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Sven A. Schmidt

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Physicist & techie. #CERN alumnus. Co-creator https://mas.to/@SwiftPackageIndex. Hummingbird app https://hbird.app. Europe โ€ข he/him ๐ŸŒ‰ bridged from โ‚ https://mastodon.social/@finestructure, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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@jon Warms my heart to hear that โค๏ธ

12.03.2026 15:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@jon I spy the Spanish layout of my old MacBook โ€“ still going strong, I take it? ๐Ÿ’ช

12.03.2026 15:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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 โ€œtheyโ€™re having problems with their economy again.โ€

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 โ€œtheyโ€™re having problems with their economy again.โ€

This is from 1975.

11.03.2026 07:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 6951 ๐Ÿ” 2500 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 58 ๐Ÿ“Œ 62

@helge I hab fรผr meine Winz-E-Karre ausgerechnet, dass km im Prinzip kostenlos sind. ~1โ‚ฌ fรผr 75km gehen bei vielleicht 100km, die ich im Monat fahre, gegenรผber den โ‚ฌ35/Monat fรผr die Versicherung unter ๐Ÿ˜†

11.03.2026 22:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Redirectingโ€ฆ # Redirectingโ€ฆ Click here if you are not redirected.

Just read this, you can thank me later.

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

11.03.2026 08:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Original post on manganiello.eu

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 itโ€™s thanks to those regulations if you no [โ€ฆ]

19.02.2026 13:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 19 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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 โ€ขawayโ€ข from the cup.

Close call ๐Ÿ˜…

08.03.2026 12:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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matduggan.com It's JSON all the way down

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

06.03.2026 15:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@helge ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

07.03.2026 23:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This still holds one week into this mess.

What We Know Is We Donโ€™t Know Much
#Iran #Politics
https://warnercrocker.com/2026/02/28/what-we-know-is-we-dont-know-much/

07.03.2026 13:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 6 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@gastonrampersad Ok, Iโ€™ll allow it ๐Ÿ˜‰

05.03.2026 22:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

05.03.2026 22:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

05.03.2026 15:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

05.03.2026 10:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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(S+) Meinung: Eklat in Washington: Kanzler Merz lรคsst Spanien im Stich Donald Trump droht Madrid, Friedrich Merz stimmt mit ein: Der Auftritt des Kanzlers im Oval Office war beschรคmend. So kann er Europa nicht fรผhren.

Es ist sogar noch schlimmer: Mit Merz wird es kein vereintes Europa mehr geben, das Deutschland "fรผhren" kรถnnte. 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 โ€“ und es verspielt massiv Vertrauen.

04.03.2026 16:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 591 ๐Ÿ” 160 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 37 ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

Mรคrz ist so ein erbรคrmliches Figรผrchen, den wollte ich nicht mal als Sportvereinsprรคsident.

05.03.2026 08:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

04.03.2026 20:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Original post on mas.to

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 [โ€ฆ]

04.03.2026 16:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 35 ๐Ÿ” 156 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8 ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
Original post on social.edu.nl

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 [โ€ฆ]

03.03.2026 19:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Tweet by @trq212 about Claude Code rendering scene graph in 11 ms and printing it to terminal in 5 ms

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

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 wouldโ€™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.

03.03.2026 13:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 17 ๐Ÿ” 41 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
Original post on mastodon.social

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 [โ€ฆ]

03.03.2026 17:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

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

03.03.2026 16:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

How about HUMANS.md

03.03.2026 15:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

โ€œFor example, it only has a 6.1-inch 60Hz display โ€” the smallest display of any iPhone 17 series phoneโ€

Weird way to describe the best feature!

03.03.2026 09:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@gastonrampersad best German idiom!

03.03.2026 08:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@gastonrampersad Apologies! There's also โ€œeierlegende Wollmilchsauโ€, which might come in handy.

I know a few more German words, so hit me up, anytime! ๐Ÿ˜†

03.03.2026 08:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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)

02.03.2026 10:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Original post on mastodon.social

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 [โ€ฆ]

02.03.2026 10:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Fabian Kรถster Ehrenmann auf dem CDU-Parteitag. Spahn versucht immer noch, seine Steuergeldverschwendung mit den Maskendeals zu leugnen. Aber seine Gesichtszรผge hier zeigen, wie aggressiv es ihn macht, dass seine Strategie nicht aufgeht und Menschen wie Fabian einfach nicht locker lassen.

01.03.2026 10:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 1759 ๐Ÿ” 550 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 59 ๐Ÿ“Œ 23

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

28.02.2026 16:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 53 ๐Ÿ” 216 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3