Mathias
matthegap.bsky.social
Mathias
@matthegap.bsky.social
IT-Security | Open Source | Politics | Vienna | Fun | Erdös-Bacon Number 7 | "I saw which was the winning side, but still I joined the other."
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DELL EXEC: Consumers are “not buying based on AI. In fact I think AI probably confuses them more than it helps them understand a specific outcome."

@pcgamer.com #CES
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/del...
Dell seems to be the first to realise we don't actually care about AI PCs
"What we've learned over the course of this year, from a consumer perspective, is they're not buying based on AI."
www.pcgamer.com
January 6, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Zum ersten mal eingefahren mit einer Aliexpress Lieferung :-(
January 7, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Can anybody recommend an OCR tool which can read scanned handwritings? Bonus points if it can deal with older scripts like Kurrent.
January 7, 2026 at 9:26 AM
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Not to be all “back in my day”, but every time I watch an old movie and they say “mind if I smoke?” I instantly flash back to a PSA on buses in the 90s. And I feel like we need this kind of blunt messaging on public health stuff.

It WORKED. It’s still in my head 30 years later.
January 4, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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📽️ Winterpause ist Kinozeit! Vom 16. bis 23. Jänner beim Football Cine Cup in den Breitenseer Lichtspielen. Von Eric Cantona über den Homeless World Cup bis zum Wiener Sport-Club und der WM 1971. Wer sagt, da sei nichts für sie/ihn dabei, schwindelt. Mehr unter www.breitenseer-lichtspiele.at
January 5, 2026 at 9:20 AM
In Favoriten gibt es ein Feuerwerksgeschäft namens DUM BUM.
December 31, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I did something rare: Watch a video actually on YouTube (instead of ##NewPipe)
The video was a bit over 19 minutes. I got served 8 ads with 7 interruptions. As a bonus, all but one of the ads were shady (illegal electroshock devices, investment scams)
Are people really putting up with this every day?
December 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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‘The sight of it is still shocking’: 46 photos that tell the story of the century so far
‘The sight of it is still shocking’: 46 photos that tell the story of the century so far
Did the 21st century begin on 1 January 2000? Or was it that blue sky day in September 2001 when the planes hit the twin towers? These images from the last 25 years chronicle modern history in the making
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Warum darf man eigentlich in Österreich immer noch betrunken Skifahren (und dabei andere, etwa Kinder) gefährden?
December 27, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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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
Strange products which belong together, according to AliExpress.
December 26, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Weihnachtliche Spendenliste:

* Entwicklungshilfeklub
* @noyb.eu
* @archive.org
* @mozilla.org
* @signal.org
* @matrix.org
* @kde.org
* @organicmaps.bsky.social
* @newpipe.net.web.brid.gy
* Mein Mastodon Homeserver
December 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Weihnachtswunder: Mein Ehering war ca. 2 Wochen abhängig. Heute zu Beginn des Weihnachtsmenükochwahnsinns hab ich ihn wieder gefunden.
Im Kühlschrank unter dem Milchpackerl. 🤷
December 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Naja, sagma halt "Weiße Weihnachten" dazu. #Wien
December 24, 2025 at 8:05 AM
TIL: "Schachtelwirt" a.k.a. McDonalds.
December 21, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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We will be hosting an "LLM Security Day" on 2026-01-28 featuring 2 talks.

Hosted by SBA Research at Floragasse 7, 1040 Vienna.

www.meetup.com/owasp-chapte...
LLM Security Day, Wed, Jan 28, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup
This event is organized as an on-site event only. **LLM Security Day** **1\. Talk:** **"Trustworthy AI: How to Prevent Your Machine Learning Models From Becoming a Securi
www.meetup.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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„Billiger wird es nicht mehr.“ Weil Tropenprodukte wie Kakao besonders vom Klimawandel betroffen seien.
„Wenn alle drei Jahre die Regenzeit ausfällt, steigen die Risiken. Ich muss es so klar sagen: Wir haben die Welt kaputt gemacht.“ orf.at/stories/3414...
December 15, 2025 at 6:18 AM
When I do a ##ThreatModeling session, I am often confronted with a customer relying 100% on a single cloud provider (usually Azure).
I always ask the question: "What do you do if Microsoft turns off your account tomorrow?" I usually get an empty stare and a long silence in response.
December 14, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Die Geoff Awards sind mir egal, hier sind 20 tolle Spiele, die ihr 2025 vor lauter Hochglanz-Drama übersehen habt
a man with long curly hair and a mustache is wearing a pink unicorn shirt .
Alt: a man with long curly hair and a mustache is wearing a pink unicorn shirt, saying "Magic" .
media.tenor.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Die neue ballesterer bibliothek ist da! Zum Abschluss unseres Jubiläumsjahres machen wir uns selbst ein Geschenk.

148 Seiten voller Geschichten, die uns geprägt haben - Reportagen aus Leonding und Buenos Aires, Interviews mit Marko Arnautovic, Ivica Osim oder den "Ultras Rapid". Und vieles mehr!
December 12, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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"Sind Sie sicher, dass Sie SAP beenden wollen?"
Nie war ich mir einer Sache sicherer.
December 11, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Die Stadt Wien hat 16 Mille für ein Computerprogramm ausgegeben, das nicht funktionieren will. Deshalb laufen alte, unsichere Programme aus den 90ern weiter, wie interne Dokumente belegen.
Fonds Soziales Wien: Pfusch mit Eigenbau-Computersoftware verschlingt Millionen
Zehn Jahre Arbeit und 16 Millionen Euro für ein System, das nicht funktionieren will: Interner Bericht kritisiert Mangel an „messbaren Zielen”, „klarer Struktur” und „Fehler- und Entscheidungskultur“
www.falter.at
December 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM
eXoDOS - "eXoDOS is an attempt to catalog, obtain, and make playable every game developed for the DOS and PC Booter platform."

Contains a 638 GB Torrent...

https://www.retro-exo.com/exodos_M.html
December 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Aktuell wie nie.
December 6, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Wir haben endlich einen Nachfolger der illegalen Teigtascherl: Die illegalen Weihnachtskekse.

Schwarzmarkt im Netz: Weihnachtskekse als „heiße Ware“
https://orf.at/stories/3412576/
December 7, 2025 at 8:17 AM