You and me baby ain't nothin' but YAML So let's do it like they do it in Apache Camel. 🎶

This is the energy we need: a 14yo taking to social media to explain to Megyn Kelly what a 14/15 yo is—a child. The GOP has no shame in large part because Dems don’t shame them. And the media is too scared to. Bring back shame. And consequences. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Dvj96A/

Doctors in China have used lab-grown insulin-producing cells to treat a woman with type 1 diabetes. The cells were made from her own tissue, reprogrammed into stem cells, and then grown into tiny clusters that release insulin. A year after the transplant, her blood sugar remains normal without […]

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch. A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]

🇫🇷VOUS ÊTES INCROYABLES ! ❤️ Votre mobilisation a stoppé le #ChatControl ! L'Allemagne ne cède pas, il n'y a pas de majorité au Conseil de l'UE. Le secret de la correspondance est sauvé pour l'instant ! Célébrons cette immense victoire ENSEMBLE ! 🎉 […] [Original post on digitalcourage.social]

Another small victory today. A salesperson had almost convinced a client to move their email from 365 to Google because "they hold all the cards now". I stepped in and suggested they keep their email on servers that they control instead. The salesperson almost mocked me, treating me like a […]

I get the impression that @_elena quite likes the #fediverse? 🤩 #fediday

Don't get left behind. Add #ai to your app: https://github.com/rhettlunn/is-odd-ai #boiltheoceans

rqlite now has Change Data Capture. Which is awesome if you want to build a distributed application without having to deploy additional dependencies just to create a message bus between peers to get state changes from the other peers […]

So...war's cancelled.

Stop the Chat Control – Protect our Civil Rights! (Stoppt die Chatkontrolle – Grundrechte gelten auch im Netz!) Sign the Petition: https://chng.it/W76BwjvJ8Y via @ukchange

Fun fact of the day.

Hey #UK, remember this: The #EU isn’t just about trade deals or borders—it’s about solidarity. 🌟 And with Trump backing autocrats, we need our friends across the Channel now more than ever. Let’s fight to Re-Join the family. 🇪🇺✊ #RejoinEU #fbpe

"I am a prompt engineer and do vibe coding". Oh, so you're in Slop Ops.

Good luck justifying this under the #digitalmarketsact. Google doesn't get to gate keep what we install on our devices. #eupol #google #android https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/google-will-block-sideloading-of-unverified-android-apps-starting-next-year/

"Sideloading" is the rentseeker word for "being able to run software of your choosing on a computing device you purchased". There is no reasonable case for an operating system developer having a say over what programs you run on your hardware. #android #google

For pete's sake, @mozilla : if you want to measure whether the AI/ML features are worth a damn, put a big green "disable all AI in my browser" button on the version update screen and put some telemetry around how many people instantly click it. Just about everyone I know who has taken the 142 […]

Recording for my #froscon talk on shipping #kubernetes as a #systemd #sysext and painless in-place updates on #Flatcar #linux is now available: https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2025-3330-immutable_turtles_all_the_way_down#t=25

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Not all open source contributions are code contributions.

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I just found out about an EI based public recursive DNS service. https://www.joindns4.eu/for-public #eu #dns

@VeroniqueB99 Being an IT guy I never understood the craze around "Alpha" males, which are by definition unstable. People really should at least wait for public Betas, but ideally use Stable. Much fewer bugs, much more enjoyable experience.

We crossed the borders from Netherlands to Belgium to Luxemburg to France today with only the road signs making us aware that there is the (imaginary, human-made) border at all. I don't want to live, again, in a world where there are more borders.

Initial (experimental) support for Gitea has landed in GARM. You can now use the same instance of GARM to manage pools of self-hosted runners in GitHub, GitHub Enterprise Server *and* Gitea. All from the same CLI, using the same commands. Instructions on getting started with Gitea […]

Yesterday was the longest 3 years of my life, but we have a president. And it's not the guy that wanted to imprison people with descending views. I might take the day off to lower my cortisol levels. #romania #elections #eupol

I am experimenting with adding Gitea support to GARM (Github Actions Runner Manager). The current WiP branch is here: https://github.com/cloudbase/garm/pull/393 I like the idea of adding endpoints for Gitea, GHES and Github proper and using the same GARM instance to manage runners for repos […]

During my time in the European Parliament, I attended a crucial final negotiation between Portuguese, Danish, German, Romanian and French MEPs, only to discover there had been a mixup and we would have no interpretation (translators) for the meeting. ⬇️

Happy Europe Day from Brussels! Today marks 75 years since Europe's Nations chose peaceful cooperation over war. On Europe Day I wanted to share a personal anecdote about that cooperation. ⬇️🧵

I was asked by a 20 year younger friend how my internet was back then. I needed a moment but then I told her the story of an IRC channel and how we made the day for a young girl who happened to be on our IRC channel. Because this is what my internet was like back then and I wish sometimes it […]

Hundreds of thousands of Computers won't be able to upgrade to Windows 11, but that shouldn't make them eWaste. Kudos to the @kde team for this amazing initiative! https://endof10.org/

In 15 minutes Europe will hopefully launch its next climate satellite. The launch can however only be watched via YouTube since we apparently can’t do that ourselves and have to put our government info next to the antivax promo. https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/ESA_Web_TV

Hier geht es zum Livestream. T minus 9 Minuten: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0UP77VUpqE

Bonjour de Kourou.

Adding github scale set support to GARM. Work in progress. This should eliminate the need to set up a webhook URL for your repos, orgs or enterprises. #github #selfhosted #runner

Currently crying some tears of joy and of released pressure/stress: One of the large repositories in Germany started safeguarding datasets from #noaa, officially. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gloeckner_pangaea-is-actively-working-to-rescue-data-activity-7318581859896975360-YYht […]

Don't panic. Backup is here: https://github.com/MITRE-Cyber-Security-CVE-Database/mitre-cve-database , and I have it from usually well informed sources that ENISA, in cooperation with the national institutions, is working on a replacement, to be launched within weeks

Helping someone use PowerShell, every time: Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted Helping someone use PowerShell Remoting, every time: Set-Item 'WSMan:localhost\Client\TrustedHosts' -Value '*' -Force I've literally had to help with both today

Them: "you should use AI! The world is moving to agentic agents soon. You need to at least use copilot or something or you will be left behind!" Me: * proceeds to use copilot * Also me: * spends 2 hours trying to figure out where the code deadlocks * Me […] [Original post on mastodon.samfira.com]

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