Johannes Truschnigg

I loved the Project Hail Mary movie (and the book). Science, technology, competence, and openness – this is my culture.

Highly recommend donating to Blender. I recently used it to mock up something, so we donated $500. Autodesk would have charged $255/month for access to an onerously DRM'd equivalent that would have made me grumpy. It's only fair that Blender should get the payment instead!

But do you know what coreutils are a fertile ground for? Race conditions around file creation, deletion, permission setting, and so on. The original code accounted for decades of hard-learned lessons in that space. The Rust rewrite did not: seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q…

The coreutils Rust rewrite story is pretty funny. Coreutils are tools like rm, mv, mkdir, etc. Unlike binutils, this isn't a fertile ground for memory safety bugs. But, the rewrite was completed, and in the spirit of progress, Canonical decided to switch. 🡇

Lessons i learned the hard way in cloud infra (and nothing to do with AI); never (only) trust vendor backup solutions, always have at least daily (if not hourly) backups offsite / off their platform, under your own control.

„Germany Is Reinventing Itself as a Weapons Factory“ titelt das Wall Street Journal: Während die Automobil- & Schwerindustrie ins Straucheln gerät, lenkt Berlin Fabriken, Arbeiter & Kapital auf die Wiederbewaffnung Europas. Deutschland, Motor der europäischen Fertigungsindustrie, steckt in seiner längsten Stagnationsphase seit dem II. Weltkrieg. Merz`Antwort: Er will aus Deutschland eine gigantische, bummsgefährliche Waffenfabrik machen. Schon wieder? Haben Sie das bei ihm bestellt? Wir auch nicht, Smiley. DEUTSCHLAND? WAFFEN?? KRIEG??? Wir sagen mal so: Was könnte dabei schon schiefgehen???? Was soll denn do scho schiefganga? Co tu może pójść nie tak?! What could possibly go wrong?! Qu'est-ce qui pourrait bien mal tourner ?! Hvad kunne der dog gå galt?! Hva kan vel gå galt?! Wat zou er nou mis kunnen gaan?! Wat kéint schonn falsch goen?! Шта би могло поћи по злу?! Τι θα μπορούσε να πάει στραβά; Что тут может пойти не так?! (In der Reihenfolge ihres Auftretens in WK II)

Schlimme Szenen aus dem Iran

The Strokes used their Coachella set to show CIA coups and Gaza footage. They’ll probably never be invited back, and they knew it.

Why add a PQ layer? To try to reduce the damage caused by quantum computers. Why also keep the existing (low-cost) ECC layer? To try to reduce the damage from further PQ security failures. For some reason this suddenly seems difficult for U.S. military contractors to understand.

"Notre app dont l'usage sera rendu obligatoire pour fliquer votre vie privée fera tout pour respecter votre vie privée". #TraduisonsLa

A Canticle For Leibowitz is a classic early (1959) post-apocalypse novel where an order of monks preserved the last remnants of learning (the memorabilia) after a nuclear exchange turned the remains of society into book and scientist burners. I first read it in the 80s as a mass market paperback that I somehow lost along the way. Other paperbacks from that time are yellow with age and getting brittle, but still readable. I read it again in the late 2000s on a first edition Kindle. I eventually migrated to iPads for Kindle reading, but every couple years I would come across an old Kindle in a drawer, charge it up, and check out what I had been reading on it. They eventually stopped working entirely. I’m just finishing reading a new Folio Society edition, printed on heavy, acid-free archival quality paper. If it doesn’t get soaked or burned, it could still be in good shape for centuries. The ephemeral nature of digital storage does give me some pause. We can still read Sumerian tablets full of administrative trivia from four thousand years ago, but there are no known copies of some important software products from just fifty years ago. I am a proud supporter of the Internet Archive!

The US has very quickly normalised the murder of foreign leaders.

“I fire 50-60 bullets every day, I've stopped counting kills. I have no idea how many I've killed, a lot. Children." This is at an aid drop-off location And every fucking day people defend this. from the average idiot on here to the most powerful politicians in the world.

It’s shocking how openly and repeatedly the Western media tells you that they simply don’t consider brown people to be human. Among the first casualties of this war were 160 Iranian schoolchildren, but it takes a lost US pilot to bring a human dimension to the slaughter?

These are the people who are always forgotten: the seafarers from India, the Philippines and other countries who we rely on to take goods around the world, but are underpaid and frequently abandoned at sea.

Ex-Italian minister Michele Geraci says EU leaders have ‘gone crazy’ on militarization, warns Brussels prioritizes an ‘imaginary threat’ over economic and social needs

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I really hope members of the pro-NATO, pro-proxy war left — if there still are any — see this one:

I am a US citizen & Surgeon who took care of the Boston Maraton Bombing victims in 2013. I paid for 7 years to own a small apartment in downtown #Beirut for my 3 kids to enjoy summers there. Today, #Israel reduced my dream home to rubble, with american weapons, paid by my taxes.

Fassaden prägen unser Stadtbild. Schaut beim nächsten Spaziergang mal genauer hin und bestaunt die Details. 🤗