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Thoma Bravo acquires a majority stake in Java platform Azul, which received a $340M majority investment from Vitruvian Partners and Lead Edge Capital in 2020 (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/11/18/tho…

Exclusive: Thoma Bravo buys Java platform Azul
Azul battles Oracle in the Java marketplace.

Same!
#Hades2 #Hades #Gaming
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wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…

from my link log —
dnstap-receiver: a dnstap streams receiver in Python.
https://github.com/dmachard/dnstap-receiver
saved 2020-11-09 https://

GitHub - dmachard/python-dnstap-receiver: Dnstap streams receiver in Python
Dnstap streams receiver in Python. Contribute to dmachard/python-dnstap-receiver development by creating an account on GitHub.

In der heute zu Ende gehenden Woche hier bei mir auf heavy rotation: das Album »Panther« der Schweden Pain of Salvation, erschienen 2020. Wer Pain of Salvation kennt, wird von dem Album wenig überrascht sein. Wem die Band nichts sagt: Progmetal ohne selbstgefälliges Gefrickel des Gefrickels wegen. #rocknroll

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Een van de meest kwalijke keuzes maakt de VVD al een tijd met het klimaatbeleid.
Aan het eind vsn de transitie is het resultaat onder de streep ik zn totaal gelijk. Alleen met grote winnaars en verliezers. Bedrijven die niet mee kunnen komen zullen alles uit de kast halen om tegen te werken. Bedrijven die naar de toekomst kijken maken inderdaad minder winst maar investeren voor de toekomst.
(Trouwens ook een shootout naar (CDA/)EVP met het hetzelfde issue )
#TK2025 #VVD #CO2

Fox acquires five-year-old rom-com podcast company Meet Cute, the latest in a series of audio acquisitions; Meet Cute has produced over 300 shows (Peter White/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/fox-acquires-rom-com-podcast-company-meet-cute-1236606…

Fox Continues Audio Push With Acquisition Of Rom-Com Podcast Company Meet Cute
Meet Cute was founded by Naomi Shah, a former Goldman Sachs trader, in 2020, to produce romantic comedy podcast series.

It's hard to overstate Nvidia’s AI dominance.
Founded in 1993, Nvidia first made its mark in the then-new field of graphics processing units (GPUs) for personal computers.
But it’s the company’s AI chips,
not PC graphics hardware,
that vaulted Nvidia into the ranks of the world’s most valuable companies.
It turns out that Nvidia’s GPUs are also excellent for AI.
As a result, its stock is more than 15 times as valuable as it was at the start of 2020;

Nvidia AI: Challengers Are Coming for Nvidia’s Crown
In AI’s game of thrones, don’t count out the upstarts

Ineens (door een film) bedenk ik me dat het zo'n 30 jaar geleden moet zijn dat mn laatste antwoordapparaat 'voorlopig' in een doos verdween.
Tot wanneer hadden jullie een losse in gebruik?

In 2020, after it became clear I’m unlikely to die of COVID, I’ve switched my perspective from fear to fascination.
I looked around & ~enjoyed~ experiencing unprecedented times. Couldn’t change them, so I channeled my inner Jocko Willink & made the best out of it.
Today, I feel similarly about AI. 1/3

Started Don't Look Deeper from 2020. Pretty damn good. Don Cheadle, etc.
#film #scifi

Don't Look Deeper (2020)
In near-future California, high school senior Aisha learns a dark secret about herself. She goes from dreams of graduation and college...to suddenly running for her life.

I finally got around to adding the Narrator speech recap feature to my 2020 post “Speech Viewer Logs of Lies”:
https://adrianroselli.com/2020/08/speech-viewer-logs-of-lies.html#Update07
Video! We like video! 323kb of video! Big fat video!

Speech Viewer Logs of Lies
The headline is intentional hyperbole, chosen mostly for the sloppy alliteration. When sighted users test with a screen reader it is common to rely on the visual output — checking to see where focus goes, confirming that controls behave, watching the spoken output in a text log. The problem is…

"Robert L. Glass wrote a book in 1998 called “Software 2020”, currently rated with only one star… by the author himself. In his review (written in 2017) he justifies this abysmal record because of a simple observation: none of the predictions in the book turned out to become a reality."
https://deprogrammaticai…

Robert L. Glass
Robert L. Glass wrote a book in 1998 called "Software 2020", currently rated with only one star… by the author himself. In his review (written in 2017) he justifies this abysmal record because of a simple observation: none of the predictions in the book turned out to become a reality.

A bit out of date and it is gross figures. So some money comes in e.g. via rubberneck tourists, but my guess is that's typically overestimated.
The Windsors (Battenburg Saxe-Coburgs) cost a lot, 8 times more per citizen than Spain's Bourbons.
Here’s how much Europe’s royal families really cost | CNN
https://…

Here’s how much Europe’s royal families really cost
Of the 10 main royal families in Europe, nine still receive public funding for carrying out their duties – the only exception being the Princely House of Liechtenstein, which doesn’t get any taxpayer money to cover its expenses.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

San Franciscans! Here's a petition you can sign asking Mayor Lurie and the board of supervisors to fund social housing. You might have seen the flyers around the city.
We voted to fund it with 2020's Prop I, but for obscure reasons of state law, the use of the revenue wasn't legally binding, only intended. And then-Mayor Breed refused to do it. But we can fund it now!

Fund San Francisco's Social Housing Program with Prop I Property Transfer Tax Revenue, as Promised!
In 2020, San Francisco voters passed Prop I which levied a transfer tax on properties worth over $10 million dollars. The Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution assuring voters it was their intention to spend the revenue from the new tax on a Social Housing Program. Social Housing is housing that is municipally-owned (or non-profit owned), permanently affordable, and available to a wider mix income than traditional public housing. Mayor Breed overruled the Board of Supervisors a…

Taking the train like it’s 2020 😅
😷bc it’s damn full and I don’t need to get sick before the holidays, and 🎧bc of the chatty ladies… #db #IC2444

Today's the 2nd day I'm wearing my black-yellow Engelbert-Strauss e.s.motion 2020 to work - in an office.
It's also the 2nd day of people making derogatory comments like "Are you going to a construction site?" and "You can't go to a customer like this, they'll think you've come to fix your bath." and "At least noone will run you over, reflecting like that."
You already banned me from wearing my kilt in summer! They are comfort…

On Website Technicals (2020-02) - Tech updates: GSC Review annoyance, CSS dark mode, video captions, lazy loading, srcset issues. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-33.html

On Website Technicals (2020-02)
Tech updates: GSC Review annoyance, CSS dark mode, video captions, lazy loading, srcset issues.

heise | Der Siegezug von Apple Silicon: Fünf Jahre Macs mit Apple-Prozessoren
Im November 2020 kamen Macs erstmals mit Apples eigenem M-Chip heraus. Es wurde eine echte Erfolgsgeschichte. Ein Rückblick auf Technik und Hintergründe.

LB Logan Wilson Sends Strong Message to Cowboys Fans After Trade https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/logan-wilson-trade-reaction/?adt_ei=[email]

from my link log —
Dumbindent: because 93% of the time was spent in clang-format.
https://nigeltao.github.io/blog/2020/dumbindent.html
saved 2020-06-15

Tree prep done - decorations to follow…
Past me & my daughter’s advice always welcome 😂
Cc: @…

Filing: Meta axed research based on a Nielsen survey in 2020 that found evidence of social media harms, claiming the survey was tainted by the "media narrative" (Jeff Horwitz/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustain…

wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…

The destruction of our country has gone even faster than I had known as El Cheeto makes us bend even more to our corporate, especially AI corporate, masters who want to access all data, all information, everywhere and anywhere, without permission and without paying anything.
"The May Massacre: Firings, AI, and Constitutional Crisis at the Copyright Office"

The May Massacre: Firings, AI, and Constitutional Crisis at the Copyright Office (via Passle)
These are extraordinary times. And this is an extraordinary case. In 2020, Shira Perlmutter was appointed Register of Copyrights by Dr. Carla D. Hayden,...

Meta’s 2020 research project, Project Mercury,
measured the effect of ‘deactivating’ Facebook & Instagram
According to Meta docs obtained via discovery…
’people who stopped using Facebook for a week reported lower feelings of depression, anxiety, loneliness & social comparison’
https://

Stability and Superconductivity of Ternary Polyhydrides
Dmitrii V. Semenok, Di Zhou, Wuhao Chen, Alexander G. Kvashnin, Andrey V. Sadakov, Toni Helm, Pedro N. Ferreira, Christoph Heil, Vladimir M. Pudalov, Ivan A. Troyan, Viktor V. Struzhkin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22877

Stability and Superconductivity of Ternary Polyhydrides
We review five years of experimental and theoretical attempts (2020-2025) to enhance the superconducting critical temperature ($\textit{T$_c$}$) of hydrogen-rich compounds by alloying binary superhydrides with additional elements. Despite predictions of higher $\textit{T$_c$}$ in ternary systems such as La-Y-H, La-Ce-H, and Ca-Mg-H, experiments consistently show that the maximum $\textit{T$_c$}$ in disordered ternary superhydrides does not exceed that of the best binary parent hydrides within e…

from my link log —
Computer animation in 1961: the Stanford card stunt program. (YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN1opFMXJbY
saved 2020-02-20 https://

Sex trafficking on Meta platforms was both difficult to report and widely tolerated.
Instagram’s former head of safety testified that when she joined Meta in 2020 she was shocked to learn the company had
a “17x” strike policy
for accounts that engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.”
https://

Court Filings Allege Meta Downplayed Risks to Children and Misled the Public
Newly unsealed court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.

Druckfrisch: ein verspielter Drache ziert die neueste Edition für meine Kartenaktion (die ich seit 2020 unverändert durchzieh) Ab heute bei den Klextras dabei. Wie immer kann meine Kunstpostkarten keiner kaufen, sondern nur nach meinem Gutdünken handverlesen zur Bestellung geschenkt bekommen, (Mehr dazu auf #art #artShop #fediArt #mastoArt #creativeToots

Unintended Consequences of Early Driving Access: Evidence from Graduated Driver Licensing Policies and Adolescent Health Outcomes
Sharareh Massahi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23578

Unintended Consequences of Early Driving Access: Evidence from Graduated Driver Licensing Policies and Adolescent Health Outcomes
Graduated driver licensing systems effectively reduce adolescent traffic fatalities but create unintended health consequences. Using state-level variation in licensing policies from 1999-2020 and difference-in-differences analysis, we provide the first causal evidence that early driving access generates significant health risks for female adolescents aged 15-19. States allowing learner's permits before age 16 experienced sharp increases in drug-related mortality (+1.331 per 100,000, p<0.001) an…

from my link log —
Getting started with Rust and Rocket for http services.
https://christine.website/blog/how-i-start-rust-2020-03-15
saved 2020-03-16

from my link log —
Sum types in Julia and Rust.
https://andreaskroepelin.de/blog/sum_types/
saved 2020-08-31 https://dotat.at/:/D7RR…

from my link log —
Free yourself from the Spotify desktop client with spotifyd.
https://jonathanchang.org/blog/setting-up-spotifyd-on-macos/
saved 2020-10-18

Free yourself from the Spotify desktop client with spotifyd
How to save a ton of memory and compute power by switching to a Terminal-based Spotify client.

A recent paper in the American Economic Review analysed the performance of 51 populist presidents and prime ministers, from 1900 to 2020. It found that on average, after 15 years, gross domestic product per head tends to be 10% lower in countries run by populist leaders than in similar economies with more mainstream regimes.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/oct/26/do-populists-always-crash-the-economy?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other