Florian 'floe' Echtler

The *second* alien race we met told us it was VERY irregular for the Tang to grant a race access to the undernet and then later revoke it. They asked us what we did. We sent them RFC129301 (Encapsulation of IPv4 datagrams within the state vector of subspace network gauge solitons). We never […]

"STEM" and "STEAM" are both annoying and reductive acronyms. i recommend instead "GOATS": good ol' arts, technology, and sciences

Christopher Columbus was a monster even by the standards of his time. Saying so doesn't attack anyone's cultural legacy, any more than pointing out the modern state of Israel is doing a genocide (also monstrous by the standards of our time) is an attack on Jewish people in general.

It's OK to […]

What is Rogue Scholar? – Rogue Scholar Documentation

"Getting a DOI on personal blog posts is technically challenging, but possible using services such as The Rogue Scholar (https://docs.rogue-scholar.org/)." https://doi.org/10.1007/s44186-024-00287-w

[Misinfo]

Hamburg to be renamed after EU law decides it’s name is reserved for meat products

CDU: fährt ihre gewohnte "Reiche und Konzerne zuerst, der Rest kann sehen wo sie bleiben" Politik (mit ein bisschen extra victim blaming on top)

SPD: hat immer Bauchschmerzen und nickt trotzdem alles ab, weil ja sonst die schönen Kabinettsposten weg wären

Wenn das jetzt noch 3 Jahre so weiter […]

A decade after the Paris Agreement, global greenhouse gas emissions are barely rising, up just 0.3% a year since 2015, compared with 1.7% before […]

Chart for the Dec '27 $40 put option on Nvidia going up from $0.75 on Sep 11 to $1.11 on Oct 10, a 48% increase.

The option price betting that Nvidia's shares will crash below $40 (it's above $180 right now) by December 2027 went up by almost 50% last month, despite the underlying stock gaining over that time period.

Looks like some people have started to run for the exit.

#ai #nvidia #business #economy

You ever think to yourself “but I am just one person, what can I do to make a difference?”

It turns out that “wear an inflatable frog costume and go downtown” is actually a really reasonable answer.

#portland #portlandfrog #uspol

This guy made a Synthetic Aperture Radar (i.e. a radar that gives you camera-like pictures) mounted on a drone. Scroll to the bottom for actual sample pictures and a movie. Lots of tech detail and open-source designs and software […]

🇪🇺Your browser's #DoNotTrack signal is now legally binding: As of today, enabling DNT means no more personalized political ads (and no nagging consent banners about it). Keep an eye on Meta & Co. Are they complying? Report any violations! […]

A photo of a delta kinematics 3D printer built of black 2040 aluminum extrusions and printed parts in a deep purple, with a turquoise colored bed surface brightly lit. The head is held by three pairs of narrow black arms and has hoses and a large black shaft running up from it vertically to a motor on a platform held above the main frame on dark rods.

I mentioned recently a project I've had in the works for some time that I'd like to share. The published files aren't quite as polished or easy to pick up as I'd like them to end up, but this is a process and I'm happy to have others in on it for everything that […]

[Original post on hachyderm.io]

I do not think that Meta's Metaverse failed cause the devs weren't efficient enough. It's conceptually flawed and underbaked at best, without vision and direction. A toy Mark no longer cares too much about.
(And even getting 5% more efficiency out of LLMs is a stretch, studies show improvement […]

The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 has been awarded to Venezuelan democracy activist María Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights and for her struggle to achieve a just & peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

Machado has been forced to live in hiding. Despite […]

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch.

A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]

MNT Reform Next A new 12.5" open hardware laptop that is future-proof, modular, and highly performant

BTW if you're looking for an open hardware, repairable laptop made by a small team in berlin with no venture capital, maybe MNT Reform Next could be interesting for you: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-next

Republican Unity
The Contrarian
Michael de Adder
@deadder.bsky.social
Oct 8

Side point on #ChatControl: When I worked on the law in the European Parliament, in the face of questionably legal, and highly problematic behavior by DG HOME, I prepared a whitepaper on why it was such a terrible Idea.

As it is in the public interest, I have decided to make that white paper […]

🔬 With Bonfire's upcoming Open Science flavour, you can now archive conversations to #zenodo (and compatible repositories like https://works.hcommons.org from @hello) and obtain a #DOI.
Every participant becomes a credited co-author, and ORCID integration means it can be automatically published […]

I have an offer to make: do you want to run an instance on the fediverse for a group that's underrepresented here?

I'll pay the bills. Period.

I'll do admin if needed (software updates and the like). But you decide what kind of community you want it to be, so you put together the mod team.

DM me.

Trying to build some little AR thingy with A-Frame and 90% of all examples are now broken because Glitch decided they can't be bothered to host public stuff anymore 🤬

#aframe #xr #glitch

I intentionally volunteered for just two CHI reviews. By now, I have five 😜

#chi #chi2026

Machine Pun Kelly F— @kellyscaletta.bsky.social Somewhere in America, a young Hispanic girl is hiding in an attic writing a diary. October 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM © Everybody can reply 3.5K reposts 216 quotes 11K likes 99 saves

#ShamelesslyStolenFromBlueSky

https[:]//bsky.app/profile/kellyscaletta.bsky[.]social/post/3m2drr6fsvc2i

Assembly code between iOS 4.0 and 4.0.1. It's basically the same except one instruction points to a different address.

A lookup table tweaked between 4.0 and 4.0.1.

hey wanna see something kinda interesting? this was the entire fix to the iPhone Antennagate in 2010. 20 bytes.

(this is going to be a very long thread 🧵)

BREAKING: Erik Ahrens – Wie besiegen wir die AfD?
Er war der Architekt des AfD-Erfolgs auf TikTok, der Mann hinter Krahs Aufstieg. Jetzt ist er ausgestiegen – und packt aus.
🎙️ Zeitsturz – Überall, wo es Podcasts gibt.
👉 Und auf Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dHY...

Does anyone remember the Reinhart-Rogoff affair? The paper that was widely used to justify austerity policies, but where the main result was only an artifact due to the researchers screwing up their Excel formulas?

So yeah, can't see how putting the random number generator called "AI" in Excel […]

Speaking of image alt text, as a photographer who tries to put care into this, I would really love it if there were a single standard EXIF field in which alt text could be embedded and from which the text was reliably extracted when the image was uploaded. It would be much easier to write a […]

Have been catching up on some John Oliver and it's fascinating how horrible the AI slop avalanche seems to have gotten on mainstream social media: https://youtu.be/TWpg1RmzAbc

Another advantage of being on Mastodon, where this stuff doesn't seem to get any traction at all 👌

#johnoliver #slop #ai

Was machen neureiche Promis, wenn Golfen und Oldtimersammeln langweilig wird? Sie werden Winzer. Der CSU-Agrarminister fühlt mit diesen armen Menschen und möchte mit einer Werbekampagne für 1 Mio. Euro das Trinken deutschen Weins fördern, während für den Sozialstaat angeblich kein Geld mehr da […]