Probably in a detached HEAD state currently.
I'm living with my wife and kid in Hamburg, Germany. I create Software for a living.
To relax in the evenings, I help on OpenSource projects.
I am part of the team behind https://cakebuild.net/ and also https://spectreconsole.net/
Wer die Frage stellt, was nach einem #AfDVerbot eigentlich passiert, wenn die Anhänger der Partei ausrasten, soll auch die Frage beantworten, was die AfD mit ihren politischen Gegnern macht, wenn sie *nicht* verboten wird und die Macht übernimmt - und warum ihn das weniger interessiert.
via @robert_fietzke
#AfDrausausdenParlamenten #AfDVerbotSofort #AfDVerbotsverfahren
Hacker erpressen die #AWO – IT-Systeme in Gießen lahmgelegt
"Am Sonntag (27. April) sind Hacker in die IT-Systeme der AWO Gießen eingedrungen, haben die Server verschlüsselt und eine #Lösegeldforderung hinterlassen.
#Kindertagesstätten, ein #Pflegeheim, Hilfen im #Haushalt und vieles mehr.
Dank eines funktionierenden #Notfallplan's läuft der Betrieb in den Einrichtungen laut AWO jedoch reibungslos weiter." 👌❤️
#Ransomware
https://www.giessener-allgemeine.de/giessen/die-awo-hacker-erpressen-93712402.html
Wieso ist eine Partei, die der Staat für „gesichert rechtsextrem“ hält und die mit ihrem verfassungsfeindlichen Gedankengut aktuell mehr Stimmen einsammelt als die CDU, noch nicht verboten?
@simon I've been asked to do a vibe coding demo.. If I do one, but then I actually understand the code that comes out, am I doing it wrong? How do I become 100% vibe-focused?
"Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company’s code was written by AI."
It can't be 30% by plain math. Just replacing 30% of existing code with new code takes (many) years, and then we include all produced code. If they ONLY used AI to write all code for the last few years, and they wrote it at a high pace, it could *perhaps* be done.
We all know that AI can't write code that good. But sure "up to 30%" could also mean "2%".
Of all *new* code perhaps? Still feels high.
Microsoft says 30% of their code ist now AI generated.
As someone who has to use (and maintain) an Office 365 tenant (and all the Microsoft client software) I believe them 100%. This is not a recommendation.
A while ago I said "the guy with the funny helmet carrying my DNS request must have tripped", when diagnosing some issue and I got the weirdest blank looks from my colleagues.
Turns out none of my colleagues grew up with German television, so nobody knew how the internet actually works.
"Im Berliner Bezirk Neukölln wird ein Bericht zum Rechtsextremismus zurückgezogen – wohl aus Angst vor CDU und AfD. Dann veröffentlicht ihn eben die taz."
Rechtsextremismus-Bericht in Neukölln: Antifaschismus, aber bitte neutral | taz.de
https://taz.de/Rechtsextremismus-Bericht-in-Neukoelln/!6085022/
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a number of incorrect statements about autistic people recently, one of which was that "they'll never write a poem."
Bradley J. Irish, an autistic professor of English, writes for @TheConversationUS about the remarkable corpus of poetry written by autistic people, from modern poets like David Miedzianik and Adam Wolfond, to people from the past who may have been neurodivergent or autistic. Neurodivergent poet and educator Chris Martin describes working with autistic students: “Time and again, I have watched my students … grasp the hand of poetry and begin dancing like they’ve been doing it their whole lives.”
#Poetry #Culture #Literature #Writing #Autism #Neurodivergence
#Forbes just published a rare photo of what password spraying attack looks like 😈
The totally decentralised #BlueSky was down. Again. I can tell you about that because here in the #fediverse we actually ARE decentralised. It’s that simple :)
Habe gestern den Text zur Idee der #KonkordanzRegierung von @BlumeEvolution gelesen und denke seither darüber nach:
Muss das noch sortieren, habe aber erste Gedanken dazu und freue mich über Austausch. Aber bitte lest den Text vorher, weil sonst diese blöden Social-Media-Diskussionen entstehen, die niemanden weiter bringen.
Meine Gedanken:
1) Als erstes fiel mir auf, wie wohl es meinem Gemüt tut, endlich wieder eine Variante im Kopf zu haben, mit der es tatsächlich eine Veränderung zum Positiven geben könnte. Hoffnungslosigkeit und fehlende Selbstwirksamkeit sind Gift für die Demokratie und allein deshalb find ich es wert, dem Vorschlag eine Chance zu geben.
(1/x)
Hey America, Germany here.
Do you know what kind of police does arrest judges?
The Gestapo.
That's where you're at now.
On the Fediverse, if one server goes down the others carry on working. Posts involving a server that is down are automatically put in a queue and delivered when the server goes back up.
This is one of the strengths of the Fedi, parts of it may break but the network as a whole doesn't because it's spread out on thousands of different servers. Its eggs aren't all in one basket.
This is in contrast to centralised services like Facebook, Twitter/X, BlueSky etc where the whole network can go down.
Trump verhandelt Mega-Deal: Räuber darf Beute behalten, wenn er ab jetzt mit dem Rauben aufhört https://www.der-postillon.com/2025/04/mega-deal-trump.html
With bluesky (mostly) going down for a few hours today, I got to wondering about how decentralized the fediverse really is in terms of where its servers are hosted. I grabbed a server list from fedidb, with network information coming from ipinfo.io .
[EDIT: I did a better analysis on a dataset of 10x as many servers, see https://discuss.systems/@ricci/114400324446169152 ]
These stats are by the number of *servers* not the number of *users* (maybe I'll run those stats later).
fedidb currently tracks 2,650 servers of various types (Mastodon, pixelfed, lemmy, misskey, peertube, etc)
The fediverse is most vulnerable to disruptions at CloudFlare: 24% of Fediverse servers are behind it. Also note that this means that I don't have real data on where this 24% are located or hosted, since CloudFlare obscures this by design.
Beyond CloudFlare, the fediverse is not too concentrated on any one network. The most popular host, Hertzner, only hosts 14% of fediverse servers, and it falls off fast from there.
Here are the top networks where fediverse servers are hosted:
504 Cloudflare, Inc.
356 Hetzner Online GmbH
130 DigitalOcean, LLC
114 OVH SAS
56 netcup GmbH
55 Amazon.com, Inc.
55 Akamai Connected Cloud
36 Contabo GmbH
33 SAKURA Internet Inc.
32 The Constant Company, LLC
31 Xserver Inc.
28 SCALEWAY S.A.S.
24 Google LLC
23 Oracle Corporation
16 GMO Internet Group, Inc.
14 IONOS SE
14 FranTech Solutions
11 Hostinger International Limited
10 Nubes, LLC
Half of fediverse servers are on networks that host 50 or fewer servers - that's pretty good for resiliency.
There is even more diversity when it comes to BGP prefixes, which is good for resiliency: for example, the cloud providers that have multiple availability zones will generally have them on different prefixes, so this gets closer to giving us a picture of the specific bits of infrastructure the fediverse relies on.
The top BGP prefixes:
55 104.21.48.0/20
50 104.21.16.0/20
48 104.21.64.0/20
41 104.21.32.0/20
41 104.21.0.0/20
38 104.21.80.0/20
32 172.67.128.0/20
31 172.67.144.0/20
28 172.67.208.0/20
28 162.43.0.0/17
27 104.26.0.0/20
26 172.67.192.0/20
26 172.67.176.0/20
23 172.67.160.0/20
19 116.203.0.0/16
17 172.67.64.0/20
17 159.69.0.0/16
16 65.109.0.0/16
14 88.99.0.0/16
14 49.13.0.0/16
13 78.46.0.0/15
13 167.235.0.0/16
13 138.201.0.0/16
11 95.217.0.0/16
11 95.216.0.0/16
11 49.12.0.0/16
11 135.181.0.0/16
10 37.27.0.0/16
10 157.90.0.0/16
75% of fediverse servers are behind BGP prefixes that host 10 or fewer servers, meaning that the fediverse is *very* resilient to large network outages.
Top countries where fediverse servers are hosted:
871 United States
439 Germany
156 France
148 Japan
75 Finland
57 Canada
49 Netherlands
38 United Kingdom
26 Switzerland
26 South Korea
21 Spain
19 Sweden
18 Austria
17 Australia
15 Russia
12 Czech Republic
10 Singapore
10 Italy
And finally, a map of the locations of fediverse servers:
https://ipinfo.io/tools/map/91960023-e8c6-4bee-9b07-721f2c8febab
I love it when employers install creepware #surveillance nonsense because they have zero respect for their employees, and end up publishing 21 million internal screenshots to the web instead, leaking their most sensitive information.
Very nice, no issues.
#cybersecurity #infosec #assholeBoss
“Employee monitoring app leaks 21 million screenshots in real time”
https://cybernews.com/security/employee-monitoring-app-leaks-millions-screenshots/
@lemeteore Usually, open-source maintainers are good developers. They are, however, not good at and probably not interested in community cat herding. I am not surprised, to see some of them looking for mitigations to being overwhelmed.
Are there people out there loving the interaction and are able to distill community chatter in something a developer can act upon? If so, step up and offer your services to an open-source project out there.
And a call to maintainers. It is OK to not like or be good at community management. Put the word out and look out for people who can help you in that regard.
#opensource #sustainability #burnout #community #communitymanagement
This is the only place I can post this where someone might actually get it.
