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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Now that my #quickshell #desktop #shell is almost finished and I'm thinking about packaging it, I'm *really* tempted to write an #LCARS one next. Please stop me 😅 🫠 #linux #unixporn

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

And here sit I, having written not one, but four shaders just to have cursor animation in my terminal 🫠🫠🫠

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

A Global Device ID (GDID) is a permanent, unique digital fingerprint that Microsoft automatically assigns to your computer when you install Windows or sign into a Microsoft account. Microsoft uses it to manage software licensing and Windows Store apps, but because it links all your online […]

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Before I added an #emoji #picker to my launcher I was not sure it'd actually be a useful feature. But the more I bring this into muscle memory, the more useful I actually find this. #gentoo #linux #unixporn #quickshell #wayland

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.

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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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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

There was this consensus of not going to X after Elon Musk turned it into a right-wing hellhole but I see more and more especially journalists going back "because the AI people are there". Yes, because the "AI" folks mostly agree with right wing talking points because that's what the whole idea […]

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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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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

RE: chaos.social/@fuzzyleapfrog/1173656… Yes, and it's the purpose of everything. Until only platforms stay.

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

"Session beenden" sitzt auf SUPER+SHIFT+Q. Ich wollte gerade mit STRG-C einen Text kopieren und habe mir stattdessen den Compositor beendet. So ein Tag wird das also. #wayland #linux #gentoo #keyboard

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

This, guys. This is how the #subprime #ai #crisis finally begins. I think #oracle will first try to #bancrupt their construction „partners“, but eventually it will all come down […]

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Anybody else got a problem with theme accent color in the new #firefox 157.0 version? It seems everything is purplish. I hate purplish.

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Anybody else got a problem with theme accent color in the new #firefox 157.0 version? It seems everything is purplish. I hate purplish.

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

RE: bunnymotorsports.com/@mookie/117344… Saying what Captain Picard managed in half as many words in TNG 2:21 Sign of the times, I guess…

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

RE: social.bund.de/@Bundesregierung/117… Das ist ein absolut fatales Signal und illustriert eine Politik der Vorgestrigkeit und des völligen Defätismus. Statt die Probleme endlich anzugehen, wird hier weiter so getan, als könnte man mit genug Schulden eine überholte […]

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

RE: neuromatch.social/@jonny/1173255118… Seriously, even if you're non-technical (well, especially IF), read this whole thing. It is nauseating about the business conduct of #Meta (if that's news to you) and at the same time reassuring about the nothingburger #AGI really is.

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Deutsche Umwelthilfe @umwelthilfe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Nur rund 63 % der Bundesschienenwege sind elektrifiziert – während Milliarden in neue Fernstraßen fließen. Wir fordern Verkehrsminister Bilger auf: Autobahn-Milliarden in die Schiene und ein Finanzierungsprogramm für 100 % Elektromobilität bis 2035. www.duh.de/presse/press...

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DUH fordert Finanzierungsprogramm für 100 Prozent Elektromobilität auf Schiene bis 2035

• Nur 62,5 Prozent der Bundesschienenwege elektrifiziert, wichtige Vorhaben wie die Mitte-Deutschland-Verbindung erneut ohne ausreichende Finanzierung• Bundesregierung verfehlt ihre Elektrifizierungsz...

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

"(Leicht zugängliche Mythos-Level Agents sind in meinen Augen schon einige Punkte p(doom) wert [Bauchgefühl]" Nichts für ungut, aber ein Journalist, der darf imho öffentlich nicht vom Bauchgefühl schreiben. Das. Ist. Das. Ganze. Problem.

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

RE: 23.social/@thomasfricke/11728624307… It is borderline ridiculous that people think you can steer LLMs/agents with a prompt like "don't do XYZ". This is noit just sloppy engineering, it is violating 50+ years of engineering practice. In an agentic setting, any tool in any […]

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

RE: infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/1172885… "Perhaps most explosively, Microsoft Director of Applied Science Brent Hecht repeatedly warned in documents that scraping news for AI training was “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” calling it perhaps the “largest […]

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Remember: The call for #AI pacing is nothing but #fearmongering - they may have hordes of agents running wild, but the reason they do so is because they allowed them to. The *actual* reason they want pacing is this: They are out of money and cannot afford to train new frontier models. They […]

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

"You will not believe what happened when I started doing 2x30 push-ups per day." "Ok, what happened?" "I did 60 push-ups per day." 😅

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Morgunin @morgunin.rollenspiel.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

What Do you want to be, when you grow up?

Calvin and Hobbes. Calvin is standing on a sidewalk in front of a yard, looking pensive. He‘s saying „Becoming an adult is probably the dumbest thing you could ever do!“

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Wie war das noch mit "KI nimmt uns die Jobs weg?" "Künstliche Intelligenz, die oft als Jobkiller diskutiert wird, lasse sich laut Wintergerst bislang nicht als Haupttreiber der schwachen Nachfrage belegen." Hätte mich auch überrascht […]

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Not gonna lie, I am now almost 40 years of age and I still totally DIG having compiled my software updates before most folks even have read the release notes.

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Wenn ein Kollege IT-Prof für Lernziele fordert, Programmierparadigma einzukürzen und ein anderer Kollege lakonisch kommentiert: „Wir haben den Walter an die KI verloren.“ 🫩

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

I just had to solve *FIVE* captchas to log into #pypi? Really? "Are you sure you're not a bot". "Not really, no." 😖 #python #ai

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

So, doing my first --emptytree on the #raspi 5 system since I finished the install. I'm genuinely curious how long it takes to do this. [Yes, this is with binaries activated, but that's not even half of the packages, because of course I have to change stuff in my flags...] #gentoo #linux #arm […]

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Enalys :dragn_verified: @enalys.mastodon.zergy.net.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

iptables imply the existence of ipchairs and other ipfurnitures. You can get them at ipkea. :dragn_woozy: #Networking #Linux #Security

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

@lianna @trogluur No, that's not what I said. I'm not neurotypical myself. But if you insist that it's not possible that *YOUR* toot could be read differently than intended, so be it.

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Von allen Apps, deren Verwendung nicht in meiner Autonomie liegt, schafft es nur #Zoom nicht, einen #Darkmode einzubauen. Gnarf.

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chris köver @ckoever.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Kann man KI-Brillen wie die von Meta in Deutschland verbieten? ⚖️ Spoiler: Ja, könnte man. 🎪 Aber die Bundesnetzagentur, die das könnte, sieht dafür keinen Anlass. 💡 In der Hauptrolle bei dieser Posse: Ein Lämpchen. Mehr zu den Hintergründen und dem aktuellen Stand […]

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Oh dang. I need a package from pypi overlay on my #gentoo raspi. Gotta love python dependency hell, otherwise being a data science prof would be virtually impossible... 🤷‍♂️

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

As a side note to this: yes, I did a Gentoo install on a 14 years old dual-core laptop. It took me a couple of hours at most to get it booting into the console with network support enabled. I spent most of that time fooling around with the full disk encryption though, you can probably do a full […]

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Once again "there's aluminum" is not a strong argument for going to the Moon. If there were bars of gold on the Moon's surface, it would not be worth it to get them. Why don't these articles ever talk to an economist? Or just a boring person? fortune.com/2026/08/06/p...

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‘Pure insanity’—Elon Musk details SpaceX’s plan to turn the moon into its newest manufacturing site | Fortune

SpaceX’s SEC filings describe lunar satellite factories, electromagnetic launchers, and robotic mineral mining. The founders building space equipment say the science checks out—even if the timeline do...

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Rairii :win3_progman: :win3: @rairii.labyrinth.zone.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

i didn’t think it was physically possible, but there’s finally something worse than `curl | sh`

Install with an AI agent (recommended)

The fastest way to get ghidrasql running end-to-end is to point an AI coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Aider, etc.) at the bundled installer prompt:

(link to install-prompt.md)

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

Preisfrage für #KI-Enthusiasten: Wenn ein Geschäft unprofitabel ist und ich die Preise um bis zu 80%(!) senke, wird das Geschäft dann profitabler? Frage für OpenAI, die dieses Jahr noch an die Börse wollen... www.heise.de/news/GPT-5-6-OpenAI-se…

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OpenAI senkt Tokenpreise auf Chinaniveau

OpenAI senkt die Tokenpreise für zwei seiner drei Modelle aus der GPT 5.6-Reihe. Sie rangieren damit auf Preisniveaus wie die chinesische Konkurrenz.

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pruefpunkt.org @pruefpunkt.org · 31/07/2026

In Pakistan wurde allein in den letzten 2 Jahren so viel Solar-Leistung neu gebaut, wie im ganzen Land Kohle-, Gas- und Ölkraftwerke installiert sind. Da solche Meldungen es selten in die Schlagzeilen schaffen, widmen wir ihr den Spitzenplatz der Green Solutions Juli: pruefpunkt.org/forschung/gr...

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Green Solutions Juli: Pakistan im Solar-Zeitalter, größter schwimmender Solarpark Afrikas, Putzschiff fährt sauber - Prüfpunkt

Im Juli bei den Green Solutions: Der enorme Solar-Boom in Pakistan, ein schwimmender Solarpark in Marokko und mehr!

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

RE: ec.social-network.europa.eu/@HennaV… Not just the plan itself for Europe to "become an AI continent" (🤮), but also the entire cliché phrasing of this announcement couldn't be more tone-deaf even if wanted to... #AI #EU

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

"The singularity is here" is classic CEO-nese for: the bubble really *is* deflating and we're reallsy, really really out of hot vapour now... 🤷‍♂️ 😂 garymarcus.substack.com/p/sorry-sam… #ai #singularity #hype #bubble

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Sorry, Sam and Elon, we have not reached the Singularity

Not that anyone even knows what that means.

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