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from my link log —
Rewriting the Ruby parser.
https://railsatscale.com/2023-06-12-rewriting-the-ruby-parser/
saved 2024-12-26

Rewriting the Ruby parser
At Shopify, we have spent the last year writing a new Ruby parser, which we’ve called YARP (Yet Another Ruby Parser). As of the date of this post, YARP can parse a semantically equivalent syntax tree to Ruby 3.3 on every Ruby file in Shopify’s main codebase, GitHub’s main codebase, CRuby, and the 100 most popular gems downloaded from rubygems.org. We recently got approval to merge this work into CRuby, and are very excited to share our work with the community. This post will take you thro…

"Guest post: Why 2024’s global temperatures were unprecedented, but not surprising"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Guest post: Why 2024’s global temperatures were unprecedented, but not surprising - Carbon Brief
Human-caused greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2024 continued to drive global warming to record levels.

Der MDR verlässt X/Twitter, aber nicht, weil es damit ein Problem gäbe, sondern weil es bei Meta und LinkedIn mehr Reichweite gibt.
Bitter, denn mind. Meta (Insta, FB, Threads) ist ja ähnlich schlimm.

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 19.06.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1923 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Richard Sherman charged with DUI stemming from 2024 arrest https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6434019/2025/06/18/richard-sherman-dui-charge-2024-arrest-seahawks/

Wildfires push tropical forest loss in Latin America to record highs https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/wildfires-push-tropical-forest-loss-in-latin-america-to-record-highs/

Wildfires push tropical forest loss in Latin America to record highs
MEXICO CITY — In 2024, six Latin American countries were in the top 10 nations with the highest loss of tropical primary forest, according to recent data from the University of Maryland, U.S. Topping the list were Brazil and Bolivia, in a year that saw the record-breaking loss of 6.7 million hectares (16.6 million acres) […]

»Was könnte die EU-Chatkontrolle für die Schweiz bedeuten?«
– von @…
Eine gute Frage, denn auch wenn die Schweiz nicht in der EU ist, betrifft es sie – direkt oder indirekt. Denn Datenschutz geht nur entweder oder und nicht evt. ein bisschen gut gemeint.
🕵️

Was könnte die EU-Chatkontrolle für die Schweiz bedeuten? - Das Netz ist politisch
Wie wir im September schon geschrieben haben, ist die Einführung einer Chatkontrolle in der EU nach wie vor ein Thema, auch wenn es zwischenzeitlich mangels

FKK-Strand goes Live-Stream...😱
Genau das ist in Niedersachsen passiert, wie der neue Tätigkeitsbericht des Landesdatenschützers Denis Lehmkemper für 2024 enthüllt.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10445504?wt_mc=sm.re

"World’s largest banks pledged $869bn to fossil fuel firms in 2024, new report finds"
#FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange

Männerfeindliche Straftaten jenseits der linken, rechten, ausländischen oder religiösen Ideologie habe von 2023 bis 2024 um 300 Prozent (!) zugenommen.
(Vier Fälle statt zuvor einen!)
Quelle: Factsheet BKA zu politlisch motivierter Hasskriminalität.
https://www.

TheMinerMag: median cost to mine a bitcoin is expected to rise 9.4% QoQ in Q2 2025 to $70K, up from $52K in Q4 2024, squeezing margins for less efficient miners (Brayden Lindrea/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-producti…

Healing Melodies
#HealingMusic #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2024/healing-melod

Healing Melodies #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

#TuneTuesday (June 17)
Continuing with the #PrideMonth 🏳️‍🌈 theme, I’m selecting #DavidArchuleta’s “Hell Together” for this week.
Released in 2024, this song was inspired by David’s mom’s …

Statista expects the global influencer marketing industry to grow 36% between 2024 and 2025, reaching $33B, as brands tighten overall ad budgets (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-14/influen…

https://hpiers.obspm.fr/eoppc/bul/buld/bulletind.145
Paris, 18 December 2024 Bulletin D 144
(er oops looks like they forgot to update the heading, should be 145)
ANNOUNCEMENT OF DUT1
From the 10 July 2025, 0h UTC until further notice, the value o…

Ach ja, es ist ja Sommerloch. Da kann man den Quatsch auch mal wieder hervorholen.
Fun Fact: Ich finde die Dinger sogar ganz nett, weil man dann direkt den Deckel griffbereit hat und wenn man es richtig benutzt stört der noch nichtmal beim Trinken. 🤷
https://ard.social/@tagesschau/1147044

To the genocide-loving German from mastodon.social who reported @… for being antisemitic:
Fuck you, you genocide-loving piece of shit, opposing genocide isn’t antisemitism. What you’re doing – conflating being anti-genocide with being antisemitic – is the greatest antisemitism as you’re de facto stating that all Jews are pro-genocide.

"Applications of the Critical Incident Technique in Library and Information Science Research: A Literature Review" https://doi.org/10.1515/libri-2024-0065

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

With the 4th #AAS246 press conference come the press releases #PUNCH and #CODEX sitting on the ISS. While the corona shape predictions for the 2024 total solar eclipse were published in https://www.predsci.com/corona/apr2024eclipse/home.php

Fact Check: 2023 Video Could NOT Show A Celebration Of Release Of Israeli Soldiers Detained In 2024 Detention Center Rape Case -- Video Shows An Unrelated Party: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/fact-check-video-could-not.html

In 2024, Vandenberg Space Force Base had 51 launches,
but proposed changes would increase that number to 100 launches per year at both the Space Launch Complex (SLC)-6 and SLC-4,
including both Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches. 
The Falcon Heavy, which according to the EIS, has not launched out of Vandenberg Space Force Base in the past, would launch a maximum of five times per year from the SLC-6.
Because of the Falcon Heavy’s two side boosters landing separately, …

Tight bounds of norms of Wasserstein metric matrix
Aaisha Be, Nachiketa Mishra, Debasisha Mishra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15326 https://

Tight bounds of norms of Wasserstein metric matrix
Very recently, Bai [Linear Algebra Appl., 681:150-186, 2024 \& Appl. Math. Lett., 166:109510, 2025] studied some concrete structures, and obtained essential algebraic and computational properties of the one-dimensional, two-dimensional and generalized Wasserstein-1 metric matrices. This article further studies some algebraic and computational properties of these classes of matrices. Specifically, it provides lower and upper bounds on the $1,2,\infty$-norms of these matrices, their inverses, and…

This is about racist Fat Nixon "Making America White Again", not 'immigration' policy.
Asians Americans: If you think this is about illegal immigration... wait 'til they come for us.
☑️ Fact-checking Over 12,000 of Trump’s Quotes About Immigrants
https://www.

Fact-checking Trump's Quotes About Immigrants
Trump repeats false and misleading claims on immigration, an analysis of 12,000 statements shows.

President Trump's 2024 financial disclosure report shows he earned ~$57M from his stake in World Liberty Financial and $1.2M from an NFT licensing deal (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/us/politics/trump-disclosure-cryptocu…

Trump Was Already a Crypto Czar in 2024
Financial disclosures for 2024 filed by the president on Friday show that digital coins had already become one of his family’s most successful ventures.

Heute ist bei uns in #BadOeYnhausen das #Stadtradeln gestartet und ich habe letztes Jahr schon etwas dazu geschrieben, was sich auch in diesem Jahr nicht geändert hat:

Alphabet Index Mapping: Jailbreaking LLMs through Semantic Dissimilarity
Bilal Saleh Husain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12685 https://…

Alphabet Index Mapping: Jailbreaking LLMs through Semantic Dissimilarity
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, yet their susceptibility to adversarial attacks, particularly jailbreaking, poses significant safety and ethical concerns. While numerous jailbreak methods exist, many suffer from computational expense, high token usage, or complex decoding schemes. Liu et al. (2024) introduced FlipAttack, a black-box method that achieves high attack success rates (ASR) through simple prompt manipulation. This paper investigates the underly…

Einschlag des Asteroiden 2024 YR₄ auf Mond noch einmal etwas wahrscheinlicher
Der Asteroid 2024 YR₄ ist vorerst außer Reichweite unserer Instrumente. Laut der letzten Beobachtung ist ein Einschlag auf dem Mond nun etwas wahrscheinlicher.

Texans' Tytus Howard: Offensive line is going to be 'more nasty' in 2025 https://www.nfl.com/news/texans-tytus-howard-offensive-line-is-going-to-be-more-nasty-in-2025

@… Sigh. Non-tech people always lean towards the old tech. Like REALLY old, about to hit 30 years, that’s USB-A. It’s been 10 years since USB-C already.
I think the logic of what “loads of people have” is fine except they were coping just fine 1997-2024 with NO ports at all, zero USB options were available
So if you’re building something in 2025…

Diarycast - Year In Review (2024) - The 2024 EOU diary, including finally ditching fossil gas... #yearInReview #heatPump - https://www.

Diarycast - Year In Review (2024)
The 2024 EOU diary, including finally ditching fossil gas... #yearInReview #heatPump

Thank you for the nice #qgisuc2025 summary and for the #Trajctools shout out, @… !

QGIS User Conference 2025
The QGIS International User Conference 2025 happened in Norrköping, Sweden from 2-3 June 2025. I have been to the previous conferences in 2024, 2023 and 2019 and always look forward to the annual e…

Fans' Choice: Vote for 910Preps Boys' Athlete of the Year for 2024-2025 https://www.fayobserver.com/story/sports/high-school/sports-awards/2025/06/10/fayetteville-nc-fans-c…

Ball path curvature and in-game free throw shooting proficiency in the National Basketball Association
Ruoqian Zhu, Dave Love, Scott Powers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13779

Ball path curvature and in-game free throw shooting proficiency in the National Basketball Association
Basketball shooting coaches agree that smoother shooting motions are better, but there is less agreement about what "smooth" means quantitatively or what part of the shooting motion needs to be smooth. Using ball tracking data from the 2023-2024 National Basketball Association regular season, we explore the relationship between ball path curvature and free throw shooting performance. We fit Bézier curves to the ball tracking data in the sagittal plane and test different methods of calculating …

New tests of cosmic distance duality relation with DESI 2024 BAO observations
Qiumin Wang, Shuo Cao, Jianyong Jiang, Kaituo Zhang, Xinyue Jiang, Tonghua Liu, Chengsheng Mu, Dadian Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12759

New tests of cosmic distance duality relation with DESI 2024 BAO observations
In this paper, we test the cosmic distance duality relation (CDDR), as required by the Etherington reciprocity theorem, which connects the angular diameter distance and the luminosity distance via the relation \( D_{\rm L}(z) = D_{\rm A}(z)(1+z)^2 \). Our analysis is based on the latest baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements provided by the Dark Energy Survey (DES), the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS)/Extended BOSS (eBOSS), and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DE…

I'm all for electrification of energy demand, e.g. for cars, home heating, and industrial processes.
But we shouldn't be betting the climate on it alone. The share of electricity in global final energy consumption reached 20% in 2023, up from 18% in 2015 (IEA, 2024):
https://www.iea.o…

from my link log —
Eidophor: 1950's space age video projection technology. (video)
https://youtu.be/3-BvMcqEc98?si=_OkQjEKADeva4QD5
saved 2024-10-08

Firefox OS's story from a mozilla insider not working on the project
#mozilla

Firefox OS's story from a mozilla insider not working on the project

The peculiar hard state behaviour of the black hole X-ray binary Swift J1727.8$-$1613
A. K. Hughes, F. Carotenuto, T. D. Russell, A. J. Tetarenko, J. C. A. Miller-Jones, R. M. Plotkin, A. Bahramian, J. S. Bright, F. J. Cowie, J. Crook-Mansour, R. Fender, J. K. Khaulsay, A. Kirby, S. Jones, M. McCollough, R. Rao, G. R. Sivakoff, S. D. Vrtilek, D. R. A. Williams-Baldwin, C. M. Wood, D. Altamirano, P. Casella, N. Castro Segura, S. Corbel, M. Del Santo, C. Echiburu-Trujillo, J. van den Eij…

The peculiar hard state behaviour of the black hole X-ray binary Swift J1727.8$-$1613
Tracking the correlation between radio and X-ray luminosities during black hole X-ray binary outbursts is a key diagnostic of the coupling between accretion inflows (traced by X-rays) and relativistic jet outflows (traced by radio). We present the radio--X-ray correlation of the black hole low-mass X-ray binary Swift~J1727.8$-$1613 during its 2023--2024 outburst. Our observations span a broad dynamic range, covering $\sim$4 orders of magnitude in radio luminosity and $\sim$6.5 in X-ray luminosi…

Doublespeak, hypocrisy, and shameless lying are requirements to be a Republican these days.
#uspol #GOP #TrumpFascist

The Potential Danger to Satellites due to Ejecta from a 2032 Lunar Impact by Asteroid 2024 YR4
Paul Wiegert, Peter Brown, Jack Lopes, Martin Connors
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11217

The Potential Danger to Satellites due to Ejecta from a 2032 Lunar Impact by Asteroid 2024 YR4
On 2032 December 22 the 60 m diameter asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 4% chance of impacting the Moon. Such an impact would release 6.5 MT TNT equivalent energy and produce a ~1 km diameter crater. We estimate that up to 10^8 kg of lunar material could be liberated in such an impact by exceeding lunar escape speed. Depending on the actual impact location on the Moon as much as 10% of this material may accrete to the Earth on timescales of a few days. The lunar ejecta-associated particle fluence at 0.1 …

AI Governance InternationaL Evaluation Index (AGILE Index) 2025
Yi Zeng, Enmeng Lu, Xiaoyang Guo, Cunqing Huangfu, Jiawei Xie, Yu Chen, Zhengqi Wang, Dongqi Liang, Gongce Cao, Jin Wang, Zizhe Ruan, Xin Guan, Ammar Younas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11546

AI Governance InternationaL Evaluation Index (AGILE Index) 2025
The year 2024 witnessed accelerated global AI governance advancements, marked by strengthened multilateral frameworks and proliferating national regulatory initiatives. This acceleration underscores an unprecedented need to systematically track governance progress--an imperative that drove the launch of the AI Governance InternationaL Evaluation Index (AGILE Index) project since 2023. The inaugural AGILE Index, released in February 2024 after assessing 14 countries, established an operational a…

The final presentation at the SEC 2025 - https://www.vvs.be/subsite/sec-2025/programme - was by Mariusz Krukar about the Impact of solar eclipses on twilight. He called the 1990 observations by Geyer et al. - https://opg.optica.org/ao/abstract.cfm?uri=ao-33-21-4614 (don't know of any OA version) - the best so far while in https://eeq.astro-geo-gis.com/2024-2/ he had predictions for 2024. The next SEC will probably be in 2029 - no location decided yet. 19/19

Autism and anarchy: The importance of autistic anarchism
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/04/10/autism-and-anarchy-the-importance-of-autistic-anarchism/

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 303 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29697 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.

Heh, I missed this because I don't care about the A Song of Ice and Fire books anymore, but I guess it's official:
> In December 2024, he stated that he might never finish [The Winds of Winter] or book series, but did reaffirm that it was still a priority for him[…].
Reminds me of how my privacy is apparently the priority to everyone on the web.

Heute das Wort "Medienzynismus" gelernt, und es ist schon bezeichnend, dass wir in Zeiten leben, in denen wir unterschiedliche Sorten von Zynismus differenzieren müssen.
Es gibt von allem zu viel, zu viele Eissorten, zu viele Shampoosorten, zu viele Kaffeesorten, zu viel Zynismus.

Suomessa on 31.12.2024 mennessä havaittu hyväksytysti 496 luonnonvaraiseksi luokiteltua lintulajia #luonto

BirdLife Suomi | Suomessa havaitut lintulajit
Yhdessä lintujen puolesta

Spoiled 4 Us All
#RockMusic #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2024/spoiled-4-us-

Spoiled 4 Us All #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Amsterdam-based Tebi, which offers a payments platform for hospitality companies, raised €30M led by CapitalG, after a €20M Series A in October 2024 (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/10/tebi

Tebi, the new startup by Adyen's departed cofounder, raises a fresh $30M from Alphabet's CapitalG | TechCrunch
Co-founded by Adyen's former CTO, Tebi helps restaurants, bars and other hospitality businesses manage their operations with an all-in-one subscription-based platform that can handle payments, reservations, inventory, and more.

YouTube releases its 2024 US Impact Report, which says YouTube's creative ecosystem contributed $55B to US GDP in 2024 and supported 490K full-time jobs (Alexandra Veitch/YouTube Official Blog)
https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/2024-us-youtube-impact-re…

2024 U.S. YouTube Impact Report
Learn how YouTube empowers creators and fuels the US economy. Our new report highlights a $55B US GDP contribution and 490K jobs supported, showcasing two decades of shared growth and creator success.

"ChatGPT ranking of business and management journals with article quality scores" https://doi.org/10.1108/AJIM-11-2024-0927 [closed access / paywall]

The Trump regime's coordinated repression did not come from nowhere.
In 2024, TheNew York Times reported that the Trump transition team was already planning to use emergency powers, such as the one Trump invoked on June 7,
to confront political opponents who protest the administration.
While the Trump administration planned this move for about a year,
the deployment of troops in Los Angeles is the brutal culmination of a yearslong campaign to systematically erod…

Military Crackdown on LA Protests Portends Further Erosion of Everyone’s Rights
Governments at all levels from both parties have paved the way to an authoritarian response to dissent.

Generative AI enterprise search startup Glean raises a $150M Series F led by Wellington Management, bringing its valuation to $7.2B, up from $4.6B in Sept. 2024 (Afshan Musani/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/10/glean-gen-ai…

Glean, gen AI enterprise search startup, raises $150 million in deal adding billions to valuation
Glean, a generative AI enterprise search startup, raised $150 million from investors in a deal that increased its valuation to over $7 billion.

Coronal spectra of the 2024 Total #SolarEclipse with the ALIMAS and UV-PAMIS spectrographs flown on a WB-57 plane - as explained in https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1645372 with the plane in question in https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14562/ - shown by Adalbert Ding at the SEC. 18/n

NASA: May 2025 was the 2nd warmest May on record, globally: 1.07°C above the 1951-1980 average. Only May 2024 was warmer.
Highest anomalies in the Siberian Arctic, Central Asia, and the West-Antarctic.
#globalwarming #ClimateChange

Dallas Cowboys predicted to fix RB room with Notre Dame Heisman hopeful https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-football/news/dallas-cowboys-predicted-fix-rb-room-notre-dame-heisman-hopeful/ed44365e…

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 273 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29727 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.

'He definitely has an arm': Five things we know about J.J. McCarthy as he preps to be Vikings' starting QB https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45523859/nfl-minnesota-vikings-jj-mccarthy-quarterback

Die Meng Xiang: Fertig, um den Meeresboden zu stalken. 🕵️‍♂️
Das Forschungsschiff, das im November 2024 in Dienst gestellt wurde, soll bis zu 11 Kilometer tief in den Meeresboden bohren und Proben aus bisher unerforschten Regionen sammeln.
Zum Artikel: https://

Have A Plan - 10 Tips for Boosting Productivity
#solopreneur #productivity
https://

Have A Plan - 10 Tips for Boosting Productivity
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

from my link log —
The sorry state of Java deserialization.
https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_110_java_io/
saved 2024-09-22 https://

TollBit: from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025, traffic from AI retrieval bots to 266 websites, half run by national and local news organizations, grew 49%, as AI usage jumps (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

‘This is coming for everyone’: A new kind of AI bot takes over the web
As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI chatbots.

Comprehensive Radio Monitoring of the Black Hole X-ray Binary Swift J1727.8$-$1613 during its 2023$-$2024 Outburst
Andrew K. Hughes, Francesco Carotenuto, Thomas D. Russell, Alexandra J. Tetarenko, James C. A. Miller-Jones, Arash Bahramian, Joe S. Bright, Fraser J. Cowie, Rob Fender, Mark A. Gurwell, Jasvinderjit K. Khaulsay, Anastasia Kirby, Serena Jones, Elodie Lescure, Michael McCollough, Richard M. Plotkin, Ramprasad Rao, Saeqa D. Vrtilek, David R. A. Williams-Baldwin, Callan M. Wo…

Comprehensive Radio Monitoring of the Black Hole X-ray Binary Swift J1727.8$-$1613 during its 2023$-$2024 Outburst
This work presents comprehensive multi-frequency radio monitoring of the black hole low-mass X-ray binary Swift J1727.8$-$1613, which underwent its first recorded outburst after its discovery in August 2023. Through a considerable community effort, we have coalesced the data from multiple, distinct observing programs; the light curves include ${\sim} 10$ months and 197 epochs of monitoring from 7 radio facilities with observing frequencies ranging from (approximately) 0.3$-$230GHz. The primary …

CB Insights: VCs and private equity firms poured $3.1B to fund 144 deals in the LA area in Q1 2025, up from $2.7B in Q1 2024 and $1.4B in Q1 2023 (Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-06-06/venture-capital-…

Venture capital investment rises in L.A., and not just for AI startups
Venture capital investors and private equity firms poured $3.1 billion to fund 144 deals in the L.A. area in the first quarter of this year, up 15% from a year ago.

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 248 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29752 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.

Drifting
(be sure to check out the #musicvideo with RB romping through the snow)
#NowPlaying
https://mu…

Drifting #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

"Natural England Silent as 10,769 Badgers Killed Under Faulty 2024 Cull Licences and 2025 Culls Loom"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Badgers

Natural England Silent as 10,769 Badgers Killed Under Faulty 2024 Cull Licences and 2025 Culls Loom
Over 10,000 badgers were culled in 2024 under unlawfully issued licences, yet Natural England remains silent on the upcoming 2025 supplementary culls due to begin on 1 June.

TollBit: from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025, traffic from AI retrieval bots to 266 websites, including national and local news organizations, grew 49%, as AI usage jumps (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

‘This is coming for everyone’: A new kind of AI bot takes over the web
As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI chatbots.

from my link log —
EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/10/ebcdic-is-incompatible-with-gdpr/
saved 2024-10-28

EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR
Welcome to acronym city! The Court of Appeal of Brussels has made an interesting ruling. A customer complained that their bank was spelling the customer's name incorrectly. The bank didn't have support for diacritical marks. Things like á, è, ô, ü, ç etc. Those accents are common in many languages. So it was a little surprising that the bank didn't support them. The bank refused to spell their c…

Documents: since mid-December 2024, YouTube told moderators to prioritize "freedom of expression" over potential harm, exempting political and culture videos (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/technology/youtube-video…

YouTube Loosens Video Content Moderation Rules
The world’s largest video platform has told content moderators to favor “freedom of expression” over the risk of harm in deciding what to take down.

Offenbar ist #Brandenburg mit Tesla noch nicht genug gestraft. Amazon will auch was vom Wasser.
Und nein, mit 'Souveränität' hat es nichts zu tun, wenn einer von Trumps Buddys hier mehr Geld verdienen will.
Ort ist noch geheim: Internet, kriegen wir das raus?
Amazon will als Cloud-Anbieter 8 Milliarden Euro in Brandenburg investieren | rbb24

Spotify: 17.000 Künstler aus der EU verdienen mehr als 10.000 Euro
2024 strichen europäische Künstler auf Spotify 1,7 Milliarden Euro an Tantiemen ein. Für die meisten bleibt es aber schwierig, von den Ausschüttungen zu leben.

Sometimes Being Unsigned Means DIY
- Do I prefer collaboration and teamwork? You bet. But... sometimes... -
- #IndieMusician #DIYMusician -

Sometimes Being Unsigned Means DIY - #IndieMusician
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Documents: since mid-December 2024, YouTube told moderators to prioritize "freedom of expression" over potential harm, exempting political and culture videos (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/technology/youtube-video…

YouTube Loosens Video Content Moderation Rules
The world’s largest video platform has told content moderators to favor “freedom of expression” over the risk of harm in deciding what to take down.

Can Eagles DC Vic Fangio strike lightning twice? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45479932/philadelphia-eagles-defense-vic-fangio-strike-lightning-twice-2025

from my link log —
What is systems programming, really?
https://willcrichton.net/notes/systems-programming/
saved 2024-10-10

Im Jahr 2024 wurden mehr als zwei Drittel aller neuen #Wohngebäude in #Deutschland primär mit #Wärmepumpen beheizt.
Ihr Anteil hat sich in zehn Jahren mehr als verdoppelt. Tr…

Mehr als zwei Drittel der im Jahr 2024 errichteten Wohngebäude heizen mit Wärmepumpen
In immer mehr neuen Wohngebäuden in Deutschland werden Wärmepumpen zum Heizen genutzt. Mehr als zwei Drittel (69,4 %) der knapp 76 100 im Jahr 2024 fertiggestellten Wohngebäude nutzen Wärmepumpen zur primären, also überwiegend für das Heizen eingesetzten Energie. Gegenüber 2023 stieg der Anteil um rund 5 Prozentpunkte, gegenüber 2014 (31,8 %) hat er sich mehr als verdoppelt, wie das Statistische Bundesamt (Destatis) mitteilt. Wärmepumpen kommen vor allem in Ein- und Zweifamilienhä…

Since November 2024, Serbia had a sharp rise in attacks on journalists amid political unrest, including 23 physical assaults and 128 total attacks and threats (Attila Mong/Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/06/alarming-escal

Alarming escalation in attacks on journalists amid political crisis in Serbia - Committee to Protect Journalists
Berlin, June 3, 2025—What journalists called a “witch hunt” atmosphere against government critics in Serbia one year ago has since escalated into a rise in attacks and threats against the press, following a deadly railway station collapse in November 2024 that triggered a widespread anti-corruption movement. Initial protests demanding accountability for the tragedy have turned...

from my link log —
Histogramming bytes with positional popcount, GF2P8AFFINEQB edition.
http://bitmath.blogspot.com/2024/11/histogramming-bytes-with-positional.html
saved 2024-11-10

Histogramming bytes with positional popcount (GF2P8AFFINEQB edition)
A while ago, after some back and forth on twitter/X with @corsix , I dropped some implementation of byte histogramming without explaini...

Tesla sues ex-Optimus engineer Zhongjie Li, who worked at Tesla from 2022 to 2024, accusing him of stealing humanoid robot info and setting up a rival startup (Dana Hull/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Seven questions on sophomore NFL QBs: What's next for Penix, Williams, Daniels, Maye https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45465496/2025-nfl-season-sophomore-quarterbacks-williams-daniels-maye-nix-mccarthy-pe…

Der Winter 2024/25 brachte in den #Alpen teils Rekord-#Trockenheit und extremen #Schneemangel.
An der #Zugspitze

Alpen-Bilanz 2024/25: Rekord-Trockenheit und Schneemangel
Rekord-Trockenheit in den Alpen: Im Winter 2024/25 fiel mancherorts so wenig Schnee wie seit über 90 Jahren nicht mehr. Auch an der Zugspitze wurden Negativrekorde gemessen.

Nominal, which makes industrial design software for space, energy, and defense tech, raised $75M led by Sequoia, after raising $27M in April 2024 (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Digging My Way Out
#NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2024/digging-my-way-out-nowplaying/

Digging My Way Out #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Interview with Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak on Apple's struggles to ship AI features, demoed in 2024, with the "V1 Siri architecture" and work on a V2 model (Lance Ulanoff/TechRadar)
https://www.techra…

This is what really happened with Siri and Apple Intelligence, according to Apple
Is it a delay, a strategy... or something else?

from my link log —
Exploring Typst, a new typesetting system similar to LaTeX.
https://blog.jreyesr.com/posts/typst/
saved 2024-10-12 https://

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 197 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29803 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.

Visa: stablecoin transaction volumes hit $752B in May, up from $409B in May 2024, and wallets that regularly send and receive payments hit a record 46M average (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b69f304c-798e-4dc3-9f17-6f7a7c8d3ac0

How stablecoins are entering the financial mainstream
Usage of the digital assets is growing rapidly, but concerns remain about supervision and their impact on other parts of the financial system

from my link log —
Ki: wireless power for kitchen appliances. (video)
https://youtu.be/90Q7OM3W8T0
saved 2024-10-12 https://dotat.at/…

Israeli data security startup Cyera raised $540M led by Georgian, Greenoaks, and Lightspeed at a $6B valuation, up from $3B in November 2024 after raising $300M (Steven Scheer/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 226 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29774 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.

Crypto PAC Fairshake says it has raised $109M since the US elections in November 2024, and $52M in H1 2025, as it prepares for the 2026 US midterm elections (Sarah Wynn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/362685/crypto

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 113 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29887 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.

A former employee says fewer than 10,000 people use Ola Krutrim's LLM chatbot, which supports 10 Indian languages, and that over 60% of them are random testers (Swathi Moorthy/The Economic Times)
https://

Krutrim finds few takers for its LLMs and cloud products
Ola founder Aggarwal first announced Krutrim in December 2023, launching an LLM that could support 10 Indian languages, starting with Krutrim chatbot in February 2024, and cloud offering shortly after. Two founders told ET recently that repeated sign-in attempts were blocked by a persistent “logged out of session” error, making sign-up via mobile or Gmail difficult.

A live blog of WWDC, where OS redesigns, new naming conventions, and more are expected, after failing to deliver on Apple Intelligence, unveiled at WWDC 2024 (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/681646/apple-wwdc-2025-news-rumors-ios-26…

WWDC 2025: all the news from Apple’s annual developer conference
Apple faces some unusually high stakes at this year’s WWDC.

UK neobank Monzo reports FY 2025 revenue up 48% YoY to £1.2B, a £60.5M pre-tax profit, up from £13.9M in FY 2024, deposits up 48% YoY to £16.6B, and 12M users (Yadarisa Shabong/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/b

Defense tech startup Anduril raised a $2.5B Series G led by Founders Fund, which invested $1B, at a $30.5B valuation, up from $14B in August 2024 (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20