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EssilorLuxottica says it sold over 7M Meta AI glasses in 2025, up from the 2M that the company sold in 2023 and 2024 combined (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/11/ray-ban-maker-essilorluxottica-triples-sales-of-meta-ai-gla…

Into The Couloir...
(Throwback to early June 2023, when the Dolomites were still half in winter mode...)
#ThrowbackThursday #LandscapePhotography #BlackAndWhite …

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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, ...

from my link log —
SIEVE is simpler than LRU.
https://cachemon.github.io/SIEVE-website/blog/2023/12/17/sieve-is-simpler-than-lru/
saved 2024-01-03

The Office producer Ben Silverman's Propagate Content raised $50M from Ares Management at a $200M valuation, up 33% from 2023, as part of a creator-economy push (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/mormon-w…

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://

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Lil Yachty:
🎵 REACH THE SUNSHINE.
#LilYachty
https://electroponic.bandcamp.com/track/reach-the-sunshine-lil-yachty-remix-2023
https://open.spotify.com/track/0t8YVhiyInlDW9cHtMGhJg

Ajit Niranjan writes about the supposed decoupling in #Romania.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/11/is-romania-blueprint-economic-g…

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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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Seit Sep. 2023 immer falsch geraten. 🤨
In wie vielen #Fernsehsendungen des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks wurde im Dβeβzβeβmβbβeβrβ β2β0β2β5β über den #Klimawandel, dessen Drumherum sowie den

Bei @… lief gestern "Holding Liat" über eine israelische Familie nach dem 7. Oktober. Goßartiger Film.
Liat Beinin Atzili wurde entführt und nach acht Wochen freigelassen, Aviv Atzili ermordet. Liats Vater Yehuda Beinin will Frieden, ihr Sohn Rache.
Der Film bekam letztes Jahr den Berlinale-Dokfilmpreis. Bis Mai in der Mediathek.

Aloe inflorescence, just starting to open. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. December, 2023. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 90mm F3.5. #laarboretum #flower #aloe

Alle Jahre wieder.
#davos #winterferien #schnee

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

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I'm also enjoying the data leakage tracker that comes built in with /e/OS

Here's Nordea ID caught red handed leaking telemetry to Urban Airship.

In case you are wondering, I was asked about these and said no. It's in the app settings.

- Allow use of digital activity data
- Allow use of m…

Olha. Não sabia desta.
https://eco.sapo.pt/2026/02/02/marinha-recebe-porta-drones-de-132-milhoes-no-ultimo-semestre/

RE: https://flipboard.com/@engadget/tech-news-3l37fooaz/-/a-8y293aXPQ5WJhSKN7ycBqA:a:3199686-/0
Except he did... in 2023. But it was never updated once after Space Karen was called out as it was adjusted …

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.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

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I'm also enjoying the data leakage tracker that comes built in with /e/OS

Here's Nordea ID caught red handed leaking telemetry to Urban Airship.

In case you are wondering, I was asked about these and said no. It's in the app settings.

- Allow use of digital activity data
- Allow use of m…

Who Calls 1-800-GAMBLER? Around Big Sports Events, It’s Often Young Men. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/us/sports-gambling-addition-super-bowl.html

In a wide-ranging live conversation, MIT President Sally Kornbluth joined Jim Braude and Margery Eagan live in studio for GBH’s Boston Public Radio on Thursday, February 5.
They talked about MIT, the pressures facing America’s research enterprise, the importance of science, that Congressional hearing on antisemitism in 2023, and more
With new financial pressures facing universities,
increased competition for talented students and scholars from outside the U.S.,
as we…

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:

Prune, Don't Rebuild: Efficiently Tuning $\alpha$-Reachable Graphs for Nearest Neighbor Search
Tian Zhang, Ashwin Padaki, Jiaming Liang, Zack Ives, Erik Waingarten
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08097 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.08097 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.08097
arXiv:2602.08097v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Vector similarity search is an essential primitive in modern AI and ML applications. Most vector databases adopt graph-based approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search algorithms, such as DiskANN (Subramanya et al., 2019), which have demonstrated state-of-the-art empirical performance. DiskANN's graph construction is governed by a reachability parameter $\alpha$, which gives a trade-off between construction time, query time, and accuracy. However, adaptively tuning this trade-off typically requires rebuilding the index for different $\alpha$ values, which is prohibitive at scale. In this work, we propose RP-Tuning, an efficient post-hoc routine, based on DiskANN's pruning step, to adjust the $\alpha$ parameter without reconstructing the full index. Within the $\alpha$-reachability framework of prior theoretical works (Indyk and Xu, 2023; Gollapudi et al., 2025), we prove that pruning an initially $\alpha$-reachable graph with RP-Tuning preserves worst-case reachability guarantees in general metrics and improved guarantees in Euclidean metrics. Empirically, we show that RP-Tuning accelerates DiskANN tuning on four public datasets by up to $43\times$ with negligible overhead.
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POSTDOCTORAL POSITION> University of Toronto, Department for the Study of Religion & The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20140643/postdoct…

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

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

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Rachmaninov and Mahler at the 2023 BBC Proms
Stephen Hough plays Rachmaninov's First Piano Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic. Plus Mahler's Titan Symphony and the world premiere of a new work by Grace Evangeline Mason.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mw4b

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Yes, those are real limitations.
Generally speaking I try to do as much as possible on a computer and as little as possible on a phone.

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Yes, those are real limitations.
Generally speaking I try to do as much as possible on a computer and as little as possible on a phone.

Docs: a Labour thinktank run by a current UK minister hired a PR firm in 2023 to investigate journalists from the Guardian and other outlets to ID their sources (Democracy for Sale)
https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusiv…

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 291 nodes and 5535 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Depeche Mode:
🎵 But Not Tonight
#NowPlaying #DepecheMode
https://djpepusnik.bandcamp.com/track/depeche-mode-but-not-tonight-remix-2023
https://open.spotify.com/track/0mOAeFylUraa4kUB1B9QW3

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I detest buying a new phone.

Besides the lower ethical impact, the lower coupling to US big tech surveillance and control (with /e/OS), the lower environmental footprint and buying European, I am looking forward to keeping the

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I detest buying a new phone.

Besides the lower ethical impact, the lower coupling to US big tech surveillance and control (with /e/OS), the lower environmental footprint and buying European, I am looking forward to keeping the

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.

A profile of Cursor CEO Michael Truell, a 25-year-old who started building the AI coding tool in 2023, as some question Cursor's reliance on third-party models (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/milli…

Tesla global car sales grew until two years ago; then they started a slow decline.
From Statista.com

RE: https://mstdn.social/@W_Lucht/115594768473875877
Bereits im Jahr 2023 forderten führende Wissenschaftler und Politiker eine grundlegende Reform der COPs: Der "lethargische Fortschritt steht im Widerspruch zur Klimawissenschaft ... Wir sind jetzt mit …

Saquon Barkley says Christian McCaffrey is 'one of the best to ever do it' ahead of Eagles-49ers https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6955944/2026/01/08/saquon-barkley-christian-mccaffrey-running-back-eagles-49ers/

„Im System vorgesehen“ - Finanzamt bittet Toten mit 150 Euro zur Kasse #News #Nachrichten

I wasn't previously aware, but apparently the government is looking, again, at updating the Computer Misuse Act 1990 with proposals to protect researchers. (Although I haven't seen an open consultation since 2023.)

With the holidays upon us, it's easy to default to giving the tech gifts that retailers tend to push on us this time of year:
smart speakers, video doorbells, bluetooth trackers, fitness trackers, and other connected gadgets are all very popular gifts.
But before you give one, think twice about what you're opting that person into.
One big problem with giving these sorts of gifts is that you're opting another person into a company's intrusive surveillance prac…

from my link log —
How UC Davis medical school became remarkably diverse.
https://www.statnews.com/2023/03/07/how-one-medical-school-became-remarkably-diverse-without-considering-race/
saved 2023-03-07

Aamulla oli iloinen näky polkiessa töihin. Fossiiliasema suljettu ja vielä #Teboil.
Tämän aseman rakennustyöt aloitettiin loppukeväällä 2023 mitä silloin ihmettelin kovasti.
#venajanHyokkaysUkrainaan

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 105 nodes and 1426 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

from my link log —
How UC Davis medical school became remarkably diverse.
https://www.statnews.com/2023/03/07/how-one-medical-school-became-remarkably-diverse-without-considering-race/
saved 2023-03-07

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:

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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#vereinfachteSprache
Deutschland erlebte 2023 viel #Regen und hohe Temperaturen. Der Deutsche Wetterdienst sagt, dass 2023 das wärmste Jahr seit 1881 war. Es gab 20 Prozent mehr Regen als im Durchschnitt. Besonders stark betroffen war Nordwestdeutschland mit Überschwemmungen. Klimawan…

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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…

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1192237 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

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Yeah, for the truly portable laptop there isn't.
For the laptop in form-factor but nearly always plugged to the mains and placed on a desk Intel/AMD could be O…

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What laptop would you buy, to run Linux?

Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.11.2025.
373 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…

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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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Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeicher​n pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Privatpersonen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.11.2025.
373 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.

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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.

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 13.11.2025.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum #Energiesparen

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

Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 16.11.2025.
323 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…

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

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum #Energiesparen

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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?

Leistung der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: #Energiewende

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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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https://www.lamoncloa.gob.es/serviciosdeprensa/notasprensa/presidencia/Paginas/2026/040126-comunicado-hechos-ocurridos-venezuela.aspx

Los Gobiernos de España, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, México y Uruguay ante la gravedad de los hechos ocurridos en Venezuela y reafirmando su apego a los principios consagrados en la Carta de las Naciones…

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https://www.lamoncloa.gob.es/serviciosdeprensa/notasprensa/presidencia/Paginas/2026/040126-comunicado-hechos-ocurridos-venezuela.aspx

Los Gobiernos de España, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, México y Uruguay ante la gravedad de los hechos ocurridos en Venezuela y reafirmando su apego a los principios consagrados en la Carta de las Naciones…

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Yeah, for the truly portable laptop there isn't.
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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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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.
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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.