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Debora Weber-Wulff
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I still teach various media and software-oriented subjects at an engineering college in Berlin, Germany, although I retired in April 2023. Projects on […]

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chris köver @ckoever.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18h
Morgen bin ich auf dem #39c3 , um dort über Ausländerbehörden zu sprechen, die Handys durchsuchen. Ihr könnt auch im Stream zuschauen. ✌️

https://netzpolitik.org/2025/chaos-communication-congress-netzpolitik-org-auf-dem-39c3/
Chaos Communication Congress: netzpolitik.org auf dem 39C3
Szene vom 37C3 – CC-BY 4.0 TheDigitalRoadtrip; Bearbeitung: netzpolitik.orgBeim 39. Chaos Communication Congress sind auch Redakteur*innen und Autor*innen von netzpolitik.org auf der Bühne. Lest hier, wie ihr die Vorträge vor Ort oder per Stream verfolgt – und wann ihr die Redaktion persönlich vor Ort treffen könnt.
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Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 3d
@jgamble
Dorfromantik, dann Sakura

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Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 3d
@julian @yaarur @ai6yr
Thank you so much for this! I use it to generate a QR code for my slides for talks that I give and I put their institutional logo in the middle. They are so proud to see them! And always with a link to your web site.

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Ruth Mottram @ruth-mottram.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 5d
A small change of plan since I wrote this, we're off this afternoon with a good weather window

Settling in..

It's been a busy few days at Wasa station but we've been settling in with various trainings and some tantalising hints of interesting data […]
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Jon Keegan @jonkeegan.com · 7d
Here's a quilt of Volume 4 of the Epstein document dump. Gives you a 10,000 foot view of the redactions. that's 2,704 docs.
an image quilt of epstein documents

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d
«The Resonant Computing Manifesto is the usual AI marketing from the usual AI suspects. These guys got ChatGPT to summarise one 1990s issue of Wired, and it oneshotted them.»

Hahaha, such a brilliant summary by @davidgerard […]
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KING CONSULT | Kommunikation @kingconsult.berlin.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d
🚀 Wow! Seit Montag ist die #Hochschulrektorenkonferenz #neuhier im #fediverse!

👉 @HRK_aktuell

Herzlich willkommen 👋, es freut uns sehr!

Mit gutem Beispiel voran für unabhängige und souveräne #wissenschaftskommunikation!

➡️ Weitersagen!

#Wisskomm #scicomm #science #wissenschaft #bildung […]
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Glyph @glyph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10d
it's truly amazing what LLMs can achieve. we now know it's possible to produce an html5 parsing library with nothing but the full source code of an existing html5 parsing library, all the source code of all other open source libraries ever, a meticulously maintained and extremely comprehensive […]
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Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 10d
Amazing! I took a point off of all reports that didn’t include page numbers last exercise. All of the reports for this exercise now have page numbers!

#academicchatter

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Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 10d
Just what we need, Claude and other AI systems shoved down our throats although people do want spaces free of these environmental disasters!

https://www.404media.co/anthropic-exec-forces-ai-chatbot-on-gay-discord-community-members-flee/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

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padeluun ⁂ @padeluun.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 10d
Nein, liebes CCH. Das ist NICHT wertfrei. Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.
Screenshot der Website des CCH – Congress Center Hamburg. Zu sehen ist ein großes Aufmacherfoto des Gebäudes mit Vorplatz sowie die Seite „Gender-Hinweis“. Darin steht, dass aus Gründen der Lesbarkeit die männliche Form (generisches Maskulinum, z. B. „der Besucher“) verwendet wird und damit alle Geschlechter im Sinne der Gleichbehandlung gemeint seien.

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FlohEinstein (DECT: 3564) @floheinstein.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 11d
Ran into a problem in prod?
Just generate a fake cloudflare error page and blame it on them - gives you time to fix.

#foss #devops #cloudflare #infosec
Editor to generate a fake internal server error page complete with You, Cloud, Server in red and green

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Raymond @raymond.social.cologne.ap.brid.gy · 11d
"Büro 99" beim Patentamt in Müchen. Das hört sich doch geheim an, oder? Sind die dort bearbeiteten Patent auch, meistens... https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/wdr/patent-staatsgeheimnis-nukleare-abschreckung-nato-100.html

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Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 12d
The saga continues:
https://netzpolitik.org/2025/degitalisierung-statusstress/
Degitalisierung: Statusstress
Wie geht man gut damit um, wenn etwas nicht in Ordnung ist? – Gemeinfrei-ähnlich freigegeben durch unsplash.com Luis VillasmilWenn ein IT-System veraltet oder kaputt ist und jemand darauf hinweist, verursacht das erstmal Stress. Aber den Status um jeden Preis aufrechtzuerhalten ist nicht der beste Umgang, findet unsere Kolumnistin. Sie schlägt einen anderen Weg für ein stressfreies digitales Zusammenleben vor.
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Raymond @raymond.social.cologne.ap.brid.gy · 17d
Die Wikimedia Foudation hat soeben ihre künftige CEO vorgestellt: Bernadette Meehan, ehemalige Botschafterin (unter Biden) in Chile. Und für die Obama Foundation hat sie gearbeitet. Damit dürfte ihre politische Ausrichtung klar sein […]
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Michael Blume @blumeevolution.sueden.social.ap.brid.gy · 17d
„Die Polizei holt eine alleinerziehende #mutter und ihre #kinder, sieben und elf Jahre alt, mitten in der Nacht aus der Asylbewerberunterkunft und setzt sie ins Flugzeug nach #Nigeria. In #Berg herrschen Ohnmacht und Fassungslosigkeit.“ #bayern #bundesrepublik

Ich bin seit über 30 Jahren […]
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Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 18d
@ditsch42
Do some quick shoulder-lifts-to-the-ears-and-then-drop before entering the room to relax those muscles. Smile. Try and remember (or write down) everyone's name so you can address them by name. Be yourself, we can see fakeness. That's why we ask questions to try and get you off your […]
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Jeff Horton :canada: @jeffhorton.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 19d
Happened on this Reddit thread and just oh wow, we all read that literacy skills are bad but this is just sad. Even worse is that the kids didn't do it to themselves, they were led into this destruction.

"If kids are the future, it's looking pretty dire." […]
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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 19d
#elsevier finally (after 25 years) retracted the primary study concluding that #glyphosate is safe for humans. Glyphosate is the active ingredient in #roundup herbicide and manufactured by #Monsanto.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273230099913715

h/t @civodul […]
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Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ @ianrogers.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 19d
Hey here's a fun frontend / ui design thing... a dev trying to emulate Apple glass using css accidentally figured out how to use CSS & SVG for clickjacking. No js required. Works in Chrome & Firefox.

#CSS #uiux #uidesign #InfoSec

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/05/css_svg_clickjacking/

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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 @blogdiva.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22d
RE: https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/115664123221310113

today’s #alttxt #yaddayadda:

❝ Time for your annual reminder that, according to A Christmas Carol, Bob Cratchit makes 15 shillings a week.

Adjusted for inflation, that's $530.27/wk, $27,574/yr, or $13.50/ hr.

Most Americans on […]

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Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 22d
The good old days!
It seems that the German "Bundesdruckerei" are spending tax money on implementing a data repository that doesn't even have the functionality of systems from 1986. When questioned, of course, the Bundesdruckerei threatened to send in the lawyers […]
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24d
"Even Carrington would be impressed" 😬

https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=02&month=12&year=2025

Hopefully we just get "someone should check on our satellites" levels of auroras and not "A bunch of open questions in solar-terrestrial physics are about to be answered"
What it means if you see an aurora by latitude. Polar: Normal High latitude: Cool and exciting mid latitude: Someone should go check on our satellites equatorial: A bunch of open questions in solar-terrestrial physics are about to be answered Image from https://xkcd.com/2233

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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 24d
Unix - BSD developers : this code should run and be maintained as long as computers exist.

Linux - GNU dev : this code should run and be maintained as long as someone is willing to do the work

Consultant: this code should run until the end of my contract.

Enterprise grade B2B software : this […]
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Nature Nomad @naturecompass.bsky.social · 27d
✨ Last night’s auroras over Alaska looked like angel wings opening above the forest…
One of the most breathtaking displays this region has seen in years. 🌌💜✨

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Coach Pāṇini ® @paninid.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 27d
#enshittification

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29d
Vancouver and Victoria people: I'll be there in January and I might as well give some more lectures than I'm already committed to. Anybody have a library or science centre connection and want me to give a public talk about space debris and satellite pollution?

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Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Nov 26
And now the third group of students complains that the exercise was sooooo hard because they didn't know the exact format for preparing the necessary documents.

Need I note that I went through this during the lecture (which is usually only attended by 1/4 of the students, as it is at 8:00 in […]
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Mikka, MD @mikka.medic.cafe.ap.brid.gy · Nov 25
GANZ unwissenschaftliche Umfrage bei Kolleg:innen heute Abend: etwa 70 Prozent der Patient:innen haben aufgehört, Google zu fragen, und fragen lieber ChatGPT.

Die Antworten sind "nicht immer" korrekt und tragen statt zu einer Form der "Google Anxiety" eher zu einer "ChatGPT Complacency" bei […]
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Debora Weber-Wulff @wisewoman.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Nov 25
I have now heard a new excuse for a student not attending class. "My cat is sick. I can't leave him for even a few hours". I thought after 30 years of teaching I had heard everything.

#academicchatter