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In einem Bücherschrank einer Pension fand ich dieses Buch. Ich muss es leider stehlen. Und dann wegwerfen.
(Dem allgemeinen Erscheinen des Umfelds hat es ein Gast hier gelassen, nicht die Pension selbst hin gestellt.)

I've been doing some ridiculously neat reverse engineering recently.
Check this out: https://github.com/httptoolkit/frida-interception-and-unpinning/blob/main/android/android-disable-flutter-certi…

frida-interception-and-unpinning/android/android-disable-flutter-certificate-pinning.js at main · httptoolkit/frida-interception-and-unpinning
Frida scripts to directly MitM all HTTPS traffic from a target mobile application - httptoolkit/frida-interception-and-unpinning

Curious about the Chinese vulnerability database? It's now included on https://vulnerability-lookup.org!
Big thanks to @… for the aw…

(wanted to write a bit about CC and open licenses and shit but I had minor surgery this morning so I probably can't get my thoughts in line. Let's hope tomorrow has fewer painkillers.)

[BLOG] Windows: Umwandlung einer BIOS/MBR-Installation zu EFI/GPT https://www.adlerweb.info/blog/2025/07/23/windows-umwandlung-einer-bios-mbr-installation-zu-efi-gpt/

おはようございます。
もう少し寝ていたい……
#chacha_cat #cat

Every year, hundreds of children in the United States gain access to loaded guns that are unsecured in closets and nightstand drawers, in backpacks and purses, or just left out in the open.
With tragic regularity, children pick up these unsecured guns and unintentionally shoot themselves or someone else.
Everyone has a role to play in preventing these tragedies.
Although unintentional shootings by children are a heartbreaking part of America’s gun violence epidemic,
no…

We must make sure no more children are added to this list
Every year, hundreds of children in the US gain access to firearms and unintentionally shoot themselves or someone else. This is #NotAnAccident.

"Het is gevaarlijk om de situatie in de Verenigde Staten in de tweede termijn van Trump te onderschatten: het extreemrechtse populisme heeft zich er als een natuurbrand verspreid. Een wetenschapper ziet hoe universiteiten tot vijand worden verklaard en hoe de angst regeert."

Nederland, in de VS is het erger dan jullie denken, ga ons niet slaapwandelend achterna
Ik ben hoogleraar natuurkunde aan een universiteit in de VS die op de frontlinie staat van de aanval op democratie. Daar zie ik hoe het autoritaire draaiboek wordt afgestoft.

Little wave of #AccordionRevolution summer orders this week 🌞 🪗
Http://AccordionBruce.etsy.com
#Accordion

This Facebook spam I got today knows what's up.

Aha, der #Sonos interim CEO, der massiv stellen abgebaut hat und das app Desaster mit verantwortet hat, wird also dauerhafter CEO und setzt den Fokus auf die "Exzellenz der Marke". Ah ja, das lässt ja hoffen....
…

Sonos macht Nägel mit Köpfen: Tom Conrad wird neuer CEO
Der Audio-Spezialist Sonos hat heute die Personalie festgezurrt, über die schon länger spekuliert wurde: Tom Conrad wird neuer Chief ...

Been watching Homicide: Life on the Streets.
Season 2 episode 2. (1994) is one of the most intense hours ever aired on TV. Andre Braugher and Yaphet Kotto’s performances in this are epochal.

I am planning on moving my shit away from Notion.
The whole "2nd Brain" thing does not work for me (it just gives me busywork instead of doing something useful) so what I am looking for
- self-hostable
- should have a web interface I can use from any machine without installation
-I need "tasks", "projects" that contain tasks and "notes" (ideally optionally connected to projects and/or tasks)
- boards for tasks
- mobile …

Me: Ob irgendwelche Folgen von $Anime auf YouTube rumfliegen?
YouTube: Videos der Folgen? Nein. Aber möchtest du diese 7h aller Folgen hintereinander?

aktuelles #Wetter #Behrendorf #Wische 26-07-2025 16:20
Temperatur: (min: 16,5C) 22,6C (max: 23,2C)
Feuchte: 66%
Luftdruck: 1013,8 hPa (langsam fallend)
Windrichtung: 284 Grad
W…

Our Coding Adventure: Using LLMs to Personalise the Narrative of a Tangible Programming Robot for Preschoolers
Martin Ruskov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20982

Our Coding Adventure: Using LLMs to Personalise the Narrative of a Tangible Programming Robot for Preschoolers
Finding balanced ways to employ Large Language Models (LLMs) in education is a challenge due to inherent risks of poor understanding of the technology and of a susceptible audience. This is particularly so with younger children, who are known to have difficulties with pervasive screen time. Working with a tangible programming robot called Cubetto, we propose an approach to benefit from the capabilities of LLMs by employing such models in the preparation of personalised storytelling, necessary f…

Napigen v1.0.0 coraz bliżej wydania.
Siadłem ostatnio trochę i się pobawiłem ;)
Tutaj edytor wygenerowanych napisów z oznaczeniem w zaleznosci jak system rozpoznał.

From CreativeCommons with their "signals" to the OSI with their "open source AI" fiasco it seems that the stewards of the legal structures protecting the digital commons are not on the side of people actually wanting to contribute to the commons for humanity. (Maybe they never were.)
If those organizations don't reorient themselves to align with people's needs maybe we need to fork.

I love that this accidental shot emerged, well by accident, in #midjourney. #aiphotography
https://

Robust estimation of a Markov chain transition matrix from multiple sample paths
Lasse Leskel\"a, Maximilien Dreveton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20325

Robust estimation of a Markov chain transition matrix from multiple sample paths
Markov chains are fundamental models for stochastic dynamics, with applications in a wide range of areas such as population dynamics, queueing systems, reinforcement learning, and Monte Carlo methods. Estimating the transition matrix and stationary distribution from observed sample paths is a core statistical challenge, particularly when multiple independent trajectories are available. While classical theory typically assumes identical chains with known stationary distributions, real-world data…

Visited my favorite classic #pizza joint again, the Leaning Tower of Pizza. Killer art in this joint. https://www.leaningtowerofpizzamo.com/

Pfff… Jemand hat im letzten Rossmann-Video das Katzengeplänkel als Videohighlight markiert. I'm not entirely mad. :D
#sponsorblock

Make your voices heard.
I also added something to a few bugs. @… really needs to go back to the drawing board and think about whose problems they are trying to solve. Because who is this proposal for? The only beneficiaries are AI companies.

@…
Zwei Fehlerberichte:
Nach einschalten und Ausschalten funktioniert die SIM nicht mehr. In den Benachrichtigungen steht ein Ausrufezeichen. Ich habe die SIM im Telefonladen durch eine neue ersetzen lassen und den Vertrag prüfen lassen. Es liegt am Shiftphone.
Bei der Nutzung von F-Droid wird ein fehlerhaftes Shift-Zertifikat angezeigt…

aktuelles #Wetter #Behrendorf #Wische 26-06-2025 08:00
Temperatur: (min: 12,8C) 18,9C (max: 18,9C)
Feuchte: 82%
Luftdruck: 1012,4 hPa (gleichbleibend)
Windrichtung: 194 Grad
Wi…

memories of the dead at riverbend, part 3. [8/10]

Nice! #Austria wins. Well deserved!
Israel as imperialistic war country should, like Russia, not be admitted to take part in the contest at all.
Was fun on the #Fediverse! Great postings people! Enjoyed it! 💚
#Eurovision

‘No one understands a woman in her 20s like Billy Joel [playing 🪗 in the 1970s]’: gen z finds solace in anti-hustle anthem Vienna
(I missed this story with the great #accordion pic last year)
https://www.

Currently it looks like I'll use my existing Nextcloud with the apps
- tasks
- deck (kanban board for tasks)
- Collectives
None are the prettiest but they do the job.
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/114750872237979394

Isetta

A Learning-based Domain Decomposition Method
Rui Wu, Nikola Kovachki, Burigede Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17328 https://arxiv.org…

A Learning-based Domain Decomposition Method
Recent developments in mechanical, aerospace, and structural engineering have driven a growing need for efficient ways to model and analyse structures at much larger and more complex scales than before. While established numerical methods like the Finite Element Method remain reliable, they often struggle with computational cost and scalability when dealing with large and geometrically intricate problems. In recent years, neural network-based methods have shown promise because of their ability …

Einstein metrics, their moduli spaces and stability
Paul Schwahn, Uwe Semmelmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18463 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.18463

Einstein metrics, their moduli spaces and stability
This survey deals with two closely connected topics: first, the stability of Einstein metrics under the Einstein-Hilbert functional, and second, their deformation theory and the study of the moduli space of Einstein metrics on a compact manifold. To first order, both problems reduce to studying the spectrum and eigentensors of the Lichnerowicz Laplacian. We give an introduction to the classical theory and survey recent results and advances.

Laut Bitkom-Studie finden 64% der Schüler:innen, dass Influencer und YouTuber Inhalte besser erklären als ihre Lehrkräfte. Schule muss endlich digitaler werden – sonst bleibt sie nur Kulisse, während das echte "Lernen" auf TikTok & Co. stattfindet. Wenn es denn echtes Lernen ist ... #Bildung #Digitalisierung

I think a misunderstanding is that people want to fight "scraping" or "automated systems". But my feeling is that the issue is with the _purpose_ of the scraping: It's not "that person is scraping my site" it's "that person wants to use my work to train their slop machine". The issue is the SLOP machine with all the negative externalities they have.
And that is a path worth exploring (that I have similarly argued for code): We want to cont…

Das waren grade >20l in 10 Minuten…
#gewitter

Looked at @…'s Signals page (https://creativecommons.org/ai-and-the-commons/cc-signals/) again.
I think this…

CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI - Creative Commons
TL;DR – What are CC signals? CC signals are a proposed framework to help content stewards express how they want their works used in AI training—emphasizing reciprocity, recognition, and sustainability in machine reuse. They aim to preserve open knowledge by encouraging responsible AI behavior without limiting innovation. 💗Love it! How can I show my support?…

What??? #UK
#ESC

Read through @…'s "signals" proposal and that's ... really weak.
Feels like it's just a bit of window dressing to keep to community busy while AI companies take everything they can find.
Like, why is that kind of signalling not part of the licenses? The promise of CC licenses was reuse by others (that is _people_…

Do I know any #accordion or #concertina folks in #Belfast who might be up to attending this auction and shipping me an instrument if I’m fool enough to win one?
The Ken Hopkin's Accordion…

The Ken Hopkin's Accordion Collection at Ross's Online Auctions
The Ken Hopkin's Accordion Collection Bidding will take place via the-saleroom.com. You can bid by clicking here. Ross's Auctions is proud to present this landmark sale of Northern Ireland's lar

Smarte Idee.
Soldat*innen dürfen ja umsonst Zug fahren, damit ist das militärische Infra, damit können wir da beliebig Geld drauf werfen.
https://chaos.social/@geheimorga/114744668728525045

[BLOG] BitBastelei #653 – PCA8575/PCF8575 – I2C Port Expander – Mehr GPIO für ESP32 & Co https://www.adlerweb.info/blog/2025/07/20/bitbastelei-653-pca8575-pcf8575-i2c-port-expander-mehr-gpio-fuer-esp32-co/

#Iceland still zero points? How??
#ECS #Eurovision

So, nun auch für nen Nachmittag bei der #rp25

Oh no no no…

Well. That happened.
#Bofhle 1136 1/6
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Happy #SysadminDay!
https://sysarmy.com/bofhle

Im Rahmen des Journalismusfest Innsbruck wurde für für DER STANDARD interviewed.
Wir sprachen über KI und Technologie im Allgemeinen. Und darüber, dass dem #KI Hype hinterherzurennen das Gegenteil von sinnvoll und zielführend ist.

Wenn ich Österreich höre, denke ich an die Mozart-Kugeln und ich glaube, ich muss jetzt irgendeinen noch rumliegenden Osterhasen killen. #ESC #Eurovision

Das Re in Re:Publica steht für retro: Man kann da noch die alten Blockchain Versprechen wieder aufwärmen. (Wahrscheinlich einfach Förderprogramm ausgelaufen und jetzt kann man seinen Spielzeug Case vorstellen.
"Regenwälder mit Blockchains retten" https://

I'm a pirate now. arrrr.
#haxkoleaks

It's not just the MCP stuff (that one is extremely badly built though) but so many other pieces of that stack and the models.
"AI" as an "industry" has basically no regard for engineering. Which is why all the talk about "safety" is utter nonsense.
https://tldr.nettim…

This is just one example. "MCP" the protocol for "AI agents" is basically without security measures. It's like running random code on your infrastructure and data.
(Original title: GitHub MCP Exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP)
https://simonwillison.net…

ESC ist neben der Musik so ein schönes Element der Integration und Europa. Viele Sprachen, Leute, Länder. Einfach mega gut!

Eine Schraube ist runtergerollt. Nicht mehr gefunden. Naja, in dem Kneul, was sich reingeschlichen hat, hatte ich nicht gesucht.
#caturday

I'll never be able to move again, my life is hard.

The narrative that #AI will do all routine and we can just focus on important/strategic/big picture things works because it tell us that we are oh so smart and special. WE DO THE BIG STUFF.
Newsflash: If your big picture decisions are not grounded in real experience they are gonna end up bullshit.

Not sure if Kustobjekt oder Netzteil…

Here are all songs in a #playlist on #AppleMusic: https://music.apple.com/de/playl…

Eurovision 2025 on Apple Music
Playlist · 37 Songs

"As with many digital [vibe coding] doesn't fully stand up to scrutiny but show a deep misunderstanding of how software is made, the potential externalities (and internalities) software brings and a disdain for experience and embodied knowledge."
(Original title: On “Vibe Coding”)
https://tant…

On "Vibe Coding"
The hype about the potentials (it’s always future potential, never real current use) of AI has discarded its last cycle (“reasoning models”/”deep research”, both terms being factually untrue and deeply deceiving at best) and moved to a new double whammy of “agentic AI” and “Vibe Coding”. Now “agentic AI” basically just means that some LLM […]

Liberals (in basically any western country) think that the political victory of the right is due to messaging: "We just need to get the messaging right".
No. Your politics are shit because you are adopting the narratives of the right (austerity, racism) and provide no meaningful alternatives.

Hazel was a surprise and perfect tonight!
#ESC #Eurovision

Luckily most newsletter providers offer RSS so you don't need to add more spam to your inbox to read a blog.
https://mastodon.social/@jcoglan/114574046492220178

The mashup thing was gooooood. Loud and fancy. #ESC #Eurovision

Also es gab gute und viele schlechte Sachen aber nix so total ganz herausragendes.
#ESC #Eurovision

Mehr Italien als Italien. #SanMarino
#ESC #Eurovision

Joe good good, ear-wig potential. But not my fav. It's missing some substance. It's entertaining but not too catchy.
#ESC #Eurovision #Sweden

OK #Sweden, I'm exited. #ESC #Eurovision

Yup, nice beat! Like it!
Could be more exciting, is very predictable song arrangement but still okayish.
#ESC #Eurovision #Denmark

Ah nee das gefällt mir gar nicht, langweilig, #portugal
#ESC #Eurovision

by the way… we draw #arch
https://canvas.fediverse.events/#x=351&y=127&zoom=4

Hui, nice stage show. Okay for background music but nothing to listen to just as it is.
#ESC #Eurovision #Malta

The current Panic World episode on how everything turned to gambling is very worth listening to.
https://pca.st/episode/8dd51267-787e-425d-91f2-84758e60bff7

We are living in a casino

If the abundance people were in any way shape or form serious, they'd talk less about magical growth without harms but taking away billionaires' money to lift everyone else up to a decent life.
If their theory worked, the rich folks would be very rich quickly. But why should poorer people wait to eat, have healthcare and safe housing until the magic wealth appears?
It sounds very inconsistent.

New Gogo Penguin album is good. Better than the last one.

"Hast du den Stuhl verstellt?"
"Nein, ich bin fett und hab mich draufgesetzt"
#haxkoleaks

"Wer das Eis »Maxi« genannt hat, der behauptet auch er hätte 20cm"
#haxkoleaks

"Curl is ja eigentlich auch nur yt-dlp-legacy"
#haxkoleaks

"Erwecke den Alpha-Mann in dir"
Warum sollte jemand so was unfertiges und instabiles haben wollen?

Was denn heute los? Reparatur Café vollkommen überlaufen. Mussten einige Leute schon wegschicken weil wir absehbar nicht zu kommen.

Enlightening thread on Proton's new LLM
https://social.cryptography.dog/@ansuz/114906970072548804

#Bofhle 1126 3/6
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩
⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
To be fair: Ich musste bin durchkämmen, wüsste nicht, dass ich den Befehl schon mal genutzt hab…

Google's "AI Overviews" are garbage. Sadly they are now becoming the main way people interact with the web.
(Original title: Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain)
https://www.404media.co/googles-ai-is-destro…

Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain
Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.

I was talking to someone yesterday (let's call them A) and they had another "AI" experience, I thought might happen but hadn't heard of before.
They were interacting with an organization and upon asking a specific thing got a very specific answer. Weeks later that organization claimed it had never said what they said and when A showed the email as proof the defense was: Oh yeah, we're an international organization and it's busy right now so the person who sent…

Kollege hat darauf hingewiesen, dass quasi alles an #Lötpaste von #AliExpress & Co verschwunden ist. Jemand auf dem Schirm, ob sich da was geändert hat?

It's good that bigger mainstreamer people such as John Oliver are also talking about the "AI slop" era and phenomenon. I do think he was a bit too charitable though.
AI slop is not just bad visuals, it's the esthetic of modern fascism.
https://youtu.be/TWpg1RmzAbc?si=IJOnB4

"Beschriftungen müssen immer so gestaltet sein, dass man möglichst schnell erfassen kann worum es geht"
Me: Say no more.

Gemütliche Fahrt durch den Wald. Aber offenbar Technologieoffen. >_> #MDRzA

Having gone through the paper a second time it's really weak. it's not presenting an actual argument but a gish gallop of random terms from random disciplines to be just boot licking.
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/114896761722068724

This comic is very much about #AI
(Original title: Metaphorical Satire)
https://designthinkingcomic.substack.com/p/metaphorical-satire

Metaphorical Satire
DT! for today

"Silicon Valley’s era of innovation is over. This is their villain era. The era of the con. Having bled themselves dry of ideas, and all sense of moral decency, they’re now attempting to bleed us dry of our own humanity."
(Original title: How to keep sea-monkeys alive)
https://

How to keep sea-monkeys alive
Little painting I did a couple of weeks ago. There’s a stick so it looks like a protest sign, but I cropped it out. Enjoying the newsletter? Gimme $2 for...

It's really fucked up how when I write posts on work laptop (MacBook/Macos) vs. my own machine (Thinkpad/Linux) I end up with some many extra typos.
I don't think it's the MacBook keyboard (though it is a bit shit) it really is Macos' autocorrect.

"I do not need the one magic machine that claims to solve all my issues and then makes me jump through conversational hoops to get a mediocre result. That is actually the opposite of what I need."
On chatbots as a bad design paradigm
(Original title: “ChatBot” is bad design)
https://t…

"ChatBot" is bad design
As anyone who has ever seen anything I have created knows: I am not a designer. So take my reasoning and thinking here with a grain of salt. I do have many designers amongst my friends and I do think that a lot of software engineering falls within the domain of design to a certain […]

"You can tell what happened — Google promised iNaturalist free money if they would just do something, anything, that had some generative AI in it. iNaturalist forgot why people contribute at all, and took the cash."
(Original title: Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage)

Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage
iNaturalist is a website that crowdsources pictures of plants and animals to help identify species. Its tagline is “A Community for Naturalists.” iNaturalist is administered by its own small charit…

Videospieleentwickler*innen hier?
Neuer Förderaufruf für Euch draußen: https://www.bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de/Redaktion/DE/Downloads/Games/computerspielefoerderung-zweiter-aufruf1.html

No, writing _is not_ thinking. But writing is an activity that pushes you to think in a way that gets results you can actually put into words.

Microsoft Research is at it again:
Advait Sarkar, a Microsoft Research employee got a paper published at the CHI Conference on Human Factors in computing systems:
"AI Could Have Written This: Birth of a Classist Slur in Knowledge Work"
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706599

Who has already way too much to do and got an important idea for something that would take a fuckton of work but would be very important to do ASAP? This guy.
Please tell me that organizing a conference is a dumb idea.

I don't think that "give beginners LLMs to get them started so they can actually learn to do it later" checks out.
(Original title: But will they?)
https://tante.cc/2025/07/21/but-will-they/

But will they?
Armin Ronacher, who is quite a well-known open source developer (especially in the Python community) and who would probably consider himself a very rational, pragmatic person when it comes to “AI” usage posted an interesting post on Mastodon today: Post by @mitsuhiko View on Mastodon So his thought is that giving especially younger, less experienced […]

I wonder if there is a difference in the perspective on "vibe coding" in the (somewhat political) Free Software movement vs. the more corporate, utilitarian Open Source movement.

"„Vibe Coding“ ist ein Euphe­mis­mus für plan­lo­se Nach­läs­sig­keit. Der Begriff sug­ge­riert intui­ti­ve, krea­ti­ve Arbeit, ver­steckt aber den Ver­zicht auf metho­di­sche Sorg­falt und pro­fes­sio­nel­le Stan­dards. Die­se Umdeu­tung macht Unfä­hig­keit zur Tugend."
(Original title: KI-Tool versteckt Inkompetenz)
ht…

KI-Tool versteckt Inkompetenz
Ein Vibe-Coder schreibt ohne es zu merken auf X, wie kaputt Vibe-Coding ist: Ein Staging-System greift direkt auf die Produktionsdatenbank zu. Keine Versionskontrolle mit Git. Tests funktionieren laut den Posts nur auf dem Produktionssystem. Und der Höhepunkt: Ein KI-Tool warnt explizit "I can not b