diveintomark.org in 2002 https://web.archive.org/web/20020802035522/http://diveintomark.org/

what a week, huh.

I love everything about this story. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/07/no-one-knows-where-it-came-from-first-wild-beaver-spotted-in-norfolk-for-400-years

Bilanz nach 100 Tagen Autobahn-Chaos im Berliner Osten: - Zahl der Unfälle deutlich gestiegen - Busse stecken im Stau - Großer Frust bei 🚶, 🚴‍♀️, 🚌 und 🚗 Merke: mehr Autobahn schafft Unzufriedenheit, #MehrPlatzFürMenschen macht die Stadt lebenswerter! www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/100-t...

Eine Statue terrorisiert die CDU: Für den Bundeskanzler ist das hier „vollkommen geschmacklos“. Die CDU spricht von “Provokation” und “Spaltung” – wegen einer Gedenkstätte für Walter Lübcke! Es sei “würde- und pietätlos“. Die Partei ist auf einen Baum geklettert und kommt nicht mehr runter.

I'm happy to announce a 112-year antedating of _Jovian_ 'an inhabitant of Jupiter' for the Historical #dictionary of #sciencefiction, from Miles Wilson's proto-SF _History of Israel Jobson_ (1757): https://sfdictionary.com/view/140/jovian

If functional programming had been invented in the north of England the option types would be called Summat and Nowt

In Baden-Württemberg braucht es jetzt literweise Bachblütentropfen: Der Grünen-Parteitag hat gerade beschlossen, dass die Krankenkassen nicht mehr für Homöopathie zahlen sollen. Nach jahrelanger Debatte erstmals eine klare Entscheidung. Der Vorstand ist mit einem Kompromissvorschlag gescheitert.

#Police : c’est une pratique très connue des milieux #hooligans : s’afficher encagoulés avec le matériel ennemi retourné. Mais cette fois, il n’est en rien question de sport : c’est la police nationale qui reprend cette mise en scène, en posant fièrement avec […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I have a blog now! http://computingthedetails.org/ There's a write up for each video topic on my YouTube channel, for those that prefer reading to watching to videos. Subscribe with atom or RSS!

Die DGB-Bundesfrauenkonferenz hat heute einen Beschluss zu #sexarbeit gefasst: "Sexarbeit ist Arbeit - Für eine selbstbestimmte Erwerbsarbeit". Ein guter und wichtiger historischer Schritt. Ich bin sehr froh, mit meiner Stimme als Delegierte der GEW- […] [Original post on ohai.social]

“You are not worse than the kernel hacker, the compiler engineer, or the game engine programmer. You, too, can build whatever you want to build. All software is just software. It's time we treated it that way.” https://jimmyhmiller.com/overly-humble-programmer

Does anyone know of an actually technically competent Apple Authorized Service Provider in Berlin? My SSD seems to be falling off the front edge of the bathtub curve. Still under AppleCare. My recent Apple Store experience suggests that the ‘geniuses’ are now trained monkeys regurgitating […]

I think Apple missed their opportunity to change the name of Xcode to 26code.

Hat jemand noch Zugang zu einer Kopie von der Sendung mit der Maus vom 27.03.2022 (die Ausgabe mit der trans Frau)? RStV-Blödheiten halt …

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

advice to every Rust organizational decisionmaker out there: shut up, stop making excuses, and take notes from the PSF: https://bsky.app/profile/python.org/post/3m46nxmereb2b

In a culture that is brutal in its suppression of #sexwork, including disapproval, punishment, debanking, and every other means of devaluing the people who do it, to see #ai companies pivot to “horny" is even more awful than many of their other industries. Let me get this straight: it's okay to […]

people are like "don't put all of your infrastructure on github, if github is down it will stop working!!1" but i put all of my infrastructure on codeberg and now that codeberg is down it stopped working. please advise

wait, the bear that's on the flag of california is extinct?? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_grizzly_bear

Zur Erinnerung und ohne Angela Merkel verklären zu wollen: Es gibt auch Konservative, die keinen gefährlichen Stuss zu Migration und „Stadtbild“ abgeben. Die Aussage von Kanzler #Merz ist ein Schlag ins Gesicht vieler Menschen. Er sollte dafür um Entschuldigung bitten.

this actually looks like a legitimate DoS attack more than anything; the query options are of a kind that would cause cache-busting @dpk did you happen to piss off someone recently

Considering whom I would like to nominate for the Scheme Steering Committee and noticing again how, even by the standards of tech, Scheme has a truly terrible level of participation by women. I’m reasonably certain that the only women in the acknowledgements section of Scheme reports – at least […]

New entry for the Historical #dictionary of #sciencefiction: "Encyclopedia Galactica", prominently (though not originally) in Asimov's Foundation series, but also in HHGTTG, Carl Sagan, _Contact_, & more. We love reference works of all kinds! […]

So about vibe coding being a kind of teledildonics? https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/115374704926691451 All shitposting aside, this is absolutely fucked. Displacing actual sex workers with a bullshit machine not only violates sex worker rights, but also sets up for someone to get hurt […]

🇪🇺Your browser's #donottrack signal is now legally binding: As of today, enabling DNT means no more personalized political ads (and no nagging consent banners about it). Keep an eye on Meta & Co. Are they complying? Report any violations! […]

Die Hausarztpraxis ist jetzt ein MVZ. Das scheint ein Trend zu sein. Kennt sich da jemand aus? Warum haben die das gemacht? Was bedeutet das? (Ehrliche Frage)

Manche frustrierte Bluesky-User*innen gehen lieber zu Fascho-Meta-Threads als hierher ins Fediverse zu kommen ... Ich finde es schon irgendwie lustig, wie sehr man diese Milliardäre unterstützen und reicher Machen will, nur um sich nicht 3 Minuten lang mit der Funktionsweise des Fediverse zu […]

O joyful light O holy glory the eternal Father’s heavenly, holy blessed Jesus, the Christ! Now comes the hour the sun is set we hymn our God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit At every hour glad voices hymn the Son of God the Giver of Life ’tis meet and right for all the world

Scheme is a really good programming language – the only things it’s bad at are iteration, recursion, and conditionals

Changed "social media" in this instance's description to "social networking", because that's what we called it back when *we* made it, back when it was fun and exciting, before it got locked into the corporate world and all went to shit.

First Scheme meeting in just under five hours. It’s not too late to sign up and join us! https://scheme-reports.simplelists.com/scheme-reports/msg/32450016/

not very often, but once or twice a year maybe I find myself thinking "i probably need a monad here". then i take a shower and try to forget about it

Pretty cool photos of the first Link Light Rail crossing of the I-90 bridge. Just a reminder that Seattle is a pretty beautiful metro area. I love the mountains and water. TIL that not only is the I-90 bridge the world's longest floating bridge, but that […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

September 8 is World Ampersand Day! & Now, I admit I only learned about the existence of this ever-so-important celebration last week, but you'd better believe we observe it in this house! So here's an ampersand from yesterday, this time made at Skateraw […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

programming, yo. some days you are the golden god, some days you are the dog dongle

The federal judge let Google off the hook in the antitrust case that the company supposedly lost. He said no to any serious remedy. And he indirectly killed Mozilla (Firefox and Thunderbird). A good day for Google, and a terrible day for what's left of the open web […]

Scheme WG2 is now going to hold regular synchronous meetings, which I hope will be the main venue for actual decision-making going forward. Everyone is welcome. https://scheme-reports.simplelists.com/scheme-reports/msg/32450016/

„Wir schaffen das“ – zehn Jahre später: Die Geflüchteten aus 2015 haben Migrationsforscher Brücker zufolge besser performt als die Wissenschaft erwartet hatte. Doch der politische Diskurs überlagere die objektiven Gegebenheiten.

Wayback inaccuracies: Sometimes I'll be looking through archived pages on the Wayback Machine and notice a capture isn't actually from the date that is listed. For example, this archive from July 2023 doesn't line up with my personal captures of this same […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Ich bin im Funkhaus Berlin für eine Live-Sendung über digitale Souveränität und Alternativen zu Big-Tech-Anbietern. Im Fahrstuhl und auf allen Fluren hängt dieser Flyer. Keine Pointe.

August 1st - Googler asks the community if XSLT should be removed from the HTML living standard. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523 Respondents overwhelmingly reject the suggestion. August 6th - Google starts work on removing XSLT from Chrome […]

[lewd, wtf] OH: “in Germany do you have to specify if the lube is sparkling or still”

apple has exchanged taste for flavor