RE: https://social.bund.de/@bsi/115900634387210717 @bsi gibt durch zusammenarbeit mit #aws der absurden umdeutung des begriffs #DigitaleSouveranitat ein amtliches siegel. dann zu posten "wir verstehen sie als wahlfreiheit", ist weiterer unsinn. denn genau diese freiheit wird durch PR für […]

Könnt ihr euch an die letzte Werbekampagne des @bsi für IONOS, @hetzner oder @ubernauten erinnern? Oder für andere Firmen, die auch relevant Steuern in Deutschland zahlen? Ich mich auch nicht. Ist das schon Revolving door Prinzip? #cloud #hosting #aws https://social.bund.de/@bsi/115900634387210717

RE: https://chaos.social/@blinry/115904006470131664 for decades, i have been preaching strace/truss as the swiss army knife for #linux/#unix troubleshooting and performance analysis. there have always been alternatives, and not all issues manifest themselves in syscalls, but over the years i […]

Today I learned about a particularly vile piece of shit corp, Bright Data. Web scraping as a service. They boast about having 150 million IP addresses from user devices (I can't imagine that it's with the user's consent) and being able to scrape petabytes. They brag about their ability to defeat […]

https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/20312 There, now you know.

How do people solve the spam/bot problem with open user registrations on self hosted forges? This question specifically is not about AI scapers. We once had a gitlab instance with open registrations and got overwhelmed by bots spamming repos. I would like to avoid running into that problem […]

quelle: http://www.oebl.de/C-Netz/Geraete/Zugfunk/OeKart/Oekart.html

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

and of course some of the people I ridicule, ban and expose in these reports come back to me all up in arms about them being completely innocent and they did not know and now I have ruined their professional lives because their cool hacker aliases are now tainted.

Wie teuer ist Mobilität wirklich? 🚍🚗 Bus und Bahn gelten oft als „zu teuer“. Dabei sind sie für unsere Gesellschaft deutlich günstiger als Auto oder Motorrad. Das wird deutlich, wenn man die sogenannten externen Kosten vergleicht. Also Kosten, die nicht von […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

The EU is working on what is in essence a new Open Source strategy for Europe, and the call for evidence is now open. This is our cue to provide feedback and input to the strategy! If you are involved in the Open Source community in any way, if you benefit (or could benefit) in any way from […]

A few days ago, a client’s data center "vanished" overnight. My monitoring showed that all devices were unreachable. Not even the ISP routers responded, so I assumed a sudden connectivity drop. The strange part? Not even via 4G. I then suspected a power failure, but the UPS should have sent an […]

i do not think anyone should feel obliged to give presents. but i love to give or receive gifts when they just match today i received a late birthday present from a friend and it's just perfect thank you @oskay for your work, is eric on mastodon, too?

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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

To celebrate the first official Digital Independence Day - with some help of other #opensource enthusiasts - we convinced someone from my family: ✅ to install #linux on their Mac computer, ✅ created a #mastodon account for them, ✅ and assisted them in the transition. It worked out! Thank you […]

Happy #DIDay! Every first Sunday of the month, we reclaim our digital freedom by switching to democracy-friendly alternatives. In the past years I gradually secured my digital independence. ✅ I never had WhatsApp and I'm still alive and able to communicate […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

One thing that the public doesn't seem to quite realize about the way that financing works in the tech industry — indeed in all financing, more or less — is that there is an oft-repeated aphorism among VCs, "too much money chasing too few deals". This might seem weird if you are a person who […]

One of the to german or english native speakers] more cryptic signs put up at various locations of [#39c3. I had to use cyrillic OCR and a ukranian to english translation software to make sense of it. Very nice, congrats to whoever did that.

I stumbled upon this nice website by @blinry and Sándor Fekete: https://idea-instructions.com Give it a shot and enjoy the brilliance of their work. I particularly like this one that I attached here: https://idea-instructions.com/public-key/ I hope they do […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

I'm looking for reliable statistics on how much European organizations spend per year on #closedsource #saas. This could be for public organizations, private organizations, or both. Ideally, I would love to see this in relation to spending on #opensource, but this would be a bonus for some […]

Lately I have noticed that when you purchase a ticket you don’t get a static PDF/PNG anymore. Increasingly often, you get a .pkpass file, which is supposed to be opened in wallet apps (like Google Wallet or any 3rd-party). Since I don’t like to share information about the events I attend with […]

Gutachten von Spirit Legal warnt: Der „digitale EU-Omnibus“ der EU-Kommission droht eine uferlose Sonderrechtszone für KI zu schaffen. Art. 88c würde die Logik der DSGVO aushebeln, Datensparsamkeit ins Gegenteil verkehren und Big Tech privilegieren. Verbraucherschutz, Rechte Minderjähriger […]

#fluxcd is _the_ most under-delivering tool (compared to its marketing claims) which i have been "forced" to work with in recent times. today - it made it super hard to spot my own error where i had a string in a yaml instead of a []string - i found out that it had never reported three […]

One thing I wish folks knew better about "Linux" that the annoying evangelists never seem to care to mention. One of the most important differences from other platforms if *how you get your software*. You don't download it from the author/publisher who might be (these days, is) bundling […]

Here's a copy of the filesystem that has been extracted as a .tar file: http://squoze.net/UNIX/v4/

Here's the document release you were waiting for today! The UNIX V4 tape! https://archive.org/details/utah_unix_v4_raw #retrocomputing

The attempt to read the UNIX V4 tape is underway!

CDU und FDP hatten beantragt, dass die Genehmigung für die Walter Lübcke-Statue zurückgenommen werden solle. Gerade hat die BVV Berlin-Mitte diesen Antrag klar abgelehnt: Nur 12 Verordnete stimmten für den CDU-Antrag, 27 stimmten dagegen.

i want to disable all of #copilot on #github not possible now more than ever i want to leave github

wie validiert man ein signiertes pdf eines notars, für das eine #pkcs7 datei vorliegt mit #openssl? ich habe es auf die schnelle nicht hinbekommen bzw bekomme einen padding fehler.

Verbrenner-Ende: Ein mögliches Aus vom Aus, das (fast) keines ist https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Verbrenner-Ende-Ein-moegliches-Aus-vom-Aus-das-fast-keines-ist-11117523.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Gepostet in heise Autos @heise-autos-heiseonline

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@je5perl/115696467286859905 Some good news from Denmark! The government has withdrawn the #vpn proposal after just five days, claiming that the proposal was misunderstood and that banning VPN use was never the intention. In that case, the drafting was exceptionally […]

A completely unhinged post from the head of Norway's oil fund: to hunt down the "leaders" of groups resisting AI implementation in companies and "remove" them archive.ph/r0u2r

"In Finland, tax records are considered public data, and every November, the tax authorities release a dataset to the media containing the incomes earned and taxes paid by Finland’s richest." "At the top spot this year was Mikko ”Miki” Kuusi, founder of food delivery company Wolt and CEO of […]

Continuing the #nationalId debate, here’s the key part of the #digitalId experience in #Poland core mobile application called mObywatel. When I want to log in to any government website, they display a QR code which I scan with the app. What then happens you […] [Original post on agora.echelon.pl]

hey #paypal, it's super trustworthy to learn about the new report that passed your QA

my mastodon feed always has either too few or too many new posts

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@slink/115705971068831153 or: how the "90% of code gets written by #ai" actually works: blow up the code base 10x

and this concludes most of the #llm coding assistant debate https://gricha.dev/blog/the-highest-quality-codebase #ai #claude

Ein AfD-Verbot sei der "sicherste Weg in den Bürgerkrieg". Wenn wir eine Partei verbieten müssen, dann ganz sicherlich die Partei, deren Anhänger so radikal und so gewalttätig sind, dass sie einen Bürgerkrieg anzetteln würden bei einer grundgesetzkonformen Entscheidung des Verfassungsgerichts.

Conversation at our #osxp #paris booth. Customer: “I’m looking for someone from OpenProject.” Me: “Hi, I’m Rosanna from OpenProject. How can I help you?” Customer: “Oh, but I have a technical question.” I’m wondering what made the gentleman hesitant to share his technical question with me… […]

It is really very simple. Putin does not fear NATO (he has lived with it in Turkey for decades and knows that it is a purely defensive alliance), he hates the EU for spreading the idea of democracy and the rule of law (even if imperfectly) Silicon valley hates the EU for attempting to regulate […]

Dann müsste ich vielleicht doch mal austreten … https://troet.cafe/@connyOe/115687958813275358

die nachbarn hatten den müllsammelplatz mal wieder in ein übervolle halde verwandelt, aber @BSR reguliert stabil. DANKE 🧡 BSR, dass ihr hinter uns aufräumt und die stadt vor dem untergang bewahrt! #berlin

Big news: Deutsche Welle has launched DW Access, an Android app that delivers independent news where it's needed most: in regions under information lockdown. Key features: ➡️ No app store needed (share via link, messenger, bluetooth) ➡️ Offline mode ➡️ Built-in VPN protection ➡️ Zero […]

Update on the Tencent crawler situation: Identified the fingerprint (Chrome/126 on Windows NT 6.1, always from AS132203/132591/45090) and deployed a #CrowdSec scenario to auto-ban them for 90 days. Already blocked 100+ IPs within the first hour. They rotate […] [Original post on toot.community]