#foss in Ukraine during a war, and some other countries. Warning: May contain me & #beerware https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOn-L3tGKw0

« Polite reminder. Trump & Brexit are not 2 different things. They are the same thing. Same companies. Same data. Same Facebook. Same Russians. Same Cambridge Analytica. Same Robert Mercer. Same Steve Bannon. Same Breitbart. Same Alexander Nix. Same Donald […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

Let me tease you with a real "thought leader slide" from my coming #fosdem talk 😎

Dear everybody: Everything is so much easier to understand, once you realize that the Gold-foil-King is a Mafioso, who only know mafioso methods, and only use mafioso methods. The letter to the .no PM is classical mafia: "Nice country you have there, pity if something happened to it. Better […]

Dear everybody: Everything is so much easier to understand, once you realize that the Gold-foil-King is a Mafioso, who only know mafioso methods, and only use mafioso methods. The letter to the .no PM is classical mafia: "Nice country you have there, pity if something happened to it. Better […]

Why do people say "this is not politics, this is human dignity" and similar things? THAT IS POLITICS. That's what politics is about. Wth do people think politics is?

MitID virkede på de-Googlede versioner af Android indtil for nylig, hvor de gennemtvang at det kun fungerer på standard-Android. Så MitID alene har i store træk tvunget alle danskere til at have en amerikansk kontrolleret telefon – paradoksalt nok med en forklaring om at øge sikkerheden.

I wonder how the attitude to age-verification of kids on the internet differs between adults with vs. without kids ? Anybody know of any credible statistics ?

For those of you who have any doubt about what #greenland wants in relation to #denmark and #usa, here are the exact quotes from Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen from yesterdays press conference: "Greenland is not for sale. Greenland does not want to be owned by USA Greenland does not want […]

It is our moral imperative to consider the "real world" and actual users when assessing the possible security impact of a reported #curl issue. If we deem that there is likely to be zero affected users, then we do more damage than good by insisting on doing the secure dance for the issue. Then […]

Pascal's Wager is either the house doesn't understand artifice, or that god's a forgiving sort. But if the later, the bet's irrelevant. The wager is the sort of surface logic you get into if you invent quantified risk management.

In 1994 I "received training" at a ex-Berkeley startup a $HUGECORP had bought. When I arrived, the new management had settled in, rules had changed, logo had been updated,, time-sheets in different colors - you know that routine. Then Dilbert broke though, and pretty soon the question quietly […]

I think the appearance of free software really broke the oligarch's brains. People are just giving away stuff that should be Shareholder Value? And we *can't* buy it off them and own it? People are just running a compiler whenever they like to make whatever they want without paying anyone? The […]

Nothing screams "incompetence" louder than when the program updating the "trusted" parts of a computers firmware outputs the debug message: TmpString2 = ".XML" Yes, looking at you #dell

Weird how payment processors haven't cut Twitter off yet. It's almost as if there are multiple standards

"Ordfører: Digital suverænitet er ikke et modeord. Microsoft skal smides helt ud af Folketinget | Radar" #teknologiforståelse er ved at sprede sig i #dkpol#teknologiforståelse Det er så løfterigt! […]

Fans are cancelling tickets. FIFA has called an emergency meeting over the World Cup backlash. Boycott the Olympics too. Trump's Gestapo will round up and shoot anyone. No one is safe in America.

Software craftsmanship is dead https://www.pcloadletter.dev/blog/craftsmanship-is-dead/ « Somewhere along the way, in the midst of the agilification of software, or the software engineer salary gold rush, we forgot about craftsmanship. »

Idioter! "Lukket møde afholdt over Teams: »Det virker rigtig dumt« | ResilienceTech" https://pro.ing.dk/resiliencetech/artikel/lukket-moede-afholdt-over-teams-det-virker-rigtig-dumt

Nytårshilsen 2026 #ubi #Borgerløn #dkpol#Borgerlønhttps://basisindkomst.dk/nytarshilsen-2026/

DK-Hostmaster (eller _punktum-punktum-dk_ som de nu hedder) vil have at jeg skal finde en forhandler. Først for at registrere nye domæner og nu for at håndtere betalingen. Det virker tåbeligt, men jeg kastede mig ud i det i dag. Konto oprettet hos #dandomain (mere eller mindre tilfældigt valg) […]

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I need university administrators (and probably some other people too, but definitely university administrators) to understand something: you cannot motivate your faculty to do more research or better teaching. They are already maximally motivated people. They did not get the job by being […]

I spend a ridiculous amount of my time on #curl security these days. Because I think that's my responsibility. something something open source sustainability

The year's 6th day just started and we just clocked in our 8th hackerone report on #curl for the year. This doesn't work.

How my students taught me that Github’s monopoly is hurting the Open Source ecosystem even more than I thought. https://ploum.net/2026-01-05-unteaching_github.html #github #floss

“I’m sure you’re all wondering why I’ve gathered you here today”.

@attualita #venezuela #usa #maduro

The best of 2025 : Accountabiility.

Can anybody recommend "soekris-like" hardware for firewalling ? Must run #freebsd and bonus if the CPU is not Intel or AMD

Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta. Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.

I offer Cassandra's Complete Class Theorem¹. All "good use cases for AI" break down into one of four categories: I. Bad use case. II. Good use case, but not something AI can do. III Good use case, but it's already been done without AI. IV. Not AI in the LLMs and GANs sense, but in the machine […]

1. User complains to #hackerone that I named his *previous* name when he renamed himself to a silly name after I banned them in a #curl report filed back in October. 2. Hackerone asks me to respond on their support forum, on which I have no account. Grrr. I […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Trump is like Midas, only everything he touches turns to fool's gold.

Here's a reminder about one of the most important results of the past twelve years of ancient DNA research. Northern Europe was overrun by plague-spreading steppe nomads less than 5000 years ago, causing an almost complete population replacement. It's a 1492 event. Everybody knows that us […]

"... while we think of the role of the finance sector as "capital allocation" – that is, using investors' money to fund new businesses and expansions for existing business – that hasn't been important to finance for quite some time. Today, only 3% of bank activity consists of 'lending to firms […]

“The last-minute christmas rush at the bookshop.” - my latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books

Why has this not happened: a gameshow where 10 audiophiles have to tell the difference between expensive £1k - £10k audiophile gear and a £300 setup. I would watch the SHIT out of that.

This is why we need mandatory, government funded, independent IT accident investigation boards! This kind of investigation needs to happen *every* *time* IT endangers life, limb or liberty, so that we all can learn from the mistakes and avoid them happening again […]