What should our next #Monsterdon movie be?
What should our next #Monsterdon movie be?
If you drive, and you enter a car park and there’s just one single other car there, is your first instinct to:
- park right next to the other car, literally in one of the spots either side of it or
- park in any of the other spots *not* right next to the other car?
Jungforscher:innen, aufgepasst!
Der #Nationalpark #HoheTauern vergibt mehrere Forschungsstipendien. Also wer gerne im Gebirge forscht und/oder dort unterwegs sein will, sollte sich das ansehen.
--> https://hohetauern.at/de/forschung/forschungsvorhaben.html
Continuing on this, what would you call the entity in which research outputs are shared? Research outputs are shared in ______
This includes for example:
- Zenodo Communities
- repositories
- peer-reviewed journals
- overlay journals
All should fall within the scope of the terminology. Happy to hear your thoughts around this!
Masto only allows 4 poll options so reply with additional ones 😊
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The Struggle Makes Real
“I know Kubernetes!” — Neo
The Matrix scene where skills and knowledge are uploaded directly into Neo’s brain is iconic. To many, this is the ultimate learning experience: lay back, stab a giant-ass plug into your brain, and let the upload begin.
Ahhhh! Sweet.
Kung Fu. Shakespeare. CSS.

However, the scene doesn’t end there.
“Show me.” — Morpheus
What follows is one of the movie’s most epic kubectl action sequences, which mid-way results in a bit of a cluster fuck (😇) as Neo is kicked in the belly with an abort signal by Morpheus. Morpheus follows up with some deep philosophical insight, they cuddle some more, and ultimately Neo defeats Morpheus. Morpheus neatly summarizes the lesson at the end (don’t give Claude — a.k.a. The Chaos Monkey — free reign).
On to the next training program!
Hang on... lesson learned? Training program? Why run through training programs if we have these giant plugs stabbed into our heads that allow any arbitrary knowledge and skill to be streamed in? Why not queue up the insights to be gained from all more interactive training programs, and flush them through Neo’s brain in a few seconds as well?
That would have been rather boring, though, wouldn’t it?
Any story can be accelerated by introducing shortcuts. Let Gandalf appear in The Shire to pick up Bilbo on some flying horse, drop him off on the front lawn of Smaug The Dragon and save us all a long and painful trip.
Have a little birdie fly by Luke, tell him (spoiler alert) Darth Vader is his father and Leia his twin sister (explains the ear lobes). Park a nice ship in front, with the Death Star already pre-programmed in the navigational system. And go go go!
Productivity, people! No time for the frivolous. Let’s go!
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Subscribe nowIt's actually amazing how bad #MicrosoftTeams's own transcription software is at recognising the term "ChatGPT".
It's given me "chat GVD", "track GPT", and for the piece de resistance, "Chachi Boutif". Don't cheat on #university assignments with Chachi Boutif, you scoundrels.
Imagine if all the money being put into “AI” was used for trains
If you drive, and you enter a car park and there’s just one single other car there, is your first instinct to:
- park right next to the other car, literally in one of the spots either side of it or
- park in any of the other spots *not* right next to the other car?
Soutien total à Sabrina Decanton, qui a vécu à Saint-Ouen des pratiques politiques inacceptables qui me scandalisent.
Je l’avais eue il y a quelques jours à ce sujet et les instances disciplinaires de notre mouvement ont été saisies entre temps pour y donner suite.
Jamais l’homophobie n’aura sa place dans notre mouvement.
Notre diversité fait notre force, et prétendre l’inverse est contraire à nos valeurs.
Je viens de m’entretenir à nouveau avec elle pour lui renouveler mon soutien plein et entier, et je sais parler au nom de l’ensemble du mouvement en le faisant.
Mua-hahahaha!!!
Yes. Yes that's right.
Down with the consumer economy of built-in obsolescence, disposable tech, and subscriptions.
Up with Right to Repair, Permacomputing, Library and Share Economies!
(Also trollololol on "device hoarding" and "costing economy {sic})
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/how-device-hoarding-by-americans-is-costing-economy.html
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/115601482804418695
I think we should use that framing in guides for sustainable living.
"How to become a device hoarder in 21 days"
or
"Scaring the shareholders for dummies"
The next dominoes in the AI bubble that I expect to fall (if you’d excuse the mixed metaphor):
The first is starting. A consortium of insurance companies has asked their regulator to approve this blanket exclusion. Their argument is that the risks of these systems are too unpredictable to be able to insure. They can’t reason about systemic or correlated risk if you add a bullshit generator anywhere in an operational flow.
The second has happened in a few places, but is not widespread. Some places are hedging. When I was at MS, the AI policy was basically: ‘look, we give you all of these shiny toys! Please use them! By the way, you accept all legal liability for their output! Have fun!’. One ruling that this kind of passing-the-blame-to-employees-for-correctly-using-company-provided-tools policy is unenforceable and the lawyers will get very nervous.
The third is a consequence of the first two. If your lawyers tell you something is high risk and you can’t buy insurance, you want to make sure it isn’t used.
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# Fediverse
super excited to be able to talk about this now: my colleagues have developed constant-time preservation features for LLVM to ensure that optimisations don't negatively impact timing-sensitive code like cryptographic implementations. this is a huge step towards alleviating a decades-long standing thorn in the side of cryptographic implementations.
If you drive, and you enter a car park and there’s just one single other car there, is your first instinct to:
- park right next to the other car, literally in one of the spots either side of it or
- park in any of the other spots *not* right next to the other car?
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Here is my Ukraine peace proposal:
1. Putin is sent to The Hague.
2. Russian soldiers leave Ukraine including Crimea.
3. Russia returns all kidnapped Ukrainian children.
4. Russia releases all Ukrainian prisoners.
5. Russia pays damages for everything their war has destroyed.
6. Russia pays damages to Ukrainian families who have lost family members.
7. Russia pays damages to every person who has been tortured, abducted or otherwise criminally mistreated.
8. Ukraine becomes a member of the EU.
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