
2025-01-28 15:28:16
PSA: Do you have a carbon monoxide detector in your home? Do you have more than one (think redundancy)? Does it have a fresh battery (or lifetime battery)? Have you tested the alarm function recently?
If you have appliances that may create carbon monoxide, or an attached garage, now is a good time to check all of the above.
#CarbonMonoxide
Heute vor 100 Jahren im Institut:
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A. #Ostrowski: Zum Sturmschen Satze. Ausdehnung eines Satzes von Darboux über komplexe Wurzeln der Sturmschen Funktionen auf Funktionen Sturmscher Ketten. [...].
E. #Noether: Ableitung der
#F35 #killswitch
« Bien sûr, il y a un bouton d'arrêt. Tout ce qui est équipé d'un logiciel ou d'une connectivité internet est doté d'un kill switch. C'est comme ça que ça marche - bienvenue dans la société moderne ».
Defunct railroad building.
Taken 4 August 2024.
#WindowFriday #FensterFreitag #Abandoned #Ohio
Rant about PHP
You know a technology is declining when the most basic questions about its most bizarre quirks are left completely unanswered for years.
#PHP is like that. Every day I have many of these questions. I look for them. No one asked them before, no one wrote about them before.
I'm baffled by the lack of curiosity and proactivity of its community.
I know it sounds like me piling up on people I don't know anything about, but I used to invest a lot of time programming in PHP. I went to conferences, I made some open source libraries for it, like a PHP kernel for Jupyter Notebooks, I even made a library to work with dataframes, tensors and matrices in PHP (although I lost this one because my laptop was stolen before I released... and I didn't had it in me to rewrite it again).
Then, the ones who I admired the most in that space, like Nikita Popov, started leaving it to work in more intellectually vibrant communities... and it shows.
I'm sure Nikita Popov would be much more gracious than me when talking about it. I can only speculate about his motivations, but at least I can tell you about mine: It was precisely about that same lack of curiosity and creativity that I mentioned before, it felt unbearably grey and sad.
True story time. ~7 years ago, onsite team meeting
New hire said when starting job, they thought "model" in job description meant we take photos, wondered where the girls were. Initially sounded like joke, but as they kept going, I realized they were serious. Next few years confirmed laziness, lack of curiosity.
How do you see "model" in #DataAnalytics job &…
Steven Levitsky: "Nous assistons actuellement Š l'effondrement de notre démocratie. Sous Donald Trump, les États-Unis glissent vers une forme d'autoritarisme. Cela ne sera sans doute pas irréversible. Mais le fait est lŠ : en ce moment même, les États-Unis cessent d'être une démocratie."
#USA
"If anything, this author firmly believes that programming skills are second to those related to communication; most engineers coming out of colleges these days are unable to express themselves in public, to teach their peers, to write an essay or a blog post, to communicate their ideas to stakeholders, or to put together a simple documentation bundle without suffering a seizure in the process."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/banning-adopting-reckoning/
Wow, what a weird rabbit-hole I just ended up down.
So, the “Spread Mastodon" page (tutorial?) recommends a cool-sounding browser extension as an alternative to all those constantly-dead 'fedifinder' / Twitter-person-looker-upper-tools: the ‘Whosum Social Assistant' browser extension.
Sounds cool! Sounds like the correct solution to this problem!
I started writing a script for a video only for the topic to stop being relevant wrote I could finish
Die Nasen #Merz #Spahn predigen den #TrickleDown und wir schauen zu, oder was?!
I have a relatively new #ASUS ProArt13 laptop where I still have a #Microsoft #Windows installation so I can keep upgrading its firmware (I planned removing it once I have a stable #Linux distro with kernel >= 6.14).
I'm surprised by how unstable it is. Just leaving it doing nothing for more than 10 minutes is enough to trigger a #BlueScreenOfDeath (I can reproduce the issue). If I keep doing stuff, it does not crash.
At this point I'm not sure if it's Microsoft's fault or ASUS'... but I suspect the blame falls on Windows side (nothing like that happens on my Linux installation).
#Windows11
revolutionary #nostalgia with the 1970 Song from #TomRobbinsonBand "Power in the dsrkness" - today played for #rumeysaozturk still being held in an ICE detention center in Basil…
How do I get #Tootfinder to work on my toots? I would really like to be searchable. #MastoBrain
Le Sillon Fictionnel est désormais disponible au format EPUB pour vos liseuses, ainsi qu’en PDF et sur le site web sillonesque.
🌊 Pour plus d'information https://sillon-fictionnel.club/apropos/#le-sillon-en-revue
🗄️ PDF
I just released a new version of #dotnet
Der nächste kostenlose #RadlCheck des Mobilitätsreferats findet am 26.03. 10-16 Uhr am #Prinzregentenplatz in #Bogenhausen statt.
Radfahrende können einfach mit ihrem Fahrrad vorb…
@… Hello Judith! #classicalsinging #singing #musiciansofmastodon
Heute vor 100 Jahren im Institut im Kolloquium der Mathematischen Gesellschaft #Göttingen:
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Berichte der Dozenten über ihre Vorlesungen im W.-S. 1924/25.
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aus "Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung", 1926
#OTD1925
There is a new #Fediverse bot that facilitates web forensic analysis of websites.
You can submit a domain for crawling by messaging @…, and it will respond with the analysis results.
#taxesoda #malbouffe
"une nouvelle étude de l'Université de Washington a montré que les femmes qui
qui boivent au moins une boisson gazeuse pleine de sucre par jour sont environ cinq fois plus de risques de développer un cancer de la cavité buccale que le…
Eckernförder Bündnis gegen Rechts
„Nie wieder ist jetzt"
Gemeinsam #Haltung zeigen für #Demokratie
#Demonstration am Sonntag 16.02.2025,
14 Uhr an der Hafenspitze
Proudly presenting: The new equipment database of the Hamburg University of Technology: Transparency on a new level.
Hamburg University of Technology has introduced another tool to promote scientific collaboration and transparency: an equipment database integrated into the TORE research information system
#DSpaceCRIS
@… is wondering how much trouble a skipped heading level is for screen reader users. Three users have replied but it'd be great to see more feedback. Anyone else willing to reply to Manuel's post? Here is the link:
h…
Les nouveaux chiffres sur la pendularité 2023 ont été publié par l'OFS:
👉 35% des pendulaires prennent mois de 15 minutes pour se rendre au travail. 9% prennent plus d'1 heure
👉 La moitié des pendulaires utilisent la voiture pour se rendre au travail
La part modale de la voiture pour les trajets pendulaires est donc identique en 2023 qu'en 1990...
Muy pronto, las personas que abran Blender, seršn recibidas con una imagen del gato de Flow.
La película fue animada utilizando este software gratuito.
#flow #flowmovie #cat
WEBCAST 19 FEV - ISOC-RDC - Masterclass l'sur le service universel: "Connecter de nouveaux usagers" #ServiceUniversal
„I would not be surprised if Musk hopes to displace the USD (to ‘denationalise’ the dollar) and to replace the world’s reserve currency with ‘privatised’ cryptocurrencies, that both Musk and Trump are now invested in. Both are fearsome prospects, but under this administration, entirely plausible.“
https://
One thing I think about is how flat-earth types could convince themselves, without having to trust anyone, their model of the earth is wrong. I don't think the earth is flat, but it is an interesting problem in #epistemology.
A model needs to explain observations if it is to be believed.
Lately, I've been thinking about day length as seasons change, and how cycle is opposit…
KÖNNT IHR ALLE ENDLICH MAL AUFHÖREN, SO ÜBER EURE MITMENSCHEN HERZUZIEHEN; ES NERVT BRUTAL, UND WIR HABEN IN WENIGEN TAGEN OSTERN, IHR MÖCHTEGERNCHRIST*INNEN
#CDU #CSU #KleineKoalition
"Go is a triumph in developer experience and efficiency, a language and a runtime created by very experienced designers built to solve a particular problem in a lightweight manner. Just like PostgreSQL and Git, some technologies survive Darwinian evolutionary cataclysms and rise to the top of their craft. Without any doubt, Go belongs to this select group, and if somewhat naïvely we take the past 15 years as a proof, its future looks definitely bright."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/the-age-of-concurrency/
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Is my goal just to jump at every person making a post?
Is my goal to also become a reply guy when we already have a huge replyguy problem?
#Replyguys #Replyguy #DontBecomeReplyGuy
Zum Girl's Day am 03.04. bieten wir dieses Jahr für 20 Mädchen einen interessanten Vormittag unter der Thema "Mathematik durch Farben" an.
Anmeldungen unter https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/507545.html
L'économie russe va mal, et tant mieux
https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/03/24/economie-russe-pour-la-premiere-fois-en-2025-le-petro…
Kleine Einführung in #PFAS und was diese Ewigkeitschemikalie in uns und der #Umwelt anrichtet.
Mittendrin: Erschreckende Messungen von #greenpeace an der Nord- & Ostsee (
Ever hate listening to someone's voice so much you find you're trying to will yourself into a heart attack every time they speak?
En lille tråd med danske forskere, der pt er aktive i fediverset. Jeg siger ikke så meget, sætter bare gode kolleger på én for én, så man kan finde dem og de måske hinanden.
Kom gerne med forslag.
#dkfedi. #UniPåFedi
Two years ago at #CSUN I learned about what became my favorite browser extension, BeeLine Reader. I've been a subscriber ever since.
It's easy to set up on desktop, but has been some struggle to get working on Android. But this week I discovered it works with Microsoft's Edge Canary mobile browser, which has experimental support for extensions. Instructions are here:
#Mexico forbids killing bulls and subjecting them to the most extreme forms of torture.
#Spain is, sadly, still far behind... but I suspect that Mexico's precedent will help, not just as a good example, but also because it will severely decrease the income of many of those bullfighters (toreros).
Toreros usually travel through many countries to participate in these bloody spectacles and make a living out of it. Removing Mexico from their list will be a big thing, so it is likely that many of them will have to do something else with their lives.
Ordis et tablettes Š l'école:
"Le gouvernement régional de Madrid a dévoilé des plans visant Š limiter l'utilisation des ordinateurs et des tablettes dans les écoles primaires Š un maximum de deux heures par semaine afin de lutter contre « les risques associés Š l'utilisation précoce, intensive et inappropriée des technologies de l'information »."
Wir haben gerade auf #Twitter bekannt gegeben, dass wir nun auf Mastodon:mastodon: sind: https://x.com/Piraten_Muc/status/1902427402375970870
Sagt drüben gerne bescheid, dass wir nun…
Publi Fluor - Affaires de Lettres Š Bruxelles
Le groupe de recherche Crickx a publié un travail remarquable et minutieusement documenté sur “Publi Fluor”, un magasin emblématique où Chrystel Crickx a exercé son talent pendant plus de quarante ans. Spécialisée dans le lettrage pour les devantures de magasins Š Bruxelles, elle a façonné un style unique...
🌊 Lire la critique sur le Sillon
Ballpark de Tsukamaete!
(The Catcher in the Ballpark!) TV anime by EMT Squared begins in April 2025
#anime #ballpark #tsukamaete
"On Sunday, July 20th, 1969, at precisely 20:14:19 UTC, just a mere three minutes before touchdown, the voice of Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr. confirmed the “Go for landing” order received from Mission Control together with a phrase nobody wanted to hear at that moment: “Program alarm – 1201.”"
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/margaret-hamilton/
For 5 years now I've been learning about web accessibility and reviewing websites. But I'm not a native screen reader user, and my mobile app experience is lacking.
This month I learned about "Accessibility Actions" or "actions available" for VoiceOver and TalkBack. I shoulda known about it for years-- it makes navigation by swiping potentially much quicker.
Would you be willing to share your thoughts and experiences with this feature?
TABS. It is a question of #accessibility, you morons!
Death to #smartTabs (aka random haphazard inserts of spaces depending on the IDE at hand)!
#codingStyle
Dernières nouvelles du paradis du capitalisme: faire ses courses Š crédit.
https://futurism.com/doordash-klarna-loan-partnership
Heute vor 100 Jahren im Institut im Kolloquium Mathematischen Gesellschaft #Göttingen:
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H. #Kneser: Reduktion Abelscher Integrale. [...]
K. #Grandjot: Transzend…
Die Einschaltquoten sind relevant für die Folgeverträge. Wir müssen endlich über diese ganzen #Talkshows reden und dass sie extern produziert werden, von profitorientierten Unternehmen. It's the economy, stupid!
#Tesla shares are kind of slowly recovering their past price.
I suspect it's not just people "buying the dip", but also "the market" reacting to boycotters being caught.
Please, be careful, be smart, don't get caught.
#boycotttesla
How long until they try to make Mars a US state?
14,4 % de la population allemande vit dans la pauvreté. Cela représente plus de 12 millions de personnes. [...] 40% des ménages allemands composés d’un parent seul élevant des enfants sont « exposés au risque de pauvreté ou d'exclusion sociale ».
https://www.hrw.org/fr/news/2025/03/24/la-…
Die #StadtMünchen vergibt #FrauenTaxi Gutscheine, abgeholt werden können diese in #Bibliotheken, im Rathaus usw.:
Absolut geniale Grafik! Artikel- Illustration von #theatlantic
#trump :
"Americas Mad King"
Can the ai components (NPU) of new processors be used for non-ai work?
What I'm thinking is along the lines that the vector-processing components of GPUs have also been used to speed up non-graphic mathematics on large arrays.
#NPUs #AIProcessor
Happy , today I deployed a #Forgejo instance to manage my private code projects. I won't be using #Github anymore for my stuff, only to contribute to 3rd party projects.
I still have some pending work to configure the CI workers, but I'll leave that for next week.
Along the way I've learnt some stuff about #OpenTofu and networking. Enough to know that I still prefer to be on the dev side of the "devops" .
"Where will the von Neumanns, the Einsteins, and the Gödels of our age migrate after the SCOTUS overrules democracy in 2024 and Gödel’s Loophole is proven to exist? (…) Maybe this is the chance of a lifetime for the European continent; if not for all, at least for some countries therein: Portugal, Scandinavia, The Netherlands, and Switzerland, for example."
https://www.404media.co/nasa-yale-and-stanford-scientists-consider-scientific-exile-french-university-says/
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/william-aspray/
Wir freuen uns sehr darauf am Wochenende 230 Schülerinnen und Schüler aus ganz #Niedersachsen bei uns zur #MathematikOlympiade begrüßen zu dürfen.
Ending illegal immigration by making every nation a US state
"mono" TV anime key visual & PV:
#Mono
techno-political rant
Say what you want about using the right tool for each problem, but there are tools that suck no matter what.
I'm tired of people portraying legit technical criticism as "biased" and "religious", while at the same time they present themselves as tolerant and open-minded (spoiler: for the most part, they aren't).
Almost every day of my life I have to deal with the nasty consequences of ultra-dumb decisions made by the very same people who are obsessed with productivity and criticise all day long whoever pushes for any design that shows any minim amount of care and/or deep thought (mostly via strawmen arguments).
And, of course, unironically: this has a lot to do with capitalism, as many of our other social and economic problems.
They arrive, have a strike of super-productivity for a few weeks/months and then use that as a trampoline to raise through the ranks or abandon ship before having to face the consequences of their technical crimes.
Then others arrive and are obviously slower at that same job... so the uneducated observers start believing that these newcomers aren't as good as the class traitors who wrote the initial nasty code.
To make things worse, if any of these newcomers dare to speak openly about introducing good practices... this ends up creating a new mental association (in the minds of uneducated observers) between "good engineering" and "lack of productivity".
The ones trying to fix the mess are indeed slower, not because they try to do things the right way though, but because they have to waste vasts amounts of time fixing what is objectively broken besides doing the "visible" work.
Most of today's established "super-productive" ones, if they were starting today, would be probably "vibe coders", certainly not what we commonly understand as a programmer. Not because AI-coding is the future, but because they never cared about the trade at all. They were here only for the grift.
David Brooks: "What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal"
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It’s time for a comprehensive national civic uprising. It’s time for Americans in universities, law, business, nonprofits and the scientific community, and civil servants and beyond to form one coordinated mass movement. Trump is about power. The only way he’s going to be stopped is if he’s confronted by some movement that possesses rival power."
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#ViernesDeMemes pero vamos a hacerle caso a la imagen y cuenten fedichismes 👀
"It is no secret that the latest SARS outbreak has reshaped the world of work. Particularly in software engineering: where the work can be done anywhere with an internet connection so codes can be pasted from Stack Overflow, and the practitioners generally have a dislike of meetings. Your average software engineer would rather build the wrong thing for eight hours in a flow state, than have a 15-minute conversation in which they find out what direction they should go."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/your-place-or-mine/
Could anyone spare a "Like" for these kids who are trying to plant some seeds of Open Source in the USA Midwest?
#FOSS
马斯克“查账”曝150岁老人领福利,竟是COBOL惹的祸?-InfoQ
https://www.infoq.cn/article/7OFw27GfLm370K4M1lR3
I guess there's no real need to explain why I'm doing this, but there's always someone who was lucky enough to be living in the jungle for a while (or something like that), disconnected from everything.
Hypothetical jungle person: I envy you.
Summary: I'm tired of big corporations stealing everything they can to train their #LLMs, and I'm also tired of companies like #Microsoft being active collaborators of the Trump regime.
"To make a long story short, at some point during early 1996 I bought a cheap 14.4 kilobit per second modem, taking 10 minutes in average to download a single megabyte. Together with a monthly subscription to the new “Blue Window” service by Telecom PTT (soon to be renamed Swisscom), lo and behold, I was online."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/sniffing-packets/
On the same day I signed an initial IEP plan, I find out the US Dept of Education has cut half its staff.
Fuck POTUS47 and anyone that voted for him. And fuck any #ProgressivesForTrump that didn't have the maturity to vote for a better future. There's a million ways we will suffer for your single-minded refusal to see the future. You think people will "try harder&quo…
Just occurred to me that, while #TypeScript transition to a #Golang based typechecker and compiler is going to be quite good for development agility... this move could force other actors such as #Deno to rethink how they operate.
Types striping will be as easy as today, perhaps even easier, but if I recall correctly, Deno was offering typechecking as well, keeping this feature might become much more expensive in the future.
"Trofim Lysenko était un scientifique soviétique dont le déni dogmatique de la science a conduit Š une famine de masse lorsque ses idées ont été appliquées Š l'agriculture. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ressemble beaucoup Š Lysenko dans son déni de la science. Ses résultats seront-ils aussi désastreux ?"
#lysenkisme
Wir wünschen einen bunten und demokratischen Samstag!
#niewiederIstJetzt #wehretDenAnfängen #goe0102
uspolitics, trump
I keep seeing smart people writing stuff like
> [the US] kept peace through strength balanced with restraint, and wielded influence through culture, values, and diplomacy
I understand that #Trump is terrible and some people feel tempted to idealize what they had before him, but we should be more discerning, or otherwise it becomes impossible to understand how this happened in the first place.
Let's start with some questions:
- peace where? and for who? was it true peace, or "Pax Romana"?
- are we going to take seriously that statement on "restraint"? after all the lies, internal witch hunting, sanctions, coups, wars, invasions, genocides, and last but not least, 2 unnecessary nuclear strikes on Japan?
Now, on "culture, values, and diplomacy". Sure. Why not. Not everything was going to be bad, right?
But the thing is, abusive husbands aren't bad all the time either. From time to time they know how to be sweet and seem to care: one present here, flowers the next day, a little bit of gaslighting, and fake apologies after that "accidental" slap.
Given enough time (if the wife is still alive), at some point the victim decides to leave, and then all hell breaks loose. Trump is the manifestation of that moment. He does not represent a change in #USA's nature, but a hidden side that was "always" there, just waiting to play its role.
Others believe this is because #US citizens have been intentionally dumbed down by a combination of propaganda and a disfunctional education system, and I'm sure it's partly true... But let's see what many of their most brilliant and educated citizens are choosing to do with their lives today: https://sfstandard.com/2025/03/12/stanford-students-want-in-on-the-military-tech-gold-rush/
So, all I'm asking is: please drop the act. It was always a clusterfuck.
"The Tax Foundation is a veteran anti-tax campaign organization from the United States. It has been around since 1937 when it was founded by top brass from companies such as Standard Oil and General Motors. Close links to some of the biggest corporations in the US has been a constant feature of the organization, as has its political aim of bringing down taxes"
#lobbying
I'm 37 years old and I finally finished a #JRPG game for the first time in my life ( #SeaOfStars ).
I like them a lot, but I often get bored of the grinding, or I have to leave it for some time and when I come back I don't remember what I was doing.
Why I managed to finish it this time? Because I had more important, stressing and boring things to do instead, and my brain demanded procrastination. #ADHD
Ça commence Š paniquer :
'Musk demande aux employés de Tesla de conserver leurs actions dans un contexte de protestations"
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-03-21/musk-reassures-tesla-employees-stock-e…
Me sorprende ver que casi ningún sindicato (incluidos los libertarios) promueve de forma activa la creación de empresas #cooperativas en contraposición al modelo de empresa "clšsica" capitalista.
Alguien que me pueda iluminar sobre por qué esto es así? por qué tan poco énfasis en esta vía de acción?
A mi entender, que los trabajadores controlen la empresa es un paso esencial para asegurar que los logros sociales adquiridos sean mšs fšciles de defender (mucho mšs que si las empresas se nacionalizan, pues los estados pueden decidir volver a privatizarlas mšs tarde, o usarlas como instrumento de control)... y dado que no vivimos ni en un sistema comunista ni anarquista, la vía que mšs se acerca a esto es la de las empresas cooperativas.
#sindicalismo #cooperativismo #coop
"Trofim Lysenko était un scientifique soviétique dont le déni dogmatique de la science a conduit Š une famine de masse lorsque ses idées ont été appliquées Š l'agriculture. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ressemble beaucoup Š Lysenko dans son déni de la science. Ses résultats seront-ils aussi désastreux ?"
#lysenkisme
Un assureur suédois cède sa participation Tesla en raison de l'approche "problématique" du constructeur de voitures électriques sur les droits des travailleurs en Suède.
Bravo!
#Tesla