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I developed the new "Feed Teasers" plugin for Grav because the CMS I am currently using lacked a feature I had previously employed on my WordPress blog to highlight or link to news from other websites. Back then, security alerts from Heise Security and the Tagesschau news feed were prominently displayed on the blog's homepage. Here, I also use this option to link to the latest posts from this...
I cope with my depression by finding distractions, and what better way to do that in the long run than by learning something new or rediscovering something I thought I’d forgotten? These are often small projects that can be completed in a few days or even a few hours. Sometimes I can’t sustain my interest, or unexpected costs come up that I hadn’t planned for, and then it’s over before it’s real...
There is no such thing as artificial intelligence! What is marketed as AI today is little more than pattern recognition—a process that, in its generalized form, is already hitting the limits of feasibility. The correct term would be "Large Language Model" (LLM), though this actually has more to do with vectors than with language. Current large-scale models are reaching a point where adding more pa...
Wie Politiker Statistiken verdrehen, um eine politische Agenda durchzusetzen
Bundeskanzler Merz, Vizekanzler Klingbeil und Ministerpräsident Kretschmann behaupten unisono: In Deutschland wird zu wenig gearbeitet. Die Zahlen, auf die sie sich stützen, erzählen jedoch eine andere Geschichte — oder besser: Sie werden so erzählt, dass sie eine bestimmte Geschichte ergeben.
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Bulletin Board Systems (BBSes) were something of a precursor to the Internet. Back then, you would dial into such a system over a telephone line using a modem and terminal emulator to—for example—download files, exchange messages, or play simple arcade games. If you find this history interesting, I recommend the FidoPedia page as a starting point for further research; going into detail here wou...
Anyone who regularly administers Linux servers will find themselves repeatedly performing the same tasks to ensure the system is running as intended. When dealing with only a few systems, this is usually done directly via SSH, as the effort of maintaining dedicated remote management tools is rarely worthwhile. So why not simply create a script that executes quick commands and filters the output to...
Debian maintainers have long worked on Year 2038 compatibility and announced its completion with the release of Debian 13 (Trixie). This is based on the fact that Linux stores system time—and all date fields derived from it—as a signed 32-bit integer representing the number of seconds elapsed since January 1, 1970, at 00:00: 231 - 1 = 2.147.483.647
This works until January 19, 2038, at 03:14:0...
There are countless opinions on this subject; some contributions have attempted to cite measurable criteria to suggest an objective comparison, while others dripped with subjectivity in every sentence. However, unlike the scenario in my teaser image, this is not a single athletic competition but a multi-event contest with countless disciplines—events that, when repeated at different venues, yield...
It might seem complicated at first, but the actual installation of Linux Mint is actually simpler than that of Windows. In this case, however, we will not wipe the PC (or laptop) to run Linux Mint as the sole operating system; instead, we will set it up so that a boot menu appears when the computer starts, allowing us to choose between Windows and Linux Mint. While this approach is somewhat more c...
DI.Day
You have likely already heard of Digital Independence Day, an initiative that aims to highlight democracy-friendly digital alternatives to massive American monopolies on the first Sunday of every month. Fundamentally, however, it is about breaking free from dependencies and regaining ownership of your own data. While this is particularly relevant for government bodies a...
