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NERDS at the #D3A Conference
https://nerds.itu.dk/2024/10/29/nerds-at-the-d3a-conference/

Ding Dong the Wing Dong

Like Malaysia Airlines MH17 and Korean Air Lines 007, seems Azerbaijan Airlines J2-8243 may have been shot down. #russia just can’t stop hurting people.
“FlightRadar24…said…aircraft…faced ‘strong GPS jamming,’ which ‘made…aircraft transmit bad ADS-B data,’ referring to…information…allows flight-tracking websites to follow planes…Russia…blamed in…past for jamming GPS transmissions…”
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Azerbaijan Airlines plane crashes in Kazakhstan. At least 30 likely killed
An Azerbaijani airliner with 67 people onboard has crashed near the Kazakhstani city of Aktau and an official says 38 people were killed and 29 survived. The Embraer 190 was en route from the Azerbaijani capital of Baku to the Russian city of Grozny in the North Caucasus when it was diverted and attempted an emergency landing near the city of Aktau. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said that it was too soon to speculate on the reasons behind the crash, but said that the weather had forced the…

Has been far to long that I posted anything.
#IamBack

You know the North Koreans are getting owned when I can share a new, 4 minute long video of them getting owned and owned and owned by a plethora of drone strikes, AND share an article about how they are getting owned and owned and owned by cluster munitions, to what appears to be an even greater degree.

Ukrainian Artillery Rained Cluster Shells On Exposed North Korean Troops
A single Dual-Purpose Improved Conventional Munition dispenses 88 submunitions.

[ April 28, 2025] CFP for publication or other deadline: null https://philevents.org/event/show/127618

La questione del bambino in Merleau-Ponty: letture e sviluppi
Anche se ricche di possibili approfondimenti e aperture, le riflessioni in ambito psicologico e pedagogico che ruotano intorno agli studi sul bambino nell’opera di Maurice Merleau-Ponty trovano in letteratura poco riconoscimento e valorizzazione. Raccolti principalmente nei corsi tenuti al Collège de France tra il 1949 e il 1952, queste indagini impegnano il filosofo e fenomenologo francese in un dialogo con il contesto scientifico dell’epoca. In linea con le riflessioni svolte, tra gli al…

AI chatbots are like that one uncle you see at Thanksgiving. Over his life he became a true expert in something, say, ice sculptures, and can speak with authority on it. But he's convinced he should speak with authority on any subject at all — medicine, law, business, how rainy it will be next spring — stating with 100% certainty things he heard or made up.
Many things he says are right, many are wrong, and you can't judge which is which from his words alone.

My dear dear friend had been misdiagnosed with lingering pneumonia in the spring, and had spells of being very sick, nothing was helping. She finally got a breast cancer diagnosis a couple of weeks ago, and it had already spread everywhere, two weeks later she passed. I’m still in shock. Please stay up to date with your self exams and mammograms, and if you have an ailment that’s not clearing up, keep seeing doctors until they figure out what it is, get second opinions! Don’t wait. Love you Mary.

Kuvat näyttävät: Espan hinnakkaat palmut hylättiin joutomaalle Helsingissä https://www.hs.fi/helsinki/art-2000010843345.html
Kaupunki vei joutomaalle hylätyt Espan puut suojaan: ”Tuollaiset puut kestävät pientä pakkasta”

Kuvat näyttävät: Espan hinnakkaat palmut hylättiin joutomaalle Helsingissä
Miljoonakokeilun arvokalusteet ja eksoottiset kasvit makaavat joutomaalla Jätkäsaaressa sään armoilla.

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BZ100 Podcast – https://buzzzoom.de/100/
Was bedeutet eigentlich Podcast?

Beginn von Bauarbeiten direkt neben dem #MPSGöttingen: Bis Sommer 2026 sollen westlich des Gebäudes ein neues Wohnheim sowie eine Kindertagesstätte entstehen. Nachdem die Arbeiten zu Beginn dieser Woche aufgrund guten Wetters früher als erwartet starteten, zeigte sich die Szenerie heute zunächst ausgesprochen neblig. Die Sonne war dadurch über längere Zeit hinweg durch den Nebel gefilt…

OK, that was a lot of soldering #diysynth

Retour d'Annemasse, comme voyageurs, je profite du calme de la cabine arrière.

Finally, the soundtrack of the #Paris2024 Opening Ceremony is published. This was certainly the highlight of the ceremony for me, Victor Le Masne did an amazing work.
https://open.spot…

Music from The Opening Ceremony of The Olympic Games Paris 2024
Victor Le Masne · Album · 2024 · 18 songs

Russians charge in without a lot of support from tanks, APVs, and artillery...
get torn to pieces.
(good.)

"create-svelte" et "svelte-add" sont remplacées par "sv" : "The Svelte CLI"
#TIL https://github.com/sveltejs/cli

Interessant, wie hier die #Parteispenden aussehen.
Seht ihr wie disproportional die Spenden der #cdu und #fdp im Vergleich zu ihren Umfragenprozenten sind?
Währe das alles fair, müssten die

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I had mentioned that Russian freight trucks weren't doing well, but... things are getting uglier.
Large numbers of them are getting out of the business entirely, or trying to downsize their truck fleets due, in part, to the high key rate and general unprofitability of trucking in Russia under current circumstances.
They're even facing high incidences of non-payment by their clients!

Ja ja ja, ist künstlich aber nicht intelligent! Wenn dies nicht evt. ein schlecht stellen von Open-Source #Software ist von den Kapitalgläubigen?
«Open Source-Entwickler ertrinken in KI-generierten Bug-Reports:
#KI soll dabei helfen, Sicherheitslücken in

Open Source-Entwickler ertrinken in KI-generierten Bug-Reports
KI soll dabei helfen, Sicherheitslücken in Quellcodes besser zu finden. Allerdings läuft die Praxis darauf hinaus, dass die Entwickler-Teams hinter Open-Source-Projekten zunehmend mit wenig gehaltvollen, automatisch generierten Berichten überschwemmt werden.

Heute war der zweite Augsburger Winterlauf. Ich bin nicht wirklich glücklich mit dem Ergebnis, hatte auf 30 Sekunden weniger gehofft, aber es isch wie's isch. 🤷🏻‍♂️ #Mastodonlauftreff #Mastodonrunning

Space train!!

Still up? Go check out the moon. 🌕 The bright object nearby is Jupiter, a gas giant planet 385,650,657 miles away from Earth (as of 10 minutes ago). #lookUp

Ich wollte ja gern beeindruckt sein von #DieSaatDesHeiligenFeigenbaums. Er hat drei tolle Frauen in den Hauptrollen, keine Frage. Schöne Bilder. Ein brandheißes Thema.
Aber irgendwo in diesem Drehbuch hakt es ganz gewaltig. Irgendeine Info fehlt mir, warum der Mann, der seine Familie retten will, sich dann gegen sie wendet.
Ich versuche, mir das zusammenzureimen.…

Russian had his unit owned by a baba yaga.
Bugging out.
h/t: wartranslated

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This year I started reporting rainfall measurements in the #CoCoRaHS volunteer weather observation system.
And every single time, I can't help but sing: 𝅘𝅥𝅮 Co co rahs, rahs done by you 𝅘𝅥𝅮
#Weather #EltonJohn

On attente du croisement Š Creux de Genthod.
@…

NERDS leave X, join Bluesky and LinkedIn
https://nerds.itu.dk/2024/11/12/nerds-leave-x-join-bluesky-and-linkedin/
*The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocen…

Don’t be a sucker!
I love the National Archives
https://youtu.be/vGAqYNFQdZ4

About those massive Russian losses of equipment near Kursk... looks like Ukraine released video of it.
Considering that Russia only has about 5-2 odds on that front, well... I don't think things are going all that well. Whatever gains they are making are just too expensive.

Ukrainian drone units near Kursk have inflicted huge losses to Russian vehicles and equipment on the roads approaching the conflict zone, while Ukrainian soldiers successfully fend off human wave attacks.

Verschiedene Reddit Nutzer bekommen solche ekelhaften Zettel vor die Haustür gelegt.
Wie können wir sowas erlauben? Wie kann sowas von der #Meinungsfreihet abgedeckt sein?
Dann nichtmal die Eier haben das einem ins Gesicht zu sagen, sondern sich hinter so einem lausigen Zettel mit Rechtschreibfehlern zu verstecken...

Wishing the Russians and North Koreans a very merry season's defeatings!
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"Fighters from the UA_REG Team unit of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck almost a company of Russian army personnel, as well as their North Korean mercenaries.
A video of the combat operation was released on December 17 on the unit's channel.
In total, special forces drones destroyed 50 enemies and wounded 47."

Ah, Ruf farmen für den Winterspring Frostsaber. #wow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2XIZ-PwIL0

Russian arms warehouse near Markino, Donetsk goes up rather convincingly.

If you have time to call your rep today to oppose HR
9495, please do. It could give the next admin power to revoke non-profits’ tax exempt status just because they don’t like it. Below is a script to read and the link to find your rep (and their contact info).
https://ziplook.house.gov/htbin/findrep_house

I remember someone mentioning a software that could read a Mastodon export archive and host your toots and stuff in a webpage
Does anyone know the name or something?

As of today, Ukraine has supplied more than 1.3M drones to its soldiers this year... 30% more than its aggressive drone expansion plans.

I switched from Windows to Linux for personal home use a few years ago. Here's a hot tip. After running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for a while, I moved to OpenSUSE Leap and love it. Everything works just the same, but updates are significantly faster.
#OpenSUSE #Linux

Ich hab da mal einen simplen Client für #paperlessngx zusammengezimmert: https://git.schmidl.dev/schtobia/paperless-client

#Trump is butthurd by a bishop telling him indirectly that his politiks are bad.
He wants a apology and says that she is a leftextreme trump hater.
Does this sound like kindergarden drama? Yes.
Is this person running the country? Yes.
#trump

Watching the 2018 sequel to #Halloween last night wasn’t too terrifying.
However. It did set me up for having a small heart attack when I spotted this over my shoulder hanging in the bathroom.

Sure, it might look like Air Force One, but I'm pretty sure it's an alien invasion mothership...
Better safe than sorry!

Useful #shakespeare quote to squirrel away and use over the next four years...
*"What cracker is this same that deafs our ears with this abundance of superfluous breath?"*
The Life & Death of King John, Act 2, scene one.

(Yup.)

“Dangerous Coats” by Sharon Owens
Someone clever once said
Women were not allowed pockets
In case they carried leaflets
To spread sedition
Which means unrest
To you & me
A grandiose word
For commonsense
Fairness
Kindness
Equality
So ladies, start sewing
Dangerous coats
Made of pockets & sedition

The head of the State Duma Committee on Financial Markets, Anatoly Aksakov, is urging the widespread adoption of food ration cards for the poor, who are judged not to have pensions large enough to support themselves, due to inflation.
As has been the norm lately, the central government wants to push the cost of ration cards on to both shopkeepers and local governments, as much as is possible.

В Калининградской области введут продуктовые карты
Губернатор Калининградской области Алексей Беспрозванных во время прямой линии объявил о повторном введении в регионе продуктовых социальных карт, на которые люди могут купить продукты, с 2025 года.

Fröhliches #Mittwinterfest! Wir haben offiziell um 10:20 Uhr CET den Tiefpunkt durchschritten, in #Augsburg hat's heute eine Tageslänge von 08:19 Stunden.
#Mittwinter

After wearing my cargo pants yesterday and being spoiled by decent sized pockets (I could fit my phone in the front pocket, keys, and lipstick without it falling out when I sit) I’m pissed again about the pockets in my current pants, back pocket I can only put my hand up to my second knuckle in the back (might fit a lipstick but it would fall out) and the front ones, stuff keeps falling out when I sit. I’m going to lengthen the pockets based on the cargo pants pockets, I don’t care if it ‘ruins the line of the pants, and adds bulkiness’ because as I always say, women’s pockets, when pants have them, are bullshit. And I don’t care if they make me look fat because I value function and comfort more. My son can fit a whole keyboard in his. I’ve been gradually lengthening my pockets as I get to them, or wearing a Fanny pack, but had to go to a funeral Sunday and got pissed again about my pockets. I want to empower other women with decent pockets, so we can take over. That poem about seditious pockets comes to mind. Or at least carry phones and keys. Will post photos. #sewing #pockets #womenspants

Until 5 pm EST today, They Might Be Giants is giving away My Murdered Remains, their 2018 album.
Go grab the MP3s and maybe buy a Dr. Worm Venn diagram shirt.
#TMBG #TheyMightBeGiants

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Gerade überschlagen: Jede Fahrt in die Arbeit, die ich mit den e-Roller statt dem Auto mache, spart mir etwa 9 €. #Mobilitätswende
(6 l/100km Verbrauch, 1,60 €/l Spritkosten, 6 €/100 km Kosten für Abnutzung, 60 km Strecke.)

Drawing attention to this thread of comments of mine from a few days ago, as it goes deeper into apparent efforts from European nations to Trump-proof Ukraine, which is actually VERY important for European security.
It's nice seeing news articles pointing out Ukrainian funding & Russian appeasement isn't something Trump gets to dictate, but rather, a situation where Europe is trying to diplomatically push back against Trump to defend their legitimate security interests.

To paraphrase John Gilmore,
*"Europe interprets Trump as damage and routes around him".*

This situation actually reminds me a bit of the dotcom bubble collapse in the late '90s / early '00s, with slight differences.
Declining stocks & VC led to a bunch of startups initially being unable to obtain additional funding. To make matters worse, ad demand started falling, leading to lower revenues for ad-based internet services.
In this case, a decline of ad demand is trailing dotcom revenue shortages. I suspect currency & stock weakness & a slowing econ…

One obvious reason this could be the case, despite the stimulus impact of the war, is that a lot of dotcoms / tech companies are highly sensitive to the stock market, VC funding, etc.
IOW, revenue from the stock market & VC funding suddenly disappeared, leaving them at the mercy of high rate loans, due to the historically high Russian central bank key rate.
And so, huge swathes of high tech are at risk of debt spirals and ever-increasing rates on loans.

Sounds like Russia's tech industry - including internet, software, etc. - is seeing sharp declines in revenue, with widespread, major layoffs.
"The economy is in s***. It seems like everyone really needed IT specialists, there was a shortage of personnel, and all that. But the market has no money for development, the marketing tools have collapsed. Although both marketers and IT specialists are needed, there is no money. But everyone is hiding this."

«Денег нет, но все это скрывают». В России начались массовые сокращения айтишников
Нынешний год для российского ИТ-рынка заканчивается увольнениями.

The ruble has lost 1/3rd of its value vs. the yuan, but if you factor in OTHER extra costs...
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China strongly limits Russian access to tech in mech. engineering, aviation, and microelectronics.
"...they openly tell us: if you want to get some technologies, buy the product as a whole. We say: no, at best we need components that we'll replace soon. They tell us: we understand this, but aren't going to do it at normal prices. Here is double the price - please.&…

КамАЗ пожаловался на нежелание китайцев делиться технологиями и надеется на возвращение западных партнеров
Российский бизнес, как и власти, надеется на скорое возвращение западных компаний и инвесторов, ушедших из страны после начала полномасштабной войны.

After discussing the possibility for several months, European nations are finally forming a unified barrier of insurance checks and enforcement around areas where Russia's shadow fleet operate... a very important development, as it either will deprive them from the ability to keep evading sanctions, or significantly increase the costs and risks of doing so.
Big ramifications. This could have a major impact on Russia's recent long term oil delivery deal with India, i.e.

Twelve European countries to jointly counter Russia's shadow fleet exporting oil
Twelve European countries have agreed to jointly counter the shadow fleet used by Russia to export oil, bypassing the G7-imposed price cap. Ships will now be checked for valid insurance documents.

Russia is intentionally humiliating Trump, and blowing holes in his proposed ceasefire...
The sooner Trump gets righteously angry and tired of being a sap, the better.