentences-former.html
The Korean National Police Agency National Office of Investigation (NOI) said on the 30th it arrested four people who hacked about 120,000 homecam IP cameras and sold the videos to an overseas site for sexual purposes
https://biz.chosun.com/en/en-society/2025/11/3…
Lawmakers Suggest Follow-Up Boat Strike Could Be a War Crime (Michael Gold/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/us/politics/trump-boat-strikes-war-crime.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p35#a251130p35
from my link log —
Landlock-ing programs on Linux.
https://blog.prizrak.me/post/landlock/
saved 2025-11-30 https://dotat.at/:/WTN2W.html
China deutet Ausnahmen von Nexperia-Lieferstopp an
Die Lieferprobleme bei Nexperia könnten zunehmen – und damit auch deutsche Autoindustrie treffen. China lenkt etwas ein.
https://www.heise…
a riot of flavors
😤 Was für ein Mist am 1. Advent in der Schweiz und dessen jetzigen Abstimmung — Ja ich bin nun fertig damit.
P.S. Ihr seht es auf den CH-Medien Webseiten und/oder auf der vom SRF.
#ersteradvent #schweiz #abstimmung
"All programmers, from hobbyists to those working at Microsoft or Google, use open-source software, which is present in between 70% and 90% of the computer applications we use today"
#FOSS #DigitalSovereignty
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-11-30/adriana-groh-the-internet-works-thanks-to-a-shared-infrastructure-that-nobody-owns-but-that-we-must-take-care-of.html
⚡ Putin is dead, arrested, or Russia collapses – only then will the war end, – Jake Broe #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/01/putin-is-dead-arrested-or.html
An interview with Google DeepMind Nobel laureate John Jumper on the creative "off-label" uses for AlphaFold, combining AlphaFold's power with LLMs, and more (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyrev…
Yikes
Airbus said that more than 6,500 A320 aircraft would need a software fix after a recent incident involving a JetBlue airliner revealed that “intense solar radiation” could corrupt data that helps maintain functioning flight controls.
https://www.
GOP Sen. Mullin: Trump has "not committed" to U.S. military strikes inside Venezuela (Dana Bash/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/11/30/politics/video/markwayne-mullin-oklahoma-drug-operations-venezuela-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p37#a251130p37
Heute in Bern und Umgebung auf Besuch und dabei an deren Rand spazieren gegangen um die unbekannten "Touristenattraktionen" zu besichtigen (o_O)
#FotoVorschlag #bern #photo
ABITO LUNGO MANICA GALATTICO SCURO
Researchers unveil PropensityBench, a benchmark showing how stressors like shorter deadlines increase misbehavior in agentic AI models during task completion (Matthew Hutson/IEEE Spectrum)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-agents-safety
White House bullish on economic growth as Thanksgiving spending rises (Jacob Wendler/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/30/white-house-economic-growth-thanksgiving-spending-00671109
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p38#a251130p38
ICYMI - the FCC warned broadcasters about hackers hijacking radio gear to play fake emergency alerts
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-25-996A1.pdf
India's Department of Telecommunications directs WhatsApp and other messaging apps to implement SIM binding to ensure each account remains tied to an active SIM (Kamya Pandey/MediaNama)
https://www.medianama.com/2025/11/223-dot-sim-binding-direc…
Motive behind National Guard shootings remains unknown, Noem says (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/30/motive-national-guard-shooter-remains-unknown-00670862
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p41#a251130p41
"A 44-year-old man was sentenced to seven years and four months in prison for operating an “evil twin” WiFi network to steal the data of unsuspecting travelers during flights and at various airports across Australia."
https://www.bleepingcomputer.…
South Korean authorities are investigating a data leak at e-commerce giant Coupang that exposed ~33.7M accounts; the country has a population of 51.7M (Sohee Kim/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-30/cou…
Brother of Virginia Giuffre praises King over Andrew decision - and urges him to pressure Trump over Epstein files (Sky News)
https://news.sky.com/story/brother-of-virginia-giuffre-praises-king-over-andrew-decision-and-urges-him-to-pressure-trump-over-epstein-files-13461242
http://www.memeorandum.com/251101/p2#a251101p2
North Korean hacking group Lazarus is suspected to be behind a breach of around 45 billion won ($30.6m) in cryptocurrency from South Korea's largest crypto exchange Upbit. The group was suspected of stealing 58 billion won ($40m) worth of Ethereum from Upbit in 2019.
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/A…
Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Apples iPhone-Geschäft läuft gut – aber welches kaufen?
https://www…
Fed Contender Hassett Says Market Is Ready for Trump Chair Pick (María Paula Mijares Torres/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-30/fed-contender-hassett-says-market-is-ready-for-trump-chair-pick
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p36#a251130p36
How a Chinese entrepreneur amassed 10M IPv4 addresses, mostly from Africa, to lease them outside Africa, leaving African ISPs struggling to expand capacity (Alexandra Wexler/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/telecom/afric
Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Es knirscht bei der SAP-Umstellung der Bundeswehr
https://www…
American and Syrian forces conduct airstrikes on ISIS weapon storage facilities, US military says (Jasper Ward/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/american-syrian-forces-conduct-airstrikes-isis-weapon-storage-facilities-us-2025-11-30/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p43#a251130p43
Nexperia: China verschärft Anschuldigungen gegen niederländischen Chiphersteller
Der Streit zwischen der Halbleiterfirma Nexperia und ihrer chinesischen Muttergesellschaft Wingtech eskaliert. Neuester Vorwurf: China werde völlig umgangen.
Airbus A320-Check: Kaum Auswirkungen auf den Flugverkehr
Trotz eines unerwartet nötigen Software-Updates bei vielen Airbus A320-Maschinen bleibt der Flugverkehr stabil. Vereinzelt kann es zu Verspätungen kommen.
htt…
Es knirscht bei der SAP-Umstellung der Bundeswehr
Das neue SAP-System der Bundeswehr funktioniert offenbar nicht zuverlässig. Das hat Konsequenzen.
https://www.heise.de/news/Es-knirscht-bei-<…
Apples iPhone-Geschäft läuft gut – aber welches kaufen?
Apple erwartet zum Weihnachtsgeschäft die bislang besten iPhone-Verkäufe aller Zeiten. Für Käufer wird es aber immer unübersichtlicher.
https://www.
Russische Behörde droht WhatsApp mit kompletter Sperre
Seit Monaten melden Menschen in Russland Störungen bei WhatsApp. Behörden argumentieren mit angeblicher Kriminalität – und drohen mit vollständiger Sperre.
http…
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Weg von Microsoft: Abgeordnete fordern digitale Souveränität im EU-Parlament
Weg von Microsoft: Abgeordnete fordern digitale Souveränität im EU-Parlament
Eine fraktionsübergreifende Gruppe von Volksvertretern appelliert ans EU-Parlament, die Nutzung von MS 365 zugunsten einer europäischen Alternative aufzugeben.
Airbus-Update nach Zwischenfall – Airlines reagieren rasch
Plötzlicher Höhenverlust, Software-Alarm und schnelle Updates: Airlines und Behörden mussten nach einem Airbus-Vorfall schnell reagieren.
https://www.
Missing Link: ChatGPT als Therapeut – Die Wirkung der Resonanzmaschine
Immer mehr Menschen vertrauen einer Maschine, die nichts fühlt, aber uns immer besser versteht. Welche Folgen hat es, wenn ChatGPT therapeutisch wirkt?
Online-Umsatz am Black Friday wächst auf 79 Milliarden US-Dollar
Während manche die Rabatte am Black Friday bezweifeln, wurde dennoch fleißig geshoppt. Die Umsätze waren auch KI-getrieben.
https://www.
Drei Jahre ChatGPT: Von "Wow"-Momenten und Umweltzerstörung
Seit drei Jahren gehört ChatGPT zum Alltag. Die Auswirkungen sind massiv – und auch die Herausforderungen für Betreiber OpenAI.
https://www.
Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Web-Tipps: Raumgestaltung für jedermann
https://www.…
Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Weg von Microsoft: Abgeordnete fordern digitale Souveränität im EU-Parlament
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Dänemark verabschiedet sich überraschend von Plänen für die Chatkontrolle
Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Keep Android Open – Abwehr gegen Verbot anonymer Apps von Google