2026-10-31 17:02:03
Förderung für 300mm-Wafer in Itzehoe an Vishay übergeben
Power-Mosfets aus Schleswig-Holstein werden künftig auf größeren Siliziumscheiben gefertigt – Vishay erweitert seine Chipfabrik.
https://www.
Förderung für 300mm-Wafer in Itzehoe an Vishay übergeben
Power-Mosfets aus Schleswig-Holstein werden künftig auf größeren Siliziumscheiben gefertigt – Vishay erweitert seine Chipfabrik.
https://www.
A Farmer Didn’t Know His Cell Number Was on an Exam Question, Now Uses the Calls He Gets as Opportunities to Inspire https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/a-farmer-didnt-know-his-cell-number-was-on-an-exa…
OmniFocus und OmniOutliner: Apps spezifisch an das iPhone Duo angepasst
Zwei traditionsreiche Apps der Omni Group sind bereit für Apples Foldable – und zeigen, was damit möglich ist.
https://www.
Bezüglich der Berichterstattung zu #genzregelt, möchte ich dieses Gespräch von @… mit dem Protesrforscher Jannis Grimm empfehlen.
TL:DR: "Wenn alle erwarten, dass es knallen wird, dann knallt es auch."
Holger ruft an: Holger ruft an ... wegen Protes…
Attacks on the character of progressive candidates may be a distraction from the popularity of their causes.
My latest for Crimson Goes Blue: how Graham Platner's legacy is affecting his successor.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jonippolito/p/attack-t…
Wie gut, dass ich vergessen habe, dass morgen ein Feiertag ist – und nun weder was im Kühlschrank habe noch für kommende Woche einkaufen konnte.
Feiertage an einem Samstag – was soll das?!
Shopware 6: Ten real, verified, completely undocumented Shopware features that were each too small for their own post — from mail-safe URLs to per-page robots directives to a debugging trick for Elasticsearch relevance scores. One file reference each, zero fluff.
http://<…
Shoutout to my son, who has been playing soccer for his youth team's second squad so far but worked so hard in training that he was called up to the first team for an important cup match! ⚽ 🏆
For medical imaging, innovative contrast agents are in high demand.
Materials scientist Robert Nissler has therefore developed an ultra-bright near-infrared nano-pigment designed to provide high-resolution images of intricate brain structures.
In ancient Egypt, the precursor to the copper-based "Zurich Blue" was already prized for its brilliant blue color.
You see, it was important that the Cloud Glider has a persistent control mechanism to stop it reliably
I started with a Boolean in an s3 bucket, checked by each instance's glider daemon before deciding whether to continue propagation
However, an s3 object is fallible if the glider is outside control, so I needed more extensive configuration settings (i.e., in DynamoDB) — and an EmergencyHold mechanism that would yank IAM permissions if anything goes wrong. The EmergencyHold triggers a full stop, which pulls propagation permissions while retaining other operation permissions in order to create an audit log of state for an incident review
The "incident" in this case being that the fork bomb didn't, uhh, fork or bomb as expected 🙈 ::awkward_monkey.gif::
Friends, I have some urgent and very timely information for you: Here is how to install an app on your Commodore 64. https://anildash.com/2026/10/08/install-an-app-commodore-64/
Cowboys lengthy history of problems with Cardinals stretches 2 decades https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/10/31/dallas-cowboys-have-an-arizona-cardinals-problem-…
If you have a PH Pavilion with an AMD chip in it make sure you have your Bitlocker code handy if you get a firmware update in case it is needed.
We have 2 HP Pavilion Desktop TP01-2234 PCs. Bought 3 years or so ago with AMD Ryzen 5000 series processors. HP dropped the Pavilion line and apparently now the TPM modules in them are no longer being updated.
They sent a recent update and when I applied it it brought me to the bitlocker screen to input the long series of numbers neede…
11 am. Friday. Sitting in the coffee shop next to to my workplace enjoying an excellent Americano. I made one at home before I left, this morning, but I’ve already drunk that!
Blur: being hopeless
I still haven't worked out what an X5 multiplier is, so I skipped onto the next set of challenges and got bronzes and silvers on them all, but still didn't unlock the one-on-one challenge. I have a feeling that the career of this game is going to be easier to complete by unlocking as much as possible, replaying events to gain more fans, unlocking faster and better cars, and going back to previous events to unlock the bosses.
Hindenburg weigerte sich noch 1932 „diesen böhmischen Gefreiten“¹ zum Reichskanzler zu machen, und das mehrfach, obwohl viele insistierten. Im Januar 1933 kippte das, nach genug Insistieren und von Papens Versprechen Hitler „einzuhegen“.
Manchmal fühlt sich die aktuelle Diskussion über die Brandmauer und das ganze Gezerre an ihr ähnlich an.
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¹Hitler wurde übrigens erst am 25. Februar 1932 durch die NSDAP-Regierung des Freistaats Braunschweig eingebürgert und damit Bürger d…
Raiders Have Found an Unexpected Dog Who Won’t Back Down https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-have-found-unexpected-dog-who-back-down
🔓 --no-cooldown installs an urgent security fix immediately, while advisory and malware blocking stay active. An ignore list exempts trusted packages like mycompany/*. Security fixes are deliberately not auto-exempted, since an attacker controlling a repo could publish their own advisory.
Watched Mad Monster Party? from 1967 with wifey in honor of the season. Super weird, wild, funny, kinda corny and odd movie done by Rankin Bass (known for the Rudolph and Frosty flicks). Swear the Misfits guys we're inspired by some of this. Dr. Frankenstein even says he's going to give up this 'horror business'. https://boxd.it/1ITg
📰 Russlands rote Linien
#Nachrichten
Spent an embarrassing amount of time nagging at Claude that 100% something changed on a web page it built between recent commits, it telling me nothings changed, and then discovering my monitor control upgraded during the night and it bumped contrast way up which then lost a ton of detail on the page I was working on.
bloody hardware.
"It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth. An epidemic of indiscriminate assault upon character does not good, but very great harm. The soul of every scoundrel is gladdened whenever an honest man is assailed, or even when a scoundrel is untruthfully assailed."
- THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Gewalttätige Gewaltjugendliche gewalttätigten sich auf Gewaltprotesten mit Gewaltschildern und Gewaltsprüchen und zündeten das bürgerliche Verständnis von Gewalt an.
I was really looking forward to trying out binaural Morse Code when OZ1LAV Steffen said he could add it to his M5Stack Tab5 firmware for the QMX. I kept impatiently waiting until he added it, not realizing that there's no monitor audio over USB from the QMX to the Tab5. So you can listen, but you can't use it for an actual QSO, unless you have an audio switch triggered by the PTT on the QMX. One person mentioned having an antenna audio switch device that worked for this, but it's large and n…
Here goes a call for talk proposals for a workshop in Copenhagen in November on Functions and Representation in AI systems:
https://philevents.org/event/show/152953
I will be speaking there, and in very good company. Maybe you know someone who might be interested in joining too!
“Let’s set that aside for a moment” whenever discussing failings, impacts, and costs of LLMs is such an offensive dismissal of human harms that I am surprised to hear it from an accessibility-focused session chair at TPAC (not today; time-delayed to obfuscate person / session).
🚀 Chronivaro 0.3.0 has been released!
Chronivaro is an open-source working time, absence tracking, and monthly period closing system.
📦 Release notes & downloads:
https://github.com/eitch/Chronivaro/releases/tag/v0.3.0
Vielleicht ist es an der Zeit, die Prinzipien von gewaltloser Aktion und Widerstand wieder mehr in den Vordergrund zu rücken.
Aldous Huxley schrieb 1937 in seinem Buch An Encyclopaedia of Pacifism:
“Non-violence does not mean doing nothing. It means making the enormous effort required to overcome evil with good."
Quelle: https://…
Lo nuevo de Casanova tras su regreso. Un EP de 18 minuto y 5 canciones. Ojalš que se venga un larga duración pronto.
«Amigos Primero»
#Casanova
Using #PHP arrays as pseudo-objects is almost never the right answer. They're less self-documenting, slower, worse on memory, and more bug prone.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/php-list-ben…
We'll know soon.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DfGbweUSP
Enterprise voice AI tools provider Deepgram acquires Daily, which has raised $62M and develops open-source voice AI framework Pipecat, for an undisclosed sum (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/deepgram-ac…
I finished Netflix’s Wonka’s Golden Ticket. Enjoyed it, just wish they had found someone to play Wonka instead of using an AI voice.
If you’ve seen that recent viral Fox News clip of Tom comparing Trump rallies to the Jonestown massacre cult, then here’s an interview Tom did with The Handbasket explaining the whole background that led to his viral moment.
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/tom-hoyle-j
Wer ihm das geschrieben hat, weiß nicht viel über Spiderman, wa.
https://ard.social/@tagesschau/117523934332854995
Tesla passt App für iPads an – und iPhone Duo
Besitzer von E-Autos der Elon-Musk-Firma können ihr Fahrzeug nun endlich auf dem iPad nutzen. Auch an das iPhone Duo und Android-Tablets wurde gedacht.
https://www.
When I was a kid, I would complain bitterly when I got sent to bed at 9 pm. “Why have I got to go to bed so early?”
Now as an adult, I look at the clock and I think “Good it’s 9 o’clock I can go to bed now!”
An Ancient Virus Explains Why the Human Brain Is Special https://www.404media.co/an-ancient-virus-explains-why-the-human-brain-is-special/
An appeals court revives a verdict that the NFL overcharged Sunday Ticket subscribers and orders a new trial; a lower judge earlier tossed out $4.7B in damages (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
Something #retro #retrocomputing #commodore #c64
REDO FROM START: An or…
@… “We will keep modifying requirements until they satisfy what the software can do” instead of “We will keep modifying the software until it can satisfy the requirements” sure is *an* option.
@… assuming the Canadian one? Started looking into this move to get off US dependency, but the whole new issue is giving it an extra boost
RE: https://mastox.eu/@FranceskAlbs/117524756608642411
Odd, Google seems like such an ethical company otherwise.
Mathematicians are having an existential crisis. Artists can help.
Read a condensed version of my keynote for the 2026 AI and Liberal Arts symposium at https://jonippolito.substack.com/p/mathematicians-are-having-an-existential
KI lokal betreiben? Ich habe in den letzten Wochen an einem passenden Setup herumgetüftelt und bin mittlerweile sehr zufrieden. Mit dem aktuellen qwen3.8-27B Modell auf einem PC mit einer besseren Grafikkarte kann ich nun fast alles machen wofür ich früher #Claude Sonnet oder Opus gebraucht habe: Code Review, Fehler suchen und verbessern, übersetzen, READMEs schreiben oder etwas recherchieren. Hier …
I'm a Trekkie reeling from the blows, losing both Walter Koenig and Sir Patrick Stewart is just painful.
There is no silver lining.
Some people affect your life even if they never know it. The cast of Star Trek did just that. They brought their passion and skill to my TV, asking questions about moral, humanity, and life, and wasn't afraid of letting us sit with an uncomfortable answer.
Ah it's that time again, where my Dad asks me this. Right on schedule. He leaves it on the wrong time for a week assuming it will be easier to mentally adjust an hour and it won't bother him. But really it is because he has forgotten how this works. Eventually he breaks down and asks me as I was the one who gave him a Casio F-84W in the first place. 😆
"Nach aktuellem Stand gehen wir davon aus, dass wir die Fateforge-Bände im November in den Druck geben können. Unser Ziel ist es, die fertigen Bücher noch in diesem Jahr an euch zu verschicken."
https://www.gameontabletop.com/cf5671/drac
📰 Die deutsche Militärküste
#Nachrichten
RE: https://social.bund.de/@Bundesregierung/117530714984066196
Über 50 Kommentare, und niemand kniet nieder und küsst den Boden, auf dem diese „Bundesregierung“ wandelt und trötet.
Das einzig Gute an dem Tröt: Die „Bundesregierung“ IST auf Mast…
Als noch selbst recherchierender Journalist weiß ich, wie wichtig Termine vor Ort sind. Heute beim #DigitalGipfel habe ich nicht viel vom Programm verfolgt, aber in einem halben Tag unfassbar viele und gute Kontakte gehabt, die meinen Monat als #JournalistInResidence an der @… gleich vom ersten Tag an boosten.
Dazu gehört auch der Kontakt zu einem Manager der Rechenzentren der Schwarz-Gruppe, die in D einer der größten Player sind.
#098 Riding in an actual bicycle race https://diagramclub.substack.com/p/098-riding-in-an-actual-bicycle-race
I need help understand why you put a datacenter in the desert where there is an abundance of heat and dearth of water.
That's about 4.5 million gallons a day, enough to supply about 45k households, in case you were wondering.
https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/10166
Guter Beitrag zur #Schulpreis -Schule: https://www.zeit.de/2026/42/bertha-von-suttner-schule-moerfelden-walldorf-bildung-konzent…
Steelers vs. Browns: Rivals battle in Week 8 with first place in AFC North on the line
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/steelers-vs-browns-where-to-watch-prediction/
Doing my best not to be distracted by gorgeous works from the Pallant House Gallery https://museumdata.uk/object-search/?collection[]=Pallant House Gallery&show_all=1 in an Art UK curation on the origins of Pop Art
Whatever you do, don't tell anyone.
Had a song spinning around in my head this morning. Could not remember the songs title or the band. Had to crawl back through a few days of Mastodon posts to see an image to remind myself – that Queens of the Stone Age have a new album out today.
Hey all
Finally, I think we landed on a great design with handling both reference (and seed) data in retrofit.
This week we demo managing reference data as part of the schema. Reference data is the data that apps only read, and never write, like zip codes and states. This includes data that might change slowly over time, like an order status label, or even currencies.
…
Ich halte kurz inne und denke an das Lebenswerk von #SirPatrickStewart. R.I.P.
Bedeutet der Umgang des Spiegels mit den Anmerkungen zum Interview dann, dass der Umgang mit 'Unter Drei' oder Hintergrundgesprächen auch Auslegungssache der Journalist*innen sind?
Frage insb. an die Journalist*innen, die das in Ordnung fanden.
Das ist nicht so polemisch gemeint, wie es sich vielleicht liest. Es interessiert mich wirklich. Prinzipiell, aber auch praktisch bei der Arbeit.
Und gern auch von anderen Journalist*innen oder Medienwissenschaftler*innen.
Cowboys Trade Rumor From NFL Insider Lays Out Unusual Possible Deadline Strategy https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/cowboys-trade-rumor-nfl-insider-unusual-deadline-strategy
Experts have long warned that immigration dragnets will inevitably result not only in the erosion of rights for immigrants
but also for citizens.
Since the start of this Trump administration, we've watched those warnings come true.
https://projects.propublica.org/americ…
Pay it forward.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/pay-it-forward
⚡ Ships with an embedded DSpark speculative decoding draft head for up to 1.9x throughput without changing outputs. An NVFP4 checkpoint targets Blackwell GPUs. Serve with vLLM, SGLang, Transformers or llama.cpp; fine-tune with Axolotl, Unsloth or TRL
As AI models commoditize, lasting wealth will accrue to those controlling chokepoints like distribution, payment rails, and a stablecoin dollar, not to the labs (The Commanding Heights)
https://commanding-heights.com/#top
Just used an iPhone Duo for the first time. It’s a nice device, really feels like an evolution. I would definitely say I’m still an iPhone and iPad user, but I love where technology is going. #apple
I was at an apolitical event honoring people finishing their academic degrees in the health sector recently, and the last speech, sort of as if it was added as an after thought, tried to give a political message, which received immense applause, but just wasn't a message to me.
The speaker said “we need to be loud against all organizations that are against humanitarian principles”. My first thought was: Wow, we can't even name the dangerous ideology anymore, yet alone the organization…
Otro de música chilena: desde Valdivia la banda Chercšn lanza su segundo disco, «Canto De Silicio»
#Chercán
I held this ten-chair spot for hours today in the TPAC lobby, as people came and went throughout the day. It was all hallway conversations, compressed, in one place, in parallel and in series. Got quite a lot done. Met a few folks I had missed.
Social battery gave out just as the last few folks left for flights or dinner.
Revisiting Cardinals 2026 NFL Draft: Was drafting Jeremiyah Love the right choice for Arizona?
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/revisiting-cardinals-2026-nfl-draft-jeremiyah-lov…
Æon Flux Full Series : MTV : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/aeonfluxfullseries/EP 1.mp4
Fantastic day yesterday at the Space Park in Leicester for an Institute for Digital Culture Advisory Board meeting https://le.ac.uk/research/institutes/digital-culture and a roundtable on the Future of Digital Culture Research.
And we got to hold rocks from space! One is old…
What happens when Washington runs amok?
Ask a Native American
The late 19th and early 20th centuries were a time of rapid expansion for the United States.
Native Americans, and their claims to land and sovereignty, stood in the way.
In order to solve this “Indian problem” Washington sought to destroy tribes and tribalism.
It was an effort buoyed by moneyed interests who wanted to profit from tribal resources,
and by religiously minded folks who wanted …
RE: https://journa.host/@timkmak/117535701120971227
We have been at war with Russia for 12 years, at least. Multiple administration's have refused to recognize that fact.
Remember, aiding and abetting an enemy in time of war is treason.
Remembe…
📰 Gegen Sozialabriss, gegen Krieg
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Forscher weben multifunktionalen Touchscreen aus Garn in Pulloverärmel ein
Ein gewebtes Display zeigt Fotos und Videos an, reagiert auf Berührungen und kann allerlei Funktionen ausführen.
https:/…
El primer disco de Claudio Valenzuela como solista luego del receso indefinido de Lucybell: «Al Fin»
#ClaudioValenzuela
Airbnb hosts are melting down over a new policy banning them from making guests complete tasks that “would typically be performed by a cleaner,”
like “stripping the bed, taking trash offsite, or washing and putting away dishes.”
The change, which applies to all bookings made on or after November 20,
quickly sparked outrage after it was announced in an email to Airbnb hosts on Wednesday.
Many began fuming online about losing the right to make their guests clean up afte…
Google says its Suncatcher prototype data center satellite is online after an October 1 launch, with Gemma 4 generating a haiku about being in space (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/30/googles-first-data-center-satel…
Gerade zum ersten Mal mit #WERO in einem Onlineshop bezahlt. Fühlt sich gut an! 🥰
Allerdings stellt sich gleich im Anschluss die Frage, warum Buch7.de nicht im Fediverse ist. 🤔
Chatbots are isolating students. So I tried using AI to build an app that connects them by common interests and schedules. https://jonippolito.substack.com/p/can-ai-make-teammates-out-of-strangers
So the clocks go back tonight. An extra hour in bed? No, I just wake an hour ‘earlier’ I will get an extra hour at home before heading to the salt mine in the afternoon though, but why would I want to lie in bed for an hour once I’m awake, and I’ll sleep the same amount of hours irrespective.
Seahawks getting Zach Charbonnet, possibly Jadarian Price back for Monday vs. Bears https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7742247/2026/10/31/zach-charbonnet-jadarian-price-seahawks/
📰 Der Herbst des Protests
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One takeaway from Ramaswamy and Vance deciding to make child rape apologia their closing argument in Ohio
is that Republicans seem to have taken from Trump’s success the idea that "nothing matters".
(It’s not only Republicans who have made that inference, of course.)
The problem is that Trump imitators can’t get away with the same kind of things that Trump can:
The crude insult comedy that works to at least some extent for an established reality TV star
Sources: OpenAI nears an up to $30B round led by investors from the UAE and Coatue at a $1.25T pre-money valuation, as an "opportunistic" bridge ahead of an IPO (Kate Rooney/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/22/openai-funding-round-uae-investors.html…
Sources: OpenAI now seeks ~$20B at a $1.25T valuation for its latest round, from $30B at a $1.4T valuation, as some investors cut commitments amid an AI selloff (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7a3ad950-1b3b-4d9e-8c15-65a61ae6180f
En este nuevo viernes de lanzamientos musicales Queens of the Stone Age se hace presente con «Perfecth»
#QueensOfTheStoneAge