Sven A. Schmidt

@jon Warms my heart to hear that ❤️

@jon I spy the Spanish layout of my old MacBook – still going strong, I take it? 💪

A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says “they’re having problems with their economy again.”

This is from 1975.

@helge I hab für meine Winz-E-Karre ausgerechnet, dass km im Prinzip kostenlos sind. ~1€ für 75km gehen bei vielleicht 100km, die ich im Monat fahre, gegenüber den €35/Monat für die Versicherung unter 😆

Just read this, you can thank me later.

https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/

Yes, the #EU has a lot of regulations.

But remember that thanks to those regulations you can use a single USB-C cable that can charge anything, rather than 10 different connectors and adapters as it was common until 10-15 years ago.

Remember that it’s thanks to those regulations if you no […]

Whoa, I just leaned over the table with a coffee cup in my hand and my left AirPod fell out of my ear and bounced off the rim and •away• from the cup.

Close call 😅

matduggan.com It's JSON all the way down

I wrote about the #fediverse https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/

@helge 😮

This still holds one week into this mess.

What We Know Is We Don’t Know Much
#Iran #Politics
https://warnercrocker.com/2026/02/28/what-we-know-is-we-dont-know-much/

@gastonrampersad Ok, I’ll allow it 😉

@gastonrampersad Wait what? We were in mid-session at the time!

@jon Love that you keep raising this and hope that bit by bit you change minds and have this bubble up. It’s ridiculous this is happening.

Meine Fresse, Merz ist so blass, dass ich sogar seinen Namen verbocke

(S+) Meinung: Eklat in Washington: Kanzler Merz lässt Spanien im Stich Donald Trump droht Madrid, Friedrich Merz stimmt mit ein: Der Auftritt des Kanzlers im Oval Office war beschämend. So kann er Europa nicht führen.

Es ist sogar noch schlimmer: Mit Merz wird es kein vereintes Europa mehr geben, das Deutschland "führen" könnte. Er hat ja schon deutlich gemacht, dass ihm eine bilaterale Beziehung zu den USA wichtiger ist als eine starke EU. So sieht das dann in der Praxis aus – und es verspielt massiv Vertrauen.

März ist so ein erbärmliches Figürchen, den wollte ich nicht mal als Sportvereinspräsident.

Pretty amazing that in 2026 prices are such that you can buy an 8GB stick of RAM with a whole Mac attached to it

A few years ago I designed a way to detect bit-flips in Firefox crash reports and last year we deployed an actual memory tester that runs on user machines after the browser crashes. Today I was looking at the data that comes out of these tests and now I'm 100% positive that the heuristic is […]

The Spanish government of #PedroSanchez is the only sane voice in an international choir of pathetic bootlickers.

If these bilateral trade agreements mean anything, this is the time for the #EU to resist […]

Tweet by @trq212 about Claude Code rendering scene graph in 11 ms and printing it to terminal in 5 ms

Tweet by @jarredsumner about Claude Code memory usage growing from 10 Gb in January to 68 Gb to 1.7 Gb now

Gotta give it to Claude Code developers: they are exceptionally brave. I would’ve been straight up embarrassed to show stats like this.

Reminder: Claude Code is a thin CLI client that reads input from your terminal, sends it to Antrhopic servers and prints back the response.

Dianna Cowern (aka Physics Girl on YouTube, and possibly @dianna) has been fighting COVID-induced ME/CFS since 2022. ShevqeIeIcDHD0d her first video in three years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3m3AMRlYfc

You can learn more about her battle and amazing comeback here […]

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@k3ym0/116161635202253362

If you use generative AI directly, you should read this.

How about HUMANS.md

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116161550818302481

“For example, it only has a 6.1-inch 60Hz display — the smallest display of any iPhone 17 series phone”

Weird way to describe the best feature!

@gastonrampersad best German idiom!

@gastonrampersad Apologies! There's also “eierlegende Wollmilchsau”, which might come in handy.

I know a few more German words, so hit me up, anytime! 😆

OF COURSE, the expectation is that people don't actually check. And the beauty is that with all the disclaimers in place, the provider is home free.

"These models aren't perfect"

(*whispers* also, they're not liable, wahey) (3/3)

IF YOU HAVE TO DISCLAIM YOUR EXAMPLES, THEY'RE NOT SUITABLE EXAMPLES. You're essentially saying *wink, wink* don't use it, buddy (but totally use it, it's on you when it fails).

Then they talk about people doing their taxes with Claude (remember, "also not financial advice") and elaborate that […]

Fabian Köster Ehrenmann auf dem CDU-Parteitag. Spahn versucht immer noch, seine Steuergeldverschwendung mit den Maskendeals zu leugnen. Aber seine Gesichtszüge hier zeigen, wie aggressiv es ihn macht, dass seine Strategie nicht aufgeht und Menschen wie Fabian einfach nicht locker lassen.

A rare moment where you root for regime change in all three countries involved