First time I heard the term "legacy employees" Wellwell tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/...

So it's always DNS, eh?

Did you know you can put an LLM into test mode?

I should give back this compliment by also indicating that Paul is the best partner if you need to derail a meeting - with best intentions, of course!

Alright, I just legendaried all Duolingo Japanese units. No celebration, no badges, that was a bit of a letdown. Ask me anything :)

OH: "I don't know about AI, I like to do things manually. I mean, I use Arch Linux FFS!"

Summer is for iced coffee beverages

TFW you fire up duckdb to do some quick arithmetics. It used to be irb...

Why Block Built Their Own AI Coding Assistant (And Open-Sourced It) 👩‍💻 goose combines LLM reasoning with tool integrations to automate complex engineering tasks from start to finish 👉 gradientflow.substack.com/p/can-a-sing...

Sunset over Okachimachi #photography

Found a book in Japan about why German working culture is so great, and the first thing they mention is that everyone gets up at 6 and start working at 7 and I'm like, sure... that's me... every day 😅

Schlummern bei euch noch alte Handys in den Schubladen? Bringt sie mit zur #rp25! Unser #Partner Berliner Stadtmission sammelt diese für wohnungs- und obdachlose Menschen. 📍Wo? Sammelbox am Info-Point 📱Was? Smartphones & Handys, die funktionieren. Gern mit Ladekabel, aber ohne Daten oder PIN.

Steglitz at Night

Another week, another research ethics controversy. TL;DR Researchers released a public dataset of 2B+ messages from 4M+ users on 3k+ "public" Discord servers. Usernames/IDs are anonymized. But let's unpack this one... 🧵 www.404media.co/researchers-...

The new experimental thread view is nice, except that actual threads (as in a string of posts) is sometimes rendered with an additional level of indentation per post. Maybe treat it differently if the author replies to themself?

This field is moving so fast I don't even remember what patches was about which I reposted 3 months ago.

Schlachtensee

Sunset over Berlin.

Berlin Steglitz

Zossener 30, Berlin Kreuzberg

Berlin Ostkreuz

Chamissoplatz, Berlin

Berlin Kaisereiche

S Friedenau

Berlin Ostkreuz

Neuroplasticity FTW!

Alright, time for another social media detox. Every day I have to peel my eyes of this device and remind myself that my local env is actually not that bad (for now). Trying to put a bit of distance between myself and the madness.

Ok, quick thread on why DeepSeek is blowing up assumptions about LLMs and maybe the whole (U.S.) AI industry. DeepSeek is an AI lab funded by a Chinese hedge fund, their AI code is open source, meaning freely available to use, which most big U.S. models (aside from Meta’s) are not. That’s the start…

IMHO figuring out that smaller models work as well is not a surprise. Computing technology has a track record of continually making everything smaller, faster, and more memory efficient. And all the companies that sold compute like Nvidia or Google had no incentive to make it work on less.

Finally received my mug from @hyuki.net This was quite the journey, first within Japan, then a forwarding service and finally some customs in cash (no card, because Germany) 😅 Cup says "I'm extremely tired" and yeah, I get it :)

I want the Google Meet "raised hand" feature but it's not a queue but a tree and you can specify what you want to react to or if you want to open a new topic.

I've said this before but I REALLY want the days back when social media was all about Big Data.

Got my first glasses with progressive lenses and whoa what a game changer.

The three Ds of dealing with the Berlin winter: Denial, Delusion, and Depression. But today it's actually sunny (but cold!!!) 😅

Essentially this

MY EYES REJOICE @clairikine.bsky.social

Maybe it's finally time to step away from Instagram as well. That sweet daily dose of Dopamine... 🥲

I got another 40 or so followers in the last 24 hours. Is there another Threads exodus going on after Zuckerberg's statement?

Amazing, this is what kind of Internet 50€ per month can buy you... week four of not fixing it, Vodafone. The weekend was a bit better, but now it's considerably worse. Only 33% uptime...

Update re: my failing Vodafone internet at home. I finally got the 500GB upgrade for my 4G backup, but after a good weekend with about 80% uptime, we're back to 50%ish :( Follow it here: mikiobraun.de/ping-stats-w...

Another update: after 2h Vodafone called me back telling me because of maintenance work, they cannot give me the 500GB on the sim card I'm using while my Internet isn't working. This is really amazing incompetence! 🤯

Update from Sun, Jan 5: for some unknown reason, situation has gotten a bit better since yesterday morning. There were even 2h of uninterrupted internet, overall availability up to 83%. Let's see how it goes... .

Yeah, my Vodafone cable internet is down half the time since Dec 16, 2024. In the meantime, I wrote a script that runs on a raspberry pi and pushes stats every minute so you can check, too: mikiobraun.de/ping-stats-w...

Kekikus Maximus? This has got to be the dumbest timeline 🤦🏻‍♂️

My product now has a bluesky profile 🎉

Almost there...

I'm living off a 4G LTE router and it's pretty amazing how much Internet you can get over mobile. With about 50Mbit downstream It can easily support me working and my two teenager kids doing their usual youtube and gaming things. Now if only there were unlimited data 😅