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ensko @ensko.at · 03/10/2026

I didn't know filesystems could be out of memory, or asleep for that matter...

ensko @ensko.at · 03/10/2026

Too bad I can't check what happened after I went do other things since they blocked me – well, I can see your half of the exchange...

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ensko @ensko.at · 03/10/2026

I don't track them, but I assume they stop reading, which they are free to do. Has anyone in this thread suggested judging the whole of DCC? I saw one person on the fence about continuing, and one person saying they followed through and don't regret it.

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ensko @ensko.at · 03/10/2026

Soo... the video is of course copyrighted, but is the music in the public domain? Because there is no human author? it should be, right? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_...

en.wikipedia.org

Monkey selfie copyright dispute - Wikipedia

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ensko @ensko.at · 03/10/2026

One of my favorite webcomics is hard to recommend because the beginning is a bit "I want to appease my readers who I think are teenage guys who won't accept gender transformation unless portrayed in a perverted fashion." Imo it's a fantastic comic, but I can't fault anyone for not getting past that.

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ensko @ensko.at · 18/09/2026

Whenever I open Bluesky,typing "BS" reminds me that social media shouldn't be taken too seriously.

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ensko @ensko.at · 17/09/2026

Ich hoffe wenns dann darum geht "ob es sich um eine geschützte Meinungsäußerung oder etwa eine strafbare Beleidigung handele" erinnert sich das Gericht daran, dass die Polizei die Aussage des Plakats mit ihrer Begründung für die Beschlagnahmung quasi bestätigt hat...

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ensko @ensko.at · 16/09/2026

ok where do I start with the list of things I find satisfying about this?

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ensko @ensko.at · 16/09/2026

I think there's an equation of "care as much as" with "the outcome of the care should be equally good" happening. If, for achieving an equal outcome, we need to care more about the present, we get the last line. But it doesn't follow from the ones before afaict.

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ensko @ensko.at · 15/09/2026

"Waaaah! You don't let me play so nobody can play!" It's impressive how close this is to the most stereotypical kindergartener temper tantrum you could make up. Obviously this is comparably insignificant, but still. It's like he actively tries to sound unfit for office.

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ensko @ensko.at · 14/09/2026

untracked URL: thenib.com/centrist-his... and here's how to turn off this "feature": 9to5google.com/2025/06/26/g...

thenib.com

Famous Moments in History, Reimagined By Centrists | The Nib

Gotta hear…both sides?

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ensko @ensko.at · 12/09/2026

(That's not to say that I think irl "the human race ..., as the voice rightly tried to tell him, has really lost nothing." It's a _great_ bleak line, but even in the story I thought the astronomer was right, that something of value was lost.)

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ensko @ensko.at · 12/09/2026

When I read that, particularly > how to make sure that ... we do not lose sight of what that work was meant to achieve in the first place I had to think of "The Astronomer's Loss" > "We need light. We need stars to follow. We need inspiration." – "You don't." qntm.org/astronomer

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ensko @ensko.at · 11/09/2026

Zusätzlich zu dem was Thür hier zitiert: das ist alles explizit als Lob für Trumps Außenpolitik gedacht 🤣 "Das Große Ganze von Trumps Außenpolitik wird sichtbar" 🤡 "Trumps Außenpolitik ist nicht erratisch oder isolierend, sie folgt einer klaren Strategie" 🤡

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ensko @ensko.at · 11/09/2026

Wiki: The saying was coined by the San Diego Union newspaper ... Later this was mistakenly attributed to Lee Segall ... then to be misquoted again ... as "Segal's Law". So the name of the law is a misspelling of a misattribution, but it simply stuck. Nice! 😅

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ensko @ensko.at · 10/09/2026

Austria: Not as a "well-known phrase", at least to me personally, but as a concept certainly. To this day I wonder "are these scissors too good for the task?" Before using any.

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ensko @ensko.at · 10/09/2026

I read the "m" as "meters" and was a bit confused at first :P nice!

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ensko @ensko.at · 10/09/2026

Someone made a relevant comic recently :P

The outline of a building, previously shown to host God at an Open Mic Night, with a speech balloon above: "The most important things to say to each other cannot be expressed _am I right!_"

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ensko @ensko.at · 10/09/2026

I had heard about Midwestern salads, but whet "salad" ended that dish's name I was still a bit perplexed :P

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ensko @ensko.at · 03/09/2026

Hitachi Magic Toothbrush

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ensko @ensko.at · 01/09/2026

re-reading parts of openai.com/index/huggin... – maybe more like both; the "message board" should have been prevented by a read-only config ("found ways to communicate by writing files" – no exploit mentioned), but the internet access was an exploit (SSRF apparently)

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ensko @ensko.at · 01/09/2026

Layperson, but that was my impression as well. It doesn't seem useful that the agents could do any write commands. A zero day that requires write access should have been irrelevant.

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ensko @ensko.at · 01/09/2026

Evolution: "this gene idea sounds great, you can make a couple of things whose goal is to reproduce themselves and they get better at it with time!" Monke: "let's cultivate these _other_ species! Also, let's invent the condom!" Evolution: "... wat"

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ensko @ensko.at · 01/09/2026

Plants _are_ odd. Imagine if we didn't have them and saw one for the first time: "Look at this crazy thing: of course we shouldn't expect alien life to have specifically a bilateral body plan – but this thing doesn't even have a consistent number of limbs!"

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ensko @ensko.at · 28/08/2026

(at the risk of ruining the joke, but for your clicking convenience: xkcd.com/538/ – Security xkcd.com/2347/ – Dependency xkcd.com/927/ – Standards and of course xkcd.com/2501/ – Average Familiarity)

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ensko @ensko.at · 28/08/2026

XKCD references are second nature to us CS nerds, but the average person knows maybe 538, 2347, and 927 by number alone. "And 2501, of course." Of course.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/08/2026

Microsoft purged the data of over 170,000 nonprofits with little to no warning. Yet another entry in the ledger of “big tech should not be surprised that people hate them now.”

slate.com

The Quiet Decision Microsoft Made That Devastated Thousands of Nonprofits

When the tech giant retired a popular software grant, years of nonprofit data vanished with it.

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ensko @ensko.at · 28/08/2026

Migrating my account to @eurosky.social took maybe 20 minutes – and 5 of those were probably just because I failed to notice the password reset email for the migrated account, and wondered why the old one wasn't working...

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ensko @ensko.at · 28/08/2026

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 26/08/2026

To tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution

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ensko @ensko.at · 27/08/2026

Did you see that ludicrous display last night?

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ensko @ensko.at · 26/08/2026

Cost of doing business

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ensko @ensko.at · 22/08/2026

> indefatiguable drive to prove others wrong This came up yesterday, and we named the resulting methodology "spite driven development"

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ensko @ensko.at · 20/08/2026

jap, danke. Das Bild zu diesem Post macht es nochmal reißerischer. Als ob die teure Antiquitäten-Bücher kaufen würden...

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ensko @ensko.at · 15/08/2026

Don't forget elderly people. I had a workshop at a care facility, and the combination of bad sight, unfamiliarity with computers/phones, and unfamiliarity with the concept/variants of captchas made this super hard. And cloudflare manages with just a checkbox...

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ensko @ensko.at · 11/08/2026

There are quite a few options for QR code packages on #Typst Universe, so if you're interested in a comparison, I'd invite you to read my new post: blog.ensko.at/2026/08/11/t...

blog.ensko.at

Comparing Typst packages for QR code rendering

There are several packages for generating QR codes using Typst. What are the differences?

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"GPU texture address mode collies" meme continues to be my main achievement in life, I think.

Border collie, Clamp collie, Repeat collie, Mirror collie

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ensko @ensko.at · 08/08/2026

Color management, text rendering, timezones: the S tier of "I hope someone else already handled this properly"

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ensko @ensko.at · 06/08/2026

Let's frame it the opposite way: "if they have the capacity to do that, then let's do gun control instead!"

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ensko @ensko.at · 06/08/2026

I'm not sure what you mean. "Simulate" what/how? If you _do_ airgap, you need to mirror the whole of NPM, PyPI, Crates.io, the package repository of the Linux distro in use, User-repositories like AUR, ideally Github, etc., etc. inside that airgap. Did you mean they should have done that?

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ensko @ensko.at · 06/08/2026

I mean, that part is easily explained. These models are being tested for security work, and a security expert would have the ability to install and run packages from various registries. No access to tools at all would make the test not very meaningful.

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ensko @ensko.at · 30/07/2026

(bissl polemisiert, aber wegen Gewinnrückgängen heulen ist halt find ich ein bissl komisch)

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ensko @ensko.at · 30/07/2026

Heißt im Umkehrschluss doch: 2/3 des Gewinns ist noch da, also ist BMW weiterhin profitabel. Man kann nur weniger an Investoren ausschütten. Wäre das nicht die Priorität, gäbe es eigentlich keinen Grund für Kürzungen.

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ensko @ensko.at · 24/07/2026

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Wiping the phone after being denied rights. “We all have a right to secure our private data against unconstitutional searches. And we should – especially in a time of rising authoritarianism.” Let's see, I hope the justice system agrees – at least for US citizens

theguardian.com

US government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system

Concern over US effort to prosecute Sam Tunick, accused by authorities of wiping his phone using GrapheneOS

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Patrick Breyer @echo-pbreyer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

🇪🇺BKA (German Federal Criminal Police) releases new stats on #ChatControl: NCMEC/US tech reports have never been so unreliable! In 2025, 52% of flags were legally irrelevant. As a result, 113,000 private photos, videos & chats were wrongfully exposed (+14%)—a new record. 🧵 1/6

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