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Micro-Project: Magnetic Holder for my Phone in my Car

Who doesn’t like micro-projects? I am in the process of finishing my last degree – the bachelor in technical physics. During my time on working on my thesis, while I was desperately searching for a new smartphone cover for my S21 on Amazon, I had the idea to combine a magnetic smartphone cover, a neodymium magnet and the holder spot of my old car into something handy!

So I ordered the stuff (https://www.amazon.de/dp/B09D388G35?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details & https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0BCQHQSZD?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1) and went on to tinkering during a writing break!

parts
The three initial little parts

I only needed one neodymium magnet, one scew which fitted and I took down the old holder of the car. It was broken, so I used some instant glue. With a 3D printer, I could have printed the black part. Due to not having a lathe, I had to file the screw to my needs 😂!

After some filing I quickly put those together and mounted them on the car holder:

 

I tried to add the phone with the case, but it seems that the neodymium was too strong!

screw broke out of plastic
RIP!

Seems like the threaded sleeve broke out of the already damaged plastic!

The solution was to use a longer screw and a nut, simple as that:

parts assembled with new screw and nut
New screw with nut

With that, it worked! I tested it already for tracks with ~40km. Yeah!

my phone on the car vertically

my phone on the car horizontally

In my opinion, the perfect micro-project! Refreshing for in between. And hopefully soon, physics will be finished and the game projects will continue. Which micro-project will be YOUR next one?

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Online again!

Dear all,

it’s been a long time since seismic.myftp.biz / seismic.at has gone online. I think it’s over ten years now. Unfortunately, it experienced an unusual long downtime the last 1-2 months. Yesterday, I tried to contact my provider one more time per e-mail and this time, they made the IP public again! I do not know why they made it private in the first place, I can only imagine it was made private automatically after ten years to preserve IP adresses. Anyway, I am just glad that it works again! Enjoy not only the accessing the website once more, but also the Last Dimension Leaderboard!

Kind regards,
Markus

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Master’s Thesis: Explainability in Hate Speech Detection

Finally! After a lot of work and especially a lot of stress during this summer, I was able to finish my master thesis and with it my master’s degree in business informatics. At the Technical University of Vienna, you do not get “MSc” as a title but “DiplomingenieurIn”, in short Dipl.-Ing. or DI.

The thesis itself compares modern deep-learning hate speech detection systems with rule-based hate speech detection systems, and analyzes the performance and also the explainability of those. I chose the topic because I am also pretty interested in chatbots (awesome what OpenAI’s ChatGPT can do!) but I did not have a lot of NLP (Natural Language Processing) experience beforehand. Thankfully, I learned a lot during this thesis and now I understand state-of-the-art NLP! Download it here:

http://seismic.myftp.biz/index.php?page=3

 

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Happy Halloween!

Hope you all had a nice Halloween. I am nearly finished with my degree, and this year, I gave the Packet Assault 2019 Special a little revamp. We are open to feedback and ideas 🙂

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Telegram bot permission suggestion

Today I want to share a little side idea which would need your help:
We are the T&M group, six people who want to build the best Telegram meme-voting bot. However, the current bot permission system of Telegram is not sufficient. Therefore, we sent a suggestion to Telegram: bugs.telegram.org/c/16695 We would need your support with a like! Thank you!
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Halloween Special 2021

It’s time again! For this end of October, MX wakes up in a strange facility where they do something with computers and education… I think it is called distance learning. But again, there are strange equation papers on the floor and I think those who played the other Super MX Halloween Specials might already know where this is going 🗒️…

Happy Halloween 🎃!

Download the Special here.

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Migration From HTTP to HTTPS and a new Domain

Websites with user input should definitely use HTTPS. Since 2014, Google uses HTTPS as a ranking signal. Therefore, even with static websites like the one from my uncle, a migration pays off. We took advantage of the situation to also switch to a more meaningful domain, and with the help of World4You, this was done in two days. After that, I was able to get the full old website http://ernst-reichel.at running with HTTPS on https://autospengler-ernst-reichel.at. Now, users are calmed down because Browsers display the site as secure, and nobody can spy on the customers looking for spare parts or repairs. Each legacy site can be migrated!