ensko

@ensko.at

Software engineering teacher, programming language & open source enthusiast, currently obsessed with Typst he/him

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Wiping the phone after being denied rights. “We all have a right to secure our private data against unconstitutional searches. And we should – especially in a time of rising authoritarianism.” Let's see, I hope the justice system agrees – at least for US citizens

US government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system

Concern over US effort to prosecute Sam Tunick, accused by authorities of wiping his phone using GrapheneOS

theguardian.com

🍪❌ With the Digital Omnibus, the EU Commission FINALLY wanted to get rid of cookie banners. However, Google and some of the very EU Member States that are actually calling for simplification – including Germany and France – are now standing in the way.

The chart made me laugh (in a painful way.) It's part of this incredible story: projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-c...

Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite

Typst 0.15 is out now. It contains multitudes, including some of the most anticipated features and improvements that will smoothen your work. Learn what’s new in the thread below.

Image with a big 0.15. The shade of the number transitions from very light on the inside to dark on the outside in steps. In the background, the text "Multiples detected" below a diagram of moon phases. A ruler spans the top and right edges of the image. On its sides, annotations illustrating different features of Typst 0.15: The font features ".53 MONO, 800 wght, 0.7 CSRV", a MathML tag, and the text "[Verifying PDF/A-2a + PDF/UA-1] All checks passed".

Interested in how the "we'll walk to Metlife Stadium" – "no you can't" shit talking will turn out. We're talking about 10km direct distance from Manhattan. Not nothing, but also not massive – at least if you were in an area with basic walkability. ^The most intriguing aspect of this WC, really

Anthropic co-founder: "How can we ensure the gains of AI are shared globally? We do not have a mechanism for this." @lot49.com: "We have many. One is called taxes. Another is litigation... We also have the French and Russian Revolution as wealth-sharing models when nothing else works.." reg.cx/4nbD

Anthropic co-founder hallucinates ghost in the machine after hearing the Pope speak about AI

The nature of AI is unnatural. It's not intelligent. It's not human

theregister.com

Am I missing something, or can you not navigate to a post's parent on Bluesky? Like, given the post bsky.app/profile/ensk..., how can you read what it was in reply to? This *has* to be supported, right?

ensko@ensko.at · 5mo ago

If you're interested in using grebedoc/git-pages, my blog has a Forgejo Actions setup that deploys an Astro site to it: codeberg.org/ensko/blog/s... (the custom withastro action is there to skip the upload-artifact step that doesn't work on Codeberg; the basic Grebedoc setup is more "vanilla")

When I hear about AI sycophancy, and how having too much agreement from chat bots is not good for a person's social skills and general tendencies, I can't help but wonder if there is any difference between that, and how rich and powerful people have much longer been surrounded by human sycophants...