2026-01-05 21:42:04
from my link log —
Raspberry Pi Reliability: how to reduce writes to your SD card.
https://www.dzombak.com/blog/2024/04/pi-reliability-reduce-writes-to-your-sd-card/
saved 2026-01-05
from my link log —
Raspberry Pi Reliability: how to reduce writes to your SD card.
https://www.dzombak.com/blog/2024/04/pi-reliability-reduce-writes-to-your-sd-card/
saved 2026-01-05
IBM plans to cut "a low single-digit percentage" of its workforce in Q4, affecting thousands of staffers; it employed ~270K workers as of the end of 2024 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-04/ibm-…
Rimer Cardillo, Uruguayan-American artist exhibition "Deep Ecology" at the Plains Art Museum #Fargo #NorthDakota
Thanksgiving NFL games averaged nearly 45M viewers each, up from 34.5M in 2024, driven by enhanced Nielsen measurement; streaming averaged 2.2M viewers, up 58% (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/04/nfl-games-chiefs-cowboys-thanksgiving-record
Russia's seaborne oil exports see sharpest fall since early 2024 after new US sanctions: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/04/russias-seaborne-oil-exports-see.html
Der #Eigenverbrauch von #Solarstrom nimmt in #Deutschland deutlich zu.
Laut Fraunhofer ISE lag er 2024 bei 12,28 Terawattstunden und machte damit 17 Prozent der
From my Twitter archive. It took one year longer ;)
https://bbc.com/news/articles/cj9rjwpvmpzo
Last season’s updated vaccine provides significant protection against covid-19,
particularly against severe illness and death.
The results reaffirm the benefit of staying current with covid vaccination.
Researchers analyzed data from approximately 1.8 million Americans between August 2024 and April 2025,
of whom only about 13 percent received the 2024–2025 coronavirus shot.
They evaluated three clinical outcomes related to the disease: infections, emergency departm…
It is December, so it is time to share my #Warframe2024 report from last year before the 2025 one arrives, and yes, I play on Linux and have since 2023, running Warframe on Debian Trixie.
#Debian #Warframe
Payback on the brain as Cowboys, Jerry Jones look for revenge vs Lions https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/04/cowboys-jerry-jones-revenge-lions-week-14-payback/87592109007/<…
Venezuela comprises an area of 912.050 km2, with a population estimated at 31,3 million in 2024. By comparison, France has 638.475 km2, population 68,6 million.
Just updated our server's downtimes for 2025 and for all-time. Although datasci.social had a downtime of over 10 hours in 2025, our all-time uptime is still way above 99.9%. 🤓
https://community.datasci.social/docs/server/
Understanding #Docker Internals: Building a Container Runtime in Python
https://muhammadraza.me/2024/building-container-runtime-python/
Taiwan's interior ministry announces a one-year ban on access to Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu, aka RedNote, citing 1,700 fraud cases since 2024 (Ben Blanchard/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/tai…
Commanders LB Frankie Luvu suspended for 3rd hip-drop tackle of season https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6775304/2025/11/03/commanders-frankie-luvu-suspended-hip-drop-tackle/
It's January 4th and I've already got a few orders this year for my little hobby business.
One from the UK, one from Ireland, and one from Switzerland.
Last year we shipped close to 80% of the orders to the US and almost 20% to the UK, with a few other countries besides those two.
I do feel like I'm seeing fewer US sales since the beginning of 2024, file that as you will.
Overall sales were down a bit in 2024 but I did a few larger projects for folks that …
Taiwan's interior ministry announces a one-year ban on access to Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu, aka RedNote, citing 1,700 fraud cases since 2024 (Ben Blanchard/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/tai…
kind of wild, but only michael jackson & dr. seuss outrank syd barrett & rick wright as 2025's best-paid dead celebrities (though i assume that's a 1-year-only thing after the floyd sold their publishing rights in 2024). https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattcraig/202
#Tatort: Macht der Familie - #ARD #NDR
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/tatort/macht-der-familie/ndr/Y3JpZDovL25kci5kZS9wcm9wbGFuXzE5NjI4Nzg1Ml9nYW56ZVNlbmR1bmc (2024, 86min)
Helaas geen live crimi die hier te zien was, maar dit is een aardige vervanger.. 😀
Hat etwas gedauert, aber hier nun mein SF/Fantasy-Tagebuch für November/Dezember 2025. U.a. mit Andy Weir, Emily Tesh, Zootopia und Knives Out.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2026/01/science-fiction-und-fantasy-winter-edition-2025-26/…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Steve Cropper:
🎵 Crop Dustin’
#SteveCropper
https://stevecropper.bandcamp.com/track/crop-dustin-remastered-2024
https://open.spotify.com/track/2BSNxsAu2ocf4TQ9Wt79yg
In Berlin könnte es schon bald eine linke Bürgermeisterin geben. Der Kampf um die Gestaltungsspielräume, die eine von @… geführte Regierung haben wird, hat jedoch längst begonnen. Beispiel: Mit dem #Gewalthilfegesetz müssen die Länder am Januar 2027 - …
Weiß eigentlich irgendwer warum Frank Rieger kaum noch von sich hören lässt?
Er scheint kein CCC-Sprecher mehr zu sein, war auch nicht bei den Security Nightmares auf dem Kongress und bei Steady ist der letzte Eintrag von 09/2024 🤔
Coca-Cola releases upgraded AI-generated ads for 2025 holidays, after finding people didn't know or care about the use of AI, despite criticism for its 2024 ads (Katie Deighton/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.w…
Trump:
“I’ll avoid foreign military entanglements” ... “We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end, and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.” - January 20, 2025
“I’m not going to start wars, I’m going to stop wars.” - November 6, 2024
“Great nations do not fight endless wars… As a candidate for president, I loudly pledged a new approach. Great nations do not fight endless wars.” - February 5, 2019
Avara luonto: Eläinten perhe-elämää #eläimet
Every dictator guilty of crimes against humanity¹ deserves to be arrested and sent directly to The Hague.
What makes the U.S.' arrest of #Maduro problematic is the potentially disproportionate military strike and the lack of an ICC warrant – the one that Argentina had demanded in 2024.² #Venezuela
#30DayMapChallenge 🗺️ Day 3️⃣: Polygons
I went with a classic #choropleth map to keep things simple (and save my energy) and this one shows the population change of the 201 barangays (kinda like wards) of the city of Pasay in the
Entwicklung der Kapazitätsgrößen von #Batteriespeichern von Privatpersonen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.11.2025.
289 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Ei…
The #EU Cyber Resilience Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/2847) has now an Implementing Act:
https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/factpages/cyber-resilience-act-imple…
@… I've been very happy with Mint since I switched from Windows in 2024. It works very well and is fairly customizable. It's also not a difficult transition from Windows. I found Ubuntu to be not as satisfying. I've also tried Zorin, but prefer Mint, because it is more customizable, at least for me.
Since it's getting misreported everywhere: this image of the stellar stream of the #galaxy #Messier61 by #Rubin - from A #StellarStream around the Spiral Galaxy Messier 61 in Rubin First Look Imaging: #AmateurAstronomers in 2020, 2024 and earlier in 2025: https://www.flickr.com/photos/133259498@N05/50665292533/ and https://www.galactic-hunter.com/post/messier-61-astrophotography and https://app.astrobin.com/i/0az5qv and https://app.astrobin.com/i/ldptvo - and these are just the results I could track down easily.
Coca-Cola releases upgraded AI-generated ads for 2025 holidays, after finding people didn't know or care about the use of AI, despite criticism for its 2024 ads (Katie Deighton/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.w…
#FotoVorschlag 'Fortbewegungsmittel' 'Means of transportation'
1/.
I do not have that many photos of my beloved means of transportation.
The photo itself has also some context which I've written in my blog:
These were my favorite movies of 2025. Pretty much all horror, sci-fi, comedy. There's still a couple I need to see from this year (Cold Storage!) but these are all my favorites as of now.
#2025Films
Internal documents: Meta projected in December 2024 that 10.1% of its annual ad revenue, or $16B, came from fraudulent ads, including $7B from "higher risk" ads (Jeff Horwitz/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/met
from my link log —
Stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email by adding a postfix header.
https://neilzone.co.uk/2024/07/attempting-to-stop-microsoft-users-sending-reactions-to-email-from-me…
Raiders sign WR Brenden Rice to the practice squad https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-sign-wr-brenden-rice-to-the-practice-squad-nfl-2025-transactions
„Polyman“ by Facet
Platform: Amiga
Released: 25 May 2024
Specification: 320x256px, 32 colors
Note: 3rd in the 68k Inside 2024 Graphics competition
#GFX_Facet #YR_2024 #PF_Amiga
Es gibt ja in Japan diese "Plain Halloween" (地味ハロウィン) Reihe, wo Menschen alltägliche Szenen in realistischer Verkleidung nachstellen. Die Serie von 2025 ist noch nicht draußen, aber hier als Service die von 2024 maschinell übersetzt:
https://
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 01.12.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
såg ofta butterfly på lekplatserna när jag var föräldraledig, lite för ofta skulle jag säga, extremt ofta, deras ekonomiska strategi verkar vara att använda kommunens offentliga lekplatser som avlastningsyta för att slippa betala för egna lokaler, vilket tär på våra gemensamma resurser, glad att de inte får nytt tillstånd www.mitti.se/nyheter/nej-till-privat-forskola-i-ragsved-6.3.325639.9606f7a3e2
EDIT: Se bild, det funkar!
DLR untersucht Drohnenvorfälle an deutschen Flughäfen
2024 wurden dem Luftfahrt-Bundesamt 118 Drohnenvorfälle gemeldet. Das DLR hat diese unter anderem auf wirtschaftliche Schäden untersucht.
https://www.
I used to recommend #Ubuntu, and as of 2024, I started recommending #LinuxMint, especially #LMDE to the many (almost no people) who ask me for
Check out this compelling rebuttal of Soteria International's claims regarding the OKC case. Get informed about the facts and perspectives presented in the article by visiting: https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rebuttal-of-soteria.html
Have you ever wondered to what extend LLMs are used to support writing of scientific publications? Here is a chart indicating the fraction of LLM-modified sentences in scientific publications over time.
c.f. Liang et al, Mapping the Increasing Use of LLMs in Scientific Papers (2024)
https://arxiv.org/html/2404.01268v1
Google launches Workspace Studio, a no-code tool to create, design, manage, and share AI agents, for users on Business and Enterprise Workspace plans (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/12/03/google-workspace-studio/
Crows in the Cemetery on a Hot June Afternoon (2024-06) - Corvids chatting in a green space between a suburban recycling centre and a building site under airport flight path #fieldRecording #London #crows
“They won’t imprison us all, they know if they fill the prisons with activists, we will overpower them from within. So flood the damn streets in your millions. Shut down these factories in your thousands! They can never arrest the resistance in our smiles. We will use the shards of our broken hearts to spear the system of injustice.” -- Qesser Zuhrah
#SayHerNamee
In an unaired segment of his 60 Minutes interview on Nov. 2, Trump said CBS paid him a lot of money to settle his lawsuit over Kamala Harris' 2024 interview (Sean James/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/media/paid-me-…
J. Alex Swift Ltd, sock manufacturers, Hathern (Charnwood, Leicestershire), June 2024
#photography #ukphotographer #documentingbritain
ARD History: Emilie Schindler · Die vergessene Heldin - #ARD #BR
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/ard-history/emilie-schindler-die-vergessene-heldin/br/Y3JpZDovL2JyLmRlL2Jyb2FkY2FzdC9kMTgzNDdjZC0yNjQ0LTQ3MTgtYTEwZi0zYTdkNWQ3OWYxZmZfb25saW5lYnJvYWRjYXN0 (2024, 44min)
'Emilie Schindler, die door velen werd bespot als bedrogen echtgenote, is een door de geschiedenis vergeten heldin die onverschrokken en moedig Joden redde. De documentaire haalt haar uit de schaduw van haar man.'
(Deepl vertaling)
Waar Iedereen Oskar Schindler kent van Schindler's List, bleef Emilie totaal op de achtergrond.
(Wel zijn Engelse sprekers Duits nagesynchroniseerd...)
Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.11.2025.
320 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…
RE: https://mstdn.social/@Artemis201/115754645089453670
American voters in Nov 2024:
El Cheeto is tearing down the East Wing of the White House.
He says, of course, that he isn't. But he is.
And he promises to preserve historical elements and artifacts.
But he won't - does anyone remember when he was trying to get New York to allow him to build the horrid "trump tower" on the site of the then existing Bonwitt Teller building (a building full of and covered by art deco works)?
Well back then El Cheat-o promised to preserve those Bonw…
Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year
By Diego Delso, CC-BY-SA
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2024/Results/All
Erinnert ihr euch an die Grenzwächter, die in der Aktion "Knobli" im Vorarlberg Schweizer EInkaufstouristen beobachteten, die Hanfsamen und Anbauzubehör kauften?
Sie zogen ihren Strafbefehl wegen Verletzung fremder Gebietshoheit weiter ans Bundesstrafgericht in Bellinzona - und wurden freigesprochen, mit Entschädigung (rechtskräftig).
SK.2024.68 Urteil vom 7. Oktober 2025
Our local (Savannah) cops have warned that wearing a costume that obscures identity at the No Kings rally Saturday could lead to arrest under a law originally written to stop the Ku Klux Klan from hiding under their sheets.
GA Code § 16-11-38 (2024)
https://law.justia.com/codes/ge…
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:
@… @… too true.
Also, knowledge and intelligence are not the same.
I've had a thorn in my side since summer 2024. I should have responded more robustly at the time, instead: I kept quiet. When the person who stuck it in takes ple…
#POTUS47 pledged in his 2024 campaign that there'd be no new wars. Anyone with any sense realized this was an empty promise.
Less than a year after taking office, it looks like he's at least posing to go to war with #Venezuela. I don't see anything remotely justifying a US war against…
Cowboys Trade Prediction Lands Them $36 Million Linebacker https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/logan-wilson-trade-prediction-bengals/?adt_ei=[email]
I've never even heard of Beaver County, or their lazy sevens logo from 2024.
#L7 #LazySevens #BC #BeaverCounty
Google’s vibe-coding tool, Opal,
is making its way to Gemini.
The company on Wednesday said it is integrating the tool,
which lets you build AI-powered mini apps,
inside the Gemini web app,
allowing users to create their own custom apps,
which Google calls Gems.
Introduced in 2024,
Gems are customized versions of Gemini designed for specific tasks or scenarios.
For instance, some of Google’s pre-made Gems include
a learning coach,…
Shares of Insilico rose 45% in their Hong Kong trading debut after the AI drug discovery startup raised $293M in an IPO; Insilico reported $85M in 2024 revenue (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-30/a…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Maruja:
🎵 Zeitgeist (6 Music Session, 9 Apr 2024)
#Maruja
https://marujaofficial.bandcamp.com/track/zeitgeist
https://open.spotify.com/track/6ak2c5gazmNBX9fHEtQFSp
Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.11.2025.
373 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…
Among the top 10K artists streamed in Australia from 2021 to 2024, Australian artists fell ~20% as algorithms make English-speaking artists compete globally (The Australia Institute)
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post
If you're using #ForgeJo and are experiencing the error
`fatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly` when doing "git push", the problem is the client buffer size for HTTP pushes. In my case I have just fixed it by doing the following:
`$ git config http.postBuffer 157286400`
I've found the solution here:
Localizing the Ising CFT from the ground state of the Ising model on the fuzzy sphere
Kay Joerg Wiese
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09482 https://arxiv.org/pd…
London-based AI video startup Synthesia says its ARR reached $100M by April 2025, after reporting 2024 revenue up 82% YoY to $58M and a pre-tax loss of $59M (Nicholas Fearn/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/215df8da-717b-4e5f-ac66-c02e142e6ad6
Foxconn plans to spend another $569M through 2029 to expand its Mount Pleasant, WI AI server manufacturing site, adding to $717M invested through 2024 (Joe Schulz/WPR)
https://www.wpr.org/news/foxconn-expansion-racine-county-wisconsin-jobs
Hathern (Charnwood, Leicestershire), June 2024
#photography #ukphotographer #documentingplace #documentingspace
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 22.12.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
Italy's competition authority closes its July 2024 probe into Google's alleged unfair practices over users' personal data after Google adopted remedies (Gianluca Semeraro/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/…
Report: Cowboys' $92M CB facing possible surgery for familiar injury https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/18/report-cowboys-cb-daron-bland-possible-foot-surgery/87836500007/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Lex Amor:
🎵 Beg (6 Music Session, 24 Sep 2024)
#LexAmor
https://lexamor.bandcamp.com/track/beg-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/1IPLicvitfuMtAaAka9XCV
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 26.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag
Data Center Watch: local opposition blocked or delayed 17 US data center projects worth $98B in Q2 2025, vs. 16 projects worth $64B from May 2024 to March 2025 (Molly Taft/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-data-center-resistance-has-arrived/
ESPN's Cowboys rumor opens door to trade for fourth-round running back https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/espns-cowboys-rumor-opens-door-trade-fourth-round-running-back/e194b913…
Entwicklung der Kapazitätsgrößen von #Batteriespeichern von Privatpersonen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 16.11.2025.
292 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Ei…
A look at iRobot, founded in 1990, and its slow collapse after regulatory pressure killed Amazon's $1.7B acquisition in 2024, and the rising Chinese competition (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/14/how-irobot-lost-its-way-home/
Opera says in the 12 months ending with October, it saw a 88% surge in daily active iOS users across Europe, partly due to the changes mandated by the DMA (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/11/13/opera-ios-growth-europe-dma/
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…
Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Daten lokal speichern