** Addendum, since the previous post is the text I've used for years:

Please do not use generative AI to illustrate, animate, or otherwise adapt my stories.

The world doesn't need that crap.
**

Hey, this is a bit of a super duper emergency, but if anyone who is looking to hire a dysfunctional catgirl for software or hardware stuff let me know,

Wenn ein Affe mehr Bananen horten würde, als er essen kann, während andere Affen verhungern, würden sie ihn wahrscheinlich angreifen, und Wissenschaftler würden untersuchen, was schiefgelaufen ist.

Wenn Menschen dasselbe tun, setzen wir sie auf die Cover von "Wirtschaftsmagazinen" und nennen es Erfolg.

#TaxTheRich #EatTheRich

Die Tagesschau titelt "Cannabis bleibt am häufigsten konsumierte Droge" und ich frage mich, wie es der Alkohol wohl zu den Nahrungsergänzungsmitteln geschafft hat.

Der Deutsche Ethikrat mischt die Social-Media-Debatte auf. Dem vielfach geforderten Verbot für Minderjährige verpassen die Expert*innen eine Abfuhr – und warnen eindringlich vor den Gefahren von Alterskontrollen. Die Analyse.

https://netzpolitik.org/2026/absichern-statt-aussperren-deutscher-ethikrat-sagt-nein-zu-social-media-verbot/

Torte für Sarah

finds super, dass sich das ZDF und Sarah Tacke auch um irrelevante Randthemen kümmern.

Nischenjournalsmus ist in diesen schweren Zeiten einfach wichtig.

"durch Steuerhinterziehung entsteht Deutschland jährlich ein geschätzter Schaden von 100 Milliarden Euro. Hinzu kommen weitere rund 100 Milliarden durch Geldwäsche"

Der Schaden durch "Sozialbetrug": 272 Mio €

"Am Puls" - my ass Sarah

oh krass - Oberzell geht viral und trendet

das gabs glaub auch noch nie in der Ortsgeschichte

“you can’t just discount someone entirely because of their political beliefs” yes yes i can.

The sooner software makers have to bear full legal liability for their badly designed, faulty products — just like every other class of product manufacturer has to — the better.

Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.

https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06-08-uk-surveillance-is-not-safety.pdf

I'm so tired of the AI hype.
Can we start solving real problems please?

#NoAI

Ein Freund von mir sucht recht kurzfristig in Hamburg eine Wohnung, Hamm, Horn, Eilbek, Barmbek, max. 850€ warm.
Weiß jemand was? Sind für Hinweise dankbar.
#fedihelp Gerne boosten.

"Your use case is, there's a fourteen year old in an emergency room at 3 AM. English is their second or maybe fourth language. They have a battered school Chromebook or a hand-me-down Android device that was the cheapest thing on the market six years ago or a PS Vita their parents don't even realize has a web browser, and they're trying to educate themselves in the middle of the single most terrifying night they've ever experienced. Your site needs to work for that person at that moment."

#Computer problems for the weekend:

Maybe I just have invested a significant part of the weekend in debugging dumb computer problems...

Thanks Intel for causing CPU bugs and not providing a microcode fix for it "because the CPU is old" or something.

So... starting Wednesday, my gentoo laptop startet showing "illegal instruction" faults in python 3.14's implementation of blake2. Unfortunately blake2 is being used by portage so I was left without a working package manager. Meh.

I've then tried replacing the file from another system, recompiling manually and somehow it disappeared by switching to Python 3.13.

That way I now hat least had a way to verify my packages for corruption. But there was none. Dead end.

With the help of gentoo users we eventually found the culprit: AVX(2) or rather - lacking it.

The kernel had been compiled with CONFIG_MITIGATION_GDS to mitigate one of the spectre family of vulnerabilities, but the CPU was so special that neither was it immune to the vulnerability nor did Intel decide to release patched microcode for it.

The linux kernel's fallback mechanism: Disable AVX. Userland did not expect this and tried to call AVX instructions nevertheless. Boom.

This is kind of funny and sad, because I have CPUs both newer and older than this one and they *did* get a microcode fix.

Given that CPU bugs definitely exist at production and I was given a faulty product, I would have loved for the vendor (or respectively Intel) to provide a solution. This should be normal. But to be honest, this laptop is too old for that. Things look better for recent hardware with 7 years of fixing.

But really - CPU producing companies shall stop "cheating" at performance like that. Or at least consequently offer feasable workarounds for the whole lifetime of their products.

And to finish the post with a little rant: What's the worth of "performance gains" of CPUs when most of it is being eaten up by added complexity and bad code in operating systems? We're on a treadmill of "software requires better hardware" and when hardware is getting better, it's being used as an excuse to justify badly written bloaty software.

Hopefully that situation gets better now since hardware should have 7 years of repairability.