
2025-09-04 01:28:04
I’m publishing to https://blog.bmann.ca for personal posts and https://blog.bmannconsulting.com for tech posts.
I’m publishing to https://blog.bmann.ca for personal posts and https://blog.bmannconsulting.com for tech posts.
A blog post summarizing our latest work: a static analyzer that leverages Rust in a non-trivial way!
https://blog.brownplt.org/2025/08/03/paralegal.html
Today we are launching Xogot for iPhone, along with a free edition.
The iPhone has been a challenging process for shrinking the UI even further.
Check the details on Joseph’s blog post:
https://blog.xogot.com/make-games-anywhere-introducin…
from my link log —
Measuring CPU instruction reorder buffer capacity. (2013)
https://blog.stuffedcow.net/2013/05/measuring-rob-capacity/
saved 2025-10-02
Sam Altman says OpenAI is planning two Sora changes for rightsholders: granular controls over generation of their characters and a revenue sharing system (Sam Altman)
https://blog.samaltman.com/sora-update-number-1
Two more blog posts on the #Tricycle project over the last few days: firstly, I have found a CAD tool that works for me:
https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/20…
Google warns that threat actors have been using an exposed ASP.NET machine key for remote code execution (RCE) on vulnerable Sitecore deployments.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/viewstate-deserialization-zero-…
[BLOG] BitBastelei #655 – Rohrinstallationen mit Kupfer https://www.adlerweb.info/blog/2025/08/03/bitbastelei-655-rohrinstallationen-mit-kupfer/
This is a nice write-up of some complex and careful decisions and collaboration to navigate hard tradeoffs that in the end got the job done
I wish we also had more open discussions about the opposite scenario: "when the right tool is the wrong choice"
https://tern.sh/blog/pagerduty-cassadr
Decided to blog what I learned about Ubuntu multipass MicroVMs. Enjoy.
#Ubuntu
Ich habe mir die verschiedenen Postings und Threads zu Empfehlungen deutschsprachiger progressiver SF und Fantasy mal in meinem Blog gebookmarked - wenn es noch mehr Listen gibt, die ich da erwähnen könnte, nehme ich Ergänzungen gerne auf.
https://blog.till-westermayer.d…
"Ein Meilenstein für offene KI: Das Wikidata Embedding-Projekt geht live"
https://blog.wikimedia.de/2025/10/01/wikidata-embedding-projekt-geht-live/
Really nice, @… have written about #Rust in their blog, providing 5 good reasons why you should "rewrite everything in Rust":
Sam Altman says OpenAI is planning two Sora changes for rightsholders: granular controls over generation of their characters and a revenue sharing system (Sam Altman)
https://blog.samaltman.com/sora-update-number-1
Weekend Reads
* HTTP edge cases for devs
https://blog.dochia.dev/blog/http_edge_cases/
* Geolocation and Starlink
https…
AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning
https://www.seuros.com/blog/aws-deleted-my-10-year-account-without-warning/
- The Architecture That Should Have Protected Me -
Small reminder that there is no 100% protection in the…
Nine #HTTP Edge Cases Every #API Developer Should Understand
https://blog.dochia.dev/blog/http_edge_cases/
💗 An old PC case becomes a Halloween vending machine
#arduino
#Paradromics blog post: Think fast - Setting new standards and new records for brain-computer interfaces https://www.paradromics.com/blog/bci-benchmarking
More time should be devoted about the (near) future businessmodels of AI and how it collects data/content. Just trying to prevent AI models from scraping data will be futile.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/content-independence-day-no-ai-crawl-without-compen…
A century of road safety. By Jürgen Klute.
https://europa.blog/en/a-century-of-road-safety/
HAProxy’s “The State of SSL Stacks” is a depressing read.
After 2014 there was a brief period of hope for OpenSSL. Hope that was squashed by the disastrous 3.0 release & there’s little hope for improvement left.
The best current contender is AWS-LC of all things.
https://www.haproxy.com/blog/state-of-ssl…
A post from the archive 📫:
BRT for Columbus
#columbus
Blogstöckchen, Blogparaden, Trackbacks & Co. – Tradition oder Renaissance? – https://www.deimeke.net/dirk/blog/index.php?/archives/4429-Blogstoeckchen,-Blogparaden,-Trackbacks-Co.-Tradition-oder-Renaissance.…
Six voix pour la vérité : une nouvelle étape dans le combat contre OKC: https://blog.rmendes.net/2025/08/03/six-voix-pour-la-vrit.html
California’s SB 53: The First Frontier AI Law, Explained
https://fpf.org/blog/californias-sb-53-the-first-frontier-ai-law-explained/
@…
AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning
https://www.seuros.com/blog/aws-deleted-my-10-year-account-without-warning/
#Polizei vergisst wieder einige Tatsachen bzw. Hinweise:
Die Menschen im #Auto sind gefährlich, weil sie viele Tonnen Stahl durch die Gegend fahren und nicht genug aufpassen!
The Vegan Logic Test: If You Believe These 6 Things, You’re Nearly There https://veganfta.com/blog/2025/09/24/the-vegan-logic-test-if-you-believe-these-6-things-youre-nearly-there/?utm_source=Mastodon
"You know what? Let’s be crazy. Objective-C 3.0 would have removed the requirement for square brackets. Yes, I’ve said it. Extending the dot syntax for method calling. And since we’re at it, drop the @ sign for strings, arrays, and dictionaries. Seriously, just drop it."
https://akos.ma/blog/what-obje…
Behind the Blog: Open-Source Drama and Saudi-Approved Humor https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-open-source-drama-and-saudi-approved-humor/
これ、ちゃんとおさえておかないとアカンやつやな。無関係ではおれん。
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TLS 証明書の有効期間は 47 日へ短縮されることが決定 | DigiCert
https://www.digicert.com/jp/blog/tls-certificate-lifetimes-will-officially-reduce-to-47-days
took a long time, but I’ve finally retired the last of my “active” .io domains — a process I’ve wanted to finalize for *years.*
(11ty.io is still redirecting but very few folks use it any more, leaving room to hopefully disable it entirely https://www.11ty.dev/blog/moving-house/)
Neu im DNBLab: Tool zur SRU-Schnittstellenabfrage
#DNBlab
from my link log —
Supply chain security for the 0.001% (and why it won’t catch on).
https://blog.viraptor.info/post/supply-chain-security-for-the-0001-and-why-it-wont-catch-on
saved 2025-09-28
Cloudflare says Perplexity uses stealth crawling techniques, like undeclared user agents and rotating IP addresses, to evade robots.txt rules and network blocks (Cloudflare)
https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stea…
Cowboys vs. Eagles Live Updates, Score: NFC East Rivals Kickstart 2025 Season https://www.foxsports.com/live-blog/nfl/cowboys-vs-eagles-live-updates-score-nfc-east-rivals-kickstart-2025-season
Mein Kommentar zur Situation bei meinem Club Borussia Mönchengladbach. Ein Text aus meinem Blog, rüber kopiert in die Vidnoz AI, ein Tool zum Generieren von Videos, ein Bild von mir hochgeladen und die KI erstellt mal schnell dieses Video. Morgen mehr dazu im Blog. Und wen meine Meinung zur Situation bei den Fohlen oder mein Ergebnistipp gegen Freiburg interessiert, einfach mal reinhören. #Gladbach
What the Columbia Settlement Really Means (Knight First Amendment Institute)
https://knightcolumbia.org/blog/what-the-columbia-settlement-really-means
http://www.memeorandum.com/250804/p56#a250804p56
Moving as a metaphor for software management.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/moving-metaphor
In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information
https://blog.burkert.me/posts/in_praise_of_syndication/
Book Review: The Name on the Wall
On the front cover it states that this is a novel. This is in fact not the case. A novel is fiction: this is history. On page 5 it reads "I haven't written a "novel" ". Fairly recent history - mainly the second world war in France, and specifically about a young man who fought for the Resistance and died young.
"Die völlige Bescheuertheit von Google Maps" [und anderen Karten-Anbietern] analysiert von @…: https://schmalenstroer.net/blog/2025/0
Do you use Salesforce and Salesloft Drift? Check this out.
#cybersecurity
From: @…
https://…
I had fun with OpenStreetMap data and Julia yesterday, so I wrote some notes on how I did it (i.e., access OSM data, process it with Shapefile.jl and plot it with Plots.jl).
Details at https://brendanhalpin.net/blog/posts/osmnjulia
Just published 🚀: Prioritizing your backlog
#productmanagement
Een eeuw voor veiligheid in het wegverkeer. Door Jürgen Klute.
https://europa.blog/nl/een-eeuw-voor-veiligheid-in-het-wegverkeer/
Six voix pour la vérité : une nouvelle étape dans le combat contre OKC: #Justice
If you still use Perplexity I consider you morally bankrupt. (this is not the first of that kind of investigation. Perplexity has no moral compass, no regard for website providers' explicit nonconsent or that law. )
https://digipres.club/@dsalo/114971004982301191
PSA for Firefox add-on developers
There's a phishing campaign that's using false urgency to trick developers into granting a 3rd party access to their AMO accounts. Stay safe out there!
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2025/08/01/warning-phishing-c…
Balancing Innovation and Oversight: Regulatory Sandboxes as a Tool for AI Governance
https://fpf.org/blog/balancing-innovation-and-oversight-regulatory-sandboxes-as-a-tool-for-ai-governance/
@…
*gulp* I think I just found a good use case for LLMs.
Translate technocratic fash drivel like DHH’s blog posts into plain English, decrypting what’s actually behind all the carefully worded euphemisms and dogwhistles.
Weekend Adventures Aug 30th https://blog.bmann.ca/3lxo4rd5g2c25
Here's another idea: After reading:
https://disconnect.blog/getting-off-us-tech-a-guide/ by @… I had the idea of creating something simila…
nix-unit looks like a nice way to test your #nix libraries https://clan.lol/blog/nix-unit/
A look at why the AI data center building boom could spark a financial crisis akin to 2008, including the rising use of debt financing via private credit funds (Noah Smith/Noahpinion)
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/will-data-centers-crash-the-economy
from my link log —
Text box drawing combinators.
https://mmapped.blog/posts/41-box-combinators.html
saved 2025-06-26 https://…
Joseph documented our new Command Palette:
https://blog.xogot.com/xogots-new-command-palette/
Video, but I would turn down the volume - because we are not really music-compatible:
Ein Jahrhundert für Sicherheit im Straßenverkehr. Von Jürgen Klute.
https://europa.blog/de/ein-jahrhundert-fuer-sicherheit-im-strassenverkehr/
Jetzt doch für jedes #Ratsmitglied ein #iPad in #BadOeYnhausen
Knapp 90.000 Euro kostet dann wohl allein die neue
Central Tibetan Administration Suspends Attestation Robert Spatz’s Ogyen Kunzang Choling https://openbuddhism.org/blog/2023/central-tibetan-administration-suspends-attestation-robert-spatzs-ogyen-kunzang-choling/
hatte ich schon auf den amüsanten Sommerlochfüllerfahrungsbericht "Alles, was Sie über Basel schon wussten oder nicht wissen müssen, wollen oder sollten" eines basler kollegens hingewiesen? die reihe ist mit teil III nun abgeschlossen: https://
“Personality vs. Personalization” in AI Systems: Intersection with Evolving U.S. Law (Part 3)
https://fpf.org/blog/personality-vs-personalization-in-ai-systems-intersection-with-evolving-u-s-law/
@…
from my link log —
SQLite's durability settings are a mess.
https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/sqlite_durability
saved 2025-08-29 https://
Epstein victims blast Justice Department over lack of transparency (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-texas-mace-dooley-tariffs-israel-gaza-immigration-live-updates-rcna222677/rcrd85837
http://www.memeorandum.com/250804/p132#a250804p132
🖲️ This novel 3D printer kinematic system uses a mouse sensor for closed-loop control
https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/08/12/this-novel-3d-printer-kinematic-system-uses-a-mouse-sensor-for-closed-loop-control/
Linkdump 40/2025 – #fundstücke
Noch ein Jubiläum:
Vor 100 Jahren veröffentliche Marfa von Sacher-Masoch ihr Buch "Würde zu geben den Verschmähten…". 🏳️🌈 📖
https://www.louiseottopeters-gesellschaft.de/blog/…
Forced my tiny brain to understand Agent2Agent (A2) protocol all for the good of chickens! 🙂
#A2A
from my link log —
Chapel's runtime types as an interesting alternative to dependent types.
https://danilafe.com/blog/chapel_runtime_types/
saved 2025-10-03
Wer in Schulen Demokratie verteidigt und Rassismus benennt, lebt gefährlich – das zeigt der @Campact-Blog. Statt Unterstützung durch Politik: Einschüchterung, Diffamierung, sogar Sicherheitsrisiken. Bitter, dass „Demokratieretter“ bekämpft werden, während rechte Netzwerke Förderung erhalten. 👉 https://blog.c…
Mercor launches the AI Productivity Index (APEX), which evaluates AI models' ability to perform "economically valuable knowledge work"; GPT-5 leads the index (Mercor)
https://mercor.com/blog/introducing-apex-ai-productivity-index/
Die Gotenstellung. – Der amerikanische Journalist Joe Kirwin beleuchtet in einer beeindruckenden Podcast-Serie die Schrecken des Zweiten Weltkriegs im nördlichen Apennin und Lehren, die sich daraus für die Gegenwart ziehen lassen. Das grausamste der von den deutschen Besatzern in Italien verübten Massaker war die Ermordung von 770 Zivilisten am 29. September und 1. Oktober 1944 in der Ortschaft Marzabotto. Von Michael Stabenow.
from my link log —
Array size types: The biggest semantic mess in Futhark.
https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2025-09-26-the-biggest-semantic-mess.html
saved 2025-10-02
A post from the archive 📫:
Validate your identity on Bluesky with your GitHub account
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/validate-your-identity-on-bluesky-with-your-github-account
from my link log —
CRDTs are built on an elegant kernel, but offer a leaky abstraction that misleads a lot of developers and researchers.
https://jhellerstein.github.io/blog/crdt-intro/
saved 2025-08-29
Obsidian's CEO on why productivity tools need community more than AI https://blog.bmannconsulting.com/3lxsrmot7ec2c
ich freue mich, dass @… am 14.10. für eine stunde virtuell in münster zu gast ist in sachen #wissenschaftskommunikation!
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from my link log —
VBARE / versioned BARE: A simple alternative to Protobuf & Cap'n Proto for schema evolution.
https://www.rivet.dev/blog/2025-09-24-vbare-simple-schema-evolution-with-maximum-performance
saved 2025-…
The State of State AI: Legislative Approaches to AI in 2025
https://fpf.org/blog/the-state-of-state-ai-legislative-approaches-to-ai-in-2025/
@…
A live blog of Amazon's fall 2025 hardware event in New York City, where new Kindles, Echos, possibly a TV, and Alexa updates are expected (The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/786685/amazon-event-live-blog-were-here-for-new-echos-…
Portugal Portugal Saudades: https://blog.rmendes.net/2025/08/01/portugal-portugal-saudades.html
from my link log —
TinyBits: smaller, faster serialization for Ruby apps and beyond.
https://oldmoe.blog/2025/05/05/smaller-faster-serialization-for-ruby-apps-and-beyond/
saved 2025-05-06
Cerebras announces the $50/month Code Pro and the $200/month Code Max plans, offering users access to Qwen3-Coder at speeds of up to 2,000 tokens per second (Daniel Kim/Cerebras)
https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/introducing-cerebras-code
from my link log —
Testing time (and other asynchronicities) in Golang.
https://go.dev/blog/testing-time
saved 2025-08-29 https://dotat.at/:/9U380.html…
from my link log —
R0ML’s ratio bozo test: Is your volume discount a good deal? Who nose!
https://blog.glyph.im/2025/08/r0mls-ratio.html
saved 2025-08-10
Google says Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, aka Nano Banana, is now generally available and supports more aspect ratios, priced at $0.039/image and $30/1M output tokens (Google Developers Blog)
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemini-2…
from my link log —
How to draw a Space Invader.
https://muffinman.io/blog/invaders/
saved 2025-08-26 https://dotat.at/:/83G5V.…
from my link log —
Current technology is not ready for proper alpha blending.
https://blog.pkh.me/p/43-the-current-technology-is-not-ready-for-proper-blending.html
saved 2025-07-19
from my link log —
Code golfing a tiny graphics demo using maths and a pinch of insanity.
https://blog.pkh.me/p/45-code-golfing-a-tiny-demo-using-maths-and-a-pinch-of-insanity.html
saved 2025-09-29