2025-09-27 15:42:01
Always interesting to me when people react to something bad someone said and are quoting them and I realize I blocked that person ages ago because…
*drumroll*
…they had terrible opinions before.
Why YouTube is key to Google's success in AI, with YouTube's AI enhancements making video content more monetizable than text-based content in Search (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2025/the-youtube-tip-of-the-google-spear/
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'Bound to browsable' - love this detailed overview of the work that goes into making specific formats (like magazines) more findable in online catalogues https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2025/09/unlocking-historical-media-publications/
Super excited to release the latest version of "A Data-Centric Introduction to Computing" (DCIC). See release notes for 2025-08-27 for what's changed and new (a LOT!): https://dcic-world.org/2025-08-27/Release_Notes.html#(part._.Version_2025-08-…
ⓘ This user watches TV in the UK without a license 📺
Lightroom 9.0: Automatische Retusche, Bildauswahl und Staubentfernung
Adobe hat den Raw-Entwickler Lightroom um KI-Werkzeuge erweitert, die automatisch Staub und Hautpartien retuschieren sollen – auf dem Desktop und Mobilgeräten.
U.S. faces rising death toll from wildfire smoke, study finds #UnitedStates
[BLOG] BitBastelei #663 – WiFi-Smart-Glühbirne https://www.adlerweb.info/blog/2025/09/28/bitbastelei-663-wifi-smart-gluehbirne/
Life after lockdown: five years on, this is how Australia has changed since Covid first started
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025/09/25/the-stats-guy-covid-5-years
Cat for #caturday
Eso hubo un encuentro de #OpenStreetMap buenísimo! mí presentación sobre #panoramax con todos links estš acš: https://talks.tzovar.as/2025-09-27-lujan/
from my link log —
Pairs not taken: a history of twisted pair ethernet.
https://computer.rip/2025-01-05-pairs-not-taken.html
saved 2025-09-11 htt…
It's time for San Francisco to follow Austin's and Evanston's lead and end its Flock contract.
https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/115273074215468855
RE: https://mastodon.online/@zl2tod/115273632073307158
Actually laughed out loud.
Nexstar says it will resume airing Jimmy Kimmel Live! tonight (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/jimmy-kimmel-fully-back-abc-tv-nexstar-sinclair-1236530517/
Fox News Legal Analyst On Comey Indictment: 'I Don't Think There's A Case' | Crooks and Liars
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/09/fox-news-legal-analyst-comey-indictment-i
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The server on which my liberaforms instance runs is not configured to send outgoing email (because I haven't got round to doing that). When I try to create a new user, the page at `/admin/invites/new` just hangs (which is reasonable because it can't send email) and no record is created in the `invites` table. The form at `/site/new-user…
Ukrainian drones target Moscow in overnight attack, mayor says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/27/ukrainian-drones-target-moscow-in.html
More on CBP treatment of Canadians at the US border, this time with CBP’s own statistics, which are interesting: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/us-canada-device-searches-1.7619944?cmp=rss
It looks like the world might finally be doing something. The words from the Colombian and Finnish presidents are especially poignant! The US (like Russia and China) is quickly isolating itself on the global stage. https://yewtu.be/watch?v=vvSsGE6UwsI or
Is GW190521 a gravitational wave echo of wormhole remnant from another universe? #Wormhole Linking Universes: https://www.sciencealert.com/unusual-gravitational-wave-may-be-sign-of-wormhole-linking-universes -> Wormhole echoes shatter our reality - scientists catch ghost signal from parallel world: https://x.com/WIONews/status/1971066689753112859 (Indian TV news clip).
»Deutsche Bank warnt — Nur KI-Blase halte US-Wirtschaft noch zusammen:
Die KI-Blase werde eher früher als später platzen, weil sie nicht genug Einnahmen generieren könne, um die benötigte Rechenleistung aufrechtzuerhalten.«
Ergibt dies dann massenweise "günstige" Webserver oder haufenweise leerstehende digitale Räume? Auf jeden Fall wird KI teurer, wenn deren Werbepropaganda ausgeschöpft ist.
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Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
-- Ambrose Bierce
‼️Die #Petition
"Weitere Erforschung der Augenerkrankung Glaukom sowie Entwicklung neuer Therapien vom 01.08.2025"
hat bisher 66 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29934 Unterschriften bis zum 09.12.2025.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@ricmac/115271555614918116
Thanks for the feature 🙇♂️
@… ich finde die sehen top aus! Wenn da mal Farbe drauf ist, werde die sehr stimmungsvoll sein! Hab hier auch schon ne Menge Styrodur verarbeitet 🫣
2026 tech art adjacent conference dates are popping up.. With a lot happening in Europe
* Movement Computing, Montpellier FR - 23-25 Apr (deadline 1st Nov 25) https://moco26.movementcomputing.org/
* New Instruments for Musical Expression (NIME) London UK - 23–26 June
Thinking about it, if Russia combines deploying his own drones from ships at sea in Denmark and elsewhere, with activating people inside Europe to try the same with their hobby drones, things could get chaotic because detection and defense systems in Europe are not very capable in handling drones….🤔
#drones #russia
An diesem Beispiel könnte man schön diskutieren und zeigen, wie meist diejenigen, die unter der Normalitäten leiden, weil ihre Lebensqualität beschnitten wird, widerständig sein müssen, die Verhältnisse anklagen, um deutlich zu machen, das etwas, was für viele normal, manchmal etwas nervig, für andere Menschen schlicht gefährlich ist. Aber genau das sollte nicht so sein - und gesellschaftliche Verhältnisse derart eingerichtet, dass diese „marginalen“ Positionen genau das nicht mehr sind, son…
Putting cyclists in boxes: An analysis of the bike box
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214367X25001620
Looks like bike boxes are not very useful, i.e. mostly used like in the image below (which means not being used as intended) - now co…
Die Musiker sind bereit, ihr auch? 20 Uhr geht's los
#Gospel #interkulturelleWoche #Ostfildern
While the US can protect security in Europe and deserves our undying gratitude for having done so for the last 80 years,
Europeans cannot protect democracy in the US.
They can and must, however, protect liberal democracy in Europe,
which risks becoming a collateral victim of Trump’s domestic and foreign policy agenda.
What happens in America doesn’t stay in America.
It is often a precursor for trends in Europe.
Just as the
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Cc: @…
Today (September 27) is International Rabbit Day, and some of you know my favorite rabbit is and will always be Bugs. Here's several different Bugs Bunny designs through the years, from different directors.
#InternationalRabbitDay #rabbits
NVIDIA Just Solved The Hardest Problem in Physics Simulation! by Two Minute Papers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NF3CdXkm68
When I first saw the news alert pop up, I thought it said “Trump deploys troops to Poland, authorizes full force”. Which would have been a sort of good thing? #russiaukraine
Then I blinked and realized it said Portland.
I should have known better. Wishful thinking.
#theAmericanFascist
A profile of Justin Sun, who was facing an SEC fraud lawsuit before investing $90M in Trump family cryptocurrencies and becoming a business associate of Trump (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-09-26/cr…
Rails is Omakase
Omarchy is Seppuku
Die wahrgenommene Alternativlosigkeit des Kapitalismus war nie klarer ausgedrückt in Menschenfeindlichkeit, als bei der rassistischen Lüge der Überbevölkerung.
Apparently, I am the 279ᵗʰ most followed person in the Mastodon. Cat propaganda works!!
🐱 https://most-followed-mastodon-accounts.stefanhayden.com/?page=6
Most Caribbean coral reefs to stop growing by 2040, study warns https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/09/most-caribbean-coral-reefs-to-stop-growing-by-2040-study-warns/
Not for nothing, but if Portland had its own nuclear capability, they wouldn’t be facing imminent invasion by the United States federal government. /s
#USpol
Just because it starts with 'E' doesn't mean it's the same thing, Donny... #EpsteinFiles
Trump Orders Unsealing of All Files on Amelia Earhart and Her Disappearance - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/us/politics/trump-amelia-earhart-files.html
Lithuania shuts down airports for 3rd night in row, closes border crossings indefinitely due to balloons from Belarus: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/27/lithuania-shuts-down-airports-for.html
This is a great talk to the UN General Assembly from the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Maria Ressa: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=d4kizE2LgUU or https://www.you…
»Rauswurf - Massenüberwachung — Microsoft sperrt israelische Militäreinheit von Clouddiensten aus:
Es handelt sich um einen symbolischen Akt. Die israelische Armee verlegt Millionen von Telefondaten aus dem Gazastreifen in einen Cloudspeicher von Amazon«
Nun ja, Microsoft sammelt selber und bietet Datensammlung als "Dienstleistung" an und somit uns selber sehr wohl der Massenüberwachung ausgibt.
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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane,
most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear
that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition
continuously until death do them part.
-- George Bernard Shaw
🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
Retröt: An immer mehr Tagen belastet #Hitze unsere #Gesundheit.
Ab 30°C steigen Herz-Kreislauf-Probleme, #Krankenhauseinweisungen und
on my blog!
https://dotat.at/@/2025-08-28-strongly-typed.html
What does it mean when someone writes that a programming language is “strongly typed”? I thought about why it’s such a poorly-defined term.
I came up with more than five meanings!
All writ…
New York City has imposed a 15mph speed limit on ebikes.
I'm not worried though, because where I live I bike on a street with a 25mph speed limit and cars routinely go 30mph or faster.
I know this because I bike on the road at 25mph and cars go flying past me.
So if they don't enforce it for cars are they really gonna enforce it for bikes?
@… klingt wie Unsinn, den irgendwelche Youtube Dullies erzählen
Let me rephrase that: this video is fucking awesome and anyone in the US should watch at least the beginning, and my hacker comrades should watch to the end, clone the repo, and have some fun....
https://github.com/bennjordan/ALPRovingGround
War ganz schön was los heute zur #RadnachtDresden des @…! :mastogrin:
Nicht im Bild: Die Fahrradschlange, die sich bereits über die gesamte Marienbrücke erstreckt! 💪
Gonna have really clean and opinionated Linux desktops while the storm-troops patrol the streets outside
What Republic of Congo’s gold rush is leaving behind #Congo
Who needs friends when you can sit alone in your room and drink?
Trump's trade battle with China puts US soybean farmers in peril | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/trumps-trade-battle-with-china-puts-us-soybean-farmers-in-peril
@… @… ich versuche mir das mal bis Montag zu merken, dann kann ichs nachschlagen. Wenn ichs vergesse bitte nochmal pingen
Die #Kernfusionskollektoranlage hat heute 0,690 kWh Energie eingefangen.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: 58 Grad
Diese #Balkonsolaranlage wurde durch das Berliner SolarPLUS-Programm gefördert.
Einspeiseverlust: 5.28 %
»Kammerflimmern:
Eines Morgens fallen in Zürich und Umgebung plötzlich Menschen tot um. Und es hört nicht auf. Bald schon kommen die Ermittlerinnen Isabelle Grandjean und Tessa Ott der unangenehmen Wahrheit auf die Spur - Verantwortlich für die Todesfälle ist ein massiver Cyberangriff.«
So schlecht ist dieser Tatort vom SRF nicht einmal obwohl ich TV selten gucke.
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Q&A with reinforcement learning pioneer Richard Sutton on why LLMs are not the path to achieving human intelligence, world models, continual learning, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/richard-sutton
Illness, animal deaths and water shortages: life inside Chile’s polluted ‘sacrifice zones’ https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/sep/22/illness-animal-deaths-water-shortages-chile-po…
@… und jedes mal die zwei gleichen Spots. So wars zumindest bei Kimmel am Dienstag. Selbst den hab ich mir nicht zuende ansehen können. Youtube ist kaputt
Windows NT Beer: Comes in 32-oz. cans, but you can only buy it by the
truckload. This causes most people to have to go out and buy bigger
refrigerators. The can looks just like Windows 3.1 Beer's, but the
company promises to change the can to look just like Windows 95 Beer's --
after Windows 95 beer starts shipping. Touted as an "industrial strength"
beer, and suggested only for use in bars.
A fire at South Korea's National Information Resources Service's data center shut down 647 government IT systems, disrupting services such as postal banking (Lee Jung-joo/The Korea Herald)
https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10584785
Die #Kernfusionskollektoranlage hat heute 0,292 kWh Energie eingefangen.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: 58 Grad
Diese #Balkonsolaranlage wurde durch das Berliner SolarPLUS-Programm gefördert.
Einspeiseverlust: 5.3 %
»Data-Worker und Drecksarbeit — Raus aus der Unsichtbarkeit:
Damit KI und Social Media nutzbar werden, blicken Data-Worker im Verborgenen in Abgründe. In Kenia regt sich nun aber Widerstand.«
Dass das "Training" für KI nicht menschenlos geht wollen anscheinend viele nicht wahrhaben wollen. Die müssen ungeschützt das dreckigste ansehen damit wir ein "Wohlgefühl" beim Web-Konsum erhalten.
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Super Typhoon Ragasa batters Hong Kong – video https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2025/sep/25/super-typhoon-ragasa-batters-hong-kong-video
Typhoon Ragasa batters Hong Kong and south China after killing dozens in Taiwan and Phil…
iRobot co-founder Rodney Brooks details why humanoid robots won't learn human-level dexterity from current methods, how to make them safe for humans, and more (Rodney Brooks)
https://rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids-wont-learn-dexterity/
The number of arguments is unimportant unless some of them are correct.
-- Ralph Hartley
»Teens arrested by Dutch police reportedly suspected of spying for Russia:
Two teenagers have been arrested in the Netherlands on suspicion of espionage, reportedly on behalf of pro-Russian hackers.«
Telegram is absolutely insecure, not only because it is unencrypted or the drug market that goes through it, but because Russia knows exactly how to exploit young people like the mafia.
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EU chemical firms plan to export rising quantities of ‘toxic’ pesticides, documents show https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/23/eu-chemical-firms-export-toxic-pesticides
The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
-- Pliny the Elder
The Other Linux Logo
Hi Linux lovers, feel free to share, use and edit this Linux logo we have designed for you. The good old Tux logo is really cool, we love and use it but a simple and efficient logo to identify Linux is missing. The Other Linux Logo is more icon-friendly and adapted to small sizes. Also, we want people to have the choice when it comes to picture the awesomeness of Linux!
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After AWS's major outage, Signal's Meredith Whittaker says there "isn't really another choice" but to use AWS and "the entire stack" is "owned by 3-4 players" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/807147/signal…
College:
The fountains of knowledge, where everyone goes to drink.
»GenAI-Infrastruktur anfällig für Cyberattacken:
Eine aktuelle Studie zeigt — GenAI-Anwendungen in Unternehmen werden zunehmend von Hackern attackiert.«
Nun ja… überraschend ist dies nicht, da die KI das "Hacking" um einiges automatisiert so wie vereinfacht. Dies wird mMn sich nicht rel. schnell in die positive Richtung sich ändern, egel was die in ihrer Werbung äussern.
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Sources: JPMorgan Chase is giving staff the option to use its in-house LLM to write year-end performance reviews, a shortcut to the often painstaking process (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/84308936-e277-4ae0-b384-502d60375456
»UN-Sicherheitsrat — EU-Ratspräsident Costa mahnt globale KI-Regulierung an:
"Die Risiken sind real - Fehlkalkulation, Eskalation und Proliferation", betont EU-Ratspräsident Costa bei der Uno. Die Staatengemeinschaft müsse rasch handeln.«
Da KI schon länger als Propaganda Hilfsmittel genutzt wird ist nicht neu, wird aber gerne von vielen gerne Ignoriert da die es für ihren Vorteil nutzen.
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Coverbase, an AI procurement and risk platform provider, raised a $16.5M Series A led by Canapi Ventures, bringing its total funding to $20M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/coverbase-raise-ai-powered-procurement/
»PQConnect: Automated post-quantum end-to-end tunnels«
— by Daniel J. Bernstein
After AI, PQC will be the current topic in IT. It is actually already but not popular. Almost every (larger) IT company is now working on being able to carry out the communication and data transfer securely without the influence of third parties.
📺 https://www.
»Frühere Beraterin Bidens — Trump fordert Entlassung von Microsoft-Managerin:
#US-Präsident #Trump geht weiter gegen politische Gegner vor. Nun fordert er den Rausschmiss von #Microsoft-Managerin Monaco. Sie war…