2026-02-17 17:03:28
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"look mum no computer" wird für uk zum ESC gehen
https://esc-kompakt.de/esc-2026-look-mum-no-computer-vertritt-grossbritannien-in-wien/
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"look mum no computer" wird für uk zum ESC gehen
https://esc-kompakt.de/esc-2026-look-mum-no-computer-vertritt-grossbritannien-in-wien/
KI-Update kompakt: AI Act, Groundsource, NemoClaw, Perplexity Computer
Das "KI-Update" liefert drei mal pro Woche eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.
OpenAI updates its Codex desktop app with features like computer control, an in-app browser, image generation, automation memory, plugin support, and more (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/openai-codex-desktop-update/
World Computer Day: 80 Jahre ENIAC
Vor 80 Jahren wurde ENIAC der Welt vorgestellt. Nicht der erste, aber der wichtigste Computer seiner Zeit.
https://www.heise.de/news/World-Computer-D
Another banger by J. B. Crawford in his "Computers Are Bad" series, this time going through computer history from PLATO to Lotus Notes. PLATO is probably the most influential computer system almost nobody knows about (unlike, say, Mother of All Demos).
https://computer.rip/2026-03-14-lotusn
dblp_coauthor_snap: DBLP authors (2012)
A coauthorship network extracted from the DBLP computer science manuscript database, in 2012. This network is a one-mode projection from the bipartite graph of computer scientists and their publications.
This network has 425957 nodes and 1049866 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration, Unweighted, Metadata, Projection
Helium Browser https://helium.computer/
Application of non-invasive brain-computer interfaces in spinal cord injury rehabilitation #BCI #NeuroTech
Unfortunately, my experiment with CachyOS is over, even though I gave the system a fair chance this time.
First of all, I really liked CachyOS. The speed is phenomenal, and everything would have been perfect except for one tiny detail that is essential for me: Localsend didn't work.
And I couldn't figure out why. I was able to install the program easily, and my computer recognized all the devices around it. Except for the devices around my computer with CachyOS on it... a…
Manus introduces My Computer, a desktop application that enables its AI agent to interact directly with the user's local files, tools, and applications (Manus)
https://manus.im/blog/manus-my-computer-desktop
"Dutch police have arrested a man for 'computer hacking' after accidentally handing him their own sensitive files and then getting annoyed when he didn't hand them back."
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/dutch_cop…
from my link log —
Writing C with indent-based syntax similar to CoffeeScript or Python, via Guile.
https://sph.mn/computer/guides/c/c-indent.html
saved 2026-02-14
It's been a rough week because so many computer things I wanted to do just were too difficult, didn't work, or I ended up spending (wasting?) too much time on them.
Some things did work though, and I learned a lot. Some of what I learned is that computers and certain companies (and people) suck, but there's always a way around things that don't work.
student_cooperation: Student cooperation (2012)
Network of cooperation among students in the "Computer and Network Security" course at Ben-Gurion University, in 2012. Nodes are students, and edges denote cooperation between students while doing their homework. The graph contains three types of links: Time, Computer, Partners.
This network has 185 nodes and 360 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Multigraph, Unweighted
Computer programmers never die, they just get lost in the processing.
Jeg står ved min computer og læser synopser til de næste dages eksamener i Kriminallingvistik. Med musik Ÿrerne og tåget solskin ind ad vinduet er det faktisk helt fint 🥰
This whole thread is such a joy to read, about migrating away from big tech and taking back control of a digital life. #TechSovereignty #TechEmpowerment
#DanmarkSkifter
Conservative voter fraud hunters pitch new computer programs to state officials (Jane C. Timm/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/conservative-voter-fraud-hunters-pitch-new-programs-state-officials-rcna263738
http://www.memeorandum.com/260318/p13#a260318p13
New Computer Science Building in the Snow with a Crane Working Between Phillips and Gates
#photo #photography #cornell
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Alleen heb ik een paar kleine veranderingen doorgevoerd. Zo kan ik elke toepassing als een rolgordijn oprollen tot een balkje.
Verder is inderdaad het eerste punt best handig voor mensen die linux willen proberen:
1. Live USB/Live session
Je stopt eem speciaal geprepareerde USB stick in de computer en probeert linux zonder eerst te moeten installeren.
Perplexity baut „Personal Computer“ auf Mac-mini-Basis
Perplexity Computer nennt sich Perplexitys persönlicher Assistent. Der soll im OpenClaw-Stil nun auf den Mac kommen. Derzeit gibt es eine Warteliste.
https://www.
“How may the compulsive programmer be distinguished from a merely dedicated, hard-working professional programmer? First, by the fact that the ordinary professional programmer addresses himself to the problem to be solved, whereas the compulsive programmer sees the problem mainly as an opportunity to interact with the computer. The ordinary computer programmer will usually discuss both his substantive and his technical programming problem with others. He will generally do lengthy preparatory work, such as writing and flow diagramming, before beginning work with the computer itself. His sessions with the computer may be comparatively short. He may even let others do the actual console work. He develops his program slowly and systematically. When something doesn't work, he may spend considerable time away from the computer, framing careful hypotheses to account for the malfunction and designing crucial experiments to test them. Again, he may leave the actual running of the computer to others. He is able, while waiting for results from the computer, to attend to other aspects of his work, such as documenting what he has already done. When he has finally composed the program he set out to produce, he is able to complete a sensible description of it and to turn his attention to other things. The professional regards programming as a means toward an end, not as an end in itself. His satisfaction comes from having solved a substantive problem, not from having bent a computer to his will.”
—Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason, 1976
I have a degree in Computer Science from back in the "early" (90’s) days and I've never heard of this amazing women, Steve Shirley.
Give her story a listen: https://overcast.fm/ AA5K6YX9u-0.
She was a forerunner in the creation of the commercial software development business, and wo…
Eek, opened my Series 7 model B up, assuming I'd just need to clean and do the RIFAs, but all the internal plastic is in a terrible shape - the board looks fine; just the plastic is terrible; pitted everywhere, and that side of the PSU!
#retrocomputing
Perception of brain-computer interface implantation surgery for motor, sensory, and autonomic restoration in spinal cord injury and stroke https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2026.1678175/full "first-ge…
A free, #opensource #offline #server you install on any computer. Download the content you want, and it works without internet — forever.
Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
AVON: Most computer-based functions are.
VILA: Blake - Kerr Avon. When it comes to computers, he's the number two man in all the Federated worlds.
NOVA: Who's number one?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/102/98 B7B4
I accept #Radiohead is a band I simply don't get. My Iron Lung is a good song, but OK Computer? Kid A? etc. It just sounds like noise to me. 🤷♂️
#music
It's a shame that the press release for quantum computer investment has to be wrapped in "AI". Where the "race" has been reframed as the consumption, rather than production, of technologies.
In many ways quantum tech matches the UK's traditional strengths - big expensive important research with (let's face it) extremely vague plans for commercialisation.
I am declaring war on the cold today. Time to install a furnace in the machine shop / vintage computer lab!
RE: https://indieweb.social/@tg/116239388293932404
Not only do I love this article, I love the attention to detail - all the clocks are synced with your computer time
from my link log —
Fast sorting networks, branchless by design.
https://00f.net/2026/02/17/sorting-without-leaking-secrets/
saved 2026-02-17
This year has been the most difficult health-wise for me. I am extremely grateful to all you Fediverse Friends who have helped me in any way.
Offering advice or wishing me well, helping with weird code or computer things, sharing your blogs do I can distract myself from the pain.
I love this Fediverse thing we’ve created. ❤️
Sabi, which is developing a brain-computer interface beanie that can decode internal speech into words, emerges from stealth with backing from Khosla and others (Emily Mullin/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/this-beanie-is-designed-to-read-your-thoughts/…
.@… is looking for a postdoc to join our group working on long-term dynamics of wading bird colonies in the Everglades with a focus on either cross-scale drivers of wading bird breeding activity and success or automated drone-based monitoring of nest success using aerial imagery and computer vision.
https://doi.org/10.59350/n0a60-3bn11
Just finished "The Phantom Scientist" by Robin Cousin, translated into English by Edward Gauvin. It's a book I really enjoyed, although of course being an academic computer scientist it pushes a lot of my buttons. The idea of an "Institute" fated to descend into chaos, a systems expert tasked with slowing that process, and researchers whose results are a bit too effective for their own good is a catnip setting for me, and the points about epistemology although somewhat diluted are quite nice.
#AmReading #ReadingNow
The security company LayerX has found a critical vulnerability in Anthropic’s Claude Desktop Extensions (DXT). A manipulated Google Calendar entry can execute arbitrary code on the computer without any user interaction. Although the vulnerability received the highest possible severity rating of 10 out of 10 on the common CVSS, Anthropic does not intend to fix the problem for the time being:
"Gesichtserkennung für Ochsenköpfe – Erprobung und Einsatz von Computer Vision für die Bestimmung historischer #Wasserzeichen"
https://blog.sbb.berlin/wasserzeichenerkennung/
Does anyone have a spare ticket for the #RubyKaigi party?
I haven't used a computer/social media for quite a while, hence I missed the announcements.
I only have the regular ticket.
#RubyKaigi2026
Very interesting, sounds like a good team,
"IBM researchers are working with the developers of the secure messaging platforms Signal and Threema to design cryptographic systems that can resist future quantum computer attacks."
https://cyberinsider.com/ibm-part…
dblp_coauthor_snap: DBLP authors (2012)
A coauthorship network extracted from the DBLP computer science manuscript database, in 2012. This network is a one-mode projection from the bipartite graph of computer scientists and their publications.
This network has 425957 nodes and 1049866 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration, Unweighted, Metadata, Projection
A look at China's push to become a world leader in brain-computer interfaces, as Shanghai-based startup NeuroXess moves to human trials with Beijing's backing (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/re…
Every now and then, Vivaldi.. on my work computer - and only on my work computer - flashes and rebuilds its whole UI. Like the whole window goes blank for a second then its back.
Which _totally_ doesn't make me think they have something watching / scraping what Im doing. :/
edit: and not Vivaldi I mean, Im willing to bet its something work has installed on here.
Neuroscientists take major step in development of brain-computer interfaces for patients with paralysis https://nieuws.kuleuven.be/en/content/2026/neuroscientists-take-major-step-in-development-of-br…
Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
TARRANT: Thank you, Zen.
DARVID: [On screen] And so everything is ready. The formalities are complete. The Champions are prepared. The Arbiters have activated the combat computer which will control the conditions of battle. Only the computer knows when it will begin and where. [the screen fades to black. A computer display prints up:
"When you behold the prompt file of a coder using A.I., you are viewing a record of the developer’s attempts to restrain the agents’ generally competent, but unpredictably deviant, actions."
Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It
https://www.
GPT-5.4: OpenAI vereint Reasoning und Coding mit Computer-Steuerung
OpenAI veröffentlicht GPT-5.4, das Reasoning, Coding und Computer-Steuerung in einem Modell vereint und Konkurrenten übertrifft.
https:/…
Trump Administration Says It Can't Process Tariff Refunds Because of Computer Problems - Slashdot
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/03/06/2224256/trump-administration-says-it-cant-process-tariff-refunds-because-of-computer-problems
Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.6 with improvements in coding, consistency, and more, for Free and Pro users; it features a 1M token context window in beta (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-6
Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard, who pioneered quantum information theory, win the ACM AM Turing Award; the pair developed the BB84 cryptography protocol (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/a-quantum-leap-for-the-turing-award/
This computer is just—
…better than what we have now
I hadn't noticed that the announcement of the new UK computer crimes division, the Online Crime Centre, has a quote from NCA's James Babbage.
I'm glad the Babbages are taking some responsibility for what they have wrought.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-dis…
webkb: WebKB graphs (1998)
Web graphs crawled from four Computer Science departments in 1998, with each page manually classified into one of 7 categories: course, department, faculty, project, staff, student, or other. All graphs included in a single .zip; also included are 'co-citation' graphs, which links i and j if they both point to some k. Edge weights count the number of links from i to j.
This network has 348 nodes and 33250 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web gr…
My department is looking to hire a professor of practice in CS, with a focus on AI. Job posting below. If you have questions I'll do my best to answer them, else find someone who can! We are in Providence, easy commute access from Boston.
https://
Seeing an 'acer palmatum' plant in the computer section of an auction site is good fun.
from my link log —
Capability-based computer systems. (1984)
https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~levy/capabook/
saved 2020-03-08 https://
Perplexity announces Personal Computer, an OpenClaw-like AI agent that can run on a Mac, and an enterprise version of Perplexity Computer (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/11/perplexity-personal-computer-mac
(from China) 2026: How high can the brain-computer interface soar in the spotlight? #BCI #NeuroTech
<Stealth> How do I bind a computer to an NIS server?
<Joey> Use a rope?
-- Seen on #Debian
What do you even us a computer for?
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Kraftwerk:
🎵 Computer Love
#Kraftwerk
https://extinctapexpredators.bandcamp.com/track/kraftwerk-computer-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/2wcrhJM18F0W6FB48VEh9U
Claudes Computer Use kommt in Cowork und Code
Computer Use nennt Anthropic die Funktion seines KI-Chatbots Claude, einen Computer zu bedienen wie ein Mensch. Das wird erweitert.
https://www.heise…
cora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted
"LLMs work (somewhat) for coding computer programs. As everyone knows this is the highest form of human endeavor—unsurpassed by any other lesser activity such as project management, design, art or writing. Therefore LLMs will excel in every other field."
I really believe this is the crux understanding why so many programmers (including good programmers) fall for it in a way that can only be described as a cult, were any criticism is not only not allowed but reflexively is seen as either laughable or belligerent.
Anyway, LLMs are good* at writing code because writing code is easy and highly repetitive and doesn't actually take a lot of skill; unless it's novel ways to write code which LLMs cannot do.
Taking this as a sign LLMs can do other "lesser" activities is saying a lot about the hubris of programmers and not a lot of the capabilities of LLMs.
*for some definitions of "good"
webkb: WebKB graphs (1998)
Web graphs crawled from four Computer Science departments in 1998, with each page manually classified into one of 7 categories: course, department, faculty, project, staff, student, or other. All graphs included in a single .zip; also included are 'co-citation' graphs, which links i and j if they both point to some k. Edge weights count the number of links from i to j.
This network has 434 nodes and 30462 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web gr…
Qualcomm unveils the Arduino Ventuno Q, a single-board computer for AI and robotics applications, powered by Dragonwing IQ8 processor and 16GB of RAM (Steve Dent/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/qualcomms-new-ard…
omg TIL the computer systems in the Millennium Dome needed y2k remediation
a building made specially for y2k needed fixing so it could cope with y2k
wtf lol
You don't have to know how the computer works, just how to work the computer.
A09 - Project Avalon
BLAKE: Get after him, Jenna. [Blake manipulates the control panel - various detainees appear on the monitors as he does so.]
COMPUTER: A-twelve Istar. S-eight Hend. N-fifteen Raiker. T-five Kalor. G-one Pelar. F-two Avalon.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/109/298 B7B…
cs_department: Aarhus Computer Science department relationships
Multiplex network consisting of 5 edge types corresponding to online and offline relationships (Facebook, leisure, work, co-authorship, lunch) between employees of the Computer Science department at Aarhus. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 61 nodes and 620 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Multilayer, Unweighted
And "free" also implies that the worker is supposedly completely free. He is free in the sense that he can sell for as high a price as he can manage.
Himself?
Yes, for as much money as possible. - Now, in this market, the computer replaces the best thing the worker has to offer: knowledge and skill. The machine takes over both, and he himself is degraded to a mere machine operator. His actual abilities have been coaxed out of him and incorporated into the device. Consequently, he has less to sell than before, and what he can still sell is worth less.
He himself loses value?
Yes, because he is not only robbed of the ability to provide bread for his family, but also of one of the signs that prove to him that he is human. Now he is simplified and transformed into an operator. (Almost like in Kafka, where a man is transformed into a beetle; Kafka is a prophet in that regard.)"
Joseph Weizenbaum, Kurs auf den Eisberg, Serie Piper, Munich, 1987
Garry Tan, VC and Y Combinator CEO: Brain computer interfaces are now giving sight back to the blind https://garryslist.org/posts/brain-computer-interfaces-are-now-giving-sight-back-to-the-blind by @…
Professor David J. Farber, whose work on academic experimental computer networks helped define the evolution of the early internet, died on February 7 at age 91 (Peter Wayner/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/technol
arxiv_collab: Scientific collaborations in physics (1995-2005)
Collaboration graphs for scientists, extracted from the Los Alamos e-Print arXiv (physics), for 1995-1999 for three categories, and additionally for 1995-2003 and 1995-2005 for one category. For copyright reasons, the MEDLINE (biomedical research) and NCSTRL (computer science) collaboration graphs from this paper are not publicly available.
This network has 8361 nodes and 15751 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration…
Neural vision restoration in ophthalmology https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10439-026-03989-y "restore visual perception through retinal prostheses, optic nerve and thalamic implants, cortical brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), optogenetics, and non-invasive s…
Oxide Computer, which lets companies build their own cloud, raised $200M led by USIT, taking its total funding to nearly $390M since its 2019 founding (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/02…
It’s really funny to watch a almost 15-year old Apple product intro and the specs for the computer are virtually the same as the specs for computers you can buy now
15-inch retina screen
512GB SSD
8GB RAM
USB3, MagSafe, HDMI, Thunderbolt, SD card slot
~$2,500 in 2012
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Anthropic partners with CodePath to help redesign computer coding curricula at hundreds of US community and state colleges, integrating Claude AI tools (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-take…
cs_department: Aarhus Computer Science department relationships
Multiplex network consisting of 5 edge types corresponding to online and offline relationships (Facebook, leisure, work, co-authorship, lunch) between employees of the Computer Science department at Aarhus. Data hosted by Manlio De Domenico.
This network has 61 nodes and 620 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Multilayer, Unweighted
What it's like to have a brain implant for 5 years https://www.wired.com/story/synchron-brain-computer-interface-five-years-als/ (archived at
Chinese brain-computer interface startup Gestala raised $21.6M co-led by Guosheng Capital and Dalton Venture at a $100M to $200M valuation, per CEO Phoenix Peng (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/11/bci-startu…
Efficient Computer, which is developing AI chips with a "spatial dataflow" architecture to minimize energy consumption, raised a $60M Series A (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/18/efficient-computer-r…
Super Micro reports Q2 net sales up 123% to $12.7B, vs. $10.43B est., and expects Q3 net sales above estimates; SMCI jumps 5% after hours (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/markets/super-micro-computer-q2-2026-earnings-ai-boom-bubble-s…
Developers on AI coding: many show enthusiasm and now feel more like architects than construction workers, some think software jobs might actually grow, more (Clive Thompson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2…