"Hi Daniel,

I've written a web fuzzer in c using your library libcurl. I want to thank you for writing a this easy to use, fast and good library. I'm 11 years old and I don't have much experience but your library made it possible."

#1984 #AI #GenerativeAI

„Explosionszeichnung“ (Museum für Kommunikation, Berlin)

Everyone assumes they would be the one pulling the lever but in reality that is someone else

#Meme #TrolleyProblem #Ethics #Capitalism #Capitalist #Politics

Hey soldering kit makers! Struggling with new coin cell regulations and have a pile of PCBs with coin cell battery holder patterns on them? I made a thing for ours that converts them to USB power, maybe it's handy for you. Ship this instead of a CR2032 holder and boom, your kit no longer contains or uses a coin cell, no compliance needed. It's designed for side-slide style holders (SMT or through-hole) and easy to solder.

I read that wrong and so did you

Dear Allies on the Left,

I realize that none of us are perfect, and we all have slightly different issues that we care about while the entire free world is slowly dying.

I just really want everyone to understand something very fundamental. Forgive the environmentalists for not putting in 100% on issues like housing, social justice, education, healthcare.

They are up to their eyeballs as it is trying to delay the inevitable. Because when we are at the point where we can't grow enough food to prevent mass famine or can't stop the fires from burning all our habitable space, there will be no such thing as healthcare or education.

All those other issues hinge on us having enough of a planet to sustain ourselves and not die.

So let's stop tearing each other apart. We get that those issues are important. We are trying to make it so they are even exists as issues.

Sincerely,

Basically every climate activists in the world

#ClimateChange

Ha, this one might be my favorite. "Gulf of Starship Debris."

#GulfOfMexico #GulfOfAmerica #maps #SpaceX #starship

Vielen Dank an alle, die ihre überzähligen Tassen an Fritze Merz geschickt haben. Nun muss er sie nur noch auspacken. #OmasGegenRechts

How much money do you think the United States has spent since 1945 on the Cold War? Sometimes they ask this question then from the back of the audience comes in answer ‘billions and billions‘. A huge underestimate – billions and billions. The amount of money that the United States has spent on the Cold War since 1945 is approximately 10 trillion dollars. Trillion, that’s the big one with the ‘T’. What could you buy with 10 trillion dollars? The answer is: You could buy everything in the United States except the land. Everything. Every building, truck, bus, car, boat, plane, pencil, baby’s diaper. Everything in the United States except the land, that’s what we have spent on the Cold War.

So, now let me ask: How certain was it that the Russians were going to invade? Was it 100% certain? Guess not since they never invaded. What if it was only let say 10% certain? What would advocates of big military buildup have said? We must be prudent. It’s not enough to count on only the most likely circumstance. If the worst happens and it’s really extremely dangerous for us we have to prepare for that. Remote contingencies if there is serious enough have the prepared for. It’s classic military thinking – you prepare for the worst case.

And so now, I ask my friends who are comfortable with that argument, including the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal, why doesn’t that same argument apply to Global Warming. You don’t think it’s 100% likely? Fine. You are entitled to think that. If it’s only a small probability of it happening since the consequences are so serious, don’t you have to make some serious investment to prevent it or mitigate it? I think there’s a double standard of argument working and I don’t think we should permit it.

— Carl Sagan, An excerpt of a speech given on the 2nd of September in 1990 at the 5th Emerging Issues Forum at NCSU

At least the memes from this era will be killer.

Wenn wir schon über kritische Infrastruktur und Abhängigkeit von den USA sprechen: Es wäre höchste Zeit, auf europäischer Ebene in Projekte zu investieren, die die digitale Souveränität stärken. Es braucht kein EU-Google oder -Meta sondern Freie Software, offene Standards, dezentrale Systeme und transparente Strukturen. Das allein hilft wirklich gegen Big Tech & technischen Lock-In.