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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3h

Read @briannosek 's post, especially Part 2 and it becomes clear why ischolarly infrastructure must be decentralized, meaning that each institution provides a local node, witrh local resources and support. www.cos.io/blog/osf-changes-a-note-… Scholarship is too big for a single […]

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GhostOnTheHalfShell @ghostonthehalfshell.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 16h

What people need to understand is the most die hard. Maga supporters are fine with that. Trump will have his reasons they’ll say. For the love of God, we have to vote these people out of power. We have to vote MAGA out of power to people who vote for the Republican Party..

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Paco Hope @paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 16h

It’s funny to think that a taco truck outside your office, if it takes in revenue greater than its costs—you know: profit?—has more profit than OpenAI and Anthropic combined.

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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 05/10/2026

ooof. Done with the evaluation report. Obviously I didn't take a full four months to do it, I just had to work up the courage first to open this massive PDF 😅 On the plus side, the upcoming reviews for #chi2027 with their 30-35 pages seem rather cute now 😉

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lea @lea.ordinary.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

If you/your project is affected by DigitalOcean stopping their OSS credits program, please shoot me a PM immediately. Might be able to help. Boosts for visibility would be appreciated. #foss #linux

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Zentrum für Politische Schönheit @politicalbeauty.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Da einige gewitzelt haben, ob sein Führungsoffizier russisch oder chinesisch könne: Mit dieser Email-Adresse hat ein "john_genau" einen Duolingu-Account errichtet und nach der Invasion der Ukraine versucht, russisch zu lernen. 😳 web.archive.org/web/20240807...

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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 05/10/2026

A single ripe pear Left among the autumn leaves The magpie has left. #haiku #gardening #autumn

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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 05/10/2026

Oh that's just brilliant, someone has hacked the Danish CPR registry and walked out with 8.8 million datasets, including names, addresses, and national ID numbers. That's approximately... EVERYBODY living in Denmark right now. 😑 Assume a lot of very official-looking phishing attempts in the […]

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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Very long shot. Do I know anyone in or near Phuket who can do me a favour? I left my wallet in a hotel earlier this year. They've just let me know they found it. Anyone over there willing to pick it up & post it back to me? Happy to pay, of course.

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares — the equivalent of almost 500 football fields — for two new data centers in the northern part of Finland without concluding the necessary environmental assessments. Despite the assessments still being in progress, the tech giant’s contractors […]

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Jon Hancock @bigjackbrass.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Is it me or does this approach rather miss the actual cause of the problem?

Screenshot of The Guardian website. Headline: Germany –
Women given free cycling shorts to prevent upskirting on Oktoberfest amusement
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GhostOnTheHalfShell @ghostonthehalfshell.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@islieb/11737760051… @wackJackle When you don’t need to reach for the dictionary

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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 03/10/2026

It has been __0__ days since I had to fix a networking issue by disabling IPv6. In 2026. 🙄 #networking #ipv6 #sysadminlife

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Weltzeitgeist @wackjackle.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Diese europäischen Öl- und Dieselreserven sind übrigens dafür gedacht, dass im absoluten Notfall Europa weiterhin Zugriff auf Öl und Diesel hat. Stattdessen wird es genutzt, damit Trump noch eine vermeintliche Chance bekommt, die Wahlen zu gewinnen und den Irankrieg nicht als LOSER beenden zu […]

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Indio Gringo ® @paninid.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

This.

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

In precision machining it’s known that the standard twist drill makes holes that are never perfectly round nor perfectly sized. When exactness is required you drill slightly undersized then follow up with a reamer. Needing 10.000mm I drilled 9.9 and chucked a 10mm reamer. Instead of taking tiny […]

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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 02/10/2026

Wenn man sieht, wie die Union die Grünen angegriffen hat und jetzt die Linke Berlin attackiert.. fragt man sich schon, wann genau sie denn eigentlich vor hat, das auch mit der rechtsextremen AfD zu machen.

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Courtney Rosenthal @courtney.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

The Open Home Foundation Community Day is coming up on November 7. I don't see any events registered for the Portland, OR area. www.openhomefoundation.org/communit… If five Portland-area Home Assistant enthusiasts respond to this post and indicate they'd attend an event that day […]

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Glyph @glyph.im · 02/10/2026

cc @mttaggart

spiderman saying to applejack "do you see this shit applejack"

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GhostOnTheHalfShell @ghostonthehalfshell.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117369225… The threat of any extinction or more loosely, broad global genocide has nothing to do with AI per se, but the totalitarian madness of the wealthiest people in the world for whom nothing is ever enough.

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

LLMs really have put the academic publishing system of "publish or perish" into a death spiral: arXiv introduces a limit of two submissions per month for 'authors'. Academia has been broken for a long time, but this really lays it bare… Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated […]

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

RE: tacobelllabs.net/@astraluma/1173636… Digital Ocean killed its "we give Open Source projects a bit of free hosting" policy basically at the same time they droppen 3 millions USD on Omarchy, DHH's (who is a fascist and racist) set of config files he calls a distribution […]

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Kris @isotopp.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Ladies and Gentlemen, the AI credit crisis has officially opened: first national bank warns of AI credit risk www.reuters.com/business/finance/ba…

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Patrick Breyer @echo-pbreyer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

🇪🇺✅ Good news: No "dirty deal" on #ChatControl 2.0 in yesterday's trilogue! 🎉 The Parliament stood firm – thanks to your pressure. But: the threat remains, next showdown likely in November. Update […]

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Thomas Kahle @tomkalei.mathe.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/12/2024

Im Uninetz der #OvGU Magdeburg wird die Webseite der-adenauer.de geblockt. Ich würde sehr gerne wissen warum, und welche weiteren Seiten geblockt werden und habe gerade beim IT-Service mal unbedarft angefragt. Meint ihr, so ein Uni-Rechenzentrum muss nach einer #IfG Anfrage seine Blocklisten […]

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Tyrone Slothrop @slothrop.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Woke up to the excellent news that @timnitGebru has received the Right Livelihood Award, aka the Alternative Nobel Prize. 🏆 That recognition is important, and well-deserved. Congratulations!🎉 🎉 🎉

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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 30/09/2026

So... OpenAI won't release ChatGPT 6 for now because it's "too dangerous" or "unaligned". Given Sam Altman's history, I have a hard time believing that he'd voluntarily pass on any chance to increase profits, public safety be damned. A much more plausible explanation IMHO is that it's just not […]

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heise online @heiseonline.social.heise.de.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Anthropic: Nettoverlust von 42 Milliarden US-Dollar allein 2025 Allein im vergangenen Jahr hat Anthropic mehr als 40 Milliarden US-Dollar Verlust gemacht. Das hat das Unternehmen in einem Börsenprospekt eingestanden […]

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

RE: neuromatch.social/@jonny/1173398259… OK! Meta evaluated this as intended behavior, not applicable for a bug bounty, so therefore responsible disclosure no longer applies so here goes: any process run within the VM can access the socket that provides inference with no […]

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more

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Tiota Sram @tiotasram.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

It only takes a very rudimentary understanding of economics to see that, in the long run, the market price of running "agentic AI" (or whatever the latest buzz becomes) and the salary of any kind of knowledge worker can only be separated by a gap that's dependent on *management's* ability to […]

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Neil Kandalgaonkar @neilk.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Hey, remember when the International Criminal Court was locked out of their Microsoft accounts? These people are doing something about that hrdag.org/2026/08/04/the-technology… > […] we are building shared […]

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

“I don’t know how they know, but half the lost dats in this neighbourhood end up in my middle kids bedroom, up the trellis, across the carport roof, and in the window. It’s like there’s a sign or something” “Like that one?” “Where!” “Oh, you don’t have the Sight? It says ‘total softie lives […]

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Wieferich Prime @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Some rich tech asshole: "I am a fascist. Here is a list of fascist things that I, a full-blown mask-off fascist, believe" Equivocating FOSS Libs on here: "Well, it's impossible to say if he's actually fash. He's said some racist things, sure, (and I'm apparently OK with that?) but I don't […]

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Dominic @dominic.bildung.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Ich gestalte gerade ein freies (#OER, CC0) #Periodensystem in #Inkscape für den Chemieunterricht. Idee: - druckbar auf A4 und optimiert für Farbsehschwäche und Schwarzweißkopien (Metalle/Halbmetalle/Nichtmetalle noch erkennbar). - Menge der Datenangaben […] [Original post on bildung.social]

Periodensystem der Elemente im Querformat als freies Unterrichtsmaterial. 118 Elemente in der üblichen Anordnung mit 18 Gruppen und 7 Perioden; Lanthanoide und Actinoide stehen als zwei abgesetzte Reihen darunter und sind mit Pfeilen an Platzhalterfelder in Gruppe 3 angebunden.

Jedes Feld zeigt oben links die Ordnungszahl, oben rechts die Elektronegativität nach Pauling, in der Mitte groß das Elementsymbol, darunter den Namen und unten links die Atommasse. Radioaktive Elemente tragen unten rechts ein Warnzeichen.

Die Farben zeigen den Stoffcharakter: Metalle blau, sie füllen den größten Teil links, in der Mitte und unten. Halbmetalle sandfarben entlang einer Treppenlinie von Bor bis Tellur. Nichtmetalle hellgrün oben rechts, die Edelgase in Gruppe 18 rosa.

Schraffiert sind 21 Elemente, von denen es nie genug Atome gab, um sie als Stoff zu untersuchen: Astat, Francium, Fermium bis Lawrencium und die ganze Periode 7 ab Rutherfordium.

Titel, Legende und ein beschriftetes Musterfeld stehen in der freien Fläche über den Nebengruppen. Unten rechts die Datenquellen CIAAW 2024, NUBASE2020 und Allred 1961.

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Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified: @adamshostack.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@kralcttam/11733670… We've replaced the bureaucratic impediment to rapid action, Stanislav Petrov, with an LLM as part of our strategy of "aggressively identifying and eliminating bureaucratic barriers to deeper integration."

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Patrick Breyer @echo-pbreyer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

🇩🇪🚨Dienstag droht schmutziger Deal zur #Chatkontrolle 2.0 mit PERMANENTER Erlaubnis von Massenscans unserer privaten Chats (sog. #Suchpläne). 😱 Werden laut und mailt euren EU-Abgeordneten JETZT, um das zu verhindern: ℹ️ chatkontrolle.de ✍️ fightchatcontrol.de

Screenshot einer Infoseite zur „Chatkontrolle 2.0“. Überschrift: „Hilf jetzt mit die Chatkontrolle zu stoppen!“. Ein gelb markierter Satz hebt hervor: „Am Dienstag, den 29. September findet ein potenziell letzter und entscheidender Trilog statt“, mit Hinweis auf starken Druck auf EU-Unterhändler und einen „faulen Kompromiss“.

Abschnitt „Entlarvt: Die Falle des ‚Schein-Targetings‘“ erklärt, dass geplante „Suchpläne“ für „Teile eines Dienstes“ praktisch Massenscans bedeuten könnten; Algorithmen/„KI“ könnten Inhalte als verdächtig bewerten und melden.

Ein weiterer Absatz erwähnt, dass der Juristische Dienst des Rates vor Rechtswidrigkeit („allgemein und unterschiedslos“) warne.

Unten: Abschnitt zum Schlupfloch der „freiwilligen“ Chatkontrolle 1.0 mit Zahlen zu Fehlalarmen und Ermittlungen gegen Minderjährige.

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Holger @hodihu.social.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Letzte Chance - am 7.10. ist Sperrmüll und bis dahin kann dieses Schätzchen (Fernschreiber mit Lochstreifenleser und -locher) in der Nähe von Schweinfurt abgeholt werden. Koschd nix, wenn er in liebevolle Hände kommt, für alle anderen eine Kiste heimisches Bier. #afu #amateurfunk #vintage

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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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The Far Side Bot @farside-bot.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

#thefarside #farside #comic www.thefarside.com/2026/09/25/2 “Bedtime, Leroy. Here comes your animal blanket."

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Natascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Die CDU montiert mit der AfD zusammen Stolpersteine ab, die im Stadtbild (ha) den Opfern des Holocausts gedenken sollen und echauffiert sich gleichzeitig über den Antisemitismus bei Anderen. Habe ich das richtig verstanden?

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 25/09/2026

this is, so we're clear, the kind of stuff unrealistic AI doomsday scenarios are intended to overshadow in the press half-cooked automation layered onto already very broken systems in a country too corrupt to have working regulators

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UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges

For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

To folks into electronics, PCB manufacturing and/or #retrocomputing: this is a very broken membrane of an LC keyboard (M0487). Many traces are bad. I was wondering if this could be manufactured like any regular PCB. JLC apparently does flexible boards […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Michael Lühmann @herrluehmann.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Brandmauer einreißen, Antisemitismus Edition. Shame on you, CDU! Kümmert Euch gefälligst um die Antisemiten in Euren eigenen Reihen! Und Herr Merz, ich erwarte hier sofortige Konsequenzen! www.deutschlandfunk.de/stolperstein...

Stolpersteinverbot im sächsischen Heidenau beschlossen

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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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Terrible Maps :bot: @terriblemaps.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Does Coca-Cola make your country’s favourite soft drink?

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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 24/09/2026

Looks like #Ukraine is really starting to kick #Russia back on the front line, using all sorts of sci-fi sounding tech ("heavy drones dropping assault robots behind enemy lines") […]

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