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  "The longest line of sight on earth photographed is 493.07 km (306.37 mi), achieved by Richard Jezik (Slovakia), in Giresun, Turkey, on 15 December 2024." https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/66661-longest-line-of-sight-on-earth

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  "Linux Kernel TCP Flaw With 9.8 CVSS Score Affects Ubuntu, Red Hat and Other Distributions" https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/linux-kernel-tcp-flaw-with-98-cvss.html

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  "Oracle wants to bill you for every AI task, not just every seat " https://www.theregister.com/applications/2026/10/29/oracle-wants-to-bill-you-for-every-ai-task-not-just-every-seat/5306403 “The more work that gets done by AI in our system, the more revenue we will see because they're consuming AI units as that work is getting done. We don't have to add more seats in order for us to now generate more revenue,” […] "Our large remaining base of on-pre...

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  >>"Tom, why are you here this morning?" the Fox reporter asked. "Well, in the late 70s, I was a little too young to go to South America for Jonestown. But this is as close as I'll ever get, so that's why I'm here," Tom responded. "Wait, Jonestown...?" the reporter asked, seemingly confused. "There's nothing like seeing a cult right up front," the attendee added."&...

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  RIP Patrick Stewart https://youtu.be/ptfmAY6M6aA #ECHR #StarTrek

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  "Phorion has detected a backdoor in the official Claude Code for VS Code extension bundle on Open VSX that drops a persistent SSH backdoor across macOS, Linux, and Windows. This write-up focuses primarily on macOS, where the extension attempts to configure an SSH backdoor and establish persistence. Organisations should immediately review their environments for use of Claude Code for VSCode 2.1.313 and engage incident response where use of the extension is discovered." https:/...

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  "Reliability Lessons From SQLite - Richard Hipp | SSW 2026" https://youtu.be/V_qzqY1bb7I #sqlite #testing #lessonslearned #ssw2026

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  "Symfony 8 ignores your #[Groups] attribute" https://ddz.dev/blog/symfony-8-groups-attribute-silently-ignored/ "Groups is not the only class that moved. The same shim treatment applies to the whole old namespace: SerializedName, Ignore, Context, MaxDepth, DiscriminatorMap. Every one of them will compile from the old import and do absolutely nothing. Ignore is the scary one, since a silently dropped #[Ignore] doesn't remove data from your response, it adds data you meant to h...

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  "Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster - A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project" https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/generative-ai-engineering-disaster/687901/ "The problem with generative AI, in the industry’s own jargon, is that it does not scale. The cost of growing from, say, a thousand users to a million is a key factor that venture capitalists examine when they evaluate start-ups. […] Large language models do not scale logarithmically. When they’re...

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  "Man nearly sucked out of 'detached' window on Ryanair flight" https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0710/1582735-world-ryanair/

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@blaetter/116867021067258382 "Die Gratisaufmerksamkeit, die die AfD von der Konkurrenz bekommt, ist so viel wert, dass sie dafür eigentlich Schenkungssteuer zahlen müsste." "Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat 2017 niedergeschrieben, dass die Wehrhaftigkeit des Staates gewährleisten soll, dass »Verfassungsfeinde nicht unter Berufung auf die Freiheiten, die das Grundgesetz gewährt, und unter ihrem Schutz die Verfassungsordnung oder den Bestand des Staates...

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  "The Physics Of GPS" "How geometry, stopwatches, and Einstein's theories work together to make GPS possible." https://perthirtysix.com/how-does-gps-work Nice step by step explanation with some interactive visualisations when someone asks how satellite positioning works. #dataviz #gps

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  "Your Name in Landsat - With this online interactive, users can type in their name then view and export the graphic of that name spelled out in Earth features found in Landsat images." https://science.nasa.gov/mission/landsat/outreach/your-name-in-landsat/ #NASA #landsat

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  "To make the core of my disgust reaction perfectly clear here, only the following things about TLS offend me: • You must submit to the Certificate Authority, even if you don’t care and your users don’t care • The browser acts like if you didn’t do this, it’s somehow “dangerous” • These two effects in tandem can get worse at any time, and have done so The situation is annoying in principle because of the un-democratization of the web, and annoying in practice because I gotta do all the...

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  "Technical debt is not malice" https://phpunit.expert/articles/technical-debt-is-not-malice.html "Technical debt is not malice, it is context. An argument for why empathy is a technical skill that matters more than you think." #php #phpunit #techdebt

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  "You built the thing. You shipped the thing. And then... nothing. No analytics worth looking at. No user interviews after launch. Nobody circling back to check whether the feature actually solved the problem it was supposed to solve. So you guess on the next feature too. And the one after that. The entire product roadmap is a series of educated guesses with no feedback between them." https://andrewmurphy.io/blog/if-you-thought-the-speed-of-writing-code-was-your-problem-you-ha...

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  https://www.fastcompany.com/91519302/byd-nail-test-why-this-54-billion-innovation-is-terrifying-western-auto-executives "BYD did not decide one morning to build the fastest car on Earth. First, it built phone batteries. Then E-bike packs. Bus systems. Delivery vans. Passenger cars. Hypercars. Each rung taught something the previous rung could not. There was no quantum leap. Only the next rung. And Wang’s deepest insight had nothing to do with batteries. It was about knowledge. If you...

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  "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'? I mapped every one." https://teybannerman.github.io/strategy/2026/03/31/how-many-microsoft-copilot-are-there.html "A few weeks ago, I tried to explain to someone what Microsoft Copilot is. I couldn’t… because the name ‘Copilot’ now refers to at least 75 different things."

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  „One step from Skynet“ https://nickjmilani.substack.com/p/one-step-from-skynet „Whether that function sends a calendar invite or launches a Hellfire missile is just a matter of which API it’s connected to. […] And there’s another piece most people haven’t caught up to yet: AI doesn’t stop and wait for you. Today’s AI agents can be given an objective and go work toward it autonomously. They loop. They retry. They hit an obstacle, figure out a workaround, and keep going. Hours, days, theoretical...

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@tazgetroete/116153843957803560 Fachkräftemangel in Arztpraxen? Ist es Zeit, die Widerrufsgründe für Approbationen zu aktualisieren? Abrechnungsbetrug reicht ja wahrscheinlich nicht. Fortbildungen zu Impfungen wahr zu nehmen, ohne sie zu verinnerlichen oder in der Praxis anzuwenden reicht ... vielleicht?

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  1 file #symfony #php application https://wouterj.nl/2026/02/200-lines-of-symfony

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  „I deleted my source code“ https://joppe.dev/2026/02/26/i-deleted-my-source-code/ „The classic development workflow we all know and loved, is disappearing fast. We will no longer care about the nitty gritty details of how the code works. We will only care that it does.“ Experiment in #php that has unit tests, some spec markdown files plus skill files to fill the src folder on every push according to specs/tests. Old heads cry in #UML, model driven development and flow based whatever. Can&amp...

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  „Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs“ https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16800 „We show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization. With full Internet access, our agent can re-identify Hacker News users and Anthropic Interviewer participants at high precision, given pseudonymous online profiles and conversations alone, matching what would take hours for a dedicated human investigator.“ #Privacy