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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

#IT #Technology #News #Week #Review So you may ask, what was noteworthy in IT/tech this week? • Something late: FTC investigating OpenAI on ChatGPT data collection and publication of false information — […]

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Ich muss ja doch sagen, dass ich auf die Frage "für Frieden und Sozialismus, seid bereit:" tatsächlich mit "Immer bereit!" antworten würde.

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

#IT #Technology #News #Week #Review So you may ask, what was noteworthy in IT/tech this week? • Something startling: Anthropic operates a biology lab and claims its AI has found a new CRISPR like enzyme system — […]

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Chag Sukkot sameach!

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Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Wenn die AfD eine Wahl gewinnt, übernimmt Merz die Forderungen der AfD. Wenn die Linke eine Wahl gewinnt, will Merz das Grundgesetz ändern, damit die Linke ihre Ziele nicht umsetzen kann.

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

#Monday again, like an unplanned awkward encounter with a talkative distant relative.

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

גמר חתימה טובה to all of you.

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

#IT #Technology #News #Week #Review So you may ask, what was noteworthy in IT/tech this week? • Something hopeful: Record number of visitors for fediverse community conference — berlinfedi.day/en • Something unsettling: US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons — […]

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

#Politics #Religion #Nationalism Alice hurts Bob. To make up for it, Charlie hurts David. Makes sense? I believe that group identification is responsible for the majority of violence today.

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Hendrik Weimer @hweimer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

RE: mathe.social/@tomkalei/117270657938… If you believe that AI companies suddenly behave ethically when it comes to not stealing other people's research works, you suffer from a variant of Gell-Mann amnesia. #ai #science

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

@AwetTesfaiesus Ich kann mich irren, aber die Ansicht, dass das Zivilrecht vor 1945 sauber war, gab es meiner Meinung nach nur in Westdeutschland.

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

@AwetTesfaiesus Aus Interesse: Ist das eine ernsthafte Überlegung? Wenn schon Geld für Tokens da ist, wäre es dann nicht besser, ein eigenes LLM laufen zu lassen? Ein vom Land Berlin trainiertes und auf eigener Infrastruktur laufendes LLM hielte ich ethisch für vertretbar. Ich halte ja auch eine […]

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

#Monday again, like a halfdry teabag found in a forgotten pot of mouldy tea.

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

#AI #Incident #IsItReal #IsItPR To everyone who's wondering why we keep getting these weird statements from AI producers (has found tons of security leaks, 10% chance to kill humanity, must be throttled by governments) and incidents (hugging face, german wiki), here's a small reminder in form […]

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

#Kahnemann #Tversky #ThinkingFastAndSlow "Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it." D.Kahnemann, "Thinking, Fast and Slow", Penguin Books 2012/2024, p.460

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

#Germany #Berlin #Politics #Prüf Thousands of people demonstrate against the rise of the far right in Berlin.

Masses of people, seen from the back, move along Friedrichstraße in Berlin. A big poster with a traffic sign reads "rechts abbiegen veboten" (no right turns).

Masses of people, seen from the front, walk along Friedrichstraße in Berlin.

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

#IT #Technology #News #Week #Review So you may ask, what was noteworthy in IT/tech this week? • Something liberating: LibreOffice without AI features breaks download record — www.heise.de/en/news/Download-recor… • Something foreboding […]

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

#IT #Security #CompanyTalk "What's our biggest attack vector?" "The Sales/Marketing department."

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

My email client is broken. By evening I make sure that I have read all emails. Next day I open it and it is again full of emails. I read those again by evening, the next day I open the client, and it is again full of emails. This is horrible! There's no end! Where can I file a bug report?

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Thomas Ebinger (Moderator) @ebinger.bildung.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Wie doppeldeutig die Formulierung von der ausgestreckten Hand doch ist.

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

#IT #Technology #News #Week #Review So you may ask, what was noteworthy in IT/tech this week? • Something concerning: OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki — […]

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

#Meteorologie #Kalauer Irgendwie, seitdem es Wettervorhersagen gibt, ist das Wetter ja immer total angesagt.

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

#IT #Technology #News #Week #Review So you may ask, what was noteworthy in IT/tech this week? • Something liberating: New EU consumer rights for easy and attractive repairs now official — […]

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

#Mozart #Oper #Verballhornung Ihr kennt doch die Arie aus Figaro, oder? Wo Cherubini abends noch Hunger hat? "Höret mein Herze / hört wie es pocht / sagt, ist es Nudelwasser / was da so kocht?"

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

#IT #Technology #News #Week #Review So you may ask, what was noteworthy in IT/tech this week? • Something sensible: China joins Europe in scrapping Windows for Linux — www.zdnet.com/article/china-drops-w… • Something negligent: Over 170,000 nonprofits lose their data […]

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Leaning back, my eyes now closing, this time as each time before. Quoth the dentist, "Floss some more".

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

@phocks Need to get some fixes on the main server done, then hopefully off to bed.

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

#IT #Technology #News #Week #Review So, you may ask, what was noteworthy in IT/Tech this week? • Something consequential: France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s -- www.reuters.com/world/frances-top-c… […]

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

@quinn I've read (a version) of the book. Pity the film is a disapointment...

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

@quinn The main character is Odysseus? I've seen only one film by Nolan ("Memento") which had a sort of nice clever twist, so I expected something similar? Main character being Homer, or similar?

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

@quinn That's interesting. Why? How did Nolan portray him? (I'm not planning to watch the movie.)

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

#SocialMedia #Language We use this term "social media" for microblogs, blogs, picture sharing. Can't we find another official collective noun that describes X, Meta, Instagram, etc? What about "antisocial media"? Or "commercial communities"? Or "social advertising"?

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

#Tech #Coding #AI #CognitiveDebt Sensible advice from Ankur Sethi on how to "Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code": ankursethi.com/blog/prevent-cogniti… "I might not personally be able to change the course of the […]

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

#IT #Technology #News #Week #Review So, you may ask, what was noteworthy in IT/Tech during the summer holiday? Something sensible: EU Court rules that VPNs are lawful technical tools — […]

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Der Haken @der-haken.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

Du kannst dein eigenes DataCenter sein. Trinke reichlich Wasser und konsumiere so viel Literatur wie moeglich.

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

@sundogplanets Content is not available at my location. I set my VPN to Canada, same result. Where do I need to point my VPN to listen to this?

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

@i0null Alle Räder stehen still, wenn dein starker Arm es will.

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

#Research #Publishing #OpenAccess The university has declined to take over open-access publishing fees for our paper. Bit of a blow. (I do not need to write here how unhealthy our current funding/research/publishing/access model is, a quick search will yield plenty of comments.)

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Klaus Stein @lapizistik.social.tchncs.de.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

P == NP für N = 1

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

Okay, there's #Funkwhale. Interesting. Very few users though, compared with other ActivityPub services.

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

#Music #Audio #Community #SocialMedia There is no social media for sharing audio and music, is there? We have microblogging platforms for short texts, we have blogs for long texts, we have platforms for sharing short videos, we have social networks for images. There's nothing for just audio […]

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

@lowqualityfacts Actually, the reverse question is far more relevant: Could Mars survive on snails?

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Jacob Something @jkanev.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

Nach drei Wochen Sommerpause das erste mal wieder den Rechner hochgefahren. Beim Einloggen ist mir mein Passwort sofort eingefallen. Leider.

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