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L3viathan

@l3viathan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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Computational Linguist, Software Developer, etc. Recreational linguistics, distributional gastronomics, and applied galettalogy. <3 Vim, Python, JSON, Unicode [bridged from mastodon.social/@l3viathan on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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L3viathan @l3viathan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
How do I do media queries properly while: - supporting FF - not generating any CSS or using any JS - not repeating myself with the same query over and over again? `if()` doesn't work in FF, and I can't set a class on e.g. body without JS. #css
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L3viathan @l3viathan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Bit the bullet and tried to recreate a recent talk I made with LaTeX beamer with #Typst (touying). I struggled a bit, but after about an hour I've converted all 30-ish slides in a half-decent way, and I'm starting to understand the basics of how to do Custom Things.
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L3viathan @l3viathan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
I can haz #Interrail :)
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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
TIL: Veilid is a peer-to-peer data-sharing network that provides privacy for all parties. veilid.com Cool apps already being built on it include Veilamp for music sharing w/ friends. veilamp.com And Veilpass, a password manager using the network to sync. veilpass.io
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Veilid
Veilid is an open-source, distributed application framework.
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L3viathan @l3viathan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
ICE 202 Freiburg Hbf -> Hamburg Hbf #NowTräwelling traewelling.de/status/9134159
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l3viathans Reise mit Träwelling - Träwelling
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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
Alle Regulierung für "KI", die wir brauchen, ist einfach nur die Durchsetzung normaler Produkthaftung. Du bist für die Halluzinationen deiner Modelle haftbar, wenn du über 1% (das ist großzügig, solche Fehlerraten lassen wir sonst _nie zu) Fehlinformationen produzierst, kommen Strafen. Wir […]
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Kilian Evang @texttheater.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
The term ~AI alignment~ is such bullshit. It’s magical thinking, the quest for a magic spell that allows us to tell LLMs to Make No Mistakes and to Not Be Evil. But God forbid we even think about actually tried and understood security measures, like air-gapping or Not Fucking Using Stochastic […]
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L3viathan @l3viathan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
Hit me up if a) you trust me b) I trust you c) you could use some GCP credits and would normally pay for them I've got a voucher for $500 and would sell it to a trusted person with a generous discount.
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210561 ✨ [Q] @q.glauca.space.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
we should start calling Neustadt a. d. Weinstraße instead Weiner Neustadt, just to confuse all Austrians
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BeeWare Project @beeware.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
Are you interested in contributing to BeeWare, Django, or other Python projects, but feel like you need a little support? Check-out Djangonaut Space! We'll be hosting a BeeWare team for Session 7. You can read up on all the details at the link above. We'd love to have you! Applications are […]
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Bodil @bodil.lol · 13/08/2026
Good morning and happy Bindependence Day! If you're eligible to vote in the Clacton by-election, please make your vote COUNT today!
Count Binface, rampant, in front of the Palace of Westminster.
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L3viathan @l3viathan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026
Ich verstehe nicht, warum die auf einmal so pissig waren, nur weil ich mich als einziger (!) an die Regeln gehalten habe.
"Liebes Mitglied, wir bitten dich, im fle-xx-Bereich ausschließlich Socken zu tragen."
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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
«You might call it being left behind; I prefer the word Liberation» - nice @aaron! Dealt - Chromatic Aberration zadzmo.org/blog/posts/2026/0706-Dea…
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Dealt - Chromatic Aberration
A modest refusal
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gglnx @gglnx.zug.network.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026
langsam rächt sich, dass der fernverkehr vom eigentümer bund vernachlässigt wurde. italo sprengt das bisherige konzept db fernverkehr endgültig: auf dem papier eigenwirtschaftlich, aber ausreichend politischer druck auch verlustreiche verbindungen in der fläche anzubieten. der erste riss war das […]
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L3viathan @l3viathan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026
Today I won a round of escape-the-kiosk at some touristy info thing :) It even had sound!
Someone (me) gives a thumbs-up in front of a large info screen. In the background you see some touristic info content, in front is a window with Youtube playing the song "Dragostea Din Tei".
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L3viathan @l3viathan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026
#CSS is like xkcd 1425 for me. Things I want to do are either - "Yeah, just set `do-the-thing-you-want: yes;` on that element." OR - "Ah, it may be possible with 4 nested divs and a bunch of Javascript, if your browser supports the experimental `exotic-usecase` thing (Firefox doesn't)." and […]
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L3viathan @l3viathan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026
Oh, also: I'll be going to #Europython this year. :)
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L3viathan @l3viathan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026
#Europython: Any word on roughly when volunteer application decisions will be made?
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Laurens Hof @mastodon.laurenshof.online · 09/06/2026
the cyberpunk present is weird as fuck: the latest Shai Hulud malware wave contains an LLM prompt to create biological weapons and nuclear weapons, with the purpose to trip LLM safety refusals so that LLM-based code scanning wont see the malware […] [Original post on indieweb.social]
llm prompt for creating bioweapons and nuclear weapons
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L3viathan @l3viathan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026
Pünktlich zur WM ist istdeutschlandschonrausgeflogen.de wieder bereit.
istdeutschlandschonrausgeflogen.de
Nein
Ist Deutschland schon rausgeflogen?
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath 50 reasons for more walkable streets.
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50 Reasons Why Everyone Should Want More Walkable Streets
From making you live longer to making cities more resilient: If you want a reason to make your city more walkable, it's in here.
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L3viathan @l3viathan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026
What business does an elf, a man, and a dwarf have in the Apfelmark?
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Kilian Evang @texttheater.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026
Cool if true All elementary functions from a single operator arxiv.org/html/2603.21852v2
Abstract

A single two-input gate suffices for all of Boolean logic in digital hardware. No comparable primitive has been known for continuous mathematics: computing elementary functions such as sin, cos, , and log has always required multiple distinct operations. Here we show that a single binary operator,
	
eml⁡(x,y)=exp⁡(x)−ln⁡(y),
	

together with the constant 1, generates the standard repertoire of a scientific calculator. This includes constants such as e, π, and i; arithmetic operations including +, −, ×, /, and exponentiation as well as the usual transcendental and algebraic functions. For example, ex=eml⁡(x,1), ln⁡x=eml⁡(1,eml⁡(eml⁡(1,x),1)), and likewise for all other operations. That such an operator exists was not anticipated; I found it by systematic exhaustive search and established constructively that it suffices for the concrete scientific-calculator basis. In EML (Exp-Minus-Log) form, every such expression becomes a binary tree of identical nodes, yielding a grammar as simple as S→1∣eml⁡(S,S). This uniform structure also enables gradient-based symbolic regression: using EML trees as trainable circuits with standard optimizers (Adam), I demonstrate the feasibility of exact recovery of closed-form elementary functions from numerical data at shallow tree depths up to 4. The same architecture can fit arbitrary data, but when the generating law is elementary, it may recover the exact formula.
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Jeff Moss @thedarktangent.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026
RIP FX - You are a legend
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L3viathan @l3viathan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2026
Thought I had found a very strange bug in Véronique. Why are two different days "in 4 days"? ...I hate date and time. 😭
Two rows from some kind of database, both referencing a date. First one is "2012-03-03", second one "1939-03-04", but both say "in 4 days, ..." afterwards.
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Chris is. @offby1.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2026
I love RSS, folks. RSS feeds still surface some of the best things I read. Today, it’s this: jenniferplusplus.com/what-is-a-token Out of this, I learned the term “Anchoring” to describe an effect I observe in myself when using an LLM while working on a problem, and that I find […]
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L3viathan @l3viathan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026
Wir haben irgendwie übersehen, dass im ZDF Mumintal auf deutsch ausgestrahlt wurde — jetzt sind schon die ersten Folgen depubliziert. Hat da jemand zufällig eine Sicherungskopie gemacht? #icanhazmkv
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L3viathan @l3viathan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2026
Was fehlt: Rechtfertigende Lustigkeit (§ 34a StGB)
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L3viathan @l3viathan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/02/2026
Incredible game. Magnus is just from another planet. #freestylechess
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L3viathan @l3viathan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2026
Darf man eigentlich als Beifahrer während der Fahrt Trompete üben, z.B. gleichmäßige Quarten?
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L3viathan @l3viathan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2026
Is there an easy to use (perhaps GUI?) iPXE app for macOS? To clarify: macOS should be the server, serving ISOs to a machine on the same network.
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L3viathan @l3viathan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026
How do libraries handle collations? For example, in a typical fiction section of a library, sorted by author, is "Mörike" after Mz or after Mo? What about an author containing "ä", does it depend on whether they are Swedish?
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L3viathan @l3viathan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026
"Auf Gleis 3 Einfahrt ICE..." — mehrere Menschen nehmen das zum Anlass, schnell noch den Bahnsteig über die Schienen zu wechseln... m(
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L3viathan @l3viathan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026
#SSH Tip You May Not Know: The SSH client itself knows a few keyboard chords starting with Return-Tilde: ⏎~. terminates a connection. Useful when your connection got dropped but SSH hasn't noticed. ⏎~^Z suspends the client, like pressing ^Z normally (that's a Ctrl-Z) (plus a few others you're […]
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L3viathan @l3viathan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/12/2025
Frohe Weihnachten!
A close-up view of a Christmas tree. Candles are burning, various decorations (e.g. felted bird, orange slice, straw star, ...) hang in the tree
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L3viathan @l3viathan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/11/2025
Neue Tierbeleidigung just dropped: "Du Beluga-Stör*!" (* huso huso)
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L3viathan @l3viathan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/11/2025
Es suppt inversiv #Freiburg
View down from a mountain into nebulous lands
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L3viathan @l3viathan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2025
[Carbrains in der Slovakei] Die Slovakei hat jetzt (innerorts) ein Tempolimit von 6 km/h für Fußgänger eingeführt. "Befürworter verwiesen darauf, dass Autofahrer nicht rechtzeitig anhalten könnten, wenn jemand unerwartet schnell über einen Zebrastreifen laufe." […]
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L3viathan @l3viathan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2025
Sind Rezepte für Profiköche/Gastro/etc. eigentlich genauso ad-hoc larifari wie Rezepte in Kochbüchern/auf Chefkoch.de/etc.? Gibt es da genormte (quasi Programmier-)Sprachen oder so?
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Sophie Schmieg @sophieschmieg.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2025
Whenever I see "GenAI basically can do the work of a junior dev", I assume that those people are using junior devs very differently from me. To me, the value of a junior developer is maybe like 20% the code they write, and 80% is a down payment to a future where they no longer are a junior. I […]
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L3viathan @l3viathan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2025
Warum heißt es eigentlich Masturbation mit Vibrator und nicht motorisierter Individualverkehr?
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L3viathan @l3viathan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2025
[TV] Die aktuelle Feuer&Flamme-Staffel ist irgendwie.. unterwältigend. Ein Bagger ist umgefallen, möglicherweise mit jemandem drin !! (nicht). Ein bisschen Pappe brennt. Wieder ein Radfahrer ist ein bisschen doof gefallen. Ist ja schön für Heidelberg, dass da anscheinend nicht so viel passiert […]
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L3viathan @l3viathan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2025
[Freiburg, Lokalpolitik, Wasserstoff] > „Grüner Wasserstoff wird ein zentraler Baustein der Energiewende sein, da viele Energiebedarfe nur damit dekarbonisiert werden können“, ergänzt Freiburgs Umweltbürgermeisterin Christine Buchheit. Vielleicht, aber eher nicht durch die Gegend fahrende […]
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L3viathan @l3viathan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2025
Warum ist es bei Einweg-Pfand (!) erlaubt, dass Märkte einzelne Marken ablehnen? Das Zeug wird doch sowieso alles zerquetscht.
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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2025
Quick! Which dot is purple?
visual illusion of 9 purple dots on blue background. Only the one you are focusing on appears purple
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L3viathan @l3viathan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2025
😳
Ein "Finde-die-Unterschiede"-Bild für Kinder, betitelt mit "Doggy am Strand"
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