Fabian Holzer

A programmer, interested in life, the universe and everything.

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Amin Hollon 🏳amin@polymaths.social
2025-07-14

I will repeat this as many times as I need to: no matter how terrible you think your writing is, I would far rather read it than anything that came out of an LLM.

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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦bert_hubert@eupolicy.social
2025-07-13

"Three generations of Europeans have lived in a world in which they’ve been vassals of either the United States or the Soviet Union. That has taken a severe mental toll, and we can see it in our political leadership on this continent. Europeans have been dependent on the United States - militarily, economically and culturally - for so long that they’ve lost the ability to imagine a world that’s any different" - davekeating.substack.com/p/an- (can't vouch for the rest of the article yet)

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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦bert_hubert@eupolicy.social
2025-07-12

Europe appears to just have given up on doing anything technical. Perhaps we should hurry up & stop pretending we want to do anything ourselves, so we can speed up getting to our eventual destiny of a full time holiday destination for American, Chinese and Russian tourists. And mind you, that is the _best_ outcome I can see right now. therecord.media/spain-awards-c

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Angry sweet antiracist enbyvreer@todon.nl
2025-07-12
“As concentration camps become
more common, they will offend fewer
people — and they will be called
normal. When this happens, you
must remember that normal is not
the same as right, no more than law
is the same as justice.”

Sarah Kendzior
Guns or Fireworks
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2025-07-12

Back then

Using the computer at a special computer desk. With the computer at the bottom to turn on with your tow and a printer on top! In the middle is the screen, mouse and keyboard
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Thomas 🔭🕹️thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
2025-07-12

A very “surprising pattern” that people don’t want to use fucking shit that doesn’t fucking work and depends on stealing people’s work and fucking lighting the mother-fucking planet on fire while feeding their fucking money into the greedy throats of billionaires.

“In a new paper published earlier this year in the Journal of Marketing, we uncovered a surprising pattern: The more knowledge people have about Al and how it works, the less likely they are to embrace it.”
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Peter Cohenflargh
2025-07-05

them: who radicalized you

me:

Warriors! Come out and play-yay!
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2025-07-03

I love it!

Seen in a post by @bruces

Added alt-text

A photo of the Fellowship of the Ring from the Peter Jackson "Lord of the Rings" film.

Every person is labelled:

Boromir: Quasi-Royalty
Legolas: Literal-Royalty 
Gandalf: Literal Angel
Aragorn: Literal Royalty
Gimli: High-ranking Aritocrat:
Pippin Quasi-Royalty
Merry: High-ranking Aristocrat
Frodo: Low-Ranking Aristocrat
Sam: Works for a living

Caption:

Really, the most surprising part is that it takes three whole months before Sam has to start physically carrying people
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CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:catsalad@infosec.exchange
2025-07-01

Narrator: Thomas tried to push the giant cat out of the way, but the kitty didn't move.

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Thomas Zimmertzimmer_history
2025-06-28

The Rogue Court vs Modern Democracy

I wrote this two years ago, after the Court effectively abolished affirmative action. It’s even more obvious now: America can accept the Roberts Court as legitimate and its rulings as the final word - or it can have democracy in a pluralistic society.

Not both.

thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/th

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2025-06-28

In my Portable Puzzle Collection, it was recently (a few weeks ago) the 20th birthday of the game "Mines": a reimplementation of Minesweeper which ensures every grid can be solved by reasoning rather than guesswork. The first click in a completely blank grid is guaranteed to be safe, and to open an area of more than one clue, and after that, you can always identify a safe square to open next by thinking about the currently visible clues.

This makes it possible to generate grids with a much higher density of mines than standard randomised Minesweeper, such as the example shown here with 99 mines in only a 16×16 grid. I actually didn't predict that this would be possible when I wrote the grid generator originally: I only expected to be able to play on settings like the standard Windows ones, without those nasty last-minute frustrations. The ability to turn up the density by more than a factor of 2 was a very pleasant surprise – my algorithm was far more effective than I had anticipated!

The odd thing about Mines is: in the past 20 years, this one game has received far more bug reports about insoluble game instances than any other puzzle in my collection. Very likely more than all the other games *put together*.

But not one of those reports has turned out to be a real bug in the grid generation. In cases where they sent a save file or a game ID, I generally played through the game myself to make sure; if they only sent a screenshot, I've always at least pointed out something I could see in the picture. *Everybody* who sent this kind of report turned out to have missed something.

Happy 20th birthday, Mines!

A partly completed game of "Mines" from my puzzle collection, i.e. an implementation of Minesweeper. The density of mines is significantly higher than in the typical Windows implementation, leading to a lot of clues with high numbers (4,5,6,7). In spite of that, the game has been solved up to this point without any mistakes, or needing to guess at any square.

This specific game can be recovered by pasting the following game id into Mines:
16x16:3,1,m2e563fafaadcac746fb6844b1d2dc16261d2c5f67909421f189d7fa832901d92
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Dr. Maddkap, Werepsychologistdrmaddkap@meow.social
2025-06-27

I’m done with trickle-down economics. I’m inventing piñata economics. That’s where we beat rich people with sticks until money falls out of them.

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Vladimir Savićfirusvg
2025-06-27

😎

A four-panel comic:

Panel 1: An orange, round-headed character with dot eyes and a small dot mouth stands facing a yellow, similar-looking character who is partially obscured, reaching out a hand. The orange character says, "YOU'VE GOT TO HELP ME, I'M STUCK IN A TIME LOOP."

Panel 2: The two characters are now fully visible, standing opposite each other. The orange character asks, "HOW LONG DOES IT LAST?" The yellow character, looking concerned with a downturned mouth, responds, "ABOUT 4 PANELS."

Panel 3: The orange character looks at the yellow character with a slight smile. The yellow character is now shown climbing the brown border of the comic panel, looking back at the orange character. The orange character asks, "HAVE YOU TRIED CLIMBING OUTSIDE OF THE COMIC?" The yellow character, with a determined expression, says, "GOOD IDEA."

Panel 4: The yellow character has successfully climbed out of the comic panel and is no longer visible. The orange character stands alone in the bottom right panel, smiling brightly, and says, "GOOD LUCK."
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2025-06-26

Every engineer worthy of the title adopts one unshakeable article of faith: POPULARITY IS NOT A QUALITY METRIC

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2025-06-25
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Wednesday, it's Captain!

(see mathstodon.xyz/@Scmbradley/114, infosec.exchange/@isotopp/1146, now posted from a proper computer with a keyboard and edit tools instead of a cellphone, and on an actual Wednesday)

A pier, drawn in ligne claire comic style. Wednesday Addams meets Captain Haddock. She says: "Hello, Commodore!" He responds "Wednesday, it's Captain!" inverting the typical "Captain, it's Wednesday!" What-a-week-meme featuring Tintin.

At the bottom of the image, Thing the Hand creeps to a bottle of beer.
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Jamez Barrett 🜃 ॐ Ⓐdidgebaba@c.im
2025-06-25

"I think we're beyond words at the moment. We're into the final solution, where you intentionally create a famine while you're killing people so you can make sure that the wounded die of the fact that their bodies are incapable of healing."
Ghassan Abu-Sittah
Conflict Surgeon. Head of Division of Plastic Surgery and founder of Conflict Medicine Program, American University of Beirut Medical Center.

I think we're beyond words at the moment. We're into the final solution, where you intentionally create a famine while you're killing people so you can make sure that the wounded die of the fact that their bodies are incapable of healing.
Ghassan Abu-Sittah
Conflict Surgeon. Head of Division of Plastic Surgery and founder of Conflict Medicine Program, American University of Beirut Medical Center.
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Paul Förster :verified_blue:paulfoerster@swiss.social
2025-06-25

Just a simple #Fact for #Today and, in fact, any other day. 🤣

#Memes #Microsoft #MicrosoftTeams #Windows

A meme. A vampire hates sunlight. Superman hates kryptonite. And me, I hate Microsoft Teams.
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Jess Rosejessie
2025-06-25

Been horrifying teammates by referring to undocumented information that's held only in people's heads as "locked in meat storage".

Please use this with your teams/projects and report back on how they like it?

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