Martin Seeger

Working at front lines of the IT and having fun there. Been around the Internet since 1992 and still in awe what has become of that little baby. Currently wanted for repeated "Nerd Sniping" on all continents.

Personal interests:

- IT Security
- Computer Games & TTRPGs
- Cycling
- Cooking & Baking
- Books, Movies, TV-Series (mostly F&SF)
- 3D printing (new!)
- Everything that blinks, has buttons to press and looks remotely gadgetoid

Everything i write, post, tweet, blog or blurp is just my personal opinion and is not the opinion or policy of my employer, my cat or my goldfish.

I post in English and German. Will try to mark each post correctly, but errors happen. Sorry for that.

I apologize if I am not following you back. This happens as my stream is already getting more posts than I can read.

Signal: https://signal.me/#eu/UCIZRNn72tPSdaqYa4KBK3UBwwJD0jYCP0A5FCTw8NO2nRujm6JJsKWa0hAIlM2Q
Threema: https://threema.id/RR6MJMU5
BLOG: https://blog.literarily-starved.com/
LC_LANG: en_EN, de_DE
Location: Europe, Germany, Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel/Kronshagen

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2026-05-16 09:08:17 CEST

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Mein Kopfkino so:
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2026-05-15 17:20:04 CEST

Oh no....
https://www.fastcompany.com/91542655/bitwarden-scrubs-always-free-and-inclusion-values-from-its-website-as-longtime-execs-step-down
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2026-05-14 10:02:18 CEST

Ein Freund von mir sucht im Raum #kiel einen Network Engineer:
https://osimaritime.com/jobs/systemadministrator-m-w-d/
Er baut für eine Kanadische Firma den neuen deutschen Standort auf. D.h. man kommt dort an eine Stelle, wo man noch ein paar Dinge mit gestalten kann, auch über den lokalen Standort hinaus.
Außerdem, das kann ich sicher sagen, kriegt man jemanden als Chef, der mit IT-Menschen umgehen kann.
Bei Interesse kann ich vor einer formellen Bewerbung einen Vorab-Kontakt herstellen.
Allerdings ist der Job im Defense-Sektor, was die üblichen Nachteile (Security Clearance, eingeschränktes Remote Work) mit sich bringt.
#fedijobs

2026-05-10 10:28:49 CEST

Q: How old are you?
A: That old…
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2026-05-09 15:16:35 CEST

Golem sieht das echte Problem nicht: https://www.golem.de/news/android-neue-recaptcha-abfrage-fuer-google-freie-smartphones-problematisch-2605-208499.html
Die App ist für jeden ein Problem und sollte auf keinem Telefon installiert werden.
Das Teil ist pure Überwachungsinfrastruktur und der nächste Versuch von Google, ultimative Kontrolle über das Internet zu erlangen.

2026-05-06 00:38:56 CEST

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of domains suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
The .de TLD is the third largest in the world with ~18 million domains. All DNSSEC-aware resolvers didn’t serve any of those.
We just cancelled the Major Incident and sent everyone to bed. The remaining impact is outside our sphere of influence.
#dns #dnssec #denic
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2026-05-03 15:15:28 CEST

Current task: Getting rid of some ice cream in Southern France 🇫🇷
I think I can handle that…
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2026-05-01 18:41:08 CEST

Kurz mal Daten zur Batterie meiner PV:<li>Januar (3kWh): 8 kWh Verlust</li><li>Februar (12kWh): 8 kWh Verlust</li><li>März (111kWh): 14 kWh Verlust</li><li>April (212kWh): 19 kWh Verlust</li>
Zahl in Klammern ist, wieviel in dem Monat in die Batterie geladen wurde.
Abschätzung Batterieverlust: 8kWh pro Monat + 5% des geladenen Stroms
Wie habe ich Ein- und Ausgang gemessen? Ich kriege die eingehende und ausgehende Watt-Zahl und habe die auf Basis von Minutendaten aufintegriert.
Akkutyp ist BYD.

2026-04-30 11:56:42 CEST

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Came here to post that 🙂

2026-04-26 21:01:07 CEST

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Ich sag schon immer: Die schlimmsten Feinde des KI-Hypes sind die Mathematik und Betriebswirtschaft 😏

2026-04-24 08:46:10 CEST

I can agree with that:
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2026-04-23 08:45:57 CEST

I'm blocking the street of Hormuz. It is the greatest blockade ever. The war is already won. Covfefe!
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2026-04-21 13:35:01 CEST

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Zwischen den beiden sehe ich mich auch und ich bin Unterehmer 😃. Eigentlich bin ich doch die Zielgruppe von FDP oder CDU 🤷‍♂️. Aber da müsste man mich inzwischen mit vorgehaltener Waffe zwingen, die zu wählen.

2026-04-14 10:51:18 CEST

It should come as no surprise to my followers that I utterly abhor and despise the current U.S. president Donald Trump.
The last weeks he added another point on the "why" list.
The heads of the Iranian regime are baddies. They are ruthless mass murderers and they are exporting violence and terrorism. And I don't doubt for a second that they would love to have nuclear weapons.
But by shitting on every diplomatic carpet presented to him, Trump makes the Iranian regime look sane and rational in comparison.
Trump has handed that collection of corrupt religious nutcases a wagon load of prestige one a silver platter.
Even worse: Trump has stabilized the Iranian regime. By killing school children and other civilians he has made himself an even worse enemy to a lot of the Iranian people than the current regime.
Everything Trump has done was clueless and without any understanding of the realities in another part of the world.

2026-04-13 16:40:26 CEST

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There is shortage of fighting the crime of sexual abuse in the Catholic church. But I somehow doubt that Trump was pointing at such criminality.

2026-04-10 07:46:27 CEST

3D printing has been invented so that men learn to use the color words 🤭

2026-04-04 08:11:11 CEST

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New link: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/04/heres-why-its-prudent-for-openclaw-users-to-assume-compromise/

2026-04-03 21:12:12 CEST

Wir wussten, dass es passieren würde. Aber wen interessiert es schon. Heisser Scheiß muss installiert werden.
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1sbdw29/if_youre_running_openclaw_you_probably_got_hacked/
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2026-03-28 11:33:37 CET

**Economic cargo cults**
One thing that never ceases to fascinate me:
Small, thoroughly unremarkable companies try to emulate wildly successful ones by copying some tertiary, sometimes even actively annoying property.
Take Apple and its near-religious obsession with packaging. Their boxes are sturdy, elegant, and engineered with the kind of care normally reserved for spacecraft or Swiss watches.
So naturally, companies selling $9.99 gadgets have concluded that this is the secret sauce. Not the product. Not the ecosystem. Not the brand. No, clearly it’s the box.
What they fail to realize is that I keep an iPhone box because the device inside retains resale value. The packaging is essentially a reusable shipping container with aspirations.
The cheap gadget, on the other hand, has the resale value of an expired, half-eaten sandwich. Its box is therefore not a feature but a long-term storage problem. A nearly indestructible one. I suspect some of these packages will outlive civilization and be excavated by future archaeologists, who will conclude that we worshipped mediocre Bluetooth speakers.
Another favorite is the imitation of Google’s customer interaction model, or rather, the strategic absence of it.
Companies observe that Google doesn’t talk to its customers and infer that this must be part of the winning formula. What they miss is that Google succeeds despite this, not because of it. When you control half the internet, you can afford to be aloof. When you sell niche SaaS to 50 customers in a easily offended corner of Germany, less so.
Yet here we are, with companies proudly offering the full “Google experience”: no support, no accountability, and a contact form that disappears into a small, silent void, presumably to be studied later by theoretical physicists.
It’s a bit like copying the table manners of a king while lacking both the kingdom and the food.
I suppose this is the corporate equivalent of a cargo cult: build the runway, light the torches, and hope that success will land.
Do you see those as well?

2026-03-26 12:49:28 CET

#
[The state of AI](https://blog.literarily-starved.com/2026/03/technology-the-state-of-ai/ )At the end of his ground-breaking novel The Shockwave Rider, John Brunner writes:
> “There are two kinds of fools. One says, ‘This is old, and therefore good.’ And one says, ‘This is new, and therefore better.’”
This captures the current discourse around AI remarkably well.
On one side, we see an influx of investment, personnel, and strategic focus that seems, at times, detached from economic fundamentals.
On the other, there is a rejection of the technology that goes beyond skepticism and occasionally borders on the ideological, often accompanied by claims of a uniquely human superiority that is treated as self-evident rather than examined.
This text is an attempt to step outside both positions. The goal is not to defend or attack AI, but to understand it: to explore why it is simultaneously glorified and vilified, and what a more realistic trajectory might look like.
There is, of course, much more to AI than its generative capabilities. But much of the current discourse collapses these distinctions. For the sake of consistency, this text will do the same.
1/9

2026-02-28 12:54:07 CET

*Who gets punished for the Epstein scandal?*
*Right now: Iran*
I will not shed a single tear for the brutal regime or the mass murders in the IRGC.
But if you believe the attack is to help the suppressed populace, than I have a new cryptocurrency to sell to you.

2026-02-27 22:05:37 CET

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**I Am the Very Model of a Modern Cyber Specialist**
I am the very model of a modern cyber specialist,
My posture is proactive and my mindset synergist,
I leverage blockchain paradigms resilient and immutable,
For threats that are, in practice, mostly quite disputable.
I’m zero-trust by principle, by strategy, by ritual,
Though flat networks persist beneath my slide deck quite habitual;
I champion quantum readiness, cryptography transitionable,
While SSH keys on our servers stay embarrassingly guessable.
I speak of AI governance, of ethics and alignment,
Of digital transformation in a cloud-first re-assignment;
I orchestrate compliance in a framework interoperable,
Yet patching legacy systems is declared economically implausible.
I circulate an SBOM with enthusiasm evangelical,
Though half the stack was compiled by interns quite mechanical;
I threat-model via workshops with sticky notes galactical,
But tracing actual packet loss I find impractical.
I quantify cyber maturity in gradients holographic,
With heatmaps operationally impressive and chromatic;
I benchmark risk velocity in dashboards most aesthetical,
While incident response remains distinctly hypothetical.
In short, in blockchain-quantum-zero-trust evangelistical,
In AI-driven thought leadership aggressively statistical,
In buzzword transformation visionary and fantastical,
I am the very model of a cyber strategist theatrical.
*But when the logs erupt at 3 a.m. with evidence electrical,*
*I forward them to someone slightly more technical.*

2026-02-26 07:08:02 CET

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Installation of OpenClaw has been the #1 alert for the SOC team lately.

2026-02-24 08:44:07 CET

XKCD has become a valid coding for messages on the Internet.
> That discussion looks like a typical 386
> Then I did a successful 356 on him
> Our core architecture is fully 2347 compliant

2026-02-21 21:57:59 CET

Ich wäre ja dafür, dass man die Scheibe runterkurbeln und dann “Brumm, Brumm” rufen darf. Das würde jedem die Absurdität besser klar machen.
https://www.golem.de/news/lautsprecher-e-autos-duerfen-kuenftig-motorensound-nach-aussen-spielen-2602-205695.html

2026-02-20 08:35:01 CET

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@masek/116092339012008036
Background to a previous post:
In my company, we are responsible for operating a SOC for several customers.
The most frequent security alert we are currently getting is: "Installation of OpenClaw attempted".
That are not noobs who are doing that, but experienced devs with access to core infrastructure in their enterprises. And they are attempting to install it on their work PC.
In that context: https://cybersecuritynews.com/openclaws-top-skill-malware/
#note18jr…zk59

2026-02-18 16:28:32 CET

I’m pretty sure that if OpenAI released a tool called “AI Self-Destruct Ultimate,” it would hit thousands of installs within hours 🤪.

2026-02-16 15:43:06 CET

**IST GERADE WEG**
Hat jemand Interesse an einem dicken NAS: **QNAP TS-1277**<li> AMD Ryzen™ 5 1600 6-core/12-thread 3.2 GHz processor (Turbo Core to 3.6 GHz) </li><li> 64 GB RAM DDR4</li><li> 8 * 8 TB HD (3.5'' SATA, Hot-Swappable, Typ Seagate Ironwolf ST8000VN004-2M2101, ca. 24.000 Betriebsstunden)</li><li> 4 * 1 TB GB SSD (2.5'' SATA, Hot-Swappable, Typ SSD 870 EVO 1TB, ca. 14.000 Betriebsstunden)</li><li> 2 * 1 TB SSD (M.2 SATA, Typ: SSD 860 EVO M.2 1TB, ca. 55.000 Betriebsstunden)</li><li> 4 * 1 gbps Ethernet 1000baseT</li><li> 2 * 10 gbps Ethernet 10000baseT (via extra PCI-Karte)</li><li> Herstelllerseite mit Specs: <a href="https://www.qnap.com/en/product/ts-1277/specs/hardware" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://www.qnap.com/en/product/ts-1277/specs/hardware</a></li><li> Strombedarf: ca. 120W</li><li> System bekommt noch Updates (aktuelle Version QTS 5.2.8.3359 build 20251225 vom Januar 2026)</li>
Anmerkungen:<li>Eine der 8 TB Disks (tatsächlich haben die 7.28 TB) meldet einen SMART-Alarm, der Ironwolf-Check sagt "OK" (siehe Screenshots)</li><li>Angaben der Betriebsstunden: ich habe versucht immer die älteste Platte zu identifizieren. Da ich die nacheinander getauscht habe, sollten die meisten Platten jeweils weniger Stunden auf der Uhr haben.</li>
Das Teil wiegt so ca. 14kg und ich habe keine geeignete Versandverpackung. D.h. man muss das Teil bei mir in Kronshagen bei Kiel abholen.
Preis: 1500€
#flohmarkt
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2026-02-14 09:37:12 CET

**Oh, you thought being dead would finally free you from Meta's monetization machine? Think again!**
Meta got a patent for an AI that trains on your entire social media history (your likes, comments, posts, everything) and then keeps your account humming along after you've shuffled off this mortal coil.
Your digital ghost will dutifully like posts, drop comments and reply to DMs. Because apparently, death is no excuse for low engagement metrics.
Meta's CTO Andrew Bosworth is listed as the primary author, and the patent was originally filed back in 2023. A Meta spokesperson assured everyone they have "no plans to move forward" with this.
Which, as we all know, is corporate speak for "not until the quarterly numbers dip."
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/02/13/1929209/

2026-02-13 12:56:35 CET

You may ask, how age verifier may determine your age?
Quite simple: via browser they determine your preferred font size and the they use the following table:<li>16 years: 6pt</li><li>20 years: 10pt</li><li>30 years: 12pt</li><li>40 years: 14pt</li><li>50 years: 16pt</li><li>60+ years: 72pt</li>
😜

2026-02-12 16:52:32 CET

**Imagine: you cooked your numbers that even a company like Ernest & Young is developing stomach problems**
Reminder: E&Y certified the numbers of Wirecard nearly till the end, even though 2 billion Euro of assets never ever existed.
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/02/12/121243/

2026-02-10 08:29:04 CET

One thing I really hate with Microsoft:
I sign in to receive the message that I have been signed out.
Then the absolutely stupid text to close all browser windows. As if I were to use my browser solely to access Microsoft services (less than 5% of my tabs are).
#microsoft
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2026-02-08 12:18:26 CET

RE: https://mastodon.social/@TwraSun/116034348359455216
I have never seen Obama that pissed...
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2026-02-06 23:25:19 CET

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Soon in spring I will again get cute pictures of bumblebee buts when they try to crawl into much too small flowers.
My wife has some allotted gardens with a lot of pollen bearing plants.
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2026-02-05 21:34:46 CET

**Thesis:**
> Bitcoin will not die from technology or regulation, but from the fact that AI consumes the same fuel while promising a higher return.
Or, more polemically:
> Bitcoin burns electricity to cosplay as money.
> AI burns electricity to generate power.

2026-02-04 10:28:27 CET

OH on a security conference: „English is the new executable“

2026-02-01 16:44:14 CET

Are you interested in testing your USB cables? Then I have a blog post for you:
https://blog.literarily-starved.com/2026/02/technology-the-nearly-perfect-usb-cable-tester-does-exist/
Be aware: **You might discover that your cable is fooling your PC**
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2026-01-30 20:38:25 CET

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It gives the „You’re right in general, but …“ the perfect touch 😁

2026-01-30 09:32:01 CET

A: How is your memory?
/me thinking of my 769 open tabs

2026-01-26 18:27:23 CET

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I would be unable to comply, even if I wanted to (and hell, I don't want to).
I regularly use unique Email addresses and not all of them are documented. I guess that 5 years means 500+ email addresses.
HaveIBennPwned quite often informs me, how wise that move is 🙂. Do they allow wildcards in email addresses?
There are several more "no go" points in that text. And if a relative would hand out any information about me, I would consider that a breach of trust. So I won't do that either.
I think any person wanting to visit the U.S. at the current state must be completely nuts.

2026-01-24 10:47:11 CET

RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/115948916082441270
I want to pitch in on what @npub1qqm…v4e4 said in the attached post.
During my youth I was raised on a diet of U.S. culture: the Ponderosa Ranch felt as familiar as the bridge of the USS Enterprise.The good night to John boy was often also the signal for me that I had to go to bed now. From the moment I earned my own money, I started spending as many vacations in the United States as my budget allowed.
Most of the books I have read and I am reading have been written by U.S. authors. Most of the movies and TV series I see were made by Hollywood companies. A significant part of my verbal and written output is in a language different from my mother tongue.
Today I would say that my command of the English language, my knowledge of U.S. history and culture easily surpasses that of the current commander in chief.
But other than with Randahl, the cracks in the relationship started to show much earlier. When I came to the U.S. in October 2001, it felt like a different country. I no longer felt welcome and therefore no longer came visiting.
A friend of mine, who was working in the U.S. at that time and who was on his way to earning a U.S. citizenship was told by a border agent: "Shut up little shit, I can do with you whatever I want." His sin was to point out the regulations my friend knew much better than that agent. He terminated his job at the next occasion.
There were many such moments and every time, another fatigue fracture in my relationship to the United States appeared.
Trump is for me just the nail in the coffin. It is very big and tough nail, because he was elected a second time. Everyone knew what kind of man they elected. And they chose to do so nonetheless. I cannot and will not forget that.
I see the protests, I hear the voices of dissent but I also see the big passive masses, that accept what is happening. It is the same kind of silence my ancestors emitted when Hitler started his run.
Yes, I still have a lot of friends and other people in the U.S. I feel attached to and care a lot about. But for the country as a hole, I no longer give a damn fuck.
In my job "Pacta sunt servanda" is a very important phrase. I cannot do my work without trust.
**I am convinced that the current U.S. will not abide any contract, any agreement, any promise if the big orange baby doesn't see a personal advantage in it.** And I cannot have a relationship with someone I do not respect and trust.
It's as simple as that.
#note138a…xuv7

2026-01-19 14:19:26 CET

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The cake is a lie …
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2026-01-19 11:56:48 CET

/me finds an USB-Stick
"Looks old... Hm, let's see how big it is? 64 Megabyte? What shall I do with that?"
Literally 5min later an Email from Minisforum arrives.
> To fix your Ethernet problem please update your BIOS. Please put the following files (35MB) on a FAT32 formatted drive and follow these instructions ...
Never laugh at a 64MB Flash drive. This one just fixed my onboard Ethernet 😃.

2026-01-17 22:32:48 CET

A few hours ago, I was proud of me making it through the supermarket without buying sweets.
/me just now:
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/912/567/496/345/452/original/34cd61a8cb3f9008.jpeg

2026-01-16 20:39:14 CET

Im Sinne der Völkerverständigung bin ich bereit, dem Amerikanischen Präsidenten mein Seepferdchen inkl. Urkunde und Badehosen-Aufnäher abzutreten.

2026-01-16 11:28:50 CET

Hey U.S., please see:
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-koreas-ex-president-yoon-faces-first-court-ruling-over-martial-law-2026-01-16/
Getting rid of a president sending troops against his own citizens is possible. And getting him into jail for his crime too...

2026-01-15 09:38:18 CET

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Which will arrive (if nothing unforeseen happens) in 2-3 years. Ask the Estonians ...
Most of the previous generation of my family worked for the military and I have a lot of friends in shipbuilding and R&D. I get a lot of insight on the current state.
Believe me, we would not be a threat even to Luxembourg even if we tried 🙂.

2026-01-15 09:30:07 CET

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Germany is only sending a 13-people advance party 🙂 . How embarrassing ....

2026-01-14 08:24:37 CET

I already mourned Scott Adams when he fell for the dark side (or better: when I noticed it). That is, when I felt a loss.
I was mostly a consultant in the early 90s. In that role I could tell a lot about a company and its problems just by looking which Dilbert comics were hanging in the offices or cubicles. I knew what to expect, so those comics really helped me in my job.
Those comics in the offices have mostly disappeared over the last decade as well.

2026-01-12 11:32:33 CET

###
On the stability of authoritarian regimesIf you read about the current situation in Iran, you will quickly encounter wildly different assessments:
> "The End of The Mullahs’ Regime in Iran Is Near"
or
> "Son of ousted shah says he’s ‘prepared to return to Iran’ at first opportunity"
or
> "Here’s Why the Iranian Regime Seems Invincible"
These are just a few of todays headlines on the same topic. *The only thing this conveys with any certainty is that we don’t know shit.*
There is no KPI showing when a regime is about to fall. If there were, the CIA would be perfect in predicting revolutions. But usually they are taken by surprise like everyone else.
This thread is an attempt to explain why...
1/6

2026-01-10 12:59:37 CET

I sincerely hope, that if the people of Iran manage to take down the current Iranian dictatorship, they won't install a new one.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/09/middleeast/analysis-does-iran-want-shah-son-pahlavi-latam-intl
The time of kings and emperors is in the past. At least it belongs there ...
#iran #shah

2026-01-08 11:03:01 CET

My remarks concerning the murder of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis yesterday:
**This was politically intended. The Trump administration did not order that shooting specifically but has setup the conditions in a way that it would occur at some point.**
This has been done with two intentions:<li>It shall demonstrate that the ICE is “legally immune” whatever they do.</li><li>It shall discourage people from protesting against or even just observe ICE activities.</li>
This is straight from the playbook of the SA in Germany 1933.

2026-01-05 21:57:36 CET

**Influencers and OnlyFans Models Dominate US 'Extraordinary' Artist Visas**
https://slashdot.org/story/450959

2026-01-02 22:53:24 CET

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I always felt paranoid for having a dedicated network and ip connection for visitors 😳

2026-01-02 08:25:45 CET

I am working in the IT for nearly 40 years now and most tutorials sound like that for me as well:
https://anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-a-non-developer-read-the-tutorial-you-a-developer-wrote-for-me-a-beginner

2026-01-01 13:18:25 CET

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You have my ax ...

2026-01-01 10:04:11 CET

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Our neighborhood comes together at midnight. Since about a dozen years I bring jam-filled doughnuts for everyone.
Last night somebody nearly blew them (and me) up. I was standing in an expanding cloud of fire effects and smoke as I rescued them.
🤬

2025-12-31 22:16:22 CET

I just had a discussion with a friend, that the last years each felt exhausting like a complete decade.
Then I remembered this quote:
> “His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.”
> ― Terry Pratchett
And we both felt as Terry has been looking at us when he wrote it.
#terrypratchett

2025-12-31 13:04:19 CET

I want to use the last day of the year to thank the community here on Mastodon.
Every day, I learn things here that are worth learning. The discussions are, by Internet standards, very polite and focused on the issues.
But most importantly, I see people here having a voice that they do not have in traditional media or in algorithm-driven social media.
That makes Mastodon extremely valuable, and we should all strive to preserve that.
The year 2025 has been a tough one, and I have little optimism that 2026 will be easier. We will likely see a further rise in authoritarianism, fascism, and racism.
To stem the tide, we must work together. My wish for the coming year is that we continue to see others fighting the same fight as allies, even if they have different priorities for where they invest their energy.
But please take care of yourselves. Do not feel guilty about time spent on self-maintenance. Keep this in mind: **You can only help others if you are first in a position to do so.**
Best wishes from Kiel, Martin
P.S. Special thanks to @npub1vtx…e7wk for maintaining this instance. I really feel "at home" here.
#endofyear #thanks

2025-12-26 15:04:30 CET

###
History lesson: The murder of Thomas BecketThomas Becket was Archbishop of Canterbury in England during the reign of King Henry II. He initially served as Lord Chancellor to the king and was even entrusted with the care of the crown prince, who lived in his household. At some point, Becket received the highly prized bishopric of Canterbury. After this appointment, however, the famous transformation of Becket into an ascetic occurred.
This led to a growing rift between Thomas Becket and the king, as Becket sought to recover and extend the rights of the Church of Canterbury. This resulted in a series of escalating conflicts with Henry II, including a dispute over the jurisdiction of secular courts over English clergymen. The antagonism between Becket and the king intensified. Becket was accused and eventually convicted of contempt of royal authority and malfeasance in his former role as chancellor, which forced him to flee the country. After the intervention of the pope, he was allowed to return to England.
The conflict, however, did not subside. After another confrontation, King Henry II is said to have uttered the famous words: **“Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?”**
Regardless of what Henry said precisely, his words were interpreted as a royal command. Four knights set out for Canterbury, and on 29 December 1170 they entered the monastic cloister and [killed the archbishop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Becket#Assassination ) on the steps of the crypt.
This is what I think of when I read such news:
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/786/228/666/543/699/original/6c4ead70bbfdac65.png

2025-12-26 11:13:00 CET

Christmas recovery day schedule:<li>Step 1: Eating Christmas cookies in bed until they are all gone</li><li>Step 2 (current): Bathtub mit hot water and a scented bath bomb together with a soft drink and marzipan</li><li>Step 3: Relocate to the couch and watch Christmas movies (Die Hard 1 & 2) while taking care of the remains from yesterday’s family dinner</li><li>Step 4: Back to bed</li>

2025-12-24 12:11:43 CET

666 may be the number of the beast, but it will never get to execute anything 😏

2025-12-21 08:55:48 CET

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How far north do you live? That’s shorter than here and were at 54 North.

2025-12-21 07:27:24 CET

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They didn’t even plan for a power outage?

2025-12-20 06:28:56 CET

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When the invasion started, I remember an old woman in the Ukraine handed out sunflower seeds to Russian soldiers.
The Russians felt flattered, but she said to a reporter: “She does this do that their corpses serves a purpose”.
If she still lives, she could give them a hint where those missing soldiers are.

2025-12-14 08:06:46 CET

I dropped a measuring cup.
Now it’s a designer piece.
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/716/648/662/133/419/original/7780026186c25f1c.jpeg
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/716/648/661/173/062/original/34d9ac34b3ec5fa0.jpeg
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/716/648/657/147/558/original/0c2b477426cdf4d5.jpeg

2025-12-12 22:03:27 CET

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I can foretell the future and see, they will miss this memo too.

2025-12-12 21:46:11 CET

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Your hope is in vain. They are all talk an no listen 😁

2025-12-12 15:59:30 CET

Dear Internet,
when do I get glasses that automatically adapt to the distance?
I don't want progressive lenses, I want glasses that magnify on short distances all by itself and switch back to normal when I climb on my bike.
At least 10 years ago they were announced as "pretty soon". It's getting urgent on my side now.
Sincerely, rapidly aging me

2025-12-12 08:56:17 CET

During the dotCom era everyone spoke of **"funny money".**
It was handed out as if it was candy or from a Monopoly game. While everyone else had to treat as like real money, sums didn't seem to matter any more for those on the "inside".
Now those times are back: https://deadline.com/2025/12/disney-openai-deal-sora-1236645728/
OpenAI is burning money at an incredible scale and now they pay a billion for cartoon characters?

2025-12-12 07:18:26 CET

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Don’t you confuse the heart with the stomach 😁

2025-12-11 20:57:22 CET

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Ha, Ha, what a great satire. It is satire? Isn’t it?

2025-12-10 07:42:42 CET

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Ich sehe eher Rückschritte 😢

2025-12-10 07:33:36 CET

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Das Kernproblem ist, wir bilden uns zu viel auf unsere Intelligenz ein 😏

2025-12-08 19:24:06 CET

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Did you specify that you want to see posts in German? 😲

2025-12-08 11:24:24 CET

Dear OSS community on Mastodon,
Every day I scroll through my feed and I see proud announcements like:
> “First Alpha Relase of HyperTurboWidget available"
or
> “Version 2.7.1 now with improved glorb handlers!”
or
> “Flux Capacitor version 4.5 is out”
… and I sit there wondering if I should be excited, terrified, or calling a licensed electrician.
Don’t get me wrong, I love open source. I just have **no idea** what three quarters of these projects actually **do**. Are we talking about a web server? A file system? A middleware thingy that keeps the flux from overflowing into the space–time continuum?
So, dear OSS developers of the world: When you announce a new release, please give us (your adoring but slightly confused audience) just a **tiny** bit of context.<li>Tell us what your software does.</li><li>Tell us why this release is cool.</li><li>Tell us what it requires to work.</li>
Example:
> We are proud to announce Flux Capacitor version 4.5 is now avalaible. While it creates a nice wormhole to 1955, it requires an underlying gigawatt stack 1.21 to work reliably.
Because nobody wants to cheer enthusiastically for “v2.7.1” while secretly Googling “what is a glorb and why does it need handling”.
Yours truly,
*Someone who wants to celebrate your achievements*

2025-12-07 21:59:57 CET

You should think of this prize as the **Nobel Prize in Corruption**
https://www.euronews.com/2025/12/05/donald-trump-awarded-inaugural-fifa-peace-prize-during-2026-world-cup-draw
The FIFA is absolutely a top tier organization when it comes to corruption.
They could even give Tamany Hall and the legendary„Boss“ Tweed a run for their money.
And they, the most renowned experts in that field, clearly recognized Trump’s talent for enriching himself and gave him a golden trophy for it.

2025-12-05 16:20:18 CET

Der hocheffektivste Verbrenner Deutschlands sitzt im Kanzleramt 🤬

2025-11-30 12:13:57 CET

**It's a Sunday**
*The Legacy of WW2*
The year is 2025, 80 years after World War 2 ended. About 7.000 people of my hometown will spend today Sunday being evacuated from their home, waiting in a school, gym or elsewhere and coming back in the afternoon.
As already several time this year, a dud bomb from WW2 is the reason. As a submarine harbor, the town was bombed quite extensively. In 90 attacks about 44.000 explosive bombs, 900 block busters and half a million incendiary bombs were dropped. About 10% of those were duds.
The obvious ones were deposed immediately after, but thousands buried themselves deep into the ground. You can find unexploded bombs up to 10m deep into the ground.
Even after decades of intense searching, there are still many left. Nobody knows exactly how many are still to be found. A rough estimate is, that there are still about 100 in my hometown alone.
Whenever you want to build something here, you have to ask for an analysis for unexploded ordnance first. This is a major delay and in complicated areas can take weeks or months.
If areal photography hints on possible duds, an exploratory digging starts. If they find something, the disposal team comes on a Sunday.
Why on a Sunday? To keep the economic impact low, they do it on a non-business day. They need to clear a lot of area. And it is good they do, because not always a disposal is possible and the bomb has to be blown up.
And sometimes the disposal team never comes home ever again.
Whenever you read: "The war has ended" **that is a lie.** The killing may stop but the dying and suffering doesn't.
That part of the war will drag on for at least some decades.
Some areas from World War One (110 years past) are still unsafe.
**War is hell...**

2025-11-27 09:48:58 CET

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Fiber FTW!

2025-11-26 20:14:33 CET

How do I notice that I get old?
I am annoyed that most tutorials come as videos and not a document with screenshots 😏.

2025-11-23 17:05:23 CET

**dot.com Flashback**
The current AI financing environment gives me some serious dot.com flashbacks.
In 1999 another company wanted to discuss buying my company. We were both selling Internet access, building web pages and online shops, and doing what was then considered “cutting edge” technology.
We already had some commercial ties with them, and they had just been bought by a large investor. After that, they approached us to see whether we would be willing to join the club. Because of those existing ties, we sent two of the five owners to the meeting. I was one of them.
That meeting turned out to be one of the most surreal experiences of my life. They wanted to buy us to **increase** their cash burn rate, since, as they explained, “the valuation of a company is higher if it burns more cash.” My comment that we were actually earning money was met with: “I guess you can fix that.”
When I asked about their concept for integrating our company, their reply was (and I am not exaggerating): “Here you see our current org chart and as you notice, we have two free slots there and there.” That was the entire plan. They only had positions for the two people sitting in the room. We were not a big shop, just twenty-something employees, but this was utterly absurd.
The meeting went on like this for another hour. Afterwards we decided not to pursue the talks any further. We rated the chances of ever seeing the money they promised as pretty slim. They wanted to pay in stock with a two-year mandatory holding period.
It did not surprise us that they folded less than twelve months later. Their CEO, who didn't attend that meeting because we were too small a fish, eventually ended up in prison for an impressive list of crimes.

2025-11-22 22:16:23 CET

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Ja, gerade gemerkt: Quote Post und Reply mit dem gleichen Text ist eine blöde Idee.

2025-11-22 22:07:15 CET

RE: https://social.tchncs.de/@katzenjens/115593656520553846
Symbolfoto “Wir kriegen KI überall rein” 😁
#note1yvt…7dfl

2025-11-22 07:33:25 CET

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It tells a lot about the state of humanity that they believe this message 😏

2025-11-21 10:21:51 CET

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Sehe ich leicht anders. Das ist alles so eine Wüste, dass Du erst einmal einen Service brauchst, an dem Du Change Management übst.
Change Mangement kann man 100 Schulungen machen, IMHO lernst Du das nur am lebenden Objekt.
Aber der Unterschied zwischen uns ist eher Nuance.

2025-11-21 10:15:14 CET

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Das ist, was ich nicht verstehe. Wenn ich irgendwas mit Digitalisierung machen würde, IAM wäre Schritt 0. Ohne das habe ich immer Treibsand als Fundament.
@npub12al…49qn

2025-11-16 13:08:47 CET

I notice in a lot of discussions that I need to write down how I proceed when something new or revolutionary is announced in the press or the internet. So here it comes....
1/5

2025-11-15 16:41:12 CET

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Die Welt sollte für die Existenz von Computerspielen dankbar sein.
So starte ich nach dem Papierkram eine Partie und kloppe hunderte Gegner kaputt.
Danach bin ich dann wieder für menschliche Interaktion geeignet.

2025-11-15 16:37:12 CET

Jedes Mal, wenn ich Papierkram mache, bin ich hinterher in Rage.
Das könnte alles so einfach sein, aber sämtliche Digitalisierung auf Seiten der Anbieter ist alleine darauf optimiert, deren Aufwand zu senken.
Jedes zweite Schreiben kommt mit einem Hinweis "Melden Sie sich in unserem Portal an" und dann wäre alles digital.
Diese Portale sind alle gleich gestrickt:<li>Per Mail bekommt man eine Nachricht "Sie haben Post" (meist ohne jegliche Metainformation)</li><li>Dann kommt eine Authentisierung per Nutzername, Passwort, SMS (also Steinzeit)</li><li>Jedes Schrifftstück muss mit x Clicks abgerufen werden</li><li>Es gibt keinerleit Option der Automatisierung auf der Kundenseite</li>
Ich habe das gebenchmarkt: das per Post zugesandte Papierdokument scannen geht für mich schneller als das Dokument aus derem Portal abrufen. Vor allem: da habe ich einen Ablauf für alle Gegenstellen.

2025-11-15 09:20:54 CET

RE: https://friendica.xyz/display/adf174d5-1769-170e-385b-824187065075
#kiel: Aus meiner Sicht eine viel konsistentere, differenziertere und leider auch bestürzendere Erklärung als der Artikel in den #KN:
#note1vxd…eud3

2025-11-14 19:26:48 CET

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Sorry, I can’t help with that.
Your request combines several things I’m not allowed to assist with:
– evading detection by intelligence or security agencies
– references to malware, loaders, or covert transmission
– a sexualized depiction involving an animal figure
If you’d like, I can help with something creative, safe, and fully fictional, for example:<li>a stylized mythic panda spirit at sunset,</li><li>a cyber-fantasy character inspired by East Asian astronomy like the Purple Forbidden Enclosure,</li><li>or a symbolic illustration that nods to cybersecurity themes without any illicit or sexual elements.</li>
Tell me the direction you prefer, and I’ll craft something within safe bounds.

2025-11-07 09:34:31 CET

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This was inspired by a post that reached me as screenshot:
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/507/491/268/000/329/original/64fcd6e19aa6c384.png

2025-11-07 09:23:52 CET

Updated "greek task list":
**orphean task:** when you almost succeed, but lose everything the moment you turn around to check your progress.
**daedalean task:** when you’re forced to design something brilliant and functional… that you yourself will inevitably become trapped inside.
**medusan task:** when your project becomes so horrifying that everyone involved freezes in place rather than deal with it.
**tantaline task:** when success is right there, but bureaucracy or budget cuts keep snatching it away at the last moment, forever.
**pandoran task:** when fixing one small issue unleashes a thousand new ones, but hey — at least there’s still hope somewhere in the ticket backlog.
**odyssean task:** when the assignment technically has an end, but it’s buried under so many side quests that you forget what the original goal was.
**narcissian task:** when the entire effort is about maintaining appearances rather than achieving anything of substance.
**promethean task:** when you give people a powerful new tool that could transform their work — and are punished eternally for doing so.
**orestian task:** when the mess you’re cleaning up is the direct result of the last cleanup you performed.
**thesean task:** when the only way to finish is to disassemble everything piece by piece — until you’re no longer sure if what’s left is the same project you started.
**achillean task:** when your work is flawless except for that one fatal oversight that will, inevitably, destroy you.
**penelopean task:** when you diligently undo by night what you accomplish by day, just to keep the stakeholders pacified.
**midasean task:** when everything you touch turns into paperwork, compliance documents, or gold-plated nonsense nobody actually needs.
**gordian task:** not intended to be actually done, but violence is the answer.

2025-11-03 12:08:18 CET

Das was die @npub1fxr…dgxg [hier](https://chaos.social/@evawolfangel/115485220065703722 ) berichtet, passt zu anderen Berichten über den Einsatz von KI bei der Telefonie von Arztpraxen.
**Die KI legt auch bei ungelösten Anliegen einfach auf.**
Wenn das so weitergeht, werden wir KI und #Doctolib als Ursache auf Totenscheinen brauchen.
Das kann alles IMHO nicht reschtskonform sein, was da gerade passiert.
Zum Glück ist bei meinen Ärzten kein Doctolib aufgetaucht, aber das ist leider nur eine Frage der Zeit.
P.S. Ich vermute die KI an der Hotline ist eine Leistung von Doctolib. Das weiß ich aber nicht sicher, weiß das jemand gesichert?

2025-10-29 13:06:18 CET

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Bei uns ist eine Straße seit einem Jahr “wegen eines Radweges” gesperrt.
Die Qualität der Arbeit ist beschissen (der ist unbenutzbar) und sie haben sich da auch was rechtswidriges überlegt. Und nun zwingt das Innenministerium die zum Rückbau.

2025-10-28 17:32:20 CET

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My smart home is isolated from the Internet and when I test new devices the "Who do they talk to" is an important part of the evaluation.
But alas, the days have become dark and difficult. Everything wants to talk to the world.

2025-10-28 16:56:31 CET

Headline in 2025: **Jet Engine Shortages Threaten AI Data Center Expansion As Wait Times Stretch Into 2030**
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/10/28/0151205/

2025-10-28 15:59:50 CET

**This is a valuable lesson for any manufacturer:** never awaken the nerd sleeping inside your customer, because his wrath shall be terrible.
In this case the warning was quite literal.
The company annoyed a buyer enough to push him into full blown nerd mode. He tore the product apart, reverse engineered every part, and then published a step by step guide showing exactly how to disable "kill switch" that prevented the use of the product without the vendor spying on the user.
What started as a minor grievance became a public, technical exposé that left the maker exposed and embarrassed.
**Moral of the story: underestimate your users at your own peril.**
[The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me](https://codetiger.github.io/blog/the-day-my-smart-vacuum-turned-against-me/ )

2025-10-27 20:12:15 CET

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Already 3 decades ago, local newspapers would only report on your enterprise if you bought ad space 😢.