I 🫶 Yunohost!
Top 10 European open-source projects to watch in 2025.
How Open-Source European Innovation is Changing Digital Sovereignty, Privacy, and Security.
99% resonates with me.
The Curse of Knowing How, or; Fixing Everything.
I have written entire applications just to avoid thinking about why I was unhappy. Programming gives you instant feedback. You run the thing, and it works. Or it doesn’t, and you fix it. Either way, you’re doing something.
Sierpiński triangle? In my bitwise AND?
Exploring a peculiar bit-twiddling hack at the intersection of 1980s geek sensibilities.
{}.toString.call(v) 🧐
Converting values to strings in JavaScript has pitfalls.
„Chippers“ in Irland: Fish and Chips? Pesce e pattatine fritte!
Frittierter Fisch mit Pommes, Essig und Salz gilt als Leibspeise in Irland. Dabei waren es Italiener, die das Gericht dort verbreitet haben.
Die Betonung liegt allerdings auf »verbreitet«: Die Geschäftsidee kam aus Nordengland, wo die Mahlzeit vor den Fabriktoren verkauft wurde.
This is not the European Space Agency you are looking for.
Liste der Bankeninstitute mit Mitgliedstatus bei der Einlagensicherung Austria.
Of course I want to get away from Bank99 after their shit show of reorganizing their banking infrastructure.
Poison
Note: I wrote a more elaborate story about AI poisoning and other defenses against bad AI robots in German over at tobi.antville.org.
- The Art Of Poison-Pilling Music Files
- Poisoning AI with ".аss" subtitles
- The cost of poison
- Resisting GenAI – Poisoning Text Training Data
Relevant: HarmonyCloak: Making Music Unlearnable for Generative AI.
Verfilmung von Graphic Novel „Eternauta“: Toxischer Schnee.
Der wahre Held (…) ist ein kollektiver Held, eine Gruppe von Menschen. Ohne dass es meine Intention gewesen wäre, spiegelt er meine tiefe Überzeugung wider, dass der einzig zulässige Held der Gruppenheld ist.
Relevant: Héctor Germán Oesterheld.
Starker Tobak – or: they killed the wrong guy / he did not kill himself.
- Attentat auf Alfred Herrhausen
- Perversion of Justice, “coverage on sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell”
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.