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Former Google staffers and others detail why Google's 2013 effort to build Motorola smartphones in Texas failed, as Trump pushes Apple to make iPhones in the US (Verne Kopytoff/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/07/05/what-ap
Former Google staffers and others detail why Google's 2013 effort to build Motorola smartphones in Texas failed, as Trump pushes Apple to make iPhones in the US (Verne Kopytoff/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/07/05/what-ap
Spiele-Lobby: "Stop Destroying Videogames" verteuert Spiele
Wenn die Forderungen der EU-Bürgerinitiative erfüllt werden, werden Spiele teurer, meinen die Lobbyisten. Private Server seien auch nicht immer eine Option.
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from my link log —
That fractal that's been up on my wall for 12 years.
https://chriskw.xyz/2025/05/21/Fractal/
saved 2025-05-23 htt…
Due to popular demand, we made the web exports easy to download:
https://blog.la-terminal.net/export-to-itch-downloadable-exports-now-available/
Löffelholz-Codex, Nuremberg 1505 Via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Codex_Loeffelholz_F_27v_- wheellock -_rotated_90°_CCW.png
In a new wide-ranging interview, DT grad student Shawki Izzat gets me to gab about the sordid state of this country and stuff https://youtu.be/qm32Ok3wbEo
»Forscher verstecken LLM-Prompts in Papern, um bessere Bewertungen zu erhalten:
Forscher verstecken in ihren Papern Prompts, die bessere Bewertungen bringen sollen und faule Reviewer entlarven können.«
Aha, so klug ist also die KI und forscht über sich selber in der KI? Nun ja das war mMn vorhersehbar, denn Betrug gab es in der Wissenschaft schon immer wieder. Nun dies löst zumindest eine Diskussion aus.
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With the advent of ELIZA, Joseph Weizenbaum's first psychotherapist chatbot, NLP took another major step with pattern-based substitution algorithms based on simple regular expressions.
Weizenbaum, Joseph (1966). ELIZA—a computer program for the study of natural language communication between man and machine. Com. of the ACM. 9: 36–45.
« Nom et arborescence de Monorepo »
#Monorepo
Unser virales "Switzerland is Fake" Video hat auf allen Kanälen 4,2 Millionen Views gesammelt. Ist eine Zusammenarbeit mit dem Fotomuseum Winterthur, das am 17. Mai endlich wieder auf geht. (Winterthur existiert natürlich auch nicht).
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ub02Si5T9lI…
Just got the opportunity to email an MD named William Love
And yes, if no response in the next day or two, I will be...Calling Dr. Love 😆 🤘
Australian Green Party crushed in election after running hard on anti-Israel platform & attacking Labor govt as "complicit in genocide." 1st-choice vote (AU has ranked-vote system) drops from 12.25% to 11.75%, despite gains from Muslim voters. In races where final choice is Green vs Labor, more conservative voters overcome their past distaste for union-dominated Labor & transfers run massively against Greens.
Result: Greens lose at least 2 and maybe all 4 of their seat…
🌰 The surprisingly tricky art of seed banking
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2025/seed-banking-to-preserve-rare-plants
Skype Is Officially Shutting Down for Good https://www.howtogeek.com/skype-shut-down-may-5-2025/
I wasn't a fan or anything, but like for many others, it was my first video conferencing app and I can't help but feel a certain sense of melancholy.
My interests include being interested in interesting things.
I found this today when messing around with lifting-bits/sleigh build options and got a build error. Very interesting! Dynamic p-code shenanigans!
“TLDR: there is a (undocumented and disabled by default) feature in the Ghidra decompiler that lets you create your own decompiler passes, using a custom DSL. I leverage it to write a deobfuscation rule for a simple obfuscation technique.”
Thanks you @…
“Just as Nazi Germany’s crimes could not have been committed without the technology IBM provided to track, round-up and murder Jews, Romani people and the disabled, Israel’s apartheid and genocide of the Palestinians would not be possible without Microsoft.”
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/05/23/mi…
Does anyone have experience with running docker images of other Linux distros in GitHub Actions CI?
Use case is validating that things build and run under e.g. Fedora or Arch given an outer Ubuntu system. It won't be perfect because you're still running the Ubuntu kernel but should be good enough to find obvious build problems, produce usable nightly builds, etc.
⚠️ Dear amazing people,
After a company reorganization, I will be available to empower new teams. Please help me reach out them by boosting or directly introducing me. I truly appreciate your help!
https://talkweb.eu/you-need-me/
Roles : {Technical} Program Management, Tactical Prod…
Ich hatte gestern die Chance, mir die Funktionsweise rund um den automatischen Upload bei der @… -Android-App erklären zu lassen.
Seither bin ich viel geduldiger, weil ich jetzt weiss, dass vieles, was ich sonst so ausprobiert hatte, nichts bringt.
Damit ihr nicht auch im Dunkeln tappen müsst, habe ich die Erklärung für euch zusammengefasst.
Trump's economic and tariff chaos is causing businesses to back off expansion plans.
https://scdailygazette.com/2025/06/05/electric-vehicle-battery-company-halts-construction-of-sc-manufacturing-plant/
Außer das für ganz stark vertrahlte überhaupt erkennbar wird, dass Radfahrende auf der Fahrbahn fahren dürfen, haben #Schutzstreifen keinen Mehrwert, Nachteilen für die Sicherheit haben sie immer.
Sie sind das Kompromissangebot der autogerechten Verkehrsplanung an alle, die mehr als nichts für den Radverkehr und wenigstens einen kleinen Fortschritt sehen wollen.
Mit Arbeit verdirbt man sich den ganzen Tag.
At #ideon, the chargers deliver 3.4kW... I've never seen such slow destination charing. I need to book another hotel night to ensure that I get back home (or just fash charge along the road)
Trump’s new budget bill hides an assault on hospice | Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/06/06/trumps-new-budget-bill-hides-an-on-hospice/
Tag 7 von Leon bis Puente de Orbigo. Es waren ca 35 km weil wir den schöneren Weg durchs Grüne genommen haben. Heute waren die Gespräche besonders interessant und intensiv. Und die kirchliche Herberge wird von der deutschen Jakobusgesellschaft betrieben. Passenderweise hatten sie ein Radler für mich. Da musste es dann natürlich auch handgeschabte schwäbische #Kässpätzle geben nach d…
Even took two #panoramax images from the summit 😁 https://panoramax.openstreetmap.fr/?background=streets&focus=map&map=17/-30.958606/-64.323701&speed=250
It's terrible to lose a child unsuccessfully.
@… Works much better if you openshit, I tried to closedshit once and it ended very badly.
Our hotel wifi keeps glitching. I'm guessing that there's a captive portal or something that is disabled, but the device randomly wants to send people to that network. Sometimes you'll have a 10.0.x.x IP address and everything will be fine, but other times you connect and you'll get a 192.168.1.x IP address and can't even reach the gateway (192.168.1.250). So on two different laptops, I've had to disable dhcp and hardcode 10.0.x.x IP addresses in order to get working …
This.
"The Utah Legislature bears responsibility for the death of Arthur Folasa Ah Loo."
#StandYourGround #PermitlessCarry #OpenCarry
La “jaraneta” y sus lomos de toro. Columna de Daniel Matamala.
#Columnistas
Immer diese unvorhersehbaren Naturphänomeme! #WechselhaftesInternet
Sometimes you look at a graph and think that a particular value seems a bit odd. Then you look at the other numbers and they seem off, too. At that point, you realise that the graph is not intended to clarify, but to obscure. On German #EV charging prices, Quartets and diesel.
Critique 935 – Après Canguilhem: Nouveaux dialogues entre médecine et philosophie (via @… )
« Ôtez Canguilhem et vous ne comprenez plus grand-chose Š toute une série de discussions. »
Par ces mots, Michel #Foucault faisait de Georges
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA SOMEBODY IN THIS HOUSEHOLD IS USING BRAVE
Contrary to the article, counting sheep works wonderfully. But you have to use it to pace breathing (see further down in the article) and it helps to visualise the sheep, if you can.
Stop counting sheep – and 13 more no-nonsense tips for getting back to sleep | Sleep | The Guardian
https://archive.ph/wyL4J…
„Mama, wozu brauche ich denn später mal Englisch, wenn ich doch in Deutschland lebe?“ Etwa 15 Jahre später kam dann eine Karriere in der IT-Industrie daher, und ich war froh, dass ich zu den 7 Jahren Schulenglisch gegen Ende des Studiums auch noch ein Jahr IBM Research erleben durfte. #1980er
Dzisiejszy #SierraEcho: LAJW nr 593,5 XD
Przed audycją przypomniałem Andrzejowi o zawodach SPAC na 2m. Efekt był taki że w pierwszej minucie audycji Andu pokręcił Yagą na rotorze na jednej częstotliwości... i do widzenia 🤣
Zamiast tego SQ7SE wolał opowiadać o swoich przygodach i przypałach z ostatniej wycieczki w Bieszczady 🤡
Ten, kto doradził Andrzejowi udział w SPAC i rozkr…
mastodon Pause bis 30. Juni 2025 / until June 30, 2025
AKTIONSTAG 📣 zur Wertschätzung und Anerkennung für Freiwillige! Wir sind dabei, weil es an der Zeit ist, dass Freiwillige die Anerkennung und Wertschätzung erhalten, die sie verdienen!
#fwdstärken #freiwilligstark
Just a confirmation that Tesla boycotts work. New Republic reports that Musk lost a quarter of his fortune with the stock price drop. the current price is being artificially pumped up at all costs, but this can't last for another quarter as sales are plummeting.
https://newrepublic.com/post/19…
I need your help. It's surprisingly hard to find a PC game (or port/emulation) that ticks the following boxes:
- generally easy, or with easy difficulty setting
- mostly linear, not open world
- story-driven
- ideally, controller support
You know what I mean? I'm looking for something relaxing for when my brain is exhausted where I don't have to make too many decisions.
#AskFedi
Was für einen meisterhaften Soundtrack doch Claire Obscure hat 🤩 #expedition33 #forthosewhocomeafter
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
The Spits:
🎵 Don't Shoot
#TheSpits
https://77music3.bandcamp.com/track/dont-shoot-the-spits
https://open.spotify.com/track/38yw0I1R8qamGSXUpomcK9
Dieser Tag wird (gasp) regnerisch.
I think it ranks low on a list of priorities, but as a long-term effect of #DOGE, it's natural that this will make working for US Government much less appealing. I expect US Government workforce management to be much more difficult (less effective & more expensive) in the coming decades.
The implications are:
1. spending more on advertising and recruiting
2. spending more on sa…
@… In many ways, the occupation was no better than the war had been.
To know that "the Allies" willingly let it be that way, because "the war" was now "over". Makes me sick to think of.
BlackRock halted Ukraine recovery fund following Trump victory, France working on replacement, Bloomberg reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/05/blackrock-halted-ukraine-recovery-fund.html
When DJ Cummerbund made this mashup in 2020 I did take notice that one of the acts was "BTS Skytrain" but I just assumed this was just some strange relative of Korea's BTS.
Shame on me for not knowing or at least spotting that it was an actual promotional video for Bangkok's mass transit system - which also means I was not able to tell the difference between Thai and Korean people.
My only defence is that they are wearing masks but still…
Ich weiß nicht, ob ich lachen oder weinen soll.
#Paukenschlag #Merz #Kanzlerwahl
73gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
"The process of coding with an “agentic” LLM appears to be the process of carefully distilling all the worst parts of code review, and removing and discarding all of its benefits."
Very insightful post on #GenAI by Glyph
(Original title: I Think I’m Done Thinking About genAI For Now)
#Stadtnatur-Tipp!
Die Pflanzenwelt der Tegeler Stadtheide – TXL unter der Lupe – Fahrrad-Tour
Dienstag, 06.05. / Zeit: 17:00 – 19:30 Uhr
Mehr Info:
„Freedom Comes Back“ by Critikill
Platform: Amiga
Released: 10 September 2022
Specification: 320x256px, 32 colors
Note: 1st in the Function 2022 Oldschool Graphics competition
#GFX_Critikill #YR_2022
TIL that Cake (the alternative rock band) called themselves that way after the grime and the dirt that accumulates with time 🤘
Und was ich wirklich super duper finde, der ÖRR räumt gleich bei zwei Sendern @… und WDR die Sendeplätze frei für die Weltfestspiele der reichen Pferdeschänder. Parallel live und in Farbe Pferdeschänden.
Wenn Reiche wie die Nazi-Sau Neckermann✝️(SS) das haben wollen sollen sie zahlen
Hello @…
I'd like to send a message to whoever is planning CCCamp in 2027. Since I don't know how to reach them, I figured I'd try the trusty Chaos Post!
Attn. camp planners: avoid the first week of August 2027! There is a monster solar eclipse on the 2nd of August that no eclipse nerd can miss!
"An eclipse of epic proportions …
⛓️💥 The ‘chain of favors’ that keeps Cubans afloat in the face of state abandonment
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-04-20/the-chain-of-favors-that-keeps-cubans-afloat-in-the-face-of-state-ab…
Rechts heeft er zo’n zootje van gemaakt … laat links het nu maar eens proberen.
Gekke gedachte?
from my link log —
AMEN: Church numeral addition, multiplication, exponentiation, and nothing are a complete combinator basis.
https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~swier004/publications/2013-liber.pdf
saved 2025-06-04
Hätte den Abstecher zur Logik in Zeile 3 nicht benötigt, da ich Zeile 4 auswendig kannte. 😊
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https://www.pastpuzzle.de
Chinese propaganda surges as the U.S. defunds Radio Free Asia - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/06/trump-radio-free-asia-cuts-china-propaganda/
X changes its developer agreement to prevent third parties from using "the X API or X Content to fine-tune or train a foundation or frontier model" (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/x-changes-i…
I'm probably going to get a lot of shit for this...
I'm starting to sour on the idea that AI/LLMs are inherently bad.
You'll never catch me using image generators though.
mastodon Pause bis 30. Juni 2025 / until June 30, 2025
“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
– Frank Zappa
#capitalism
I think it ranks low on a list of priorities, but as a long-term effect of #DOGE, it's natural that this will make working for US Government much less appealing. I expect US Government workforce management to be much more difficult (less effective & more expensive) in the coming decades.
The implications are:
1. spending more on advertising and recruiting
2. spending more on sa…
in ihr Leben zurückzupfen
@… I grew up with my grandfather taking me for long walks around my mother’s home town (Świnoujście, Germany pre-war, Poland post-war, where he and his family were resettled from former Poland now Belarus).
He could point to every building the army had occupied, the city hospital, which locals were not permitted to use. The beach, which was raked with…
Anyone at any point considering putting themselves in a position where their life depended upon an Elon Musk company would be well advised to think about:
"Musk, in a now-deleted response, threatened to decommission the SpaceX capsule used to take astronauts and supplies to the International Space Station — before backing off from the threat after an X user pleaded with him to cool off."
You absolutely do not want to be one of this guy's indentured space servants.…
MHRV (Mechanical Heat-Recovery Ventilation) and HR25H Review - Is MHRV right for you? Learn from our years with the Vent-Axia humidistat HR25. #frugal #cutCarbon -
A abordagem da imprensa sobre Israel x Hamšs é totalmente EQUIVOCADA. É como se ambos estivessem em "guerra", mas isso não é correto.
Guerra se dš entre dois estados. O Hamšs não é um estado.
"Guerra" dš a aparência de simetria, de dois "lados" que travam alguma espécie de duelo. Não havendo estado do Hamšs, não hš duelo.
O Hamšs não é a Palestina, mas uma espécie de formação grupal de palestinos criada para combater os desmandos de Israel hš…
New units of the 17th Army Corps appears: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/05/new-units-of-the-th.html
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #StreetSounds
JID:
🎵 WRK
#JID
https://open.spotify.com/track/5HA7el8fgIjpdfE4oMfMdY
💉 Olympic anti-doping lab puts U.S. meat supply to the test
#food
from my link log —
Implementation of dependent types.
https://www.cse.chalmers.se/~coquand/impl.html
saved 2025-05-30 https://
Ah, our democratic ally, Erdoğan, loved (and generously compensated) by the EU for keeping the Brown people away from our borders.
EU: we’re leading the world with our single market for hypocrisy.
CC @… …
(Loop) etcheR eid treiger etueh bA https://masto.ai/@matzeschmidt/114459810763048016
Cursor maker Anysphere raised $900M led by Thrive at a $9.9B valuation, bringing its total funding to $1B and says its annualized revenue crossed $500M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #StreetSounds
Lil Wayne:
🎵 Hip-Hop
#LilWayne
https://swimswim1.bandcamp.com/track/fuck-lil-wayne-real-hiphop-feat-acidgvrl
Ik zou het een geweldige stunt vinden als Musk gedeporteerd wordt door Trump.
Of, misschien nog beter, als Musk genoeg medestanders in de regering kan vinden om het 25e amendement in te roepen.
from my link log —
Structured combinators for efficient graph reduction.
http://www.fun-arch.org/files/structured-combi.pdf
saved 2025-05-17
(Wdh.) etcheR eid treiger etueh bA https://masto.ai/@matzeschmidt/114459810763048016
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #StreetSounds
Zeddy Will:
🎵 Twerkin Wit Ya Friends
#ZeddyWill
https://furozh.bandcamp.com/track/zeddy-will-twerkin-wit-ya-friends-x-recognize-furozh-edition
https://open.spotify.com/track/1SMzMtlnawoUV6ssFd7rZ7
(Loop) etcheR eid treiger etueh bA https://masto.ai/@matzeschmidt/114459810763048016
(Wdh.) etcheR eid treiger etueh bA https://masto.ai/@matzeschmidt/114459810763048016