Tootfinder

German insurance giant Munich Re agrees to acquire cyber insurance provider At-Bay for $575M; At-Bay has raised $276M and was last valued at $1.35B in 2021 (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/3icwf2pbx

Munich Re to acquire Israeli startup At-Bay for $575 million
The German insurance giant is buying the cyber insurtech at less than half its 2021 valuation, as insurers increasingly seek to combine coverage with technology that can prevent cyber losses.

from my link log —
50 years of text games - 1976: Adventure.
https://if50.substack.com/p/1976-adventure
saved 2021-02-11 https://dota…

1976: Adventure
How a caver discovered Dungeons & Dragons and accidentally inspired the computer gaming industry.

Survey: 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about increased AI use in daily life, up from 37% in 2021, including 55% of those under 30 (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20

Young adults in the U.S. are increasingly wary of AI, concerned it will take jobs
About half of Americans say they're more concerned than excited about AI, and young adults' concern is rising.

from my link log —
Index 1,600,000,000 keys with finite state automata and Rust.
https://blog.burntsushi.net/transducers/
saved 2021-08-21 https://

from my link log —
Three cases against IF NOT EXISTS / IF EXISTS in PostgreSQL DDL.
https://postgres.ai/blog/20211103-three-cases-against-if-not-exists-and-if-exists-in-postgresql-ddl
saved 2021-11-12

Three cases against IF NOT EXISTS / IF EXISTS in Postgres DDL | PostgresAI
Three cases against IF NOT EXISTS / IF EXISTS in Postgres DDL

The BBC is seeking to subpoena Donald Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr.,
his daughter Ivanka Trump
and son-in-law Jared Kushner
in connection with a $10 billion defamation lawsuit the president is pressing against the U.K. broadcaster.
Lawyers for the BBC say the Trump family members “without question have personal knowledge” about Trump’s intentions in delivering the speech at the heart of the case:
his Jan. 6, 2021, address to supporters at the Ellipse as the Capit…

from my link log —
Post Office Trial: Marshall spells it out in a speech to University of Law.
https://www.postofficetrial.com/2021/06/marshall-spells-it-out-speech-to.html
saved 2021-06-04

Marshall spells it out: speech to University of Law
Reporting the High Court class action against the UK Post Office

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.08.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

Australia road warriors: 49ers fans poised to make a splash in football-mad Melbourne https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7557372/2026/09/02/nfl-australia-game-49ers-fans/

from my link log —
The demise of the once mighty Cambridge and District Co-operative Society.
https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/03/12/the-demise-of-the-once-mighty-cambridge-and-district-co-operative-socie…

The demise of the once mighty Cambridge and District Co-operative Society
Battered from pillar to post in the late 20th Century, this hugely influential civic society with 83,000 members in 1990 merged itself out of existence as it folded into the national CRS Co-op afte…

After taking over Rush Limbaugh's radio time slot in 2021, Clay Travis and Buck Sexton's show is the top-ranked program in its window with ~7M monthly listeners (Ashley Wong/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/clay-an

Bats Around our Home aka 16WW (2021) - Learn how my shiny new AudioMoth will help monitor these night-flying insect chompers! - https://www.earth.org.uk/bats-at-16WW-2.html

Bats Around our Home aka 16WW (2021)
Learn how my shiny new AudioMoth will help monitor these night-flying insect chompers!

Irregular boat arrivals 2021-2026
Italy: 478.600
Balkans: 340.600.
Greece: 259.800
Spain: 234.760
UK in same period a little more than 200,000 so far as I can see.
Source for EU data: Frontex via
https://mailchi.mp/f2b749e11555/poltic

"Im Jahr 2021 erlangte die @… durch einen Bericht […], dass der #NDB im Rahmen seiner Tätigkeit Software zur biometrischen #Gesichtserkennung einsetzt.&quot…

from my link log —
Optimizations enabled by -ffast-math.
https://kristerw.github.io/2021/10/19/fast-math/
saved 2021-10-19 https://

New Deerhoof is... fine, but the wait continues for anything that approaches the quality of 2021's Actually, You Can. I do love the epic 12-minute opening track

Amazon adds a clause in its user agreement that seeks to prevent shoppers from filing class-action lawsuits against it, after removing a similar clause in 2021 (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

In a change that could obscure the full human cost of the Trump administration’s mass detention policies,
🔥Immigration and Customs Enforcement will no longer report deaths of detainees who have recently been released from its custody
The move rescinds a 2021 policy implemented by the Biden administration that required ICE to report to Congress and investigate deaths of detainees that occur within 30 days of their release.
The goal of the 2021 policy was to ensure that ICE cou…

ICE will no longer report deaths of detainees after release from custody
Immigration and Customs Enforcement will no longer report the deaths of detainees who have been released from custody, in a change that could obscure the human cost of the Trump administration's mass detention policies. The move rescinds a 2021 policy that required ICE to publicly report and investigate deaths of detainees within 30 days of their release. This was to ensure that ICE doesn't avoid accountability for deaths by releasing severely ill people from custody. Health experts who have in…

Ich würde sagen, dass Herr Merz das Ziel "die Partei halbieren" erreicht hat.
#cdu #merz

Bill McKibben - at length
"This newsletter turns five years old this month, which means that more than 300 times I’ve tried to assemble the latest news from the world of climate and energy and figure out what it means. I started it in 2021, intending to run through the decade, because I thought then, and think still, that this is the crucial stretch in humanity’s attempt to navigate the climate crisis."

Take Five
Halfway through the Crucial Years

Die #Linke ist wirklich schlimm antisemitisch.
Die Bertelsmann Stiftung hat anhand Antworten auf die Frage "Juden haben auf der Welt zu viel Einfluss" und anderer versucht, #Antisemitismus zu messen. Die Grafik zeigt die Antworten der Parteianhänger:innen.

from my link log —
Computational hierarchy of elementary cellular automata.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.00415
saved 2021-09-06 https://dotat.at/:/VHA9C.…

Computational Hierarchy of Elementary Cellular Automata
The complexity of cellular automata is traditionally measured by their computational capacity. However, it is difficult to choose a challenging set of computational tasks suitable for the parallel nature of such systems. We study the ability of automata to emulate one another, and we use this notion to define such a set of naturally emerging tasks. We present the results for elementary cellular automata, although the core ideas can be extended to other computational systems. We compute a graph …

»Seit einer Gesetzesänderung im Jahr 2021 sei die Übernahme einer zwei Sekunden langen Tonsequenz aus der Kraftwerk-Tonaufnahme „Metall auf Metall“ im Wege des Samplings als sogenanntes Pastiche zulässig, entschied der Bundesgerichtshof (BGH).«

BGH klärt Sampling-Streit um Kraftwerk-Beat
Seit fast einem Vierteljahrhundert beschäftigt der Rechtsstreit um eine zwei Sekunden lange Tonfolge Gerichte. Erneut hat der BGH eine Entscheidung getroffen.

You can still get America.gov’s chatbot to come out of its shell if you encourage it gently, with technocractic enticements and a pinch of ignorance.
#Jan6 #ChatBots #americagov

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1446414 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

from my link log —
The sixtyforgan: a Commodore 64 with a spring reverb; chiptunes like a church organ.
http://www.linusakesson.net/sixtyforgan/
saved 2021-03-30 htt…

RE: https://spam.tamagothi.de/2021/11/17/die-cdu-spd-fpd-gruenen-spam/
Hey Wahlkämpfer, der du mir überall in allen wehrlosen Farben über den Weg läufst und völlig unglaubwürdig »Dialog« simulierst: Du bist eklig. Ich verachte dich.
U…

Wenn ich höre, dass Innenminister #Dobrindt Abschiebungen nach #Afghanistan erweitern will, muss ich an diese Doku denken:

die story - Frauen in Afghanistan: Leben unter den Taliban - hier anschauen
Seit August 2021, seitdem in Afghanistan wieder die Taliban an der Macht sind, hat sich das Leben von Frauen, von Müttern, Töchtern und Schwestern, dramatisch verändert.

from my link log —
GhostCell: separating permissions from data in Rust.
http://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/ghostcell/
saved 2021-05-23 https://

"No AI used" doesn't = good, or creative, or non-derivative, it only means that it's at worst the kind of meritless meatslop the world was full of in 2021. We still need to have standards. "Democratizing" anything floods the market.

Capital One has never accused the Trump Organization of money laundering.
But the bank's recent disclosure argues that “documents and Plaintiffs’ own ‌allegations make clear that Capital One closed ‌Plaintiffs’ accounts for anti-money laundering (‘AML’) reasons.
“The closures were the result of months of analysis and a careful review by ‌Capital One’s AML team in accordance with bank policies and regulatory guidance.”
Capital One gave notice of its plans to close more …

Capital One says it closed Trump Organization’s accounts after anti-money-laundering review
Disclosure from 2021 investigation marks first time a bank has formally tied money-laundering concerns to Donald Trump

Ein Wert, der mein Fahren besser beschreibt als Kilometer:
Anteil der Zeit, die ich auf Tour stehe statt fahre.
2022: 36 %
2024: 48 %
2026: 56 %
Mehr als die Hälfte der Zeit stehe ich inzwischen. Pausen, Fotos, Kaffee, Schauen.
Das ist keine Verschlechterung. Das ist der eigentliche Punkt am Reisen.
#Bikepacking

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

On Website Technicals (2021-04) - Tech updates: Ds are good, more tweets vicar?, Ds are fiddled with, moar, less, 2%, 2 brews, phone, MBA too, JXL, max green?, all zeroes. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-47.html

On Website Technicals (2021-04)
Tech updates: Ds are good, more tweets vicar?, Ds are fiddled with, moar, less, 2%, 2 brews, phone, MBA too, JXL, max green?, all zeroes.

Limiting Overshoot - Navigating exceedance of 1.5°C and pathways towards return | UNEP - UN Environment Programme https://www.unep.org/resources/limiting-overshoot-navigating-exceedance

(flashback, March 10 2021) Eyes On Success podcast 2111 "Using tech skills for work and pleasure", with Pranav Lal discussing The vOICe vision BCI at https://www.eyesonsuccess.net/show notes/show notes 2111.htm with MP3 audio link.

from my link log —
Configuring Emacs for Rust development.
https://robert.kra.hn/posts/2021-02-07_rust-with-emacs/
saved 2021-02-09 https://…

Capital One Financial hit back on Friday against a lawsuit over its ⁠decision to close the Trump ⁠Organization’s bank accounts years ago, stating that it did so after a review by anti-money-laundering experts.
The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money-laundering concerns to Donald Trump’s family business.
Capital One is seeking to dismiss the case by casting doubt on claims of illegally debanking – or denying services on religious or political grounds – t…

Capital One says it closed Trump Organization’s accounts after anti-money-laundering review
Disclosure from 2021 investigation marks first time a bank has formally tied money-laundering concerns to Donald Trump

RE: https://spam.tamagothi.de/2021/11/17/die-cdu-spd-fpd-gruenen-spam/
Hey Wahlkämpfer, der du mir überall in allen wehrlosen Farben über den Weg läufst und völlig unglaubwürdig »Dialog« simulierst: Du bist eklig. Ich verachte dich.
U…

from my link log —
The state of Python packaging in 2021.
https://venthur.de/2021-06-26-python-packaging.html
saved 2021-07-08 https://

The AI frenzy has divided the VC market, as the gap between top and bottom performers has more than doubled for 2024 funds compared to funds from 2017 to 2021 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-08-04/big…

Bank accounts held by President Donald Trump were closed by Capital One in 2021
-- after it flagged financial activity that had characteristics of money laundering, the bank disclosed in a court filing over the weekend.
The court filing is tied to a lawsuit filed against Capital One by one of Trump’s financial holding companies shortly after he was sworn into office a second time.
Trump alleges that Capital One illegally closed his accounts for political reasons, following …

Trump accounts at Capital One were closed in 2021 over money laundering concerns
Capital One closed President Donald Trump’s accounts in mid-2021 after flagging financial activity that resembled money laundering. The bank disclosed this in a court filing over the weekend. Trump has sued Capital One, alleging the closures were politically motivated following the Jan. 6 Capitol attacks. Capital One seeks to dismiss the lawsuit, stating the closures followed months of analysis by its anti-money laundering team. Trump has also sued JPMorgan Chase, claiming similar political m…

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.08.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Midlake:
🎵 Roscoe
#Midlake
https://mommusic4.bandcamp.com/track/midlake-roscoe-mom-2021-version
https://open.spotify.com/track/01qJhVPCHFFR6wJ5ptyw17

➡️ The easiest way to solar charge an electric bicycle (even at night!)
#bookmarks

Oxford Economics: US corporate spending on equipment and facilities is set to rise 40% between 2021 and 2027, over 3x faster than Europe, driven by the AI race (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/77b94c4a-4b4b-4983-9138-7db6926150f4

from my link log —
Async Rust: futures, tasks, wakers; oh my!
https://msarmi9.github.io/posts/async-rust/
saved 2021-06-22 https://d…

from my link log —
Benchmarking oksh (OpenBSD Korn shell) with lots of C compilers.
https://briancallahan.net/blog/20211010.html
saved 2021-10-11 https:/…

I couldn't help but notice someone's been PUSHING their repo on Codeberg. Every time I navigate to the Explore page, their repo is always there and always "updated now" so I dug into it.
It has a monolithic main.rs file that's 3.1k lines long, latest commit literally lists Cursor as a co-author, obvious LLM patterns in the code itself, unit & integration tests for a BINARY. Cherries on top, 2021 edition in its Cargo.toml file, it has only 8 commits total, with…

Donald Trump’s legal team is making an 11th-hour attempt to block a court order
that would grant the BBC access to the president’s financial records,
as part of his multibillion-dollar lawsuit against the British broadcaster.
Trump claims that the BBC’s 2024 documentary on the January 6 attacks have damaged the president’s business interests.
In July, a Miami-based judge ruled that the president would have to start handing over detailed financial records to the BBC b…

Trump team pushes to block court order giving BBC access to financial records
President has sued the broadcaster for $10bn, claiming a documentary on 2021 Capitol attack led to financial harm

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

from my link log —
The design of forms in government departments.
https://design-of-forms.online/
saved 2021-03-20 https://dotat.at/:/XUDEX.html

Bats Around our Home aka 16WW (2021) - Learn how my shiny new AudioMoth will help monitor these night-flying insect chompers! - https://www.earth.org.uk/bats-at-16WW-2.html

Bats Around our Home aka 16WW (2021)
Learn how my shiny new AudioMoth will help monitor these night-flying insect chompers!

from my link log —
Are the Persian Gulf city-states slave societies?
https://aeon.co/essays/are-the-persian-gulf-city-states-slave-societies
saved 2021-01-30

Are the Persian Gulf city-states slave societies? | Aeon Essays
The glittering city-states of the Persian Gulf fit the classicist Moses Finley’s criteria of genuine slave societies

eBay and several ex-executives agree to pay a $56M settlement to resolve a 2021 civil case involving the 2019 stalking and harassment of two e-commerce bloggers (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/28/ebay-blogger-harassment-stalking-steiner.html

EBay, former execs to pay $56 million in blogger harassment and stalking case
Ina and David Steiner run a popular ecommerce blog that had angered eBay executives due to its critical coverage.

from my link log —
Bilinear down/upsampling, aligning pixel grids, and that infamous GPU half pixel offset.
https://bartwronski.com/2021/02/15/bilinear-down-upsampling-pixel-grids-and-that-half-pixel-offset/
saved 202…

Bilinear down/upsampling, aligning pixel grids, and that infamous GPU half pixel offset
See this ugly pixel shift when upsampling a downsampled image? My post describes where it can come from and how to avoid those! It’s been more than two decades of me using bilinear texture filterin…

My god, we knew it all along. The migration crisis of the last 15 years was engineered by Russia but nobody wanted to say anything. Not Merkel, Obama, Trump, or Rubio. It was until the Lithuanians started pushing back the weaponized migration of Iraqs from Belarus in 2021 that I heard anything. See…

from my link log —
Smooth voxel terrain: isosurface extraction with marching cubes and surface nets.
https://0fps.net/2012/07/12/smooth-voxel-terrain-part-2/
saved 2021-01-08

Smooth Voxel Terrain (Part 2)
Last time we formulated the problem of isosurface extraction and discussed some general approaches at a high level.  Today, we’re going to get very specific and look at meshing in particular.…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #ElSonido
Fruko y sus Tesos:
🎵 Cachondea
#FrukoysusTesos
https://djkoko00.bandcamp.com/track/fruko-y-sus-tesos-cachondea-chakal-reepercusions-2021
https://open.spotify.com/track/4TedxdAWvmtDCpYY9M6kue

from my link log —
Dark side of POSIX APIs: handling siginfo_t in Rust.
https://vorner.github.io/2021/01/03/dark-side-of-posix-apis.html
saved 2021-01-08

from my link log —
ECFiber: building a fibre-to-the-premises network in rural Vermont.
https://blog.apnic.net/2021/02/18/building-your-own-fibre-to-premises-network/
saved 2021-02-18

Building your own Fibre-to-Premises Network: The ECFiber Story | APNIC Blog
How to build and operate a FTTH network when existing infrastructure, topography, and low population all work against the need for fast Internet

from my link log —
Mutable statics in Rust have scary superpowers! Do not use them!
https://blog.kodewerx.org/2021/07/mutable-statics-have-scary-superpowers.html
saved 2021-08-20

Mutable statics have scary superpowers! Do not use them
Video game development, hacking, and debugging. Brought to you by BlipJoy!

from my link log —
From Julia to Rust.
https://miguelraz.github.io/blog/juliatorust/index.html
saved 2021-06-05 https://…

from my link log —
B-tree path hints.
https://github.com/tidwall/btree/blob/master/PATH_HINT.md
saved 2021-07-30 https://

btree/PATH_HINT.md at master · tidwall/btree
B-tree implementation for Go. Contribute to tidwall/btree development by creating an account on GitHub.

from my link log —
The Nokia N900: the future that wasn’t.
https://www.osnews.com/story/133160/the-nokia-n900-the-future-that-wasnt/
saved 2021-03-18

from my link log —
Cranelift progress report: a look back at 2021.
https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/cranelift-progress-2021
saved 2021-12-16

Cranelift Progress Report: A Look Back at 2021
The past year has been a productive one for the Cranelift project! Cranelift is the Bytecode Alliance’s native code compiler that serves as the foundation for the Wasmtime and Lucet WebAssembly virtual machines, and is used in other cont...

from my link log —
An oral history of Bank Python.
https://calpaterson.com/bank-python.html
saved 2021-11-04 https://dotat.at/:/AWH0A.h…

An oral history of Bank Python
The strange world of Python, as used by big investment banks

from my link log —
The problem with function namespaces and Lisp macros.
https://ianthehenry.com/posts/janet-game/the-problem-with-macros/
saved 2021-10-13 …

Making a Game in Janet, Part 3: The problem with macros
So we’re supposed to be writing a game, right? But in order to make progress, we have to fix a bug. And in order to fix the bug, we have to write a test. And in order to write a test, we have to write a test framework. And in order to write a test framework, we have to understand a thing or two about macros. Okay. So, caveat: I am not a lisp person. I didn’t know very much about macros going into all of this – and I still don’t. But when I started writing Judge I knew, like, only the ab…

from my link log —
Shaman: evaluate the numerical accuracy of a C application and locate sources of error.
https://gitlab.com/numerical_shaman/shaman
saved 2021-02-20

shaman / shaman · GitLab
Evaluate the numerical accuracy of an application.

from my link log —
Stop your (business rules) engines!
https://adhocteam.us/2017/10/10/stop-your-business-rules-engines/
saved 2021-02-22

Stop your (business rules) engines! | Ad Hoc
One of the many surprising artifacts of the initial failed HealthCare.gov launch was a “business rules engine.” This was a new concept for most of the team that helped rescue the site.

from my link log —
Don’t feed the thought leaders.
https://earthly.dev/blog/thought-leaders/
saved 2021-06-11 https://dotat.at/:/Q3CV1…

Don't Feed the Thought Leaders
In this article, the author shares their experience as an engineering manager and the challenges they faced when trying to reach alignment and prev...

from my link log —
Memory-mapped IO registers in Zig.
https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/mmio-in-zig/
saved 2021-03-07 https://

from my link log —
The Negro Subversive on Critical Race Theory.
https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/guest-post-vic-bradley-on-critical
saved 2021-09-18

On Critical Race Theory
A guest post by The Negro Subversive.

from my link log —
picodvi: Bitbanged DVI on the RP2040 microcontroller.
https://github.com/Wren6991/picodvi
saved 2021-01-21 https://dotat.at/:/7M9…

GitHub - Wren6991/PicoDVI: Bitbanged DVI on the RP2040 Microcontroller
Bitbanged DVI on the RP2040 Microcontroller. Contribute to Wren6991/PicoDVI development by creating an account on GitHub.

from my link log —
SUNSPOT: an implant in the SolarWinds Orion build process.
https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/sunspot-malware-technical-analysis/
saved 2021-01-12

SUNSPOT Malware: A Technical Analysis | CrowdStrike
In this blog, we offer a technical analysis of SUNSPOT, malware that was deployed into the build environment to inject this backdoor into the SolarWinds Orion platform.

from my link log —
Cryptographic key length recommendations.
https://www.keylength.com/en/
saved 2021-01-05 https://dotat.at/:/9C8XW.html