AKK

I'm a German physicist, living and working in Germany, with a lot of strange house plants and never enough time for writing long fanfic epics in obscure fandoms.
I post in English about science and everything else & snarky everyday commentary in German.

ORCID-ID
0000-0003-3813-1965
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2025-12-08

Spiegel können bekanntlich nicht lügen.
Aber wenn sie dich sehen, können sie wenigstens lachen.

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Scalziscalzi
2025-12-07

In the last couple of days, on Windows only, using the Nord VPN app broke my access to editing functions on WordPress and images on Bluesky unless I turned off the feature that stripped out "tracking parameters used for marketing". Checking to see if anyone else has notices this or if this is a "me" problem, specific to my own computer. (It does not happen on Mac as far as I can see)

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2025-12-07
20251216 - die zwei #Kaffeekirschen am #Kaffeestrauch in meinem norddeutschen Wohnzimmer haben mittlerweile die Farbe, die ihr Name suggeriert.
#Kaffeepflanze #Zimmerpflanze
Zwei dunkelrote Kaffeekirschen (rund, etwa so groß wie Hagebutten) an einem diagonale Zweig mit grünen Blättern dahinter
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2025-12-07

For #AncientSiteSunday this fabulous aerial photo of the Acropolis at #Athens - a site I would love to be right now!

📷 Christos Kapoulas

#Greece

#archaeology

Aerial view of the Acropolis of Athens, situated on a rocky hill overlooking the city. The Parthenon, with its partially preserved columns and ruins, stands at the center. Other classical structures, including the Erechtheion and the Propylaea, are visible nearby. Below the Acropolis, the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, a semicircular stone theater, is nestled into the hillside. The surrounding area is a mix of greenery and densely packed modern buildings, showing the contrast between ancient history and contemporary Athens.
2025-12-07

@ninawillburger in this area shot, the acropolis looks like a stranded ship on a dried out lake. fascinating.

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Jason Lefkowitz FINAL (2).DOCXjalefkowit@vmst.io
2025-12-06

The logical endpoint of self-driving cars is you getting into your car to go to Burger King, and the car refusing to take you there because its manufacturer has an exclusivity agreement with McDonald’s

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2025-12-05

Syncthing-Fork für Android: Original-Maintainer verschwunden, Repo & Signaturschlüssel landeten bei neuem, kaum bekanntem Account. Kein bestätigter Schadcode, aber Supply-Chain-Risiko. Empfehlung: Auto-Updates stoppen und auf letzte als vertrauenswürdig geltende F-Droid-Version 2.0.11.2 einfrieren, bis die Lage geklärt ist.

2025-12-04

A registered "user" just spams my registered-users-only stories on the with bad summaries of the stories (not even a hello, or why the post, just bad bot summaries that add nothing to the conversation.). :yikes:

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Landeshauptstadt Mainzmainz_de
2025-12-03

Liebe Community, ihr habt uns überzeugt: Die Stadt Mainz bleibt auf Mastodon. Für die vielen, konstruktiven Reaktionen vielen Dank! Offen gesagt: Wir haben nicht damit gerechnet. Denn wir hatten in den letzten Jahren hier wenig Resonanz erfahren. Daher wollten wir uns auf die Plattformen konzentrieren, auf denen wir zigmal mehr Follower und Reaktionen haben. Ihr macht uns jetzt Mut, dass Mastodon lebt. Lasst uns hier geMAINZam austauschen: lebendig, vielfältig, solidarisch. 🙂

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Mark A. Raynermarkarayner@mas.to
2025-12-03

Wall tigers were a common problem in the 70s.

#cat #cats #catstodon #catsofmastodon #tigers #humor #humour #nostalgia

a tiger poking its head and front paws out of a hole in a ceramic-tiled wall
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2025-12-03

Ich muss mal vor einer wohl neuen Phishing-Masche warnen: in Mails, die angeblich von ELSTER kommen, steht, es sei ein amtliches Dokument hinterlegt und müsse abgerufen werden (irgendwas mit Referenzakte). Wenn man auf den Link klickt, soll man seine ELSTER-Daten eintragen.

Die Mails sehen ziemlich echt aus.

Teilen wäre schön, damit mehr Personen gewarnt werden. #phishing #elster

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Prof. Sam Lawlersundogplanets
2025-12-02

"Even Carrington would be impressed" 😬

spaceweather.com/archive.php?v

Hopefully we just get "someone should check on our satellites" levels of auroras and not "A bunch of open questions in solar-terrestrial physics are about to be answered"

What it means if you see an aurora by latitude.

Polar: Normal
High latitude: Cool and exciting
mid latitude: Someone should go check on our satellites
equatorial: A bunch of open questions in solar-terrestrial physics are about to be answered

Image from https://xkcd.com/2233
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2025-12-02

Unix - BSD developers : this code should run and be maintained as long as computers exist.

Linux - GNU dev : this code should run and be maintained as long as someone is willing to do the work

Consultant: this code should run until the end of my contract.

Enterprise grade B2B software : this code should run till the end of the demonstration to that big customer.

Vibe coding : You are perfectly right. The code doesn’t run. Try this one. You are right, it deleted your hard disk, I’m sorry.

2025-12-02

So, die gegen , , , , , (1), , und (2) sind gemacht, in 14 Tagen dann noch die gegen und 2025 hat fertig.

In manchen Jahren braucht's echt den Kalender, damit man alles mit den richtigen Zeitabständen unterkriegt!
Gut, dass schon vorher erledigt wurde.

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Information Is Beautifulinfobeautiful@vis.social
2025-11-30

Pollution levels in Paris after they introduced bike lanes and car restrictions

Red = EU limits for Nitrogen Dioxide pollution

Original graphics by Atelier Parisien d'Urbanisme
apur.org

A series of six heatmap-style graphics showing changes in pollution levels across Paris over time, with each square map labeled by year: 2007, 2010, 2015, 2017, 2020, and 2024. The earlier maps in 2007 and 2010 are dominated by dense red and orange colors concentrated in the city center, with landmarks like the Eiffel Tower and Notre-Dame labeled, indicating heavy pollution. Over the years the intensity of red areas fades, especially in 2015 and 2017 where the pollution begins to spread less densely, and by 2020 the colors shift more toward yellow and green, showing significant reductions in pollution. The 2024 map is the cleanest, with the majority of the area in yellow and green tones and only major road arteries showing thin red lines, demonstrating far less air pollution. Each map includes a “2 miles” scale marker, and the visual progression highlights how bike lanes and car restrictions introduced in Paris contributed to decreasing air pollution levels throughout the city.
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2025-11-29
Happy… err… grumpy #Caturday 😼
Porträt einer Tabby-Katze mit braun-schwarz-orange gemustertem Fell und grünlich-gelben Augen vor dunklem Hintergrund. Die feinen Fellstrukturen und scharfen Schnurrhaare sind deutlich sichtbar.
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Rolf Oldejansrolf@mas.to
2025-11-28

When it snows in Scotland the snow turns the Bannockburn statue of Robert the Bruce into something magical.

📸Marisa Braithwaite

Plinth about the height of the statue it's supporting, angles inward at the top. It is lit by a yellowish light aimed at the plinth & the chest of the equestrian statue above. The statue depicts a person wearing battle armor seated on a horse that has a caparison draped over it. Snow covers the ground and the statue. It also covers the leaning angle of the plinth, but the light only highlights the edge where it angles in, which creates an illusion of the statue is hovering.
The snow on the plinth is almost exactly the same colour as the sky, a dark grey, making it look like the statue is hovering over the base.
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Jernej Simončič �jernej__s@infosec.exchange
2025-11-27

@elduvelle @catsalad Found a slightly nicer version:

Evolution of the trash icon:

1995: Windows 95 Recycle Bin
1998: Windows 98 Recycle Bin
2000: Windows ME/2000 Recycle Bin
2001: Windows XP Recycle Bin
2006: Windows Vista/7/8 Recycle Bin
2015: Windows 10 Recycle Bin
2022: Windows 11 Recycle Bin
2025: Copilot
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Katharina Drögekatdro@gruene.social
2025-11-26

Dass Unternehmen wie Rossmann klar Position beziehen und dem Verband der Familienunternehmer den Rücken kehren, ist ein wichtiges Signal.

Der Verband der Familienunternehmer muss seinen fatalen Kurs korrigieren und den Beschluss zur Zusammenarbeit mit der AfD zurücknehmen.

Andernfalls fordere ich die Mitgliedsunternehmen auf, dem Beispiel Rossmanns zu folgen und sich klar demokratisch und entschieden gegen Rechtsextremismus zu positionieren.

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