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Last Notes npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Dear friends from #Africa. I have been reading https://www.thecontinent.org/ for quite a while now and to me it feels like a reliable source of news by people from Africa and not news by people reporting *about* Africa from a remote western view. Would you agree or am I missing out on better news sources? npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer So. The democrats. Will they unite behind Kamala Harris? Will a surprise contender show up? Drama. But it doesn't really matter, IMHO. It's going to be "Trump or a future" anyway and the pressure will move towards how crazy the republicans are to sell their soul to the grifter and orange felon that made the GOP a family business (cue Marlon Brando in the Godfather). Wonderful drama, very lucrative clickbait. 2/n npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer I had a few hours to ponder the US situation. I am far more optimistic now than I was last week. As European citizen it took me a bit to understand that politics in the US isn't about politics but about drama, a climax and recovery, rinse and repeat. The drama is unfolding now and (I guess) until October-ish. The climax will be in November. So I focused on the (good and bad) spin doctors on all sides and clickbait needs of the media. The cards are now on the table. 1/n npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer After I sorted the apps on my phone by color, I am now creating playlists based on song length. So a playlist called 1-3 (min), 3-6 (min), 6-10, 10-18 and 18+ :) npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Instead of publishing poll numbers, it is all about how many donations came in. US democracy is still fundamentally broken, IMHO. npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer FTR — I have decided to wait for #Crowdstrike publishing a post-mortem and also the reports by various national/suprantional IT security authorities. Root cause seems to have been a classic NULL pointer #Oopsie that sailed through CI/CD and testing unnoticed. That's enough for me ATM. A lot of speculation and conspiracy theories in my timeline that I will simply ignore. Let's have a fun weekend! npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Going offline for a while. The root cause of the #Crowdstrike issue has been identified and a solution is being rolled out. Will be a horrible weekend for many Windows admins as automated rollout of fixes isn't always possible. You have my sympathies, fellow nerds! My timeline starts filling up with the typical "I know everything better, here's what must be done now" stuff and I am honestly not interested. Try to have a relaxing weekend! npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer It's like a slow motion train wreck. As the sun rises and business days start all over the world, the #Crowdstrike issue hits more and more countries and markets. South Africa, UK, Europe. This will truly be a Black Friday for many. (added the manual workaround in case you didn't already see it) https://cdn.masto.host/socialwildeboernet/media_attachments/files/112/812/199/234/361/186/original/ac8a3dc49e68377a.png npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer The impact of this #Crowdstrike #oopsie is severe. Affected machines can't just reboot, it needs manual intervention ATM, which is next to impossible on many affected systems. And as if things couldn't get worse, there's also the aftermath of an #Azure outage that puts 365 in a degraded state. Double Whammy on a Friday. https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/19/microsoft_365_azure_outage_central_us/ npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Platforms die, open standards survive and evolve. I smell a revival of The Web the way it should be. Decentralised. Open. Fun. The Internet Of People. Without trackers, respecting privacy and data ownership. #Facebook #Twitter #X #TikTok #Instagram #Youtube npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Dear companies, when you change your T&Cs (Terms & Conditions) and they always end up with me losing rights and influence while you extend your reach — can we agree that you put "Downgrade" instead of "Update" in the subject of your mail that informs me of your single-sided decisions that I cannot oppose to anyway? Also, adding a `diff -h` output of the changes would be nice. #kthxbai npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Data doesn't get "stolen". Data gets copied because someone failed to secure access to that data. The "stolen" narrative tries to shift the blame in subtle ways, IMHO. #JustSayin npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer You have to scroll past 20+ articles on “Biden no good, should be ousted” on the NYT page to finally see one single mention of the convicted orange felon. https://cdn.masto.host/socialwildeboernet/media_attachments/files/112/769/682/446/021/620/original/9b288cd060208cb5.jpeg npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Every morning when I wake up and I go to my kitchen to fill a glass with fresh tap water to drink, I silently whisper "thank you" because that is such a privilege. We western people take so many things for granted that are the result of centuries of progress. #justsayin npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Imagine Siegfried and Roy made a show that costs 150 billion US$ per night and even with a full house and live streaming to pay TV every night they can only achieve 3 billion US$ of revenue whenever they perform. That's (centralised) #GenAI (generative AI) right now. Not sustainable, IMHO. The white tiger is cute, though :) https://cdn.masto.host/socialwildeboernet/media_attachments/files/112/752/196/841/239/486/original/04c0583a47246204.webp npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer And it seems to become reality. Left Nouveau Front Populaire WINS second round. Far-right fell down to #3. Wow. MERCI! npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer When one of the first actions of the new EU presidency is for Orban to fly to Moscow to receive new instructions from Putin — isn't that finally enough for the EU to take some decisive action or will they just look away while Putin's destabilisation program runs its course? npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Extreme vendor lock-in is when the @npub19ly…y4lk goes to court against the European Data Protection Supervisor to keep on using Microsoft products ;) #SarcasmButOnlyHalf https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=OJ:C_202403925 npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer If you run RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) 6, 7 or 8 you are are NOT affected by the new vulnerability in the #OpenSSH daemon known as CVE-2024-6387. If you run RHEL 9 you should set LoginGraceTime 0 in /etc/ssh/sshd_config until a fix is released. More details at https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6387 #RedHat #RHEL #Security npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer So if Biden orders the secret service to bring Donald Trump to Guantanamo bay for extended interrogation for, say, 6 months and claims immunity for his decision based on todays SCOTUS decision? npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Little observation: this evening is another Germany v $SomeCountry game as part of the European championship and the fans in my beer garden are exclusively wearing the white shirts from (past) championships. I saw no-one with the purple-ish official current shirt. I asked 5 guys (between 20-40 years) why and the answer was "It looks gay, I don't like" and I think we still have a long way to go :( https://cdn.masto.host/socialwildeboernet/media_attachments/files/112/701/263/254/097/229/original/2760bafc21908544.webp npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer So einen Schutz vor Demonstranten mit Großaufgebot der Polizei wie es die #noAfD in #Essen grad bekommt, hätten die Grünen auch gern bekommen. npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer I really, deeply disapprove of these clickbait copy/paste posters that purposely remove any credits, context or possibility for me to dive deeper into something interesting. I will block and report them from now on. And I humbly suggest that you do not boost these posts. npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer @npub198t…hasj I don't archive. Chats should be ephemeral. Most of my chats/groups are set to autodelete messages after a week. npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Decentralisation does NOT mean the whole #Fediverse should block #threads. Decentralisation means that every instance (and user) decides for themselves with whom to exchange communication. While this might look like chaos and a non-deterministic way of sharing information, it reflects the true nature of decentralisation. If you think it should be a binary decision of The Fediverse to not talk to Threads, you are still in the centralised mindset ... npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Engineers at Apple: "Sorry, y'all, but this "AI" stuff just isn't ready for primetime. Can we do a slow rollout, if at all?" Product Management at Apple: "That would look really bad. But maybe we can blame someone else?" Marketing at Apple: "Hold my beer!" https://cdn.masto.host/socialwildeboernet/media_attachments/files/112/659/056/989/707/679/original/d6dc2eca030abcf4.png npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer @npub15zu…s7lx “paid shill” sounds more fitting, IMHO. npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Dear EU, what we *really* need, IMHO, is a standardised connector for charging e-bikes (electric bicycles). Charging points for e-bikes could become a normal thing once we have that standard connector. Solar panels as roof for bike stands that can charge e-bikes for free. Etc. It's a simple and quick win! npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Dear (EU) politicians. Please stop saying "We want to protect the children" when you really want to outlaw or circumvent end-to-end encryption. #kthxbai #chatcontrol npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Yes, as I predicted yesterday, the #chatcontrol vote was removed from today’s council agenda. Good! But it doesn’t mean it’s over. Quite the opposite. It could come back under Hungarian presidency (IMHO rather unlikely). There will be negotiations in the background between council and commission on how to save or modify the current common position. This WILL come back. That’s for sure. Be ready to stand up again. And again. npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer #Germany announces to vote NO in the council on the *current* #chatcontrol proposal, should it come to a vote tomorrow. I guess that the vote will be removed from the agenda, to avoid bad optics. But it’ll also come back soon enough, with some minor changes. That’s what my experience with Brussels has taught me. npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer No #CyberResiliency without secure communication. It really is that simple. A vote for #Chatcontrol is a vote against Cyber Resiliency, dear EU. npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer #Chatcontrol mandate is listed as *possible* item for tomorrow’s council meeting, as the very last thing. Could end up being postponed. If we all call on our politicians to do exactly that today, that seems quite possible. https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-11316-2024-INIT/en/pdf https://cdn.masto.host/socialwildeboernet/media_attachments/files/112/642/057/318/278/799/original/8ee44320b759f935.jpeg npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Inspiured by Casey Neistat, who explained this idea and the underlying optimism that people are good back in 2013 in this clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uan9DWR2n0Q npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Some libraries are already opening #OpenSeeds collections, where you can “lend” seeds to grow vegetables and flowers that are not F1-hybrids (genetically crippled seeds that you can’t propagate)with the expectation to return dried seeds after the harvest. With #ClimateChange and more decentralisation this could become really important. As an #OpenSource Evangelist I like! npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer I don’t know why this is so hard to understand. 2014 Russia invaded and occupied Crimea and some folks told us to let them have it so there will be peace. A few years later they invade again and now these same folks (and even more, because now it suddenly IS a war) say the same thing. “Let Russia have it so we can have peace”. Russia wants all of Ukraine and then even more. Why do so many people not understand this? npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer I had a longer thread on this topic a while ago and wanted to turn it into a blog post. But I am happy to see real experts weighing in. npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Adding up to 360 metric tons of aluminium oxide per year to the atmosphere due to disposing of mega-constellation (Starlink etc) satellites might create ozone depletion amongst other as of yet unknown effects. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GL109280 https://cdn.masto.host/socialwildeboernet/media_attachments/files/112/609/529/299/334/444/original/2801bb99bdc79f6a.jpeg npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer The party that is working on plans to kick people like me out of Germany is the second biggest party one the European Parliament election. #noAfD npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Hallo Mitbürger. Perso oder Reisepass einstecken und in den nächsten 3 Stunden noch schnell #GegenRechts und #FürEuropa wählen gehen. Dieses Mal schon ab 16 Jahren. Just do it! npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer The problem isn't #Trump still being a candidate. The problem is that the USA limits the rights of convicted felons in many ways but leaves a gaping hole when it comes to being a presidential candidate. IMHO. npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Windows ME (Malware Edition) #MicrosoftRecall npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer I am not a conservative person, not even remotely. But I do respect the judiciary system. It is far from perfect and it makes a lot of wrong decisions. But not in the #Trump case. This is why I find it so hard to believe that Trump is still a candidate and not sent to the shame corner. And I find it even harder to believe that people are still planning to vote for him. npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Outside of Munich the situation is far worse. Dam broke near Augsburg, people are being evacuated. The prison in Memmingen also had to be evacuated. Water levels in rivers are still rising, peak expected Sunday. And 26 climbers are stuck in heavy snow while trying to climb the Zugspitze. npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer It started raining on Thursday (18.1 mm), Friday continued with intermittent rain (also 18.1mm) and in the evening it intensified and today, Saturday, at 13:55 we are at 51.8 mm and it hasn't stopped raining yet. Parts of Munich are getting flooded already. npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Measurements from the rain gauge on my balcony, here in #Munich. Sum in mm of rain per week. And it will keep on raining today and tomorrow. https://cdn.masto.host/socialwildeboernet/media_attachments/files/112/540/875/730/113/295/original/5dc3d0944d69dcd7.png npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer The NY case against #Trump was often described by the media as the “runt of the litter” compared to the other 3 cases. Well. It’s the only case with a conviction now. And the decision by the jury leaves zero doubt. Guilty on *all* charges. I tip my hat to the prosecutors for building a solid case and seeing it through. I tip my hat to Stormy Daniels for taking the stand and refusing to be intimidated. To Michael Cohen. And to the judge for staying laser focused on keeping the schedule. npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Maybe #AMZN #Amazon as the big supporter of #OpenSource they always claim to be could donate traffic to the #Fedora project in a better way? By putting up some mirrors of their own? It would be greatly appreciated! #JustSayin https://www.phoronix.com/news/AWS-Cloud-Breaks-Fedora-Mirrors npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Wow: "[Israel] deployed its intelligence agencies to surveil, hack, pressure, smear and allegedly threaten senior ICC staff in an effort to derail the court’s inquiries." Investigation by The Guardian and the Israeli-based magazines +972 and Local Call https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/28/spying-hacking-intimidation-israel-war-icc-exposed npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer One of the first official acts of the new far-right coalition in the Netherlands: raise sales tax on books, concert and theater tickets from 9% to 21%. Straight from the tyrants manual. https://nltimes.nl/2024/05/16/dutch-sales-tax-books-concerts-theater-tickets-will-rise-9-21-percent npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Völlig unerwartet gibt es sofort ein Statement vom Universalgenie der CDU, Linnemann, der gleich mal Manipulation und kriminelle Verschwörungen wittert!1!! https://mastodon.social/@bkastl/112501606250907013 Weshalb Springer gleich nochmal ne neue Umfrage startet, nachdem die erste auch nicht ganz das Ergebnis lieferte, was man braucht. https://procial.tchncs.de/notes/9tppzot6rv0hjd6l npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Mit Microsoft CoPilot Recall erübrigt sich ja auch die ganze Diskussion um #Chatkontrolle. Es wird einfach zum Feature des Betriebssystems. #Sarcasm npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Microsoft, Amazon, Google and others will soon announce a new #NoAI add-on for only $39/year that promisses to keep your private data, well, private. And it will have this annoying bug where your data still gets fed into whatever AI model du jour. #SarcasmButOnlyHalf npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer With the ever sinking prices of solar panels, you can put them everywhere you need a vertical separation. Solar panels as fences. As cover for balconies. As walls for your shed. Just do it. Don't care too much about efficiency. Take every kWh as donation to your personal grid. And should you produce more than you need, who cares. You are already at net zero. For 20+ years. Enjoy it. npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Norway, Spain and Ireland will soon be added to the UN document A/78/846 [1] that contains all UN members that formally recognise the State of Palestine. ATM the document is also missing Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and The Bahamas, since the last update was 2020-04-09 and their letters arrived after that date. After the next update the list will have 146 entries of the 193 member states. [1] https://undocs.org/en/A/78/846 npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer When you have enough money, fines become simple expenses, not punishment. This is valid for rich people and big companies alike. Fines will never stop them from ignoring rules up to violating laws. npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer The ICC prosecutor showed diplomatic strategy by announcing his request for arrest warrants against Hamas leaders and Israeli politicians at the same time. The reactions are predictable. But by combining it this way, the message is clear. One injustice, no matter how evil, does not justify to commit another. npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Let’s continue to build the #InternetOfPeople here with #ActivityPub and leave the #InternetOfBrandsAndAds to be consumed by “AI” and #SurveillanceCapitalism npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer @npub15zu…s7lx I'd definitely prefer Havana over Baku ;) npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer @npub15zu…s7lx Reminds me of the various conferences organised by Cuba in the 1960/70ss to bring revolutionaries from all over the world together :) npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer The @npub19ly…y4lk now has its own #Mastodon instance at https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/about Thank you for staying here, EU Commission! npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer With #renewables, even just domestic solar panels and privately installed batteries we can get domestic electricity mostly for free in a few years in many developed regions of the world. The electricity companies will do everything to make that impossible. But their claims of a grid that can't cope only shows their centralised approach that favours big consumers is failing ;) npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer And now the cleanup can begin. Dear #EBU, you have a lot of explaining to do. Overdubbing the booing from the audience. Disqualifying the Netherlands. This years #Eurovision was filled with wonderful music and artists, but your politics, dear EBU, yes, YOUR politics at this event, where you loudly claim it’s unpolitical — it stinks. npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer There's a civilised way to voice your country's opinion in the UN general assembly and then there's Israel's ambassador Gilad Erdal and his paper shredder :( https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/05/1149596 https://cdn.masto.host/socialwildeboernet/media_attachments/files/112/418/355/239/708/461/original/607f1ba0e42c410f.png npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer The Met Gala looks like a scene from The Hunger Games. #justsayin npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer So what would happen if ByteDance sells TikTok to an European company? Or is the US still just stuck in their belief that they must own the world? The question everybody avoids, IMHO. #SarcasmButOnlyHalf npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer @npub1gtz…qndr Bezieht sich das auf die noAfD oder selbstironisch auf Piraten statt Pirat*innen oder Piraty? Ich bin verwirrt. npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer #WhereIsMySurprisedFace Facebook/Meta starts talking about the "Extend" phase of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish as predicted: "“You could imagine an extension to the protocol eventually — of saying like, ‘I want to support micropayments,’ or … like, ‘hey, feel free to show me ads, if that supports you.’ Kind of like a way for you to self-label or self-opt-in. That would be great,” https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/25/why-meta-is-looking-to-the-fediverse-as-the-future-for-social-media/ npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Preparing your smartphone for a protest: put it on the charger at home. Leave it there. Go to the protest. That's my advice. Maybe have a cheap folding phone with removable battery on you. That you only switch on in case of real urgency or when you are far away from the protest. That you have just factory reset before stepping out. npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer @npub1xjn…rqrp Yep. Abendspaziergänge in schwarz sollten mehr en vogue sein. npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Fehlt nicht mehr viel, bis die neue Sturmabteilung der noAfd in Sachsen und anderswo wieder mit Uniform auf die Strasse geht. npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer If you want to make sure that a lot of small e-mail servers (like mine) will not reach your e-mail server, because you really hate us folks trying to keep e-mail decentralised, just use the CSS blocklist by #Spamhaus. This will greatly reduce your exposure to the even weirder small admins (like me) that try to use #IPv6. Throw in UCEPROTECTL3 too to exclude us running our small, well-maintained mail servers at ISPs on small VPS or dedicated servers. #SarcasmButOnlyHalf npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer I need a new place for my domains/DNS. #Gandi is becoming too expensive. Where would you move your domains when you want to be sure it is in the EU and allows for full control of even weird DNS records, ideally by just uploading a BIND zone file? No discussions, please. Just suggestions. I think that 10-15€ per domain/year should be the max. npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer This is a topic that can (and will) attract extreme positions from many sides. I sincerely hope we can keep the discussion civilised. Please do read the article as it contains some (maybe surprising) important information. #kthxbai (my instance blocks a lot of radical instances, so I might not see replies coming from weird instances that could be upsetting to some. I apologise for that, but that's how the fediverse works) 2/4 npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer #Oops. #Mastodon open 503(c) in the US and invites controversy with its board member: "Biz Stone is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Twitter, one of the world’s leading social media platforms." https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s.-non-profit/ npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer "What you're refering to as Mastodon, is in fact, AP/Mastodon, or as I've recently taken to calling it, AP plus Mastodon. Mastodon is not a social network unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning AP (ActivityPub) system made useful by the AP standard, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full social network as defined by the federati." Me, paraphrasing a known philosopher of Free Software ;) npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer The #EU has a succesful presence in the #Fediverse with their own #Mastodon instance https://social.network.europa.eu/explore The EU commission is on it and has 100.000 followers. Unfortunately the EDPS (European Data Protection Supervisor) has decided to shut down the service soon: "EU Voice and EU Video will be officially closed on 18 May 2024." (1/2) npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Which podcasts do you regularly listen to? I'll go first: Whenever a new episode comes out: - The Daily - New York Times (news) - Post Reports - Washington Post (news) - 99% Invisible (genius stuff) - Betrouwbare Bronnen (dutch, news/history) - Sicherheitshalber (german, security/military) When I feel like it and have some time to fill: - Radiolab (fun, supercool) - This American Life (interesting stories) - Hidden Brain (science) - 404 Media Podcast (tech) - Tech Won't Save Us #podcast npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Here's a pattern to observe: Whenever a #EU directive (which MUST be implemented in national law) is perceived as a net positive, the national governments will claim it is THEIR success when they (after max 24 months) implement it in national law. They will almost never mention that it was the EU that did it. When a directive is perceived as net negative, the blame goes to Brussels. The EU can never win and show how much good they do. That's why I use #ThanksEU. npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer "We have already updated the Open Source reference implementation of Standard ISO-XXXXX to reflect the upcoming changes in the new revision of the standard that will be available in 60 days as free download" is something I would like to hear more often from SSOs (Standard Setting Organisations) npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer My B4 #OLPC prototype, 15+ years old. Original battery. Still works and battery charging is no problem. Impressive little machine :) https://cdn.masto.host/socialwildeboernet/media_attachments/files/112/280/803/545/273/360/original/e7f2b6fb1a00ed6a.jpg npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Another round of hardcore, but productive negotiations done. Works Council means WORK. Whowuddathunk :) But can now relax and finish my notes. #LifeAtRedHat https://cdn.masto.host/socialwildeboernet/media_attachments/files/112/259/416/588/617/316/original/54869a443e47a64e.jpeg https://cdn.masto.host/socialwildeboernet/media_attachments/files/112/259/416/546/956/583/original/3ea55f2c65cd2912.jpeg npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer I never used Spotify. I buy music. On physical media. CDs. Vinyl. This makes sure I actually own the music. Sure, I rip the physical media to mp3s and add them to my digital music collection. But. I. Own. My. Music. Collection. I can give my digital and physical music collection to my children when I’m gone. Try that with a streaming account. npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Hrmbl. #Postfix gurus. How can I add a setting to either main.cf or master.cf that makes sure that SMTP traffic to a specific domain (in this case mailbox.org) ONLY gets sent via IPv4 while all other connections can be IPv4 or IPv6? (Background: mailbox.org uses the weird CSS blacklist from SpamHaus which has my provider listed because my provider doesn't give a full /64 to me and SpamHaus deems that to be unacceptable) npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer There is no historic equivalent to what is happening with temperatures on land and sea. This is a horrific situation, IMHO. But we continue to make it sound manageable by talking about "record temperatures" which sounds nicer than "we don't know WTF is happening anymore, but we know it will lead us into dire straits". npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer A voluntary peer review system, but for pull requests. Instead of throwing money around, having meta discussions on how to run FOSS better, keep it simple. A group of people, including some real experts for the truly weird cases. Let’s call it the s-express (security express, and yes, when you remember the song, all the better). When you as maintainer receive a pull request that looks dodgy, you can forward it to s-express, who will take a look and report back with a first assessment in 24 hours npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Because I see a lot of exaggerated posts. Yes, one of the 16 states in Germany (Schleswig-Holstein) announced a new policy to use more #OpenSource. They will switch from Microsoft Office to #LibreOffice, from MSXML to ODF as base format. By installing Libre Office on their Windows Clients. The switch to Linux as operating system will come, but later. This IS a bold move and I am a big fan. But let’s stick to the facts. It’s a gradual approach, implemented in phases over quite some years. npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer And you thought us (the community and Red Hat) capturing the #xz backdoor *before* it became widespread was somehow a bad thing? ;) "Throughout this review, the Board identified a series of Microsoft operational and strategic decisions that collectively point to a corporate culture that deprioritized both enterprise security investments and rigorous risk management." Page 5 npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Ouch. "Microsoft’s failure to detect the compromise of its cryptographic crown jewels on its own, relying instead on a customer to reach out to identify anomalies the customer had observed;" Page 4. npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer What a sentence to start the evening reading at my beer garden. "When a hacking group associated with the government of the People’s Republic of China, known as Storm-0558, compromised Microsoft’s cloud environment last year, it struck the espionage equivalent of gold." https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/cyber-safety-review-board-releases-report-microsoft-online-exchange-incident-summer-2023 https://cdn.masto.host/socialwildeboernet/media_attachments/files/112/208/402/324/505/713/original/0d114fbd1a75b76c.jpeg npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Now the mess is being cleaned up. AFAICS this exploit was NOT used in the wild by bad actors. So it wasn't even a 0day. The damage is limited, contained and being taken care of. In a coordinated way, across communities, companies and more organisations. Because we were prepared for the aftermath. We have learned form Heartbleed and other events. Our FOSS immune system works. And will learn from this incident. Peace. npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer I know the next 3-7 days will be filled with exaggeration and doomsday talk, but IMHO the #xz backdoor, though seemingly meticulously planned for a long time, failed miserably as it was caught at a stage where it wasn't widely deployed but only in testing/prerelease distros. Yes, it made it quite far in the supply chain but it ultimately failed. The mess is being cleaned up, no cases of actual use of the exploit in the wild are known thus far. The immune system of FOSS has worked. Again. npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer You will read quite some clickbait inspired "OMG! THIS IS THE WORSEST THING! EVER! OPEN SOURCE IS DOOMED!" style takes, it is IMHO the exact opposite. Being Open Source forces us to be vigilant, coordinated and fast as everything that is wrong WILL happen under the public spotlight. And we reacted fast. Updates are available, the problem is explained and communicated in full detail. I tip my hat to all the folks involved! npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer TL;DR #XZ has been backdoored in 5.6.0 and 5.6.1. While Fedora Rawhide and Fedora 41 packages are affected, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is NOT affected. Updates (well, technically downgrades to 5.4.x) for Fedora are being made available through the regular update channels. Our Security Alert explains more details. https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/urgent-security-alert-fedora-41-and-rawhide-users npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer "Keynes wrote that the problem of economics is to reconcile economic efficiency, social justice, and individual liberty. We are good at the first, and the libertarian streak in economics constantly pushes the last, but social justice can be an afterthought" A Noble Laureate in economics comes to terms. https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2024/03/Symposium-Rethinking-Economics-Angus-Deaton npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer If only we’d kept client side certificates in browsers and had evolved the UI/UX experience. It is an elegant solution for a more civilised age ;) It was more or less killed for no real reason and could have solved online identity management in intuitive ways already years ago. npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Episode 23 of "Busted!": Another VC driven company builds growth on the back of a community with the promise to always* be Open Source and after a few years the little asterisk finally kicks in. It says "Gotcha! We don't want you anymore, we now switch to a commercial license" #redis #opensource #NotOpenSource #VentureCapital npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer Just because it didn’t work doesn’t mean it was a waste of time. You just need to look for the right rewards. #OLPC npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer I see more and more often that people post bit.ly links here. Please don't. First and foremost — it hides the real URL, so I don't know where I am sent to. Second: you force me to use a service that collects, aggregates and shares data on who clicks what when, which I consider very bad practice. Finally, no matter how long your URL is, it only counts as 23 characters in your post, so no need to "shorten" links [1] TL;DR post real links and don't spy on me. #kthxbai [1] https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/posting/#:~:text=All%20links%20are%20counted%20as,link%20shortener%20to%20save%20characters. npub1kar3acrjm496a4v0ptnkakmlr7z6apnzu9pcs76slpjgarv7pqjsf7qlv8 😷 Jan Wildeboer #ThanksEU #Amazon stops charging for moving data out of their services. You have to read to almost the end to find the real reason: „The waiver on data transfer out to the internet charges also follows the direction set by the European Data Act and is available to all AWS customers around the world and from any AWS Region.“ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/free-data-transfer-out-to-internet-when-moving-out-of-aws/