2025-11-24 12:50:47
Hashrate Index: China's bitcoin mining market share rebounded to 14% by the end of October, making it the world's third-largest miner despite China's 2021 ban (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/bitcoin-mining…
Hashrate Index: China's bitcoin mining market share rebounded to 14% by the end of October, making it the world's third-largest miner despite China's 2021 ban (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/bitcoin-mining…
Embattled Republican Representative Cory Mills
was caught with sex workers on an unofficial mission to Afghanistan in 2021, when he was still a congressional candidate.
Mills was traveling with a group to Afghanistan to save Americans after former President Biden’s withdrawal from the country left the Taliban in power.
On their way, the group stopped in Tbilisi, Georgia, where Mills was caught in a hallway with sex workers,
leaving the group he traveled with irate, NO…
from my link log —
Updating the Golang memory model.
https://research.swtch.com/gomm
saved 2021-07-13 https://dotat.at/:/AWX11.html
»Der Gedanke, KI zu demokratisieren, um Machtasymmetrien zu reduzieren, ist in etwa so, als würde man für die Demokratisierung der Waffenproduktion im Dienste des Friedens eintreten.«
Aus: Kate Crawford – Atlas der KI (2021/2025)
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Bat For Lashes:
🎵 Home
#NowPlaying #BatForLashes
https://batforlashes.bandcamp.com/album/livestream-at-home-los-angeles-2021
https://open.spotify.com/track/4gXSQjrANdHYBxJpJO8Gcv
Rand Paul, the Senate homeland security committee's chair has requested that multiple academic research centers focused on political extremism
hand over years worth of documentation on
federal watch list programs,
the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol,
vaccine mandates,
the 2020 election,
and Trump supporters,
according to information obtained by WIRED.
1st Place - Ibara High School 2021 Japan High School Nationals (Men’s Rhythmic Gymnastics)
Wow, all the empty seats.
https://youtu.be/9akUtO_3Npw?si=7B7sX6nDT5AI2pVs
from my link log —
Zig in 30 minutes.
https://gist.github.com/ityonemo/769532c2017ed9143f3571e5ac104e50
saved 2021-01-03 https://
this is using a <squirm-inal> Web Component from 2021: https://github.com/zachleat/squirminal/
2021-vintage Web Components are React 17-era. No big refactors or rewrites required.
Nachtrag: Änderung der Berechnung bezüglich https://mastodon.online/@tinoeberl/115236719296242946.
Der Filter auf "in Betrieb" ändert die Zahlen leider rückwirkend. Also:
Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in
Despite concerns, Labour MPs and other left-wing UK politicians stay active on X; the UK government says it stopped paid ads in 2024, after spending £9M in 2021 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5b0e3ea9-acc9-4dcc-85fe-2273ea8abb86
In 2021 I gave a talk about “openness” briefly tracing the history from the Free Software movement, #GNU, and OSS, to open formats like XML and ODF, then to the #FreeCulture and #OpenData movement like
Somewhere in 2021, when I was still into gaming, I made a certain silly prediction about StarCraft. For fun and giggles I decided to encrypt it, put it on GitHub and wait.
I just tested if I'm still capable of decrypting it. All works well.
The prediction has zero chance of materializing but at this point I don't want to stop. Maybe in 2029 😄
/cc @…
https://gist.github.com/lwojcik/ee81a63f63b6335262f8ef8e9c68ae59
Sources: ID verification startup Incode is in preliminary talks to raise between $150M and $300M at a valuation of up to $3B, up from a $1.25B valuation in 2021 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-19/id…
About that warm reception MBS got:
Biden may regret releasing report on Khashoggi murder, says expert — Harvard Gazette
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/02/biden-may-regret-releasing-report-on-khashoggi-murder-says-expert/
(2021) MOT: Loppuun pelatut ravihevoset #dokumentti #eläinoikeudet
Seems like a good day to bring back this 2021 post: https://systemsapproach.org/2021/07/19/decentralizing-the-internet-again/
We just had so much fun at home reading the most recent and some older german"#Jugendwort des Jahres" (words of the youth) - sorry, article in german:
Erst die Flutkatastrophe und dann das :/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Leberkasverbrechen/comments/1p13znq/ahrtal_2021/
Just opened the twitter profile for a company from search results, not logged in, was confused they hadn't tweeted since 2021...
No no, the tweets are just not in chronological order. They weren't pinned, they were just random. wtaf.
Analysis: BBC license fee evasion rate hits 12.5%, costing it up to £550M; households that say they don't consume BBC content rises from 2.4M in 2021 to 3.6M (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov/21/bbc-los…
from my link log —
Rust programs written entirely in Rust, without libc.
https://blog.sunfishcode.online/rust-programs-entirely-in-rust/
saved 2021-09-08
"Banking alliance aimed at limiting fossil fuel investments collapses"
#Banks #Finance #FossilFuels
It's been a fun project but finally time to shutdown lanecloud.
https://blog.lane-fu.com/posts/2025/11/rip-lanecloud/
Heavy is the head that bows the crown. Or something…
https://apnews.com/article/bbc-director-resigns-trump-speech-editing-3aab83138d58c92db1bb00e77e568876
@…
I was thinking, maybe another time you could say e.g. "in the early days of the pandemic" to refer to around 2020/2021.
It's because saying "during the pandemic" to mean a past era can give the impression that covid is over now, which I don't think is a helpful framing.
Då det nu uppstått en debatt om de allt fler miljardärerna i Sverige - och huruvida de när eller tär - vill jag tipsa om den här intervjun med ekonomen Gabriel Zucman från tidigare i höstas. https://www.dn.se/varlden/stjarnekonomens-forslag-sa-ska-sup…
»Wie die Politologin Virginia Eubanks in ihrem Buch ›Automating Inequality‹ zeigt, werden KI-Systeme, wenn sie im Rahmen des Sozialstaats eingesetzt werden, in erster Linie dazu verwendet, den Zugang von Menschen zu öffentlichen Ressourcen zu kontrollieren, zu bewerten und zu reglementieren, und nicht etwa dazu, ihnen bessere Unterstützung zukommen zu lassen.«
Aus: Kate Crawford – Atlas der KI (2021/2025)
The NFL trade deadline is wilder than ever, but it probably won’t put your team over the top: Video https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6781976/2025/11/06/nfl-trade-deadline-trends-takeaways/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
The Long Blondes:
🎵 Giddy Stratospheres
#TheLongBlondes
https://thelongblondes.bandcamp.com/track/giddy-stratospheres-2021-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/4mKZVIaSNCAxhV6U8TK8uq
Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Since 2011, millions of tons of a brown algae called Sargassum has washed onto beaches in the Caribbean. The rotting seaweed releases toxic hydrogen sulfide, smelling of rotten eggs, impacting tourism and shore access. It was initially thought Saharan iron dust was the cause, but new #science
Sources: AI startup Project Prometheus raised $6.2B, including from Jeff Bezos, who will become co-CEO, his first operational role since leaving Amazon in 2021 (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/technology/bezos-project-prometheus.html
From CBC
Toxic 'forever chemicals' are in B.C. sea otters, new study finds
The research adds to a growing body of evidence that the chemicals are making their way into the environment
Researchers found elevated levels of the chemicals, commonly found in food packaging, cosmetics, electronics and other consumer products, in samples of 11 dead sea otters collected between 2016 and 2021.
By chance I've just discovered my 2021 keynote at the GNDCon 2.0 (not as usual at the German National Library in Frankfurt, but online due to COVID19) entitled "Die Welt ist klein und man trifft sich immer zweimal..." (It's a small world and you always meet twice...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkj1GxoLT9g
Hello #Québec #Doctors , the Yukon is hiring:
https://yukondocs.ca
I don't know how the pay competes with…
from my link log —
Do low-level optimizations matter?
https://cantrip.org/sortfast.html
saved 2021-07-18 https://dotat.at/:/GHHBV.html
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…
Dark-eyed juncos living in urbanized Los Angeles have shorter bills than juncos in nearby natural areas— but while UCLA was closed for COVID-19 safety, campus juncos evolved longer bills again
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2520996122
Seems worth posting this again:
#tech #ethics #DataEthics
The NFL trade deadline is wilder than ever, but it probably won’t put your team over the top: Video https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6781976/2025/11/06/nfl-trade-deadline-trends-takeaways/
Over 5K Afghan migrants flagged on 'national security' grounds since 2021, document reveals (Geoff Earle/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/11/29/us-news/more-than-5000-afghan-migrants-flagged-on-national-security-grounds-since-2021-document-reveals/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p33#a251130p33
Wiem, że bardzo was to ciekawi, więc wygrzebałem, że #KolejeWielkopolskie zaczęły honorować sieciówki PR gdzieś pomiędzy listopadem 2021, a styczniem 2022.
https://
For the past 15 years, I've observed San Francisco leaders talk about how important climate action is - but not actually do a lot. There now a petition asking the Mayor to take meaningful action at
https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/mayor-lurie-implement-…
Heute vor 4 Jahren: Am 13. November 2021 nahmen 400 Menschen an der Stand Up For Nuclear 2021 Demonstration in Berlin teil, organisiert von Nuklearia e.V. Der Verein wird im Zusammenhang mit der #Atomlobby und einer vermeintlichen Nähe zur AfD wahrgenommen.
Which Word Orders Facilitate Length Generalization in LMs? An Investigation with GCG-Based Artificial Languages
Nadine El-Naggar, Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Ted Briscoe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12722
Es geht um das automatisierte Erkennen von Emotionen in Gesichtern: »Wie gesehen, fußen viele der für das ganze Gebiet maßgeblichen Datensätze darauf, dass Schauspieler für die Kamera mimisch darstellen. Das bedeutet, dass KI-Systeme auf das Erkennen unechter Gefühlsausdrücke trainiert werden. Sie behaupten also zwar, Zugang zu Grundwahrheiten über natürliche innere Zustände zu haben, aber ihr Trainingsmaterial ist zwangsläufig unauthentisch.«
Aus: Kate Crawford – Atlas der KI (2021/20…
We watched one episode of High Potential (2024), liked it a lot, and then saw at the end credits that it's based on the French HPI: Haut Potentiel Intellectuel (2021). So we watched episode 1 of THAT.
It's fascinating to note the differences. The plots are basically identical, so the differences are nuance.
https://www.
Trump's latest pardons underscore the breadth of his efforts to clear anyone involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election, which was won by Joe Biden.
Donald Trump on Friday issued a second pardon to Daniel Edwin Wilson,
whom he had previously pardoned for participation in the breach of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021,
but was in prison on a separate gun charge. The action was announced Saturday morning.
Trump also pardoned Suzanne Kaye, who had been sentenced to…
The unforgettable evening light & hike on the day I resigned from my job back in 2021...
#MonochromeMonday #MountainMonday #BlackAndWhite
🦾 Bird-like robot with novel wing system achieves self-takeoff and low-speed flight
#robots
You suspect that when they announced this in 2021, they may not have suspected that anti-fascist themes would be so politically contentious.
https://kotaku.com/captain-america-black-panther-game-delay-marvel-hydra-2000641825
"In 2020, Berlin passed a law that resulted in a five-year rent freeze [...] for 90% of the flats in the city. While the law offered relief to about 1.5 million households who had seen rents rise by an estimated third in the six years prior, it was ruled as unconstitutional in 2021 after Germany’s highest court sided with landlords and property investment lobbyists who had argued it was inappropriate and illegal for the state to meddle with the private market."
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…
Juristin auf Abwegen - Illegaler Drogenshop: „Ist mein Herzensprojekt“ #News #Nachrichten
RE: https://techhub.social/@year_progress/115630984626704209
91% of 2021 already gone🤯
Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.11.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1175419 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
Your idea could be the next tool our community relies on.
Since 2021, the GÉANT Innovation Programme has supported 30 projects that grew into flagship community services like #eduroam and eduVPN.
With up to €50K in funding, 2025 projects can turn a pilot, proof of concept, or novel idea into something that benefits the entire
For the past 15 years, I've observed San Francisco leaders talk about how important climate action is - but not actually do a lot. There now a petition asking the Mayor to take meaningful action at
https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/mayor-lurie-implement-…
I'm late to this, but I had a conversation last night that I'd like to recap here.
I'm not NYC resident. I'm not knowledgeable of the issues NYC faces. Thus, I didn't endorse anyone for NYC mayor.
I will comment on #Cuomo. Resigned in disgrace in 2021 — that should've ended his political career. Lost the Dem primary in June — that should've ended his mayoral ru…
Dealogic: 51 US tech IPOs raised $16.8B in 2025, driven by AI and crypto, above the past three-year average but far below 2021's 127 IPOs raising $74.4B (Valida Pau/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-crypto-companies-dominat…
"The number of women globally who commit violent crimes is very small – in 2021 they were responsible for just 10% of homicides. Indeed, women are far more likely to be victims than perpetrators. But when women do kill, in many cases the victim is a male partner or family member and there is a history of domestic abuse."
"Brits still buying EVs, heat pumps and solar panels despite drop in polling support and political attacks, Sky News analysis finds"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #EV
Pixelfed ist immer noch recht klein und ich vermisse noch etwas die professionellen Fotograf*innen und Künstler*innen… ganz besonders den *innen-Teil nehme ich noch wenig wahr und ich frage mich, wem Folgen. @… hat gleich eine Liste an Vorschlägen in ihrem Profil, auch wenn die (noch) nicht im Fediverse sein dürften.
"In 1990, 943 million people [in China] lived on less than $3 a day measured in 2021 dollars – 83% of the population, according to the World Bank. By 2019, the number was brought down to zero. Unfortunately, the United States was not as successful. More than 4 million Americans – 1.25% of the population – must make ends meet with less than $3 a day, more than three times as many as 35 years ago."
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Midlake:
🎵 Roscoe
#NowPlaying #Midlake
https://mommusic4.bandcamp.com/track/midlake-roscoe-mom-2021-version
https://open.spotify.com/track/01qJhVPCHFFR6wJ5ptyw17
from my link log —
Kill It With Fire: dealing with legacy systems. (book review)
https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/kill-it-fire
saved 2021-09-09
The Liberty Justice Center
is the litigation arm of the
right-wing Illinois Policy Institute.
It has aggressively backed legal attacks on labor unions
(including the landmark Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court case),
attacked gun safety measures,
and promoted policies that undermine public schools, such as taxpayer-funded vouchers.
The Liberty Justice Center received $1 million in 2021 from the Marcus Foundation,
a charitable giving nonprofit run b…
Source: the 60 Minutes interview with Trump on November 2 drew 13.2M viewers, according to early Nielsen data, the highest-rated episode since January 2021 (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/04/trump-60-minutes-cbs-interview-ratings-vie…
Jaguars' Cam Little makes NFL-record 68-yard field goal vs. Raiders https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6771730/2025/11/02/cam-little-jaguars-field-goal-68-yards-nfl-record/
Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who came to US in 2021 withdrawal, ID'd as alleged terrorist gunman in shooting of 2 National Guard members in DC (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/11/26/us-news/afghan-national-rahmanullah-lakanwal-idd-as-alleged-gunman-in-shooting-of-2-national-guard-members-in-dc/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251127/p16#a251127p16
Podcast : Une enfance sous emprise
Dans cet épisode, Ricardo et Sophie racontent leurs vécus et échangent des souvenirs sur la réalité d'une enfance endoctrinée au sein d'une "communauté bouddhiste" cachant de véritables monstres.
https://chardonsbleus.org/podcast-une-
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…
from my link log —
The honest troubleshooting code of conduct.
http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2021/05/01/code/
saved 2021-05-02 https://
Analysis: in 2025, only 17% of North America's top 100 highest-grossing films were directed by non-white filmmakers, down from 27% in 2021 and 24% in 2023 (Richard Rushfield/The Ankler)
https://theankler.com/p/hollywoods-backslide-into-white-male
📸 Mémoire du 14 juin 2018
Sept ans ont passé depuis ce post.
Et pourtant, la justice n’a toujours pas terminé son travail.
En Belgique, le jugement définitif est tombé en 2022. Mais en 2025, certaines indemnisations sont encore bloquées. Des victimes attendent toujours que leur souffrance soit reconnue dans les faits, pas seulement dans les mots.
En France, l’affaire OKC/Spatz a été relancée en 2017, réouverte officiellement en 2021. Et aujourd’hui ? Toujours aucune mis…
»Auch Bowker und Star unterstreichen, dass einmal konstruierte Klassifizierungen von Menschen umstrittene politische Kategorien in einer Weise stabilisieren können, die kaum mehr erkennbar ist. Wird ihnen nicht aktiv entgegengewirkt, dann werden sie irgendwann als gegeben betrachtet.«
Aus: Kate Crawford – Atlas der KI (2021/2025).
Backing the Chiefs' Rashee Rice among top NFL player prop expert's best bets for Week 7
https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/backi…
"Report finds increased tropical forest regrowth over the last decade"
#Trees #Forests #Environment
The man suspected of shooting two National Guard members, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was once part of a C.I.A.-backed paramilitary group, one of several so-called Zero Units, according to Afghan and U.S. officials.
These units, formerly known as Counterterrorism Pursuit Teams, were trained to conduct night raids and clandestine missions across Afghanistan during the U.S. war in the country. By the time the United States had withdrawn from Afghanistan in August 2021,
the units had offi…
Sources: ByteDance is in talks to sell game studio Moonton, which it acquired for ~$4B in 2021, to Saudi Arabia-based Savvy Games; Moonton makes Mobile Legends (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
📸 Mémoire du 14 juin 2018
Sept ans ont passé depuis ce post.
Et pourtant, la justice n’a toujours pas terminé son travail.
En Belgique, le jugement définitif est tombé en 2022. Mais en 2025, certaines indemnisations sont encore bloquées. Des victimes attendent toujours que leur souffrance soit reconnue dans les faits, pas seulement dans les mots.
En France, l’affaire OKC/Spatz a été relancée en 2017, réouverte officiellement en 2021. Et aujourd’hui ? Toujours aucune mis…
from my link log —
How to handle secrets on the command line.
https://smallstep.com/blog/command-line-secrets/
saved 2021-06-13 https://
Among the top 10K artists streamed in Australia from 2021 to 2024, Australian artists fell ~20% as algorithms make English-speaking artists compete globally (The Australia Institute)
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post
Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.10.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…
Two West Virginia national guard members shot near the White House are in critical condition.
“What we know is that this is a targeted shooting,” Mayor Bowser said. “One individual appeared to have targeted these guardsmen.”
Law enforcement officials have identified a suspect, who is currently in custody,
as Rahmanullah Lakanwal,
an Afghan national who entered the United States in September 2021 and has been living in Washington state.
from my link log —
malloc() vs mmap(MAP_SHARED) in multithreaded programs.
https://carun.github.io/2021/08/13/system-cpu-usage-and-glibc.html
saved 2021-08-19
France's CNIL fines Condé Nast €750K because vanityfair.fr placed cookies on user devices without proper consent, following a December 2019 complaint (CNIL)
https://www.cnil.fr/en/cookies-placed-without-consent-company-publi…
from my link log —
Avoiding fallback and cold paths.
https://timkellogg.me/blog/2021/01/29/cold-paths
saved 2023-11-03 https://…
from my link log —
Debian running on Rust coreutils.
https://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/2021/03/09/debian-running-on-rust-coreutils
saved 2021-03-09
from my link log —
Optimizing triangles for a full-screen shader pass.
https://wallisc.github.io/rendering/2021/04/18/Fullscreen-Pass.html
saved 2025-09-29
from my link log —
How to solve the hardest logic puzzle ever.
http://m.nautil.us/issue/30/identity/how-to-solve-the-hardest-logic-puzzle-ever
saved 2021-05-04