#Chanukka #binary I believe half of one Byte is called one "Nibble".

#ageverification #vimeo Okay, I sort of get the idea for mature-content websites, but why on earth does Vimeo now have an age check? What "regional regulations" are they referring to? So they expect people to upload credit card details or ID-card photos to a third-party agency, like the […]

TreeTime 2025.4 just released: • Types • Error Checks • Bug fixes. In the meta editor, input fields are now have a type (text/numerical/any), and are filtered. There are a couple of error checks in the meta editor (like a warning when you try to define infinite recursion). Bug fixes include a […]

Two jolly dragons looking forward to Chanukah (Hanukkah) which starts at nightfall on 14th December this year. BL Oriental 2736; Siddur (Italian rite); 1390 CE; Italy, Central (Bertinoro); f.186

חג חנוכה שמח לכולם!

Ich habe mir gerade die Aufzeichnung (vom 1.12. glaube ich) angesehen, wo Drosten in einer Anhörung Fragen von AfD-Leuten über Corona-Pandemie und Impfung beantworten muss. Die Fragen sind ja echt zum in-die-Tischkante-beißen.

Our paper got rejected. That's a blow.

BREAKING: Am Lübcke-Memorial hält Michel Friedman die Rede seines Lebens: "Der Hass, liebe Freunde, ist hungrig!" Jede Berührung mit Antidemokraten mache die Demokratie kaputt! Und gegen die CDU, die uns vorwirft, Lübckes Gedenken zu missbrauchen, sagt er: "Worin soll dieser Missbrauch bestehen?"

@gedankenstuecke In the light of this, I think everyone who can should consider moving to @Codeberg . #github #software #FreeSoftware #codeberg

#software #FreeSoftware #politics #capitalism "Free software is political. It's a socialist dream, in the sense that the means of production are socialized. We (more or less) own the tools required to build the technology we want. With the "code as a service" model we start to see, this moves […]

«The tech industry is being taken over by merchants of services, and the Open Source community is starting to depend on them. We've seen this coming, with GitHub being a startup, bought by Microsoft which is now pushing AI. They are the means of production.» And FLOSS would be doing well to […]

Yes, I'm fearing that AI is going to take away my job. Not in the sense that I'll be losing my position, but — I'm a developer because it is extremely fun to program. And considerably less fun to do code review, documentation, administration, communication. The feeling when you've turned an […]

The stars sing In the cathedral Of your skull, And you dream A life awake. #poetry

#github #codeberg #software #repository Nice! They have download numbers when you do a release! That alone is a reason to migrate from #github to @Codeberg .

TreeTime 2025.3 just released. Main new feature: Meta editing. The data meta structure, i.e. how many trees there are, what they're called, what fields there are and how they're defined, can now be edited from the GUI. Smaller things: New tree fields Product and Reciprocal. Hidden fields. New […]

#maths #polygons #area Just had this stupid thought, can anyone answer this? This is probably something well known? Like, totally obvious? Suppose you have an equilateral triangle, with each side of length one. You take the area -- call it A(3) -- and divide it by three. You do the same with a […]

#cloudflare #downtime #internet #capitalism Large parts of the internet were down yesterday. Cloudflare claims this was a configuration error in their anti-bot system and decidedly *not an attack*: https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/ I disagree. The current flood of AI bots […]

Wie lange dauert dies "Spätphase" des Kapitalismus eigentlich noch? Werde langsam ungeduldig.

Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I […]

#gdpr #digitalrights #digitalsovereignty We want our data safe and private. Why can't a decision just be a decision and that's that? Why, each time after we fended off a bad idea, does it come back in disguise? This seems like a never-ending struggle for fundamental rights. So, after chat […]

#9November Nie wieder Deutschland.

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@leitmedium/115521732591064280 Here we go round the mulberry bush.

Ich weiß nicht. In einem alten deutschen Volkslied heißt es: "Dann steigt aus den Trümmern der alten Gesellschaft die sozialistische Weltrepublik." Ich habe ja trotz allem die Hoffnung noch nicht ganz aufgegeben.

#ai #llm #safety A very small number of malicious items in the training set is sufficient to poison LLMs, and that number is constant, independent of LLM size or training set size, according to this research by people from UK AI Security institute, Turing Institute […]

Photos of the #nokings protests are impressive. Masses of people. Almost looks like the Birnam Woods are moving towards Dunsinane Castle.

Photos of the #nokings protests are impressive. Masses of people. Almost looks like the Birnam Woods are moving towards Dunsinane Castle.

#comet #lemmon #stargazing Highlight of the day: Just seen comet Lemmon. Caught it just before setting. A beautiful clear night today.

Whatever happens, remember what's most important: To breathe.

Ich brauche keine fünfzigste Reportage, die versucht, AfD-Wähler zu verstehen, ich hätte gerne mehr Berichte über eine Mehrheit der Deutschen, die enttäuscht vom Rechtsruck der Politik ist. Die Mehrheit, die 2024 & 2025 zu den größten Demos unserer Geschichte auf die Straßen ging & ungehört bleibt.

Sehe ich das jetzt richtig? Wenn ich in Zukunft mit den Kindern eine Schnitzeljagd mache, muss ich statt Hinweiszetteln lauter Fleisch verstecken?

Die Ironie an der #Chatkontrolle ist ja, dass bei Einführung deutlich mehr Fotos mit Kindern drauf durchs Netz laufen und auf fremden Servern landen würden. Also, *massiv* viel mehr.

#Chatkontrolle #MfS #Überwachung Noch ist es nicht zu spät. Zur Petition gegen die Chatkontrolle bitte hier entlang: https://weact.campact.de/petitions/chatkontrolle-stoppen?source=rawlink&utm_medium=recommendation&utm_source=rawlink&share=be6d25e2-0c26-4cbd-98d6-29245ff08b82

#chatcontrol #Chatkontrolle #MfS #europe #wefightchatcontrol Flächendeckende Überwachung ist gut für unsere Staatssicherheit.

#maths #prime #sieveoferastosthenes #primaryschool Children learn in school to test numbers for their primeness by trying all sorts of possible divisors, starting with two and then going up. Shouldn't it be enough to try divisors that are prime, and only those, whose square is smaller than the […]

Just curious: Does anyone know how entries in the "Explore"/"Posts" stream in the @Mastodon #android app are selected? Is there any documentation?

#deutschland #wiedervereinigung #1989 #ddr #brd Ich möchte nochmal daraufhinweisen, weil das häufig in einen Topf geworfen wird: Die Demonstrationen im Herbst 89 und die Wiedervereinigung waren völlig verschiedene Dinge. 1989 ging es um Freiheit, Demokratie und Reformen. Der Nationalismus kam […]

#Chatkontrolle #eu #digitalsovereignty Übrigens könnt ihr sehr leicht Email-Adressen von Europa-Abgeordneten sehen: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/de/search/table für den Fall, dass ihr ihnen in Sachen Chatkontrolle etwas schreiben wollt. Ich habe gerade einen eindringlichen Text […]

Sagt mal, sehe ich das richtig, dass ich jetzt keine m-dashes mehr machen darf, weil sonst Leute denken, ich hätte KI benutzt? Na super.

Yom Kippur starts at sunset on 1 October. Here is the initial -word, inhabited by dragons and hybrids, at the beginning of Kol Nidrei (All vows). #YomKippur BL Oriental 42; 'Dragon's Head Mahzor'; Germany; 14th century; Germany; f.44v

#science #publishing #capitalism #knowlege #openaccess Just a reminder what kind of system we have here: Publishing an open access article in a scientific journal (e.g. Neural Networks /Elsevier) costs you 3350 Euro. That's right, you pay. And it's not the peer-reviewing process. The reviewers […]

#schreiben #schrift #Handschrift #steno #stenographie Seit es Laptops gibt, ist Stenographie komplett ausgestorben, oder? Eigentlich schade, ich fand das immer ziemlich beeindruckend. Gibt es noch jemanden, der/die Steno kann?

שנה טובה to everybody! May things get a lot better.

Can someone show me a pangram in Chinese?

#politics #Contest #sports #Music #art I've never understood the view that an international contest of whatever kind, sports, music, art, where nations compete, could be unpolitical. "We're just here for the sport." "This is just about the music." A nation is a political thing. Anything you […]

#Israel #Gaza #Protests #War More than 100,000 people in huge anti-war protests in Tel Aviv now: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DN03SxJVP7t/?hl=en reported by @omdimbeyachad

#maths #calendar #dayoftheweek First time now I heard of the Doomsday Rule, an easy way to know the week day for any date: The dates 4/4, 6/6, 8/8, 10/10, 12/12, as well as 9/5, 5/9, 11/7, 7/11 are all on the same day of the week in a year. That day of the week can be calculated easily for […]

About 100 people at today's Tel Aviv protest against the genocide in Gaza. The signs and banners in Hebrew say: there is no military solution; there can be no democracy with occupation; we stand together against starvation.

Warum war der landesweite #warntag eigentlich gerade am 11. September? Zufall, oder?

Ich finde ja mensch kann mit gutem Gewissen den #esc boykottieren.