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Werden deutsche Kommunen in 2026 mehr Investitionen tätigen, Ekaterina Jürgens?
Die Wirtschaftsprognosen unserer IMK Expert:innen für 2026: https://www.imk-boeckler.de/de/so-wird-2026-73211.htm
#Sowird2026 #IMK
January 3, 2026 at 4:00 PM
LLMs are reshaping software dev. I don't buy "the end of software dev": Project ambition will grow dramatically.

Ancient Egyptians could build the Pyramids but not the Empire State Building.

Pre-LLM software will be viewed like we view the Pyramids.
January 5, 2026 at 9:29 AM
I find the US taking Maduro to be entirely in-character (remember Noreaga?). The weird part is having just pardoned Hernandez after he did the same thing.
January 3, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.
January 3, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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"did you hear what happened to the Cubans?"

"no what did we do"

"blew their corners smoov off, they're Sphereans now"
January 3, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
In the same way there are kleptomaniacs that can't keep themselves from stealing stuff, I suffer from some form of debug-o-mania where I seem to subconsciously seek out life situations that make me spend time debugging in gdb or rr.
November 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Declared inbox bancruptcy and archived 13k conversations. GMail is very very buggy when mass archiving stuff.
November 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
October 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Meaning that infrastructure like AWS is not something that Signal, or almost anyone else, could afford to just “spin up.” Which is why nearly everyone that manages a real-time service–from Signal, to X, to Palantir, to Mastodon–rely at least in part on services provisioned by these companies. 8/
October 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I wonder why every LLM provider insists in having their own CLI agent. Can I have a merge between codex, Gemini-cli and Claude code with swappable models plz?
October 23, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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The French crown jewels stolen from the Louvre are steeped in history — and priceless.

What happens when they make it to the black market?
Is There a Price Tag for the Louvre’s Stolen Jewels?
As soon as the gems hit the black market they could be much less valuable, and their historic value drops.
bloom.bg
October 22, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Making a firm commitment to asking the question that reveals ignorance until said ignorance is gone
October 20, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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3/ NSO also emerges from the WhatsApp v NSO case with just an absolute TON of their business splashed all over the court records..

Ouch

E.g. check out the filings from Sept 15th 2025:

www.courtlistener.com/docket/16395...
WhatsApp Inc. v. NSO Group Technologies Limited, 4:19-cv-07123 - CourtListener.com
Docket for WhatsApp Inc. v. NSO Group Technologies Limited, 4:19-cv-07123 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.
www.courtlistener.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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2/ Altho massive punitive damages jury award against NSO Group ($167m) got reduced by the court, as is expected in cases where it is so large (to 9x compensatory damages)...

This is likely cold comfort to NSO since I think the injunction seriously dims value of NSO's spyware product.
October 17, 2025 at 11:39 PM
#hexacon closing presentation from amnesty international about abuse of offensive tools in Serbia, Hungary, and the use of such tools by ICE. Strong choice, very good conference.
October 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
There's an argument to be made that this new security research from Anthropic also has copyright implications.
www.anthropic.com/research/sma...
A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
Anthropic research on data-poisoning attacks in large language models
www.anthropic.com
October 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I did some science today, and it looks good, and I'll leave this computer to do some computing, but I am pretty happy about what I am seeing.
October 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
We talk about teaching coding in school but what about the fundamentals of CAD/CAM and at least one multi-part assembly?
October 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Today's experiment: What shape will a deep neural network learn if trained on the sparse set of training points on the left? Will it learn a circle?
October 5, 2025 at 7:20 AM
I'll be at Hexacon next week in Paris. If you want to meet to chat about security, AI, data compression, efficient computing, profiling, eBPF, or anything else that's interesting: Hit me up.
October 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Kinda wild to think the Berkshire's 350bn cash pile is likely in T-Bills, and that 350bn is almost 1% of the 37Tn in total US debt. Berkshire alone holds 1% of US debt.
September 30, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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The US Army in 1945 also noted that fascistic political figures would seek to whip up animosity toward disfavored groups like Black people, religious minorities, and the foreign born, creating "convenient scapegoats" to rile up their followers. bsky.app/profile/seth...
The first fascistic tactic to look out for is a hate campaign against a particular religious, racial, or ethnic group. Like, for example, let's say a candidate emerges who calls all people of one nationality "rapists" and "criminals," while promising to ban immigrants from only one religious group.
September 26, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I remember just sending an invoice and getting paid in the 2000s. When did we lose that technology and why do I have to click through 20 screens and set up 2 accounts nowadays?
September 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM