ensko

ensko

@ensko.at

Software engineering teacher, programming language & open source enthusiast, currently obsessed with Typst he/him

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ensko
@ensko.at

You wont believe it, but addition and multiplication don't have the same neutral element For addition, the neutral element is 0, while for multiplication, it's 0!

ensko
@ensko.at

Whenever I open Bluesky,typing "BS" reminds me that social media shouldn't be taken too seriously.

ensko
@ensko.at

"Waaaah! You don't let me play so nobody can play!" It's impressive how close this is to the most stereotypical kindergartener temper tantrum you could make up. Obviously this is comparably insignificant, but still. It's like he actively tries to sound unfit for office.

Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social

you gotta be kidding me

ensko
@ensko.at

Zusätzlich zu dem was Thür hier zitiert: das ist alles explizit als Lob für Trumps Außenpolitik gedacht 🤣 "Das Große Ganze von Trumps Außenpolitik wird sichtbar" 🤡 "Trumps Außenpolitik ist nicht erratisch oder isolierend, sie folgt einer klaren Strategie" 🤡

Martin Thür@martinthuer.at

Kurz im Jänner: "Erstens bröckelt – von Teheran bis Caracas – die Achse der ideologischen Fundamentalisten. Zweitens dürfte der Zugang zu Venezuelas Ölreserven [...] den Ölpreis unter die Marke von 50 Dollar drücken." Prognosen sind schwierig, vor allem wenn sie die Zukunft betreffen.

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ensko
@ensko.at

Replying to @hillenjoyer.myatproto.social

Evolution: "this gene idea sounds great, you can make a couple of things whose goal is to reproduce themselves and they get better at it with time!" Monke: "let's cultivate these _other_ species! Also, let's invent the condom!" Evolution: "... wat"

ensko
@ensko.at

XKCD references are second nature to us CS nerds, but the average person knows maybe 538, 2347, and 927 by number alone. "And 2501, of course." Of course.

ensko
@ensko.at

Migrating my account to @eurosky.social took maybe 20 minutes – and 5 of those were probably just because I failed to notice the password reset email for the migrated account, and wondered why the old one wasn't working...

ensko
@ensko.at

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social

this is so incredible I can’t stop laughing because he forgot to include Reagan

ensko
@ensko.at

I found @legaleagle.tv's video on the topic pretty good too nebula.tv/videos/legal... www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2ro...

nebula.tvLegalEagle — Don't Wipe Your Phone at The AirportSamuel Tunick is being prosecuted for giving U.S. border agents a duress passcode that wiped his smartphone data instead of unlocking it during an airport search.
ensko@ensko.at

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Wiping the phone after being denied rights. “We all have a right to secure our private data against unconstitutional searches. And we should – especially in a time of rising authoritarianism.” Let's see, I hope the justice system agrees – at least for US citizens

theguardian.comUS government targets Cop City protester over phone operating systemConcern over US effort to prosecute Sam Tunick, accused by authorities of wiping his phone using GrapheneOS
ensko
@ensko.at

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Wiping the phone after being denied rights. “We all have a right to secure our private data against unconstitutional searches. And we should – especially in a time of rising authoritarianism.” Let's see, I hope the justice system agrees – at least for US citizens

theguardian.comUS government targets Cop City protester over phone operating systemConcern over US effort to prosecute Sam Tunick, accused by authorities of wiping his phone using GrapheneOS

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Patrick Breyer
@echo-pbreyer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy

🇪🇺BKA (German Federal Criminal Police) releases new stats on #ChatControl: NCMEC/US tech reports have never been so unreliable! In 2025, 52% of flags were legally irrelevant. As a result, 113,000 private photos, videos & chats were wrongfully exposed (+14%)—a new record. 🧵 1/6

ensko
@ensko.at

TIL that a piece of software licensed under Apache 2.0 is not open source if it is maintained by a company. At least that's the gist of what I read before I was blocked.

ensko@ensko.at

OSI disagrees. So?

ensko
@ensko.at

I think that's backward, in fact. In this world, open source maintainers need to earn money. I think it's great when open source itself can pay the bills. bsky.app/profile/did:...

ensko@ensko.at

I'd also add that Typst GmbH is pretty conscious of the position they're in. They are profitable (by their own statements) and have not accepted VC money. So there's no shareholders who could try to extract more from them.

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noyb – European Center for Digital Rights
@noyb.eu

🇺🇸🇪🇺 "Max #Schrems will erneut gegen das Datenschutzabkommen zwischen der #EU und den #USA klagen. Ziel sei es, dass der Europäische Gerichtshof das Abkommen für nichtig erklärt. Grund sei eine Entscheidung des US Supreme Court von Ende Juni." help.orf.at/stories/3236...

help.orf.atMax Schrems plant neue Klage gegen EU-USA-DatenabkommenDatenschutzaktivist Max Schrems will erneut gegen das Datenschutzabkommen zwischen der EU und den USA vorgehen. Seine Organisation noyb bereitet nach eigenen Angaben eine Klage vor dem Europäischen Gerichtshof (EuGH) vor.

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noyb – European Center for Digital Rights
@noyb.eu

🍪❌ With the Digital Omnibus, the EU Commission FINALLY wanted to get rid of cookie banners. However, Google and some of the very EU Member States that are actually calling for simplification – including Germany and France – are now standing in the way.

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Lisa Song
@lisalsong.bsky.social

The chart made me laugh (in a painful way.) It's part of this incredible story: projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-c...

Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social

Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite

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Typst
@typst.app

Typst 0.15 is out now. It contains multitudes, including some of the most anticipated features and improvements that will smoothen your work. Learn what’s new in the thread below.

ensko
@ensko.at

Interested in how the "we'll walk to Metlife Stadium" – "no you can't" shit talking will turn out. We're talking about 10km direct distance from Manhattan. Not nothing, but also not massive – at least if you were in an area with basic walkability. ^The most intriguing aspect of this WC, really

ensko
@ensko.at

Banach Tarski theorem in action

WeRateDogs@weratedogs.com

This is Tumbleweed. She is an artist, and this is her art. Doesn't expect everyone to understand. 13/10 (IG: winstonandtumble)

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The Register
@theregister.com

Anthropic co-founder: "How can we ensure the gains of AI are shared globally? We do not have a mechanism for this." @lot49.com: "We have many. One is called taxes. Another is litigation... We also have the French and Russian Revolution as wealth-sharing models when nothing else works.." reg.cx/4nbD

theregister.comAnthropic co-founder hallucinates ghost in the machine after hearing the Pope speak about AIThe nature of AI is unnatural. It's not intelligent. It's not human
ensko
@ensko.at

Am I missing something, or can you not navigate to a post's parent on Bluesky? Like, given the post bsky.app/profile/ensk..., how can you read what it was in reply to? This *has* to be supported, right?

ensko@ensko.at

If you're interested in using grebedoc/git-pages, my blog has a Forgejo Actions setup that deploys an Astro site to it: codeberg.org/ensko/blog/s... (the custom withastro action is there to skip the upload-artifact step that doesn't work on Codeberg; the basic Grebedoc setup is more "vanilla")

ensko
@ensko.at

Step 1: advise customers to put limited permission Google Maps API keys in their frontend Step 2: allow spending limits to be automatically increased from $250 to up to $100,000 Step 3: silently upgrade the Maps API keys so that they can access Gemini 🎉 Congratulations you enabled fraudsters! 🎉

The Register@theregister.com

Google users fight for refunds as unauthorized API usage bills soar

theregister.comGoogle users fight for refunds as unauthorized API usage bills soar'What the hell is going on? It's just draining my money'
ensko
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"the guidance from Google is you're supposed to load [your Google Maps API key] in your front end. So we did that, and all of a sudden they changed the keys so that the Google Maps key, which is exposed publicly, could be used for Gemini, and then they didn't disclose that to customers"

ensko
@ensko.at

"according to Google [spending caps] can be automatically upgraded to $100,000 – without user input – if the user has spent a total of $1,000 throughout the life of the account, and the account is more than a month old." Should have known these limits are to protect Google, not you!

ensko
@ensko.at

"The first part of that statement is false ... Given the obvious untrustworthiness of that half of the statement, we didn't bother wasting any time trying to evaluate the second part." I wish more news outlets were so direct in pointing out misinformation by primary sources! Facts, not statements!

The Register@theregister.com

Viva la revolución: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb

go.theregister.comViva la revolución: LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says NoybGDPR Article 15 doesn't care if you want to make money by selling users' data back to them A LinkedIn feature the average non-paying user likely only glances past could end up setting a legal precedent in the EU regarding how companies treat customer data that they've processed. …
ensko
@ensko.at

When I hear about AI sycophancy, and how having too much agreement from chat bots is not good for a person's social skills and general tendencies, I can't help but wonder if there is any difference between that, and how rich and powerful people have much longer been surrounded by human sycophants...