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This post contains remaining parts of my DFG Heisenberg grant final report, by now long submitted and accepted by the DFG.

This post is an excerpt from the formally non-public part of my DFG Heisenberg grant final report (about half of the actually interesting part).

"A magic dwells in each beginning" / "Und jedem Anfang wohnt ein Zauber inne" - this famous line of the poem "Stufen", written by Hermann Hesse over 80 years ago, comes to my mind when posting a bittersweet update here.

„Und jedem Anfang wohnt ein Zauber inne“ – an diese berühmte Zeile aus dem Gedicht „Stufen“, von Hermann Hesse vor über 80 Jahren verfasst, muß ich denken, wenn ich hier ein bittersüßes Update poste.

Recently I've been experimenting with Catalyst, the tool that generates stages and iso files for Gentoo's Release Engineering team.

If you work in research, nowadays you can be sure to get swamped with "conference invitation" e-mails.

The GNU C Library ================= The GNU C Library version 2.40 is now available.

I've recently posted about the requirement of a German tax id for all reimbursements even of foreign seminar guests, or more precisely, about my frustration thereof.

[Update at end] I've been working in university research now for quite some time, and one of the great things about it is international cooperation.

While everyone is busy analyzing the highly complex technical details of the recently discovered xz-utils compromise that is currently rocking the internet, it is worth looking at the underlying non-technical problems that make such a compromise possible.

Following a lot of smaller and larger improvements and additions, we have finally released Lab::Measurement 3.900 on CPAN.

Molybdenum disulfide MoS2 is often discussed as a groundbreaking material for electronics applications.

The video recording of the Walter Schottky Prize award ceremony in June is finally online.

So I'm a good, and normally very happy booking.com customer (Genius Level 3 if that means anything), and have spent a lot of money over the past years via that company.

If you want to test the Gentoo LiveGUI, but don't feel like cutting short the precious uptime of your machine, here's a handy bash script for testing the iso files with qemu: #!

After a long break, we now have again a weekly LiveGUI ISO image for amd64 available!

After a long break, we finally have up-to-date Gentoo stages for the MIPS architecture available for download again!

You may have noticed additional Stage 3 links marked with "desktop profile" on the Gentoo downloads page recently.

IMPORTANT: This blog post is outdated!

Since the text was becoming more and more outdated and also more and more convoluted, I have completely reworked the "Preparing the disks" section of the Gentoo AMD64 handbook.

With the help of our infrastructure team, I've finally managed to integrate the riscv stage builds with our signing and mirroring system.

The last weeks have brought excellent news in more than one way.

The second-lowest vibration mode of carbon nanotubes is the so-called longitudinal or stretching mode; here the vibrational direction is along the axis of the carbon nanotube.

After the top position in the Nature Index 2019 and repeated great rankings in physics in the DFG Förderatlas (2012, 2018), there's another excellent news for Regensburg.