Better than the Olympics

AI is controversial at many levels, but regardless of whether you like it, hate it, fight it, welcome it or whatever... it is definitely here to stay. I obviously have a personal interest in #ai, but a few insights into its development to date may also be helpful for others in order to have a […]

I am currently in the process of #bootstrapping a very complex Tier-0 infrastructure, and I am extremely surprised (or rather pleased) at how useful #podman (and Quadlets) have become for such scenarios. A huge improvement from both a security and operational POV! Tier-0 bootstrapping = neither […]

An brief 11 km fun run late this afternoon. The snow that was forecast actually arrived, so we now have a really beautiful winter wonderland. #Running in the snow becomes more difficult the deeper it is, but it's also much more fun 😃 And after a run like this […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]

It's quite cold at 1000 metres, around -10C, and we've now had our first snow. Very little so far, but a little more is said to come in the next few days. I love #running in these conditions and can finally get my old running shoes out again, which I pimped […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]

Yesterday, I went to see #TheRockyHorrorShow with my family at the #TirolerLandestheater. The region where I live isn't exactly known for progressive ideas, but the people here have long understood that love is universal and has nothing to do with gender […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]

#running #cancer #prostate #Brachytherapy Possibly the most significant run I've done in years. Two months ago today I was 'enjoying' my LDR Brachytherapy procedure, this is my first run since. Hopefully this is a turning point and my body will let me return […] [Original post on mastodon.green]

Since version 3.77, #Sonatype has enforced hard limits for the community edition of #NexusRepository. If these limits are exceeded, certain functions are disabled and you have to purchase a commercial license. We are currently in this situation, which is why […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]

Have you always wanted a route planner like Google Maps for the good old Roman era around 2000ys ago? Then take a look at this amazing research project by a team from several universities led by Tom Brughmans from Aarhus University. Part of the project was the development of such a route […]

75 years ago today, European nations signed this Convention, so the Holocaust could not be repeated. Beware those who want this to end.

The difference between a good and a bad spot for mobile internet around my house is dramatic, to say the least... I'm stuck with #MobileInternet in my neighbourhood, but at least we have some #5G coverage. However, my kids often complain about how slow the […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]

I'm trying to step up my #running after several days of illness, and it's literally an uphill battle But it's almost fun because I know I can run my usual ~12km trail, as I've done countless times, so I just run. Interestingly, it's not my legs but my heart […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]

After some waiting, I have finally received two nice little devices that I will have a lot of fun with in the future, both for my PhD studies and professionally. 2x96GB GDDR7 and over 2x24K CUDA cores finally make local experiments much more feasible and […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]

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Instead of running every day, this was my first run in more than two and a half weeks, as I had been ill with the flu/COVID/... It is both fascinating and frustrating to observe how the body reacts to an abrupt reduction in physical activity and how much […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]

For over a week, I've somehow been grounded, because I've caught a cold, the flu, ... Apart from a headache, sore throat and slight fever, I have other, unrelated symptoms: My lower leg muscles ache as if I had muscle soreness, and the soles of my feet feel very hot at night. That's probably […]

added a cheat sheet to the official Git website https://git-scm.com/cheat-sheet

A new report finds the malicious code added to nearly 2 dozen widely used NPM code packages (>2b downloads each week) could be found in "at least 10 percent of cloud environments, present in bundles or assets." https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/malicious-npm-code-10-cloud/

We are currently #hiring for a software developer position, and I have to read a lot of CVs and GitHub/GitLab/... profiles. It's strange what people are using LLMs for these days. Not only are many CVs obviously generated by an LLM, but so are their entire profiles... Let me tell you one thing […]

#dnssec has always been a bit of a mystery to me. Not so much because of the technical side, but because of the operational side and, above all, how do you scale this thing?? It seems you really need to have wizard level knowledge to keep this critical foundation of modern IT running. "If our […]

Germany and France want to make Arte a continental television channel https://www.brusselstimes.com/1622270/germany-and-france-want-to-make-arte-a-continental-television-channel

🏔️🌲 Climate change, tourism & farming – how do they shape the #alpine #ecosystem? 👥 And what does this mean for local communities? The research platform @LTSER_TyroleanAlps is investigating these questions at 9 different sites in Tyrol. Find out more in the new info video: ▶️ […]

Our family holiday in #Bali is coming to an end, so I set off on my last run here in the area around our last accommodation in #Badung #NusaDua Bali is a special place, teeming with ppl, both locals and tourists, but it's remarkably easy to escape the tourist […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]

One of the many exceptional women in IT I've never heard of, and I'm probably not alone in this. A fascinating story of not giving up and persisting in a very male dominated space. Stephanie Shirley passed away some days ago, at the age of 91. #stephanieshirley #verabuchthal #womeninit […]

heads up: coming a little late to the party, but just in case you have missed it like I did during the holiday season: On August 28th, #bitnami will be deprecating the majority of their 200+ debian based #docker images (and helm charts) for various services (tomcat, kafka, you name it) and […]

https://www.nzz.ch/english/you-have-no-right-to-be-here-a-swiss-womans-harrowing-tale-of-arrest-and-detention-at-the-us-border-ld.1889535 I was never to keen on going to America. I saw how their embassy staff treated my friends and family members when we, Poles, still needed visas, and I […]

To put this in perspective: If we add #traffic from @Mastodon, #Bluesky, @Flipboard#traffic#bluesky #threads it brings more or less as much as #facebook (and with fewer ups and downs). Which is not little. But that's mainly thanks to #flipboard, as you can see. #twittermigration #news #socialmedia

No #TrailRunning today, but a lovely #hiking Sunday with my wife to the "Lizumer Hütte" in the "Wattener Lizum". It is located in a military training ground, but is often open to the public at weekends. When there's no live shooting, it's a pretty quiet and […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]

I've been hearing their cries while #running for a few days now, and today I finally managed to catch them with maximum zoom on my Google Pixel: a pair of buzzards! Unfortunately, the quality isn't great, but that's the best I can do with a mobile phone […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]

JavaScript isn't exactly known for its consistent behaviour and has earned a reputation for sometimes being very, very quirky. If you want to see for yourself, try this fun little quiz on the "Date" object in #javascript. I managed to get 8 out of 28 answers right... #development […]

Derzeit verdrängen wir in der #konkurrenzdemokratie Ängste durch #Externalisierung. Die einen leugnen die #klimakrise, die anderen die Effekte der #Demografie auf Renten, Wirtschaft & Wahlen. Doch die #Realität der biokulturellen #evolution wirkt über lange Zeiträume weiter. Aus meiner Sicht […]

Today I wanted to push myself a little bit, so I ran my usual 15 km on a different route, with 650m EG instead of the usual 500m while keeping my pace below 7. I've managed that a few times before on the same route, but unfortunately it didn't work out today […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]

"Analysis by MIT Technology Review provides an unprecedented and comprehensive look at how much energy the AI industry uses—down to a single query—to trace where its carbon footprint stands now, and where it’s headed The latest reports show that 4.4% of all the energy in the US now goes toward […]

Running has been a popular sport for a long time, and it's no surprise that there are more and more developments from the sports industry and enthusiasts who want to sell us something amazing that will completely revolutionise our #running performance Take this shoe, for example, coming with an […]

With the current #heatwave across Europe, for me it's only possible to go out #TrailRunning in the morn when it's around 20C Now, at 5.30pm, as I write this, my simple outdoor thermometer shows almost 43C. And that's at almost 1000m altitude! This is not […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]

Today, I only managed to do a shorter than usual 11 km trail run, as I had to pick up my wife from physio, where she got dry needling treatment. It's a bit like acupuncture for grown ups and, how can I put it, not for the faint hearted. Those needles!!! But […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]

Even though it unfortunately won't make any difference to how we and our descendants will survive the coming climate catastrophe, it's still an impressive campaign by "The Last Generation Austria". And now they've even won a Bronze Lion in Cannes for it. #climate #climatecatastrophe […]

In the #neareast, the drums of war drown out all humanity, and the civilian population seems, as usual, to be completely irrelevant. Here and there, human dignity is crushed between warmongering males who act out their violent fantasies and hatred without regard for the consequences. " […]

Our world seems to go a bit madder each day. Be safe, friends.

This morning’s trail run. Gnats! Thunder! Sun and clouds! #trailrunning #highdesert

This must be extremely good news if it arrives in such good shape!! The potholes for correct #html rendering don't seem to have diminished in 2025 ... #thunderbird #Android

An 8TB corpus of copyright-free text for training AI models. https://github.com/r-three/common-pile/blob/main/paper.pdf I'm glad somebody has finally done this. The "we need to break copyright or AI won't work argument" feels super-dodgy to me and we can just evaluate whether it's true. 1/n

What's been lost... Entomologists from Krefeld, Germany, collected flying insects for two weeks in August 1994 (left) and—at the same site, with an identical trap— in August 2016 (right). Similar data from 63 German protected areas overall gave a shocking […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Something I haven't had before: an #HPE rack server crashed hard and could not be restarted via iLO. The management log contained a very strange entry: Server Critical Fault (Service Information: Runtime Fault, System Board, AUX/Main EFUSE (10h)) After the […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]

Hi friends! I set my alarm to 5am and headed out for a nice walk. It was getting warm, so I started early. - and it was just so good to do so! A nice 6h walk with lots of views, lots of photos and just enjoying being out. End the #summit just for me 😍 On […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I'm not easily swearing, but how can I put this: sending infra emails from a data center to addresses managed by #microsoft 365 is crazy. MS dislikes #smtp AUTH, ok, and so begins the #oauth journey to get the #postfix based mail relay to embrace OAuth The best idea so far is to write a script […]