Mastodawn

I've been getting some 1:1 management training (oh don't ask) it's all very corporate and sincere. In the first session, he talked about leadership.

him: "Winston Churchill was a great leader, but there's something about him that most people don't know"
me: "That he was a massive racist and committed genocicde in India?"
him: ".... no that he had depression"
me: "oh yeah, everyone knows that"

carnun (Hendrik Schalekamp)Jun 8

Nithin Coca నితిన్Jun 8

"Seven weeks on X's For You feed shifted political views 4.7 percentage points towards the Republican party"

For those of you still there, your presence on #Twitter isn't helping.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2

#algorithms #disinformation #misinformation #feed #QuitTwitter #QuitX #socialmedia

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature

Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared with those remaining on a chronological feed, whereas switching the feed setting in the opposite direction, from algorithmic to chronological, had no effect.

Nature

carnun (Hendrik Schalekamp)May 28

Ars Technica May 27

Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their SSD activity

Telltale SSD activity can be measured in the browser using simple JavaScript.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/websites-have-a-new-way-to-spy-on-visitors-analyzing-their-ssd-activity/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

carnun (Hendrik Schalekamp)May 28

Well done France, getting rid of old slavery laws and acknowledging the harm done by this horrific injustice https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/28/france-votes-code-noir-slavery-law-colonialism

France overturns law classing people as property – 178 years after it abolished slavery

National assembly votes to repeal Code Noir under which enslaved people were beaten, raped and killed

The Guardian

carnun (Hendrik Schalekamp)May 20

@remindme dm 1 week
That there is a reminder bot on the fediverse

carnun (Hendrik Schalekamp)Dec 4, 2025

Time to update your React implementation... Now! #react #javascript #typescript https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/12/admins-and-defenders-gird-themselves-against-maximum-severity-server-vulnerability/

Admins and defenders gird themselves against maximum-severity server vuln

Open source React executes malicious code with malformed HTML, no auth needed.

Ars Technica

carnun (Hendrik Schalekamp)Sep 12, 2025

I went to the insiders book launch of Hope Arising yesterday evening. It's written by the CTO of Optimal Energy, a startup I worked at for many years, about how we tried to start an #EV company in South Africa. It was fantastic to see a lot of the engineers who were part of this (at the end sad) journey. I took my youngest son along who was all of 4 years when this journey ended, his main comment afterwards was quite telling - you all seemed to be such good friends. https://joulebook.co.za/

Joule book - story of South Africa's JOULE electric vehicle

The Hope Arising book is more than the story of a car - it's a story of belief in a better future, and of the engineers and entrepreneurs who dared to build it.

Joule book

carnun (Hendrik Schalekamp)May 23, 2025

Journey Press May 6, 2025

It's time to get on the bandwagon!

One boost = one tidbit about a classic woman science fiction writer who *isn't* Mary Shelley, Ursula K. Le Guin, Octavia Butler, or James Tiptree Jr. (great as they are!)