Germany’s Tech Betrayal: How We’re Selling Our Sovereignty to US Giants www.linkedin.com/posts/berndk... indeed, I heard it from Arte Journal yesterday and was 🤔

The last talk of the first talk at Do iOS is by Lucy Galik addressing “The enemy within: how UIKit mindset is leaking into your SwiftUI views” #doios

At Do iOS, we are moving to Swift concurrency with “Swift Concurrency in 6.2: Patterns & Pitfalls Nobody Told You About” by Kanagasabapathy Rajkuma #doios

Next Do iOS is changing gear, looking at multi-platform development with Swift. We have @joanniso.bsky.social with “Cross-Platform Swift - Reusing Code between iOS and Android” #doios

So apparently being in a boat in an area where drugs are frequently trafficked is now grounds for a US airstrike, he said nervously in central Amsterdam

The best way to prevent online ads from fueling surveillance is to ban online behavioral advertising. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Vandaag voelt een beetje als de dag na het eindexamen. Een gevoel van afsluiten en een moment van terugkijken op mooie herinneringen. Tegelijkertijd kijk ik vooruit, met nieuwsgierigheid naar wat komt. Na vier intensieve, mooie jaren is het tijd om afscheid te nemen van mijn plek in de Kamer. 1/5

After lunch at Do iOS, we continue with the security topic with Pascal Jungblut, telling us “What Really Happens to Your iOS App During Compilation - and What it Exposes” #doios

We stay with the security topic in the next talk at Do iOS with Eric Bariaux on “Cryptography 101: What Every Swift Developer Should Understand” #doios

Next up at Do iOS is Peter Kurzok with a talk on “DeviceCheck - Securing your App’s Communication” #doios

The first talk at Do iOS is immediately about a very important topic, namely privacy. It is by @carrascomolina.com with a talk entitled “The importance of Privacy on iOS”

Kick off of Do iOS by @appforce1.net https://www.do-ios.com/ #doios

It’s about positioning SwiftUI in the field of tension between MVC and model-view-update — for a good explanation of that field of tension, see https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3759163.3760429

This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months" China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.

In the train to Amsterdam for Do iOS: https://www.do-ios.com/ — expecting two fun days of great talks (at least, that is what they delivered the last two years 😉).

„Ich glaube nicht mehr länger, dass Demokratie und Freiheit miteinander vereinbar sind.“ Dieser Satz kommt von Peter Thiel, dem Mitbegründer von #Palantir. Von solchen Typen sollten wir uns gerade mit Blick auf unsere Sicherheit niemals abhängig machen.

I’m working on mine 😎

Ja, laten we het nog eens over al die ontevreden Nederlanders hebben die het zooo slecht hebben dat ze extreem rechts stemmen. 😓 Het is gewoon racisme! #Nederland #Racisme

The Zeiten, they are wending. 61% of Germans say their country invested too little in its military capabilities. 66% say we relied too much on the US for our security.

That chart is well worth studying. Share of daily transactions taking place in cash around the world. As an Australian, I’m very much used to cashless everything by now. I’m still totally against going fully cashless.

Swift belongs on servers #swiftlang

Managing long-running, stateful workflows in Swift just got a whole lot easier. The new Temporal SDK brings first-class support for building reliable, fault-tolerant applications. www.swift.org/blog/swift-t... @temporal.io

Let’s take women security seriously, also online!

Bar hopping? Networking? Speeches and panels? It’s all of that – and more! 💜 Join hundreds of Volt members from across Europe in Frankfurt on 22-23 Nov for a weekend of ideas, energy, and connection. 🎟️ Last tickets at €80 available till Nov 12: 👉 https://events.volteuropa.org/event/frankfurt/

Switzerland is joining Horizon Europe! We are uniting two research powerhouses. For cutting-edge innovation that will boost our energy security, digital transformation, health and so much more. Today is a good day for science, and for our EU-Switzerland partnership.

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📷 This NASA/ESA #Hubble Space Telescope image shows NGC 1511, a spiral galaxy experiencing a burst of star formation. 🧪🔭 🔗 esahubble.org/images/potw2... @science.esa.int @stsci.edu

Mave — Smooth, cookieless video. European privacy. Simple integration. Deliver smooth, cookieless HD video with a GDPR-compliant European platform. Easy embedding, customization, and developer-friendly tools.

Erik Nielsen with another good example of why bureaucracy isn’t really Germanys main woe. The US wastes 3x the resources on healthcare admin 👀

In "The Authoritarian Stack" @francescabria.bsky.social visually describes the rise of a U.S. born techno-authoritarian complex privatizing sovereign functions (defense, energy etc.). In Europe, Palantir, Starlink & Anduril esp. pose a direct challenge to democracies www.authoritarian-stack.info

🇺🇦 Overnight, Russia struck Ukraine's energy infrastructure with +450 drones & 45 missiles, aimed at bringing the country to its knees. For millions of people, including here in Kharkiv, the day unfolds with no water, no heat, and no electricity 🎥 Full video here 🔗 www.instagram.com/reel/DQypfZ0...

Breakthrough 🤯 You're seeing - ALL my @leaflet.pub articles 📄 - from ALL my Leaflet publications 📚 on my 🚧 new site (in dev) 🙀 that's - version-controlled w/ @tangled.org 😳 - (soon) hosted w/ @nekomimi.pet's wisp.place 😱 EVERY PART is stored in my #PDS 🫠 #ATproto is the future!!! WTF 💙

The consortium consists of Fraunhofer AISEC, TU Munich, CNR, @flashes.blue, Nillion Labs, Octopize, ChainSafe, @eurosky.social, FU Berlin, @ipfs.tech and funk (https://www.funk.net)

Super proud to be part of the EU Horizon proposal Social-PETs. It aims to bring privacy-enhancing tech (PETs) like homomorphic encryption and secure multiparty computation to open social networks such as #ATProto, making powerful recommender systems possible without centralised data.

We are near the end of our iCloud synchronization series. This collection covers: 🫂 Conflict resolution 🔑 Foreign keys 🏞️ Assets 🤝 iCloud sharing ⛈️ iCloud metadata 🤌 And more! Start syncing your SQLite app to iCloud today! www.pointfree.co/collections/...

The PLDI'26 deadline is right around the corner on Nov. 13. We look forward to your submission(s)! See the call for papers for more information: pldi26.sigplan.org/track/pldi-2....

Blacksky users benefit from access to the larger Bluesky network as well as specialized content moderation and curation features that protect and connect Black users. techpolicy.press/public-servi...

Part of the reason I think there isn’t as much pressure around stopping ChatGPT re: suicide/psychosis as compared to stuff like Panera Lemonade is because people are inclined to blame it on mental illness versus the tech, a kind of victim-blaming mentality that fits neatly into just world fallacy

Bridging the Swift and Java worlds opens the door to a richer set of server-side use cases for Swift. In our latest GSoC spotlight, Mads Odgaard describes his work to expand access to Swift/Java interop. #Java #GSOC www.swift.org/blog/gsoc-20...

SwiftUI - Understanding GlassEffectContainer (Part 4) is now available to LACWE members 🎉 4 new visuals → learnandcodewithenid.com

MPLR'26 will be in Brussels! The deadline is sooner than usually, March 6th. Please get your papers ready early! MPLR is interested in all things VMs, Language Implementation, Compilers, Interpreters, and Tooling! 2026.ecoop.org/home/mplr-20... They'll colocate again with ECOOP and ICOOOLPS!

Wipers have been a favorite tool of Russian hackers since at least 2012, and the fallout from the malware's usage has amounted to billions in financial damages.

I gave an opening keynote at the FIDO Alliance’s “Authenticate” conference a few weeks ago! My goal was to explain, as clearly as I can, why passkeys are important and how we should use them to reduce the harm that passwords cause. [1/2] YouTube link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=otOb...

Die FAZ greift die schockierende Recherche von @francescabria.bsky.social auf. Das autoritären Imperium will sich auch Deutschland einverleiben. Dringende Lektüre für alle, die noch nicht verstanden, wie Palantir Demokratie aushebelt. www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

The Godot 2025 showreel is out! We're so grateful for every submission, vote, and support from our community 💙 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZwE...

We're very excited to announce our closing keynote for #EuroskyLive: Markus Beckedahl, Founder of the Zentrum für Digitalrechte und Demokratie (Center for Digital Rights and Democracy). cc @netzpolitik.bsky.social #EuroskyLive #DigitalSovereignty #EuropeanTech

🙀 "One change allows companies to claim that their AI training data are legal without the usual requirements. If implemented, this will free the U.S. tech giants from any fear of enforcement against their using their data free-for-alls for AI training"

Working Copy launched 11 years ago. I’m celebrating the first 27 thousand commits by discounting the Pro Unlock which can be yours for $30 instead of the regular $36. apps.apple.com/app/apple-st... Make sure you upgrade today and tell your developer friends - anniversary pricing ends next week!

Deer enjoying cherry blossoms in Nara, Japan. Video by Yoshi M.