Saying mooo in a modern way.
Happy Summer Solstice 🌞
Below are images of Earth taken 2 days ago (June 19, 2025) and on Dec 21, 2024 during the last Winter Solstice, from the direction of the Sun.
The tilt of earth's axis at these two extreme points can be seen clearly.
These images were taken by the NASA DSCOVR satellite. DSCOVR is located 1.5 million km away at the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point.
#Via Trish Greenhalgh
@trishgreenhalgh
June 19, 2025, 12:22 PM
"Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on."
Har du altid drømt om at have SUPER HURTIGT INTERNET MIDT UDE I EN SKOV? 🌲 🌲 Og savner du et sted til at nørde helt igennem om IT-sikkerhed, kode, open source og de nyeste (og/eller mest obskure) programmeringssprog? Så er BornHack nok noget for dig!
Til sommer mødes flere hundrede glade hackere, i en uge, i en skov på Fyn - for lære af hinanden, om alt fra at dirke låse op til, hvad der rører sig på det IT-politiske plan. Her er Capture-the-Flag 🚩, Hacker-Jeopardy 🤖, og en lysende bar med Mate, øl og alt hvad hjertet ellers kan begære.
Semaphor har haft en camp på BornHack de sidste mange år, og vi plejer at beskrive det som en skøn og umage blanding af festival, IT-konference og lejrtur. Her bliver vi inspireret af ligesindede hackere og vi får inputs til de nyeste udviklinger indenfor vores felt. Og der er også plads til dig!
TILMELDING: Alle er velkomne og kan tilmelde sig her: https://www.bornhack.dk/bornhack-2025/ – både hackers, makers, it-politik interesserede, journalister og politikere, men det er nu nok sjovest hvis du har leget lidt med computere, IT-politik og privatliv, programmering, teknik, eller lignende før.
HVORNÅR? BornHack finder i år sted fra d. 16. til 23. juli.
PS. Frygt ikke, hvis du ikke kender nogen andre som tager afsted – folk er utroligt søde, og vi fra Semaphor vil meget gerne drikke det første glas med dig i baren 🤗
I always find this chart by Hannah Ritchie -- of Our World In Data -- deeply informative of how disjointed is our sense of personal risk
@JessTheUnstill an options is to use system containers (like lxc and jails) instead of docker...
@JessTheUnstill we ditched 30 years of experience of how to patch and update packages in order to get containers.
Seems like a mistake.
#whatsup #newsoftheworld
Heavy-Metal band EXELERATE drop new video and single "The Madness" !
https://www.roughtimes.net/news/heavy-metal-band-exelerate-drop-new-video-and-single-the-madness
#oldschoolmetal #heavymetal #powermetal
✨ Great news friends ✨
My buddy Holger and I just won the 1,000,000 HAX prize at the #BornHack 2025 kick-off event, "who wants to be a hacker millionaire".
Our new economic reality still depends upon your help: the prize is redeemable at the non-existent BornHack 2015 event. We know who we want to donate the prize to (but we also need some vacation).
If you know anybody with a time machine please poke Holger or me via a contemporary communication protocol 🚀
In a #bornhack talk from last year, #thecreepyline documentary was mentioned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v6KBGr5IzY
I think is was this talk by Cyber Jakob
https://bornhack.dk/bornhack-2024/program/free-your-self-from-big-tech-with-open-source/
I have just watched it. I think most of you will like it 🙂
It is about #google, #facebook, #democracy and #algorithms
I am reading up on #sustainability
We have three pillars for that: economic, social and environmental.
I am getting the same vibes for the social and environmental part that I get for data protection in general.
A company will of course say that it is of upmost importance to them, and we end up in some "trust me" scenario.
And often, history show us that they are not trustworthy.
So which kind of organisation is good for sustainability?
Suggestions and links are most welcome.
To all the people upset about #letsencrypt removing TLS Client Auth support from certificates, yes it sucks, but please direct your anger at Google who initiated this change. LetsEncrypt cannot exist if the biggest browser doesn't accept their certificates. Yell at Google, Not LE please.
Remember the kiwicon 2009 poster about "hackers don't give a shit"?
I like it, so I found it online in an MIT version - so we can totally use it 🙂
It should probably by CC0, but the repo includes code also.
Introducing oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app. This torsocks alternative uses namespaces to isolate Linux applications over the Tor network and eliminate data leaks.
https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-oniux-tor-isolation-using-linux-namespaces/
Prompted by a discussion about learning styles and diagnoses.
Do people like to work hard up to a deadline, as in it is a preference, not by necessity/bad planning?
I am not asking what you actually do, just what your would do if you had the choice.
Pet peeve: People complaining about the way I maintain my open source projects under MIT license (particularly my decision to use stale bot, since I don't like seeing literal thousands of open issues across my repos).
Just fork it! No skin off my back. https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/just-say-no
DIGITAL SUVERÆNITET
I går var Tobias inviteret til at give sine perspektiver til Folketingets digitaliserings- og IT-udvalg ang. hvordan vi i Danmark får vores digitale suverænitet tilbage. Og vi gik derfra med stor optimisme: Schleswig Holsteins Dirk Schrödter har implementeret open source løsninger for hele administrationen i en hel delstat i Tyskland – han fremhævede at politikerne ikke må forfalde til at se sig selv som forbrugere, men i stedet tage deres rolle alvorligt - de kan forme fremtiden og fremtidens løsninger.
Charlotte Storm Gregersen og Jens Kjellerup viste kommunernes gode eksempler – og at der ikke er brug for flere skåltaler men reelle satsninger og investeringer.
Særligt var det spændende at høre digitaliseringsminister Caroline Stage Olsen udmelding om hun havde en ”klar ambition” om at fremlægge en plan/strategi for kort, mellem-lang og lang sigt, et svar der blev hjulpet på vej af udvalgets formand Lisbeth Bech-Nielsen.
Vi har brug for at politikerne sætter en retning der sikrer den digitale suverænitet – så skal udbuddet, og konkurrencen, nok følge trop!
Semaphor havde fire anbefalinger med til til udvalget:
1️⃣ kræv at løsninger til det offentlige er open source (public money, public code)
2️⃣ kræv at det leverede kan integreres til mere end 1 leverandør – brug åbne standarder
3️⃣ Styrk undervisningen på IT-uddannelserne i teknologier som fremmer vores suverænitet- i stedet for det modsatte. I dag lærer man om programmeringssprog som passer i en microsoft-sammenhæng.
4️⃣ Søg europæiske samarbejder, f.eks. via EDIC
Du kan se Tobias’ tale herunder og hele høringen kan ses her:
https://www.ft.dk/aktuelt/webtv/video/20241/diu/tv.9670.aspx?as=1
What do you use for managing secrets in your environment?
I am looking for a centralized way to distribute db connection strings and credentials, public keys, API keys and such in a small'ish environment.
The goal is to have as few secrets on the client machines as possible, and have easy rotation of certain share passwords.
#Hashicorp #vault, #bitwarden secrets manager seem to fit. I would like to hear of your experiences.
Der er #v2security konference i københavn i næste uge. Jeg overvejer at tage derhen.
Har I været der?
Er det en god konference med godt indhold?
Eller er det mest for virksomheder som vil fortælle om deres egne ting?
