Raphael Wimmer

@raphaelwimmer.bsky.social

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Tinkering with atoms, bits, and pixels at the University of Regensburg, Germany. Yak shaver and award-winning procrastinator. Also on https://hci.social/@RaphaelWimmer and Twitter

Umm, please check that "Wimmer 2022" reference. I can't find it.

Good catch — let me look at that one more carefully. It's a TechRxiv preprint (DOI 10.36227/techrxiv.21760715), which is exactly the kind of record that can be flaky.

The record itself is real, but my author label was wrong — that's the actual problem. The paper exists (OpenAlex W4312131873, CrossRef, with a live PDF on TechRxiv), but it is not by Wimmer. The authors are Felix Fillafer, Thomas Brugger, Stefan M. Herzog, and Jörg Dahlkemper — a different group (Dahlkemper is at HAW Hamburg), unrelated to the Regensburg/Wimmer line. I incorrectly assumed it was the same group and pattern-matched the name. Apologies — that's exactly the kind of attribution error worth catching.

Screenshot des Berichts aus der Kabinettsitzung:

"Bayern fordert und fördert den Einsatz Künstlicher
Intelligenz und verbietet ein Verbot von KI: Die
Fortentwicklung der Künstlichen Intelligenz wird als Aufgabe der
Hochschulen definiert, ihr Einsatz in Studium und Lehre wird
gesetzlich verankert. In unbeaufsichtigten Prüfungen gilt: Die
Hochschulen dürfen KI-Nutzung grundsätzlich nicht verbieten,
sollen sie aber in ihren Prüfungsordnungen mit einer
Kennzeichnungspflicht verbinden"

Screenshot from Wikipedia:User Story

Usage:
A central part of many agile development methodologies, such as in extreme programming's planning game, user stories describe what may be built in the software product. User stories are prioritized by the customer (or the product owner in Scrum) to indicate which are most important for the system and will be broken down into tasks and estimated by the developers. One way of estimating is by giving each task a number of story points selected from the Fibonacci sequence: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, with the simplest tasks given a score of 1 and more complex tasks given higher scores.

Cropped screenshot showing female politician Andrea Lindholz - who looks like a woman and not at all like politician Georg Günther. Label "Georg Günther (37), Politiker"

Some countries raised concerns after Israel topped the public vote at the contest in May, finishing second overall after the jury votes were taken into consideration.

Fans will now be able to cast 10 votes each, down from 20, and juries will return for the semi-finals.

Organisers will also ban contestants and broadcasters from taking part in promotional campaigns by third parties including governments. Last year, there were reports that an Israeli government agency paid for adverts and used state social media accounts to encourage people to vote for its entry.

Pop-up: "Thank you for your message! We will get back to you soon"

Screencap: "<<REW" on a blue background - reminiscent of rewinding a video cassette.

Prompt: "number of image attachments: 1 What is this?"
ChatGPT: This looks like a whiteboard-style hand-drawn diagram of a hierarchical file/tree structure.

It shows a top/root item branching into folders or nodes, with several levels underneath. Some boxes or labels seem to represent grouped items, and the arrows/lines show parent–child relationships. The text is too small/blurry for me to read confidently, so I can identify the structure but not the exact labels.

It’s probably a sketch for something like a directory tree, taxonomy, project structure, menu hierarchy, or data model.
Prompt: "Please upscale the image"
ChatGPT: [image of a 'hand-drawn' directory tree with paths like '/events/2025/02']
https://chatgpt.com/share/69f8c7ea-4fa4-83eb-a34b-771d67d10a95

Screenshot of Mastodon post:

How the goalposts have shifted when I'm reviewing HCI papers that extensively use neural networks for analyzing sensor data:

Five years ago:
Guys, why don't your try to understand the domain before shoving everything into a black box?

Now:
Yay, no LLMs for once!

Screenshot of SoSciSurvey with many UI elements.

Screenshot from WHCA dinner live stream.

WELT-Schlagzeile:
Merz verteidigt Rentenäußerung vor CDU-Flügel – und schließt Kürzungen aus

Abbildung 2 aus der verlinkten Pressemitteilung. Zwei Karten von Deutschland (links für Diesel, rechts für Benzin). Gelbere Bereiche bedeuten niedrigere Senkung des Preises, violettere bedeuten höhere Senkung. In der linken Karte ist die südliche Hälfte Deutschlands gelblich, die nördliche violett. In der rechten Karte ist fast nur Bayern gelblich, der Rest violett.

Photo of Shadowrun 2e source book,
via https://archive.org/details/shadowrunseconde0000unse/page/26/mode/2up

CRASH OF 29

On February 8, 2029, computer systems across the world were attacked, apparently at random, by a virus program of unprecedented power. Systems crashed, their data wiped clean and even their hardware burned out by the effects of the virus. As the killer program spread, governments toppled and the world economy neared collapse.

During the first quarter of the year, the virus shattered the Grid, [...]

me: umm, how are you doing authentication here? is this how it is done with SOAP?
Claude [Recognized authentication method misconception and pivoted approach]
Claude: Good catch — I defaulted to HTTP Basic Auth, which is more of a REST convention.

me: give me sources for these claims
Claude [Thinking about identifying sources for unspecified claims]
Claude: Fair ask — let me look for sources to back up what I said.
Claude [Acknowledged sourcing limitations while committing to transparency]
Claude: Here's what I can actually source and what I need to walk back:

"Routers: For the purpose of this determination, the term “Routers” is defined by National Institute of Science and Technology’s Internal Report 8425A to include consumer-grade networking devices that are primarily intended for residential use and can be installed by the
customer. Routers forward data packets, most commonly Internet Protocol (IP) packets, between networked systems."

https://www.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/NSD-Routers0326.pdf

Photo of Vienna from 1904 showing old two-story houses in the front and new five-story buildings in the background.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:9.,_Liechtensteinstra%C3%9Fe_117_-_Hofansicht,_1904.jpg

Source:
https://www.google.de/books/edition/The_Photographic_News/OG3tPZxfl1MC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22because+it+wants+to+get+on+the+other+side%22&pg=PA58&printsec=frontcover

Source: https://www.google.de/books/edition/Good_Roads/O91KAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=RA22-PA8&printsec=frontcover

Personality and Style
His comments are measured, well-sourced (often with numbered references), and constructive. He pushes back politely but firmly, avoids inflammatory language, and frequently adds relevant context from German/European perspectives. He has a dry wit — his joke about confessions being "processed locally, not sent to the cloud" and the footnote about God's cloud storage is characteristic. He values HN's community and moderation, calling it a place he "still loves to visit every day."

Source: https://www.thearda.com/data-archive?fid=NES16&tab=4&vName=V161179

Screenshot from https://www.thearda.com/data-archive?fid=NES16&tab=4&vName=V161178 showing V161178 answers broken down by political party affiliation.

https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/ICPSR/studies/36824/datasets/0001/variables/V161179?archive=icpsr

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Precht: "Je schlechter ich informiert bin, umso leichter isses, 'ne klare Ansicht über die Welt zu haben."

Via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUhDreV5eCA

OG Stock Footage: Krankenwagen, Fuß mit Stiefel zu sehen. Im Stiefel steckt da, wo der kleine Zeh ungefähr wäre ein gurkendicker Stock von oben nach unten durch.

Bild ausm Internet geklaut (ist aber noch da).
https://www.reddit.com/r/Wellthatsucks/comments/15o5ivx/my_cousins_friends_foot_got_impaled_while_riding/

Screencap from the movie WarGames.
It shows text printed by the computer system WOPR: "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play"

Excerpt from Action Comics #653 (1983).
Clark Kent is seen on a cemetery, in the rain. He thinks to himself: "She's out there somewhere in a city of 11 million people --"

https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Action_Comics_Vol_1_653

Wiring diagram for a Schuko plug. It is wrong: N and L wires are bridged via a green-yellow wire that is potentially also connected to earth.

Screenshot of Prism - I asked it to create a methods, participants, results, and discussion seconds. It did so within 54 seconds...

Prism editor. I asked it to generate sections on methods, participants, results and discussion for an experiment I just invented.
It took 54 seconds to do so.

https://x.com/BrandnerSt/status/2014617312150552854

Brandner fragt auf Twitter, "Wer ist denn zZt. so richtig glücklich mit der Leistung seiner Wärmepumpe?"

Darunter zahlreiche Antworten von Leuten, die das sind und mit Zahlen untermauern.

Grok Imagine prompt:

Tweet with Grok-generated video and text: "Grok Imagine prompt: An epic desert landscape at dusk with massive sand dunes and a lone figure in futuristic attire, desaturated earthy tones, high contrast lighting with deep shadows, atmospheric haze, grand scale and sense of isolation, in the style of Denis Villeneuv..."

Screenshot eines Teils der Artikels:

Ihre Fans haben nur Augen für ihr Aussehen
Besonders bei TikTok, wo das Interview ebenfalls gepostet wurde, polarisiert der Clip – und zwar ausgerechnet wegen ihres Aussehens. Vor allem ihre "Falten" werden hier zum Gegenstand der vielen Kommentare.

Wow, ich habe mich gerade wirklich erschrocken. Sie ist ganz schön alt geworden,

schreibt ein User. Ein anderer kommentiert, sie sei "sehr in die Jahre gekommen" und löst damit eine Debatte aus. Viele andere User:innen zeigen sich empört über die Kommentare, die sich vor allem auf Ankes Gesicht beziehen. "Sie sagt so wichtige Sachen und alle konzentrieren sich nur darauf, wie sie aussieht, traurig", titelt eine Followerin. "Alle wollen immer, dass Prominente in Würde altern, aber wenn sie es tun, ist es auch nicht richtig", schreibt ein anderer. "Wenn ich die Kommentare über ihre Optik lese, macht mich das sehr traurig. Frieden bedeutet auch, andere Menschen in Ruhe zu lassen und sie nicht anzugreifen", tadelt eine Userin. "Sie ist klasse und eine wunderschöne Frau, fertig", schließt ein Fan die Diskussion schließlich ab.

Gala

Tweet von Beatrix von Storch, als "Ad" (Anzeige) gekennzeichnet.

"Der Kulturkampf hat ein Gesicht bekommen: Brosius-Gersdorf. Die SPD hält offenkundig an ihr fest. Das ist eine Ohrfeige ins Gesicht ihres Koalitionspartners. Die SPD will ihre linksradikale Agenda gegen die bürgerlich konservative Mehrheit im Land kompromisslos durchziehen. Wenn die Union das mitmacht, ist sie fertig. Die CDU/CSU steht vor der Wahl, entweder vor den Roten zu kapitulieren oder die Brandmauer aufzugeben und den Weg für neue bürgerlich konservative Mehrheiten frei zu machen. Deutschland braucht eine geistig moralische Wende und die gibt es nur mit der AfD."

Habil. Gersdorf, S. 19: "Es ging um die mit viel politischem Feldgeschrei betriebene, teilweise hysterische Züge annehmende und letztlich zu einem Bürgermeisteropfer führende Auseinandersetzung um den Ausstieg aus der Kernenergie."
https://www.duncker-humblot.de/_files_media/leseproben/9783428499939.pdf