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#münster

BIKE (Bicycle Integration Key Elements) Index: Benchmarking urban bikeability and cycling readiness. Evidences from European capitals
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210670725009667

BIKE (Bicycle Integration Key Elements) Index: Benchmarking urban bikeability and cycling readiness. Evidences from European capitals
This study introduces the BIKE Index, a multi-dimensional and reproducible framework for evaluating urban cycling conditions across cities, developed …

Darknet Diaries Deutsch: Fahrraddieben auf der Spur - Teil 1
In dieser Folge tauchen wir ein in die Welt der gestohlenen Fahrräder. Bryan hilft mit seinem Dienst Bike Index, gestohlene Fahrräder wiederzufinden.
ht…

A profile of VC firm Index Ventures, which saw billions in gains from exits in 2025, including Figma, Scale AI, and Dream Games, as it looks ahead to succession (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-08/inde…

Good luck neighbours! It looks like basement flooding season will start with a bang over the next few hours.
#dlws

Bürgerentscheid im Stadtbezirk Münster-Mitte 2026 - Wahlenübersicht
Heute fällt die Entscheidung darüber, ob fünf Straßen in Münster-Mitte umbenannt werden oder ihre Namen behalten. Die Abstimmungslokale sind geschlossen. Jetzt wird ausgezählt.
https://wahlen.citeq.de/20260208/05515

The Pentagon Pizza Index is Elevated. Speculation is that Russia is evacuating it's Israel embassy in advance of an attack on Iran.
https://www.pizzint.watch/

Pentagon Pizza Index - Real-Time OSINT Dashboard
Track pizza popularity around the Pentagon as a geopolitical indicator. The conspiracy theory that's taking OSINT by storm.

Linkdump 10/2026 – #fundstücke

https://www.schach-sachsen-anhalt.de/index.php/lsv-aktuell/aktuelles/topnews-lsv/deutschland-zu-gast-in-magdeburg-jugendversammlung-der-dsj-wieder-in-sachsen-anhalt

welp, i'm nicking these. just need help converting them to .gif and finding the original names! :P
https://semenaxcaps.com/styles/

OpenAI announces a Safety Fellowship program for external researchers, engineers, and practitioners to study the safety and alignment of advanced AI systems (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-safety-fellowship

werte mit-münsteraner:innen, die ihr in #münster-mitte wohnt: bitte gebt eure stimme zum bürgerentscheid zur straßennamen-umbenennung ab! die abstimmlokale sind noch bis 18 uhr geöffnet! wenn ihr briefwahlunterlagen angefordert, aber nicht abgeschickt habt, nehmt sie mit, dann könnt ihr vor ort abstimmen.

#Minneapolis connected international graffiti artist SHOCK UC MSK, will present a Gallery Talk on Thursday, April 9, 4:30 p.m. at #NorthDakota Museum of Art as part of the exhibition "Re-Arming Language" ! BE THERE or if you can't, then visit the exhibition, open until May 10.

​Internationally acclaimed graffiti artist to give talk and lead workshop at NDMOA
North Dakota Museum of Art is providing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hear one of the world’s most respected graffiti artists, SHOCK UC MSK

RE: https://mastodon.social/@europeanspaceflight/116182982779024614
Two tiny German satellites (PocketQubes) will be among the payloads, ERMINAZ-1U and ERMINAZ-1V: see https://forum.amsat-dl.org/index.php?thread/4540-erminaz-1v-and-erminaz-1u/ and https://destevez.net/2024/06/decoding-erminaz/ for details.

📊 EXPLAIN-based index analysis detects full table scans, missing indexes, filesort & temporary tables on #MySQL, #MariaDB & #SQLite
🔄 Duplicate query detection finds identical queries…

I was certain my Index was about to die and it just... fixed itself? What.
I've been seeing random pixels all over the screens (especially in dark areas) for a while now. This was the reason I had to replace the cable once, as right after this it got a lot worse and it straight up started to malfunction, cut the audio, flip the screens, crash, etc, so I thought I was cooked.

Linkdump 06/2026 – #fundstücke

Der #SWR bietet übrigens seit Kurzem auch Nachrichten in Leichter Sprache an.
Mag ich 👍 .
https://www.swr.de/barrierefrei/leichte-sprache/index.html

Nachrichten in Leichter Sprache
Die Nachrichten in Leichter Sprache. Was passiert in Baden-Württemberg? Und was passiert in Rheinland-Pfalz?

Sigh: I've just asked my MP to ask the CMA to stop this; I jumped to Youfibre (that uses Netomnia) from Virgin as soon as possible.
https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2026/02/virgin-media-o2-uks-own…

Virgin Media O2 UK's Owners Close in on £2bn Broadband Deal for Netomnia
European telecoms giants Telefónica and Liberty Global, the joint owners of Virgin Media and O2 in the UK, have reportedly now joined with private equity firm

"Aber solche Modelle sind mit Vorsicht zu geniessen. Sie funktionieren oft besser im Rückblick, wenn Wendepunkte bereits sichtbar sind.
[…]
Aber natürlich enthält der Index auch ein Fünkchen Wahrheit. Denn es ist ein valider Punkt, dass der Druck auf die amerikanische Regierung im wichtigen Wahljahr vor den Midterm-Wahlen auch innenpolitisch gross ist."

It's so nice enjoying the weird music made from a new live coding community, this one in Taiwan https://www.instagram.com/p/DKtxk3Bxq32/?img_index=1

we may have something here https://www.delorie.com/web/counter/chars/tmp/

Oh, es gibt eine Wikipedalia:
#fahrrad

There are frameworks like {golem} and {rhino} to make shiny development more robust, but I like the concept of {shinytest2} in providing a testing framework for pure shiny. https://rstudio.github.io/shinytest2/index.html

As Bitcoin prices continue to plummet and electricity costs climb,
it’s become tough out there for a crypto miner.
The hash price index, which is used to determine how much revenue miners can make by mining crypto,
reached its lowest point on record this week, according to mining services company Luxor Technology.
According to Coindesk, the average cost to mine one Bitcoin is currently around $87,000
— far higher than its current going rate,
making it an e…

Miners are being squeezed as bitcoin’s $70,000 price fails to cover $87,000 production costs
Bitcoin is now approximately 20% below its estimated average production cost, historically a feature of a bear market.

Current reading
https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13628

Was plant die Konkurrenz? Ein Blick in deren Sitemap verrät oft mehr als teure Tools. 🕵️‍♂️
​Unter domain.de/sitemap.xml (oder sitemap_index.xml) liegt bei vielen die komplette URL-Struktur offen.
Spannend ist das Datum (lastmod).
​Wurden plötzlich hunderte neue Blog-URLs angelegt? Werden alte Kategorien gerade massiv aktualisiert?
Daran erkennt man oft Content-Strategien und Relaunch-Pläne, bevor sie richtig sichtbar sind.
Kostenlose Marktbeobachtung. 👀
​…

Data folks from The Straits Times made a very cool dataviz story of Pokémon, to celebrate the 30th anniversary https://www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/graphics/2026/02/pokemon-tree-of-life/index.html

The Pokemon tree of life
To celebrate 30 years of catching ’em all, discover the parallels between the Pokemon universe and our own.

A man used AI to call 3,000 Irish bartenders to track the cost of Guinness. Now pubs are lowering their prices to compete
https://fortune.com/2026/03/30/guinness-beer-prices-ireland-anthropic-claude-ai/
Result:

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Unclassified
Max Cooper:
🎵 Pattern Index
#MaxCooper
https://open.spotify.com/track/6SUjEpnFlc4ehJAYYyUrNV

from my link log —
DINR2020: DNS and Internet Naming Research Directions workshop.
https://ant.isi.edu/events/dinr2020/index.html
saved 2020-07-28 http…

Sehr lesenswert:
Linux ohne Installation: Workshop für Senioren
#Linux

Linux ohne Installation: Workshop für Senioren
Seit einiger Zeit bin ich als ehrenamtlicher Digitallotse in meiner kleinen Stadt unterwegs. Es geht darum, älteren Menschen die „digitale Teilhabe“ im Alltag zu erleichtern. Meist sind es eher…

Grmpf, gerade wieder eine halbe Stunde an Git gescheitert, weil ich mal "git update-index --skip-worktree" vor Jahren genutzt und nun aber doch was geändert habe. Aber gut, dass ich ein "_Snippet_git.md" (ich mag _Snippet_xxx.md" als Name)' habe.

"In the past, whenever there was a financial crisis or a major political conflict, investors would pile into dollar assets, driving the dollar up – as happened during the 2008 financial crisis. That hasn’t happened under Trump; the dollar index has fallen 10% against other currencies in 2025. ...
"The dollar, as the world’s major currency for central bank reserves and in transactions in international trade and finance, has been in gradual decline for decades."

The debasement trade and the future of the dollar
The gold price against the US dollar is back above $5000 per oz after its recent short sharp contraction last week.  The unprecedented rise in the gold price, particularly since the beginning of th…

IATA: jet fuel now 104% more expensive than last month (global average)
https://www.iata.org/en/publications/economics/fuel-monitor/

Jet Fuel Price Monitor
The Jet Fuel price index provides weekly updates of the jet fuel price, price index, yearly price average and the impact on the fuel bill of the global airline industry

Linkdump 10/2026 – #fundstücke

The #AI Revolution in Coding: Why I’m Ignoring the Prophets of Doom
https://codingismycraft.blog/index.php/2026/01/23/the-ai-revolutio…

💌 Dearest Gentle Readers
📣 Kürzlich haben wir den NFDI4Culture Newsletter der zweiten Förderphase eingeläutet, mit vielen Hinweisen und brandneuen Informationen.
✨ In jeder Ausgabe werden auch zukünftig Teilnahmen an Tagungen, News und bevorstehende Events verkündet (u. a. unser nächstes Culture Community Plenary im Bergbaumuseum Bochum (09.–11.11.26)).
📅 FYI: Der Newsletter erscheint quartalsweise und ihr könnt euch gerne in die Mailingliste eintragen:

Lesenswert: #Bildungspolitik

OpenAI says GPT-5.3-Codex goes beyond an agent that can code "to an agent that can do nearly anything developers and professionals can do on a computer" (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-3-codex/

Seh-Empfehlung:
Gute Nacht Österreich von dieser Woche.
Bissige Witze über die Weltsituation und Viktor Orban, der hoffentlich bald Geschichte sein wird. 🙏
Ausserdem coole österreichische Dialektsprüche! 🤭
Viel Spass!
https://tv.orf.at/gnoe/index.html

Gute Nacht Österreich - tv.ORF.at
tv.ORF.at: Informationen zu den Fernseh-, Radio- und Online-Angeboten des ORF.

@… The WMATA website is fairly good at explaining the basics for new riders. I haven't used WayMap, but I'm happy to learn about it. I use the DC Metro app, but partly because it's good for buses too. Can't compare WMATA to Bart, unfortunately.

Just released a small but useful update for my little Internet Archive Plugin for Craft CMS. 🏛️
You can now opt individual entries out of automatic archiving via a lightswitch field – and manually send any entry to the Wayback Machine straight from the Craft CP entries index. ✨
https://github.com/matthiasott/cr…

😍
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgSiQMPBzPQ&list=RDYnc_JX7faHs&index=3

More of John Beltran, Detroit's finest... This time one of my fave tracks from his 2020 album The Season Series (the entire album is absolutely stunning and true soul food):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS1HMzVVkS8&list=PLOJds0V…

BAYERWALD.BLOG
@…
#bayerwaldblog #bayerwald #bayerischerwald

Für *sowas* wurde das Internet gemacht, ihr Techbrodeppen!
https://sliderulemuseum.com/index.shtml

International Slide Rule Museum

Linkdump 06/2026 – #fundstücke

I have been away from Mastodon for a while, not finding the time to be active here.
In any case here goes the final version of a paper on content and meaning in LLMs, co-authored with @…. It lived a long preprint life, but is now published in an outstanding special issue of the journal Philosophy and the Mind Sciences.
The Vector Groun…

Heute vor 5 Jahren: Am 5. März 2021 veröffenticht das Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists einen Text über das #Kernkraftwerk #Mezamor in #Armenien. Es zählt zu den unsichersten u. somit gefährlichs…

ICE List Wiki
https://wiki.icelist.is/index.php?title=Main_Page

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TheEssay
- Almost Famous
Ian Sansom reflects on obscurity as an index of cultural values through five figures whose reputations offer a map of shifting tastes. Today: the novelist Barbara Comyns.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qhl6

Ah oui, Le Sillon, c’est désormais 151 chroniques, essais ou bricolages littéraires au compteur.
📇 #lecture

URBAN-SPIN: A street-level bikeability index to inform design implementations in historical city centres
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10124

URBAN-SPIN: A street-level bikeability index to inform design implementations in historical city centres
Cycling is reported by an average of 35\% of adults at least once per week across 28 countries, and as vulnerable road users directly exposed to their surroundings, cyclists experience the street at an intensity unmatched by other modes. Yet the street-level features that shape this experience remain under-analysed, particularly in historical urban contexts where spatial constraints rule out large-scale infrastructural change and where typological context is often overlooked. This study develop…

Sechs Jahre Valve Index: Aufstieg und Ende der beliebten PC-VR-Brille
Mit der Valve Index wollte Valve 2019 Maßstäbe für PC-VR setzen. Sechs Jahre später endet ihre Reise und markiert zugleich den Übergang in eine neue Ära der VR.

Jetzt wo ein Gutteil des Lehrkörpers des Seminars für Orientalische Sprachen #SOS auf Wikidata verzheichnet ist, lassen sich erste Analysen versuchen. Hier die Liste der Lehrer nach 'Wikipedia-Index' (=Zahl der verknüpften Wikipedia-Seiten): https://w.wiki/Hi3X…

Série de Blog sur mon prochain gros projet #Afrique du Nord #bolt action #dak #desert rats

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has so far been unable to access data from a Washington Post reporter’s iPhone
because it was protected by Apple’s "Lockdown Mode"
when agents seized the device from the reporter’s home, the US government said in a court filing.
FBI agents were however able to access the reporter’s work laptop by telling her to place her index finger on the MacBook Pro’s fingerprint reader.
This occurred during the January 14 search at the…

FBI stymied by Apple's Lockdown Mode after seizing journalist's iPhone
Post reporter was compelled to unlock MacBook Pro with fingerprint, however.

From David Suzuki
Renewable energy saves lives and money
https://community.davidsuzuki.org/index.php/email/emailWebview?email=MTg4LVZEVS0zNjAAAAGg…

Some lunatic got 3Dfx Voodoo cards working under MIPS/IRIX https://sdz-mods.com/index.php/2026/03/23/irix-3dfx-voodoo-driver-glide2x-irix-port/

Someone at #AWS really ought to look into why it takes like 15 minutes for #DynamoDB to create an empty index on a newly-created empty table…

"Emoji wird offizielles Satzzeichen", vermeldet der Duden!
https://www.instagram.com/p/DWlHPUPiFTn/?img_index=1
🙃

Anthropic details the AI Fluency Index, tracking 11 behaviors that represent human-AI collaboration and measure how people collaborate with AI (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-fluency-index

Anthropic Education Report: The AI Fluency Index
Anthropic's AI Fluency Index measures 11 observable behaviors across thousands of Claude.ai conversations to understand how people develop AI collaboration skills.

I managed to get my Quest 2 to work on my CachyOS with Index controllers and Tundra trackers and it's so cursed but I love that it just works. It drifts a little but I'll get this fine-tuned eventually.

BLOG.WATZMANN.SOCIAL
@…
#blogwatzmannsocial #watzmann #ghost

Linkdump 14/2026 – #fundstücke

from my link log —
I hate programming Wayland applications.
https://www.p4m.dev/posts/29/index.html
saved 2026-03-22 https://dotat.at/:/737B3.ht…

"Microsites as Outreach Tools: A Case for Targeted Engagement in Academic Libraries"
https://journals.ala.org/index.php/rusq/article/view/8666
[DOI

Zurück zu Taskwarrior – #taskwarrior

OpenAI releases GPT-5.3 Instant, which it says delivers more accurate answers and better-contextualized results when searching the web, for all ChatGPT users (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-3-instant

Getting started with Shiny to make interactive web-apps with R: #rstats

Overview | Building Web Apps with R Shiny
This class will teach you the basics of Shiny app programming, giving you skills that will form the basis of almost any app you want to build. By the end of the class, you will have created a custom app that collects and saves data, allows users to dynamically visualize the data, and produces downloadable reports.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TheEssay
- Almost Famous
Ian Sansom reflects on obscurity as an index of cultural values through five figures whose reputations offer a map of shifting tastes. Today: wood engraver Gwen Raverat.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qhpp

Verkehrsminister beschließen Preisindex für Deutschlandticket
Das Deutschlandticket kostet derzeit 63 Euro im Monat. Künftig soll der Preis nach einem Index steigen – wie er aussieht, ist noch offen.
https:/…

"Learning from Experience: Librarians as Research Partners"
https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/27269
(DOI https://

China's Hang Seng Tech Index, which includes Chinese tech giants like Tencent and Alibaba, is down 28% since October 2025, shedding nearly $600B in market value (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-…

The Stock Market Is More Expensive Than It Looks. Tread Carefully.
Up 8%, down 5%, down 4%, up 6%
—these are just a handful of the single-day herk-a-jerks since the beginning of February for shares of America’s largest company, Nvidia.
The broader S&P 500 index this past week had briefly slid 9% from its January high, then rocketed back several points, and was last seen trying to decide on its next adventure.
This isn’t a call to flee stocks.
It’s a suggest…

The Stock Market Is More Expensive Than It Looks. Tread Carefully. — Barron’s
Corporate profits have been wonderful, but they seem puffed up by an accounting quirk and more.

"Tracking Instructional Themes at the Reference Desk"
https://journals.ala.org/index.php/rusq/article/view/8611
"Academic libraries play a vital role in supporting student learning by offering both structured instruction and point-of-need research assi…

Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2026 – #unterwegs

heise | Den passende Basis-ETF finden: Es muss nicht immer der MSCI World sein
Wir stellen Alternativen zum MSCI World vor, die sich als Basis fürs Portfolio eignen – darunter den FTSE All-World und einen Welt-Index ohne US-Unternehmen.

"The Continuing Relevance of DVDs and Blu-ray Discs to Library Collections"
https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts/article/view/8614 (

Trump said the Navy will escort tankers through Strait of Hormuz, if necessary.
Per reports the Navy has no timeline for this hazardous maneuver
and Trump himself has just demanded convoys begin "as soon as possible"
The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 301 points, or 0.6%.
The 30-stock index was down more than 1,200 points, or around 2.6%, at its low of the session.

Stocks dramatically pare losses after Trump offers Gulf shipping safety; oil retreats from highs: Live updates
Traders watched rising geopolitical tensions and worried the U.S.-Iran conflict could go on longer than anticipated.

OpenAI says its DOD agreement upholds its redlines and "has more guardrails than any previous agreement for classified AI deployments, including Anthropic's" (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/our-agreement-with-the-department-of-war/

"Creating an Online Arabic/English Thesaurus Based on Linked Data" by Magda El Sherbini
https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts/article/view/8615
(

Linkdump 05/2026 – #fundstücke

Linkdump 09/2026 – #fundstücke

OpenAI details its custom internal-only GPT‑5.2-powered AI data agent that allows its employees to do natural language data analysis across 600 PB of data (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/inside-our-in-house-data-agent

KI-Agenten: Popularität steigt rasant – trotz mangelnder Sicherheit
KI-Agenten werden immer populärer. Standards zu deren Sicherheits- und Verhaltensweisen fehlen aber nahezu gänzlich. Das zeigt der AI Agent Index 2025.

Sources: Granola, which makes an AI-based note-taking app, aims to raise $100M led by Index Ventures at a $1B valuation, up from a $250M valuation in May 2025 (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20

VCs’ Favorite Note-Taking App Granola In Talks To Hit $1 Billion Valuation
The London-based AI startup aims to raise a new round of at least $100 million led by Index Ventures, making the popular note-taking app the latest AI unicorn.

OpenAI says ChatGPT has 900M weekly active users, 50M consumer subscribers, and weekly Codex users have more than tripled since the start of the year to 1.6M (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/scaling-ai-for-everyone

Linkdump 13/2026 – #fundstücke

Von Speakerdeck zu Hugo – #opensource

Taskwarrior synchronisieren – #taskwarrior

Taiwan hits a 21.06% weight in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, surpassing China's 20.93%, the first time since July 2007, boosted by AI-linked local companies (Abhishek Vishnoi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Bin gerade dabei, die Matrix-Instanz zu wechseln und auf eine deutlich kleinere umzuziehen.
Wir werden das mit der Föderation nie hinbekommen, wenn wir alle nur auf wenigen "Haupt"-Instanzen bleiben.
Es gibt Alternativen zu matrix.org oder chat.tchncs.de
https://www.

Linkdump 09/2026 – #fundstücke

New York-based Linx Security, whose Autopilot agent proactively maps and remediates identity-related failures, raised a $50M Series B from Index and others (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/linx-lands-50-million-from-wizs…

Linx lands $50 million from Wiz's earliest investors to fix identity security in the AI era
Linx Security has raised a $50 million in Series B funding from many of the same early investors who backed Wiz.

Linkdump 04/2026 – #fundstücke

Linkdump 08/2026 – #fundstücke

Linkdump 12/2026 – #fundstücke

Vaultwarden selbst hosten – #internet