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Florian 'floe' Echtler

floe@hci.social

<p>Research Hobbyist, Tenured Hacker, Antifascist.<br />Jack of all trades, master of some.</p><p>Associate Professor for Computer Science, Aalborg University, Denmark.<br />Founding Editor of <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hci.social/@jovi" class="u-url mention">@<span>jovi</span></a></span>, the Journal of Visualization and Interaction.<br /><a href="https://hci.social/tags/HCI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HCI</span></a>, <a href="https://hci.social/tags/UbiComp" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UbiComp</span></a>, <a href="https://hci.social/tags/P2P" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>P2P</span></a>, <a href="https://hci.social/tags/FLOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FLOSS</span></a>, <a href="https://hci.social/tags/opensci

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    So I&amp;#39;ve seen a lot of anecdotes floating around that the Ukrainian strike on Yandex datacenters turned off a bunch of right-wing troll traffic, but does anyone have some more concrete data to support this, like e.g. a timeline of hashtag usage? #ukraine #russia #yandex

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    Looks like #Ukraine is really starting to kick #Russia back on the front line, using all sorts of sci-fi sounding tech (&quot;heavy drones dropping assault robots behind enemy lines&quot;): 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 g...

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    Hello #fediverse! Thanks to my new DFF grant, I&#39;m now looking to hire a PhD student to join me at AAU in Aalborg 🇩🇰 to work on &quot;usable decentralization&quot;, i.e. on making distributed and federated cloud services accessible to the everyday user. For more details, see link below, and please don&#39;t hesitate to DM me with questions! https://www.vacancies.aau.dk/phd-positions/show-vacancy/vacancyId/895183 #HCI #academia #getfedihired #decentralization #AAU #Aalborg #Denmark #selfhoste...

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    P.S. The &quot;decentralization&quot; part in the description seems to have resurrected some blockchain zombies 🧟 Please be advised that cryptocurrencies are definitely _not_ within the scope of this project 😉

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    /cc @loechti@hci.social @nielsvanberkel@hci.social @UlrikNyman@mastodon.social @RaphaelWimmer@hci.social @aquigley@hci.social @andresmh@hci.social - feel free to boost/forward to potentially interested students!

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

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    @mhoye@cosocial.ca here&#39;s the original (with a nice burn by @Lana@beige.party ): https://beige.party/@Lana/116514301615645317

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    For the record, I&amp;#39;m not really in the mood right now for another pandemic, maybe next year. 😑 #hantavirus

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    Found a truckload (20+) of Lenovo OneLink Pro laptop docks 🤔 These are obviously not the newest stuff and have been superseded by USB-C years ago, but maybe some school or hackspace is running a bunch of older ThinkPads and could use them? Any suggestions? Would give the whole lot away for shipping costs. #thinkpad #recycling #fediGive

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    Had a student come up to me after the lesson and ask a coding question which started with &amp;quot;My agent ran out of tokens, so I&amp;#39;m asking you ...&amp;quot; and I&amp;#39;m feeling vaguely inadequate as a teacher right now 😕 #academia #computerscience #education #ai

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    Congratulations, #Hungary! And thank you from the rest of the EU for getting rid of Putin&amp;#39;s stooge. Although I&amp;#39;m a bit surprised that Orban conceded so quickly, I would have expected more shenanigans... let&amp;#39;s see what the future brings 🤞

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    I&amp;#39;ve recently been thinking about what hype cycles #HCI as a research area has already been through. I came up with these four, in roughly chronological order (obviously, this correlates with the timespan I&amp;#39;ve been working in HCI): - Tabletop Interfaces - Mixed Reality - Autonomous Cars - Large Language Models What was the &amp;quot;hot shit&amp;quot; before that? Or is it a more recent thing for everyone to run after one topic like a bunch of lemmings? 😉

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    Hi everyone, I&amp;#39;m currently having an extremely hard time finding reviewers for a paper at @jovi which relates to visualization, simulation, and orbital dynamics. The review version is public at https://www.journalovi.org/2024-rein-rebound/ and the reviews will be public and (optionally) attributed as well. Please ping me if interested, and RT for reach! #academia #visualization #space #Astrodon

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    Apparently, there is one person who co-authored 37 papers for #chi2026 😑 This is rather ridiculous, what sort of contribution per paper can you expect here? Probably time for a cap on how many papers you can be author on. /cc @sigchi https://chi2026.acm.org/2025/12/22/insights-into-submitting-authors-of-the-papers-track/