🗺️ Hochauflösende Höhenschummerung in Bikerouter dank Mapterhorn
🗺️ „Was ist neu?“-Benachrichtigungen in Bikerouter
🖌️ Vektorisierung von Bitmap-Grafiken mit Inkscape
🚵♂️ Ich habe mein VeloViewer-Abo nicht erneut verlängert
💺 Neuer Bürostuhl im Haus…
"Countries want to be in #NATO because they don't want #Russia to invade them, to attack them.
If this is not in question [for #Ukraine], we need to see what are security guarantees that are tangible. They can't be papers or promises. They have to be real troops"
Single point of failure: My son dropped his phone in the sink. The worry is actually about how to access the saved passwords, receive text messages to reset access, not whether the phone still works!! This is bad, really bad!! dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/techno… #EdTech #Tech #Phone #Data
My son dropped his phone in the sink. It was in there for seconds, not minutes. Retrieved quickly, dried out, switched off and left alone. Then came the waiting to see whether it would turn back on…
I Paesi membri dell'Alleanza bolivariana per le Americhe (Alba) hanno approvato la creazione di un piano di aiuti energetici per Cuba, impantanata in una grave carenza di carburante che sta paralizzando la sua produzione di elettricità, con blackout …
🔴Consumo multa con 64 millones a Airbnb por anunciar viviendas sin licencia
El ministerio que dirige Pablo Bustinduy hace efectiva la sanción tras la resolución del recurso administrativo de alzada resuelto por el ministerio del ramo. elsaltodiario.com/vivienda/con…
Because the issue of population change is so widely misunderstood, here's a short thread which seeks to lay it out simply. It explains why there is almost nothing anyone can do to change the global population trajectory, both as numbers rise, then as they fall. 🧵1/13
The residual rise is due to: A. the birth rate 60-100 years ago, which created a larger current base population. This means more children being born even as birth *rates* are in radical decline. The global total fertility rate, by the way, is now 2.2, just above the replacement rate of 2.1. 2/13
B. infant mortality has declined very fast and longevity has risen very fast. Again, there's nothing you can do about either of those things and, I hope, nothing you would want to. 3/13
All women should have total reproductive freedom and full access to modern birth control. *Because it’s a fundamental right.* NOT because old men on other continents want them to have fewer children. Even if it became universal now, it would scarcely nudge the curve, due to the factors above. 4/13
Before long, people will be fretting instead about the downwave, a very rapid decline in populations as the impact of 60+ years of falling birth rates overtakes the effects mentioned above. 5/13
There's almost nothing we can do about that either. It's about as locked in as any human behaviour can be. As the opportunity costs of childcare rise (i.e. as prosperity increases), the birth rate declines. 6/13
Of course, if economic and social life collapsed, the process might go into reverse, and birth rates could be expected to rise again. But is that really what you want? For my part, I’m heartily sick of people who think collapse is the answer to anything.www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...7/13
In the short run, we can survive the decline in wealthy countries by reopening the door to immigrants, which would also offer sanctuary to people fleeing from the climate breakdown and conflict we've caused overseas. Two wins, in other words. In the long run, we'll steadily shuffle away. 8/13
Whether you think that's good or bad will not affect the outcome. I see demographic change as an underlying factor, like gravity, we simply have to adapt to as well as we can. If you want to pick a fight with a mathematical function, go ahead. But it seems to me as if you’re wasting your time. 9/13
Surely there's no harm in it? Surely we can seek to change the population trajectory while also campaigning against environmental breakdown, inequality, injustice? Some people who worry about population do. But in my experience, most fixate on population *to the exclusion* of other issues. 10/13
Something must be done about *them* breeding too fast, rather than *us* consuming too fast. All too often, residual population growth is used as a scapegoat to shift blame from rich-world impacts, which means that the people in places where growth is still occurring are themselves scapegoated. 11/13
The result, broadly speaking, is wealthy white people pointing the finger at much poorer Black and Brown people and saying, “You're the problem.” It's more than a distraction, it's a grim and sometimes racist alternative to effective action. It’s an excuse for *inaction*. 12/13
So yes, do both if you want to, while being aware that one activity is useful and the other is futile. But be aware that for most population obsessives, it's either/or, and is used to avoid moral responsibility and effective action. More on all this here: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...13/13
These are the facts: plummeting birth rates mean that without attracting immigration, many countries are sliding towards collapse, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
the USA MAHA is trying hard to change B with their no vaccination, criminilising reproductive healthcare, stopping investments in health research and making healthcare itself a luxury item 🫣
Not just in the USA. Pretty much the whole world is now letting Covid spread without any control measures, and as long as that remains the case, I expect the only direction life expectancy will go in to be downwards.
Milano, anni ’40. Quando l’insegnante di canto chiede se qualcuno se la sente di eseguire l’inno d’Italia, tutta la classe si volta verso un compagno, perché è il figlio di un musicista. Felice di essere eletto capocoro, il ragazzino si alza e intona orgoglioso le prime note dell’inno di Mameli, ma non arriva a ‘s’è desta’ che l’insegnante lo ferma e lo rimanda al posto.
Milano, anni ’40. Quando l’insegnante di canto chiede se qualcuno se la sente di eseguire l’inno d’Italia, tutta la classe si volta verso un compagno, perché è il figlio di un musicista. Felice di …
Morto a 99 anni il partigiano viareggino Marcantonio Bragadin Da tempo trasferitosi in Valdinievole, dove è stato vicesindaco e assessore, è stato in Versilia anche segretario della Camera del Lavoro
1/3 New recommendation: M. Konstantakis, K. Kaza, V. Antonopoulou, G. Daskalaki, I. Gourtzioumi, E. Larentzakis, E. Iakovaki (2025). A 3D Digital Documentation Framework for the Early Helladic Cemetery of Asteria, Glyfada: Challenges and Innovations. V5 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1743273… #Archaeology #openaccess #OpenScience
The Early Helladic cemetery at Asteria in Glyfada presents a key archaeological locus for understanding prehistoric Attica, combining evidence of metallurgical activities with a complex, multi-phase burial ground.
Antoine Tamestit, viola, Julia Sitkovetsky, soprano, Ashley Riches, bass-baritone, the London Symphony Chorus and the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano perform:
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36.
VAUGH...
The image shows a view of a landscape under a very dark, cloudy sky. The sky is predominantly grey and appears to be storm clouds gathering. In the foreground, there is a flat, brown surface that is likely a road or open land, with some red objects visible near the bottom of the frame. Buildings are visible in the middle distance, appearing as small structures with rectangular shapes and some greenery around them. Thin, tall structures resembling antennas or poles rise up in the background, silhouetted against the dark sky. ― A person stands in a muddy, flooded area near a collection of makeshift shelters. The shelters appear to be constructed from corrugated metal, plastic sheeting, and other salvaged materials, and are arranged closely together. The ground is covered in standing water and debris, and the sky is overcast. The person is holding a long stick and appears to be wading through the water. There is no visible text within the image. ― A young person sits on rubble in an outdoor environment. The person is wearing a bright green hooded sweatshirt and matching pants. Pink and white sandals are on their feet. They are looking down at their hands, which appear to be holding something small. The ground around them is covered in broken concrete, plastic bags, and a metal pipe lies to their right.
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Potere al popolo Torino denuncia nel capoluogo piemontese "l'ennesimo atto di smantellamento della sanità territoriale: sta per chiudere il consultorio familiare e pediatrico di via Bellono, un presidio fondamentale per la salute e i diritti delle do…
Il sito di informazione Axios ricorda che l’ex vicepresidente è in testa nei sondaggi per le primarie democratiche in vista del voto del 2028. Forte sostegno d…
Big news: Deutsche Welle has launched DW Access, an Android app that delivers independent news where it's needed most: in regions under information lockdown.
Key features:
➡️ No app store needed (share via link, messenger, bluetooth)
DW Access is a lightweight app designed to ensure access to independent information in regions where digital freedom is under threat. It provides users with a secure way to reach DW content even under severe censorship.
Galera linda e novinha (ou até mais antiga) do #mastodon! Seguem algumas dicas para melhorar sua vida por aqui :blobBone_dance:
:alerta: Se achar longo, leia as 3 primeiras e 6a dica e salve.
L'età del mio portatile si fa sentire. Dovevo pensare di cambiarlo il più prima di possibile ma con tutto questo casino che dobbiamo affrontare fra macchine difettose, arredamento casa, ecc. sembra di stare sul filo del rasoio. E mi serve un portatile di almeno 1000 euro.
Incrocio le dita, ma io invece ho una paura tremenda di tornare nelle Marche per la presenza...
Un altro segno ora è che adesso Windows mi scollega il wifi a caso anche se funziona, ed non si ricollega più automaticamente (sembra)
No, chiedendomi di mettere Linux non risolve niente. Non me la sento di cambiare OS impulsivamente solo perché sto affrontando un problema che non è così grosso
Beh, il cambio di sistema operativo non è detto che debba essere impulsivo.
Per vedere se Linux fa per te, puoi andare ad esempio sul sito distrosea.com per vedere se ti ci trovi (avrà prestazioni molto peggiori rispetto a quando è installato, ma è già un miracolo che girino le macchine virtuali direttamente dal browser).
Poi anche quando hai flashato la distribuzione sulla chiavetta, non sei obbligato ad installarla, puoi testarla per controllare la compatibilità col pc
PDFphilia An intense fondness or obsession with the preservation and accumulation of digital documents in #PDF format, often resulting in the excessive hoarding of electronic files and reluctance to transition to more modern document formats." reverse-contradictionary.net/w…
Hyperlinktrophy The over-reliance on #hyperlinks and interconnected digital content, resulting in a state of information overload and the inability to focus on linear, coherent narratives. reverse-contradictionary.net/w…
An intense fondness or obsession with the preservation and accumulation of digital documents in PDF format, often resulting in the excessive hoarding of electronic files and reluctance to transition to more modern document formats.
Aunque tiene WiFi mi idea es que no se use para nada. Jugar con scummvm, colecciones enteras de mangas y poder usar la tableta con orgánic maps para tema de mapas.
No más cosas. Lo bueno es que esto permite mangas a color.
Esta tableta la consideran obsoleta. Salió en 2016 y dejaron de sacar actualizaciones a los pocos años.
recomienda alguna ROM ligera pero actualizada? tengo una samsung tablet A del año la pera en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_… CREO que tengo la de 2015, y su version de android no le permite instalar apps como komelia github.com/Snd-R/Komelia
@audricd la que puse yo no es una custom ROM actualizada. No obstante para lo que la quiero me sirve: koreader, scummvm. No es para andar navegando, es para no usarla con internete.
Supongo que para otras tabletas existirán buenas ROMs sin google apps como la que yo puse. Y estarán actualizadas.
LineageOS puede ser muy buena opción también. Y con actualización y tal seguramente. Y sin google apps.
Auf den ersten Blick hat [https://store.steampowered.com/app/1364100/Lacuna__A_SciFi_Noir_Adventure/ Lacuna] einige Ähnlichkeiten zum von mir kürzlich gespielten [https://www.onli-blogging.de/2580/D...
L'Intelligenza artificiale è buona o cattiva? Sapenza UNiversità di Roma, "L'AI è abuona o cattiva?", lezione-evento con la rettrice Polimeni, Boccia Artieri, Colamedici e De Baggis. Un confronto aperto tra accademia, filosofia e media digitali per analizzare l’impatto degli algoritmi generativi sull’immaginario contemporaneo.
Arriveront-ils avant #Noel ? Rappelez-vous les mots de Ragondalf : "Un print anar n'est jamais en retard. Ni en avance d'ailleurs. Il arrive précisément à l'heure prévue."
In 2023, Malaysia fiercely defended its 'morality' against a comedian's jokes. In 2025, it stayed silent as its own officials forged documents in a FIFA scandal. The hypocrisy is clear: we police speech but ignore corruption. Real dignity isn't in outrage—it's in honesty and accountability.
A conversation on why I apologised to a comedian, why she apologised to me, and why Malaysia’s "dignity" is being destroyed by our own corruption—not by jokes.
Il paese è in lutto all’indomani di un attentato antisemita compiuto da padre e figlio, che hanno aperto il fuoco contro la folla riunita per la festività ebraica di Hanukkah.
L’Australia è in lutto il 15 dicembre all’indomani di un attentato antisemita compiuto da padre e figlio, che hanno aperto il fuoco contro la folla riunita a Bondi beach per la festività ebraica di Hanukkah, causando 15 morti. Leggi
If you want a rigorous analysis of why statistical #AI models collapse when continuously trained on their own data without external supervision and constraints, read this amazing paper from last year.
If you want to get a visual intuition of how model collapse looks like, look at this video.
When AI stares at its own reflection for too long, and its inference is purely rooted on statistics rather than reasoning, this becomes statistically inevitable.
Keep this in mind whenever you hear someone talking about “AI models learning from their own outputs” without addressing the statistical parrot issue.
Analysis shows that indiscriminately training generative artificial intelligence on real and generated content, usually done by scraping data from the Internet, can lead to a collapse in the ability of the models to generate diverse high-quality out…
...why is what you say even a question...It should however not be confused with the use of synthetic data in a sensible way or do you think that is the same?
@ErikJonker well, the conceptual mechanism is pretty much the same.
This is the output of a model tasked with a “generate the next image” prompt - basically a closed-loop system where the only input at t is the the output at t-1.
The process itself is stateless in this case - we’re predicting outputs without changing weights.
But imagine a lot of this output being generated over many generations, being incorporated in many synthetic datasets, and having those datasets fed to new models.
The drift / smoothing / averaging out phenomenon would still happen. On different timescales than 200 tight loop iterations, sure. But it’s still there. Because it’s intrinsic to a model that is statistically designed to converge to something and model a low-variance prediction out of a high-variance input.
..but isn't there empirical evidence that synthetic data as part of a trainingdata set can work, it was my impression that it is common practice (use of synthetic data in some way), although I fully understand you have to be careful to prevent model collapse
Excuse me for chiming in, but I could not resist pointing out that von Neumann himself explicitly warns in his book (on the mathematical foundations of QT) against using "his" entropy for thermodynamics, and instead introduces a macroscopic entropy to account for entropy increase in isolated systems.
And a discussion that compares the Boltzmann and Von Neumann/Shannon interpretations would drag me here for hours (and after days of both scientific and philosophical thought exercize over their implications I still can’t come up with a definition that satisfies both the “thermodynamic” and the “information” interpretation).
Let me clarify what I mean by “low/high entropy of a closed system” in this context with a better (but also abused) analogy when we talk about entropy: the coffee and milk case.
It’s an old adage taught to kids from an early age that when you mix coffee and milk you start with a “low entropy” system (coffee and milk as separate states with their own boundaries) and end up with a “high entropy” system (coffee and milk mixed together).
The underlying concept in this definition of entropy is that of “reversibility” of a reaction. Not necessarily the amount of information or independent variables required to accurately model the system. I like this definition better because the principle of least action and the arrow of time just emerge as naturally corollaries of it.
It’s basically much easier to start with a system where the two components are separate and end up with a system where they are mixed than the other way around. This is a definition that even a kid can understand without delving into the logarithmic growth of information states. As @androcat intuitively but eloquently put it:
When a recursive system eats its own shit, it’s not leaking information to some other system, it’s just overwriting it through averaging.
This is exactly what I mean by “high entropy” state in this context.
You can’t get the original coffee grains out of your latte unless you apply some serious molecular wizardy (which btw would just transfer entropy from your cup to whatever machinery you’re using to do your molecular distillation, which is where the concept of “what are the boundaries of your system, where you need to put your entropic probes” becomes important).
Similarly, you can’t get the original girlfriend meme picture starting from the final “three asexual and featureless abuelas on a black background” picture unless you consume all the energy resources of the planet to do a backwards search through all the possible permutations of stable diffusion that may have led to that outcome (and maybe adding a huge additional adversarial network on top to tell how “realistic” each prediction is).
According to a strictly “informational” definition, however, the entropy of the final system in both cases (latte and three asexual abuelas) may actually be low. After all, we don’t need much information to model a low-variance system that converged onto a local minimum: it’s just the average value.
But the arrow of time of events that led to that state matters here: was the system in that state because the latte or the three abuelas were already in that averaged out state since the moment of the big bang, or is it the output of a system that we can reasonably approximate as a closed one (your coffee cup or a specific snapshot of weights saved on an OpenAI server) which recursively ate back its own shit through a tight feedback loop and simply ended up with a very low-variance normal distribution?
This is the conflict point I see between the two dominant interpretations. And I see it mainly as a problem on the “information” interpretation, because by focusing on “how many independent variables do I need to accurately describe the state of the system?” it settles for a stateless definition that misses out the dimension of time (and reversibility).
That it gets worse when it eats its own shit is unsurprising. Every technology does that.
I think we should be wary of narratives that replace the indefensible original sin of LLMs with stuff that can be defended against, like "it gets worse when it works on its own output".
@androcat I am well aware of what you are talking about, I am saying its a wrong analogy for LLM's! And that the correct one would be with Von Neumann entropy. I am saying thermodynamics is not the right picture here for the loss of information of a system.
In either case the analogy is even worse, because LLM decay actually decreases the entropy of the outputs. As shown by the paper at the top of the conversation, in which the pictures start looking more and more alike.
@Ntropic Von Neumann entropy is not relevant to thermodynamics.
A practical concept of entropy based on the behavior of atoms in the amount of NA is not properly equivalent to a theoretical entity based on n=1 behavior.
Ultimately, quantum mechanics is very nebulous and hard to understand compared to chemistry. Transposing a quantum term to the NA level makes misconception unavoidable.
@androcat chemistry is quantum mechanics. but go on, make an analogy of model decay with chemistry and we can debate its accuracy.
I am debating only, that physical systems that loose information are open systems, not closed systems.
the thermodynamics example would either not increase entropy or not be closed, that's a result from quantum mechanics, independently of what your example of a closed garage door intuits.
@Ntropic The system can't lack any information, though.
The system is what is there.
And "losing information" doesn't require an open system. You can burn a book inside a closed system, it's fine.
The pertinent part is losing track of information. Every bit of real-world behavior that your model (physics, chemistry, whatever) doesn't track adds to the entropy.
When a recursive system eats its own shit, it's not leaking information to some other system, it's just overwriting it through averaging.
@androcat I get why you would think that but I am afraid it would derail to explain why this is what the Von Neumann entropy does. The important part here is that we measure loss of information from a system, in physics this happens through interactions with the environment, in LLM training this happens, because we didn't sample the original model enough to extract all of its information. In either case, the analogy to physics is wrong.
@Ntropic Suppose your garage is a closed system when the door is closed, and open when not closed. In your garage a car is running. Its motor is hooked up to a belt that pulls a cement mixer.
Not all energy can be converted to work regardless of whether the door is open or not.
Even if all heat is trapped in the garage, this will not help the motor convert all its fuel into cement-mixing work.
@androcat there are 2 conceptually very different ideas of entropy, one is about the information the observer lacks, and one about the information the system lacks. since we are tlaking about the decay of a system, it only makes sense to use the later. Which is the one I am referring to. My disagreement is over the fact, that the physical analogy is wrong, because when trained on ones own output with finite convergence times, you leak information, and that we call an open system!
@Ntropic @androcaten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_l… (entropy in a closed system remains constant over time only in an ideal system at absolute zero, but of course definitions of closed/open systems vary depending on where you put your probes).
@androcat the second law of thermodynamics only leads to the > case when the system is open. Otherwise information is preserved because closed systems follow unitary dynamics. I didn't randomly choose to call myself Ntropy
i should have been more precisr and clear. what makes you think that thermodynamics is a good way to explain what happens in dnn's trained on their output. The analogy even has a sign mistake here, since dnn output was demonstrated to have less variability.
"Los defensores de #Israel ven #TikTok como una Al Jazeera con esteroides, un fentanilo digital fabricado por China, una máquina para lavar el cerebro a los jóvenes estadounidenses mostrándoles vídeos de carnicerías en Gaza". Editorial de Le Monde Diplomatique español: mondiplo.com/el-octavo-fr...
Big snow flakes fall from the sky.Covering the ground in a white disguise.The world that once was disappears. Blanketed by the whiteness I endear. Everything becomes quiet, dampened by the snow.Highlighting everything with a magnificent glow. Silent so h
Big snow flakes fall from the sky. Covering the ground in a white disguise.
The world that once was disappears. Blanketed by the whiteness I endear.
Everything becomes quiet, dampened by the snow. Highlighting everything with a magnificent glow.
Silent so heavy it can be felt. Oh how it saddens my heart to see it melt.
It is a quiet that is different from anything. Nothing else can sing the snow flake’s melody.
Diese Wanderung vom Höfatsblick nach Reichenbach über den Gaisfußsattel ist auf der gesamten Strecke anspruchsvoll. Man muss trittsicher sein, genug Kraft und P
Heute verkabeln wir mal den ganzen Uplink- und Routerkram neu.
Falls ich also bis heute Abend nicht wieder da bin, ist entweder der Router nicht wieder hochgekommen (389 Tage Uptime, und inzwischen ziemlich zerfrickelt) oder ich bin an Staublunge gestorben.
Ich werd sie dafür aber im Rahmen dieser Umbaumaßnahmen in ne Schublade oder so umziehen, denn turns out der Luftdruck in ner Schublade ist üblicherweise derselbe wie draußen 😀
Viel besser sieht's nicht aus, ein Großteil der Zeit ging dafür drauf, den Switch und das Kabelmodem an die Seit zu dengeln, alles abzustauben, ein paar smarte Steckdosen einzurichten und zu verbauen, und den Router und den Home Assistant, die beide nicht glücklich über ihre Reboots waren, zu fixen.
Ich fürchte, das ganze Setup softwaremäßig auf nen stabilen Stand zu wuppen ist fast wichtiger als Kabelmanagement.
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Update: Ich hab mir jetzt mit nem M5Stack AtomS3 und nem M5Stack CO2L mal fix was selbst zusammengebastelt. MicroPython, keine 2h Arbeit.
Ich werd sie dafür aber im Rahmen dieser Umbaumaßnahmen in ne Schublade oder so umziehen, denn turns out der Luftdruck in ner Schublade ist üblicherweise derselbe wie draußen 😀
Microsoft has confirmed that the December 2025 security updates are breaking Message Queuing (MSMQ) functionality, affecting enterprise applications and Internet Information Services (IIS) websites.
Marktbericht: Investoren blicken in Richtung DAX-Allzeithoch
Der DAX nimmt zum Wochenstart wieder Kurs auf das Rekordhoch. Ob es in diesem Jahr nochmal einen Grund zum Jubeln geben wird, hängt auch von US-Jobdaten ab. Rüstungswerte fallen allerdings zurück.
In der letzten vollen Handelswoche vor Weihnachten hoffen manche Anleger auf eine Jahresendrally. Zumindest heute zum Wochenstart sieht es danach aus, als würde der DAX mit soliden Gewinnen starten.
Das international wohl angesehenste Nachschlagewerk für Kernbegriffe und Figuren der Philosophie ist auch für Nichtfachleute eine lohnende Wissensfundgrube.
Vesna saß an ihrem Schreibtisch, der Stift lag
sauber ausgerichtet neben den Karten, alle gleich, alle mit glänzenden Rändern
und dem gleichen Versprechen von Wärme. Drau&szli
Becca
in reply to Scott Lucas • • •Real blood, real metal, real boom.
Thoughts and prayers are identical to aiding the Russians.