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Golden Cloud Core (2026) (Four months ago, the last light refracting in the clouds, spending a night in the central Alps at 2850 meters... 😍) #SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Alps #Mountains #Glacier #CloudAppreciation

A single large cumulus cloud with golden yellow tint is floating above large glaciated mountain peaks and the already almost completely dark valley in front. The view is from high up and the valley stretches out below us in dark shades of blue.

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Franz Graf @hikingdude.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Take Action - Hands Off Nature Powerful polluting industries and their political allies are dismantling Europe’s environmental laws - trading our health and future for profit and power. These reckless attacks threaten our clean drinking water, safe food, fresh air, and healthy nature. They […]

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

@raganwald Yeah, I think about that POV very often myself, not just software, but also music, photography, painting and other art, the ephemeral nature of it all. The process of art making, esp. before the era of recorded media. But then I always return back to how I think software is somewhat […]

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

If the three+ decades of free (ab)use and lack of participation/reciprocation (financially or otherwise) of commercial players and governments have not killed FLOSS software projects/culture, it very much feels like LLMs and their euphoric adoption are finally succeeding with that by now, in […]

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Single Use Software is a great phrase and way to think about this! Some other alternatives I'd like to offer: It's the NIH Syndrome (Not Invented Here) gone hyperviral & mainstream: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_… It's also the Lisp Curse supercharged (which equally applies to […]

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

"Music is so relaxing and the percussion instruments make the accents of the different rhythms so easy to listen to that you should have no difficulty in keeping time..." DJ Food — Bass City Roller (1997) www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_he6sM58lY (Slooowww, but beware of sub-bass...) […]

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Thin Layer Of Life (2026) (I love scenes like this, exposing just how thin and fragile this carpet of life is in the high mountains, considering the ages/centuries, the obstacles it took to overcome and the relationships needing to form for this varied life […] [Original post on mastodon.thi.ng]

A high alpine landscape showing a small plateau of rocks overgrown with mosses, small bushes and some isolated larch trees, all in beautifully rich autumn colors. The dense carpet of tundra life is interrupted by erosion and cliffs in the foreground, exposing just how thin and fragile that layer of top soil and vegetation actually is. Talus fields and bare rock higher up in the hazy background.

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

“Fast tech is the blind spot of the e-waste world. Black Friday and Christmas will bring another enormous wave of electronic toys, decorative lights, mini gadgets, chargers and other inexpensive electronics into our homes. Their low price doesn’t mean they have no environmental cost. We need […]

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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

New blog post: "Knowledge refinement in the digital era" How can computational knowledge move from research into education and general culture? blog.khinsen.net/posts/2026/09/25/k…

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Just published a new helper package thi.ng/hiccup-sanitize to cleanup a hiccup component/element/SVG tree. Supports removing/keeping user-defined attributes and/or elements (and their entire sub-trees). #ThingUmbrella #ReleaseDay #OpenSource #Hiccup #Sanitze #TypeScript #JavaScript

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Helper package to remove user defined attributes and elements from a @thi.ng/hiccup tree

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Anyone else encountering internal server errors when pushing to @Codeberg? git push Enumerating objects: 14, done. Counting objects: 100% (14/14), done. Delta compression using up to 8 threads Compressing objects: 100% (9/9), done. Writing objects: 100% (9/9), 2.66 KiB […]

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Franz Graf @hikingdude.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

There are some really good #nature photos in there! #photography

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

order an ESP32, get your Global Entry revoked. incredible stuff happening www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/1x3…

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025

Natural particle system, frozen in time (1/1000s exposure time). (Close-up side view of the 160 meter tall Stuibenfall in the early morning light...) #WaterfallWednesday #NaturePhotography #Waterfall #Light

Close up view of water droplets of a large waterfall in freefall, shot against the bright morning light.

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2025

Watching the epic "stuiben" (aka spray) of the water crashing down 160 meters at Stuibenfall (Ötztal, Austria, tallest waterfall in Tyrol)... #WaterfallWednesday #Waterfall #NaturePhotography #Photography #Alps

Top-down & close-up view of Stuibenfall, the tallest waterfall in Tyrol. Thanks to a 1/1000th second exposure time, individual droplets near the top (left side of the image) are lit up and glittering in the morning sun. Layers of falling water and spray in the shade below, swirling once they hit the carved out rocks at the bottom...

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Prof Heino Falcke @hfalcke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Die Schaltsekunde wird abgeschafft, weil wir Angst haben, unsere Computeruhren vorzustellen. Das ist ein Sinnbild dafür, dass wir uns immer mehr von unserem Planeten entkoppeln, weil er nicht mehr zu unserer Technik passt […]

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Bernina Falls (2024) (Just one of many cascades forming these falls in their eponymous mountain range of the Alps...) #WaterfallWednesday #Photography #BlackAndWhite #NoirCountry #Waterfall #Alps

B&W photo of a waterfall with its stream temporarily splitting into two falls with a 90 degree angle in between them. Heavy flow and whitewater forming.

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Invisible Chasm Ⅳ (2024) (Small section visible of the path leading down to the mouth of a glacial canyon, 300-400 meters below... Beginnings of the side moraine visible on the opposite side) #InvisibleChasm #TextureTuesday #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Abstract #Texture

Abstract photograph of an alpine glacial valley. The cropped view omits any larger context and is purely focused on resulting shapes, colors and textures. The slopes are glacial deposits, partially overgrown with grasses in autumn colors (yellows, greens, browns). Some exposed bedrock and sharp-lined side moraine on the opposite side of the valley. A small path leading down into the valley in the bottom right corner.

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bontchev.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy @bontchev.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Claude.ai rightly points out that when reviewing code, we should focus on the code and not on its author.

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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

I've cut off collaborations because of this sort of shenanigans. I'm not sure it is worth investing in people who do this sort of stuff, and call them out, because they will just revert to the "it is just a tool" argument.

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Ashridge (2020) (Today, six years ago... On one of the first outings in the English countryside after the lockdowns) #LandscapePhotography #CloudAppreciation #Buckinghamshire

Photo of a typical English countryside with rolling hills, woodland ridges with trees in early autumn colors and big sky with layers of clouds (and some blue). The afternoon sun is casting long shadows in the foreground. A small hamlet in mid distance.

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

"For generations, Indigenous Bolivian women were not allowed to walk freely in the wealthy or central parts of the nation’s capital, La Paz, where they were considered lower-class and expected to stay at home or work in servitude. More recently, this attitude has changed as Aymara and Quechua […]

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Zugspitze (2021) (View of Germany's tallest peak, last glacier [remnants] and the absolutely grand Höllental below, state as of five years ago...) #MountainMonday #MonochromeMonday #LandscapePhotography #BlackAndWhite #NoirCountry #Alps #Mountains

B&W portrait photo of a large alpine landscape with the Zugspitze peak (2962 m) and its glacier remnants below as central motif. The mountain drops off steeply (over the entire height of the image) into the valley below, talus fields giving way to fields of dwarf mountain pines and alpine meadows below. The valley bottom is not visible and obscured by some white limestone cliffs in the foreground, the view being from a very narrow pass between the rocks with steep drop offs directly ahead.

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

The chords and solo guitar in this one are cutting very deep tonight, but are equally healing, considering the state of the world... Gacha Bakradze - Mississipi (2014) www.youtube.com/watch?v=is26L3WPiac #Music4Coding #NoBeat

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Spent the whole afternoon setting up www.borgbackup.org to backup my laptop to cloud storage, fully encrypted, compressed and deduplicated. Also wrote a daily backup shell script to manage various source locations and backup conditions (e.g. presence of external SSDs). The compression […]

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 10/05/2026

The Mountains Flowed Before Him (2026) (Given a large enough time scale, these mountains would be almost like waves...) #SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #BlackAndWhite #NoirCountry #Alps #Mountains #Hiking

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

In The Puez-Geisler Range (2023) (One of the most photographed mountains in the background, albeit here from a more untypical POV...) #SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography #BlackAndWhite #NoirCountry #Alps #Mountains

B&W photo of a mountain scene in the Dolomites, a constellation of large boulders at the end of a talus field, some of them with small trees and bushes growing on and around them. In the background, on the other side of the valley, the large Langkofel group under a sky heavy with incoming snow clouds.

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

@cartocalypse I can understand that, but so far I've hardly ever seen them in isolation and more as part of a preexisting tapestry of other stickers[1]. So sure, on one level I also find that sticker culture in general a nuisance in the mountains, but I think […] [Original post on mastodon.thi.ng]

Road sign marking the Sella pass in the Dolomites, but it's half covered (incl. the two poles the sign is mounted on) in layers of hundreds of stickers left by tourists from all over the place and the sign text is only partially legible...

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Random memory which recently popped back to the front of my mind: Some years ago someone here was commenting like: "very nice pictures, let's see how much of (or how closely) this all reflects your actual lived reality". I remember being quite taken aback by that comment at the time, since it […]

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

We see those (mostly the German version though) so often on signposts all over the Alps, even in the most remote & stunning areas. The irony makes me smile each time. It seems the people of Baden-Württemberg really do like their home state, like a lot... ;) #NotBadHereBut

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Valle dei Sogni (2026) (Complete solitude in the valley of dreams — that's how it felt and how I will remember/cherish it...) #FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #Alps #Mountains #Hiking

An large open cirque in an alpine valley with still partially glaciated peaks and ridges in the background and open grassy plain in the foreground. Rock & rubble deposits surrounding the creek bed, overgrown with small bushes in their rich autumn colors and some larch trees (still green). In the distance sparse forest of swiss pines on the lower mountain slopes below the talus fields and terraced rocks. Bright hazy dazy with mostly clear azure sky.

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Son again having a real fun day with Deutsche Bahn again: Two different seat reservations canceled automatically (original from a few weeks ago plus the alternative booked last night). DB staff completely useless, no single source of truth available. The website says seats are available, yet the […]

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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

"The people holding up the internet" A good-looking but somewhat depressing exposé about the people holding up current digital infrastructure as a hobby. sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-th…

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Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

I love it when nature documentaries also provide extremely timely commentary about our current world and state of affairs at large: "In more extreme environments competition is less decisive because it has one great drawback: It uses up a lot of energy. In the mountains, energy is a commodity […]

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Fire (2026) (Fireweed, Epilobium angustifolium L. in its best namesake form) (Re-upload, due to uploading wrong version earlier...) #BloomScrolling #NaturePhotography #Photography #Alps

A patch of dry fireweed plants, slightly backlit looking, at first sight, like actual flames against the alpine forest background...

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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

True icon in software-engineering. In contrast to the current, move fast and break things she came from an era where there was little to no margin for error. "There was no second chance. We knew that. We took our work seriously, many of us beginning this journey while still in our 20s. Coming […]

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I remember creating physarium sims for my architecture students back in 2013 and then only managed to run a few thousand agents in realtime (in Java/Processing). Even that was super exciting. Now people are casually able to throw around four million of them (and in < 8KB, incl. music)... Lovely […]

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

A great new entry for the "How to lie with data visualization" collection... #DataViz #Energy

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Considering Sturgeon's law (i.e. "90% percent of everything is crap"), having 1000x more ideas would directly translate to having 900x more crap to deal with, by everyone, in potentially any domain. Considering the people who're proposing this crap are also out to commercially exploit some/most […]

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Labyrinth (2026) The literal name of this section of a wall of almost a thousand meters[1] of near vertical ice, a slowly shapeshifting maze of seracs, flowing, fracturing, the light refracting and revealing the beautiful blue ice glow of the (dying) glacier […] [Original post on mastodon.thi.ng]

$Frontal view of a section of a wall of almost a thousand meters of near vertical ice, a slowly shapeshifting maze of seracs, slowly flowing, fracturing, the light refracting and revealing the beautiful blue ice glow of the (dying) glacier... In the foreground the near silhouettes of a steep cliff section with some small Swiss pines.$

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

The below is correct and any claims of "rogue behavior" and other popular attempts at anthropomorphization are merely means to actively distance the original purveyors of software agents by 1) shifting blame onto users of agentic tooling and 2) claiming agents themselves are something more […]

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