Florian 'floe' Echtler

German industrialists have been on the wrong side of history for pretty much everything, is anyone really surprised at them now doing campaign ads for Trump?

New publication in JoVI: Using Game Design to Inform a Plastics Treaty by A. Samuel Pottinger, Nivedita Biyani, Roland Geyer, Douglas J McCauley, Magali de Bruyn, Molly R Morse, Neil Nathan, Kevin Koy, Ciera Martinez https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/jovi/article/view/11208 Introduction: This […]

Wonderful Walter Koenig / Chekov tribute by artist Maria Piquer. 🥰🤓👏🖖 #StarTrek

Die CDU argumentiert auf Insta, dass angeblich 56% (und 42% der SPD-Wähler) der Deutschen Rot-Rot-Grün in Berlin ablehnen würden. Und man eben auf diese Umfrage hören sollte. Liebe CDU, ebenfalls 57% der Deutschen (und 68 % der Unionwähler!) fordern eine Prüfung eines AfD-Verbots durch das […]

As others have pointed out, there could be an influx of newcomers to the #Fediverse from #Brazil who are tied of #Meta 's latest shenanigans while meddling with politics. If you see them, be friendly and welcoming, and under no circumstances start with "You are using the Fediverse wrong!" I […]

"Engineering"

Die, die deinen Wohlstand bedrohen, kommen nicht im Schlauchboot, sondern mit der Yacht.

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

And once again, it's that time of the year where you never can be entirely sure which timezone anyone is in. That colleague two offices over might just as well be on Aussie time for all you know 😑 #daylightsaving #timezone #dst

There’s TV and then there’s Japanese TV

#hugops to everyone else maintaining a lot of digital infrastructure and apps and websites this week #four #php #memes

We are in a very dangerous time, when "AI" security companies are competing to prove that their technology will provide returns on investment. The industry has always been broken. There has always been an incentive to inflate the importance of vulnerabilities, but there was always a risk of […]

Since a few days, my personal email is getting spammed with one-time codes for my Microsoft account. Anyone else seeing this? The mails themselves seem to be genuine and only contain links directly back to Microsoft, so I'm assuming this is some bot trying to brute force the password which […]

Do not trust the polls. Do not allow yourself to become complacent. Vote early and get your friends and family to vote. Do not let Elon Musk, Big Tech, Big Oil, AI, and the billionaire class buy this election. They may have money, but we have the people. - Robert Reich

"What might Bolsonarismo teach us? First, it appears there is no limit to the perversity of the ruling class, which would rather there was nothing left to share than cede any fraction of the planet to the poor. Second, that it possesses all the tools – social and traditional media, the pulpit […]

I agree with every idea they advocate here. A European digital sovereignty movement that is all based on close source European owned solutions vs American tech is not the solution. That’s trading one dependency for another. The solution is open protocols and offerings not owned by any single […]

*squeeeee* 😍 Guess what's arrived! 😁 #retrocomputing

eMudhra, the company that made 4 the new funniest number, put out a press release that said the problem was discovered "possibly with AI assisted techniques" to make it sound sophisticated and difficult and not something that just anyone could discover No, what happened is that someone bothered […]

The only truly unexpected aspect of this is that they’re not waiting with the disclosure until Friday afternoon

Ah rats, I really wasn't planning on spending time today patching some ancient PHP installation 😑 #php #infosec #sysadminlife

We are sensing a pattern

One of my colleagues has a hang for bringing weird snacks and leaving them in the coffee kitchen, and this time he's outdone himself: this is the _nastiest_ thing I've tasted in a long time 😖😵‍💫🤢

When considering Elon Musk's actions and attitude towards Ukraine, it's always worth remembering who has helped him get money. https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/putins-henchmen-helped-musk-to-acquire-twitter-reports-381664/

A monument to Lenin transformed into a statue of Darth Vader — by Aleksander Milov in Odesa, Ukraine 🇺🇦 https://streetartutopia.com/2026/07/15/having-fun-with-sculptures-that-melts-floats-peek-and-plays-with-the-world/ #StreetArt #PublicArt #Sculpture

Brasilien: META greift zugunsten der extremen Rechten in den Wahlkampf ein Präsident Lula zieht dagegen vor Gericht USA: META behindert Accounts der No-Kings-Bewegung Die US-Demokraten ziehen dagegen vor Gericht Deutschland: METAs Algorithmen bevorzugen eine rechtsextreme Partei Die […]

The average number of limbs per person in each country

do boosts count as citations or does it have to be a quote post to count? #science

Sollte sich die #Wahlmanipulation durch #Meta in #Brasilien bestätigen, sollte die #EU sämtliche Meta-Services in Europa umgehend verbieten, da das Unternehmen als kriminelle Organisation einzustufen ist. Aber wird irgendwas passieren? Nein! Am Ende knickt die Politik auf allen Ebenen vor […]

I appreciate the fact that Kia is now also selling an electric van and not leaving the entire market to VW and their ID.Buzz, but it _does_ look like somebody inflated a milk carton and put wheels on, no? 🫣 #ev #kia #vw

I was accused of being sensationalist or exaggerating when our 2022 research paper predicted one in 15 visible points in the sky would be a moving satellite. I think maybe we were actually too conservative. I hate this so very very much.

#Meta has blocked this graphic from being posted via WhatsApp and possibly other Meta platforms. We don’t know why. It says: “THE WORLD NEEDS #BRAZIL. THE WORLD STANDS WITH #LULA.” Share it if you can.

In den vergangenen 8 Tagen waren wir mit Mahnwachen und Protesten gegen die AfD aktiv. Es folgt ein kleiner Rückblick.

"A closer look at the data reveals a brute-force guessing machine, not a reasoning intellect. Mathematics isn't dead; it's being spammed, strip-mined, and exploited by an industry that needs human creativity more than it admits." emeraldbook.org/news/oct-162...

The Last Lungs — by Dr Love in Bristol, UK 🇬🇧 https://streetartutopia.com/2026/04/28/when-nature-become-art-collection-of-100-photos-of-street-art-murals-and-sculptures/ #StreetArt #PublicArt #Mural

Via @weeklyOSM : Kaijumietz, a browser game of cat-powered city destruction (based on #OpenStreetMap data) https://kaijumietz.itch.io/kaijumietz

Wenn auch nur die Hälfte davon realisiert wird, wollen die Bürger*innen der anderen Bundesländer das auch, und zwar sofort, und weil die Union und der Axel-Springer-Verlag das wissen, werden sie alles tun, um Scheiße auf Rot-Grün-Rot zu werfen […]

Public housing in Singapore: 40-50 floor apartments on the left. Multi-storey parking on the right. Parking building has rooftop garden. Ground floor has daycare for children, and seniors. Bridge connects from residential to rooftop garden. Within walking […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

I find the notion that LLMs writing your code for you are just like having interns or junior engineers to be rather offensive. Interns aren't there to do your menial work, they're there to learn new skills. Junior engineers are hired with the idea that they will become senior engineers, which […]

I'm more upset than I've been in a while. Windows 11 sets the default documents folder to onedrive\documents. Anything that gets saved there gets backed up to one drive. This includes various save games, all my Reaper stuff, and various other odds and ends that I like to, you know, save. To […]

Does anyone have the schematic for the Mac Classic analog board 630-0420? It seems somewhat similar to Bormac’s 820-0398-A / 630-0398-2, but I think that schematic has at least one error (missing RP1, which is quite important). If you have more test points than the Bormac in the PSU area, I […]

Die Grünen hatten sich fast so etwas wie eine Reputation als Bürger­rechts­partei aufgebaut¹ – weniger weil das ihr Hauptthema darstellt², sondern eher, weil sie da eine Lücke füllen konnten³, die die FDP nicht hinterlassen hatte. Und jetzt reißen sie genau diese Reputation mit dem Arsch […]

Just got a very underhanded burn from our IT guy who sent me an email that he had placed the hardware I ordered in my office, closing with "I hope you'll find it 😉". Yes, I know I need to tidy up, thank you very much 🙄

Mentaal.nl is a portal being co-designed by thirteen patient and family non-profit organisations in Dutch mental health care. They’re piloting Bonfire as the infrastructure for their federated archipelago: a network of connected spaces built around clear, safe boundaries, where patients […]

why call it perpetual stew when "soup of theseus" is right there

My favourite game on each platform I've owned. #ShareYourGames #C16: Fingers Malone #C64: Robot Rascals #PCAT: North & South #Gameboy: Tetris #NES: SMB3 #SMS: Afterburner #SNES: F-Zero #PC486: Doom #Wii: Wii Sports Resort #PC586: Half-Life #PC686 (?): Portal (via @zorrobandito and @davetansley )

The president of Brazil has won a court case against Meta, after accusing them of restricting his posts and algorithmically favoring his opponent, Flavio Bolsonaro www.nbcnews.com/world/south-...

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/17/rough-sleepers-dying-a-stones-throw-from-luxury-waterfront-houses-victoria-homelessness This, in one of the richest nations on earth. After 40 years of neoliberal economics.