Wednesday, 30. April 12025
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Starker Tobak – or: they killed the wrong guy / he did not kill himself.

Hopefully, Stigler is the actual originator of his law…

List of examples of Stigler's law.

Stigler's law concerns the supposed tendency of eponymous expressions for scientific discoveries to honor people other than their respective originators.

Probleme beim Musikstreaming Boom: The Winner Takes It All.

Spotify hat 95 Prozent Marktanteil am Musikstreaming in Deutschland. Welche Gefahren darin liegen, erläutert ein investigatives Buch von Liz Pelly.

Relevant: Mood Machine – The rise of Spotify and the costs of the perfect playlist.

Change their AIttitude!

Unauthorized Experiment on CMV Involving AI-generated Comments.

The CMV Mod Team needs to inform the CMV community about an unauthorized experiment conducted by researchers from the University of Zurich on CMV users. This experiment deployed AI-generated comments to study how AI could be used to change views.

There is a Wii somewhere around here…

This blog is hosted on a Nintendo Wii.

Get out of my <head>.

Make faster, more accessible, more environmentally friendly websites, by removing these tags from your site's <head>.

A project name to my liking.

RampenSau — Color ramp generator using curves within the HSL color model.

Relevant: OKLCH Color Picker & Converter.

No idea what OKLCH is? Read the fscking spec!

Setting up Postfix and Dovecot Slowly and Properly.

Botnet Part 2: The Web is Broken.

Certain companies recruit app developers to create botnets by injecting “network sharing” SDKs into their apps. These botnets then use the network bandwidth of unsuspecting users of said apps to crawl the web, brute-force mail servers and other nasty things.

Helma in a browser…? 🤔

CheerpJ 4.0: WebAssembly JVM for the browser, now with Java 11 and JNI support.