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Florian 'floe' Echtler

@floe@hci.social

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Research Hobbyist, Tenured Hacker, Antifascist.
Jack of all trades, master of some.

Associate Professor for Computer Science, Aalborg University, Denmark.
Founding Editor of @jovi@hci.social, the Journal of Visualization and Interaction.
#HCI, #UbiComp, #P2P, #FLOSS, #openscience, #decentralization.

Coffee ️& cheese addict. Reluctant dog owner. Wearer of nerdshirts. Shaver of yaks.

All posts are CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

#hacking #making #3dprinting #compsci

1443 Followers

1121 Following

50 Posts

Joined May 03, 2022

Personal Homepage:

https://floe.butterbrot.org/matrix/general/aboutme.html

University Homepage:

https://vbn.aau.dk/en/persons/149493

Github:

https://github.com/floe/

Google Scholar:

https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=sZssYagAAAAJ

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 1w ago

Looks like #Ukraine is really starting to kick #Russia back on the front line, using all sorts of sci-fi sounding tech ("heavy drones dropping assault robots behind enemy lines"): https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/ukraine-makes-world-first-airborne-robot-assault-behind-russian-lines-during-counteroffensive-22716 And the only answer #Putin seems to have is throwing ~1500 soldiers per day into the grinder. Why is it that the Russians seem to be completely unable to adapt on the ground? They do have figured out how to run a very nasty ranged campaign against civilian targets... #russiaUkraineWar

Ukraine Makes World-First Airborne Robot Assault Behind Russian Lines During Counteroffensive

UNITED24 Media

Ukraine Makes World-First Airborne Robot Assault Behind Russian Lines During Counteroffensive

Ukraine deployed attack ground robots via heavy drones over 10 km behind Russian lines, a world-first tactic in the Donetsk counteroffensive.

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 3mo ago

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@ricci@discuss.systems @alice@lgbtqia.space I absolutely still don't get the point of these. You can't farm engagement and ad clicks on the Fediverse? 🤔

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 5mo ago

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@Sustainable2050 We need to start treating consulting companies with the same contempt as druglords. 😡

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 5mo ago

Had a student come up to me after the lesson and ask a coding question which started with "My agent ran out of tokens, so I'm asking you ..." and I'm feeling vaguely inadequate as a teacher right now 😕

#academia #computerscience #education #ai

hci.social

🌱 hci.social

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 3mo ago

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@wikkit@mastodon.social @klausman@mas.to

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 3mo ago

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@bagder@mastodon.social "researchers"

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 5mo ago

For the record, I'm not really in the mood right now for another pandemic, maybe next year. 😑

#hantavirus

hci.social

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 5mo ago

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@petergleick Nah, he's gonna blow a gasket after one of his toddler tantrums. I do hope he'll last until the midterms, though, because IMHO that's the best chance that the Republicans get whacked real good 🤞

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 5mo ago

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I do wonder if Slovakia's Fico (another Putin stooge) will now still try to sabotage the EU by blocking everything, or if he'll rather keep a bit quieter now that his big brother is out of the game?

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 5mo ago

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@_elena Have a nice trip! And it's not coffee, but close: the chocolate museum (with DIY chocolate at the end 😋) https://www.chocoversum.de/en/home/

Chocoversum

Chocolate Museum in Hamburg – Sweet Fun | Chocoversum

Explore Hamburg's sweetest attraction! ★ Make your own chocolate 🍫 Interactive tours & tastings 📌 Book your experience now!

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 5mo ago

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@gsuberland @malwaretech it's scary 'cause it's true 🫣

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 4mo ago

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@valkyrie@wandering.shop massively impressive! kudos. 💁🎩

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 5mo ago

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@SmudgeTheInsultCat I'm in this post and I don't like it. 😑😉

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 6mo ago

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@jplebreton Sigh, another datapoint in the list of "people who may have been decent once and got turned into assholes by too much money". 🙄

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 5mo ago

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@peter_mcmahan@mas.to @davidgerard@circumstances.run what the actual hell 😳

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 3mo ago

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@gabrielesvelto@mas.to

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 5mo ago

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@Remittancegirl Agreed - although I've been wondering where the financial benefits for Trump are when he kisses Putin's ass? The vague promises of a Trump Tower in Moscow can't be enough, can they?

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 5mo ago

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@lizzard@mastodon.social 10/10 Egyptian temple vibes, no notes 👌

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 5mo ago

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@astro_jcm@mastodon.online I think to be absolutely 100% German, it would have to be "attacked and sued". 🤔

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 6mo ago

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@BasicAppleGuy In our old computer lab, we had a Power Mac G5 form an important structural part of the lab sofa 👌

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 6mo ago

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@linuzifer@23.social Merz hat IMHO zwei Prinzipien:

Was macht das mit meinem Aktienpaket?
Was hätte Merkel getan? -> Gegenteil machen. 🤷

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 4mo ago

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@mdhughes@appdot.net @screwlisp@gamerplus.org @jn@boopsnoot.de have you already had a look at Codeberg? ( @Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de )

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 4mo ago

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@X00001@masto.hackers.town Rammstein: DIE ERRRDE IST VERRRDAMMT UND ICH BIN ZORRRNIG

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 5mo ago

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@duckwhistle @blackcoat @Remittancegirl yeah well, you're certainly right about that 😑

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 5mo ago

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@griotspeak@soc.mod-12.com I may have taken a second or two before regaining my composure 😑

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 5mo ago

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@randahl In this case, I do think this is simply because Merz dissed Trump in an interview, you don't need Putin for Trump to throw random tantrums...

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 5mo ago

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@brett curious to know as well, I've occasionally used one but never got the hang of it 🤔

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 5mo ago

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@davidgerard Oh wait, no NFTs? Disappointing. 😑

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 6mo ago

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@feliks@chaos.social Pretty sure that's the Stanford Bunny 🤓

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 6mo ago

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@Koffeinpiratin@mastodon.de (Natürlich verkürzt, IIRC hatte Merkel auch kein Problem mit der Vorratsdatenspeicherung...)

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 5mo ago

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@mdhughes@appdot.net I've had my fair bit of CORS annoyances as well, but how is it related to Google? Did they propose the header?

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 5mo ago

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@jeppe @keepandroidopen On top, the verification "AI" seems incapable of understanding Danish yellow cards. I could only get verified after several attempts when I used my ancient German driver's licence. 🙄

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 4mo ago

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@valpackett@social.treehouse.systems Teaching chargers to talk was a mistake. 😑

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 6mo ago

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@passwordsarehard4@mastodon.social @georgetakei@universeodon.com

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 5mo ago

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@LukefromDC@kolektiva.social WP article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/05/09/iran-farms-thailand-food/ Would you also have a link for the first part about US farmers? I could only find https://www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/2026/03-31-2026.php which is more specifically about less corn being planted.

washingtonpost.com

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 4mo ago

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@kenSwinson@indieweb.social very nice, some slight Sumerian vibes?

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 5mo ago

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@redsad "emo with a glow stick" oooh, buuurn

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 5mo ago

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@slothrop@chaos.social @mhoye@cosocial.ca I actually hope an LLM wrote that paragraph because whatever it was never had a soul to begin with 😑

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 5mo ago

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@Strandjunker I do wonder who'd be dumb enough to play the stooge for the likes of him, though. 🤔

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 5mo ago

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@bsdphk@fosstodon.org @tante@tldr.nettime.org agreed, that's my term of choice as well.

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 4mo ago

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@peemee@aus.social

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 5mo ago

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@wren6991

Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe@hci.social

· 5mo ago

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@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net My wife still uses Instagram, and I feel like there's the occasional authentic post within all the high-gloss soup. But LinkedIn is 100% fake, all the way down. 🫣