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Got myself a USB dongle for LTE access today. “lsusb” reads:

“Bus 001 Device 005: ID 19d2:1706 ZTE WCDMA Technologies MSM DEMO Mobile Boardband”

With the capitalized “DEMO” I wasn't sure whether this might be some kind of pre-release version, looking at “dmesg” however showed “Manufacturer: DEMO,Incorporated”, so I guess that might be okay. That still leaves the “Boardband” term, which probably means that's a real typo instead of a state-of-the-art AI mistake. 😄

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Christoph Ender May 5

Apparently something went quite wrong with #dnssec at DENIC and it seems that the entire .de zone is affected. This is some quite unfortunate timing with the DENIC hosting a party at the Radisson in Berlin at the same time: https://bsky.app/profile/denic.de/post/3ml4r2lvcjg2h.

DENIC eG (@denic.de)

Berlin, here we go 🇩🇪 The CENTR Jamboree journey begins tonight with a Welcome Reception hosted by DENIC at the Radisson Collection Hotel. A great start with familiar faces, new connections and good conversations. #DENIC #CENTRJamboree #Berlin #de #CENTR

Bluesky Social

Christoph Ender May 5

Both my Raspis just failed to resolve “amazon.de”. Along with a lot of other .de domains. The bind logs showed a lot of “no valid signature found” and “no valid RRSIG resolving”. Turning #dnssec off using “dnssec-validation no;” on the bind servers makes things work again, so there might be something severly broken somewhere in the .de zone(?).

Christoph Ender Apr 4

Eider Barrage – “Eidersperrwerk” – protecting against storm surges from the North Sea, as seen from the river side. One of the gates lowered due to maintenance. #photography

Christoph Ender Apr 1

Wow. Bought two Lexar 128GB compact flash cards at the end of 2024 for my camera, both for ~75 €. If I'd buy them today they'd be at 124 €. The #RAM situation has now developed in such a way that Sony doesn't even accept orders for SD and CF cards anymore: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Sony-stops-delivery-of-memory-cards-11228909.html

Sony stops delivery of memory cards

Due to the memory crisis, Sony can also no longer deliver some products. SD and CF-Express cards are now affected.

heise online

Christoph Ender Feb 16

I've now been trying for many hours to get #Outlook autoconfig to work in such a manner that when people try to set up their respective accounts on their clients, the IMAP and SMTP server data is automatically detected. Did a lot of trying with CNAME records, autodiscover A-Records, SRV records, even setting up a POST responder for Autodiscover/Autodiscover.xml – no success, even by utilizing https://testconnectivity.microsoft.com. And there's apparently no documentation for the “autodiscover.json” requests.

Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer

Christoph Ender Jan 4

Winter near Husum, Schleswig-Holstein. #photography

Christoph Ender Nov 20, 2025

Ars Technica Nov 20, 2025

Microsoft makes Zork I, II, and III open source under MIT License
Microsoft's Open Source Programs Office worked with Jason Scott to do it.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/11/microsoft-makes-zork-i-ii-and-iii-open-source-under-mit-license/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Christoph Ender Nov 18, 2025

I came across a lot of sites today which were affected by the Cloudflare issue, and now I'm getting “ERROR: user” and “ERROR: no healthy upstream” when trying to clone from GitHub. I wonder if it's a separate issue or both are related.

Christoph Ender May 10, 2025

Noam writes May 9, 2025

“No computers.” the guard said harshly, holding out a metal box.

I put my phone in the box. He didn’t budge. I took off my smart watch and added it in.

“Are you sure you have no more computers? The detector sends out a brief EMP. It would be a shame to destroy any gadgets. Or injure you." He was staring at the side of my face.

Ah. I removed the Connex from my temple. I’d forgotten it was there.

He ushered me into what looked like an old electronic doorway, then pressed a button. A light flashed.

"You're free to enter. Enjoy." No smile.

I passed through a corridor to desk where a receptionist smiled. "First time?"

"Yes, is it obvious?"

"Don't worry. It's simple. Through the double doors there you'll find the main selection of books, by era and topic. It's colour-coded and easy to follow. You'll need these if you want to touch anything." She put a paper mask and thin laboratory gloves on the desk.

"Behind you is the iffy section, as we call it. Books printed after 2015."

"2015?! I thought AI printed books only appeared in the mid 2020s."

"That's probably true, but we can't be sure. Preserving authentic pre-AI knowledge is our raison d'être. We can't be too safe."

Her look turned serious and I saw the devotion to the cause in her eyes. Since the Big Corruption of '32, no digital files could be trusted to replicate original human knowledge. This library was a time capsule.

"Can books be taken out?"

"No, I'm afraid not. We couldn't let them back in, as they could be fakes."

"So, can I copy things? My phone and Connex were taken away. Do you have a camera to message me chapters?"

"No, we're strictly machine-free. but we have several scribes. They're very good." She was enjoying my puzzled look.

"They can copy down whole pages for you. With pen and paper," she answered my unspoken question.

"Pen and paper?" these were words of tales and myths.

"Come, I'll show."

#devotion #MastoPrompt #microfiction #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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