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BREAKING: Michel Friedman fordert ein Verbot der rechtsextremen AfD. Und er spricht über die Notwendigkeit der völligen Abschottung vom Faschismus: Weil die Demokratie durch jede Berührung mit ihm stirbt!

My opinion of #Apple starts to enter negative territory. The 2nd replacement motherboard is also defective. Now the laptop needs to be shipped to Apple. After 2 weeks of not having my main machine, what is another 10 days of waiting. WTF.

You would think it is 2025 and cancelling internet service should not take 17 minutes on the phone (only option). Sigh.

After 13 days in the repair shop I may get my #Apple #Macbook Pro back tomorrow. I think after the failed screen and failed motherboard, the housing will be the only original part left 🤡. What a pain!

In nur 5 Jahren hat China den Automobilmarkt übernommen und ist uns parallel beim E-Auto davon gerast. Dass Kanzler Merz allen ernstes davon spricht, dass wir 2035 noch "hocheffiziente Verbrenner" verkaufen, macht es noch verrückter.

BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university Full statement from NU below:

While I am still waiting for my #MacBook Pro's motherboard to be replaced (coding on Windows right now 😳), I have been watching a few videos on www.youtube.com/@lapfix on how they recover data from macs. Quite unnerving. Anyone developing software using @frame.work laptops? Any complaints?

A little bit of irony when Geeksoutfit is incapable of stuffing a T-shirt into a USPS envelope bound to #Hawaii 🥁🥁 "due to policy issues". Global company but Hawaii is too remote? ☠️. #enshittification

Elon Musk's poison hall of mirrors from @cwarzel.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

After some minor #Java imports-renaming-bingo, I finally updated my app to #SpringBoot 4 🎉. Some minor issues around Jackson 3 & Hibernate 7. Happy that it was fairly straight-forward!

Planted a Kepel tree seedling (Stelechocarpus burahol). 1 out of 5 seeds had germinated (Took almost a year). Got the seeds in July 2024. A truly spectacular tree (from SE Asia, Malesia). The flowers and fruits are directly on the trunk (cauliflory) and the fruit is edible.

I'm seeing claims that progress was made at #COP30, but it really wasn't. Each passing year with no fossil fuel phaseout comes at great opportunity cost as we further burn through the vanishing carbon budget that remains for averting dangerous warming. See my commentary: michaelmann.net/bad-cop/

Republican Senator Mike Rounds: "Rubio did make a phone call to us this afternoon and he made it very clear to us that we are the recipients of a proposal that was delivered to one of our representatives. It is not our recommendation, it is not our peace plan.”

You don’t actually learn things from ChatGPT et al in the same way you do through reading and thinking. Parents, you must absolutely stress this to your kids or they will be disadvantaged intellectually. #ai #llm #chatgpt futurism.com/artificial-i...

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references. Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

Jmail: Gmail Clone with Epstein's Emails https://jmail.world/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46004118)

Exciting News 🎉 Spring Boot 4.0.0 is here: spring.io/blog/2025/11...

Spring Boot 4.0.0 is available now!! spring.io/blog/2025/11...

The wonderful people at the NZ Science Learning Hub have turned my talk on MythBusting de-extinction to sort fact from fiction into a freely available educational resource. You can check it out here www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/my...

This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.

A wise review by Holly Case of an excellent book by Iryna Vushko. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The ultimate #Apple #Enshittification - The screen on my M3 MacBook Pro failed 2 weeks ago and got replaced. Today seemingly the macOS Tahoe upgrade fried my motherboard 🎉 and thanks to all the "glue", data from failed Macs is unrecoverable 💀. WTF. Time to look at non-Apple options.

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Just attended the 2h #Hawaii DOT Priority Multimodal Network Webinar. I think we all need to get more involved with local government issues, maybe even get elected sometime. Often quite boring - but without "us", the people, #democracy dies.

Why is South Park is covering tech politics better than every major US newpaper, magazine and cable news network combined?

After a year of work, we are happy to share that Spring Framework 7.0 GA is now available! spring.io/blog/2025/11... Time to celebrate, get a bit of rest and help the team to prepare Spring Boot 4.0 GA release planned November 20th 😊 #spring #java

Watched the excellent #AlGore #COP30 🇧🇷 presentation + panel on #AI #MachineLearning #OpenSource data in the fight against #ClimateChange + tools like #carbonmapper & @climatetrace.org (Impressive data visualizations!!) @cop30brazil.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOtq...

Have been doing some field work lately, recording the #GNSS (GPS) coordinates of my palm collection + bug fixing my app at the same time. A huge shout-out to #Kamal 2. Every code-change == new deployment. Simple + rock solid. IMO the best tool to deploy #Java ( #Spring) web apps to #VPS / bare-metal

Hi everyone! An ongoing reorganization at my current employer has prompted me to seek for a new role and would appreciate your support. I'm open to remote (anywhere) and hybrid roles in Switzerland. I have 25+ years experience as a software developer, 8 as devrel www.linkedin.com/posts/aalmir...

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

🚀Excited to share Spring AI 1.1.0-RC1 is available now. This includes OpenAI reasoning support, MongoDB chat memory, Ollama “thinking” mode, event-driven caching updates for MCP tools, bug fixes and other enhancements. Try it out as we get closer to GA -> spring.io/blog/2025/11...

If you work in #technology, add Cory Doctorow's #Enshittification to your list of books to read/listen to. The audio book version is excellent 👍. Having been part of this industry since the 1990s it is depressing, though.

How often do you think about the Roman Empire? For a team of international researchers who went all in and mapped the ancient Roman road system, the answer — truly — is every day. https://cnn.it/4oxtc0o

🎉 Spring Framework 7 brings retry capabilities INTO core! No more external spring-retry dependency needed! Reach for the RetryTemplate When you need MORE control than Retryable can give you 💪

Critics of renewables often point to land use as a reason not to do wind & solar. Land use IS a real issue for all energy assets incl renewables unless onsite. But what critics conveniently forget is huge land impact of fossil fuels. Aerial view of fracking sites in Texas. 👇

I just recorded a short video--essentially an updated version of my social media threads--on the Bill Gates climate memo. Despite agreeing with some points therein, I still think its framing is fundamentally flawed and thus also its key conclusions.

Hey @civilbeat.bsky.social did you ever do a story on the old #Kona landfill less than a mile directly makai from #Kealakehe high school on the #BigIsland of #Hawaii? While jogging frequently along Ane Keohokalole Hwy, the smell from the closed landfill can be quite nauseating.

A new feature dropped on start.spring.io! Because you all love YAML so much, we've added radio buttons to switch the configuration format from properties to YAML. Hope you brought a ruler and don't live in Norway!

After upgrading to #Apple macOS #Tahoe, I am having a hard time getting used to the refreshed app switcher. Maybe I am getting old but the contrast on the selected app and the label alignment are really poor IMO. Did they RIF #UX folks?

A new flush of colorful leaves by Theobroma grandiflorum, commonly known as cupuaçu. It is a #cacao relative, native to the Amazon (Brazil 🇧🇷). Growing in #Holualoa #Hawaii.

A man sits before a pit of the dead. Nazi soldiers surround him—one aims a gun at his head. For decades, no one knew who they were or where this photo was taken. Now, new digital tools and help from our community may finally reveal the truth behind this haunting Holocaust image🧵

Bill Gates sure picked an interesting day to downplay the threat of climate change

Introducing JUnit 6.0.0: a transformative update that unifies versions, elevates minimum requirements to Java 17, and introduces streamlined support for Kotlin suspend tests. Enjoy enhanced testing performance with the new CancellationToken API, built-in JFR listeners and many more—migrate today!

Es gab also zumindest eine breite Akzeptanz der Deportationen in der damaligen deutschen Gesellschaft – sie gehör(t)en also zur deutschen Leitkultur. — Neue Deportationsfotos entdeckt: Ein neuer Beweis – es geschah vor allen Augen. taz.de/Neue-Deporta...

Border patrol agents deployed tear gas on the 3700 block of North Kildare where residents say a landscape worker, a resident, and a woman on a bike were detained. Video from a resident.

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📢 A neat little #java tool: 𝗝𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘁 To create quick interactive app frontends! It's like #streamlit, #gradio, or #mesop but for #java developers. I built a small #NanoBanana image playground app to experiment with #Javelit: glaforge.dev/posts/2025/1...

Is anyone still using #Apache Commons #FileUpload 's ProgressListener? Felt nostalgic & migrated (call it POC) the old (currently removed in #Spring 6+) CommonsMultipartResolver to #Jakarta (FileUpload2 is close to final). Had forgotten about the "CSRF token fun" but got it to work. #Java