"It could be that Apple has configured the power-saving mode too aggressively in an effort to maximize battery life." Very tentative of course, but matches my pet peeve: many smartphones have batteries that are way too small. Having to recharge daily is actually ridiculous.

Autumn ☀️🍂

"Still, telework has clear benefits. For the employer, it can save office space [...]. From the worker, it creates more hours for life or desk work. It reduces travel costs. It has external benefits, like less traffic and quicker travel for commuters." Published 14 (!) years ago.

Good reminder that there are some amazingly big and complex Earth science missions in orbit. They should get more public attention (in my opinion). 🧪🔭🛰️🌍

I like this development very much. Also, if Germany, with its fractured public administration, can do it, your country can do it, too. 🧪🤖

Germany Blocks EU Chat Control Proposal, Noting That Mass Surveillance Of Encrypted Messages Must Not Be Allowed Just days after we wrote about the EU's renewed push for chat control, Germany has delivered a very important "no" vote. During discussions with EU countries last Wednesday, Germany's…

ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) spacecraft is ready to aim its instruments at interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS! 🪐☄️ Here’s what’s happening and why it’s such a rare opportunity 🧵

😏 #ForReasons #AmazonOutage

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why you should (1) back up your data and servers, and (2) keep local copies of everything important. 🤖

#Sunset #추석 #Chuseok

Great reminder that small / medium class missions are affordable for states / provinces / regions / prefectures in principle. 🧪🛰️🚀

The real question should be why those docs were distributed on paper, not as encrypted files through a secured network. I mean, it's 2025 ...

Happy 추석 / Chuseok / Harvest Moon Festival! 🌕

As a happy long-term Linux user it always amazes me how many people seem to be just fine with Microsoft forcing access to their computers.

Indeed, there are lots of Zoom featured many (including me) have never heard of. What disturbs me most is how few people are aware of / use Zoom's end-to-end encryption. Holding committee meetings discussing money, exams, tenure reviews etc. without basic security is a bold choice.

Gentle reminder: if you have my phone number / messenger ID and something urgent comes up, just call me (secure VoIP preferred). Sending multiple identical emails per day is not helping. 📱

🇩🇪 🇰🇷 🤝 October 3 #TagDerEinheit #개천절

Please tell me you are kidding.

ESA 🤝 KASA We have announced with the Korea AeroSpace Administration (KASA) that we will work together on peaceful uses of space, starting with space weather monitoring and sharing space communications facilities. 🔗 esa.int/About_Us/Cor...

Working from home works for everyone 🧪 #Zoom

Emeritus-hoogleraar moleculaire astrofysica Ewine van Dishoeck is benoemd tot Citation Laureate door Clarivate, een bedrijf dat onderzoeksdata analyseert. Daarmee beschouwt Clarivate haar als invloedrijke wetenschapper met het kaliber om een Nobelprijs te winnen.

The most puzzling fact is that – apparently – there is no physically separate backup server farm. Such kind of incident was bound to happen.

The operations of 647 government systems remain completely halted after a fire at the National Information Resources Service in Daejeon on Friday evening, with full recovery expected to take considerable time, officials said Saturday. #korea buff.ly/FjWtXud

Red Storm Bravo Rising.

I am an astronomer and I approve this message 🔭☀️

Nice result by Farhad Yusef-Zadeh et al. Although "surprising" is a strong word, given that we have known most of this (flares vs. quiescent state, flares every few hours, orbiting hotspot) for about 20 years. 🧪🔭 #astrosci

"... large language models will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering ..." 🧪🤖 #AI

Provisions the authors of the German constitution of 1949 included for reasons. Today: freedom of the arts and the sciences.

Just spent some time digging through old Maxar/DigitalGlobe blogs to find a reference image and found this incredible capture of Mt Fuji. Incredible. The satellite was only three degrees above the horizon when it captured this image. blog.maxar.com/earth-intell...

After the storm. ⛅️

Not only by dog standards. Else than some humans I happen to know, he at least knows how to organize a manuscript. 😏

More than a year's worth of investigation into the very Russian life of ex-Wirecard COO, and wannabe Russian super-spy Jan Marsalek: in English: theins.ru/en/inv/284980

Erfolglos fahnden deutsche Polizisten seit Jahren nach dem mutmaßlichen Wirecard-Milliardenbetrüger und Agenten Jan Marsalek. Jetzt hat ein Rechercheteam um den SPIEGEL ihn in Moskau enttarnt.

Groundbreaking new image! The EHT reveals the dynamic environment around black hole M87*. The 2021 image shows a distinct shift in polarization patterns, tracing changes in magnetic fields near the event horizon. eventhorizontelescope.org/new-eht-imag...

Check out our new results on the M87* #blackhole w/ @ehtelescope.bsky.social ! We now have 3 frames in a 4yr "movie", including polarisation ⇔ magnetic fields. It's like tracking extreme sunspots just outside a black hole, the brightness and fields flip, yet the shape stays the same bc...gravity!

Yes. #Linux

Well, I have experienced quite a few NFRs myself ...

Today I learned, from an H. P. Lovecraft story of all places, that the word "Eskimo" was originally (also) spelled the French way. ❄️

If I get this right, in August the market share of – #Windows10 increased – #Windows11 decreased 🤔 Maybe everybody should switch to #Linux already.

"... evidence is piling up that AI is failing to deliver in the real world. The tech giants pouring the most money into AI are nowhere close to recouping their investments. Research suggests that the companies trying to incorporate AI have seen virtually no impact on their bottom line." 🧪🤖

보안 키보드, 보안을 해치고 있습니다 1. 한국 인터넷의 흔한 풍경, 보안 키보드 은행이나 공공기관 사이트에서 로그인하려고 하면 어김없이 등장하는 것이 바로 보안 키보드입니다. 키로깅을 막는다는 명목으로 화면에 뜨는 가상 키패드죠. 사용자는 마우스나 터치로 일일이 클릭해 아이디와 비밀번호를 입력해야 합니다. 표면적으로는 안전을 위한 장치처럼 보이지만, 실제로는 시대에 뒤떨어진 낡은 보안 방식에 불과합니다. 2. 불편만 크고 보안 효과는 미미합니다 현대 브라우저와 운영체제는 이미 키로깅 방어 기능을 상당 부분 갖추고 있습니다.

Gentle reminder: "getting hacked" sometimes means you forgot to lock the door to begin with. Also, shooting the messenger is always a terrible idea. 🧪🤖

The Path

It's paper day! 🧪🔭 Our latest paper investigates galaxy merger rates and their environmental dependence at z<0.2 using high-resolution Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) data. ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025arXi...

한국의 eSIM 정책 문제점 분석 서론 해외에서는 새 기기를 켜고 액티베이션 마법사만 따라가면 eSIM이 자동으로 이전되는 경험이 보편화되어 있습니다. 반면 한국은 여전히 IMEI/EID 전산 등록과 재다운로드 수수료(2,750원)가 당연한 절차로 남아 있습니다. 저는 이 구조가 보안 명분을 앞세운 과도한 통제이며, 결과적으로 소비자에게 비용과 불편을 전가한다고 판단합니다. 1) 자동 이전이 ‘가능한 기술’인데, 왜 한국에서는 막혀 있습니까 애플은 공식 문서에서 eSIM Quick Transfer/Carrier…

#Summer ☀️

#Merdeka 🇲🇾

Sabbatical year is over 🫩

Was ſagt ſie uns für Unſinn vor? Es wird mir gleich der Kopf zerbrechen. Mich dünkt, ich hör’ ein ganzes Chor Von hundert tauſend Narren ſprechen. What nonsense is she telling us? My head is about to blow. I think I hear a whole choir of a hundred thousand fools speaking. — Goethe

Regular reminder: renewable energy, generated at scale, is cheap beyond compare. 🧪☀️