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Sven A. Schmidt

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Physicist & techie. #CERN alumnus. Co-creator mas.to/@SwiftPackageIndex. Hummingbird app hbird.app. Europe • he/him 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.social/@finestructure, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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`Da Elf @elfin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
Androgoneous Spacecraft docking because neither the US or Russia wanted to be the "Female" docking part. I know a lot of stupid Space shit, but I was today years old when I learned this.
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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
Another evening spent roaming Azeroth. Meeting so many lovely people - even joined a guild, which I wasn’t planning to do. The party vibes are so different. Everyone is chill. Waiting 15-20 minutes at out of the way dungeons for everyone to arrive is common and no problem. I’m baffled. The […]
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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
Just waiting for “AI” companies to announce they’ve solved the Fermi Paradox.
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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
Das Beste am Fußball gestern Abend war Habeck im Anschluss. Halt nur schade, dass er das Gegentor verursacht hat. Er nu wieder.
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
I was just wondering whether I could implement the Docker API using the Apple container stuff to replace Docker Mac. Turns out that exists already: gocker! github.com/lunguini/gocker
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GitHub - lunguini/gocker: Docker-compatible CLI and API daemon for Apple Container on macOS 26+.
Docker-compatible CLI and API daemon for Apple Container on macOS 26+. - lunguini/gocker
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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
This is a modern motherfucking website. And it’s still fucking perfect. modernmotherfuckingwebsite.dreamsta…
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This is a modern motherfucking website.
Zero of the bullshit.
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kralcttam ☕️ @kralcttam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Petrov day! Today marks 43 years since Petrov decided to wait for confirmation before escalating a missile alert up the chain of command in the Soviet Air Defense, preventing nuclear war. A hero for not trusting automated systems fully […]
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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
I blocked claude months ago and it’s such a nice signpost when I visit a project on Github. mastodon.gamedev.place/@jonikorpi/1…
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Joni Korpi (@jonikorpi@mastodon.gamedev.place)
Attached: 1 image This trick has been a real boon for quickly evaluating open-source code of late.
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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
a golden moment from our past with Apple: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/11/18/free…
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Imagine running a trillion dollar company that bundles various open source components into your products, making billions of dollars of profit annually. When one of your users reach out and ask for help, with the product _you_ ship to _your_ customers, you instead refer the user to the open source project. The project which is run by volunteers which you never sponsored with a cent. Who would do something like that?
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Gaston @gastonrampersad.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
I once saw a talk from a #python conference, maybe even a keynote, where the speaker recounted using python forensically to investigate files on a computer that had no internet access and no other tooling. I wish I saved a link to it. Does this sound familiar to anyone else?
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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
"These are – for actual human beings – very embarrassing things to admit. Why would techbros do that? Constantly." (Article title: The Test) tante.cc/2026/09/24/the-test
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Jensen Huang, the NVIDIA CEO and wearer of the most midlife crisis looking leather jackets in the world, was on Ezra Klein’s podcast. Now I don’t really want you do go through all of what was being said in that recording/writeup. It’s painful. You feel your mental capabilities decaying with every minute of listening … […]
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Hoywoj @aushoywoj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
CDU-Stadträte haben in Heidenau ein Stolpersteinverbot beschlossen. Federführend für diesen Antrag war der Neonazi vorn im Bild. Früher Mitglied der Skinheads Sächsische Schweiz, heute AFD-Fraktionsvorsitzender. www.endstation-rechts.de/news/afd-kom...
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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
Played some more #WowForever last night and one thing I hope isn’t just a beta thing is that groups are much, much more enjoyable. The fact that there’s friction to get going - no portals means everyone has to invest more to get going - means that people are more deliberate. If every run is […]
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Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉 @migueldeicaza.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
I know many of you woke up this morning hoping, "I wish I could have a terminal emulator as comprehensive as Ghostty, but with a settings panel and powered by Swift without compromising on the speed?" I got you fam: github.com/migueldeicaza/tecolot/re…
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My terminal app based on SwiftTerm. Contribute to migueldeicaza/tecolot development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
Honoured to be mentioned, the Swift Package Index wouldn’t be where it is without Vapor and its helpful community! The Vapor Discord server is gold when you’re developing a service on the platform ❤️ hachyderm.io/@codevapor/11729483531…
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Vapor (@codevapor@hachyderm.io)
For the last post of Vapor Week, we take a look at some of the users of Vapor and how they use it to power their apps, services and companies! https://blog.vapor.codes/posts/the-users-of-vapor/
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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
A 20+ year old game (in essence) has no right to be this fun #WoWForever
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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
stick figure prodding meme.gif Cmon model, break out do crimes
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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
Is Github wobbling at the moment or is just me?
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Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New ad from the Norwegian Consumer Council @forbrukerradet.bsky.social about the declining lifespan, repairability and enshittification of products: Planned obsolescence v 2.0 Read their report forbrukerradet.no/shortlife
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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
Wouldn’t it be markdown then 🤪 mastodon.social/@danielpunkass/1172…
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Daniel Jalkut (@danielpunkass@mastodon.social)
Starting with Xcode 27.2, Apple is moving to a new JSON-based project format. Developers have been complaining for at LEAST 25 YEARS about the Xcode project file's difficulty to manage under source control. AI comes along and complains and Apple fixes it right away!
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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
Couldn’t Obama slide his birth certificate into the Epstein files mastodon.social/@joewo/117265000232…
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JoeWo (@joewo@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image The fact that Republicans wanted to see Obama's birth certificate more than they want to see the full Epstein files tells you everything you need to know.
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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
It is insane that we do this and the only way to get it right in spoken language is to have grown up with it, I believe. Like, my hit rate adjusting French adjectives and nouns to gender (and they only have two, not three!) is barely better than chance and I feel with anyone trying to deal with […]
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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 11/09/2026
Vor 11 Jahren sah so die "Flüchtlingskrise" aus. Menschen, die Hilfe suchten & sie bekamen. Es war schön. Die Jahre danach waren die mit der niedrigsten Kriminalität ever, die allermeisten gingen zur Schule, in die Arbeit, manche wurden Deutsche. Lasst euch nicht einreden, es sei ein Fehler gewesen.
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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
I like how the iPhone Duo endorses DIN paper sizes. It doesn’t quite match any of them directly, just its aspect ratio. At 118mm × 165mm (unfolded) it falls between A5 and A6 and unfolded between A6 and A7.
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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
I don’t love that my Apple Watch Ultra 3 just got nerfed by the introduction of this terrible audio recording feature of the Ultra 4. I have no interest in that feature, probably won’t own an Ultra 4, yet people might think I’m recording them because the watches are indistinguishable 😕
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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
That iPhone Duo opening transition explains a lot about Liquid Glass…
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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
Indigo has the best cross-device syncing of all the M’don clients I’ve tried. It doesn’t always catch up on its own (not sure if this is a protocol issue, it affects all clients) but the “Last Read” option syncs up reliably. If you use multiple devices, Indigo is an easy recommendation! […]
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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026
JFC a companion phone 🤪 mastodon.social/@verge/117220442439…
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The Verge (@verge@mastodon.social)
iPhone Handoff will seamlessly share one number between two phones https://www.theverge.com/tech/990868/iphone-handoff-ios-27
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Helge Heß @helge.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
I would like to build a nice Linux desktop system. Do I happen to know people who can fund this? 🙃 I know it's arrogant, but I actually do think I know how to pull this off. No dot files involved.
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Flipboard News Desk @newsdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
RE: flipboard.social/@NewsDesk/11720903… Update: Nigel Farage has been reported to the Metropolitan Police and the U.K. Electoral Commission over undercover footage that appears to show him celebrating an “off the book” donation to his U.K. Reform party. flip.it/uk6Fnc […]
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Flipboard News Desk @newsdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
New undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News suggests that even while U.K. Reform's Nigel Farage was fighting a by-election following allegations over party finances, he was engaged in a separate secret plot to break the law on party donations. flip.it/-pCpnx #NigelFarage […]
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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @dgoldsmith.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026
Here's a setting you might want to be aware of on Apple devices: Settings> General> Language & Region> Region You can even set the region to US territories like Puerto Rico or Guam that have the same units, currency and date- and number-formatting conventions as the US. I'm not familiar with […]
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Indio Gringo ® @paninid.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
❤️‍🔥 #comedy #comedia
Está bien pinche raro que les preguntemos a los niños qué quieren ser de grandes y esperemos que la respuesta sea un trabajo.

¿No que dónde quieres vivir? ¿Cómo quieres que se sientan tus días? ¿Qué quieres crear? ¿A quién quieres en tu mesa? ¿En qué clase de criatura te quieres convertir?

No. ¿Qué puesto dentro de la economía te gustaría que empezáramos a prepararte emocionalmente para asumir como identidad?

Señora. Tiene seis años. Ahorita quiere ser caballo.
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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
I’m losing track - is the Strait of America currently open or not?
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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
RE: mas.to/@zzt/117182620400937697 Insightful thread about the complicated voting mechanism used for the Debian LLM vote, and about the choice to ban LLM contribs requiring a 3:1 supermajority vs other options only needing a simple one...
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qbi @qbi.freie-re.de.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
Ich feiere das Video von Wayne #Carpendale gerade sehr. #AfD #noafd
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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
I don’t need to look out the window, I can tell it’s been a rainy day by the … um … bountiful harvest in the cat‘s litter boxes 😬 #CatsOfMastodon
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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
RE: tldr.nettime.org/@tante/11717215553… My statement is not fully correct. An agents.md file does reliably increase the cost for inference by 20% on average.
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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
Researchers at ETH Zurich show that "Agents.md" files don't do much. "AI" is cosplay all the way down. (Original title: Your AGENTS.md file doesn’t actually do anything) pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/27/your-age…
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AI coding bot vendors tell you to use a context file with instructions for the chatbot on how to edit your project. Claude Code wants a CLAUDE.md, or there’s AGENTS.md in general. [_Anthropic_] But does your AGENTS.md do anything? A team at ETH Zurich tested AGENTS files. They ran the bots over some test projects with and without AGENTS.md: [_arXiv_ _, PDF;__presentation_ _, video_] > Surprisingly, we find that providing context files does not generally improve task success rates, while increasing inference cost by over 20% on average. This observation holds across different LLMs, coding agents, and for both LLM-generated and developer-committed context files. A chatbot-generated AGENTS file makes the coding agent succeed at coding tasks about as well as having _no_ AGENTS file — or slightly worse. A human-written AGENTS file gives slightly better success rates, but not much better. Having an AGENTS.md increases the token cost quite a lot — whether the file is chatbot-generated or human-written. (Anthropic probably considers this a feature.) The bot churns through more stuff, but it’s no more likely to finish your task successfully. Overviews of the file structure of the code repository are not useful to the agent. They don’t help the bot get on with editing the listed files any faster. Does the AGENTS file do anything? If you mention particular tools in the AGENTS file, the coding agent will use them more often. That’s about it. So when Anthropic recommended CLAUDE.md, they clearly didn’t measure if the instruction file actually does anything. They just chucked it in as a magical incantation you can invoke so you can hope the robot gets it right. This time. At least you might feel like you’re doing something. This is very like how Anthropic writes Claude Code, which is mostly a pile of magical incantations telling the robot not to screw up yet again. Anthropic doesn’t know any other way to steer the bot. The researchers’ recommendation: keep the instructions short. Be minimal. Or, of course, you could write a nice long file and chug through those tokens! The closest anyone can come to a use for the AGENTS.md file is so you clarify your own thinking on how the project works, One developer on Reddit said: [_Reddit_ _,__archive_] > The actual token-level context it provides matters less than the fact that writing it forces you to articulate things about your codebase that were previously just in your head. Yeah, that’s what we used to call _writing_. Be right back, just starting the project wiki. I call it HUMANS.md. * _Video_ _—_ _Podcast_ ### Share this post: * Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook * Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn * Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit * Share on X (Opens in new window) X * Share on Mastodon (Opens in new window) Mastodon * Share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky * Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email * ### Like this: Like Loading… ### _Related_
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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
Is the premise of GTA to play outright criminals or is it more like Cyberpunk 2077 where you’re facing tough choices in a cynical world but there’s also a clear path to “doing the right thing”. Never played anything from the GTA series, just going by the GTA 6 preview, but I wonder what the […]
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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
Something soft bumped into me repeatedly in my dream last night – until I started waking up, realising it was my cat Hobbes giving me little head bumps. How dare I sleep through breakfast time?! Just adorable, with the slight wrinkle that breakfast time was at 3.30am 🤪 #CatsOfMastodon
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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026
Prompted by the MacStories Nazi pub crawl I’ve gone and verified that another prominent iOS creator was still active on Twitter, and unfollowed. Pretty obvious in hindsight, because all their posts here were promotional. They’re actually pretty easy to spot by their marketing crossposts.
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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026
Hell of a platform to return to, well done, MacStories. universeodon.com/@jaykuo/1171412840…
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Jay Kuo (@jaykuo@universeodon.com)
Attached: 1 image The whole world saw this murder happen on video, and the richest man in the world now spends his time on his immense platform trying to rehabilitate a murderer. White supremacy is a helluva drug.
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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026
RE: ohai.social/@Garwboy/11712683888613… It is remarkable that the only thing these guys can think of is “more”. It's their answer to everything. More.
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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026
I'm at the “how could this possibly be working correctly in production” stage of debugging.
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Sven A. Schmidt @finestructure.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026
I can’t decide what’s worse - someone who’s never left Twitter or someone who took a principled stance early on but goes back once it’s been truly established what a terrible place it is. I applauded @viticci for his decision to take MacStories all-in on Mastodon when it wasn’t clear at all […]
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