Side point on #chatcontrol: When I worked on the law in the European Parliament, in the face of questionably legal, and highly problematic behavior by DG HOME, I prepared a whitepaper on why it was such a terrible Idea. As it is in the public interest, I have decided to make that white paper […]

**I'm looking for work!** I'm a **high-level infra and devops engineer** and **team lead.** I've previously **run my own team** , and previously worked at **Mozilla** and **Facebook**. I'm looking for **infra/devops lead** or **senior infra/devops engineer** positions. I'm not looking for […]

I would like to thank everyone who made this accomplishment possible. It’s a dream come true.

Lake and mountain with a view. Taken with my phone because the big camera was just not wide-angle enough #photography #mountains

Speaking of image alt text, as a photographer who tries to put care into this, I would really love it if there were a single standard EXIF field in which alt text could be embedded and from which the text was reliably extracted when the image was uploaded. It would be much easier to write a […]

Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot one, and there’ll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland? In fifty years’, thirty years’, ten […]

Hot take: `curl [url] | bash` is no worse than `npm i [package]`

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

Many years ago I bought this 'illegal' USB-A female to female adapter, just for the fun of it. I now have an actual use for it 🤯

Cars from one company – Tesla – are largely responsible for the relatively high overall EV test-failure rate. For example, 49 percent of Tesla Model 3s failed their first inspections last year, along with 16 percent of Tesla Model S vehicles and 14 percent of Tesla Model Xs. Electric cars fare […]

Switched on the central heating by majority vote 3-1

WTF 😭 Paul 'Lange Polle' Van Bruystegem (66) overleden, ex-bassist van Triggerfinger https://vrtnws.be/p.bDnLdGPeD

De trein is altijd een beetje vertraging hebben... Antwerpen-Gent is al trager met de trein als met de auto, en de NMBS doet er nog eens 50 minuutjes bovenop. Het is natuurlijk niet hun schuld maar het systeem is zo broos: 1 issue en de boel is geblokkeerd...

Reuters has (finally) picked up on the Cesium-137 contamination event in Indonesia Reuterrs: Indonesia races to determine extent of radioactive contamination at industrial zone October 2, 20256:06 AM PDT […]

BBC: Why BBC sent undercover reporter into a busy London police station "... For the next seven months, Rory was employed as a designated detention officer at London's Charing Cross police station. He was also secretly working for Panorama, capturing shocking video evidence of misogyny, racism […]

LOL this customer had a selfservice portal for password resets and such, they replaced it with sending an e-mail to a helpdesk. nice new social engineering target 😜

Jane Goodall, the most prolific primatologist of a generation, has died at the age of 91. https://abcnews.go.com/International/jane-goodall-famed-primatologist-anthropologist-conservationist-dead-91/story?id=109868347

Just a #squeezebox / #lyrion Radio getting another firmware update. This amazing old hardware/software combo refuses to die 😍 Open source FTW

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

RE: https://mastodon.social/@peturdainn/115287054456682391 underrated

Started the day with some physics because my daughter brought up an issue with a lab experiment they did. Of course she brings this up at breakfast and not in the evening.... Found the error but no time to fix the report - at least she already knows the mistake Brain is already awake now […]

Iemand op BlueSky heeft de stellingen van #kieskompas geanalyseerd. Wat blijkt? De 'linkse/sociale' stellingen worden onaantrekkelijk gemaakt, met bijzinnetjes waar negatieve gevolgen in staan. Bij 'rechtse/asociale' stellingen gebeurt dat niet. Willen ze […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

HAHAHAHA BBC: The perils of letting AI plan your next trip "...An imagined town in Peru, an Eiffel tower in Beijing: travellers are increasingly using tools like ChatGPT for itinerary ideas – and being sent to destinations that don't exist. Miguel Angel Gongora Meza, founder and director of […]

Fast Company:A I videos are tricking tourists into visiting places that don’t exist. That’s just the beginning You thought that travel influencers were bad? It’s about to get worse. (7/17/2025) https://www.fastcompany.com/91368492/ai-video-tricking-tourists-places-that-dont-exist #travel #ai

[Politics, ABC] Marisa Kabas/The Handbasket

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cachem/115285952321942441 WOW... first the preferred disk thing, now hardware transcoding restrictions. WTF is Synology doing?

Palestinian Loss of Land 1947 to Present ⬇️ #settlers #Israel #ockupation #Israel

Yesterday evening, I was typing away on my phone. Suddenly my wife asked "darling, is someone wrong on the internet again?" It was at that moment I realized even a federated network is largely a bunch of people yelling at eachother, and I'm also to blame for […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Ahh better!

uw deel nemen is belangrijker dan winnen

The older I get, the more I understand why roosters just scream to start their day.

Failed to fix the computer problem of a friend: Setup = ISP modem/router --- TP-Link C7 wireless router Any device connected to the TP-Link fails to load one site (stad.gent). I can ping it but any OS/browser combo fails to load the site. Connect to the ISP modem and it works. Factory […]

"Je moet je reispas persoonlijk afhalen met je identiteitskaart. Ben je jonger dan 18 jaar, dan mag je zelf je reispas afhalen. Breng wel je identiteitskaart mee." #gent

Tip: als je een horrorfilm gaat kijken, kies dan formaat 4:3 Als het te eng wordt kan je dan schakelen naar 16:9

finding the showstopper bug in the last work hour of your last working day of the week is 🥳 not even my bug so party^2

Timeline on point.

wandrive klimkt zo negatief

Schrödinger's Shooter exists as both a deranged leftist motivated by dangerous rhetoric AND as a misunderstood troubled youth who needed Jesus until the waveform collapses

them: wow, time between ticket opened and PR was 1 hour? Well done on that quick bugfix me: thanks me, inner voice: yeah, they told me about the issue yesterday but were a bit slow to create the ticket 🤷‍♂️

The EU’s €2T budget overlooks a key tech pillar: Open source https://thenextweb.com/news/eu-budget-open-source

From Humanti Project: "🚨 BREAKING 🚨 The Sumud Flotilla is under attack in international waters. Boats have been hit with sound bombs, explosive flares, and sprayed with suspected chemicals. This is physiological warfare. These humanitarian ships are operating in […] [Original post on todon.nl]

After meeting with Zelensky, Trump now says Ukraine could retake all of its territory. This will be valid until the next call from Putin, after which he will say Ukraine started the war and should cede land for peace. And repeat. This is why you normally write small notes for the demented elderly.

NXP support platform doing 2FA by mailing a code which today arrives after 15 minutes. The code is only valid for 10 minutes and when you hit the button the previous code(s) expire.

🆕 blog! “Targetting specific characters with CSS rules” You can't. There is no way to use CSS to apply a style to every letter "E". It simply can't be done. At least, that's what they want you to think… What if I told you there was a secret and forbidden way to target specific characters in […]

D4!

made an anonymous reddit account to correct some info discussed on a device I wrote the firmware of, but apparently a new anonymous account knows shit 🤷‍♂️

Given the current state of the world I found myself listening to the various bands of Jello Biafra, and I now rediscovered The Last Temptation Of Reid (Lard) - some damn fine songs on there! I quite like the bass lines, must check out what other stuff Paul Barker did