"Your review should be factual and evidence-based. Oh, and you have [only] 75 words per section.” ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

Bevor ich das Tab hier zu mache -- kann da jmd vielleicht ein Teufelchen die Flagge schwenken lassen? #runbsd

Software engineering is the invisible infrastructure of the digital age. Every breakthrough in artificial intelligence, quantum computing, photonics, and cybersecurity relies on advances in software engineering, yet the field is too often treated as a supportive component rather than as an […]

Gotta prepare a new lecture covering Jetpack Compose with Kotlin. Wherein we have (PL) opinions! Second biggest challenge in Computer Science? Error messages! #programminglanguages

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fm_volker/115939549550095816 Jetzt frage ich mich: wieviele TLS-Sessions kann man mit 2xAA Batterien über Wifi auf einem ESP32 aufbauen, bis der Strom alle ist? Nerdsniped, dangit […]

‼️ Die GEW weitet die Warnstreiks aus! In vielen Städten seid ihr bereits auf die Straße gezogen und habt ordentlich Druck auf die Arbeitgeber gemacht.📣📣📣 #ProfisbrauchenMEHR #Tarifrunde2026 #TVL #Warnstreik #GEW #BildungIstZukunft #BildungStattSparen

Imagine telling someone in 1950 that train travel across Europe will one day be the expensive alternative chosen by well-off people with environmentalist opinions, while unskilled workers will only be able to afford air tickets, and arrive in a fraction of the time. #trains #Climate

Naming things, one of the hardest things in software engineering… Source: https://developer.android.com/guide/navigation/principles#up_and_back_are_identical_within_your_apps_task

Prøver å undersøke hvilke norske politikere som fremdeles bruker X. Ikke sjekket mange ennå, men av de jeg har sett på er det foreløpig bare Mímir Kristjánsson og Jens Stoltenberg som fremdeles er aktive. Andre jeg har sjekket: Erna Solberg Anniken Huitfeldt KE Kaski Simen Bondevik JC Vestre […]

Ylvis are pulling out of the Eurovision Song Contest «We made it clear to NRK early in the process that we did not want to stand on the same stage as Israel as long as the war crimes and violations of international law continued.» 🦊 🫡

TF?! I don't buy this number/curve. I don't think I've ever seen it this high here in Bergen. Of course it’s cloudy (yesterday was okay). #aurora #bergen

Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots How I managed to give an exam while giving the students the choice to use a chatbot or not. And what I learned in the process. https://ploum.net/2026-01-19-exam-with-chatbots.html

Borealis Festival for experimental music in Bergen, ~11.3.-15.3. Interesting events on the program! https://www.borealisfestival.no/en/festival-2026-en/programme-2026/ #borealisfestival #bergen

#nordlys over #Bergen no. Lettare å sjå med telefonkamera enn auger, men det er der. #auroraborealis

Log-surfing part 2: what was the easiest way to aggregate this #nephentes output by IP-ranges? Don’t feel like scripting today…Also I should probably eventually update… @algernon

The 00s called and want their open relays back…(this is unfiltered back-to-back mail-log) #ryoms

Time to look for a new electricity provider (12 months almost up). Had to write to hipster-company that their hipster-ToS were inconsistent. Even if my email doesn’t end up in their spam folder and they publish correct ToS, I’d still be a teensy bit reluctant to sign up with them… on the other […]

In the name of fighting #crime and #terrorism, EU law already requires mandatory #police surveillance of international air travel. EU governments are now considering #surveillance of all other modes of transport, in particular maritime travel. Via @statewatch. Give them a follow if you'd like […]

Moved the sensor on the water tank. Now I have a better grasp on the actual water temperature, but I can no longer track consumption ;-) I guess I’ll just throw in the 2nd temp sensor (they’re designed to be connected in parallel anyway) and grab the other temperature as before…

Freezer blasts out heat in the hope that the water heater can use it, water heater blasts out cold so the freezer doesn't have to work so hard, separated by a sparse handful of metres but they can't move, only send each other love letters and indirect acts of care and service, while their […]

Wir haben eine Kapitalkrise, seit fast 20 Jahren schon. Das heißt, die Besitzenden, die durch Einnahmen aus Investitionen Geld verdienen wollen, können das nicht mehr. Sie sitzen auf Bergen von Geld, und nehmen auch Berge von Geld ein, aber es wird halt nicht Mehr vom Mehr, sondern es ist nur […]

Gericht verpflichtet Sparkasse Göttingen zur Fortführung des Kontos der Roten Hilfe https://rote-hilfe.de/meldungen/gericht-verpflichtet-sparkasse-goettingen-zur-fortfuehrung-des-kontos-der-roten-hilfe > Die Rote Hilfe e. V. hat im Eilverfahren vor dem Landgericht Göttingen einen wichtigen […]

Ugh, didn't expect Friday afternoon to become hot-potato-time and get this throbbing thermonuclear issue dropped in my lap. Nothing to be done over the weekend, but it means the next two weeks until potato-deadline will be a bit more busy than anticipated. So probably something else needs to be […]

This gem on #NRK with Prof. Janne Haaland Matlary (U. Oslo) is already from Wednesday (I happened to zap into it live); I’m wondering what she’s got to say today… I guess I don’t need to translate the first caption for you, the words are easy to recognise […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fm_volker/115690663448711168 Hope your strategic (pathetic?) 🍿-supplies are well-stocked… #nobelpeaceprize

@bagder Funny coincidence, I played with those two earlier today: $ ( strace echo "1234") | /bin/true and $ ( strace echo "1234") | : With props to the git test suite which actually spells it … ((do something .. | :) …

I'm helping an elderly person with a patient portal, and wow, there are about 4 different problems ranging from unclear instructions to pages that don't work well when the phone is zoomed in enough for an older person to actually read the text. Plus, the iPhone keeps popping up unhelpful gunk […]

One year ago today I published version 1.0 of Nepenthes, my anti-webcrawler tarpit. To mark the occasion, here's version 2.5: https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes This version includes the ability to use 302 redirects to be even more annoying while using less of your bandwidth and CPU. There's […]

Just been told that the German government plans to introduce legislation to change the Second Law of Thermodynamics, citing the need to dismantle regulatory barriers to the creation of highly efficient combustion engines. #physics #Germany #humor

Kudos to the UPenn faculty and administration for pushing back. Also, seriously? Demanding that universities complile and hand over to the government lists of Jews on the payroll, to “protect“ Jews? No historical precedent for anything like THAT being used for nefarious purposes, no way… […]

RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/115832534415373032 keeping up to date with "AI" skills is extremely easy actually, the most sophisticated setup i've seen is just a bunch of markdown files begging the necrotic grooves left in the statistical skin of language to pretend like they are different […]

The Mgt. was not amused, and we were not allowed to have Dilbert strips on the wall during customer visits, "It would look Unprofessional." Being from the .eu service org, we didn't feel that applied to us, we left him up, and the .eu customer discovered Dilbert. Later we learned the cartoonist […]

I'm always amazed how my ... waves hands … professoring around in software engineering eventually ends in something where I need to do some dlopen() or LD_PRELOAD.

Weird how payment processors haven't cut Twitter off yet. It's almost as if there are multiple standards

#wep kündigt schlappe 28% Preiserhöhung bei der Fernwärme an (#Hückelhoven)…

Hybrid is going swell for teaching, had two arrangements back-to-back in two different rooms, both failed in individual ways. Ended up running the lectures through my laptop’s headset instead of in-room-equipment. Seems IT is having a !FUN! start into the semester. I hear that the issues in […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@iFixit/115881176706138985 Herzlichen Glückwunsch an #bosch für die Koppelung von #ebike Motor und Akku. Dadurch kann künftig kein Ersatzteil mehr verwendet werden, dass nicht von Bosch abgesegnet wird, sagt @pluralistic. Eine Garantie für mehr Profit. Ob das mit dem […]

Anyone been at #popl2026 on the weekend? How did their cost-model of 300+ EUR/day work out? Heard from my transitive closure that folks were going for a 1-day registration of their 2-day workshop…

In related news, if you’re doing things with dlopen() in a containerized VSCode you’re in for some non-determinism. My test-cases only became deterministic after nicely disposing everything. You’d have though that they’d be run in a fresh, isolated process each time… #vscode

I did not expect that in C#’s File.WriteAllText, “If the target file already exists, it is truncated and overwritten.” includes stomping over files that have -w! (And since it’s in container I can’t chattr +i easily…) […]

Apparently, there is one person who co-authored 37 papers for #chi2026 😑 This is rather ridiculous, what sort of contribution per paper can you expect here? Probably time for a cap on how many papers you can be author on. /cc @sigchi […] [Original post on hci.social]

23.12. “Hallo, da chipTAN ab 1.1. ja nicht mehr geht, würde ich gerne auf pushTAN umstellen. Bitte Aktivierungsbrief an meine deutsche Adresse schicken wg. der langen Postlaufzeiten nach Norwegen.” <time passes> 6.1. Nix passiert, aber wenigstens kann ich jetzt in der App selbst das Versenden […]

"CS9236: Compiling requires binding the lambda expression at least 100 times. “ This is a sacrifice I’m willing to make…I guess?! […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

If you’re wondering what "Flooding the zone (with shit)” means -- this screenshot is from the headlines of the Norwegian national broadcaster #nrk.

“Hello Volker, thank you for your decision to support Codeberg e. V. as a legal member. Your application for becoming a Codeberg e.V. member has been accepted!” 🥳 Putting my money where my mouth is. #codeberg

🇳🇴: Mobile Bezahllösung “Vipps” (skandinavisches Äquivalent zu Wero) auf Diensttelefonen der Polizei leakt geheime Telefonnummern. Wollen wir jetzt mal bei Google und Apple gucken gehen? https://www.digi.no/nyhetsstudio/politiker-vil-nekte-bruk-av-vipps-paa-politiets-telefoner/101026 #Vipps #wero

Almost ready for Monday’s introductory lecture to Mobile- and Web Technology. Now ask me about my other hobbies!

RE: https://social.sigsoft.org/@JonathanAldrich/115860016448766034 Neato, a photo of Nygaard, Dahl and Naur that I hadn’t seen yet! That just SCREEEEEAMS “Norwegian cabin” :-D @JonathanAldrich

From the “We have IoT at home.”-department: IoT is just a line of bash and curl in a trench-coat. Shows temperature of the copper pipe leaving the 200l hot water boiler via a DS18B20 and a Radxa Rock 4. Gotta blogify this once I’m also done with the heat […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Now that I’ve successfully avoided FPGA-hell (thanks Quentin!) I used my copious free time to slide into GPIO-hell. I don’t have a screen or serial console at the moment on the Rock 4 SE, but whatever magic @armbian is trying to do in the fixup script to get […] [Original post on mastodon.social]