Polymaths.social

Shoot, my USB-C dock doesn't have enough USB-A ports to accomodate mouse, keyboards, joystick and microphone. :(

Got into the writing groove again. This time it's a rambly and mildy philosophical one so be warned: https://bfloeser.de/wann-ist-ein-mann-ein-mann

Rediscovered X-Wing: Alliance and the Upgrade Project for it. Amazing how 25+ years old games still have active communities that release such stunning enhancements. Guess it's time to dust off my joystick.

Cable internet has been gone for half a day now and I have to work from home. Fork.

How am I supposed to understand anything, if everything keeps changing from under my feet? Sheesh

Just saw an Android app that advertised "Create any song you can imagine" using generative LLMs. 4.7 out of 5 stars.

What a time to be alive.

Since Pure Blog has support for webmentions and Fediverse integration now, I figured I'd give that a try: https://bfloeser.de/fediverse-integration

Feel free to interact, I'd like to see if and how this works.

Best!

https://taz.de/Ja-KI-wird-uns-alle-toeten-Aber-anders-als-du-denkst/!6214506/
This. Just this.

I'm also unwell sometimes, you don't have to take medicine just for that.

In a conversation about depression

It's 2026, but sometimes it really doesn't feel like it.

So if LLMs are finding all kinds of vulnerabilities now and security vendors have offerings for using LLMs for cybersecurity, does that mean that, in the future, we can watch different LLMs hash everything out amongst themselves?

What a time to be alive!

Today, my sister asked me whether I know LineageOS, /e/OS or postmarketOS.

I see an opportunity for inflicting a significant amount of pain here...

I blosted something, but It's actually just venting/ranting. Maybe pass on this one, @joel ;)

https://bfloeser.de/unskilled-and-unaware-of-it

Endlich mal dazu gekommen Lastenräder zu shoppen. Ich bin jedes Mal so wütend, wenn ich tanken muss, dass mir langsam jedes Mittel recht ist, um diesen Irrsinn nicht mehr bezahlen zu müssen.
Außer natürlich meine Bequemlichkeit opfern, ist ja klar :D

When I say, I've got a sense of humor, I mean that my jokes are funny.

When you say, you've got a sense of humor, you mean that you make people laugh about you involuntarily.

We are not the same.

My public library has an email service that sends a reminder three days before a medium I took out is due. Since I have to manage four accounts and the email only comes this once, I frequently miss due dates.

So I decided to write a small python script that logs in to my online account, checks all my media, figures out if something is due within the next three days  (or overdue) and sends me a notification to my phone every day.

Sometimes I love scripting :)

For whatever reason two people follow my account on peertube. I'm famous!

Just came across this project: https://elektricm.github.io/amd-bc250-docs/getting-started/introduction/#who-is-this-for

This is marketed as a sort of DIY Steam Machine and I'm a little tempted, but I don't feel overly confident in my ability to not screw everything up. Also, who knows how well this thing actually holds up in the long term. I'm just not a hardware guy.

@foosel I just watched your FrOSCon talk on managing an open-source project and I wanted to say "thank you" for your work. Thank you. I currently don't own a 3D printer (neither space nor spare cash, unfortunately), but if or when I get one, I'll be sure to check out Octoprint more thoroughly (and do my best, not to submit annoying bug reports).

Also, thanks for sharing your insights into managing such a project in general, I took it as an incentive to update my own site :)

All the best and I hope the balance of "is it worth it?" will stay in your favor for a while to come.

From another job ad:
"[Company name] is a carbon accounting platform where enterprises log, calculate, and report their CO2 emissions.
[...]
You'll thrive in this role if you::
[...]
Are AI-native in your engineering practice. Claude Code, Cursor, or equivalent, integrated into your daily flow. You use AI to move faster on framework work, refactoring, and repetitive automation. You have opinions on where AI helps and where it does not."

Am I the only one who sees a conflict of interest here? Or the irony? Yes? Moving on, then.