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Amazon trainiert angeblich humanoide Roboter für die Paketzustellung
Künftig könnten Roboter Pakete vom Lieferwagen zur Haustür bringen. Dafür entwickelt Amazon wohl derzeit die passende KI-Software. Tests sollen bald beginnen.

O'Reilly: GenAI has adopted a colonialist business model.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/timo3_proud-of-the-cloudflare-team-working-to-build-activity-7345899260506271745-mlHS

If you want to understand why O'Reilly is a supporter of this announcement, and want to ask both me and Matthew Prince about it, join our July 14 conversation on Live with Tim O'Reilly. | Tim O'Reilly
If you want to understand why O'Reilly is a supporter of this announcement, and want to ask both me and Matthew Prince about it, join our July 14 conversation on Live with Tim O'Reilly. AI has adopted colonialism as its business model: Extract resources from others and use it to enrich yourself and your customers at the expense of those whose resources you have taken, without giving much back. It's high time we started developing new mechanisms to enable content monetization for creators, not …

#PostDoc position in #GIScience at @…
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NEWS - Universität Salzburg
News and current events Z_GIS is active on various social media channels. Keep an eye on them to get important and interesting news about research, teaching and events Visit our social media: News 04.07.2025 - PostDoc opening at Z_GIS The Department of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS is seeking to fill the position of research and

Updating my CloudNativePG Clusters to postgresql:17.5 broke wal archiving to my Ceph S3 Object Store. Here's a new blog post describing the fix:
https://www.beyondwatts.com/posts/debugging-barman-xamzcontents…

beyondwatts | Debugging Barman XAmzContentSHA256Mismatch error after upgrading to postgresql:17.5
In an effort to keep my home cluster up to date, I upgraded CloudNativePG to v1.26 and the associated database clusters to cloudnative-pg/postgresql:17.5. All seemed ok with the upgrade until a couple of days later when the cluster primary instance PVCs started to run out of space. wal archiving had stopped working with the error message:

Async Rust: When to Use It and When to Avoid It
“Asynchronous” (often abbreviated as “async”) is a widely used term in computer science, but its meaning varies depending on the context. […]
🦀 https://fmoya.dev/posts/async-rust/

Freitag: Dr. House als Thema für Arztlehre, Amazon-Roboter für Paketzustellung
TV-Serie als Studieninhalt Paketlieferungen automatisiert EU-Satellitenprojekt mit Telekom Österreichs später Kupferausstieg Verbraucherschutz-Podcast

from my link log —
Displaying Korean text efficiently.
https://oberg.org/posts/hangul/
saved 2025-03-15 https://dotat.at/:/WF7T1.h…

Volle Fahrt voraus im Rückwärtsgang!
[Full speed ahead in reverse gear!]
What this TV report opens with seems to be a new motto for the German automotive industry.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaapburger_

MDR SACHSEN-ANHALT HEUTE: Rückwärts-Weltrekord: Die Fahrt ging noch weiter… | Jaap Burger
Volle Fahrt voraus im Rückwärtsgang! [Full speed ahead in reverse gear!] What this TV report opens with seems to be a new motto for the German automotive industry. This week, a German manufacturer set a new world record for reversing in an electric truck. The German automotive industry as a whole is also attempting to reverse in electric mode: it has presented a 10-point plan to postpone, water down, weaken, undermine, regret, delay, reduce, replace, backtrack on and ridicule European CO2 re…

South Africa to ban highly toxic pesticide Terbufos https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/07/south-africa-to-ban-highly-toxic-pesticide-terbufos/

South Africa to ban highly toxic pesticide Terbufos
In a decision welcomed by advocacy groups and researchers, South Africa’s Cabinet has approved a ban on the import of Terbufos, a highly toxic pesticide linked to the deaths of six children in a South African township in October 2024. On June 12, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, Minister of Presidency, said the ban will be accompanied by […]

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Three cases against IF NOT EXISTS / IF EXISTS in PostgreSQL DDL.
https://postgres.ai/blog/20211103-three-cases-against-if-not-exists-and-if-exists-in-postgresql-ddl
saved 2021-11-12

Three Cases Against IF NOT EXISTS / IF EXISTS in Postgres DDL | Postgres AI

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Many DDL statements in PostgreSQL support modified IF EXISTS / IF NOT EXISTS. For example:

 test=# create table if not exists mytable(); CREATE TABLE test=# drop table if exists mytable; DROP TABLE 

I recommend using `IF EXISTS` / `IF NOT EXISTS`…