2025-09-29 14:15:57
Not quite Canadian Shield, but close... and at much higher elevation (~2300m)
(Another impression from the same region from yesterday's pictures, see description there...)
#MountainMonday #LandscapePhotography
Not quite Canadian Shield, but close... and at much higher elevation (~2300m)
(Another impression from the same region from yesterday's pictures, see description there...)
#MountainMonday #LandscapePhotography
Arrived at the "office"... Working in/above the clouds today (at least so far...)
#MorningWalk #OutdoorComputing
Researching DIY solutions for preparing digital negatives for my salt/kallitype printing experiments. Working on a little curve fitting tool/library (of course using https://thi.ng/umbrella) for computing tone mapping curves derived from sample swatches (here 5% steps of gray/density). The screenshot shows 2nd - 5th d…
The state of checks and balances in the country is among the more ominous indicators of the health of America’s democracy:
in the executive branch is a president who is keen on exercising every lever of power that he has
– as well as some he does not
– to enrich himself and his allies
and to suppress dissent and political opposition.
The legislature is dominated by a regime-friendly political party
that is too happy to roll over and accede to the preside…
So close, yet still so far...
(Standing roughly where the Hintereisferner glacier reached to in 1850. From here it's another 20 mins to the Hochjoch Hospiz at 2413m... where I was the only soul there that day, enjoying true edge of the world vibes. Wonderful!)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography
Today, #TimorLeste 🇹🇱 becomes the #ASEAN’s 11th member when the 47th summit begins in Kuala Lumpur later. 🎉
To mark this occasion, I decided to create a mock Philippine historical marker commemorating the body owing to the
Apollo Global reaches a deal to sell AOL to Bending Spoons, sources say in a deal valued at ~$1.5B; AOL has about 30M MAUs across its email and web properties (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/29/aol-bending-spoons-deal
Found in a default syslog-ng config:
stats(freq(1));
That will log daemon statistics every freakin' second every minute every hour every day every month every year forever. Nice way to exercise the disk I guess. ftw
Apollo Global reaches a deal to sell AOL to Bending Spoons, sources say in a deal valued at ~$1.5B; AOL has about 30M MAUs across its email and web properties (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/29/aol-bending-spoons-deal
GW241011 and GW241110 - Exploring Binary Formation and Fundamental Physics with Asymmetric, High-spin #BlackHole Coalescences: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae0d54 -> Colliding black holes might have formed from earlier cosmic smashups: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/colliding-black-holes-might-have-formed-from-earlier-cosmic-smashups and https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo20251028 and https://www.ozgrav.org/news/twin-black-hole-mergers-reveal-secrets-of-cosmic-evolution/ - two recent detections have given the international LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration new insights into black hole formation and evolution -> Gravitational Wave Detectors Spot Merging Black Holes That Have Merged Before: https://aasnova.org/2025/10/28/not-their-first-rodeo-gravitational-wave-detectors-spot-merging-black-holes-that-have-merged-before/
Das #DNIP Briefing heute mit kochenden Wasserbetten, einem Weihnachtsgeschenk und viel AI https://dnip.ch/2025/10/28/dnip-briefing-47-gute-nacht/
Held In Motherhood With Hannah Willsmore
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods
TIL (heard on the radio) that 72% of Germans prefer vacationing by the sea instead of in the mountains... I'm in equal parts glad about and disturbed by these news. Also just found the YouGov poll: https://yougov.de/topics/society/survey-results/daily/2025/07/27/cda07/…
Bears still looking for more after statement win over Eagles: 'We haven't hit our pinnacle' https://www.nfl.com/news/bears-still-looking-for-more-after-statement-win-over-eagles-we-haven-t-hit-our-pinnacle
Abstract Landscapes
(Bernina range, on the approach to Lago di Fellaria, Sep 2025)
Everything about this place is so special: the road to the trailhead (with 1700m elevation gain), the scale of the majestic ~4000er (meters) mountains with their glaciated peaks. Observing the different levels/layers of this upper valley where the glaciers have already mostly receded, the parts which have been flooded with a reservoir (slowly drying out), the equally spectacular & tragic waterfa…
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Talking Heads:
🎵 Psycho Killer
#NowPlaying #TalkingHeads
https://nooid.bandcamp.com/track/talking-heads-psycho-killer-nooid-bootleg
https://open.spotify.com/track/7dSCxR4LqkmxoBrq9MzVSD
CME Group says trading on its markets, including the S&P 500 and Nasdaq, was halted on November 28 due to a cooling issue at CyrusOne's data centers (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/cme-trading-halted-due-cooling-issue-data-cen…
😳 Peter Thiel’s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2025/oct/10/peter-thiel-antichrist-lectures
NFL Week 13 betting breakdown: Predictions for every game https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/betting/nfl-week-13-betting-breakdown-predictions-for-every-game-3588504/
from my link log —
Fixing rust-lang stdarch issues in LLVM.
https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/196/fixing-rust-lang-stdarch-issues-in-llvm
saved 2025-10-26
Thanksgiving, Above All, Celebrates Our Escape From a Pre-Liberal World (Arthur Melzer/The UnPopulist)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/thanksgiving-above-all-celebrates
http://www.memeorandum.com/251127/p28#a251127p28
Torquing Cars
Each week we will bringing you the latest motoring news and reviews as well as breaking down out Top 5 topic...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/torquing-cars/
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/nov/22/free-birth-soc…
Good explainer from Khelsilem of the Squamish about the recent Cowichan land decision, the background, and what it really might lead to: https://khelsilem.substack.com/p/setting-the-record-straight-on-the
Swiss evening lights (from a week ago)
cc/ @… :)
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/115247559670254950
Read and weep at the costs of this extraordinary grift measured in the lives of newborn and stillborn babies.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/nov/22/free-birth-society-linked-to-babies-deaths-investigation
Zhu on AI/AGI: 'A sign of true intelligence... is the ability to reason towards a goal with minimal inputs ... a “small data, big task” approach, compared with the “big data, small task” approach employed by large language models like ChatGPT. AGI... is characterised by qualities such as resourcefulness in novel situations, social and physical intuition, and an understanding of cause and effect. Large language models... will never achieve this.'
"Data is code!!!" I chant as I give wedgies to people who don’t think this is a work of art compared to JSON. :P
https://github.com/jevinskie/clang-unformat-ng/blob/main/python/src/clang_unformat_ng/styleopts_data.py
Beautiful colors a week ago, yesterday everything was already white up there... 😍
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #Alps
Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent:
the Maga evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int
#ReleaseFriday — New version 3.1.0 of the recently talked about https://thi.ng/args package, a declarative & functional CLI argument parser & app framework. I updated the arg specifications to be fully self-desc…
Raiders-Chargers betting: Sportsbooks will be ‘huge’ Las Vegas fans https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/betting/raiders-chargers-betting-sportsbooks-will-be-huge-las-vegas-fans-3588319/
from my link log —
Mapping a universe of open source software: the Nixpkgs dependency graph.
https://www.tweag.io/blog/2019-02-06-mapping-open-source/
saved 2020-07-28
Another track/demo made with Forth and https://thi.ng/synstack (see previous toot), at least partially, i.e. everything but the drums... Improvised live via MIDI (Korg Nanocontrol), then sampled and arranged in Ableton...
#ReleaseTuesday — Earlier today, I published https://thi.ng/arcball, a small new package providing an intuitive click & drag 3D camera view controller which is completely agnostic from any UI/drawing/rendering f…
Just discovering #looptober and wanted to share this old Forth experiment (from already 9-10 years ago 😱) with my https://thi.ng/synstack VM and its DSP/Synth vocab, all running on STM32 dev boards. This Forth-based sta…
In a censored society everyone needs debates about harmless topics
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/sep/21/fascism-women-homemaker-trad-wife?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Natural particle system, frozen in time (1/1000s exposure time).
(Close-up side view of the 160 meter tall Stuibenfall in the early morning light...)
#WaterfallWednesday #NaturePhotography
Looks like blockchains have finally found a serious use case, just maybe not the one predicted/hoped for...
This article is about #Glassworm, the latest major exploit in JavaScript-land, targetting VSCode and using #Solana as command infrastructure and Google Calendar events as backup. It'…
One of our fave local places to go to for a walk in autumn. This year the colors were especially exquisite...
(Beech forests like these covered two thirds of Germany, but by now they've been dramatically reduced, not just due to logging. Also rising temperatures have been increasing their mortality and general vulnerability...)
#SilentSunday
One of the most biting & memorable film monologues, inspired by the poetry of Antonio Machado, and delivered by "Jefe" near the end of Ridley Scott's The Counselor:
"Actions create consequences, which create new worlds, and they're all different [...] and hitherto unknown to us. They must have always been there. [...] I urge you to see the truth of the situation you are in. It is not for me to tell you what you should have done or not done. The world in which…
Btw. I know there hasn't been much new work on #ThingUmbrella over the past month. That's because I've been spending _a lot_ more time on my multi-faceted toolchain for note taking, asset management (images/videos, incl. auto-creation of different versions) and also aimed as generator for blogs/websites, feeds, visualizations (e.g. incl. those on the current
Finally got around documenting a little more the small CLI app "framework" I've been using for almost a dozen projects now (incl. several work projects). The package in question is now already 3 years old (https://thi.ng/args), but I've only just managed now to add a basic, commented usage example for th…
Seven days ago... At 2200m, enjoying some of the last blueberries of the year (and the colors of their bushes/environment)
#ThrowbackThursday #NaturePhotography #Photography
Just beam me back there again... Right now, exactly two weeks ago. Alone in the valley, on my way back to civilization. Alpenglow forming at the peaks opposite...😍
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography
Already shared this track/EP some time ago, but it just needs another round: 13 minutes of beautiful minimal, meditative slow-motion dub with an absolutely remarkable (and unforgettable) bass line to glue it all together...
Blamstrain - 4AM (2013)
https://soundcloud.com/juho/blamstrain
Worlds colliding.
(I found the abstract character and scale of this landscape quite useful in trying to imagine the sheer forces and long development, the history and changes of places/valleys like this... The left slopes are leading up ~1800m to the majestic summits and glaciers of the Weißkamm (White Ridge) in the central Alps)
#TextureTuesday
RE: https://mastodon.social/@samaaron/115611644215508335
This just made my day/week... 🤩🥹 Thank you, Sam! Considering I've got almost zero clue/insight into what people are using various thi.ng packages for, it's so bloody great to hear that even …
#WinterWonderland arrived early this year...
(From our #EveningWalk in the Ammergau Alps last night... 25-30cm fresh powder everywhere, -7℃, no people, but lots of animal tracks)
#SilentSunday
Recursively subdividing/tessellating a hexagon with Catmull-Clark (made with unreleased thi.ng/geom-mesh pkg, anim is from March 2017)...
#TilingTuesday #Geometry #Subdivision
Four ways (of many) recursively subdividing/tessellating a pentagon (made with #TilingTuesday
This looks like a great new alternative to Soundcloud/Bandcamp... run as a co-op and artists can decide how much to share profit with the platform...
https://mirlo.space/
(via
As I said previously, I do, do ❤️ ridges... This was six days ago, on almost the last day of autumn (meanwhile it's all white)...
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #Hiking
King Ortler (3905m)
No picture can do it justice... For scale, note the mountain hut (Berglhütte, at 2188m) in the bottom-left corner...
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography
#ReleaseWednesday — Thanks to a user suggestion, I've added support for declarative canvas pixel density adjustments in the following packages:
- https://thi.ng/hiccup-canvas
-
Wow, just noticed #ThingUmbrella reached 3700 stars on GitHub — I'm celebrating... 🤩🫠
Heartfelt thanks to all of you who've been helping along the way (in any shape & form) and been supporting this work for all these years and across different programming languages/camps! Merci beaucoup!!! Esp. big Thank You's to fellow fediverse people/supporters from various stages…
Early morning view from the supermarket carpark...
(Imst, October 2025)
#LandscapePhotography #Alps #Mountains
Taking The Red Carpet Path.
(Not often that I find myself in a place exuding such intense natural positive/friendly energy [and beautiful scents]...)
#MountainMonday #LandscapePhotography
Okay, it seems classic NPM tokens already stopped working and so it's IMPOSSIBLE for me to release any new versions of my 210 projects/packages until they have implemented a solution which:
1) Doesn't require to manually setup a Trusted Publishing config for *every single package* or
2) They're lifting the arbitrary 50 packages per token limit for their new "granular" tokens (in addition to them already being severely time limited)
The current combined …
This works really great! Also nice to see some of my own Makertube videos (live recordings) show up in the top search results for "STM32"... 🙌
https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/115260546039729585
#EveningWalk, two hours ago...
(Photo credit: @…)
Fave hike of 2025... Ahh memories... Only 5 weeks ago, but already feels like a lifetime ago...
#WildWednesday #LandscapePhotography #Alps
So am I understanding this correctly that the upcoming NPM authentication and token changes mean our only publishing workflow options henceforth are either switching to OICD Trusted Publishing[1] via GitHub Actions or using granular access tokens. The problem with the former is that I wanted to migrate my projects to Codeberg soon (which isn't supported). The problem with the latter is that granular tokens are unsuitable for publishing packages from a large monorepo, since these tokens a…
Two interesting articles about the dubious financials of OpenAI and the recent NVIDIA earnings report (which regardless of positive outcome triggered a sell-off):
The Structural Collapse: How Google’s Integrated Stack Is Dismantling the OpenAI Thesis
https://shanakaanslemperera.substack…
Fantastic ARTE documentary about the dark side and dangerous negative impacts of global tree planting & carbon credit programs, in reality often PR frauds/distractions, relying on lack of regulation & scientific errors, amounting to nothing more than clear cutting existing mature forests, replacing them with fast growing monocultures (mostly Eucalyptus or Douglas firs) for future logging activity, handing out subsidies to the forestry industry and displacing indigenous people/ecosyst…
Speaking of new tools: Here's some other open-ended and work-in-progress tooling I published recently:
Assorted CLI utilities for data wrangling & media conversion
https://codeberg.org/thi.ng/thing-tools
This is (will be) a Swiss-army knife type multi-tool for frequent little t…
#WaterfallWednesday meets #ThrowbackThursday — the view from the narrow bridge inside the stunning/infamous Höllental (Hell's canyon), September 2021, almost to the day... ahhh, memories!
First/last light, same day. Golden larches.
(From a hike on the last day of our recent roadtrip. The view in the second image is looking back at Hanauer Hütte, in front of Schneekarlespitze and (clipped) Dremelspitze)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography
Published another couple of new versions of https://thi.ng/genart-api, mainly involving updates to the Layer (layer.com) platform adapter, adding config options and minor quality of life improvements (e.g. handling of private [aka artist-only] params)
I also updated the readme, clarifying the current versionin…
#LazyWeb question regarding the dreaded NPM #GlassWorm or similar malware to harvest auth tokens:
To avoid a potential infection leading to harvesting the token usually stored in `~/.npmrc`, I changed that file's content to:
`//registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken=${NPM_TOKEN}`
...…
Ridges are my thing, 360 views...
(Ammergauer Alps, November 2024)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #Alps
Ever so fitting for our trying times, and a growing conflict for quite a few people (incl. myself), I imagine...
"Absurdism is the philosophical theory that the universe is irrational and meaningless. It states that trying to find meaning leads people into conflict with a seemingly meaningless world. This conflict can be between rational humanity and an irrational universe, between intention and outcome, or between subjective assessment and objective worth..."
RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/115587666837745216
Sometimes I wonder if these semi-regular Grok quirks are nothing but a ploy to get more people to play with (t)his toy and thereby drive up user/customer stats & valuation... equally likely is that he rea…
TIL you can use `ffprobe` to get the GPS location of an iPhone video like so:
```
ffprobe -i input.mov -print_format json -show_format -v quiet
```
The resulting JSON output contains a key `com.apple.quicktime.location.ISO6709` with the concatenated latitude, longitude, altitude, like so:` 46.6240 012.0345 1866.934/`
There's also a `com.apple.quicktime.location.accuracy.horizontal` key with the lat/lon precision in meters...
(This is great news for the m…
This article is gold!
https://hyperallergic.com/1050197/what-i-wish-i-had-known-about-germany-earlier/
I left Germany in 1997 partially because of quite a few of these criticisms Ai Weiwei raises in this article. Returning (due to Brexit) in …
Looking back at a dramatic Gehrenspitze and its pass (aka "Gehrenjoch")...
Another close-up impression of the pass itself (and view in the opposite direction):
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/115050332753156722
Finally made that tool I've been planning for a while: A configurable batch deleter of #Mastodon #bookmarks, supporting a threshold date (i.e. only older bookmarks considered) and lists of accounts and hashtags to always keep.
After almost a week of refactoring and experimenting with several different approaches, I've updated my Zig nD SIMD vector library to be compatible with the latest Zig 0.15.1, and at the same time cleaned up some internals.
The solution I settled on is a mix of techniques proposed by others, and was needed due to the removal of the struct/namespace-merging syntax in the new Zig version, which this library heavily relies on. I don't like that the new source code is now more than…
For #TextureTuesday some more WIP snapshots of STRATA, a generative system I've been on/off working on since 2014 (in Clojure/TypeScript/Zig, originally for the cover design of HOLO magazine), loosely based on 1950s research/experiments by Barricelli, somewhat related to cellular automata and extended to use a different and much larger set of "reproduction/collision rules" f…
Maybe a good opportunity to illustrate the purpose of one of the more uncommon packages in #ThingUmbrella: The https://thi.ng/hex package provides hexadecimal formatters for a variety of word sizes (4-64 bits) and also a…
TIL our garden soil is pH neutral (to my surprise). Beautiful royal blue!
#SoilSamples #Chemistry #Gardening
Just pushed a new version of https://thi.ng/genart-api (v0.31.0) with these updates:
- (Art) platform adapters can now have an optional `.configure({...})` method to customize platform-specific behaviors. To ensure future portability of your artwork (between different art platforms), calls to this method shoul…
Been updating my personal Mastodon tooling to download and convert my bookmarked toots. Here's how little code is needed to download a single message and convert its HTML content into Markdown, all using these #ThingUmbrella packages:
- https://thi.…
Monday night dinner at The Shining...
(Literally... a snowed-in Timberline Lodge in winter of 2018, the drive up there very much like the scene in the movie, 2 meters of snow on either side of the road and a huge snowdrift reaching up to the top of the roof of the lodge...)
#MonochromeMonday
Belated #MountainMonday ... Ever been in a place which made you feel you're maybe walking in dream (and it's not a nightmare)? This picture absolutely summarizes why I love the mountains the most in October...
(Had to de-saturate the colors because of polarization filter used, otherwise only slightly cropped and minutely raised shadows)
Almost reached the top!
(A wonderfully wild path along the cliff edge and glorious evening light on the way to Teufelstättkopf, with a view of the Wetterstein massif and Zugspitze in the distance...)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography
How many more memorials to remember and warn of the horrors of war? Lessons learned, when? Ever? The same patterns repeating, over and over...
(This memorial is to remember the Italo/Austrian "White War", part of the WW1 frontline in the Dolomites at 2300m...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography
Sonnenberg ridge entirely living up to its name...
(Made the most of the last warm weather yesterday afternoon to hike/climb along this beautiful long ridge with many cliffs, roped sections, some cute chamois and hardly any people — temporarily felt like late August, yet in two days supposedly snow starting...)
#SilentSunday
7AM, out and about on a stunning rainy morning walk between layers of fog and clouds... absolute silence...
#MorningWalk #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography
MonochromeEvolutionaryBioDigitalMultiCellularSymbiosisStruggle
(Selected stills from my infinitely evolving C-SCAPE project, 2022 - made with #MonochromeMonday
On the way to Gepatschferner, September 2025... How I miss this place!
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography
Alone into the rocks: Tunnel walk and traces of glacial plucking at 2200m
(And yes, the colors really were that stunning...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography
Into the reeds...
#MorningWalk #NaturePhotography #Texture
Good morning with the Negative Neutron remix of Syntagma — ethereal with sweeping bass, loose beats and only fully taking off after 3 mins, then flying high (and low), diffusing into layers upon layers...
Syntagma (Negative Neutron Remix, 2009)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2kGyUmL8kg…