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from my link log —
A nasty bit of implicit timezone behavior in Golang.
https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2021-09-03-golang-time-bugs/
saved 2021-09-04

A nasty bit of undefined timezone behavior in Golang
Blog for DoltHub, a website hosting databases made with Dolt, an open-source version-controlled SQL database with Git-like semantics.

A Thousand Meters Above The Valley (2021)
(After this harsh summer, the grasses will probably start looking like this much sooner this year — back then it was late October...)
#ThrowbackThursday #LandscapePhotography

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 —
Correct register allocation in Cranelift by fuzzing with a symbolic checker.
https://cfallin.org/blog/2021/03/15/cranelift-isel-3/
saved 2021-03-16

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

Die offizielle 1,5-Millionen-Marke ist geknackt. 😁
Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.08.2026.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1500720 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das…

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…

POL-ROW: Wochenendmeldung der PI Rotenburg für den Zeitraum 07.08.2026 - 09.08.2021 Rotenburg (Wümme) (ots) - Tarmstedt: Körperverletzung Im Ausgangsbereich des "Rock den Lukas" Festivals kam es am 09.08.2026, gegen 01:50 Uhr, zu einer körperlichen Auseinandersetzung zwischen dem Sicherheitspersonal und einem Gast, welcher das ... https://w…

from my link log —
Enumerating and analyzing 40 non-V8 JavaScript implementations.
https://notes.eatonphil.com/javascript-implementations.html
saved 2021-09-22

"Antarctica gained a record 695 billion tons of ice. Scientists found the surprising reason"
#Antarctica #Climate #ClimateChange

Antarctica gained a record 695 billion tons of ice. Scientists found the surprising reason
East Antarctica gained an astonishing 695 billion tons of ice between 2021 and 2023, temporarily slowing Antarctica’s long-term decline. Researchers found that warming thousands of miles away in the tropical ocean altered atmospheric circulation and funneled moisture toward the continent, triggering exceptionally heavy snowfall.

🚨 New paper on #cycling #politics: Right-wing Votes Relate to Delays in Bicycle Network Development
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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!

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.08.2026.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1488280 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

cofe: Collaboration in Financial Economics (2021)
Network of authors and commenters of papers in finantial economics, obtained from the acknowledgement sections of over 5,000 published research papers.
This network has 13967 nodes and 102039 edges.
Tags: Social, Directed, Weighted, Online, Collaboration
https://networks.ske…

Before the troops and further announcements land, we want to know where GetUp members think: How do you feel about the United States expanding its military presence in Australia?
#AUSPOL #AUKUS

Review and Walk Away From AUKUS!
The $368 billion military pact between Australia, the US and UK was signed in secret by Scott Morrison in 2021, and waved through by Labor in a matter of days.

Es ist normalerweise nicht meine Art, unfertige Artikel zu veröffentlichen. Aber angesichts des zu erwartenden Umfangs, veröffentliche ich jetzt und liefere einzelne Abschnitte nach, oder nie. Daher setzt euch ein Lesezeichen & holt euch die Updates!
https://mela.de/blog/2026/08/28/mein-w

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

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.08.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

African e-commerce company Jumia raised $50M, including $25M from the World Bank's IFC; Jumia's US-listed shares have fallen from $60 in 2021 to $6 now (Loni Prinsloo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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.
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'Life is Strange' and 'Life is Strange: Before the Storm Deluxe Edition' together are available for only 8 bucks over at GOG.
Its also never been this cheap since 2021 on GOG.
Couldn't resist adding those gems to my DRM-free library 🙂‍↕️💕
#LifeIsStrange #GOG

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

(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.

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

from my link log —
strcpy: a niche function you don't need.
https://nullprogram.com/blog/2021/07/30/
saved 2021-07-31 https://dotat…

January 6 2021 is widely remembered as a deadly insurrection by supporters of Donald Trump;
But for Congressman Jared Huffman, who was locked down alone in his office that day, something else stands out.
It was a very Christian coup.
“This Christian nationalist movement that I had seen growing so much stronger and more militant during my time in Congress erupted in plain view,”
Huffman, 62, says by phone from his home in Marin county, California.
“I truly belie…

‘A Bible-sized blind spot’: congressman sounds alarm on rising Christian nationalism
In his new book, congressman Jared Huffman argues that theocratic insurgency has only grown more powerful after Donald Trump returned to the White House

from my link log —
Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, part III.
https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-3.html
saved 2021-04-19 https://

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!

Organizational Technology Ladders: Remote Work and Generative AI Adoption
Gregor Schubert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11626 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.11626 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.11626
arXiv:2608.11626v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This study proposes that firms move along an "organizational technology ladder": adopting one technology transforms hiring and work processes and builds skills and organizational capital that change the cost of adopting subsequent technologies. I study how firms' adoption of remote work technology during the COVID-19 period shaped later uptake of generative AI. Using U.S. job-posting data and an instrumental-variables strategy based on predicted differences in labor-market pressure to offer remote work, I estimate that a 10 percentage point increase in remote hiring in 2021-2022 increases the share of job postings mentioning generative AI in 2023-2024 by 0.4 percentage points across firms and 0.7 percentage points across occupations within firms. I provide evidence on mechanisms consistent with a technology-ladder channel: remote work adoption shifts hiring toward technical and managerial capabilities that predict faster conversion of generative AI exposure into adoption. Firms with return-to-office mandates---interpreted as revealing low remote productivity---exhibit a substantially larger response of generative AI adoption to remote work, consistent with an organizational frictions channel.
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from my link log —
New Ansible data validation module(s).
https://blog.ipspace.net/2021/03/ansible-validation.html
saved 2021-03-05 https://

New Ansible Data Validation Module(s) « ipSpace.net blog
A few months ago I described how you could use JSON Schema to validate your automation data models, host/group variable files, or even Ansible inventory file. I had to use a weird toolchain to get it done – either ansible-inventory to build a complete data model from various inventory sources, or yq to convert YAML to JSON… and just for the giggles jsonschema CLI command requires the JSON input to reside in a file, so you have to use a temporary file to get the job done.

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.08.2026.
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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

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.08.2026.
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from my link log —
Caches, modes, and unstable systems.
https://brooker.co.za/blog/2021/08/27/caches.html
saved 2021-08-29 https://

Estimated Demand for Mega-Constellation Internet Service
Akhil Rao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.08851 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.08851 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.08851
arXiv:2608.08851v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The near-term growth of the commercial space economy and sustainability of the low-Earth orbit (LEO) environment depends on the commercial prospects of large LEO satellite telecommunications constellations (``mega-constellations''). If successful, mega-constellations can spur competition between launch providers, which may lead to lower launch prices. They may also demand orbital sustainability services and/or generate additional collision risk, which may in turn affect space sustainability interests. Consumer demand for mega-constellations' internet services is critical to their commercial success. This analysis presents a method to estimate consumer demand for mega-constellations' internet services, using SpaceX's Starlink over December 2021--November 2023 as an example. This analysis finds that Starlink users are highly concentrated in the wealthiest countries. It also finds that consumer demand for Starlink is growing more slowly than orbital capacity is being added and more slowly than demand for non-Starlink internet overall. Continuation of these trends may indicate that the market for mega-constellation internet is less lucrative than previous forecasts have indicated.
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Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.08.2026.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1488280 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

from my link log —
Don't make my mistakes: common infrastructure errors i've made.
https://matduggan.com/mistakes/
saved 2021-12-03 https://dota…

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!

/2 ondertussen:
'Volgens de onderzoekers zijn tussen oktober 2021 en maart 2026 in Nederland minimaal 41 wolven gestroopt. Daarnaast zijn er sinds 2015 nog eens 38 wolven – bijna 15% van de geregistreerde populatie – onverklaarbaar van de radar verdwenen. De Veluwe vormt, samen met de noordelijke provincies, een van de belangrijkste hotspots van deze illegale jacht.'
Schiet, schep en zwijg: De wolvenstroperij rond Ede - Edese Vos
#wolf #debat

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheBethDittoShow
The Long Blondes:
🎵 Giddy Stratospheres
#TheLongBlondes
https://thelongblondes.bandcamp.com/track/giddy-stratospheres-2021-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/4mKZVIaSNCAxhV6U8TK8uq

from my link log —
Compiling Rust is NP-hard: the pattern match exhaustiveness checker as a SAT solver.
https://niedzejkob.p4.team/rust-np/
saved 2021-07-08 https://

Compiling Rust is NP-hard
...though it's not the flagship borrow checking that's at fault. What I noticed, and would like to share with you today, is that the exhaustiveness checking performed by the Rust compiler on match patterns is a superset of the SAT problem.…

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…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
- Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021)
Donald Macleod reflects back on the life and work of Titan of Musical Theatre Stephen Sondheim.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0030w5r

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 —
Pink Floyd’s Young Lust telephone signalling explained.
https://telephoneworld.org/landline-telephone-history/pink-floyds-young-lust-explained-and-demystified/
saved 2021-10-16

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheMorningAfterMix
The Shins:
🎵 The Past and Pending (2021 Remaster)
#TheShins
https://theshins.bandcamp.com/track/the-past-and-pending
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Omfr1OV4e0eaLcPe5JFRa

🇪🇺 EU is funding youth-driven #SocialMedia design
@… „seeks to fund a project to design & test a #Fediverse -based/ #ATProtocol -based social media platform that is targeted specifically at young #EU citizens and is focused on user well-being … Safe, Inclusive, and Publicly-Owned“.
Deadline for submission: 06 October 2026:
👉 #PPPA #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #Whatsapp #Jugendschutz #Jugendliche #Kinderschutz #ChildProtection #Atmosphere #Bildung #education