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Georg Weissenbacher

GeorgWeissenbacher@fediscience.org

<p>Computer Scientist at TU Wien.</p>

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  • Post #816969

    @GrapheneOS @lumi @alexia well, to be fair, you wrote &amp;quot;it&amp;#39;s a lot of work which is meant to be done by the OEM and their hardware partners&amp;quot; (referring to providing mainline branches of the kernel) https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116076374952406795

  • Post #816968

    @GrapheneOS @navi @alexia @lumi I don&amp;#39;t remember writing anywhere that GrapheneOS is awful or a stopgap.

  • Post #816966

    @krismicinski@types.pl @shriramk @jfdm @csgordon @lindsey @jeremysiek we have been claiming for decades that we are not just educating coding monkeys, so it shouldn&amp;#39;t really matter that LLMs can now do all the coding. As far as I see it, it&amp;#39;s still necessary to identify and clearly formulate verifiable requirements and specifications, come up with a modular design, and verify the whole thing, because I still believe the ultimate responsibilty lies with the developer. So students...

  • Post #816965

    Tony Hoare, in addition to his outsize influence on verification (and computer science in general), was a very kind and supportive person. It was very sad to hear he&amp;#39;s no longer with us. https://cacm.acm.org/news/in-memoriam-c-a-r-hoare/

  • Post #816964

    Isn&amp;#39;t AI search great? I asked Google why bangs (Qwick search) on #Qwant doesn&amp;#39;t work (the way I&amp;#39;m used to it from #DDG ) What would you expect the AI summary to link to? Well, a page which explains why bangs don&amp;#39;t work, right? Indeed, that&amp;#39;s what the link (https://www.instagram.com/p/DJuMQSVxn74/) is about - kind of.

  • Post #816963

    This might be #ww3, but at least it wasn’t an Austrian starting it this time. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/03/21/world/middleeast/iran-war-gravity.html?unlocked_article_code=1.U1A.g7kU.mBOHCqPlVjcZ&amp;amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share #nytimes

  • Post #816961

    The European Open Access platform is growing, and Austria is one of the 11 countries backing it. https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/news/all-research-and-innovation-news/new-era-open-research-europe-2026-03-26_en #openaccess #austria #fwf

  • Post #753250

    Over the last year, I&amp;#39;ve wondered how to reduce my dependency on US tech giants. Especially for mobile phones, this is quite difficult - you either go for a de-googled system such as #GrapheneOS (but might end up having to buy that device from Google) or you accept some compromises (regarding the quality of the device or functions of the OS). I&amp;#39;ve finally decided that perfect is the enemy of good and bought a #fairphone5 on which I installed #ubuntutouch. While a number of thi...