
2025-07-07 15:22:23
NATO caught with its 'pants down' if China, Russia try two-front war, experts say: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/07/nato-caught-with-its-pants.html
NATO caught with its 'pants down' if China, Russia try two-front war, experts say: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/07/nato-caught-with-its-pants.html
Qantas confirms it has been in contact with its ransomware attackers.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/07/qantas-contacted-by-suspected-cyber-criminal-but-airline-wont-confirm-if-ha…
Going down a sizable rabbit hole of anthropic mechanism, disputing Gödelian incompleteness and "Neural Darwinism" (meaning a specific theory, not that brains evolved over time).
The AI stans certainly like to throw around big words.
Mohammed has badly burned his leg with boiling water while making coffee.
(I’ve seen photos without the bandages and it is bad.)
Please help with his fundraiser as he will need additional funds as he recovers:
https://chuffed.org/project/mohshbairgaza
Thank you!
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„Ausgelöst wurde der Crash durch ein E-Auto. Der Fahrer ist 84 Jahre alt.“ …hatte mit dem schweren Crash in einer Waschstraße so rein gar keinen Anteil an der Ursache. (Sarkasmus)
Immerhin: hier wird von „Crash“ gesprochen. Aber wie kommt die KN zu der Erkenntnis, dass die Ursache im Fahrzeug liegt? Und wenn das wirklich der Fall ist, wieso fragt sie dann nicht beim Hersteller nach Verantwortung und klärt über Produkthaftung auf?
crabs have evolved five times, humans (at least the ones alive today) only once. how dare we describe ourselves as the peak of evolution?
whenever i read about go having a serialization format called "gobs" all i can think of is "gobs of cum"
Apps in ChatGPT could be OpenAI's most ambitious platform play to date, drawing parallels with Facebook's 2007 efforts to become a platform via social graph (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/openai-dev-day-2025-platform-chatgpt/
Looking for AI SEO vibe coder with 10 years of experience
Apply at http://127.0.0.1:8080/job.aspx?id=7024
Tomorrow (8 July) at 20:00 NZST, we'll be running our monthly #libre / #FOSS virtual gather at https://meeting.iridescent.nz
Nexstar reports Q2 revenue down 3% YoY to $1.23B, primarily due to reduced political ad revenue in a US non-election year, and net income down 14% YoY to $91M (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/08/nexstar-q2-2025-financial-earnings/
Trump and other Republicans have long criticized states that take weeks to count their ballots after election day.
This year has seen a flurry of activity to address it.
Part of Trump’s executive order on elections, signed in March but held up by lawsuits,
takes aim at one of the main reasons for late vote counts:
Many states allow mailed ballots to be counted even if they arrive after election day.
⚠️ The U.S. Supreme Court last month said it would consider w…
@… @… @… is it too late for me to uproot my entire family and move to portland first
That time of year.
#photography #autumn
from my link log —
In praise of grobi for auto-configuring X11 monitors.
https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-05-10-grobi-x11-monitor-autoconfig/
saved 2025-05-10
Probably today OpenAI will announce GPT-5 which will not be a revolution, AGI or anything like that. It will just be a next step for OpenAI mainly integrating it's mess of models/numbers/names (4, o3 etcetera), the question will be how much improvement there will be in the actual models used, probably not dramatic because the previous models are quite good already. Time will tell.
#GPT5 …
'Shaken to the core': Czech clarinet player 'traumatized' by ICE over concert - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/ice-deportations-2672856883/
A New High-latitude H I Cloud Complex Entrained in the Northern Fermi Bubble: #FermiBubbles, revealing the Milky Way’s most extreme outflows are younger and more complex than ever imagined.
全文検索は昨晩対応しました。
概ね障害箇所はwireguardであることは分かっているので、サーバー構成を変える時に解消させたいと思っています。
#fedibird #fedibird_watch
The knots people twist themselves into to defend Perplexity is super funny.
Motivated reasoning is one hell of a drug.
Und, welchen Wels treiben wir heute durch‘s Dorf?
Working on a #HamRadio linked dipole for QRP. I designed and printed the winder because I couldn't find anything I was quite satisfied with. It has holes to hold FT82, FT140, or FT240 toroids (depending on power requirements) with zip ties. I haven't yet tuned up the 10m dipole sections wound on so far; I'll do that when it's not a tropical storm outside and I can raise it up on a mast …
@… this also have bookmarks and GPX and offline routing etc
https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/114805402854181804
Habe es gestern wieder früh am Morgen 😴 #rausgeschafft und bin trotz schleichendem Platten hinten mit dem #BromptonElectricGLine zum #OrigamiRide von Chur nach Walenstadt. Und da
lol that's quite the caption https://gothamist.com/news/staten-islands-lost-city-of-wild-beaches-is-a-spiritual-refuge-for-new-yorkers
It's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"You will find sheep and cattle grazing there; they belong to a god, all-seeing, all-hearing Helios (the Sun). If you leave these unharmed--if you set your mind only to return--you may all of you still reach Ithaka, though with mu…
Frau im Leben gratis
PIC12F683 full die image after wet chemical delayer to (approximately) polysilicon layer. There's a few areas in the right and bottom right that are overetched to substrate and a few spots in the analog and power rings that still have some M1 and even M2 remaining.
These are both full resolution scans with 20x/0.42 and 100x/0.90 objectives.
It's interesting to note how some features (most notably the silicon substrate in the overetched areas) are *more* visible in the low…
Die Bundesregierung gibt jährlich Milliarden für proprietäre US-Software aus, obwohl das E-Government-Gesetz seit 2024 #OpenSource (OSS) bevorzugt. Trotzdem bleibt OSS in der Verwaltung Randerscheinung – mit gravierenden Folgen für digitale Souveränität, Transparenz und Kostenkontrolle
Gerd Mischler: Digitalisierung: Open Source hat im Bund keine Lobby -
This computer science professor agrees with @…. The humanities are crucial.
I mean, it cuts the other way too: a lot of the credulous nonsense about AI would melt away if people had a better idea how to think about software systems and mathematical models, what they really do and don’t do, how to look at them critically.
The key in my view is people having multiple ways of seeing and not narrowing themselves.
https://infosec.exchange/@dnsprincess/115140939294365490
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/aug/05/trump-taskforce-los-angeles-olympics
"For two weeks in August 1936, Adolf Hitler's Nazi dictatorship camouflaged its racist, militaristic character while hosting the Summer Olympics. Softpedaling its antisemitic agenda and plans for territorial expansion, the regime exploited the Games to bedazzle many foreign spectators and journalists with an image of a peaceful, tolerant Germany.
Having rejected a proposed boycott of the 1936 Olympics, the sponsoring athletic and Olympic organizations of the United States and other western democracies missed the opportunity to take a stand that—some observers at the time claimed—might have given Hitler pause and bolstered international resistance to Nazi tyranny.
With the conclusion of the Games, Germany's expansionist policies and the persecution of Jews and other "enemies of the state" accelerated, culminating in World War II and the Holocaust.” - https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-nazi-olympics-berlin-1936
Sonnenstrahlen, aber innerlich.
Municipalidad de Montes de Oca exhorta al Ejecutivo a no firmar TLC con Israel
https://delfino.cr/2025/08/municipalidad-de-montes-de-oca-exhorta-al-ejecutivo-a-no-firmar-tlc-con-israel?ut…
Eenvandaag blijft zeuren over nep-videos ....
Drukt op rode knop.
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#InTune
- In session with stellar classical artists
Petroc Trelawny has live music in the In Tune studio from vocal group Cantoría.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002f9kd
of course they do.
can't have (mostly women) servers making a living wage after all.
https://flipboard.com/@ctvnews/edmonton-05m5ijd8z/-/a-XeqB2lW5S7GrOKDZZUPL7g:a:2823982346-/0
From puppy murder to racist podcasts: South Park’s anti-deportation episode is utterly ruthless TV https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/aug/07/south-park-anti-deportation-episode-ice?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
I think I just read that Ireland expects a heatwave up to 26° and now I know I'm ready to leave Berlin.
Victor Bosoni (232) wins the 11th Transcontinental Race in 10 days 16 hours 38 minutes. As the race's youngest ever winner, Victor has shown remarkable wisdom, composure, and preparation in addition to his peerless prowess on the pedals.
In the sprint for the ferry, Victor was unmatched. As others faltered after a full week of racing, he found new untapped reserves. Completing the 325KM in 12 hours flat, he ensured that two riders would cross the Adriatic together, before going on …
I assumed the 24k gold statue was a statue of Trump himself.
Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
BGH: Link auf Geschäftsbedingungen in Brief reicht nicht bei Vertragsabschluss
If this was tech, all the thought leaders in the astronomy field would write articles like “aliens are inevitable” and “if you don’t believe in aliens you will be left behind”.
https://sites.psu.edu/astrowright/2025/08/06/more-avi-and-3i-atlas/
If you took off time last week, you should check out today's Metacurity, which succinctly recaps the most critical infosec developments you might have missed, including
--IT giant Ingram Micro's systems shut down after SafePay ransomware attack
--Qantas is talking with threat actor after attack,
--Android spyware flaw exposes thousands of customers,
--Ransomware negotiator may have struck deals with hackers,
--US sanctions bulletproof hoster,
--US g…
Right now in Bray: protest outside Simon Harris’s office. “Free, free Palestine” “Pass the occupied territories bill”
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing
Explosions heard as Russia launches hundreds of drones towards Ukrainian cities: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/07/explosions-heard-as-russia-launches.html
Sony reports Q1 revenue up 2.2% YoY to $17.8B, net profit up 23% YoY to ~$1.8B, PS5 sales at 2.5M, up from 2.4M in Q1 2024, and expects a lower FY tariff impact (Kosaku Narioka/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/bu…
Erik Spiekermann on redesign of the Johnson & Johnson logo:
“They’ve been told by tech guys and lazy web-designers that things have to be simplified to work on screens. This is knowledge from the 90s and not true anymore.”
This reminds me of the reason given for the recent redesign of the logo of a Swiss university…
https://w…
Sky Sports and TNT Sports are significantly increasing their tennis coverage, seeking to capitalize on female viewers, who make up 50% of tennis audiences (Matt Hughes/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/sep/06/tennis-sky-sports-b…
Der Name Soja-Sauce kommt übrigens von
"So! Ja, jetzt schmeckt es besser."
#Mahlzeit
Several sections of Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution
appear to have been removed from the official U.S. government website,
as pointed out by sleuths on the internet and as seen by TechCrunch.
These sections largely relate to the powers that Congress has and does not have,
as well as limitations on the powers of individual states.
The removal includes sections relating to habeas corpus,
the powers that protect citizens from unlawful detention.
S…
Anzahl der neuen #Windkraftanlagen je #Bundesland in #Deutschland im Jahr 2025 mit Stand vom 06.09.2025.
Die "Ausschließliche Wirtschaftszone" bedeutet
from my link log —
MSWasm: soundly enforcing memory-safe execution of unsafe code based on CHERI.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3571208
saved 2025-07-27
Wer darf entscheiden: Wissenschaft oder religiöse Ideologie?
Wie AfD, Union und rechtsextreme Medien zu der Frage stehen, war auch entscheidend für den Umgang mit der Professorin und Richterin #BrosiusGersdorf.
#Kundenglücklichmachungsposteinlieferungsgeräusch, bis zur Abholung durch den Logistiker unter Bewachung von Frau #AtelierHueteHund.
Spionage, Hacker – und die #Bundeswehr? Findet gerne mal offene Türen vor. Ein Passwort für alle, leicht geknackte Systeme, und private Geräte als Einfallstor. Digitaler Schutz und militärische Sicherheit sind längst keine Selbstverständlichkeit. Zeit fürs Umdenken Eva Wolfangel #ZEIT
The sun's out again in Ōtautahi! The local skink community is taking full advantage!
#biodiversity #nativeSkinks #lizardarium
Fico says Putin interested in meeting Zelensky outside Moscow, as Russian leader contradicts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/07/fico-says-putin-interested-in.html
Rillet, which is building AI ledger software to automate accounting tasks, raised a $70M Series B co-led by a16z and Iconiq, a source says at a ~$500M valuation (Aditya Soni/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/ai-acco
Zulieferer ZF: Erreichen Sparziel – aber das reicht nicht
ZF macht beim Sparen Fortschritte, aber das reicht Chef Holger Klein nicht. Für die Antriebssparte und ihre Beschäftigten stehe viel auf dem Spiel, so Klein.
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@… @… you get the image direct from wikipedia and nothing more
Trump began putting the federal government to work for him within hours of taking office in January,
and he’s been collecting and using power in novel ways ever since.
It’s a high-velocity push to carry out his political agendas and grudges.
This past month, hundreds of federal agents and National Guard troops fanned out across Washington
after Trump drew on a never-used law that allows him to take control of law enforcement in the nation’s capital.
He’s thre…
from my link log —
Imagining a language without booleans.
https://justinpombrio.net/2025/09/22/imagining-a-language-without-booleans.html
saved 2025-09-23
Reuters withdraws Xi and Putin's longevity chat video, after China state TV pulls legal permission to use it; the video was distributed to 1,000 media clients (Kenneth Li/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel
Today would be a good day for Tim Cook to resign.
Missing Link: Die Physik hinter dem Blutmond
Der rote Mond im Erdschatten entsteht durch Rayleigh-Streuung und Brechung des Sonnenlichts in der Erdatmosphäre – die Physik des Himmelsspektakels.
https://www.
Qualtrics agrees to acquire Press Ganey Forsta, which helps healthcare companies compile feedback from patients and doctors, for $6.75B including debt (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/44c9959f-a3e2-41a6-941b-c4ddaf731067
@… it is part of my life now that when things like this happen I run to view source to see if it might have been my fault 😅
in this case the results are inconclusive
Democratic state Rep. James Talarico is set to announce his Senate bid on Tuesday, according to three people familiar with the plans.
The state legislator has been considered a rising star in Texas,
conducting dozens of national media interviews after he and his fellow Democrats left the state to hold up a Trump-led plan aimed at netting more Republican-leaning seats.
He also secured a spot on Joe Rogan’s enormously popular podcastthis spring.
Former Rep. Colin Allre…
“But .coop is a weird newfangled domain, my firewall doesnt allow it“
My guy, .coop is older now than .com was when .coop was started in 2001
from my link log —
Strategies for very fast lexers.
https://xnacly.me/posts/2025/fast-lexer-strategies/
saved 2025-07-14 htt…
This computer could have been yours for the low price of $23,500 (inflation adjusted for 1990 prices). Original retail price: $9,499.
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Daikin verlagert Wärmepumpen-Produktion und Jobs von Deutschland nach Tschechien
Since the fire goes viral and folks never hear about the fire department, y’all might be interested to know that the original content for the US Constitution has been restored.
https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/114982482958968700
In 2022, Oregonians narrowly passed Measure 111,
⭐️amending their constitution and guaranteeing affordable health care as a fundamental right to every resident of the state.
Through years of organizing, coalition building and planning,
💥Oregon may enact its Universal Health Plan as early as fall 2027.
In the face of extreme Medicaid cuts from the Trump administration
-- which will leave roughly 16 million people without health coverage by 2034
-- a state-l…
@… @… I think @… has done some really interesting work around RSS subscription pages that might be a good end around h…
Ron Deibert,
the director of Citizen Lab, one of the most prominent organizations investigating government spyware abuses,
is sounding the alarm to the cybersecurity community
and asking them to step up and join the ⭐️fight against authoritarianism.
On Wednesday, Deibert will deliver a keynote at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas,
one of the largest gatherings of information security professionals of the year.
Ahead of his talk, Deibert …
Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
EU-Kommission verhängt 2,95 Milliarden Euro Bußgeld gegen Google
@… yeah! I’ve been thinking about how bad management can influence code and the cycle of how that code perpetuates.
Gotta have a good company environment to have good company code