Five years ago, the West risked a
full-blown diplomatic crisis with NATO ally Turkey
when 10 ambassadors called for the release of a man they saw as a political prisoner,
prompting an angry President Tayyip Erdogan to order their expulsion.
After two frantic days in 2021,
the sides stepped back from the brink with the U.S., French, German, Canadian and other envoys issuing conciliatory statements
and Erdogan saying they would be more careful in the future…
Herne Bay Ambient (2021-07) - Ambient soundscape from a week in Herne Bay (Kent, UK) late in July: sea, amusements, people... #HerneBay #soundscape #fieldRecording -
11 Years of Home ASHP, Kingston, London, UK: Case Study (2021) - Learn from a home air-source heat-pump experience in greater London, UK, a decade in. #ASHP #heatpump -
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
Re-reading Virgil Dupras' two intro essays for his Collapse OS project hits quite a bit harder in 2026 than it already did in back in 2021 when I first encountered the project, also because so many developments and political vision failures over these last 5 years have only been accelerating us towards the precipice:
https://collapseos.org/why.h…
San Diego-based Self Inspection, which uses AI to assess body damage on a car with as little tech as a smartphone camera, raised $10M led by Sheryl Sandberg (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/16/sher
Craig Abbott believes “Our CSS isn’t opinionated enough”:
https://www.craigabbott.co.uk/blog/2026/our-css-isnt-opinionated-enough/
Which of course I agree with and link from on of my posts:
Voor wie niet slapen kan, geen voetbal kijkt en een VPN heeft.
'Berlijn, 1931. De stad heeft te lijden onder de economische crisis en onzekerheid. Terwijl de 32-jarige Germanist Jakob Fabian overdag zijn werk als reclame-copywriter doet, verkent hij samen met zijn medestudent Labude 's nachts de onderwereldkroegen, bordelen en kunstenaarsstudio's. - Dominik Graf's Film (2021) is gebaseerd op de originele versie van de beroemde roman van Erich Kästner.'
[Offline translator]
Fabian oder Der Gang vor die Hunde - Film in voller Länge | #ARTE #ZDF
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/084659-000-A/fabian-oder-der-gang-vor-die-hunde/ (2021, 3u, regio blokkade)
I updated my guide on how to deploy self-hosted #Discourse. The configuration of the internal nginx (inside the container) recently changed (for the better) in a way that affected my previous advice.
I seem to have been maintaining this guide for over five years now; I started in June 2021. 79 edits so far, most of which have been mine.
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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Hyundai says it would make Boston Dynamics a wholly owned subsidiary by acquiring SoftBank's ~10% stake; Hyundai bought an 80% stake in Boston Dynamics in 2021 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/hyundai-motor-gro…
🌱 Im Forschungsprojekt „nascent-SolaRegio“ wurde untersucht, welche landwirtschaftl. Betriebe grundsätzlich gute Voraussetzungen für eine Umstellung auf Solidarische Landwirtschaft mitbringen.
📊 Das Ergebnis: Rund 16.000 Betriebe (knapp 7 % aller landwirtschaftlichen Betriebe in DE!) weisen Merkmale auf, die eine Umstellung begünstigen. Besonders häufig sind darunter kleinere Betriebe sowie ökologisch wirtschaftende und direktvermarktende Höfe.
🚜 Das Potenzial für weitere Solawis i…
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…
I bought myself a shiny, all powerful Lenovo laptop (X13 Yoga) from 2021. Obviously I immediately replaced W*dose with Linux (tried Trixie, but replaced it with Fedora, both with Gnome desktop).
Such a sad experience. The fingerprint sensor needs a command line thingy to work. WiFi gets disabled on every hibernate. The LTE modem needs me to compile a kernel module to be recognized and still does not work. The stylus lags somewhat, but will be good enough for the occasional diagram, I …
Heavy boiling below the calm surface, occasionally breaking through... Incredible production by Samuel van Dijk aka VC-118A, Mohlao, Multicast Dynamics...
VC-118A — Silver (2021)
https://soundcloud.com/mohlao/silver
India pledges $13.3B to boost domestic chipmaking, building on a $10B incentive program from 2021, which attracted investments from companies like Micron (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…
#Microsoft is intentionally bricking all #OfficeforMac 2019/2021 installations
https://www.
Weiterer toller Aspekt von #calisthenics
Durch die #Altbausanierung hab ich so viel Holz und Metallreste und entsprechend Werkzeug um Sportgeräte selber zu bauen (so zumindest der Plan)
Z.B. diese Liegestützgriffe (also die Anleitung ist nicht von mir):
Zum 2. Mal den Film 3 1/2 Stunden @… gesehen. Es geht um den Tag des Mauerbaus und einen Zug, der auf dem Weg in die DDR ist.
Der Plot ist gut und es gibt zahlreiche mikro-Plots, die alle noch viel besser erzählt sind.
Insgesamt ist der Film großartig, denn es stimmt alles. Tolle Schauspieler mit glaubhaften Rollen, die Tiefe haben. Wunderbare Bilder und Licht.
the non-news of the solstice is that, surprising no-one, there will not be a leap second at the new year
the difference between UT1 and UTC remains very close to zero and the earth is rotating at very close to 24h per day
BUT LOOK
since i previously posted these charts in march, the length-of-day line (green) has popped upwards
https…
Improved Approximation Guarantees for Groupwise Maximin Share Fairness
Georgios Amanatidis, Anna Korfiati, Evangelos Markakis, Christodoulos Santorinaios
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04731 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.04731 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04731
arXiv:2606.04731v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study the problem of fairly allocating a set of indivisible goods to a set of $n$ agents with additive valuation functions. We focus on the very demanding notion of \textit{groupwise maximin share fairness} (GMMS), which requires that each agent $i$ receives value comparable to their maximin share, where the latter is computed \textit{with respect to any subset of agents that contains $i$}. We show that it is possible to compute $(\phi-1)$-approximate GMMS allocations in polynomial time, where $\phi \approx 1.618$ is the golden ratio). This improves on the previously known guarantee of $4/7$ of Chaudhury et al. [SICOMP; 2021] and Amanatidis et al. [TCS; 2020]. We propose a simple algorithm that maintains the same main properties as the Draft-and-Eliminate algorithm of Amanatidis et al. [TCS, 2020] and we improve on the approximation guarantee analysis by carefully bounding the relevant value within any subinstance induced by the restriction of our allocation to a subset of agents. Our analysis is asymptotically tight for algorithms that share these properties and has the additional benefit of giving improved guarantees for restricted settings; in particular, when the agents agree on the top $n$ goods or when the number of agents is small. To illustrate the challenges of going beyond the guarantees of our algorithm, we also present a variant with an improved approximation of $(\sqrt{10}-1)/3 \approx 0.72$ for the case of three agents. To achieve this improvement we partially characterize the maximin share guarantees of short picking sequences for a small number of goods.
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Une autre policière, harcelée sexuellement, a dénoncé l'auteur des faits en 2021. Il a été licencié. Des collègues se sont alors retournés contre elle. Il est arrivé que son repas de midi soit jeté Š la poubelle. Ses chaussures noires ont été maculées de couleur au vestiaire. Cette policière est aussi partie.
US SEC filing: Vanguard marks down Ola Consumer's valuation to ~$70.3M; Ola, which faces intense competition from Uber and Rapido, was valued at $7.3B in 2021 (Kunal Manchanada/Entrackr)
https://entrackr.com/news/vanguard-marks-down-olas-valuation-to-70-mn-…
from my link log —
Clojure from a Schemer's perspective.
https://www.more-magic.net/posts/thoughts-on-clojure.html
saved 2021-03-05 http…
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Herbekijk "Pano": Overstroming onderschat | VRT NWS Nieuws
https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2021/10/14/herbekijk-pano-overstroming-onderschat/
(Ohh ... Maar dam werkt de media niet)
Link ⤴️ werkt niet
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Zelfs de factcheck afdeling vond kennelijk dat een grens bereikt is. 😇
(Of mn mobiele browser blijft gangne)
full timeline of the claims −
#Trump
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