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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,262,490 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/25/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

from my link log —
Faster zlib/DEFLATE decompression on arm64 and x86.
https://dougallj.wordpress.com/2022/08/20/faster-zlib-deflate-decompression-on-the-apple-m1-and-x86/
saved 2022-08-20

Faster zlib/DEFLATE decompression on the Apple M1 (and x86)
DEFLATE is a relatively slow compression algorithm from 1991, which (along with its wrapper format, zlib) is incredibly widely used, for example in the PNG, Zip and Gzip file formats and the HTTP, …

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Trotz Statistik-Effekten: Merz stellt telefonische Krankschreibung infrage

Die neue 51 Meter lange BVG-Tram „Urbanliner“ darf vorerst in #Berlin nicht starten.
Die Aufsichtsbehörde verweigert die Zulassung, weil noch Prüfungen und Nachberechnungen fehlen. Offenbar geht es auch um Bremswege. Dabei sollten die Züge alte Bahnen ersetzen und für mehr Platz sorgen. Seit 2022 verzögert sich das Projekt immer weiter. Für Fahrgäste heißt das: weiter warten auf Entlastung …

Länger Warten auf die extralange Tram
Lang, länger, Urbanliner. Das bezieht sich nicht nur auf die Dimension der fast 51 Meter langen Straßenbahnwagen. Sondern auch auf den Liefer- und Zulassungsprozess.

Add richer tooltips to ggiraph with kableExtra and friends: #dataviz

Wikimedia Foundation names Bernadette Meehan, who was the US Ambassador to Chile from 2022 to 2025, as its new CEO (Deborah Mary Sophia/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regula…

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,253,270 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/15/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Tiens, encore une différence intéressante pour les amis français. En Allemagne, les homicides peuvent être prescrit, mais les meurtres, eux, ne sont jamais prescrit. C'est une séquelle des poursuites contre les crimes nazis, souvent élucidés avec beaucoup de retard.

La Cour de cassation estime dans une décision historique que le meurtre de Marie-Thérèse Bonfanti en 1986 est
La position de la Cour de cassation, très attendue, rejaillira sur tout "cold case" similaire, notamment dans certains dossiers du pôle de Nanterre, spécialisé dans les crimes non élucidés.

📉 Eating more but growing less: Stagnant Philippine farms linked to widening rice gap
#food

Eating more but growing less: Stagnant Philippine farms linked to widening rice gap
As of 2022 alone, Filipinos were eating 2.3 million metric tons more rice than the country produced—an 18% shortfall that has locked the Philippines into deeper dependence on imported rice despite years of government programs to boost local harvests.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

Mazda quietly returns to Russian market despite 2022 'exit,' report says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/09/mazda-quietly-returns-to-russian.html

A few months after handing in my thesis and receiving my Master of Science degree in 2022, ChatGPT was released. Essentially, nothing about how I solve problems has changed since then, but I had to continuously observe the brain drain around me. It's weird how the majority of people suddenly treat anything an LLM spits out as truth while I stick to good old search engines (with the additional hurdle of now having to filter LLM garbage from my search results).

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
Alice in Chains:
🎵 Them Bones
#AliceinChains
https://sixdust.bandcamp.com/track/alice-in-chains-them-bones-2022-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/4A065x9kJt955eGVqf813g

Just found out about the "take" command in Oh My Zsh, and oh my (pun intended) is it useful!
As the name suggests, it's a command that takes you where you want to be, combining multiple tools (e.g. mkdir cd) into one neat little command.
Found a nice article explaining what it does for anyone who's not familiar with it already:

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

Good news for Dean Gillispie in Ohio. He was #wrongfullyconvicted of 3 1991 rapes & exonerated in 2017. He sued the township and won a $45 million verdict in 2022. The township has been fighting it ever since, and SCOTUS just denied its appeal.

US Supreme Court denies request from Ohio township facing $45M settlement
The U.S. Supreme Court denied an Ohio township's last-ditch effort to avoid paying a $45 million settlement to Dean Gillispie.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Paul McCartney & Wings:
🎵 Jet
#PaulMcCartney #Wings
https://security2.bandcamp.com/track/chet-parody-of-jet-by-paul-mccartney-wings-re-mastered-2022
https://open.spotify.com/track/4D40ZlFAWsvX7lua1Kablh

#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit …