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Debora Weber-Wulff

@wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy

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I still teach various media and software-oriented subjects at an engineering college in Berlin, Germany, although I retired in April 2023. Projects on […]

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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Unix - BSD developers : this code should run and be maintained as long as computers exist.

Linux - GNU dev : this code should run and be maintained as long as someone is willing to do the work

Consultant: this code should run until the end of my contract.

Enterprise grade B2B software : this […]

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Nature Nomad @naturecompass.bsky.social · 4d

✨ Last night’s auroras over Alaska looked like angel wings opening above the forest…
One of the most breathtaking displays this region has seen in years. 🌌💜✨

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Coach Pāṇini ® @paninid.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 4d

#enshittification

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Vancouver and Victoria people: I'll be there in January and I might as well give some more lectures than I'm already committed to. Anybody have a library or science centre connection and want me to give a public talk about space debris and satellite pollution?

Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 7d

And now the third group of students complains that the exercise was sooooo hard because they didn't know the exact format for preparing the necessary documents.

Need I note that I went through this during the lecture (which is usually only attended by 1/4 of the students, as it is at 8:00 in […]

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Mikka, MD @mikka.medic.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 8d

GANZ unwissenschaftliche Umfrage bei Kolleg:innen heute Abend: etwa 70 Prozent der Patient:innen haben aufgehört, Google zu fragen, und fragen lieber ChatGPT.

Die Antworten sind "nicht immer" korrekt und tragen statt zu einer Form der "Google Anxiety" eher zu einer "ChatGPT Complacency" bei […]

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Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 8d

I have now heard a new excuse for a student not attending class. "My cat is sick. I can't leave him for even a few hours". I thought after 30 years of teaching I had heard everything.

#academicchatter

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BrianKrebs @briankrebs.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 11d

Social engineering -- the art of tricking people into doing stupid shit -- has always been the most reliable way to hack anything. Now with AI browsers and agentic this and that, we've actually built social engineering into the code. So it can be used to trick others but also trick itself […]

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15d

(You should all 👀 when established US hacking cons start losing venues over current politics,)

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heise online @heiseonline.social.heise.de.ap.brid.gy · 15d

OLG-Urteil: Biometrische Überwachung bei Online-Prüfungen ist rechtswidrig

Die Online-Überwachung von Prüflingen per Proctoring verstößt gegen die DSGVO, hat das Thüringer Oberlandesgericht nach Klage einer Studentin entschieden […]

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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 17d

Moziila didn’t have the ressource to keep a "subscribe to RSS" button in Firefox but has the manpower to build a full IA inside your browser.

And that’s all you need to know about the end of the web and the IA bubble.

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Alexander Winkler @awinkler.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 21d

Hier das Urteil zur Causa #gema - #openai: https://www.gesetze-bayern.de/Content/Document/Y-300-Z-GRURRS-B-2025-N-30204

#tdm #ai #urheberrecht

LG München I, Endurteil v. 11.11.2025 – 42 O 14139/24 - Bürgerservice

www.gesetze-bayern.de

Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 21d

@DanielleVossebeld

Zero points on the exercise, of course, and a stiff lecture that includes reminding them that the German government is paying for their studies (it is an international program with 50% international students) and we will terminate their studies with us if we catch them doing […]

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Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 21d

I'm grading exercises and just had a submission that includes 6 sentences full of marketing-speak. Word-for-word from an online blurb from a company.
Honestly, do they think I am stupid? Have they not even bothered to google me and see what I research (Hint: plagiarism).

#academicchatter […]

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Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 22d

Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement

https://www.iccl.ie/press-release/scientists-call-on-the-president-of-the-european-commission-to-retract-ai-hype-statement/

Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement

**Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.** Through freedom of information, ICCL Enforce learnt that the President relied on the marketing claims of tech CEOs around "AGI" and "superintelligence" when she claimed that AI would approach human reasoning by next year. The letter asks the President to retract the statement, diligently evaluate marketing claims of AI products and seek impartial scientific evidence in the future. As the letter says, "these tech CEOs claims concerning “superintelligence” and “AGI” are manifestly bound with their financial imperatives and not rigorous science." AI hype promoted by the President has consequences. The leaked Omnibus documents show that the Commission proposes to dismantle personal data protection for AI. This will not improve the EU's competitiveness, but is instead a gift to US tech companies. **ICCL Enforce Senior Fellow, Dr Kris Shrishak, one of the signatories of the letter, said today: **_"Citizens already face AI harms: discrimination, privacy-violations, psychological and environmental harms. Instead of effectively addressing these harms and stopping companies from exploiting workers_ _and stealing creative work, the President is promoting AI hype that serves these companies."_ _“Leaders of EU institutions have a responsibility to citizens. By promoting AI hype in the midst of a dangerous bubble, the European Commission risks proposing harmful policies, wasting public funds and being complicit in AI harms."_ * * * Download the Letter **ENDS** For media queries or to arrange interviews, contact: [email protected] / [email protected] / 087 415 7162

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Ross Mounce @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23d

Oxford and Harvard libraries now publishing their own diamond open access journals. Love it. ❤️

Paying hundreds of millions to big commercial publishers isn't the only way of supporting researchers to publish their research.

Oxford: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/shox#collapse5381526

Harvard […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 24d

DC’s license plate, for those unfamiliar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Washington,_D.C.

Vehicle registration plates of Washington, D.C. - Wikipedia

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Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 25d

A New Icelandic-to-English Online Dictionary is out!

https://arnastofnun.is/is/frettir/new-icelandic-english-online-dictionary

Vefkaka -> cookie

Other news:

https://www.arnastofnun.is/en/front-page

A New Icelandic-to-English Online Dictionary

A formal opening ceremony was held in the library of the Edda building on the 23rd of October to celebrate the launch of a new Icelandic-to-English online dictionary.

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 25d

We are at most a few years away from the mainstream media becoming controlled top to bottom, with a few very exceptions, by ultrarich conservatives and their hirelings.

CBS News is gone;
CNN seems about to follow.
The Los Angeles Times installed an AI-powered “bias meter” to warn readers […]

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Guillotines for a better world @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 25d

"I asked chatgpt and..." without wishing to be rude, I cannot now take anything else you say remotely seriously

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26d

Great job for somebody in Berlin!
https://mastodon.social/@sovtechfund/115502508712928818

Sovereign Tech Agency (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image We're #hiring a new Head of the Sovereign Tech Fund! 🚀 The Sovereign Tech Fund is the flagship program of the Sovereign Tech Agency. Since 2022, we've invested in critical open source infrastructure—from curl to FreeBSD to technologies like DNS that power the web—to strengthen digital sovereignty. Now we're in a pivotal phase of growth and scaling, and we're looking for an experienced leader for this key role. 1/2

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Kilian Evang @texttheater.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27d

Word of the day: excubator

“Greenlandic Wikipedia is set to be shuttered, and any articles that remain will be moved into the Wikipedia Incubator, where new language editions are tested and built.”

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1124005/ai-wikipedia-vulnerable-languages-doom-spiral/

人工智能、维基百科以及未校对的弱势语言机器翻译

AI, Wikipedia, and uncorrected machine translations of vulnerable languages (www.technologyreview.com) 03:57 ↑ 100 HN Points

www.technologyreview.com

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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 27d

Amazon strategised about keeping water use secret
https://www.source-material.org/amazon-leak-reveals-true-data-centres-water-usage-secret-plan/
Leaked document reveals company's water consumption

Amazon strategised about keeping water use secret

www.source-material.org

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heise online @heiseonline.social.heise.de.ap.brid.gy · 28d

Office-Alternative aus Deutschland von Ionos und Nextcloud ist jetzt verfügbar

Mit "Ionos Nextcloud Workspace" gibt es jetzt eine deutsche Konkurrenz zu Microsoft 365. Der Verzicht auf US-Clouds soll die digitale Souveränität stärken […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29d

Now imagine something 4 times brighter that the full moon, but a single point source, moving across the sky as fast as a Starlink satellite. It's so bright that it would definitely not feel good to look at, and would instantly destroy your night vision. If you look at it with binoculars or a […]

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heise online @heiseonline.social.heise.de.ap.brid.gy · 29d

Hackerparagraf: BSI-Chefin fordert Sicherheitsforscher-Entkriminalisierung

Die Präsidentin des Bundesamts für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik hat Änderungen am Hackerparagrafen gefordert. Unterstützung kommt aus der Opposition […]

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Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Nov 3

@eichkat3r
'Machiavelli für Frauen' lesen

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Alley Stoughton @fullyabstract.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · Nov 1

Time to donate to your local food bank if you can afford it and haven't already done so. One of the best ways to support people in need in our communities.

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Oct 28

#tomellison gives brilliant voice to #wikipedia zinging #academics.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-its-me-wikipedia-and-i-am-ready-for-your-apology

"Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology…global academic, scientific, and pro-fact community. I suppose you’ve come to say […]

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Joe Roe @joeroe.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · Oct 28

Update: turns out the fancy computer vision and document AI pipeline made a tonne of mistakes. Back to transcribing it by hand...