Me: "Everybody hates me."
Therapist. "Don't be ridiculous - not everyone has met you!"
(comic) Adding more people to a project https://workchronicles.substack.com/p/comic-adding-more-people-to-a-project-8eb
„Unerreichbare Ziele für E-Autos und Wärmepumpen“
Ich finde es durchaus spannend, dass einerseits die Klinaziele mit den Einsparungen nicht gefährdet werden sollen, andererseits die Ziele aber gesenkt werden sollen.
Wie das zusammenpassen soll, bleibt der Artikel schuldig.
https://archive.is/8WSkj
Side story:
On a password-cracking engagement once, I saw a password go by that I immediately recognized. It was the root password known to just a few people on my team at a completely different company ... more than 20 years prior.
And guess what? The current company was small enough that there was only one person working there who was on that previous team. (They'd apparently grown fond of that password and had been using it ever since!)
The instant I saw that password -- boom. I knew exactly whose password it was ... even though all I had was the password.
Are all passwords automatically PII? No. But some are.
And if you can't tell which ones are ... you should proceed as if all passwords (and hashes) are PII.
Another warning about travelling to the US. Any criticism of Trump can now be qualified as terrorism when entering the US:
A French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated.
Via https://bsky.app/profile/paulecohen.bsky.social
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/03/19/etats-unis-un-chercheur-francais-refoule-pour-avoir-exprime-une-opinion-personnelle-sur-la-politique-menee-par-l-administration-trump_6583618_3210.html
Friends!
Aufgrund dringender, gesundheitlicher Umstände wird ein neues Zuhause (bzw. Dauerpflegeplatz) für zwei rel. junge Katzen (m+f, kastriert) aus Wohnungshaltung gesucht (Raum Dresden). Option auf Freigang ist nett aber kein Muss.
Mehr Details gerne privat.
Luisa Neubauer hat vollkommen Recht, wenn sie hinterfragt, warum Medien Klimaaktivisten/Gruppen befragen, was diese falsch gemacht haben, statt die verantwortlichen Politiker zu ihrer (Anti) Klimapolitik.
Versammlung am 20.03.2025 angemeldet.
Gegen die Streichung des Mobi-Bike Angebots
Ort bisher nicht bekannt.
Geplant sind 100 Teilnehmer·innen.
Veranstaltet durch @ADFC_Dresden
🔭 NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day. Date: 2025-03-19. Blue Ghost's Diamond Ring.
🔴 Brand new comic now up on Boing Boing
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🗞️ NEWS OF THE TIMES: LOCAL CRACKPOT TAKES TRUMP SERIOUSLY
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https://boingboing.net/2025/03/19/tom-the-dancing-bug-news-of-the-times-local-crackpot-takes-trump-seriously.html
Picard management tip: Every officer needs to be in charge of something they understand, even if it's just radishes.
“You know my methods, Watson. What can you infer about our visitor?”
“Only, Holmes, that he is a left handed former cryptocurrency trader who has pivoted to black market organlegging and has recently moved in with a woman who owns a poodle”
“Remarkable! Incorrect in every detail; you really must stop using DetectGPT. Your ineptitude would make our guest reconsider placing her trust in us!”
Robert Habeck: „Es geht nicht mehr um eine ferne Zukunft. Es geht nicht mehr nur um unsere Kinder oder Enkelkinder, sondern es geht längst schon um unsere Gegenwart. Die Katastrophen, sie finden alle heute statt. Jahrhundertereignisse, also Ereignisse, die eigentlich alle 100 Jahre stattfinden, werden jetzt jedes Jahr überboten, sie sind quasi Halbjahresereignisse geworden – und alles spricht dafür, dass diese Geschwindigkeit zunimmt.“
▶️ https://m.youtube.com/live/zVTkP2ipWrM
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Considering who is saying it... I guess it means they're very nice.
Congratulations, people in Canada.
@rycuda @simondassow @catzilla - Yeah, I approach it very much like the "Tamarian language" in Star Trek to use a nerdy example. Often times some folks say phrases that should be taken as a whole - and the phrase means a concept only in context.
A lot of folks like me, break down each word and assume the words convey their denotation (or even connotation) directly. But others will use it as a meme phrase.
A great example is the phrase: "How are you doing?"
I take it as a query to ask... how I am doing. So I'll answer directly. "Oh today is miserable but I'm holding on for dear life and haven't died yet! How are you?"
Whereas, others will use it as a "meme" phrase where "How are you doing" is just a general greeting to acknowledge another person without wanting to hear back how they're actually doing.
In that case, the proper response is a variant of "Fine, how are you?" or, depending on relationship and environmental contexts, something like "Oh, you now... living the dream." and the like.
It REALLY helps to view is as a foreign language or even a dialect. Words mean different things to different people. I grew up speaking border Spanish along the Texas / Mexico border. But my border-spanish does not translate to someone from Peru and neither translate well to someone from Spain, right?
Same here. Among my neurodivergent folks, words are direct and have nuanced specific and intentional meaning. Individual words are chosen carefully to convey a specific idea. Among my neurotypical folks, however, words convey feelings, hierarchy, social norms, and the like. They are phrases meant to be taken as a whole and not broken down into smaller parts. The phrase, within context, conveys an idea that is associated with the phrase - not the individual words.
So the words convey meaning... certainly, but how they're consumed, processed, and interpreted is completely different depending on the speaker, culture, environment, and context.
Truly fascinating.
One thing to mention, though, is it is ALL learnable. Even the "words don't convey direct meaning, they convey meme meaning" still follows patterns and can still be learned by anyone.
Die neue Lage ist online - Folge 423:
* Schuldenbremse & Sondervermögen: Bundestag stimmt für historische Grundgesetzänderung
* Smart Meter: warum D auf dumme Stromzähler setzte und wie ihr trotzdem an einen smarten Zähler kommt
* Ukraine: Trump telefoniert mit Putin - kommt jetzt eine Waffenruhe?
* Serbien: worum geht es bei den Protesten? Interview Adelheid Wölfl
* Wie entwickelt sich Syrien unter der Übergangsregierung? Interview Sophia Maier
Gleich reinhören 🎧