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from my link log —
Benchmarking linkers: wild vs mold.
https://davidlattimore.github.io/posts/2026/09/18/benchmarking-wild-vs-mold.html
saved 2026-09-19

Schreiben ist der Prozess, bei dem man herausfindet, dass man eigentlich gar nicht versteht, worüber man spricht. Viel wichtiger ist jedoch, dass Schreiben auch der Prozess ist, bei dem man es herausfindet.
https://finest.day/posts/lichtung-im-kopf-schreiben-als-psychohy…

Uff finally! All Posts from our vacation in the Fränkische Schweiz are online.
Some of the posts also contain videos that appeared in the last couple of days on my peertube account on @…

Before everybody get's too excited about available Chinese open weights models, the infrastructure costs for running these models are immense, it's hard to find specific and reliable data but think about half a million dollars of infrastructure costs for 5-15 users according to this linkedin post.

Kimi K3 just dropped. 2.8 trillion parameters, 1M-token context window, open weights. Capabilities comparable to Fable 5. 🔥 And every enterprise buyer is doing the same math right now. Here is… | Miklos Toth
Kimi K3 just dropped. 2.8 trillion parameters, 1M-token context window, open weights. Capabilities comparable to Fable 5. 🔥 And every enterprise buyer is doing the same math right now. Here is what running it yourself actually costs: - 16x NVIDIA H200 GPUs: ~$500,000. That's GPUs only. No chassis, no networking, no power infrastructure. - Model weights on disk: 1 to 1.7TB depending on quantization. - What's left for actual context: somewhere between 550 and 1,250GB of KV cache. Translat…

New blog post by @… on education under siege in #Gaza.
https://www.jo…

Opening the book
I greeted the faces before me, offering a greeting accompanied by a sense of apology. It was not an apology for the absence of a greeting, but for the inadequacy of words in the face of the stories these faces carried. In their eyes were a million questions, and in their hearts were mountains of reproach and pain.

Reddit launches an early experiment to convert select text posts and comments into short videos with AI voiceovers, rolling out on the web, iOS, and Android (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Reddit’s AI is turning posts into podcasts and short videos
Reddit is testing adapting posts and comments into videos that are read aloud by AI voices, a technique already used by content scrapers and spammers.

facebook_wall: Facebook wall posts (2009)
Friendship relationships and interactions (wall posts) for a subset of the Facebook social network in 2009, recorded over a 2 year period. Edge directed edge represents a post by one user on another user's FB wall.
This network has 46952 nodes and 876993 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Temporal, Multigraph

With a name like that, how could you possibly not manage variable, renewable and dynamic electricity prices wisely?
Brasserie du Slalom 🇫🇷 keeps its carbon footprint and energy bills low by cleverly shifting its use of electric heating and cooling
https://www.

🍺 Produire de la bière avec l'un des meilleurs bilans carbone du marché : voici comment on s'y prend à la Brasserie du Slalom. L'essentiel de notre énergie vient du renouvelable. Mais au-delà de la… | Valentin Surrel
🍺 Produire de la bière avec l'un des meilleurs bilans carbone du marché : voici comment on s'y prend à la Brasserie du Slalom. L'essentiel de notre énergie vient du renouvelable. Mais au-delà de la source, c'est quand on consomme qui change tout. Le principe est simple : la production photovoltaïque est maximale en journée. C'est donc le moment où l'énergie est la plus abondante… et la moins chère. Notre installation est pilotée pour caler nos process énergivores sur ces cr�…

And more #NoctilucentClouds over Bochum Germany tonight: see https://www.facebook.com/groups/leuchtendenachtwolken/posts/4356493544573922 for more views! This time I placed the camera on a railing and exposed for 4 seconds at ISO 400.

Reddit launches an early experiment to convert select text posts and comments into short videos with AI voiceovers, rolling out on the web, iOS, and Android (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Reddit’s AI is turning posts into podcasts and short videos
Reddit is testing adapting posts and comments into videos that are read aloud by AI voices, a technique already used by content scrapers and spammers.

Toronto mayoral candidate Bradford using Israeli app that feeds supporters AI-generated comments
Of course he does
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/21/investigations/ai-app-suggests-posts-brad-bradford-supporters

“We are not going back to the early internet. Nor should we romanticise it. The old web had plenty of sewage. What it also had was space beyond the market. A person could make something without becoming a brand. A conversation could end without a conversion. A community could exist without turning its members into marks for an investment scheme.”

The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now - Stephen Diehl
Personal blog of Stephen Diehl - Software engineer writing about technology, programming, and the future

Der Sommer ist noch nicht vorbei, der Herbst hat noch nicht begonnen. Wir sind irgendwo dazwischen. Nur eines ist sicher:
#blog

Die Unterhosentage sind vorbei. - Finest Day
Die Schatten, die die Kieselsteine am Morgen werfen, werden länger. Sie sind langgezogener, als vor ein paar Tagen um dieselbe Uhrzeit. Auf den Straßen sieht man nun mehr langbehoste und...

I’ve stopped linking to Vispero / TPGi, even replacing links in old blog posts as its leadership memory-holes good content.
Yet another reason not to writer on others’ sites, too.
Also, no idea why every link in this thread is through LinkedIn, but they all point to https://a11y-tools.com/blog/category/t

#Steady #Klimacrew
#BahnMonitor-Projekt: 7. Zufall ist nicht gleich Zufall. 🤭
Nach der Verspätungsmeldung kommt ein Wissenshäppchen. Der

Python-Projekt mit Bahn-API: 7. JSON-Wissenshäppchen: Zufall clever gemacht
So ergänzt dein Python-Bot Mastodon-Posts mit JSON-Wissenshäppchen – zufällig ausgewählt und fair rotiert.

First time I've tried to update my blog from a moving train. It doesn't work well, but what's astonishing is that it works at all.
If you don't get a 404 at this address, then I've succeeded.
https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2026-07-2…

"“Wikifier” sa discipline en une semaine : retour sur l’école d’été Š l’URFIST de Paris"
confluence.uni-muenster.de/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=410839977
"Ce billet est le 1er d’une suite de plusieurs posts Š l’occasion de la Wikimania, le rassemblement international annuel des wikimédiens et wikimédiennes du monde entier. Cette année, l’événement se déroule fin juillet Š Paris et le réseau des URFIST ainsi que l’URFIST de Paris en sont partenaires de niveau argent.…

#Jira is a corporate social network, essentially.
You can post and reply, you can mention others, add media, and even link posts. The backlog is your timeline.

"Die Rechten rasten aus, weil wir nahe dran sein könnten zu beweisen, dass eine egalitäre plurale Demokratie möglich ist. Eine optimistische Interpretation dieses Moments."
Von Thomas Zimmer, 15. Juli 2026
https://steady.page/de/demokratie-amer

Eine welthistorische Chance
Die Rechten rasten aus, weil wir nahe dran sein könnten zu beweisen, dass eine egalitäre plurale Demokratie möglich ist. Eine optimistische Interpretation dieses Moments.

#Netcup Vienna DC has a total network outage for over half an hour now and no reflection of it on the @… status page... :blobcateyes: (but dozens of posts on the netcup forum)

Es gibt vermutlich nur wenige Dinge in diesem Teil des beobachtbaren Universums, die, was die eigenen Geschmacksknospen betrifft, niederschmetternder sein können, als das Laugengebäck vom Vortag. Nahrungsmittel, an denen sich selbst der Zahn der Zeit die Zähne ausbeißt.
https://finest.day/posts/ei…

Ein 12. September, wie er im Buche steht - Finest Day
11:00 UhrDen Home-Assistant gefragt, welcher Tag und welche Uhrzeit ist. Alles beginnt mit Verwirrung. Einen verspäteten guten Morgen, Freunde der Nacht. Jetzt aber: Auf los geht’s los. Ich bin in...

"Es ist #Wirtschaftsliberalismus pur. #Deregulierung für eine reiche Minderheit, mehr Bürokratie und Kontrolle für die große Mehrheit. Dass hier mit zweierlei Maß gemessen wird, empört viele Menschen und treibt sie der AfD in die Arme. Mit sozialer Gerechtigkeit, die nötig w…

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Pre-Greek: The lost language hidden within Ancient Greek.
https://linguisticdiscovery.com/posts/pre-greek/
saved 2026-09-18 https:…

Pre-Greek: The lost language hidden within Ancient Greek
Around 1,000 Greek words can’t be traced to any Indo-European language. Where do they come from?

"Fuzzy Find Everything", this one took me longer than expected because I realized some of the scripts could be improved.
https://alecsargent.codeberg.page/posts/fuzzy-find-everything
@…

I've started posting hints / spoilers for Left Wordle every day. I use a CW when posting these, and I post them as a reply to my score post, so it's very possible to see my score without being spoiled.
This is a good time to remind everyone that I try very hard to consistently apply Hashtags to my posts - and I tend to fall on the side of over-hashtagging which allows everyone to unleash one of Mastodon's super powers: Muting a hashtag. See next post for instructions.

Am home alone this weekend so you get to have a 2nd post in my AI Harness design series.
Today we discuss the Agentic Loop: how to write one, how context snowballs quadratically, how "thank you" can cost you multiple MB of traffic, how inefficient the statless protocol is (while also unlocking major capabilities)
We plug a basic tool into the loop and overall make a functional AI assistant with the possibility of outside access in 60 lines of code.

Analysis: Anthropic may have talked itself into an export ban, as its 2026 official statements and posts used AI risk-related terms 8x more often than OpenAI (Clara Murray/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/16ace46c-aeac-40c9-8598-3c01fa4481cb

Ich teste mal @… aus, mal schauen ob das was ist
https://bizzfed.de/posts/1873677619702617073

Dave Barry posts a tribute and lament for his wife, Michelle Kaufman, who covered sports for four decades before McClatchy layoffs, and her laid-off colleagues (Dave Barry/Dave Barry's Substack)
https://davebarry.substack.com/p/michelle

Michelle
A tribute.

Judging from comments, blind people on Facebook seem by and large interested in getting a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for restoring vision https://www.facebook.com/groups/1006104764242457/posts/1600860634766864/ and

Blind Things and Stuff | Facebook

I just discovered `letterboxColor=transparent` which fixes the black background on responsive @… Stream embeds, especially for videos styled with a border radius.
I just added it to my WordPress Video Manager plugin as the default setting, which automatically sets it in the embed code when adding Stream videos to posts.

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Insider Trading as a Service.
h/t @…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c79gw4lj89eo

Trump posts a map designating the Strait of Hormuz as "new US territory" — MercoPress
https://en.mercopress.com/2026/08/18/trump-posts-a-map-designating-the-strait-of-hormuz-as-new-us-territory

„Eure Weltwunder waren für uns ein guter Ort, uns nach einem langen Flug kurz auszuruhen. Das wäre von Anfang an alles nicht nötig gewesen. Aber uns ist das völlig egal. Es war uns schon immer völlig egal. Es hätte euch auch egal sein können.“
💖 @…

41. gemeinsame Weltuntergangsverbesserung
Ich wache auf, und Politik ist ein Theater der Grausamkeit. Ich schließe mein Elternhaus ab. Und ein Mann, der ich sein könnte, wird von seinem Balkon verschlungen.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@lcamtuf/116935631209272518
I had early power supply failure on the first QRP Labs QMX ham radio transceiver I built. In learning more about this, I learned from groups.io posts Hans Summers made that lower-voltage zeners have…

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Accurate int/float colour conversions.
http://lomont.org/posts/2023/accuratecolorconversions/
saved 2026-08-18 https://

"I've been giving to people on the ground in #Gaza for more than a year now. Inevitably, the people I'm choosing to support are among the most vulnerable of those who are able to reach me...
But, realistically, the people I am supporting have little real chance of survival..."
#GazaGenocide

Helping Gaza

Wie funzt gieriger Kapitalismus in dem man dies als bezahlbare Blasen anbietet? Bitte hier, so Trump*ft man(n) an der Spitze:
«Truth Social Wie Trump seine Posts zu Geld machen will:
Das Medienunternehmen von US-Präsident Trump plant einen kostenpflichtigen Premiumzugriff zu Beiträgen auf Truth Social. Finanzfirmen sollen davon profitieren. Kritiker beklagen "Ausnutzung staatlicher Macht".»
🙄

Trump will Social-Media-Beiträge auf Truth Social zu Geld machen
Das Medienunternehmen von US-Präsident Trump plant einen kostenpflichtigen "Echtzeit-Zugriff" zu Beiträgen auf "Truth Social". Finanzfirmen sollen davon profitieren. Kritiker beklagen "Ausnutzung staatlicher Macht".

James Randall "I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now, and the Thing I Loved Has Changed" on software complexity, abstractions, AI and older vs younger developers: https://www.jamesdrandall.com/posts/the_thing_i_loved_has_changed/

I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now, and the Thing I Loved Has Changed | James Randall
I still love developing but the shifts that AI have brought are tectonic and are forcing me to re-evaluate my own relationship to building things

EuGH zu Social-Media-Posts: Auch kurze Beiträge sind urheberrechtlich geschützt
Soziale Netzwerke sind kein lizenzfreier Raum für Verlage. Der Europäische Gerichtshof stellt Klarheit beim Copyright her, stärkt aber auch das Presserecht.

EuGH zu Social-Media-Posts: Auch kurze Beiträge sind urheberrechtlich geschützt
Soziale Netzwerke sind kein lizenzfreier Raum für Verlage. Der Europäische Gerichtshof stellt Klarheit beim Copyright her, stärkt aber auch das Presserecht.

En dag kommer samväldet miertsehashem återförenas https://mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com/posts/territorial-changes/border-changes-in-history-of-poland

Border changes in history of Poland
Border changes in history of Poland

Bitte beachten:
Posts auf diesem Account werden meistens in der Schweiz 🇨🇭 verfasst, sind aber Europaweit lesbar.
Da die Schweiz nicht Teil der EU 🇪🇺 ist, werden bei :BoostOK: , :ReplyOK: und ⭐ möglicherweise Abgaben fällig, die Ihnen durch Ihren Internet-Zugangsanbieter belastet werden.
#Schweiz

Sharing this which was linked from another thread.
A very powerful critique of the master's 'AI' tools as aids (or substitutes) for the human creative process.
It's long but you get the message in the first 2 sections.
The Colonization of Confidence., Sightless Scribbles
https://

Der Notizblock auf der Abreißrolle. Ich mag elegantes, mitgedachtes, schlankes Produktdesign: #design

Another South Korean Roll Note Pad - Core77
In "Throwback Object: Telephone Memo Pad Holders," we looked at examples of the obsolete 20th-century object. And we were surprised to find that one company still makes them today, South Korean manufacturer JoplinWorks: I have no idea why tech-heavy South Korea would have an appetite for

Man this is such a enlightening read on how the Zig compiler does incremental compilation.
I will definitely keep this in mind in my next life:
https://mlugg.co.uk/posts/incremental-compilation-internals/

Inside Zig's Incremental Compilation

Why the #Zig project bans all LLM contributions – How Open Source Survives the Age of Free Code
https://lumramabaja.com/posts/engineering-sacrifice-ho…

"On Wednesday, August 26th, the US government’s executive branch sanctioned Autistici/Inventati, a small, Italian, volunteer-run activist Internet provider, for allegedly giving services to terrorist organizations
May First emphatically condemns this designation and opposes any effort by the US government to silence political speech by attacking Internet providers."

In all, 57 Trump officials are worth at least $100 million,
including 17 ambassadors
and the remaining 40 in senior posts across the executive branch.
Look no further than Trump’s Cabinet.
Eight of its 23 members fit the category,
notably Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Education Secretary Linda McMahon, both billionaires.

57 Trump appointees are worth at least $100M each, report shows
The number of people worth more than $100 million whom President Donald Trump has appointed to his administration is more than four times the combined total of the three previous presidents. That's according to a report from the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen. The Republican president is himself a billionaire and has described his inclination toward appointing the ultrawealthy as deference to financial success. In all, 57 Trump officials are worth at least $100 million, including 17 amb…

Hong Kong weather observatory posts record high temperature #HongKong

Hong Kong weather observatory posts record high temperature
Hong Kong's weather observatory posted a record high temperature of 36.9°C (98°F) on Sunday as Typhoon Dolphin swept warm air over the city, the meteorological service said.

I thought I've read that #hashtags can't be found via "follow hashtag" of posts that did not have the hashtag in its initial version. Therefore, editing a post for adding hashtags doesn't work.
This does seem to confirm: https://

Der falsche Fokus: Treffende Analyse von Nils Minkmar: Konservative kollabieren europaweit vor rechtem Druck – Republikaner, Gaullisten gespalten, die Union „rettet sich über die Runden". Sein Punkt: Wer rechte Diskurse nachplappert, macht die Radikalen nur stärker. Nur ein europäischer Schulterschluss könnte helfen. #Konservative

Der falsche Fokus
AfD rund um die Uhr/Film Die leisen und die großen Töne/Radden Keefe: Sohn des Oligarchen/Zu Tisch im Médoc Nun bin ich schon einige Tage lang wieder zurück in…

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In Python 2, node.example.com is an IPv6 address.
https://tuckersiemens.com/posts/node-example-com-is-an-ip-address/
saved 2020-12-30

node.example.com Is An IP Address
node.example.com is an IP address.

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„Über das Verstecken“ ließe sich als Homer-Simpson-mäßiges Abtauchen in die Hecke mit einer Emoji-Abfolge darstellen:
😐😶‍🌫️🫥
Oder mit einem kurzen Blog-Beitrag:
https://finest.day/posts/vermissmeinnicht

Vermissmeinnicht - Finest Day
Zwischen Autonomie und Resonanz: Das Paradox des Verstecks““Es ist kein Versteck, wenn dich niemand sucht. Allerdings kann die Grenze zwischen dem Bedürfnis nach Unsichtbarkeit und dem Wunsch, vermisst zu werden,...

Significant steps forward in enabling electric cars in Europe to feed energy back into the grid:
#V2G
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaapburger_

Major strides for vehicle-to-grid: the key amendment to the ISO 15118-20 standard, which standardises AC bidirectional charging with a clear separation of functions between the charging point and the… | Jaap Burger
Major strides for vehicle-to-grid: the key amendment to the ISO 15118-20 standard, which standardises AC bidirectional charging with a clear separation of functions between the charging point and the vehicle’s inverter, is now an officially published standard. This means there are significant additions to the version published in 2022, which – as things currently stand – must be technically supported (though not necessarily to the full extent of its functionality) by all new private and p…

Sources: Trump Media pitched a monthly fee of as much as $100K for the Truth API, with fast access to Trump's posts, for banks, algorithmic traders, and others (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

@…
That's your new post up now. Let me know if you approve it.
https://www.journeyman.cc/layan/posts-output/202…

Thyme, Heavier Than Hunger 🌿💔
In Palestine, thyme needs no introduction. It is the scent of old homes, the memory of quiet mornings, and a small piece of our land that we carry with us wherever we go. 🇵🇸

(LinkedIn) The PhD student machine is more easily kept spinning with a never-ending series of technical and biological challenges related to implants, giving an academic research incentive bias that may not favor the best approaches https://www.linkedin.com/posts/petermeijer

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stackoverflow: Stack Overflow favorites (2011)
A bipartite network of users and the posts they have favorited, from the online Q&A site Stack Overflow. An edge (i,j) connects a user i to a post j if that user "favorited" that post (a kind of a rating). Edges are timestamped.
This network has 641876 nodes and 1301942 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Timestamps

Sources: Trump Media pitched a monthly fee of as much as $100K for the Truth API, with fast access to Trump's posts, for banks, algorithmic traders, and others (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

from my link log —
Configuring Emacs for Rust development.
https://robert.kra.hn/posts/2021-02-07_rust-with-emacs/
saved 2021-02-09 https://…

Die Guten gehen zuerst. Tja, und wie Sie sehen, bin ich noch immer da.
#blog

Beschreiben Sie sich selbst - Finest Day
Es sprudelte. Sie hätten das nicht fordern sollen. Das Semikolon setzte er aus reiner Boshaftigkeit. Er schreibt: Eminenter Tastenhengst und obskurer Magnet. Chefdramaturg diverser Blogs und Journale, ambitionierter Dilettant und...

Freedom of the Press Foundation and The Intercept sue Trump after Trump Media & Technology offered a subscription service for faster access to Trump's posts (Bernard Condon/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-media

Lawsuit seeks to ban Trump Media from charging for early access to president's posts on US policy
President Donald Trump was sued in federal court to stop him from making money off early, exclusive access to his posts on U.S. policy on the own Truth Social platform. The lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges that Trump’s deal with his media firm to post first on his site violates the Constitution. The suit brought by two media groups comes after Truth Social started charging Wall Street firms as much as $100,000 a month for a new service allowing early access to the president's posts so they can…

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Layan Ayoub's (@…) latest blog post is heart rending and powerful, about the fate of the orphans of the #GazaGenocide .
The suffering of so many children is the most heartbreaking part of this whole evil crime.

The Only Survivor 🕊️
There are around 500 people in our camp. And among them are 500 children.

RE: https://mastodon.art/@PGExplaining/117127760205421225
https://finest.day/pos…

Freedom of the Press Foundation and The Intercept sue Trump after Trump Media & Technology offered a subscription service for faster access to Trump's posts (Bernard Condon/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-media

Lawsuit seeks to ban Trump Media from charging for early access to president's posts on US policy
President Donald Trump was sued in federal court to stop him from making money off early, exclusive access to his posts on U.S. policy on the own Truth Social platform. The lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges that Trump’s deal with his media firm to post first on his site violates the Constitution. The suit brought by two media groups comes after Truth Social started charging Wall Street firms as much as $100,000 a month for a new service allowing early access to the president's posts so they can…

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Postgres development activity historical statistics and trends.
https://vondra.me/posts/postgres-development-activity/
saved 2026-09-15

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An analysis of 1M social media posts from April 24 to June 30: ~25% of longform posts with 250 words were fully AI-generated; on LinkedIn, the figure was 41% (Max Spero/Pangram Labs)
https://www.pangram.com/blog/ai-in-your-feed

AI Content Is Everywhere on Social Media, Especially LinkedIn | Pangram Labs
We scanned over 1 million social media posts for AI content. It turned up on every platform we checked, and 1 in 3 top LinkedIn posts flagged as AI-generated.

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Manchmal frage ich mich, ob es einen Zusammenhang gibt, zwischen den knarzenden Dielen, der insgesamt verrücktmachenden Schräge der Böden der Wohnung in diesem alten Haus, und der Haltung und dem Gefühl der Menschen, die darin leben.
https://finest.day/posts/ein-14-septem

Ein 14. September, wie er im Buche steht - Finest Day
Raus aus der Abgeschiedenheitsdiaspora und rein in den Trubelstrudel. Wünscht mir Glück. Rausgehen und sich zeigen, wirklich zeigen und nicht bloß zur Schau stellen; alles versuchen und nicht verzagen. Verzagen...

Here's @… with an extraordinary story of honesty and community solidarity from within #Gaza

🍎 The Children Ran Toward the Fruit… But What Happened Next Left Me Speechless. 💔
In one of Gaza's neighborhoods, a street vendor's cart lost its balance, and fruit spilled across the road. 🍎

Baidu reports Q2 revenue down 2% YoY to ~$4.62B, below ~$4.69B est. and its fifth straight quarterly decline, and net income of ~$341M, as it lags AI rivals (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-18/baidu-post…

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The rise and fall of commercial Smalltalk.
http://www.wirfs-brock.com/allen/posts/914
saved 2020-06-03 https://dotat.at/:/…

The Rise and Fall of Commercial Smalltalk
Relics Gilad Bracha recently posted an article "Bits of History, Words of Advice" that talks about the incredible influence of Smalltalk but bemoans the fact that: ...today Smalltalk is relegated to a small niche of true believers.  Whenever two or more Smalltalkers gather over d

Manchmal darf man auch einfach nur mal anerkennen, wie weit man schon gekommen ist und was man eigentlich alles bereits geschafft hat.
#blog

Wir nennen es Arbeit. - Finest Day
Donnerstag, 13.08.2026 Der Tag beginnt, wie Tage eben manchmal beginnen, mit unkämmbaren Gedanken, Kaffee und einem Absturzbericht. Die Absicht unseres Systems an diesem Morgen war vermutlich wohlwollend gemeint: “Möchten Sie...

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Async Rust: futures, tasks, wakers; oh my!
https://msarmi9.github.io/posts/async-rust/
saved 2021-06-22 https://d…

Nikita Bier says X made a "tweak to boost visibility of your posts to your mutuals", or those who users follow back, to avoid replies becoming a "battleground" (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/x-ju

X just tweaked its algorithm to make it more friendly, less battleground | TechCrunch
The social media site says it will amplify posts made by users' mutual followers' to give the feed more of a communal feel.

Wenn einem der Versuch, Momente mit Worten zu fermentieren, die gleiche Fürsorge spüren lässt, wie sie von gepflegten, treuen Arbeitsgeräten ausgeht. Ein Text über das und über andere Dinge.
https://finest.day/posts/fleissigkeitsglanz

Fleißigkeitsglanz - Finest Day
Es ist noch zu früh, um sicher zu sein, was dieser Tag möchte. Die Antwort auf die Frage nach systemstabilisierenden Prozessen in “Küche sauber machen, Bad sauber machen” gefunden, wenigstens...

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The fastest double-to-string algorithm you’ve never heard of.
https://vitaut.net/posts/2026/yy-dtoa/
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Eine Sache abschreiben oder sich an einer Sache abschreiben?
https://finest.day/posts/lichtung-im-kopf-schreiben-als-psychohygiene

Trump Media reports a Q2 net loss of $238.1M, vs. a net loss of $20M in Q2 2025, and says 10 clients are paying up to $100K per month for its Truth API (Steve Kopack/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/corporati

Trump Media doubles down on selling faster access to the president’s Truth Social posts
The company’s interim CEO said more than 10 customer agreements have already been signed for the Truth Social service that launched this month.

#Gaza is a hot, arid place, Scotland a cool damp one. There aren't that many commonalities between them. But here, too, we pick, and sing about, the wild mountain thyme. Fortunately for us, we have other things to eat with it.
I've seen several people from Gaza lately commenting the wild thyme is the last thing they have left to add savour to their food. Here @…

Thyme, Heavier Than Hunger 🌿💔
In Palestine, thyme needs no introduction. It is the scent of old homes, the memory of quiet mornings, and a small piece of our land that we carry with us wherever we go. 🇵🇸

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Why shrunk JPEGs look different in Firefox and Chrome.
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Das war ein Tag.
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Wir tun, was wir können. - Finest Day
Heute den ganzen Tag nur drinnen gewesen, während draußen die späte Hochsommersonne das letzte übrig gebliebene Grün verbrannt hat. Denke an das Wort Ocker, ohne das man “Lockermachen für die...

Anderes Drehmoment, andere Tageszeit. Das Rauschen des Berufsverkehrs schwillt ab, Welthintergrundgeräusche treten langsam wieder zum Vorschein, die immerzu da waren, sich aber erst jetzt behutsam herausschälen, vorsichtig prüfend, ob die Luft rein ist. Später aber so …
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Anderes Drehmoment, andere Tageszeit... - Finest Day
Anderes Drehmoment, andere Tageszeit. Das Rauschen des Berufsverkehrs schwillt ab, Welthintergrundgeräusche treten langsam wieder zum Vorschein, die immerzu da waren, sich aber erst jetzt behutsam herausschälen, vorsichtig prüfend, ob die...

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Bitap: my favorite string matching algorithm.
https://jo3-l.dev/posts/bitap/
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Processing 40 TB of code from ~10 million project with scc.
https://boyter.org/posts/an-informal-survey-of-10-million-github-bitbucket-gitlab-projects/
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If you find yourself struggling with this question, it’s probably because of the frames you unconsciously use as a yardstick. So let’s give them a little nudge. 🌱
https://finest.day/posts/what-is-one-thing-youre-good-at-without-even-realizing-it

What is one thing you’re good at without even realizing it? 💭 - Finest Day
I know this question creates a challenge for some of us: a blind spot in our self-perception. How can I know what I’m good at without realizing it? And why...

Danke für den Gefühlespresso, @z428. 🌻
https://finest.day/posts/die-statusmeldungen-der-anderen

Die Statusmeldungen der anderen - Finest Day
Kristian, aka z428, veröffentlicht eine schädeldeckensprengende Anzahl schöner Statusmeldungen auf seinem Blog, auf Bluesky und auf Mastodon. Sie laden mich immer wieder ein, mich gedanklich mitreißen zu lassen. Wie diese...

Ich bin überzeugt, dass man ruhig häufiger ganz gezielt dumme Dinge tun sollte, natürlich alles in Maßen, damit man die guten Dinge, die man tut, besser wertzuschätzen weiß.
https://finest.day/posts/fragwurdige-fastfood-taktiken

Fragwürdige Fastfood-Taktiken - Finest Day
Gestern Abend, da war es eigentlich schon Nacht, hatte ich das starke Bedürfnis, fraufini länger und mit mehr mentalen Kapazitäten auf eine ausgesprochen nette Nachricht von ihr zu antworten, aber...