@bert_hubert I think this can use some extra attention: The .be registry wants to leave AWS and has created an RFP with lots of details of what they need. I think this could be the first sheep over the dam. I hope you can bring extra attention to this and a precedent can be created.
https://www.dnsbelgium.be/en/news/dns-belgium-leaves-aws

Librarians get it ...

@cloudmaker97 Ich bin dieses Jahr nicht auf dem Congress, aber grundsätzlich interessiert. #Uelzen ist für mich jedoch nicht gut zu erreichen, da ich am östlichen Rande des #Wendland zuhause und auf den ÖPNV angewiesen bin. (Habe dort bisher noch nichts mit #CCC-Bezug gefunden. Wäre aber schön.)

Falls auch ein virtueller Stammtisch in Frage kommt, bin ich dafür zu haben. Oder auch ein persönliches Treffen, wenn ich wieder mal auf der Durchreise durch Uelzen bin. (Was recht regelmäßig vorkommt.)

Sehr wichtiges Video eines Russen darüber, wie Propaganda in Wirklichkeit funktioniert. Hört euch mal die 10 Minuten an (englisch) und dann lauscht aufmerksam in euch hinein. Wir sind mitten drin.
https://youtu.be/BY9uuxC_YAQ?si=Q7v-696aXwgaEL2o

Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI

https://skyview.social/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile%2Frobpike.io%2Fpost%2F3matwg6w3ic2s&viewtype=tree

Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out

https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/24/package-managers-keep-using-git-as-a-database.html

#database

As major universities start to add AI “learning” to their curriculum, it’s worth saying that the pointless loop of students using AI to write papers that professors use AI to grade is the ultimate endpoint of treating education as a product rather than a process.

I want to be able to do this SO BADLY.

Laughed right out loud.

#DIY #WoodWorking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMYWVKd0ar0

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are

1. Human communication
2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

Unix - BSD developers : this code should run and be maintained as long as computers exist.

Linux - GNU dev : this code should run and be maintained as long as someone is willing to do the work

Consultant: this code should run until the end of my contract.

Enterprise grade B2B software : this code should run till the end of the demonstration to that big customer.

Vibe coding : You are perfectly right. The code doesn’t run. Try this one. You are right, it deleted your hard disk, I’m sorry.

@nileane German engineering in a nutshell. No vision, no talk of disruption, just "I wanted to"

I feel seen

This German meme was just brought to my attention and I feel obligated to reshare it here

Frohe Weihnachten

When you understand that under capitalism a forest has no 'value' until you cut it down, you begin to grasp the root of the ecological crisis we're in.

A forest isn’t simply a collection of trees, it’s a living, breathing community that protects, supports and heals.🌳💚🌍

@hardtech I think there is a middle ground, at least there was for me: I've been using Guix as my main package manager on my beloved Debian. I did that mostly to get (back) into Emacs, and use it for stable and recent versions across multiple machines. Guix has a learning curve, but for packages it is manageable, and one can also go full distribution/OS later.

It seems like you want to learn a lot, which I applaud! Extending from a known environment might be an option for you too, maybe?

#StarTrek

Innerhalb weniger Tage kündigen Sparkasse Göttingen und GLS-Bank alle Konten der Rote Hilfe e.V. Der Grund: US-Druck über SWIFT. Auch DKP, ABC und weitere linke Organisationen sind betroffen. Das ist kein Einzelfall. Das ist politisch. Jetzt ist Solidarität gefragt. https://rote-hilfe.de/meldungen/kontokuendigung-wegen-antifa-banken-vollstrecken-us-politik-deutschland

Spoke to a former colleague recently. Their employer monitors employee AI use and wants to see number go up.

Since the obligatory AI nannying, multiple product teams have fallen apart and they’ve stopped delivering new features of value while users are leaving.

A whole layer of middle management are destroying good products to make a Potemkin village of fake automation to justify their bosses buying crap enterprise software. It’s as if the entire industry had their heads kicked in by a donkey.

Last night the 11yo broke down the Google Slides middle school Chatroom for me:

1. At first they used a Google doc but the infinite scroll was too chaotic
2. In the slide deck each new slide is one “post”—some all text, some images, some both—
3. They use slides’ comments feature to “reply” to each other’s “posts”
4. This allows participants to easily flip between posts using the slide thumbnail navigation, so they can find the conversations they care about easily
5. He owns the file & if anyone spams it, deletes other people’s posts, or gets nasty, he can revert the file to its previous save state & remove the spammer’s access
6. He did share the file with me on purpose, I think because he was proud & wanted me to see what he’d made

Essentially they’ve created a chatroom with moderation in Google Slides, so they can get around the school’s ban on platforms like Discord. It’s kind of brilliant

Beate Küpper ist Co-Autorin der Mitte-Studie & viel mehr Menschen sollten lesen, was sie zum Thema Umgang mit der AfD zu sagen hat.