Rᴏᴍᴀɴ Aʟᴛʜᴇʀ

Researcher at #Altermatt_lab (#UZH & #Eawag): Studying the #ecology, diversity, and distribution of #amphipods in Switzerland and beyond. Views my own. He/Him.

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Warren Currie 🦠🦐DrPlanktonguy@ecoevo.social
2025-06-20

Randall Munroe (of xkcd fame) posted about an analysis done by David R. Hagen related to his "missing 11th" comic. Great read, which includes some nice statistical analysis, but more interestingly, bias and artifacts.
bsky.app/profile/xkcd.com/post
drhagen.com/blog/the-missing-1

image/png a "calendar of meaningful dates" is shown with the day for each month varying in size. From XKCD comics by Russell Monroe CC-BY-NC.
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2025-06-19

Say goodbye to 1.5°C. But remember, the next target is 1.51°C and not 2°C. We need to keep fighting.

Every tonne of CO₂ emitted makes the job of future CO₂ removal harder, and every 0.01°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous.

on.ft.com/45pMG0h

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nixCraft 🐧nixCraft
2025-06-17

Lmao.

A screenshot of a social media post by @vasumanmoza that reads: "Claude 4 just refactored my entire codebase in one call. 25 tool invocations. 3,000+ new lines. 12 brand new files. It modularized everything. Broke up monoliths. Cleaned up spaghetti. None of it worked. But boy was it beautiful."
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2025-06-10
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2025-06-04

Wie digital souverän sind eigentlich die Schweizer Redaktionen?

Fast alle nutzen Google oder Microsoft als Mailanbieter und Office-Lösung. Dokumente laufen also in den Clouds von Big Tech.

Its a tragedy.

Schweizer IT-Firmen bieten zwar mehr Souverenität. Aber unterliegen dem NDB und BÜPF.

Anders machen es das WAV Kollektiv, die WOZ – Die Wochenzeitung und auch DNIP.ch. Indem eine Nextcloud-Instanz selber verwaltet und betreut wird.

dnip.ch/2025/06/04/wie-digital

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2025-06-04

I like how we took something computers were masters at doing, and somehow fucked it up.

ChatGPT 40 › 9.11 and 9.9 - which is bigger 9.11 is bigger than 9.9. subtract them To subtract 9.9 from 9.11, you perform the following calculation: 9.11 - 9.9 = 0.21 use python The result of subtracting 9.9 from 9.11 in Python is -0.79. This discrepancy is due to the way floating-point arithmetic is handled in Python, which can lead to small precision errors. The actual intended result should be 0.21. (›-)
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Simeon Schmaußstim3on@fosstodon.org
2025-06-02

Last Wednesday the Birchgletscher in the Swiss Alps collapsed, devastating large parts of the village #Blatten and blocking the Lonza river which created a small lake which destroyed even more houses.

Thanks to aerial images shared by #swisstopo, I was able to create a 3D model of the area.

You can explore it here 👉 skfb.ly/pxHLC

#glacier #lotschental #disaster #switzerland #photogrammetry

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Daniel Wernersrml@mitten.dur.ch
2025-05-25
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fx dechaume-moncharmontfxdm@mamot.fr
2025-05-23

A tenure-track position in the functional ecology of lotic systems (CPJ-CNRS) is now available in my laboratory in Lyon, France.

#Science #Ecology #job #career #academic #tenure #professorship #lehna #LEHNA_lab #CNRS #UnivLyon1

🔗 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CPJ/CPJ-

Photo of the Saône: a few trees on the bank reflected in the calm water.
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Anita Graser 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪underdarkGIS@fosstodon.org
2025-05-21

We've done it 🥳

Finally, there's a canonical paper on the #QGIS project, its history, workings, and challenges: sciencedirect.com/science/arti

Thanks to @timlinux and @mbernasocchi for joining me in trying to tell the QGIS story 💚

#OSGeo #GISChat #GIScience

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Sichere Velorouten für Zürichvelorouten@swiss.social
2025-05-20

Neuer #Velotunnel: Einst für eine geplante Autobahn quer durch #Zürich erstellt, wird die hergerichtete Röhre nun exklusiv fürs Fahrrad freigegeben.
Der #Stadttunnel wird täglich Tausenden von Radler:innen als sichere Verbindung zwischen dem Industriequartier und Aussersihl dienen – anstelle der gefährlichen Fahrt rund um den verkehrsreichen Hauptbahnhof. So geht #Verkehrswende!

Velotunnel in Zürich mit Abzweigung zu den 1200 Fahrradabstellplätzen direkt unter den Gleisen des Hauptbahnhofs.Wegweiser ausgangs der Fahrrad-AbstellhalleEinstellhalle des Stadttunnels für rund 1200 VelosTreppe zur Sihl-Passage, welche die Velo-Abstellplätze des Stadttunnels mit den oberirdischen Bahnperrons verbindet
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Dominik Ogilviedom@urbanists.social
2025-05-20

Die Hälfte aller Strassen dem Velo? Das ist ohne zusätzlichen Auto-Stau möglich, haben Forschende am Beispiel der Stadt #Zürich ermittelt.
Drei Jahre haben Fachleute der ETHZ am Projekt «E-Bike-City» geforscht. Ihr Fazit: die Umwidmung von Flächen für Fahrräder ermöglicht die urbane #Verkehrswende.
tagesanzeiger.ch/e-bike-city-z

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2025-05-19

Ich habe verdammt viele Charakterschwächen, aber ich habe mir nie eingebildet, dass es mir besser gehen würde, wenn es anderen schlechter ginge.

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2025-05-18

Überraschung erreicht Allzeithuch

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Neil Craigtdp_org
2025-05-14

As part of a time-limited trial, yesterday we removed the www.bbc.co.uk & www.bbc.com robots.txt "block" on *one* GenAI crawler.

Here's a graph of total daily requests from that 1 GenAI crawler by content-type. You'll note, they've retrieved ~460k web pages in ~16 hours, so a mean of ~28,750 web pages per hour. They'll likely pull ~690k pages today, ~32GB egress.

Whilst this is a drop in the ocean versus our other traffic, I can easily see how this could sink a smaller website.

Graph of total requests per day by content type for one GenAI crawler over a week. The request rate was essentially zero for everything until yesterday when requests for HTML (web pages) began to increase dramatically. Today we're on about 460,000 requests so far
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Thomas Lin Pedersenthomasp85@fosstodon.org
2025-05-13

Mastering typefaces and fonts in #rstats has always been harder than it should.

I have tried to collect much of my relevant knowledge in this deep-dive blog post so you can spend your time picking the right typeface instead of cursing at the computer

tidyverse.org/blog/2025/05/fon

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2025-05-09

Ich habe mir das jetzt eine ganze Weile genau beguckt. Die, die in meinem Umfeld am lautesten ihre persönliche Freiheit einfordern und sich nicht bevormunden lassen wollen, haben Payback-Karten, Prozente-Apps, Accounts bei sämtlichen Meta-Plattformen, googeln alles, kaufen es dann bei Amazon, haben eine Alexa in jedem Zimmer, rauchen, trinken gern Alkohol, leben halbtote Beziehungen und möchten Stacheldraht um ihr Land ziehen. Ich glaube, sie spüren da was, finden aber den Fehler nicht.

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kottke.orgkottke
2025-05-08

“We’ve crushed fascism before and we’ll crush it again.” A 98-year-old WWII veteran demolishes a Tesla with a Sherman tank. (Love the replays from several camera angles.) kottke.org/25/05/wwii-vet-crus

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2025-05-07

💥 🫥 Das neue VÜPF (Verordnung Überwachung des Post/Fernmeldeverkehrs) könnte direkt vom Kreml geschrieben worden sein.

Why ⬇️

-Cloud, Email: alle Schweizer IT-Unternehmen ab 5000 Nutzer:innen müssen per Ausweis registrieren.

- Nur Diktaturen wie Russland, China und Iran haben solche Internetgesetze.

- Threema/Proton werden hochgestuft nach diesem Gesetz.

- Die Schweiz sabotiert ihre eigene IT-Industrie damit in einem Moment, wo sie sie am stärksten braucht.

republik.ch/2025/05/07/die-sch

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lars' transport worldlarstransportworld
2025-05-04

For the first time, I have managed to update all eleven of my country diagrams for the same year! And it's only May!😊 Represented are: 🇦🇹🇧🇪🇩🇰🇫🇮🇫🇷🇩🇪🇱🇺🇳🇱🇳🇴🇸🇪🇨🇭
I started making the diagrams because I missed the (useful) official ones and wanted a planning guide for my travels. I hope they help you too when travelling through central or northern 🇪🇺 (or whatever you need them for)!
👉 You find the 2025 train diagrams on my blog: larstransportmaps.com/

Diagram of the high-speed trains in France, customised structure with five rays that originate in Paris and distort the ocotlinear structure in their sectors, blue, dark red, pink are the dominating line colours, the main attractions of the big cities appear on the diagramDiagram of the Netherlands, octolinear structure apart from the HSL-Zuid, yellow and blue are the dominant line coloursDiagram of Denmark, octolinear structure, different line colours, square symbols containing one or two letters representing the train categoryDiagram of the long-distance trains in Austria, customised octolinear structure with flatter diagonal axes, red and grey are the dominant line colours, many terminus of international lines are included in the map (such as Zurich, Venice, Budapest, Prague)

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