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from my link log —
Building a baseline JIT for Lua automatically.
https://sillycross.github.io/2023/05/12/2023-05-12/
saved 2023-05-13 https://

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says the company's compute grew from 0.2 GW in 2023 to ~1.9 GW in 2025 and annualized revenue grew from $2B in 2023 to $20B in 2025 (Sarah Friar/OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/a-business-that-scales-with-the-value-of-intelligence

Public service journalism: data on the Dublin November 2023 rioters
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2026/01/19/the-dublin-rioters-who-are-they-and-what-82-prosecutions-tell-us-about-those-involved/

Le recours aux jets privés pour se rendre au WEF a triplé entre 2023 et 2025
https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/2026/article/le-recours-aux-jets-prives-pour-se-rendre-au-wef-a-triple…

Annex 1 of the Anti Coercion Instrument sets out possible measures that the EU could impose, including,
"7.  The imposition of restrictions on the protection of intellectual property rights or their commercial exploitation, in relation to rightholders that are nationals of the third country concerned, which may amount, as necessary, to the non-performance of applicable international obligations with respect to trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights."

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Minimize dependency on the irrational nation states, build deterrence against aggression, build alliances with other trustworthy rational nations.
The UNSC has been less and less relevant and is now largely useless.

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Minimize dependency on the irrational nation states, build deterrence against aggression, build alliances with other trustworthy rational nations.
The UNSC has been less and less relevant and is now largely useless.

Going back to listen to some of my favorite records from 2023 and 2024 and wow. Hell yeah. Haven't heard this stuff in years now and it holds up 😂

“To keep the power in the hands of developers and honor its deep roots in open source, Netlify is committed to being good stewards of the Gatsby open-source project”
February 2023
https://www.netlify.com/press/netlify-acqu

IMF chief visits Kyiv for the first time since 2023 amid deepening energy crisis: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/15/imf-chief-visits-kyiv-for.html

Law and Order im Ländle:
„Der „nachhaltige“ Rechtskampf der fünf Frei­bur­ge­r:in­nen gegen das Verbot sei außerdem als Indiz gewertet worden, dass diese die ursprüngliche Plattform weiterbetreiben wollten und damit Teil des verbotenen Vereins waren.
Das Landgericht sieht auch hier eine „bedenkliche Argumentation“, die Personen von „zulässigem juristischen Vorgehen“ abhalten könne.“
Durchsuchungen in Freiburg: Razzien wegen

Due to budget cuts, the Dutch Coast Guard is not able to protect assets in the North Sea against sabotage. Its department analysing suspicious signals is only open during office hours. Protection of offshore infrastructure was ended in 2023.
https://nos.nl/l/2598124

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That's FAR-out, man: a kernel infoleak in Mac OS xnu.
https://blog.dfsec.com/ios/2023/11/19/thats-far-out-man/
saved 2023-12-05

A portion of California’s scenic Highway 1, which winds through rugged cliffs along the coast and has long been a highlight for travelers admiring the ocean views, 🙏🏻reopened on Wednesday after a years-long closure.
A large section of the road in #Big #Sur has been cut off due to landslides
💥 since 2023,
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“Gatsby as a framework will continue to evolve and grow. We’ve always shared with Netlify a mutual commitment to open-source and have never been more excited about Gatsby’s future. Many of Gatsby’s core contributors will join Netlify and continue to maintain the Gatsby framework.”
February 2023
https://www.…

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c1j8kw866p3t

I hope this bullshit finally disinhibits people in Europe - particularly those not on the left - from condemning the MAGA regime, and retaliating economically instead of pathetically trying to appease it.

Go to hell Trump, nobody wants the 💩 you have to offer.

Stop the Government Redefining Animal Testing Sites as “National Infrastructure” #AnimalRights

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c1j8kw866p3t

I hope this bullshit finally disinhibits people in Europe - particularly those not on the left - from condemning the MAGA regime, and retaliating economically instead of pathetically trying to appease it.

Go to hell Trump, nobody wants the 💩 you have to offer.

This week's #GrindayFriday is 2023 EP 'A Pearl Wasted on a Swine' from Phoenix's NOOSES.
https://nooses.bandcamp.com/album/a-pearl-wasted-on-a-swine
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Netflix CTO Elizabeth Stone and other execs discuss the challenges Netflix faces in streaming live events, after broadcasting 200 live events since March 2023 (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/…

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

OpenAI's chief communications officer Hannah Wong will leave in January; Wong joined in 2021 and led PR during Sam Altman's brief ouster and return in 2023 (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-chief-communications-officer-hannah-…

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 378 nodes and 3267 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

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Podcast : La Secte OKC : ils racontent leur vie dans la secte bouddhiste belge
Presque 15 ans d'écart entre nos deux protagonistes et pourtant tellement de point commun quoi qu'en dise "l'évolution de l'éducation des enfants" selon la OKC
https://

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Avoiding fallback and cold paths.
https://timkellogg.me/blog/2021/01/29/cold-paths
saved 2023-11-03 https://…

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

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Fantastic! Really happy for you!
I want to leave LinkedIn too.

Leaving Facebook and Twitter was easy as I never relied on them for income. I just left in disgust.

I freelance, and unfortunately a majority of work opportunities comes from people finding me on LinkedIn.

I'm on Xing as well, but in the Nordic…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Crystal Waters:
🎵 100% Pure Love
#CrystalWaters
https://waldodj.bandcamp.com/track/crystal-waters-100-pure-love-waldo-remix-2023
https://open.spotify.com/track/0dfQwyoZoS9LgQiU6AJO7f

In the last, guttering hours of the year, it’s tradition to look back on the last 12 months’ #TTRPG activity and reflect. You can read last year’s summary at https://dice.camp/@davej/113747664699824381…

In 2023, China was Venezuela’s second largest trading partner, accounting for almost 10 percent of its total exports, half of which were petroleum coke.

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Mein Vater war (guter) Kunde im Mitarbeiter-Shop des Unternehmens, bei dem er 2004 nach 35 Jahren Betriebszugehörigkeit in Rente ging. Zuletzt hat er dort 2018 oder 2019 eingekauft, im Januar 2023 ist er verstorben. Ich habe den Shop mehrfach darüber informiert. Kurz vor Weihnachten erneut Werbepost an die Adresse des im Frühjahr 2022 verkauften Elternhauses. Ich überlege jetzt, mal den Datenschutzzuständigen ausfindig zu machen und anzufragen, ob das da alles DSGVO-konform abläuft.

Crypto infrastructure provider Fireblocks agrees to acquire accounting platform TRES Finance, sources say for $130M in cash and equity; TRES raised $11M in 2023 (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/01/07/fireblocks-tres-finance-acquisition-130-million/…

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Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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Finland is going through a long bad period economically with self-imposed austerity and (surprise) EU-beating unemployment that keeps rising.
There *is* awareness that the …

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Finland is going through a long bad period economically with self-imposed austerity and (surprise) EU-beating unemployment that keeps rising.
There *is* awareness that the …

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Indeed. And it's not just European politicians sane-washing Trump, also European media which is perhaps even more damaging.

Sadly, as we try to salvage it we need to work with the premise that NATO might already be doomed. So unfortunately European countries really need to invest more on defense and even mor…

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Indeed. And it's not just European politicians sane-washing Trump, also European media which is perhaps even more damaging.

Sadly, as we try to salvage it we need to work with the premise that NATO might already be doomed. So unfortunately European countries really need to invest more on defense and even mor…

Débat de 2023 sur les victimes de sectes, de l’emprise Š la reconstruction. Quels sont les mécanismes Š l'oeuvre, comment identifier le discours sectaire, comment trouver de l'aide pour s'en sortir et se reconstruire ? https://chardonsbleus.org/debat-victim

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Fantastic! Really happy for you!
I want to leave LinkedIn too.

Leaving Facebook and Twitter was easy as I never relied on them for income. I just left in disgust.

I freelance, and unfortunately a majority of work opportunities comes from people finding me on LinkedIn.

I'm on Xing as well, but in the Nordic…

Many Amazon climate disasters are missing from official records, study finds https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/01/many-amazon-climate-disasters-are-missing-from-official-records-study-finds/

Dutch far-right leader Wilders is losing ground. After his failed government coalition, followed by an election defeat for his PVV (going from 37 seats in 2023 to 26 in 2025), 7 out of his 26 MPs are now jumping ship. That leaves 19, half the number of 2.5 years ago.
https://nos.nl…

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Pathetic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWokGcF1sA4

The fascination of the boot (not just in America)

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This looks like a good development.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa0zx4T1CmA

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This looks like a good development.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa0zx4T1CmA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWokGcF1sA4

The fascination of the boot (not just in America)

I talked about the garage punk of Madison, Wisconsin's WRISTWATCH (previously mainly a solo project of Bobby Wegner from The Hussy) here in 2023 -- they've now re-recorded basically the best songs from the first two LPs as a four piece, produced by Beau Sorenson (Bob Mould, Superchunk, Taylor Swift): https://wristwatch420.…

Outtake, which uses autonomous AI agents to help companies detect and remove cyberthreats, raised $40M led by Iconiq, after a $16.5M Series A in April 2025 (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/outtake-cyber-openai-ai-raise.html

Podcast : La Secte OKC : ils racontent leur vie dans la secte bouddhiste belge
Presque 15 ans d'écart entre nos deux protagonistes et pourtant tellement de point commun quoi qu'en dise "l'évolution de l'éducation des enfants" selon la OKC
https://

from my link log —
Black-box concurrent data structures for NUMA architectures.
https://cs.brown.edu/~irina/papers/asplos2017-final.pdf
saved 2023-09-09

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Ah... So that's where the fishy fishy fishy fish went!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npJQKtV5aP4

Sources: Ledger is working with banks on a US IPO that could value the French cryptocurrency company at more than $4B; it was valued at $1.5B in 2023 (Financial Times)

from my link log —
Who invented vector clocks?
https://decomposition.al/blog/2023/04/08/who-invented-vector-clocks/
saved 2025-12-01

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Ah... So that's where the fishy fishy fishy fish went!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npJQKtV5aP4

Car sharing service Zipcar UK plans to shut down after London extended its Congestion Charge to EVs; Zipcar had losses of £11.7M in 2024 vs. £364,000 in 2023 (Simon Hunt/City A.M.)
https://www.cityam.com/zipcar-uk-to-shut-operations-ahead-of-new-…

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it doesn't look too hard in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXseyTdynCo - battery, screen, USB-C port (the Achilles heel of many phones), daughterboard, mainboard, cameras, ...

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Painful to live in fear, isn't it?

A federal jury in Phoenix ordered Uber to pay $8.5M to a passenger who said a driver sexually assaulted her in 2023, the first case where Uber was found liable (Emily Steel/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/busines

Duna, a European fintech making AI-powered identity and compliance tools for banks, raised a €30M Series A led by CapitalG, bringing its total funding to €40M (Tim Barnwell/Silicon Republic)
https://www.siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/european-fintech-st…

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Data Science is different things to different people so the list of things you need to know is hard to pin down.
It's often understood to go beyond data analysis.

In addition to Python programming and statistics you need to know at least:
- data manipulation tools including SQL, dataframes (polars, pandas)
- fund…

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it doesn't look too hard in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXseyTdynCo - battery, screen, USB-C port (the Achilles heel of many phones), daughterboard, mainboard, cameras, ...

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Painful to live in fear, isn't it?

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Data Science is different things to different people so the list of things you need to know is hard to pin down.
It's often understood to go beyond data analysis.

In addition to Python programming and statistics you need to know at least:
- data manipulation tools including SQL, dataframes (polars, pandas)
- fund…

Got my #Fairphone running /e/OS , a deGoogled Android OS.

I took a bit of a gamble, as I wasn't sure all the apps I really need would run. Turns out they do, including the Nordea ID app.

It is usable as a daily driver.
/e/OS looks clean and uncluttered too.

Got my #Fairphone running /e/OS , a deGoogled Android OS.

I took a bit of a gamble, as I wasn't sure all the apps I really need would run. Turns out they do, including the Nordea ID app.

It is usable as a daily driver.
/e/OS looks clean and uncluttered too.

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Not after, *during* the ongoing pandemic. Escalating ableism is necessary to "justify" the urgency of the "normal". You wouldn't want them disabled people to hold us back from living like nothing happened, would you?

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Point taken. I was thinking of processes that started already in 2020 and are still ongoing, making a different point.

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Yes, they are even bragging about it.

But - besides the environmental insanity and the theft - it's doubtful it will even work out economically. I doubt they can get a return on what they'd need to invest any more. They'll need to plunder more than oil.

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Yes, they are even bragging about it.

But - besides the environmental insanity and the theft - it's doubtful it will even work out economically. I doubt they can get a return on what they'd need to invest any more. They'll need to plunder more than oil.

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Yeah. It's even more sad for us living in the EU. We don't get to have a sovereign foreign policy until we have cut the dependency on the US for security, financial infra and tech platforms. Working discretely (and far too slowly) on it. Will it be better afterwards? Maybe, not sure.
In the meantime, no po…

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Yeah. It's even more sad for us living in the EU. We don't get to have a sovereign foreign policy until we have cut the dependency on the US for security, financial infra and tech platforms. Working discretely (and far too slowly) on it. Will it be better afterwards? Maybe, not sure.
In the meantime, no po…

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I have no sympathy for Maduro or his regime, and would be happy for Venezuelans to replace it, but this looks very much like a takeover of a sovereign country for economic exploitation by force. And (yet another) terrible "might is right" precedent.

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Unfortunately I don't expect much. Some calls for restraint. Maybe some polite condemnation. The more likely the further west but nothing with teeth.

We are not getting independent (of the US) foreign policies until we have taken charge of our security and of critical financial and technology infrastructure.

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I have no sympathy for Maduro or his regime, and would be happy for Venezuelans to replace it, but this looks very much like a takeover of a sovereign country for economic exploitation by force. And (yet another) terrible "might is right" precedent.

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Unfortunately I don't expect much. Some calls for restraint. Maybe some polite condemnation. The more likely the further west but nothing with teeth.

We are not getting independent (of the US) foreign policies until we have taken charge of our security and of critical financial and technology infrastructure.

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Thanks Antti. There are quite a few options.

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Thanks Antti. There are quite a few options.

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Indeed.

What the USA is currently doing in Venezuela looks very much like a semi-hostile takeover of one criminal organization by a more powerful one.

If there's any "rationality" it only exists in relation to the interests of shockingly small circles of power, in either country.

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Indeed.

What the USA is currently doing in Venezuela looks very much like a semi-hostile takeover of one criminal organization by a more powerful one.

If there's any "rationality" it only exists in relation to the interests of shockingly small circles of power, in either country.

I'm interested in a EU-based domain registrar to move out of the US-based registrar I've been using.

Any recommendations? I'm primarily a business customer (incorporated).

#BuyFromEU #DigitalSovereignty

I'm interested in a EU-based domain registrar to move out of the US-based registrar I've been using.

Any recommendations? I'm primarily a business customer (incorporated).

#BuyFromEU #DigitalSovereignty

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