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Reality Labs lost $80B , but it still makes all of Meta's hardware, and reflects Mark Zuckerberg's desire to run a business without Google or Apple as middlemen (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-mark-zuckerber…

Meta and Mark Zuckerberg didn't lose $80 billion on the metaverse
In 2021, Zuckerberg said Facebook was becoming a metaverse company. He's stopped saying that — but he's still putting money into metaverse-y things.

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Against SQL.
https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/against-sql/
saved 2021-07-10 https://dotat.at/:/3Q8D…

Global cybercrime crackdown: over 373 000 dark web sites shut down
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/global-cybercrime-crackdown-over-373-000-dark-web-sites-shut-down

Global cybercrime crackdown: over 373 000 dark web sites shut down – Authorities from 23 countries participate in the operation | Europol
On 9 March 2026, a global operation led by German authorities and supported by Europol was launched against one of the largest networks of fraudulent platforms in the dark web. The investigation began in mid-2021 against the dark web platform “Alice with Violence CP”. During the investigation, authorities discovered that the platform’s operator was running more than 373 000 fraudulent websites advertising child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and cybercrime-as-a-service (CaaS) offerings.

@… ever since log4j had a critical vulnerability in 2021

Bluesky: CEO Jay Graber tritt ab, Kapitalgeber soll Suche nach Nachfolge leiten
Jay Graber ist das Gesicht von Bluesky, sie leitet das soziale Netz seit 2021. Jetzt tritt sie ab, ein Interims-CEO soll die Suche nach einer Nachfolge leiten.

How BuzzFeed went from a $1.7B digital-media darling in 2016 to the brink of bankruptcy, as an early investor blames mismanagement following a 2021 SPAC merger (Lukas I. Alpert/MarketWatch)
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-buzz

„Frieden wird es erst geben wenn Araber ihre Kinder mehr lieben als sie uns hassen. [...] Wer Israel angreift, bekommt es mit Deutschland zu tun.”
— Cem Özdemir, 20.05.2021 auf einer Pro-Israel Demo, anfangs zitierend Golda Meir, ehemalige Ministerpräsidentin Israels.

Alles in einen Topf
Angesichts der Lage im Gazastreifen wurde auch hierzulande protestiert – und in dem Zusammenhang wieder heftig über Antisemitismus diskutiert. Dabei lohnt es sich, genauer hinzusehen.

18,8 % für die Rechtsextremen bei der Wahl in Baden-Württemberg.
Auch in Darmstadt wird am Sonntag gewählt. Bei der Kommunalwahl 2021 bekam die AfD hier 4,6 % der Stimmen. Jede Stimme für Rechtsradikale ist eine zu viel – aber mit solchen Ergebnissen kann eine Demokratie umgehen.
Umso wichtiger ist es, wählen zu gehen. Mehr Stimmen für demokratische Parteien stärken unsere Demokratie.
🎥 Mein 60-Sekunden-Video:

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A new Protocol Buffers generator for Golang.
https://vitess.io/blog/2021-06-03-a-new-protobuf-generator-for-go/
saved 2021-06-03

Vitess | A new Protocol Buffers generator for Go

Privacy Guides: Independent Privacy & Security Resources #privacy #recommendations

Privacy Guides
Established in 2021, Privacy Guides is the largest impartial, non-profit media outlet focused on finding privacy tools and learning about protecting your digital life.

Bluesky: CEO Jay Graber tritt ab, Kapitalgeber soll Suche nach Nachfolge leiten https://www.heise.de/news/Bluesky-CEO-Jay-Graber-tritt-ab-Kapitalgeber-soll-Suche-nach-Nachfolge-leiten-11204888.html

Bluesky: CEO Jay Graber tritt ab, Kapitalgeber soll Suche nach Nachfolge leiten
Jay Graber ist das Gesicht von Bluesky, sie leitet das soziale Netz seit 2021. Jetzt tritt sie ab, ein Interims-CEO soll die Suche nach einer Nachfolge leiten.

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Yeah. I got that. Wasn't trying to criticize. Just sharing my take.
When you're poorer, how you do really is Bishop lottery. Some bishops are freer with funds and the bishop's storehouse (food bank) …

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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...

This is a shitty outcome for a valid criticism of an #overlay product:
• https://www.lalutineduweb.fr/en/help-lawyer-fees-faciliti-lawsuit/#20260306
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Le oui pour l’imposition individuelle a chuté de 24 Š 8 entre le premier et deuxième sondage GfS. Le projet risque de suivre le même sort que la loi CO2 en 2021 et d’être refusé Š l’urne. Tous les partis qui sont pour le projet doivent revenir vers leurs partisans.
Le Centre spécule avec le non pour mettre en avant leur solution avec les impôts Š option. Mais c’est un jeu Š haut risque: leur initiative coûterait tellement cher qu’elle n’arrivera pas Š réunir une majorité. #chvote

U.S. payrolls unexpectedly fell by 92,000 in February; unemployment rate rises to 4.4% one of the highest rates since 2021. https://ground.news/article/us-payrolls-unexpectedly-fell-by-92-000-in-february-unemployment-rate-rises-to-44_1ad65b

The far-right influencer and
US Senate candidate Jake Lang
has been arrested after recording himself damaging an
anti-ICE-sculpture at Minnesota’s capitol
amid the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency’s crackdown there.
On 5 February, Lang,
who received a presidential pardon from Donald Trump over his role in the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol,
posted a video on X of himself kicking down the sculpture,
which was made from ice

Total global VC funding to fintech startups totaled $51.8B in 2025, up 27% YoY and above pre-pandemic totals, but much lower than 2021's peak of $141.6B (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/fintech/funding-jumped-big-checks-ai-ye-2025/<…

Fintech Funding Jumped 27% In 2025 With Fewer Deals But Bigger Checks
Global venture funding to fintech startups climbed in 2025 to its highest level in several quarters, boosted by later-stage deals, Crunchbase data shows.

I was just listening to "Strong Songs", one of my favorite podcasts, but it was re-airing an episode of "Aria Code", a podcast I haven't heard before, about single opera arias.
This half hour episode from 2021 is looking at Nessum Dorma, intersecting it tightly with vignettes by an ICU doctor describing moments from the first year of the pandemic. It's very much worth a listen - uplifting, emotional, hopeful. Vincero!

Puccini's Turandot: Hope Never Sleeps | Aria Code | WNYC Studios
“Nessun Dorma” has long been opera’s crossover hit. But in the last year, it’s become something more -- an anthem of hope.

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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

Zugegeben - ein kleines bisschen stolz sind wir #Hessen schon auf unsere inzwischen sieben #UNESCO-#Welterbestätten.
2021 kam die Darmstädter

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Fitting cubic Bézier curves.
https://raphlinus.github.io/curves/2021/03/11/bezier-fitting.html
saved 2021-03-14 h…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
The Pale:
🎵 Dogs With No Tails
#ThePale
https://thepale.bandcamp.com/track/dogs-with-no-tails-2021
https://open.spotify.com/track/7H8BXJrMSeeAhu5wInIDS4

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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…

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Modern CI is too complex and misdirected.
https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2021/04/07/modern-ci-is-too-complex-and-misdirected/
saved 2026-02-09

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A practical look at 2G GSM security after three decades.
https://harrisonsand.com/gsm-security/
saved 2021-02-09 https://dotat…

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yacv (Yet Another Compiler Visualizer): LL and LR parser animations.
https://github.com/ashutoshbsathe/yacv
saved 2021-03-08 https://

GitHub - ashutoshbsathe/yacv: Yet Another Compiler Visualizer
Yet Another Compiler Visualizer. Contribute to ashutoshbsathe/yacv development by creating an account on GitHub.