Tootfinder

I learned something new today. #LIDAR can damage the CMOS in digital cameras.
https://www.carscoops.com/2025/05/dont-point-your-phone-at-these-c…

SSL/TLS Certificate Lifespans to Shrink to 47 Days by 2029
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/05/ssl-certificate-lifespans-shrink/

Steam: Payment-Anbieter zwingen Valve, Porno-Spiele rauszuwerfen
Dutzende Porno-Spiele verschwinden aus den internationalen Steam-Stores. Laut Valve ist dafür eine Beschwerde von Bezahldienstleistern verantwortlich.

Saw Sinners for 3rd x in real hardcore IMAX last night (Pacific Science Center) and 1) there’s one more credit scene at the very VERY end, and 2) staying to see that let me read every credit in which I learned LARS ULRICH PLAYED DRUMS for “Bury That Guitar”.

Finally! @…, the venerable lightweight JS tilemap display library, is gearing up for a 2.0.0 release! 🎉
https://leafletjs.com/2025/05/18/leafl

Sources: Mark Zuckerberg has offered 10 OpenAI researchers packages of $300M over four years, and asked OpenAI's Mark Chen if he would consider joining Meta (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-ai-recrui

Most accurate review of Andor I have ever seen
(Link does contain hints of what was fairly obviously to come in season 2. We have yet to watch the final two episodes so no further spoilers please)
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/05/recent-movies-and-tv-30/

I would probably be deported from Italy for having a decaffeinated nespresso in the afternoon, but it is a lovely afternoon and I got myself this treat:

Check out my new blog post: Better Video Audio with Auphonic
https://www.speedofcreativity.org/2025/05/18/better-video-audio-with-auphonic/
Featuring my new video: Spring Cleaning My RecTeq RT-700 Bull Smoker: Tips & Tricks!

My latest bit for The Register on why engineers should develop their communication skills:
https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/18/communications_for_engineers/

To progress as an engineer career-wise, become a great communicator
Systems Approach: It'll even help you develop technical skills

I'm always on the outside looking in
It's where I've always been
But the edge is where all the sparks fly
When the wheel spins
Deep down
I know I should leave the past behind
Maybe in time
If only I could learn to let go
Of the hand that first held mine

#Eurovision with ONLY the vocals is.. even weirder. Part Three - the good ones. #ESC2025

All tools create a path of least resistance. When it comes to AI chatbots, that path is to trust the AI's outputs.
Unfortunately, all LLMs hallucinate. And as users get used to relying on the machine, their ability and willingness to spot these errors deteriorates.
Blaming the user for this is irresponsible. The problem is caused by the way these tools are designed - so it's up to us, as designers, to fix it.

Noticing a lot more coughing people on trains in #Japan recently too. Bet it's surging here too #Covid #covid19

Faut-il encore configurer du swap en 2025, même sur des serveurs avec beaucoup de RAM ?
J'ai découvert le paramètre kernel "swappiness"
#TIL

#NVIDIA = fake reviews of fake frames.
Fortunately, reputable card reviewers refused to publish misleading bribed content:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiekGcwaIho

CYCLING FANS: I learned in the most round-about way that Florence has a museum I would have gone to any of the past three days when it was open, if I'd known it exited! The "Museo del ciclismo Gino Bartali". (Do I even need to translate?) #Italy25

@… This posted last year explains it
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2024/0513/1448844-eurovision-vo…

Given that #YUL is a Canadian airport, there is, of course, the obligatory moose! 😃🫎

Trump cuts to foreign aid leave food destined for desperate millions rotting in storage. »The dismantling of USAID and cuts to humanitarian aid has been devastating and unacceptable,« said one international aid group. https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-usa…

#NHPolitics https://www.boston.com/news/business/2025/05/19/campaign-against-an-airline-that-flies-deportees-sets-off-a-legal-fight/

“Briefing shall [..] include the legal authority upon which Apple contends that it can ignore this Court’s order having not received a stay from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal”
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us…

Bench builders edition of #CarryShitOlympics

Old music that sounds contemporary is so fascinating. Here Alkan or Ligeti for example.
Alkan (1840 🤯): https://youtu.be/rQ81jzlR1y4?si=8Avifn4b03Y_YmSl&t=336
Ligeti (1952):

Looking forward to it!
https://mastodon.social/@karlgroves/114534519629700177

Oklahoma high schools to teach 2020 election conspiracy theories as fact;
State superintendent Ryan Walters tapped chief of Heritage Foundation, key player behind Project 2025, for curriculum
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/…

@… Hey Chris! How are you? I'm trying to upload something via research equals but it looks like I may have been locked out of my account - it is associated with my TU Delft account and now I can't reset the password... Would it be possible to manually reset it to e.plomp8@gmail.com?
Let me know!

“I, Harry the Hake, do solemnly declare that I will live and die British. I would rather be left to rot on the jetty than be fed to some Frenchie or Kraut. God save the queen. Sorry, king.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

Goodbye John, it was good to know you.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/memoriam-john-l-young-cryptome-co-founder

In Memoriam: John L. Young, Cryptome Co-Founder
John L. Young, who died March 28 at age 89 in New York City, was among the first people to see the need for an online library of official secrets, a place where the public could find out things that governments and corporations didn’t want them to know. He made real the idea – revolutionary in its...

I've been reminded the #cfp for #kvmforum is out: https://kvm-forum.qemu.org/2025/ entries close on th…

♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Chris Lake (3) ANOTR (2) Fisher (2) Gorgon City (2) Jorja Smith (2). #myweekcounted 36 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…

#Caturday among the nasturtiums

What would be a good role for an #AI assistant within a team consisting of multiple people?
Imagine a group of researchers working on a project, or teachers implementing a new approach, students working on an assignment together, or a small startup company launching a product.
What would be some tasks best delegated to an AI assistant (current tech) in these kinds of teams?
Maybe …

@…
The oldest ant fossil ever discovered had forward-facing scythe-like jaws it used to hunt, according to a new study in Current Biology. 
Now the oldest ant specimen known to science, the roughly half-inch-long 113-million-year-old impression preserved in limestone was found in northeastern Brazil, and is a new genus belonging to the “hell ant” subfamily Haidomyrmecinae. Hell ants only lived during the Cretaceous period, which ended 66 million years ago. 🧵

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Time to build a... Let's play!
#AssembleThingsASongOrPoem

Sowas wird, bei sich veränderndem Klima, wichtiger werden in Zukunft.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJI6j2ysNKY

junior academic: internet is down 😱
senior academic: internet is down 🥳
#academicChatter

Generating Shakespeare-like text with an n-gram language model is straight forward and quite simple. But, don't expect to much of it. It will not be able to recreate a lost Shakespear play for you ;-) It's merely a parrot, making up well sounding sentences out of fragments of original Shakespeare texts...
#ise2025

Well this is a nice surprise!
#music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swyA9QGoW-8

"There will be a lot of fighting, though"
"Oh yeah, that's true"
"Yeah it's true"
"There will be a lot of fighting"
"Exactly"
"Count me in then"
Expedition 33 is amazing

Our statement on the rise of #POX (party of xenophobes and fascists), the threat they pose, reasons for their success, strategies, good and bad, for countering them.
Steady State Manchester | For local prosperity, justice & ecological safety

The right wing threat and a viable future
A statement from Steady State Manchester Introduction With horror we see the electoral success of POX, The party of Xenophobes and Fascists (which, without irony, actually calls itself Reform UK1).…

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t bestimmt auch öfter die Hutschnur dieser Tage.

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Hey @… - I had a couple of mapping nerds (I include myself in that category) ask about how the hexagon electoral map is created. Is there an explanation anywhere? Loved it in https://www.

Where the election will be won and lost — or maybe left hanging
The electoral maths on Saturday seems simple — win 76 seats and you win government. But that's not all there is to it.

Visualize dependencies between functions: #rstats

Frau Reiche, es geht gar nicht um 'Hauptsache Wachstum'. Wir müssen in Zukunftstechnologien wachsen, nicht in der Vergangenheit!
#Dekarbonisierung, #BEV, #Batterie,…

Der
International Day for Women in Maritime wurde auch in Douala, Kamerun 🇨🇲 gefeiert.
Im Foyer du Marin traf sich die örtliche WISTA* Gruppe und unsere dortige Mitarbeiterin Ina Bammann ist jetzt Mitglied.
*Women in shipping trade association - für Frauen in maritimen Berufen
Das Foto zeigt die Kameruner WISTA Frauen mit dem Leitungspaar unseres Foyer, Ina und Klaus Bammann

"But West Virginia’s new law is unusual. Boasting the “least restrictive regulatory environment in the nation,” it prohibits local officials from having any input into where off-grid data centers go. This provision appears to be a nationwide first and is angering mayors and commissioners statewide."
From: @…

#Merz sagt den Leuten, sie sollen mehr arbeiten. Dann kommt der deutsche Fiskus. Der ist ultrabrutal zu kleinen Leuten und lieb zu Milliomittelständlern. Deswegen steht in ALLEN Ratgebern, man solle lieber Freizeit nehmen, statt mehr arbeiten. Der Fiskus frisst eh alles weg. Wenn ich mit Frankreich vergleiche, dann ist das deutsche Steuersystem krank und nur noch mit Hilfe von Datev am Leben zu halten. Da…

Kafkaeske und undurchsichtige Prozesse - die indirekt auch Einfluss auf die politische Willensbildung haben, in NRW sind demnächst Kommunalwahlen. Ob ein Parteijugendverband da bei Insta auftreten kann oder nicht, dürfte eine gewisse Relevanz haben. https://netzpolitik.org…

Moderation gone wild: Instagram sperrt Accounts politischer Organisationen
Zahlreiche Kreisverbände der Grünen Jugend, der Linken sowie die Partei der Humanisten haben den Zugang zu ihren Instagram-Accounts verloren. Die Betroffenen können sich nicht erklären, warum. Der Versuch der Aufklärung ist eine kafkaeske Mission.

Lovely thoughtful inspiring thread from @… on the skills, traditions, business & infrastructure of getting things repaired:
#repair #fixing #RightToRepair

Why the EU should choose China over the US | European Union | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/6/20/why-the-eu-should-choose-china-over-the-us?traffic_source=rss

Why the EU should choose China over the US
EU interests may no longer be best served by alliance with US – especially under Trump’s increasingly dangerous agenda.

Heute war @… zu Gast bei @… im @… podcast.
Das passt für mich gut zusammen weil ich…

I learned something new today. #LIDAR can damage the CMOS in digital cameras.
https://www.carscoops.com/2025/05/dont-point-your-phone-at-these-c…

Elektronische Patientenakte & E-Rezept: Störungen belasten Ärzte und Apotheker
Ab Oktober sind Praxen verpflichtet, die elektronische Patientenakte zu befüllen. Vielen Praxen fehlt aber noch das ePA-Modul. TI-Störungen belasten ebenfalls.

Most accurate review of Andor I have ever seen
(Link does contain hints of what was fairly obviously to come in season 2. We have yet to watch the final two episodes so no further spoilers please)
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/05/recent-movies-and-tv-30/

Truncation is not a #content strategy

RFK (Sr) said of Athens, "greatness does not require size [and] size does not necessarily bring greatness". Ditto Florence. I walked between the two poles of power—Palazzo Vecchio and Palazzo Medici—and it was < 900 steps (and that includes dodging meandering tourists). #Italy25

Beginning today with an early morning visit to Montreal’s P E Trudeau airport.. #YUL

Just for the record: In Berufen mit hoher Belastung lebt man drei Jahre kürzer, mit prekären Einkommen sinkt die Lebenserwartung deutlich. Konkret leben Ärmere fünf Jahre (!) kürzer. Das bedeutet, dass viele lange in die Rentenkasse einzahlen und unter Strich nichts davon haben. Nicht nur, weil es eine Rente ist, von der sie nicht leben können, sondern weil sie früher sterben - und damit für besserverdienende Menschen zahlen, die weniger Belastungen ausgesetzt waren.

Media on #Eurovision 2025: Austria wins Eurovision 2025
Philippine media: Filipino-Austrian wins Eurovision 2025
#Philippines

At a group event, a #Hindi-speaking North #Indian informed everyone that "we call this XXX in India."
Of course, that's not true - the word he said was nothing like the #Telugu term for the same thi…

@… @… For this to be fixed or at least less suceptible to such problems the voting situation needs to be changed. At the moment the fact that you can vote 20 times (at a cost) shows that ESC cares mor…

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#ReasonsHellFrozeOver

A Deeper Connection - Pray As You Go #dw4jc #Jesus

A deeper connection - Pray As You Go
Today is Monday the 19th of May, in the 5th week of Eastertide.     The community of Taizé sing, ‘Holy Spirit, come to us. Kindle in us the fire of your love.’    Veni Sancte Spiritus  Tui amoris ignem accende Today’s reading is from the Go...

Good Morning Karlsruhe! Day 02 of the Effekte Science Festival with our booth presenting the Wiedergutmachung project, a huge digitalisation effort on historical archival documents on the recompensation processes of nationalsocialist injustice
@… @…

Deep Dive into #uv #Dockerfiles by #Astral: Image Size, Performance & Best Practices

US lawyers set up own firms to lead legal fightback in face of Trump onslaught;
Several law firms have capitulated to Trump pressure leaving but some lawyers have left to fight government cuts
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/18/trump-administra…

Gänseklein.

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Schach sichtbar machen: Hier lernst du, wie gutes Design und starke Botschaften zusammenpassen. Einer von vielen praxisnahen Workshops der Akademie!
➡️ https://www.deutsche-schachjugend.de/termine/2025/akademie/

Make fancy tables: #rstats #tables

@… I have no idea who these are... LastFM scrobbling the 3am music again.

Stopped off in town, Broadmarsh area. Sat on a rock for a bit and read my book.
I don't often go into town these days, but I was reminded of this nice little garden area when the May Day march met round the corner the other week, and I thought I would have a rest there today before coming home.
Lovely to see the flowers growing there now. I really like that the city council went in that direction for that bit of the land.
#Nottingham #BloomScrolling

Moeten we ons niet eens heel erg boos gaan maken op Microsoft wegens obsctructie van de rechtsgang?
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/trumps-sanctions-on-iccs-chief-prosecutor-have-halted-tribunals-…

Trump's sanctions on ICC's chief prosecutor have halted tribunal's work, officials and lawyers say
Staffers and allies of the ICC said the sanctions have made it increasingly difficult for the tribunal to conduct basic tasks, let alone seek justice for victims of war crimes or genocide.

Heute war @… zu Gast bei @… im @… podcast.
Das passt für mich gut zusammen weil ich…

Unter Androhung von Geldstrafen hat das russische Parlament den Zugang zu Informationen im Netz massiv eingeschränkt. Bisher war nur die Erstellung und Verbreitung "extremistischer Inhalte" verboten, nun aber auch die bloße Suche danach. 🖥️
Zum Artikel: https://

Every tech oligarch wants to build an Everything App - because they now have the power to do so, but also because they're completely out of ideas.
This week's issue of my newsletter tackles the rise of the "data-driven" Nothing Manager responsible for building Everything, with the "power" of #GenAI.

The Everything App is a symptom of Nothing Management (part 1)
Leaders who surrender their point of view inevitably arrive at the same conclusion: we must solve every problem for every user. This approach demolishes the possibility of real impact.

Was chatting with an Italian woman who told me how in NYC Little Italy noone was Italian, nobody spoke Italian, and the dishes weren't authentic. I explained "Little Italy" just means "the place where poor immigrants work". She said, "Ah, the ones Trump wants to deport!" #Italy25

@… This article and audio discussion explains why the people's vote for Eurovision is so easily manipulated. The article is from last year but the problems and result are the same
@…

Is this the beginning of a #SciFi story or a #horror story?
https://www.sciencealert.co…

I recently acquired @… smart radiator valves. I registered them in the Netatmo app. Finally, I integrated them in my @… via the dedicated Netatmo integration. Everything was very straightforward.
I noticed that each v…

Meta Battles an ‘Epidemic of Scams’ as Criminals Flood Instagram and Facebook (WSJ, 15 May 2025)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-fraud-facebook-instagram-813363c8
Paywall free version:

Joe Biden diagnosed with ‘aggressive form’ of prostate cancer, his office says.
How long before Mad King Donald says something crass? (He who would arrest anyone for similar comments about him?) There should be a betting pool... 😏
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m

Was braucht ein guter Begleiter im Turnieralltag? Hier lernst du, wie du junge Talente optimal unterstützt. Mehr Know-how gibt’s in den weiteren Workshops!
➡️ https://www.deutsche-schachjugend.de/termine/2025/akademie/

Cool. Korting bij het crematorium.

@… Then read or listen to this post from last year and it will all make sense
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2024/0513/14

Is this the beginning of a #SciFi story or a #horror story?
https://www.sciencealert.co…

(1/2) #YourUndividedAttention [PODCAST] Echo Chambers of One: Companion AI and the Future of Human Connection (15 May 2025)
https://pca.st/episode/53327729-f332-4a29-82d9-00…

Unsere Sieger-Teams der Schulschachmeisterschaft WK HR:
🥇 SARB Hasbergen I
🥈 Johann-Pachelbel-Realschule Nürnberg
🥉 Freie Schule Oldenburg
▶️ Vollständige Schlusstabelle: https://www.deutsche-schachjugend.de/2025/dsm-wk-hr/

Landgenoten en mede-aardbewoners, was het niet heerlijk om in de rode mensenmassa te lopen gisteren?
#rodelijn
The people
United
Will Never Be Defeated

"Toga! Toga! Toga!" 🤣
https://www.economist.com/international/2025/01/02/why-people-over-the-age-of-55-are-the-new-problem-generation

Why people over the age of 55 are the new problem generation
Baby-boomers are keeping their bad habits into retirement

@… read this from last year and it explains what happened again this year
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2024/0513/14

@… @… @… the same reasons as last year. Well explained by someone who follows how elections and stats work h…

@… tough life for you, it seems.

@… I was just out this morning and it is all over all the trains. I did not spot any ads that were not for this crap.

Also worth looking at
https://mastodon.nu/@unvisual/114525964028974017
https://