@luc@chaos.social

· 2w ago

Physics teacher: "What was the most surprising thing today in the theme park?"
Student: "The formula works in real life!"

Yeah that's why we call it science xD
Interesting to see this is something we apparently learned and it's not obvious

From Ann-Marie Pendrill's talk at the @phyphox@bildung.social conference today

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phyphox project (@phyphox@bildung.social) - bildung.social

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 2w ago

Posters and experiment setups at #phyphox conference in #Aachen

See alt text for explanations

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 2w ago

#phyphox conference in #Aachen

Fun to hear a teacher being most proud of the students that got a null result and owned it :D

Their data showed a tiny effect, but it was well within the error bars. Most students (I'd almost certainly have done this as well) would just conclude the effect size is tiny and more data is needed, but these students actually argued that the results are simply compatible with there being no causal relationship :)

From Giovanni Organtini's talk

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@FreitagsFrage@mastodon.de @PaulaToThePeople@climatejustice.social am ehesten Antwortmöglichkeit a

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

"Someone just used your password, you should check what happened."

Let's see...

- I filled my username and password in using a password manager
- I confirmed the recovery email address, unchanged since 2013
- Google "[does] not have enough information to confirm this account belongs to you"

I cannot access youtube (or any other google service) anymore.

1. Make sure you make regular backups of cloud data, people!

2. I'm a Peertube exclusive now \o/

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@lina why so cynical? You don't think they're legit trying to reduce these attacks?

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@andrewblasco this mentions nothing about offline or how that would work. Are you sure it's the same system they're talking about?

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@Xesxen did you just reveal dancing alien octopus technology you've been hiding for years??

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@hausderastronomie@academiccloud.social interessanter Vortrag, Dank an Anna Nelles!

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@iris I know only the basics myself so I used ChatGPT to check my sentence. It confidently goes "yes of course I can do this!", breaks down the sentence word for word (correctly), and then gives a wrong translation :P. It goes for (what I'm sure is more common in training data) the question of whether you *know* toki pona. Lukin is *seeing*, though, as that was the topic in your initial post. So I'm curious how you went about understanding wtf my reply means and what you got in the end :)

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@freitagvormittag@mastodon.social das Problem ist eher, dass mein Server der Backupverbindung nicht nutzen kann, bzw. die Benutzer/Clients werden der Server unter diesen IP-Adresse nicht finden selbst wenn ich der Server anschließe und alle Ports freigeben könnte über Mobilfunk Aber für mich selbst, als Benutzer anderer Server, gibt es natürlich ein Handy mit Hotspotfunktion ...so wie bei jeder? Woher die Frage?

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@freitagvormittag@mastodon.social bei XS4ALL (rip) gab es eine Möglichkeit, einen Stick dazu zu buchen der in dem Fritzbox steckt und wohin automatisch umgeschaltet wird bei Ausfälle. Entweder das, oder ein SIM-Modul in der Laptop würde ich dafür raten, je nach dem wie viele andere Geräte auf dem Fritzbox sind und Datenvolumen und Geschwindigkeit unnötig wegnehmen (also es hängt auch davon ab, wie viel Geschwindigkeit über Mobilfunk verfügbar ist, wie viele Daten das Budget für diese Lösung zulässt, usw.)

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Minjyla@troet.cafe wieso diese Frage? Was hat der Wochentag mit Wäsche zu tun? Habe mich zuerst gefragt, ob es etwa wie das Seil in New York ist, wodurch Juden Sachen dort am Sonntag erledigen dürfen (wenn ich es mir richtig erinnere), aber es ist auf deutsch geschrieben und hier kenne ich solche Brauche nicht

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@BKG "Wie zuverlässig sind OSM Daten? [...] bei der Qualität von Distanz- und vor allem Fahrzeitschätzungen..." *klickt auf Link* "Both GraphHopper and ORS rely on the same underlying OSM data, yet they arrive at substantially different estimates because each engine applies its own default speeds" Also wurden hier jetzt die Daten oder die Routing-Engines bewertet?

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@n0toose it's not like any Dutch coder *wants* a translation. Serving them the Dutch version of a page is usually about as appreciated as gifting them a knockoff product that costs as much as the one in original quality and will be followed by an attempt to undo the switcharoo The translation status says 34%, so like, 34% are now being presented to Dutch users in lower quality? That's probably a good stopping point, thanks 😅

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@bkastl "eher weniger" als 5 Jahren? In 2026? Zeig sie an :D https://www.osnews.com/story/142500/new-eu-rules-mandate-five-years-of-os-updates-for-smartphones-and-tablets/ Zudem gibt es bei populäre Herstellern schon seit ein paar Jahren mehr als fünf Jahren updates (Samsung 7, Google 7, andere weiß ich nicht, außer natürlich Fairphone mit 8 Jahren wenn man in andere Bereichen Kompromisse eingehen möchte)

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New EU rules mandate five years of OS updates for smartphones and tablets – OSnews

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@bodomenke@hessen.social Übersetzungen mit Context

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@zwingy not even kidding :D ich wachte überraschend oft gegen leet time auf oder kam dann zufällig aus dem Bett und sah dieser Uhrzeit. Vor bestimmt zehn Jahren habe ich das denn als "guter Zeit zum spätesten Aufstehen" entschlossen ^^

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@zwingy 13:37

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 9mo ago

Replying to

@joepie91@fedi.slightly.tech not working (anymore?) on German O2 connection

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@realsimon@mastodon.green do audiobooks count as ebooks or as neither? I'd assume neither, but not sure

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@Jay16K or systemd!

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 10mo ago

Replying to

@IcyPalm [2/2]

desec.io I recently learned about and would try out if I'm looking for a new host today. German nonprofit, looks professional (supports automation), has anycast. Was recommended at a conference as part of an email self hosting talk iirc

Also have limited experience with Vimexx. No complaints but I can't say much about them besides the (then-)attractive pricing and fast dns response times

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@marquito ich kaufe wenig, benutze Geräte aber lange und vielseitig. Altes Handy funktioniert als Messgerät; altes Laptop als Server; weiterer alter Laptop als Windows-System für Nostalgiespielen; alter Desktop hat ein CD-Laufwerk und benutze ich nur noch alle paar Jahre dafür; das neuste Handy muss ich immer noch einrichten (ich hasse wie viele Kompromisse ich da heutzutage eingehen muss und schiebe es vor mich hin, da der worauf ich gerade tippe 'nur' halb auseinander fällt...); usw.

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@marquito @inj4n nicht alles, was ich nicht aktiv nutze, beabsichtige ich wegzuwerfen. Ich hab da ein ganzes Skala zu Hause xD

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 8mo ago

Replying to

@shafik the few times I've looked up references on Wikipedia, the experience was similar and I don't think this was related to LLMs having written the thing I wanted to learn more about but turned out to not be mentioned at all in the alleged source A comparative study might be better than a blanket "it's frequently wrong". Of course I expect LLMs to perform worse than humans but the context would be helpful to put the numbers into perspective

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 16mo ago

Replying to

@jutty@mastodon.bsd.cafe more sites' custom JavaScript crap need to respect alt+selecting as not clicking on the damn item!! ^^ Edit: finished reading the list now. I actually knew all of them.... I should probably go and do some defragmentation and disk cleanup of my brain some time, make space for useful facts rather than all da keyboard shortcuts.. xD

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 26mo ago

Replying to

@p4@masto.ai or by what people tolerate because the community is, on the whole, better than that actually

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 8mo ago

Replying to

@shafik fair enough, the number of times I look at sources on Wikipedia in my life is probably countable on one's fingers and I definitely don't remember what page I was on, say, 1–3 years ago when this last occurred. (Also can't see it from edit history since, if the source doesn't say and I'm there for information, evidently I'm not qualified to write on the topic) Will bookmark this post and try to remember to reply when I next check a reference and find that it checks out or not!

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 9mo ago

Replying to

@Xesxen sounds like an issue I've seen Qubes users have. Not sure what the fix was anymore but I could ask

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

Does anyone know of a news aggregator that'll simply tell you if nothing noteworthy happened?

Opened the news for the first time in a while and it's all like "USA tourism decrease due to Trump", "Removing soldiers would undermine credibility", "Child got hurt after windmill hit", "Twins discover they have different fathers" (I kid you not, this is front page news in NL currently), etc etc.
It only makes one annoyed with the world, or it's clickbait. I'd like to spare myself useless visits

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 9mo ago

Replying to

@joepie91@fedi.slightly.tech indeed, they inject a redirect to the screenshotted page (idk if with dns or IP interception, could check if you like)

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@bagder@mastodon.social what did you change? It says in the post that Curl was off HackerOne from February 1st 2026 till some time in March 2026, but nothing says why the report quality changed in that month all of a sudden

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@admin@floss.social voted explicit allow because it doesn't say "and have no other rules" A rule that requires disclosure (my first thought upon seeing the question, and also already suggested by @chrysn@chaos.social) means it's made explicit that it is allowed, just conditionally, and so that's the option I had to choose :| What have you made me do xD

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@kb01@chaos.social "Wie akkurat sind ihrer Erfahrung nach die Fahrzeitschätzungen ihrer bevorzugten Planungsmethode?" nachdem ich beschrieben habe, dass die Methode natürlich von der Region abhängt. Soll ich jetzt 1-2 Minuten Abweichung ankreuzen für das niederländische Anteil, mehr als 10 wegen die deutsche Verkehrsunternehmen, oder der Durchschnitt der beiden der aber nirgendwo stimmt xD Zudem bin ich Bahnvorhersage vergessen zu erwähnen, darf aber nicht zurück um das geradegegebenen Antwort zu ergänzen 🤦

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@fourmiune@mastodon.world *arctic winter noises* Maybe those in the arctic should get an antipodally mirrored piece of land for free so there's always sun somewhere in their realm? :D

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@ordnung Came here to search for the osm_tech account and see if they posted anything about an openstreetmap api outage Found a different outage instead xD What is it today :D Good luck finding out what's up! Don't stress!

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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@FreitagsFrage@mastodon.de @jumpfruit@troet.cafe Anakin Skywalker. Ich habe mich so identifiziert mit dem Charakter als Kind, bevor ich wusste wie es weiterging. Zudem würde der Zeitstrahl so anders aussehen, mit das Imperium friedlich zusammenlebend mit die, die im Starwars-Universum als Rebellen abgestempelt sind.. zumindest, davon kann man träumen =D

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@bkastl naja, wenn man nicht ein Gerät von z.B. Samsung oder Google hat wo 7 Jahren schon länger standard waren. Wenn man denkt, es ist ab sofort unsicher sobald keine neue Patches mehr ausgegeben werden (und man kein eigenes OS installieren kann mit der neuste Stand), muss man halt eine Marke wählen (wie Fairphone) wo man Updates bekommt für so lange man das Gerät benutzen möchte. Das war schon immer so wenn man es benutzt für private Sachen wie Nachrichten, Fotos, oder Banking

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@dan Which model is this? I've been looking for my grandparents who can't make it to the door in the normally expected amount of time anymore

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 11mo ago

Replying to

@johl@mastodon.xyz and it doesn't render correctly

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@TheSilentMario@mastodon.social interessante Antwortmöglichkeiten: eine ist definitiv ("wird"), die andere spekulativ ("könnte"). Da es in der Zukunft liegt, heißt das, nur einen Antwort ist richtig und im Moment sind die meiste Personen durchgefallen 😇

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

Got a new highscore in Geographical Adventures and for once I was recording :D

https://peertube.wtf/w/96ATJBgvbuZNETBXZTcm6S

Added some commentary to explain what the game is and my thoughts on the run

You can play it yourself here (Linux/Windows/Mac): https://sebastian.itch.io/geographical-adventures

Geographical Adventures run 18 384 points (WR?)

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Geographical Adventures run 18 384 points (WR?)

Running a new highscore on the indie game Geographical Adventures. The game is free to download here: https://sebastian.itch.io/geographical-adventures Development videos (trilogy): https://www.you...

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@grote am I seeing correctly they've finally changed their mind on the download counting thing? :O

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 1w ago

Got 346 emails because I forgot to turn off a debug setting, where it sends me an email every time someone tries the custom captcha on my contact form

Someone in a bus in the #Netherlands threw sqlmap at the contact form. There is no SQL behind it, but I'm just very amused at the IP address belonging to public wifi on *a bus* :D

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 9mo ago

Replying to

@thc first subdomain I put in, it doesn't know. Will it now know it next month? xD It's in CT logs btw, not secret at all (of course; it's in dns after all)

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@usmu@kind.social I always walk to previous stops so that there are more free seats Why walk to the next stop? Is your destination close enough that you might make it if the bus is very late?

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@ascherbaum@mastodon.social Asus! Mostly joking though. I would avoid premium brands like ThinkPad for being overpriced (not by as much as Apple, but you can do better), but overall, laptop brands... everyone has their favorite and since everyone's is different (including those of the people that sell the stuff in stores for years and do repairs etc.) the only logical conclusion I can draw is that each new major version or product line is its own thing. I've had only superb experiences with Asus but 🤷

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Luc @luc@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@iris toki! Sina lukin ala lukin e toki pona?

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