Final chapter of my laptop water spill at #UnDoneCS:
The cool one-person repair shop in Luxembourg did a great job saving most of it, but the battery was hopeless. It's dead. #NovaCustom debugged with me but we were unable to conclude if it's safe to put a fresh battery — as there might be a short in the battery connector.
Since the water voided the warranty,
@novacustom kindly gave me a 5% discount to reorder.
The laptop I have now works fine as a desktop, as all functions but the battery.
A quoi pensent les chercheurs en informatique ? Une conférence internationale décalée a tenté d'y répondre.
https://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2026/04/06/quand-des-scientifiques-phosphorent-pour-faire-de-l-informatique-autrement_6677319_1650684.html
Vraiment stimulant. C'était la deuxième édition des Undone Computer Science.
#Informatique #Recherche #SciencesHumaines #Innovation #science #ethique #undoneCS
@bkuhn @bortzmeyer @raito @MonniauxD @mart1oeil @flomaraninchi
RE: https://mastodon.social/@pixelsfr/116357207969056274
“When scientists ‘rack their brains’ to approach computer science differently
At a conference held at the University of Luxembourg in March, around fifty researchers gathered for three days to discuss some thirty concrete examples of ‘undone science’.”
David Larousserie (Le Monde) reporting on #UndoneCS from Luxembourg (Article in French)
Du 23 au 25 mars 2026, à l'université du Luxembourg s'est tenue la deuxième édition de #UndoneCS (Undone in Computer Science), la conférence scientifique sur les recherches qui n'ont *pas* été faites.
@bortzmeyer I would like to advertise Troy Astarte's PhD thesis "Formalising Meaning: a History of Programming Language Semantics" which was mentioned in Petricek's keynote!
http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/troy.astarte/res/pdf/TK_Astarte_Formalising_Meaning_2019.pdf
Luckily, #ICE73 did NOT sit there for 7 minutes (as predicted by the SBB app), but arrived in Basel SBB with a delay of only 1 or 2 minutes.
This allowed me to catch the EC 67, and so @CerstinMahlow and I can have dinner at #Tibits in Bern.
So much for my #UndoneCS trip!
We are moving again!
Bradley M. Kühn
Quark
Undone Computer Science
Stéphane Bortzmeyer
Tito
Michael Piotrowski