Volker Stolz
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Volker Stolz
@fm-volker.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Unprofessional takes on CompSci and other things. Card-carrying member of @informatik. Sub-tooter at https://fediscience.org/@selabhvl.
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Doing random things on my bank’s web-site. Why would they even have a field for this under personal details?!?

#sparkasse
December 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
*sigh* Have to switch charts in #homeassistant some day…
December 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
We're harnessing the computational power of an entire planet for … exactly what?

Not sure if this is Teams or Apple, but evidently it can only resolve single-character-mistake typos :-/
December 18, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Peace activists protesting against this year’s Nobel Peace Prize is somehow incredibly on-brand for 2025…

#nobelpeaceprize

https://www.nrk.no/nyheter/nobels-fredspris-1.11291900
December 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
December 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This VSCode issue was apparently irritating enough (or rather not finding proper documentation) that I’ve returned to StackOverflow after … a bit of an absence.
December 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
They must’ve noticed the 5-6 Norwegians checking in!
December 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Oh FFS, how are your Dockerfiles coming along?
December 2, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Oh no, German chancellor Merz is coming on a state visit to 🇳🇴! What do you think he’s going to insult the locals with during/after his visit this time? Leave your suggestions below! I’ll start:

- “Ich bin froh, endlich wieder ein Bierchen zu vernünftigen […]

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November 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Wenigstens schämen sie sich.
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Yeah, #booking_com, how WAS my experience?!
November 21, 2025 at 10:23 AM
I put “NordPool spot prices” and “FMU” together into a sentence so that you don’t have to: https://codeberg.org/fm_volker/Nordpool-FMU

This project generates a Functional Mockup Unit (FMU) that uses Nord Pool's HTTP API to request and provide day-ahead […]

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November 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Ivan presented our Ruleless Digitial Twins already on Monday at DataMod.

We didn’t bother to stage another photo-op, I’m sure you can spot him front of the “carpet”.
November 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
#iryo photo-op train-spotted in Madrid-Atocha.

And wow, Metro Madrid selling me a mandatory transport card to store the ticket for 2,50€ extra. Let’s hope I come back to make good use of it and actually come back before they switch systems again.
November 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Elena Gómez-Martínez and Domenico Bianculli opening #sefm2025.
November 12, 2025 at 9:17 AM
@b0rk I’m idly wondering: did you already run a survey if people actually look at/care about the output of `git push`? Are people looking for more than “Oh someone was faster than you, git pull and hope that you don’t have to do any cleanup”/“You forgot to […]

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November 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Apple giving us the finger again on MacOS.

#DarkUIPatterns
November 7, 2025 at 11:08 AM
RE: https://mastodon.social/@NRKno_bot/115490162559030871

Auto-Politik in #oslo ist mal wieder : “Was soll ich denn als 86-Jährige machen [wenn nicht mit dem Auto zum Supermarkt fahren], das Fahrrad oder den ÖPNV nehmen?”.

#verkehrswende
November 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Warum interviewen die #tagesthemen eigentlich einen alten weißen Mann aus der Fossil-Industrie zum Thema #klimawandel, und nicht seine Enkel?

#evonik
October 29, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Basically the only status update that could actually make me go onto #linkedin and post an update:
October 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Na, wer von euch hat das wieder gecybert?!

#bundid
October 23, 2025 at 8:51 AM
@tanketom Symbolbilde, Kanalveien. Sykkelvei med fartsdemper og varsling mot harde traffikanter.
October 22, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Spicy take vom WDR 😬

Aber: Guten Morgen, NRW!
October 20, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Kenne ich jemanden bei der #RegioIT in #aachen? Oder jemanden, der weiß warum sich deren MTA bei diesem #tls ClientHello nach einem STMP STARTTLS (Debian Sendmail 8.18.1 auf meiner Seite) verschluckt? Verbindung bleibt bestehen, ist aber tot […]

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October 19, 2025 at 9:57 AM
This was an interesting post on how to sneak yourself sideways into a running UNPRIVILEGED container with elevated privileges, e.g. to run `gdb`:

https://nvartolomei.com/debugging-programs-running-inside-docker-containers--in-production/
October 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM