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from my link log —
What engineers can teach (and learn from) programmers.
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/crossover-project/what-we-can-learn/
saved 2021-01-22

⚠️ AI can generate a feeling of intimacy that exceeds human connections
I discovered 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 for myself in my ill-fated research project of 2021!
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-ai-generate-intimacy-exceeds-human.html

AI can generate a feeling of intimacy that exceeds human connections
People can develop emotional closeness to artificial intelligence (AI)—under certain conditions, even more so than to other people. This is shown by a new study conducted by a research team led by Prof. Dr. Markus Heinrichs and Dr. Tobias Kleinert from the Department of Psychology at the University of Freiburg and Prof. Dr. Bastian Schiller from Heidelberg University's Institute of Psychology. Participants felt a sense of closeness especially when they did not know that they were communicatin…

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An illustrated guide to elliptic curve cryptography validation.
https://research.nccgroup.com/2021/11/18/an-illustrated-guide-to-elliptic-curve-cryptography-validation/
saved 2021-12-01

Es ist ebenso faszinierend wie lustig. Der einzige Artikel auf meinem Blog, der seit Jahren(!) zuverlässige Abrufzahlen hat, ist immer noch der, wie man das Tastaturlayout des Alphasmart Neo2 auf das Deutsche umstellt.
https://mela.de/blog/2021/01/15/alphasmart…

The Federal Court of Appeal delivered two major environmental victories last month. The court found former Fisheries and Oceans Minister Joyce Murray was “procedurally fair and reasonable” when she did not renew licences for open-net salmon pens in the Discovery Islands in 2023. The same court found that the federal government acted well within its purview when it listed plastic manufactured items as “toxic” under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act in 2021.

It’s only February, and the November elections are already in peril.
When I think back to the days and weeks before Jan. 6, 2021, one thing that’s clear is that many of us suffered from a failure of imagination.
We knew President Trump’s lies and conspiracy mongering were dangerous,
but it’s hard to think of a single person who predicted that a MAGA mob would storm the Capitol.
Very few people anticipated the sheer scale and scope of the effort to overturn the electi…

Opinion | This Is Not a Drill
What Is the F.B.I. doing raiding an election office in Georgia?

Crazy how time flies…
❤️ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/31/this-week-in-techdirt-history-january-25th-31st/

This Week In Techdirt History: January 25th – 31st
Five Years Ago This week in 2021, we looked at the future of net neutrality under the new interim FCC boss, and at how broadband monopolies continued to get money for networks they never fully depl…

The minimum living wage has reignited the debate on basic income. But would it be viable in the face of eco-social collapse? A basic land income could be an alternative suited to this scenario. By Manuel Casal Lodeiro, Coordinator of the Instituto Resiliencia. Originally published in Spanish, in Revista Ecologista No. 108, 01/06/2021 . Translated by Mark H Burton…

In Defence of a Basic Land Income
The minimum living wage has reignited the debate on basic income. But would it be viable in the face of eco-social collapse? A basic land income could be an alternative suited to this scenario. By …

In Defence of a Basic Land Income
The minimum living wage has reignited the debate on basic income. But would it be viable in the face of eco-social collapse? A basic land income could be an alternative suited to this scenario. By Manuel Casal Lodeiro, Coordinator of the Instituto Resiliencia. Originally published in Spanish, in Revista Ecologista No. 108, 01/06/2021 . Translated by Mark H Burton…

In Defence of a Basic Land Income
The minimum living wage has reignited the debate on basic income. But would it be viable in the face of eco-social collapse? A basic land income could be an alternative suited to this scenario. By …

Från 2021 när tydligen Må Bra skrivit om saker som jag sa på radion 🙂
Vad är egentligen sämst – lösgodis eller chips? Experten svarar https://www.mabra.com/halsa/experten-om-socker-och-snacks/7836592

Sämst av godis och chips? Experten om snacks och hälsa
Fysioterapeuten Jacob Gudiol svarar i en intervju med Sveriges Radio på frågor kring snacks, socker, hälsa och vikt.

from my link log —
Waiting for PostgreSQL 14: SEARCH and CYCLE clauses.
https://www.depesz.com/2021/02/04/waiting-for-postgresql-14-search-and-cycle-clauses/
saved 2021-03-05

Probing jet base emission of M87* with the 2021 #EventHorizonTelescope observation: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/02/aa57022-25/aa57022-25.html -> Probing the jet base of M87's supermassive black hole: https://eventhorizontelescope.org/news/2026/01/probing-jet-base-m87s-supermassive-black-hole-0 / https://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/pressreleases/2026/probing-the-jet-base-of-the-supermassive-black-hole-in-m87 - observations with the Event Horizon Telescope enable researchers to localize the likely base of the central outflow in a massive galaxy.

A look at Hyundai's Atlas humanoid robot, slated for assembly tasks in 2028; Hyundai has invested billions in robotics since acquiring Boston Dynamics in 2021 (Hyonhee Shin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Bizarrely warm end of the winter, here in the Netherlands: average temperature in the last part of February (21-28/29) was more than a full degree higher than the previous record set just five years ago:
10.5°C, that's warmer than the already warmed 1991-2020 average for April!
Peak was above 17°C.

Traits in #PHP are a limited purpose tool, but they do have a purpose.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/beyond-abstract

After patching and rebuilding kwin_wayland to remove the bullshit-ass fucking hardcoded gestures that have been in there since at least 2021 with an open bug, funding spent, and no resolution in sight, and thereafter installing both fusuma and fusuma-plugin-sendkey, I have sucessfully gotten KDE on Wayland to behave normally qua gestures. I think.
XScreenSaver 6.11 has preliminary (non-locking) Wayland support, which may obviate my dirty hack to watch input devices DBus and run demo…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

from my link log —
Debugging random slow writes with GIN indexes in PostgreSQL.
https://iamsafts.com/posts/postgres-gin-performance/
saved 2021-04-06

Jets Insider Reveals Ex-Raiders HC Jon Gruden’s Big Decision https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/jets-insider-reveals-jon-gruden-big-decision/

from my link log —
Cranelift compiler efficiency, CFGs, and a branch peephole optimizer.
https://cfallin.org/blog/2021/01/22/cranelift-isel-2/
saved 2021-02-19

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

Donald Trump is trying to
take revenge
on financial institutions
that dropped him
after the January 6, 2021
Capitol insurrection.
The president filed a lawsuit
against JPMorgan Chase
and its CEO Jamie Dimon
Thursday in Florida state court,
seeking $5 billion in damages
and accusing the bank of ending its business with him
for political reasons.
The lawsuit claims that Trump,
his family, and different busin…

Trump Sues JPMorgan Chase for Billions as Revenge Quest Continues
The bank says his lawsuit has zero merit.

Japanese Religions 46/2
https://ift.tt/EHp5h1s
CFP: [FRISTVERLÄNGERUNG] Variations 28/2021: Gender through technology (25.09.2021) Call…
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Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eink development platform.
https://blog.lidskialf.net/2021/02/08/turning-an-old-kindle-into-a-eink-development-platform/
saved 2021-02-09

Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eink development platform
I fancied getting an eink screen to use for future projects. I bought a wee one with a raspberry pi “hat” attached. However, I realised later that I could maybe just re-purpose an old A…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
Wet Leg:
🎵 Chaise Longue (6 Music Session, 4 Oct 2021)
#WetLeg
https://longdissonance.bandcamp.com/track/wet-leg-chaise-longue
https://open.spotify.com/track/7iqAuZe5yS0suLQcFfVK39

from my link log —
R, OpenMP, MKL, disaster.
https://www.jyotirmoy.net/posts/2021-10-03-r-mkl-openmp.html
saved 2021-10-03 https://

from my link log —
The case of the curiously slow shader.
https://raphlinus.github.io/gpu/2021/04/28/slow-shader.html
saved 2021-04-29 htt…

from my link log —
Hosting SQLite databases on Github Pages (or any static file hoster).
https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2021/hosting-sqlite-databases-on-github-pages/
saved 2021-05-02

Raiders, big events fuel Allegiant Stadium growth despite Vegas downturn https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/stadium/raiders-big-events-fuel-allegiant-stadium-growth-despite-vegas-downturn-3620736/

7th MIT Global Humanities Forum on “PILLAR 5: Environment, Biodiversity & Planetary Stewardship” on Feb 13 (online)
https://ift.tt/weVaRyc
CFP: [FRISTVERLÄNGERUNG] Variations 28/2021: Gender through technology (25.09.2021) Call…
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How we made Typerighter, the Guardian's style guide checker.
https://www.theguardian.com/info/2021/jan/26/how-we-made-typerighter-the-guardians-style-guide-checker
saved 2021-01-29

from my link log —
Speculating the entire x86-64 instruction set in seconds with this one weird trick.
https://blog.can.ac/2021/03/22/speculating-x86-64-isa-with-one-weird-trick/
saved 2021-03-26

Speculating the entire x86-64 Instruction Set In Seconds with This One Weird Trick
As cheesy as the title sounds, I promise it cannot beat the cheesiness of the technique I’ll be telling you about in this post. The morning I saw Mark …

CFP: Im Schatten der Aufklärung: kanonisches und marginales Denken in literarischen, philosophischen und religiösen Diskursen über die Bildung im 18. Jahrhundert (13.02.2026)
https://ift.tt/hv1kudK
CFP: [FRISTVERLÄNGERUNG] Variations 28/2021: Gender through technology (25.09.2021) Call…
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from my link log —
Phase-in codes.
https://hbfs.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/phase-in-codes/
saved 2021-07-03 https://dotat.at…

Phase-in Codes
Once in a while, we have to encode a series of values to memory or file, of which we know either very little about, distribution-wise, or are very close to being drawn from an uniform random variab…

CFP: Im Schatten der Aufklärung: kanonisches und marginales Denken in literarischen, philosophischen und religiösen Diskursen über die Bildung im 18. Jahrhundert (13.02.2026)
https://ift.tt/jhlZ9iv
CFP: [FRISTVERLÄNGERUNG] Variations 28/2021: Gender through technology (25.09.2021) Call…
via Input 4 RE…

from my link log —
FAQs on aerosol transmission of COVID-19.
https://tinyurl.com/FAQ-aerosols
saved 2020-10-06 https://dotat.at/:/8RYZW.html

FAQs on Protecting Yourself from Aerosol Transmission
FAQs on Protecting Yourself from COVID-19 Aerosol Transmission Shortcut to this page: https://tinyurl.com/FAQ-aerosols Version: 1.88, 13-Aug-2021 Click here to jump over the scientific & historical details and go straight to the recommendations, Click here for automatic translation into many l...

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Of donkeys, mules, and horses: data structures for network prefixes in Rust.
https://blog.nlnetlabs.nl/donkeys-mules-horses/
saved 2021-05-27

Of Donkeys, Mules & Horses
A quest for the perfect data-structure to store and retrieve a full table of IP Prefixes, while maintaining the hierarchical relations.

from my link log —
Container networking is simple.
https://iximiuz.com/en/posts/container-networking-is-simple/
saved 2021-01-21 https://…

How Container Networking Works: Building a Bridge Network From Scratch | iximiuz Labs
Begin with the basics to understand Docker and Kubernetes networking: learn how to create and interconnect Linux network namespaces using only command-line tools.