Zwillingssterns Weltenwald

Sketches for the OWASP Top10 2021.

→ kreatives/owasp-top10-2021-sketches.html

The simplest pure CSS toggle for dark mode without persistency. Commented example. Just read the code ☺.

→ software/css-dark-mode-toggle.html

Ein kleiner, gekritzelter Webcomic.

→ kreatives/kyro.html

In march 2025 I decided to try LLM translation from German to English. I had given the original article to others via Google translate many times, and I had been asked to evaluate AI tools, so I decided to give ChatGPT a try for translating moderately complex text. It took about two hours of work over several days to fix up the translated article so it actually says what the original says, with corrections for a lot of subtle mistakes that corrupted even the core message. This article follows the process and evaluates the risks.

→ software/ai-translation-evaluated.html

If you want to add typechecks to Guile Scheme, you can follow the format by sph-sc, a Scheme to C compiler. It declares types after the function definition like this:

→ software/guile-define-typed.html

BSI: „Microsoft stellt zum 14. Oktober 2025 den Support für Windows 10 ein. … Allen, die noch Windows 10 nutzen, empfiehlt das Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) daher, rechtzeitig ein Upgrade auf Windows 11 durchzuführen oder auf ein anderes Betriebssystem (z.B. macOS oder Linux) umzusteigen.“

→ software/bsi-windows-10-unsicher-2025-10.html

Mirror of the (sadly defunct) wiki page from La Quadrature du Net Studies on file sharing. License: cc by-sa 3.0, fr – Authors: Lilytq, Adrienne, Meli melo, Thibault, Axx, Theocrite, Pi, Meriem, and unidentified.

→ politik/studies-file-sharing.html

The UN is turning 80, and today it is under attack from all sides, also from within:

→ politik/un-under-fire.html

Je mehr ich über die Situation im Nahen Osten gelernt habe, desto unsicherer bin ich geworden, was die richtige Vorgehensweise ist. Jede einfach wirkende Antwort zerbricht.

→ politik/keine-leichten-antworten.html

High level Development plans for Hyphanet to make the High-Impact-Tasks easier to grasp and improvements easier to follow.

→ software/hyphanet-plan-progress.html

These are English summaries for the collection of best practices and requirements from the German federal agency of security in information technology (BSI): IT-Grundschutz, specifically the Kompendium 2023.

→ software/bsi-grundschutz.html

For Ace Maths I searched for unicode icons to mark progression: show that you’re getting better. Since I found a lot of different options (from simple sparklines to a huge list of animals), I’m collecting them in this article.

→ anderes/unicode-icon-progressions.html

Small Tips & Tricks for Python development. I’ve been programming a lot with Python until 2017 but took a long break. Now I’m more and more stepping in again because I’m using it at work. In this article I gather useful snippets I find along the way.

→ software/python-snippets.html

I read a lot about new technologies. Technologies for health, the energy transition, the future of mobility, or mobile phones. And for many engineers, legal or societal issues are "non-problems." I used to see it that way myself. But when I look at the world, it is actually the opposite: Every technical challenge we currently face can be solved if we, as a society, decide to take it on together. The real problems, however, are not technical. They lie in deciding what matters most to us. Which challenges we want to solve.

→ politik/challenges-technical-social.html

TIL¹ that the US government did not know that agent orange would monstrously destroy people in Vietnam.

Because Monsanto and Dow claimed it would “only” destroy the forest, but be harmless to people.

Even though they had explicitly been warned of the danger to humans by German pesticide companies: the production method caused contamination with dioxin.

And Monsanto workers had already fallen sick in 1949.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxVXvFOPIyQ

¹ today I learned

https://rollenspiel.social/@ArneBab/115133632804567546

Heute einen neuen Charakter erschaffen: Iginio di Martino, als Kind aus Italien nach Deutschland gebracht, dort Richter geworden und jetzt bei Kreuzrittern im Heiligen Land.

Rechtschaffen, Gläubig, Verloren, und mit einem Rabenschädel, den er bei einer Flamme gefunden hat, die er richten musste.

Sein Vorgänger opferte sich im Kampf gegen einen Götzendiener und rettete so seine Seele. Oder verdammte sie, das wissen wir nicht genau …

#Cthulhu Mittelalter pnpde

https://rollenspiel.social/@ArneBab/115125584815231337

Die Rechtsextremistin Liebich hat sich wohl ins Ausland abgesetzt, nachdem alle Medien über ihr Stöckchen gesprungen sind:

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/behoerden-fahnden-nach-liebich-106.html

Die ganze Panik über das Frauengefängnis war also erstmal viel Lärm um nichts.

Wieso genau fallen wir immer wieder auf die Provokationen von Rechtsextremist:innen herein?

https://rollenspiel.social/@ArneBab/115122468716434622

Only buy to own

https://www.draketo.de/politik/buy-to-own

My kid has been reading hundreds of my up to 30 year old comic books in the past years (German: „Lustige Taschenbücher“). If these had been DRM-shackled digital „perma-rents“, it’s unlikely that any would have survived the three decades so my kids can enjoy them.

https://rollenspiel.social/@ArneBab/115120459946056657

A complete #Mercurial branching strategy

3 simple rules: default, stable, feature-branches

https://www.draketo.de/software/mercurial-branching-strategy

Just saw in my serverlogs, that it gets 300 to 1300 readers per month. That makes it number 10 of the Top10 articles on my site.

The large span (300-1300) indicates that many people access it from company networks in the same subnet, because my serverlogs blank out half the IP blocks to preserve user privacy.

https://rollenspiel.social/@ArneBab/115110837582599140