Mastodawn

Gestern »Project Hail Mary« im Kino gesehen: Spannende Weltraum-Action, sterbende Sonnen, Begegnung mit Aliens, alles fein. Aber dass sich die Menschheit angesichts einer globalen Bedrohung zusammenschließt, um ihr Überleben gemeinsam in die Hand zu nehmen: voll unrealistisch! 😡

fresco 13h ago

Genuinely Gary 🌤️2d ago

Why mathematicians are boycotting their biggest conference: More than 1,500 mathematicians are demanding that their field’s most prestigious meeting be moved from the U.S.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-mathematicians-are-boycotting-their-biggest-conference/

(While unfortunate, this needs to happen. Everyone should move their meet-ups away from the US for now) #uspol

Why mathematicians are boycotting their biggest conference

More than 1,500 mathematicians are demanding that their field’s most prestigious meeting be moved from the U.S.

Scientific American

fresco 2d ago

SBB CFF FFS

fresco 2d ago

"It's the shoes, Stu!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEY1RWhLpNo
[Older Yet Faster] #running

Marathon 50 Comeback | 3 Weeks Out… And I Might Not Start

YouTube

fresco 2d ago

"On April 24 we'll start using GitHub Copilot interaction data for AI model training unless you opt out."

fresco 3d ago

«Une partie de moi peut jouer le rôle de «monde», de «choses», et c'est l'image, la mémoire.»
Paul Valéry

fresco 3d ago

"Wer will schon an diese WM?", frage ich den Jungen, aber er fiebert trotzdem im Italien-Trikot vor dem Schirm.

fresco 3d ago

Lindsey Kuper 3d ago

I've spent all these years being annoyed that CRDTs give you monotonicity without the threshold queries, when really I should've been annoyed that Kubernetes gives you threshold queries without the monotonicity.

fresco 4d ago

An old, happy Niko Niko runner in the park this morning.

fresco 5d ago

nixCraft 🐧6d ago

Germany has made ODF mandatory as the standard format for documents within its sovereign digital infrastructure. The decision is incorporated into the Deutschland-Stack, the framework governing the development, procurement and management of digital systems for public administration at all levels. This is neither a pilot project nor a recommendation from a working group, but a mandate backed by the federal government and the coalition agreement. https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/23/dear-europe/

Dear Europe: Germany has shown the way forward - TDF Community Blog

Germany has made ODF mandatory as the standard format for documents within its sovereign digital infrastructure. The decision is incorporated into the Deutschland-Stack, the framework governing the development, procurement and management of digital systems for public administration at all levels. This is neither a pilot project nor a recommendation from a working group, but a mandate backed by the federal government and the coalition agreement. The official document has been published by the IT-Planungsrat, the central political steering body comprising the federal government and state governments, which promotes and develops common, user-oriented IT solutions for efficient and secure digital administration in Germany: https://www.it-planungsrat.de/beschluss/b-2026-03-it. At this point, the question for all other European governments is clear: what are you waiting for? With this decision, the distinction between those who care about digital sovereignty and those who do not becomes stark. There are no more excuses Over the years, public administrations in Europe have accumulated a series of tired excuses, long since overtaken by the facts, for not making standard and open document formats mandatory. Let’s examine them one by one. ODF isn’t mature enough. ODF has been an ISO standard since 2006. It is now at version 1.4, with active development,

TDF Community Blog