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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@joey My colleague suggested COBOL should still be quite LLM-safe…

But yeah, same here, all the introductory exercises get one-shot by Copilot and friends…
December 12, 2025 at 9:45 PM
@sundogplanets …over their whole career!
December 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Reposted by Volker Stolz
Relatedly, data centers in orbit are a fucking terrible idea (not the title Scientific American used, but they should have) https://archive.ph/UPkWu

The SA article references a paper that analyses the carbon footprint of orbital data centers, since techbros talk about "unlimited" solar power so […]
Original post on mastodon.social
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December 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Reposted by Volker Stolz
This is getting a bit more traction than my posts usually do, so hi, people reading me, a bit more context for my being pissed off about Calibre putting AI into its feature set:

I am an author. I've released work with Carina Press, and I've released work on my own. My released work is on record […]
Original post on mastodon.murkworks.net
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December 6, 2025 at 8:28 AM
@jschauma No more file storage and no web pages anyway, faculty at $DAYSHOP only gets a cheapo CMS where we can’t even publish files like slides or papers (for science, for teaching there’s a learning-silo).
December 6, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Reposted by Volker Stolz
BTW don't use Spotify. Or any other streaming, really.

Bandcamp isn't ideal but at least they give artists actual money while making it easy to listen to - stream or download ( without DRM ) as you see fit.
December 6, 2025 at 1:31 AM
December 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM