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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…

Pornhub's parent company, Aylo, will pay $120M to settle two 2021 class action lawsuits in California and Alabama alleging it profited from child abuse material (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/pornhubs-parent-com…

Pornhub's Parent Company to Pay $120 Million to Settle Child Sexual Abuse Lawsuits
The deal settles class action lawsuits claiming Mindgeek's sites hosted and profited from abuse videos of minors.

Pornhub's parent company, Aylo, will pay $120M to settle two 2021 class action lawsuits in California and Alabama alleging it profited from child abuse material (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/pornhubs-parent-com…

Pornhub's Parent Company to Pay $120 Million to Settle Child Sexual Abuse Lawsuits
The deal settles class action lawsuits claiming Mindgeek's sites hosted and profited from abuse videos of minors.

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

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

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…

Welch hektisch-überstürzter Abgang der #NATO-Truppen aus #Afghanistan - das ist jetzt fünf Jahre her.
Was geschah eigentlich 2021 - und was hatte das #GoetheInstitut damit zu tun?

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…

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

Mac Jones recalls 'crazy journey' to 49ers after being passed over during 2021 NFL Draft https://www.nfl.com/news/mac-jones-crazy-journey-49ers-passed-over-2021-nfl-draft

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…

@… mir fehlen die Wort für so ein Blödsinnsprodukt. Der gleiche Hersteller (Fanattik) verkauft seit 2021 auch "D&D Ingots": In Metall gegossene Buchcover. Streng limitiert auf 9995 Stück!!1 Gibt's immer noch reichlich auf dem Markt (was immerhin für die Zielgruppe spricht)

The Mega Meta settlement bundles the outstanding Cambridge Analytica lawsuits as well.

Critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Log4j2. Party like it’s 2021.
https://github.com/hypnguyen1209/log4j2-rce

GitHub - hypnguyen1209/log4j2-rce: Pre-auth RCE via FilteredObjectInputStream MarshalledObject bypass in Apache Log4j 2
Pre-auth RCE via FilteredObjectInputStream MarshalledObject bypass in Apache Log4j 2 - hypnguyen1209/log4j2-rce

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

(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 —
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

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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SEC filing: OpenAI invests ~$400M in its second startup fund, after it raised $175M for its first fund in 2021 from outside investors, including Microsoft (Sarah Klearman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/pro/venture-capital/open…

from my link log —
Caches, modes, and unstable systems.
https://brooker.co.za/blog/2021/08/27/caches.html
saved 2021-08-29 https://

Sicherheitsbedenken, umfangreiche Umbauten und ein Unfall Ende 2025 haben Lindes Produktion von grünem #Wasserstoff im Chemiepark #Leuna um Jahre verzögert.
Der 2021 angekündigte PEM-Elektrolyseur sollte bereits 2022 starten und jährlich rund 3.200 Tonnen Wasserstoff produzieren. Bund und Sa…

Chemiepark Leuna: Sicherheitsvorfälle bremsen grünen Wasserstoff aus - Golem.de
Umbauten aus Sicherheitsgründen und ein Unfall haben die Produktion von grünem Wasserstoff von Linde in Sachsen-Anhalt um Jahre verzögert. Die Öffentlichkeit hat davon bislang nichts erfahren.

"Sweden could face 150,000 metric tons of end-of-life panels annually"
#Sweden #SolarPower #Energy #Recycling

Sweden could face 150,000 metric tons of end-of-life panels annually - pv magazine Global
Sweden decommissioned just 17 metric tons (MT) of solar panels in 2021, but a new industry roadmap warns that figure could reach 150,000 MT per year by around 2060, and says current recycling and reuse systems are not yet equipped to handle it.

Security Vulnerability Patterns in AI-Generated Code: A Cross-Model Comparative Study
Shanna M. Kahn, John D. Hastings
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20713 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20713 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.20713
arXiv:2607.20713v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: LLM-based coding tools enable non-expert users to generate routine automation scripts that may enter enterprise workflows without meaningful security review. This study examines that risk directly. Code was collected from ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini using identical prompts across three automation domains. Claude Code performed a standardized vulnerability review. Each identified vulnerability was scored using CVSS v3.1 and mapped to the OWASP Top 10:2021 and the MITRE ATT&CK frameworks. Every script contained exploitable vulnerabilities. Nine of the 17 identified vulnerability classes appeared in code from all three models, while 14 of the 17 vulnerability classes appeared in at least two models. The weighted CVSS scores across platforms differed by less than 10%. The risk is not tied to any particular model but rather to the task category. Organizations should therefore ask not which tool to trust, but instead whether LLM-generated automation code should be deployed without review.
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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 —
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 —
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 —
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.

🔊 #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