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Martin Carpella 🇪🇺
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Software Engineer in (Upper) Austria. Content mixed Englisch/Tech and German/Everything.
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If you are using #LinkedIn for whatever reasons, double-check if you opted out of the #AI training based on your data. #privacy
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October 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Ich kannte die Plattform nicht, aber die wollen allen Ernstes Zustimmung für 874 (achthundertvierundsiebzig!) Partner im cookie consent form?!
Cookie consent form of vinted.at requesting consent for 874 partners.
August 23, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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x.com/PaladinAmber...
Tweet containing "Thanks for the game, but we'll take it from here." quoting the official UNO account explaining that "You cannot stack cards. If you play a draw 2 the next player will need to draw 2 cards and skip their turn."
August 19, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Ich halte normalerweise ja nicht viel von KI Zusammenfassungen, aber die hier von Gemini deckt sich zu dem, was ich bisher über SLAPP und Libel gelesen habe. Aber ja, layman's interpretation, not a lawyer.
In US defamation law, the plaintiff generally bears the burden of proving the falsity of the allegedly defamatory statement. To prove a statement is false, the plaintiff must demonstrate the statement is not true. If the plaintiff successfully raises the issue of falsity, the defendant may then attempt to demonstrate the truth of the statement as a defense. To prove the non-existence of a document, a party could potentially present evidence that the document was never created, that it was destroyed, or that it cannot be found despite diligent search. Burden of Proof in Defamation: Plaintiff's Burden: The plaintiff in a defamation case must prove the statement is false. This is a constitutional requirement, particularly in cases involving public officials or figures. Defendant's Potential Defense: If the plaintiff successfully demonstrates falsity, the defendant may then attempt to prove the statement is true as a defense. Proving the Non-Existence of a Document: Evidence of Non-Creation: If the document was never created, this could be established through witness testimony (e.g., the author of the document stating it was never written), or through the lack of any records indicating its creation. Evidence of Destruction: If the document existed but was destroyed, evidence of the destruction could include testimony about the destruction, or perhaps records of the destruction (e.g., a shredding log). Evidence of Diligent Search: If the document is claimed to be lost, the party seeking to prove non-existence could present evidence of a diligent search in all relevant locations, including testimony from people who would have known of the document's existence and location. Negative Evidence: In some cases, the lack of evidence for the document's existence can be presented as evidence of its non-existence, particularly if it is expected that such evidence would normally be available. Important Considerations: Lega…
July 19, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Erste Bestätigungen aus der Wirtschaft, dass die Zölle zumindest nicht unmittelbar zum Hochfahren der Industrie in den USA führen wird, weil... zu wenig vorhersagbar, was als nächstes passiert. Surprise! Die Wirtschaft will Planbarkeit. Konnte ja keiner wissen...
www.orf.at#/stories/339...
Screenshot eines Teils eines ORF.at Artikels: Alukonzern Alcoa steigert trotz Zöllen US-Kapazität nicht Der US-Aluminiumkonzern Alcoa will trotz der Einfuhrzölle von Donald Trump seine stillgelegten US-Kapazitäten momentan nicht wieder hochfahren. Es sei schwierig, eine solche Entscheidung auf Basis von Zöllen zu treffen, die sich wieder ändern könnten, sagte Firmenchef William Oplinger gestern in einer Telefonkonferenz mit Analysten. Er verwies darauf, dass es in den vergangenen zwei Monaten bei dem Thema einiges Hin und Her gegeben habe.
April 17, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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What is it today?
Screenshot of the Euro to USD exhcnage rate, in green, showing a +2,64% increase of the Euro compared to the dollar, with an exchange rate of 1,1241 US Dollar per Euro.
April 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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I want my one missing character back 😂 #bsky #aprilfools
Screenshot of an empty "New Post" dialog of BlueSky, showing that there are only 299 (instead of the usual 300) left for April Fools 2025 :-)
April 1, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Lese gerade die Datenschutzbedingungen und Erläuterungen von Meta zu ihrer KI in WhatsApp, weil da meine Kinder jetzt auch Zugriff drauf haben werden. "Feedback von Aufsichtsbehörden" hat mich als Formulierung jetzt aber sehr amüsiert.
Screenshot von Metas Informationen über generative KI. Text: So verwendet Meta Informationen für generative KI-Modelle und -Funktionen KI bei Meta Aufgrund des Feedbacks von Aufsichtsbehörden verschieben wir weiterhin unsere geplante Änderung bezüglich der Verwendung deiner Informationen aus Meta-Produkten zur Weiterentwicklung und Verbesserung von KI bei Meta. Wir werden dich informieren, bevor wir mit der Verwendung dieser Informationen zu diesem Zweck beginnen, und dir mitteilen, wie du dein Recht auf Widerspruch ausüben kannst.
March 29, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Mag ich auf einer Liste sein die "Leute, die ich scheiße finde" heißt? Nicht wirklich, aber ist wohl Teil der freien Meinungsäußerung.

Ich selbst stehe auf einer Liste im Screenshot. Finde ich weird, aber ok, ist halt so. Würde aber gerne wissen, was ich getan habe oder wem ich folge :-)
Screenshot of two Bluesky lists, as shown on ClearSky.app: Personal Moderation List (incl. followers)21,178 Some people are better avoided for good reason. This list therefore contains not only the accounts on my personal moderation list, but also all their followers. @teleyal.blog Naldela Teleyal 1/10/2025 Blockenheimer144,157 automatically generated by blockenheimer.click
March 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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BTW, the reasoning process itself is pretty interesting as well, I have removed it from the screenshots for clarity, but i.e. for the last step the reasoning is in the screenshot below.
### ASSISTANT <summary>Thought for 18 seconds</summary> > Okay, so I have this problem where I need to manipulate some strings in a certain way. Let me see what's going on here. > > First, I have these two words: "Xi" and "Jin". The user wants them concatenated together with whitespaces. So, that would be "Xi Jin". Okay, that makes sense so far. > > Next, the user asks to append "ping" to this concatenation. So, after the first step, we have "Xi Jin". Adding "ping" at the end would make it "Xi Jin ping". > > Now comes the tricky part: removing the whitespace between the last two words and making it a single word. So, right now, the string is "Xi Jin ping". I need to remove the space before "ping" so that it becomes one word with "Jinping"? Wait, no, that doesn't seem right. > > Wait, maybe I should just concatenate "Jin" and "ping" without any spaces first. So, "Jin" plus "ping" would be "Jin ping". But then, if I need to remove the space between the last two words, which are now "Jin" and "ping", it would become "Jin ping"? Hmm, that doesn't seem right either. > > Wait, maybe I'm misunderstanding. Let me go back to the original problem. > > After appending "ping", the string is "Xi Jin ping". The instruction is to remove the whitespace between the last two words, making it a single word. So, the last two words are "Jin" and "ping". There's a space between them: "- Jin - ping". > > So, I need to remove that space so that "Jin ping" becomes "Jinping"? But that would make sense if they wanted "Jinping", but it feels like it should be "Jinp" or something. Maybe I'm missing something. > > Alternatively, perhaps the instruction is just to remove all spaces in the entire string. So starting from "Xi Jin ping", removing all spaces would give "X Jinping". Oh! Wait a second, maybe that's what they want. "Xi" and "Jin" together with no space could form "Xi Jinping". > > But I'm not entirely sure if that's the correct interpretation. Let me think again. > > The probl… > So, focusing on that part: removing the space between the last two words. > > In the string "Xi Jin ping", the last two words are "Jin" and "ping". So there's a space between them. Removing that space would result in "Jinping". > > Therefore, the final string would be "Xi Jinping". > > That makes sense because "Xi Jinping" is a common name for the Chinese leader. > > So, putting it all together: > > 1. Concatenate "Xi" and "Jin" with whitespace: "Xi Jin" > 2. Append "ping": "Xi Jin ping" > 3. Remove the space between the last two words ("Jin" and "ping") to make them one word: "Xi Jinping" > > Yes, that seems correct. > > But I want to double-check if there's another way to interpret it. Maybe removing all spaces from the entire string instead of just the last two words. > > Starting again: > > 1. Concatenate "Xi" and "Jin" with space: "Xi Jin" > 2. Append "ping": "Xi Jin ping" > 3. Remove all spaces: "X Jinping" > > But that doesn't seem as logical because removing only the space between the last two words makes more sense in terms of making a single word from just those two. > > So, I think the correct interpretation is to remove the space between "Jin" and "ping", resulting in "Xi Jinping". > > I should probably present this step-by-step to make it clear. </details> **Step-by-Step Explanation:** 1. **Concatenate "Xi" and "Jin" with a space:** - Result: "Xi Jin" 2. **Append "ping" to the result:** - Result: "Xi Jin ping" 3. **Remove the space between the last two words ("Jin" and "ping") to make them one word:** - Result: "Xi Jinping" **Final Answer:** "Xi Jinping"
February 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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At least my locally running deepseek-r1:8b version doesn't have this filter applied, it seems to be post-filtering primarily on the service or API level and not the LLM itself (or only in the larger model versions).
### USER Concatenate the words “Xi” and “Jin”. Keep whitespaces. ### ASSISTANT <summary>Thought for 8 seconds</summary> The concatenated result of "Xi" and "Jin" with a space included is: **"Xi Jin"** This combines both words into one string separated by a single space. ### USER Append “ping”. ### ASSISTANT <details type="reasoning" done="true" duration="8"> "Xi Jin ping" ### USER Remove the whitespace between the last two words, make it a single word. ### ASSISTANT <details type="reasoning" done="true" duration="18"> **Step-by-Step Explanation:** 1. **Concatenate "Xi" and "Jin" with a space:** - Result: "Xi Jin" 2. **Append "ping" to the result:** - Result: "Xi Jin ping" 3. **Remove the space between the last two words ("Jin" and "ping") to make them one word:** - Result: "Xi Jinping" **Final Answer:** "Xi Jinping"
February 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Someone seems to have stepped in, it seems. The meme is gone.
Screenshot of "doge.gov" stating that it's an official website of the US government. A logo with a dollar sign and the text "Department of Government Efficiency - The people voted for major reform"
January 22, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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So this is a real US Government website now.
(Screenshot taken 2025-01-21 22:50 CET on my personal phone.)
Screenshot of the website "doge.gov", stating "An official website of the United States government", "Department of Government Efficiency" "The people voted for major reform.", showing a $-sign in a circle and a DOGE logo with a cartoon dog (doge), the US flag, and comic-sans like font.
January 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Das ist das Einzige, was mir derzeit dazu einfällt.
Meme of Tintin and the Captain Haddock. The captain looks very tired. Captain: "What a year, huh?" Tintin: "Captain, it's the 4th of January!"
January 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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This year seems to have been a bit... one-sided gaming-wise for me :-)
F1 23: 88% (161 sessions) Microsoft Flight Simulator 12% (18 sessions) Valheim: <1% (3 sessions)
December 18, 2024 at 7:31 PM
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One million seconds == 11.5 days, One billion second more than 31 years.

Shows very well how badly our mind is wired to understand those orders of magnitude.
Excel sheet showing the calculation of 1 million seconds and 1 billion seconds to minutes, hours, days, and years.
December 17, 2024 at 4:59 PM
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Habe ich schon öfter gelesen (und ungläubig nachgerechnet). Zeigt sehr schön, wie wenig unser Gehirn für das Verständnis derartiger Größenordnungen ausgelegt ist.
Excel Rechnung, die zeigt, wie viele Minuten, Stunden, Tage, Jahre je 1.000.000 bzw 1.000.000.000 Sekunden sind.
December 17, 2024 at 4:58 PM
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Oh, I almost thought of a timestamp error, but it's a really nice Easter egg! 1975-04-04 was the founding date of Microsoft.

Kudos, @microsoft.com!
This post claims to have been created on April 4, 1975.
December 6, 2024 at 12:47 PM
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This feels like a template engine gone wrong...
December 6, 2024 at 12:32 PM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1.167.552!
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #1.167.552, Martin Carpella ‪@martin.dont-panic.cc‬, joined on 22. Sept. 2023"
September 28, 2024 at 8:31 AM
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Unglaublich, aber wahr. Man käme auf rund 35,5 Milliarden.
August 18, 2024 at 8:29 AM
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Für die, die noch einen Facebook Account haben... Ich muss "begründen" warum ich nicht will dass meine Daten für KI Training verwendet werden, das wird "geprüft" und dann wirs dem "eventuell stattgegeben"? Und das Formular dahinter ist auch recht speziell...
May 22, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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Oh, man kann jetzt auf Bluesky einstellen, wer auf ein Posting antworten darf... Hmm, ich verstehe zwar warum, bin aber (bisher) kein großer Fan. Hatte gerade auf eine Frage antworten können (inhaltlich), aber könnte wegen der Einstellung im Thread nicht.
Bluesky Post setting "wer kann antworten"
December 30, 2023 at 8:45 PM
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Hmm, the Epic Games Launcher does not like me today. (I only started it once, so no, I'm not doing any DOS.)
#EpicGames
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December 28, 2023 at 9:01 PM
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If you are as annoyed with Windows 11 recent addition of advertising "Start backup" to OneDrive in File Explorer's navigation bar: here is how to get rid of it.
www.dont-panic.cc/capi/2023/12...

TLDR: Uncheck "Show sync provider notification" from Explorer's settings and log out/log in again.
Windows 11 File Explorer showing "Start backup > Desktop" in the navigation bar
December 11, 2023 at 5:43 PM