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Pebble unveils the Pebble Index 01, a $99 smart ring with an on-device LLM for processing voice notes, shipping in March 2026, initially for $75 (Julian Chokkattu/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/pebble-index-ring/

Pebble Index: Everything You Need to Know About the $75 Smart Ring
You can speak into the Pebble Index to have it remember things or set reminders, timers, and tasks. No cloud processing, no subscription, and best of all, no charging.

Reduced to the Max: Pebble-Ring für Sprachnotizen hat nur einen Knopf
Ein Mikrofon am Zeigefinger springt nur an, wenn der Daumen den Knopf drückt. Der Pebble Index 01 dient zunächst für Sprachnotizen und Musiksteuerung.

from my link log —
An adequate left-associated binary numeral system in the lambda calculus.
https://www.brics.dk/RS/95/42/index.html
saved 2026-01-09 https://

Linkdump 02/2026 – #fundstücke

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

Air Quality Index: Cats

Search for light sterile neutrinos with two #neutrino beams at MicroBooNE: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09757-7 -> No evidence of sterile neutrinos: https://mediarelations.unibe.ch/media_releases/2025/media_releases_2025/sterile_neutrinos/index_eng.html

Sure would be cool if one of the big tech companies would give the Internet Archive money to make a full-text searchable index of the Wayback Machine.

Yeah, so the GNU #make jobserver protocol is trivial, which can be a blessing and a curse. It puts the job management entirely on the clients, which means that they must reliably return job tokens, or otherwise the jobserver will be left with no jobs available and everything will hang. The make documentation is clear on this:
> Your tool should be sure to write back the tokens it read, even under error conditions. This includes not only errors in your tool but also outside influences such as interrupts (SIGINT), etc. You may want to install signal handlers to manage this write-back.
#NinjaBuild jobserver implementation may not handle this correctly, but fortunately it does. The irony is, it turns out that GNU make does not…
#Gentoo

nonserious techno is serious (Brava b2b Teki Latex) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfCRS08D4uA&list=WL&index=34

When worlds collide: r4ghidra, by @…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbSiNBaBgM4&list=PLQYxYCskjP…

The Pebble Index 01 is a neat idea, and we need more of that in the space. I'm going to wait and see where it goes, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArxhS4SQaP0

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 …

A very heartfelt apology from Japan's Keio University regarding a data breach.
https://www.keio.ac.jp/en/news/2026/Jan/7/48-171848/index.html

Apology and Notice Concerning Unauthorized Access Incident and Possible Personal Data Breach: Keio University
January 7, 2026It has now been determined that, due to unauthorized access from outside the universi

Debugging emulated processes with mwemu @…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TFL-_-nIqA&list=PLQYxYC…

How three Northwest newspapers have remained independent and avoided closure: selling to employees, diversifying print operations, and nurturing future owners (Brier Dudley/Local News Initiative)
https://localnewsinitiative.northweste

Northwest publishers avoiding consolidation or closure, maintaining independence
Publisher Les Zaitz spent three years trying to save his pride and joy.

Finally done creating a bookmarklet that lets me do a series of three clean-up #Wikibase edits on #WikimediaCommons files for this notorious user that uploads thousands of files.
The edits replace a creator=<some value> statement into a known value referring to this user’s

File:04578jfRecoletos Church Bulletin Baluarte San Andres Landmarks Intramurosfvf 46.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

Ich finde immer noch merkwürdig, dass es keinen Wikipedia-Eintrag zur #Chatkontrolle gibt.
https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chatkontrolle&redirect=no…

Ah! I remember this show:
Visionaries: Knights Of The Magical Light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m23AX-QwG1M&list=PLH8g-PVUBsKHQkGsVSRbViBJ_oykWN-m1&index=1

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…

Chameleon, polymorphic shell engine, by @…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQpk0XpQkGw&list=PLQYxYCskjP6Vv…

OPNsense 25.7.9 released
Started by franco, December 04, 2025, 03:12:42 PM
#opnsense

From David Suzuki
For the past 30 years, global representatives have gathered for United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP) climate summits, promising solutions. But political inaction continues to drive worsening climate disasters.
It’s hard not to be cynical. The COP process has become a theatre of contradiction. Recent summits have been hosted by petrostates & financed by polluters. Fossil fuel lobbyists attended COP28 & COP29 [en masse]

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 45/2025 – #fundstücke

Lightning talks include IIIF's AI/ML working group presented by the excellent Martin Kalfatovic https://www.conftool.org/fantastic-futures-2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&ismobile=true&form_session=26

OK, successfully cleaned up my iCloud storage by downloading photos using https://icloud-photos-downloader.github.io/icloud_photos_downloader/index.html
Now importing them into my personal

"The Joy Index would measure national progress. Community satisfaction, creative engagement, and laughter frequency would embed tenderness in the infrastructure."
—from the piece by Na’I’Cesses McKether ’25 M.A.R., "Care and Repair in the New Eco-nomy," in the new issue of Reflections

Amazon dipped as one of the biggest drags to the benchmark S&P index
after the e-commerce company said it was in discussions with the U.S. Postal Service about their future relationship
and is considering its options before its contract expires next year
https://stocks.apple.com/AmuHAuFEeSi66

In #Dorfen wurde ein neuer #Solarpark mit #Stromspeicher feierlich in Betrieb genommen.
Die Anlage versorgt rund 1.200 Haushalte und stabilisiert durch gezielte Einspeisung das

Every time a student works on a project related to the fur trade, I'm reminded of how much I love the Biographical Sheets maintained by the Hudson's Bay Company Archives. They present the barest of outlines of the lives of workers over three centuries and across a staggering geographic area. Every one is an invitation to imagine a life that hasn't been celebrated by a monument or a movie.

Biographies | Hudson's Bay Company Archives | Archives of Manitoba
Enter a brief description of the site

Gilbert's Discovery:
Any attempt to use the new super glues results in the two pieces
sticking to your thumb and index finger rather than to each other.

@… thanks, I'll think about it for the future.
All over the shop is partly dyslexia, I try to find a balance between what's in my head (sometimes, everything at once) and compartmentalising things. Chunking stuff, (a) for readers to maybe make sense; and (b) for future reference.
There's also the issue of search engine index limitatio…

Tired of #BigTech? Explore the Rise of Decentralized #SocialMedia in #2026
> Why it matters now. Apps are smoother. Mobile experiences are better. More people want user control and #privacy. Crea…

from my link log —
Front-panel booting an ATmega88 microcontroller.
https://www.linusakesson.net/hardware/frontpanel/index.php
saved 2025-12-06

Het zal toch niet waar zijn dat D66 nog een restzetel gaat afpakken van de SP??
Dan is de JA-variant ineens weer 76 zetels ...
https://wiekrijgtderestzetel.nl/index.html?year=2025

So, tonight's goal is to continue with ngscopeclient performance work.
I started out by doubling the speed of the eye pattern *again* by moving index buffer calculation from CPU to GPU.
Next up is going to be getting the 100baseTX decoder to not be so slow. Right now of the 43 seconds of CPU time in the current 1-minute benchmark, 26.9 is spent sampling the MLT-3 waveform on rising edges of the recovered clock.
The thing is, we already *know* the sample values at the re…

Great seminar: Understanding Statistical Process Control by Donald Wheeler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP3i97Q6XjM&list=PLUeXRJ5a5UC1cDLxbZPs6Jg_d9m-nvIjO &index=2

With 100 authors represented and 300 texts in our database, Literature in Context is a true open access replacement for proprietary publisher materials, "inclusive access" plans, and anthologies that have some of what you want.
Literature in Context
https://anthologydev.lib.virginia.edu/index.html

I made a list of all the blog posts and other permanent-ish artifacts I could find for over/under
It's largely for my benefit (hence the "to read" section at the bottom) but other people might find it useful too
https://seedlinggames.com/blogging/overunder/index.h…

Updated my shitty ""temporary"" index.html on my https://kulkesk.ru/ domain, and added needed link to mastodon so it would show up on my profile as verified. Please do critique it. I would love to know and easier way to make that text blob looking closer to the center without using <div class="…

Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
ORAC: The tracer is between the index and second finger of your left hand.
AVON: [Holds up small disc] Thank you, Orac.
VILA: [Entering] Let's get on with it, then.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/33 B7B5

NFL Heat Index: Brian Schottenheimer Proves Critics Wrong, Mike Tomlin on Hot Seat https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfl-heat-index-brian-schottenheimer-proves-critics-wrong-mike-tomlin-hot-seat

NFL QB rankings, Week 14: Lamar Jackson falls out of top 20; who jumped 12 spots? https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-qb-rankings-index-week-14-2025-nfl-season

I applied the three finger salute to the two pieces of software that is not responsive after two hours. We used to have semi-decent software, but lately the piss-poor upgrades and AI SLOP has infected the "productivity" software. I could update 5 documents, generate PDF for each and rebuild the release folder index in one day or a day and a half if the VPN was slow. All I got done (day 2 of frustration) was three of the smallest documents, on the midsize document it choked and I…

Legacy Python Bootstrap Scripts Create Domain-Takeover Risk in Multiple PyPI Packages
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered vulnerable code in legacy Python packages that could potentially pave the way for a supply chain compromise on the Python Package Index (PyPI) via a domain takeover attack.
:python: https:/…

Legacy Python Bootstrap Scripts Create Domain-Takeover Risk in Multiple PyPI Packages
Old Python bootstrap scripts and a malicious PyPI package expose developers to domain takeover and RAT risks.

Famien Sanglard does a deep dive on how Quake was the only game to support both DOS and Windows 95 with TCP/IP multiplayer in one exe #Quake…

Very proud to have my research featured in the latest edition of UCL's alumni magazine Portico alongside a stellar group of Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment colleagues including Fiona Zisch, Claire Heaviside and Haim Yacobi
Read the full piece on how the built environment can support or improve our health and wellbeing:

Designing healthier places | Portico Magazine | UCL
For better or worse, our environments shape us. Now, researchers from UCL’s The Bartlett are uncovering new ways for our built environment to support – and improve – our health and wellbeing.

[Blog] [critique] R75 with Sidecar North African Campaing
#critiques #dak #figurines #guerreDuDésert

We began #FF2025 with two long papers - Developing Archival AI chatbots and AI to Improve AV Metadata in a Legacy System https://www.conftool.org/fantastic-futures<…

I've spent most of today -- while I really should have been working on other things -- building a little search engine for @yogthos' Cryogen blogging engine, which is what I use for my blog.
I can now generate an index very fast; the index I'm currently generating is too big, and doesn't have enough metadata, and consequently the search side can't return that metadata, but I'm very pleased with progress for one day.

elboob
A site search engine for Cryogen with search on the client side

Linkdump 49/2025 – #fundstücke

Surprise, pas de surprise.
https://tooting.ch/@etatdevaud/115638882677070524

US energy companies and several hedge funds were handsomely rewarded when markets opened on Monday after news of the US attack on Venezuela and abduction of President Nicolas Maduro over the weekend. 
The MSCI US Energy index,
which tracks a basket of American stocks with exposure to the energy industry,
was trading up 2.8 percent on Monday, widely outperforming gains in the broader S&P 500 and other global energy stocks.
The rally was an early reflection of inves…

Halliburton, hedge funds and Chevron: Big winners from Trump's vow to 'rule' Venezuela
US energy stocks rally after abduction of Nicolas Maduro while analysts warn Opec countries could face 'serious' pressure

For day 3 of #AdventOfCode I outsmarted myself by using `each` on an array to get the index and the value, but forgot that #Perl does not reset the counter when you exit the loop early. (It worked for part 1, though..). After switching to a stupid c-style for loop it was easy (because I agai…

Ich habe von Dorothea viel gelernt, nicht nur die Kommunikation mit den vielen Menschen, die einen Text eingereicht haben. Auch, dass trotz schnelllebiger Zeiten, ein Blick in die Geschichte meist hilft und mitunter zeigt, dass sich linke Erzählungen selten mit ihr decken. Etwa die von der vermeintlich einheitlichen Arbeiterklasse vor dem Postfordismus, ein Narrativ, was es den gegenwärtigen Linken nur ermöglicht, zu unterstreichen, wie schwer sie es haben. Hier zum Text:

Santa Fe tackles rental rates with first-in-US minimum wage approach | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/santa-fe-university-of-new-mexico-consumer-price-index-mayor-experts-b2873967.html

Started by iCloud Photo backup with https://icloud-photos-downloader.github.io/icloud_photos_downloader/index.html .... let's see how long this takes ....

OpenAI says it now has 1M business customers globally, with ChatGPT for Work seats up 40% in two months to 7M and ChatGPT Enterprise seats up 9x YoY (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/1-million-businesses-putting-ai-to-work

Time to watch the Pilot episode of Sledge Hammer!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q20qsG7ssQ&list=PLyv4UuGykKa_6dohUDs6nOB3ZdoTXMWba&index=1

Iceberg Index: KI kann bereits 11,7 Prozent der US-Arbeitskräfte ersetzen
Ein neues Simulationstool des MIT zeigt: Aktuelle KI-Systeme könnten bereits 11,7 Prozent des US-Arbeitsmarkts ersetzen – vor allem in Verwaltung und Finanzen.

Interactive resizing of picture and table content in Rmd and Quarto: #rstats

I'm lucky to be chairing a great session with lots of brilliant short papers, from 'The Politics of AI Training Data' (with people who critiqued the KB NL in the audience!), vision language models, work with newspapers and more! https://www.conftool.org/fa…

#Fediverse #Blocklists: #Moderation in Noncapitalist #SocialMedia

> the paper explore…

Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
ORAC: The tracer is between the index and second finger of your left hand.
AVON: [Holds up small disc] Thank you, Orac.
VILA: [Entering] Let's get on with it, then.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/33 B7B5

Meanwhile on the #Sun as seen by SDO HMI https://jsoc1.stanford.edu/data/hmi/images/latest/HMI_latest_Int_4096x4096.gif at 21:53 UTC today ... the big groups (1)4296 and 4294 at the bottom as well as 4299 at the top keep marching towards the center of the disk, but not much has happened since the X1.9 flare two days ago. (The Kp forecast in https://www.spacepager.eu/data-products/forecast-of-the-kp-index sees something interesting three nights from now, though, but such long-term views are notoriously unreliable.)

US energy companies and several hedge funds were handsomely rewarded when markets opened on Monday
after news of the US attack on Venezuela and abduction of President Nicolas Maduro over the weekend. 
The MSCI US Energy index, which tracks a basket of American stocks with exposure to the energy industry,
was trading up 2.8 percent on Monday
-- widely outperforming gains in the broader S&P 500 and other global energy stocks.
The rally was an early reflection …

Halliburton, hedge funds and Chevron: Big winners from Trump's vow to 'rule' Venezuela
US energy stocks rally after abduction of Nicolas Maduro while analysts warn Opec countries could face 'serious' pressure

Digitaler Unabhängigkeitstag – #internet

Abstracts for the long papers on now https://www.conftool.org/fantastic-futures-2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=16 and the short papers

from my link log —
A brief history of NSA backdoors. (2013)
https://www.ethanheilman.com/x/12/index.html
saved 2025-11-29 https://d…

Projecting the 2026 draft order: Commanders in the top 10, 2 picks for the Jets https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2026/story/_/id/46146676/2026-nfl-draft-order-projections-32-first-round-picks

Airline Index 2025: Luftfahrt verpasst erneut Klimaziele
Trotz neuer, effizienterer Flugzeuge haben die Fluggesellschaften im Jahr ihre Klimaziele verfehlt, wie eine Studie zeigt.
https://www.

12 lightning talks in 60 minutes?! Check out the richness at https://www.conftool.org/fantastic-futures-2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=6

Linkdump 01/2026 – #fundstücke

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.

Six great papers in this current session at #F2025 https://www.conftool.org/fantastic-futures-2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_ses…

Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng Index rose 28% in 2025, its best percentage performance since 2017, driven by tech, AI, and semiconductor stocks (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/hon…

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Airline Index 2025: Luftfahrt verpasst erneut Klimaziele
https://w…

Mein 2025, die positive Seite – #gedanken

An MIT study finds that AI can replace 11.7% of the US labor market, or ~$1.2T in wages, based on the "Iceberg Index", which measures job automation potential (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/mit-study-

MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
Artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, across finance, health care and professional services, according to MIT's study.

In my first workshop of the #FF2025 conference! Considering 'Future scenarios: Supporting the AI4LAM Community in Teaching and Learning' https://www.conftool.org/f…

Valve besätigt: Kein neues Half-Life: Alyx und Ende der VR-Brille Valve Index
Valve stellt die Produktion seines PC-VR-Headsets Index ein und bestätigt gleichzeitig, dass keine eigenen VR-Spiele in Arbeit sind – auch kein neues Alyx.

Linkdump 44/2025 – #fundstücke

Today we welcome both in-person and online participants to the first full day of #FF2025!
Check out the full programme at
https://www.conftool.org/fantastic-futures-…

Japanese NAND flash memory maker Kioxia is up 500% in 2025 so far, outperforming all other MSCI World Index members, after its Tokyo IPO debut in December 2024 (Alice French/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Mein Persönlicher Rückblick auf die Blogwochen – https://www.deimeke.net/dirk/blog/index.php?/archives/4445-Mein-Persoenlicher-Rueckblick-auf-die-Blogwochen.html

OpenAI releases gpt-oss-safeguard, its open-weight reasoning models for safety classification tasks, available in 120B and 20B parameters, under Apache 2.0 (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-oss-safeguard/

Meine Top 5 Bücher in 2025 – https://www.deimeke.net/dirk/blog/index.php?/archives/4463-Meine-Top-5-Buecher-in-2025.html #(hör-)bücher

OpenAI says a Mixpanel security incident on November 9 let a hacker access API account names and more, but not ChatGPT data, and it terminated its Mixpanel use (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/mixpanel-incident

Linkdump 48/2025 – #fundstücke

Kommunikationswerkzeuge und Messenger Ende 2025 – https://www.deimeke.net/dirk/blog/index.php?/archives/4462-Kommunikationswerkzeuge-und-Messenger-Ende-2025.html

OpenAI says it has "completed our recapitalization", the OpenAI Foundation now has equity valued at ~$130B, and it continues to control the OpenAI for-profit (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/built-to-benefit-everyone/

Samsung, up 125%, and SK Hynix, up 268%, accounted for nearly half of the 76% gain in South Korea's Kospi, the world's best-performing major stock index in 2025 (Youkyung Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Wie ich Ende 2025 arbeite (Client) – #technik

Wie ich Ende 2025 arbeite (Infrastruktur) – #technik

Linkdump – https://www.deimeke.net/dirk/blog/index.php?/archives/4458-Linkdump.html

Mein Arbeitsplatz Ende 2025 – #technik

Fünf Jahre Buzzzoom und TILpod – #buzzzoom …