A software engineer and cybersecurity enthusiast passionate about travel, AI, LLMs, and occasional photography
Denmark’s Ministry of Digital Government is phasing out its use of Microsoft Office.. to switch to open source alternatives like LibreOffice instead.
Why? Because relying too heavily on a US tech giant for your nation’s digital infrastructure is starting to feel a bit... well, risky.
Denmark's relationship with the US is under strain, following Donald Trump's clearly stated ambition to seize control of Greenland, and recent reports of increased spying by the States on Greenland and Denmark.
Uh, uh, Bsky is sooo "decentralized" 😆
Don't make me laugh
If it's truly self-hosted, you could run a working instance on an offline sub net without use of the internet 🤷
Marty Haught talking about Sustained Open Source, running RubyGems and @rubycentral at @balticruby!
"A lot of #HackerOne notifications that we're getting, are #AI generated garbage" says the director of #OpenSource @mghaught from @rubygems / @rubycentral at @balticruby.
#balticruby2025 #BalticRuby #rubygems #ruby #rubylang #artificialintelligence #riga #foss #opensourcesoftware #LLM #LLMs #security
From George Orwell's 1984, published OTD, 8 June 1949 -
"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.
Power is not a means; it is an end.
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
To die hating them, that was freedom.
War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength.”
Are we there yet?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four
#Politics
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This one weird Ruby trick will save you from having to learn AWK (doctors hate him!)
https://willhbr.net/2025/06/08/using-ruby-in-shell-pipelines/
Here’s Bill Atkinson (and rest of team) answering questions right after the Macintosh was debuted at the Boston Computer Society in 1984: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tQ5XwvjPmA starting at 28:25 - he demos MacPaint and more. May his memory be a blessing!
Your outie finds happiness in small moments.
I hate that Facebook and Elon ruined the terms “meta” and “X” in casual (text) conversation.
Hello World! Thank you so much to all of the wonderful folks that have been volunteering their time and expertise to the project.
And we just got our first donation! Thank you so so so so much to @paractmol for our first donation!
We're still working on 501(c)3, but hopefully it'll be tax deductible soon! That never matter to me when I donated, but we want to make sure it does to folks that are interested in that.:-D
Thank you once again to @jerry for joining me on Episode 22 of Fireside Fedi. It was enlightening and a wonderful discussion on his experiences, but also what it takes to run so many different fediverse platforms.
I apologize for the delay getting this up, but it was family time and I can't miss out on that. :-)
As usual the VOD might still be transcoding, so please wait a bit after this post if you'd like to watch the VOD.
#Peertube #VOD - https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/1yNa4rLzzLXnuRoX7Rny3y
#Castopod #Fedicast - https://audio.firesidefedi.live/@firesidefedi/episodes/jerry-bell-infosecexchange-fediaio-many-others-livestream-2025-06-03
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@firesidefedi @jerry Nice discussion, thanks for sharing!
10 days to go! 🎉
Baltic Ruby isn’t a typical conference — it’s Ruby talks, good vibes, and beanbags.
Grab a drink, meet devs you admire, and feel part of the community again.
https://balticruby.org/agenda?utm_source=must&utm_medium=post
Democratie en rechtsstaat waren nauwelijks een thema bij de Poolse presidentsverkiezingen, die beslissend waren voor democratie en rechtsstaat. Het is de paradox van een samenleving die gewend raakt aan autocratische politici. https://www.groene.nl/artikel/dat-pilsje-met-de-populist
@murb Oh, if not some heroine, it is probably worse. Drugs might bring hallucinations and bad trips, but in comparison to AI, it won't try to convince you that it's a fact. I can imagine a monopoly of Claude and ChatGPT injecting any controlled output just to spread their agenda. If people use it and trust it without any verification, then oh well. It’s a great platform for propaganda, solution to write backdoors.🚪
Natalie Rak, also known as Rak, is a Poland based street artist #WomensArt
Searching for resources in Richmond, Virginia. An elderly man, nearly 80 years old, has been evicted after his rent was increased. His landlord has discarded his belongings. Most organizations that claim they can help have said they cannot assist him. One even mentioned they wouldn't help until he's been homeless for a year. Does anyone have advice or contacts?
I'm really excited about auroras tonight!! I'll be watching this website to see where they are visible: https://www.aurorasaurus.org/
Currently, lots of people in northern-tier US states and southern UK reporting they can't see auroras. But maybe it'll get better?
And maybe, just maybe, I'll manage to stay awake until it's dark.
