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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Stopping anthropogenic climate change is terraforming on "easy" mode. Until we can sort out global warming we have no business considering terraforming Mars.

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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert-hubert.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2025

@gnss_changes The status display on galmon.eu is none too happy. Every row with an IOD > 127 means a satellite is broadcasting 'vintage' orbital data. As in, old.

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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert-hubert.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2025

@gnss_changes Here is what the Galileo agency mailed round last week. Not easy to understand what they mean, and I guess this is by design:

NOTICE ADVISORY TO GALILEO USERS (NAGU) 2025016

DATE GENERATED (UTC): 2025-05-07 13:15

NAGU TYPE: GENERAL (NOTICE)
NAGU NUMBER: 2025016
NAGU SUBJECT: TESTING ACTIVITIES
NAGU REFERENCED TO: N/A
START DATE EVENT (UTC): 2025-05-12 06:00
END DATE EVENT (UTC): 2025-05-19 16:00
SATELLITE AFFECTED: ALL

EVENT DESCRIPTION: USERS ARE INFORMED THAT DUE TO TESTING ACTIVITIES, THE
OPEN SERVICE AND THE HIGH ACCURACY SERVICE WILL EXPERIENCE DEGRADATIONS UP
TO TEMPORARY DISRUPTION OF SERVICE FROM 2025-05-12 AT 06:00 UTC.

THE COMPLETION OF THE TESTING ACTIVITIES IS ESTIMATED TO BE ON 2025-05-19
16:00 UTC.

DURING THIS PERIOD THE SIGNAL IN SPACE IS EXPECTED TO DEVIATE FROM THE
MINIMUM PERFORMANCE LEVELS DEFINED IN THE PUBLISHED OS AND HAS SERVICE
DEFINITION DOCUMENTS AND SIGNAL IN SPACE INTERFACE CONTROL DOCUMENTS.

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Happy bats in the margin Bodl. Library MS. Ashmole 304; 13th century; England, St. Albans; f.47v @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert-hubert.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2025

The bot is making a lot of noise about Galileo, the EU GPS. This is because Galileo is being very weird and is clearly running on outdated orbital data. It might still be accurate enough though. This was announced very cryptically last week that there would be “deviations”. Galileo […]

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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert-hubert.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2025

@briankrebs Thanks, been at it for a bit! I also took a lot of inspiration from your talk in Rotterdam many moons ago on the whole spam ecosystem. Was an eye opener. The conference with the boat where I understand you had an interesting meeting afterwards!

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Michele Bannister @astrokiwi.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Do the things that are meaningful while you can, because gosh it makes a difference

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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert-hubert.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2025

As I type away into the void, hoping to achieve something, I sometimes wonder if it is worth it. Do people read this stuff? There are now 222 articles on berthub.eu/articles and sometimes one of these gets read really well. But what about the "back […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

0 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/now-how-to-g... 6614
1 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/maar-hoe-bou... 2292
2 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/a-coherent-n... 1797
3 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-european... 1723
4 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/dear-hosting... 1604
5 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/beware-cloud... 1461
6 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cloud-kootwi... 882
7 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cyber-securi... 864
8 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/out-of-offic... 855
9 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/you-can-no-l... 742
10 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/manifest-big... 658
11 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cloud-in-soo... 582
12 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/is-europe-ju... 556
13 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cloud-overview/ 543
14 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/taking-the-a... 516
15 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/how-tech-los... 460
16 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/beste-hoster... 446
17 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/servers-in-d... 438
18 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engi... 424
19 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/on-long-term... 411

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juliette @juliette.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2025

OK, I'm going to hammer on this one. Five days might not seem like much to get 700,000 signature, but I've seen petitions get to 1 million in a day to save baby seals, so why not this one. We have 4 countries above the threshold, but even if you're in those, your signature can make a different […]

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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert-hubert.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2025

I celebrate my 50th birthday today 🥳! I used to be quite dramatic about this prospect but thanks to some recent health setbacks in my family (from which we are now thankfully recovering well it appears) I’ve come to realize that my life, even at 50, is quite a feast!

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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert-hubert.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2025

I too have an important announcement tomorrow! It is good news, so no worries.

"My next TRUTH will be one of the most important and impactful I have ever issued. ENJOY!"

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Jan Schaumann @jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2025

Students not merely cheating with, but utterly relying on AI in "a society that treats schooling as [nothing more than] a means to a high-paying job" is deeply concerning as AI may actually make you dumber: "research shows that when students off-load cognitive duties onto chatbots, their […]

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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert-hubert.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2025

I've written an unhealthy amount of words on "the cloud" and specifically Europe's woes. In the post below I tie many articles together into a hopefully useful overview. It may be good to know that nothing what I write on the cloud is novel or original, I mostly hope to report things as they are […]

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 11/05/2025

In hindsight they were right. This is exactly what Republicans are now.

Tweet from @Judiciary GOP:

Kanye. Elon. Trump.

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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

ESA reports K482SA reentered between 0604 UITC (seen by radar on pass over Europe) and 0732 UTC (not seen by European radars on the next orbit). Roskosmos reports that reentry was at 0624 UTC over the Indian Ocean, but with no details on how they conclude that.

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2025

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/05/2025

LEO sat disposal is a new environmental disaster brewing, mostly because of the actions of a single private company, but really, it's everyone's operating procedure in LEO. Just burn those sats up in Earth's atmosphere when they're done! They just disappear! And if they don't, they probably […]

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Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris.me · 09/05/2025

During my time in the European Parliament, I attended a crucial final negotiation between Portuguese, Danish, German, Romanian and French MEPs, only to discover there had been a mixup and we would have no interpretation (translators) for the meeting. ⬇️

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Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris.me · 09/05/2025

Happy Europe Day from Brussels! Today marks 75 years since Europe's Nations chose peaceful cooperation over war. On Europe Day I wanted to share a personal anecdote about that cooperation. ⬇️🧵

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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert-hubert.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2025

I have improved the cloud overview article with headlines that should make things somewhat clearer. Previously it was a bit of a wall of text. berthub.eu/articles/posts/cloud-ove…

However, you can still deliver services without US clouds

There are governments and companies that have concluded that it is no longer possible to do anything IT or computer related without using one of the big three US cloud providers. This conclusion comes from some circular reasoning however. There are indeed software developers that no longer function without US cloud support. And these developers will indeed tell you there is no life outside of Microsoft/Google/AWS. Europe however still has a lot of capacity to build software based on servers instead of on specific cloud services. I outlined this in Cloud Naïve: Europe and the ‘Bijenkorf’ Megascaler.
Massive outsourcing has made organizations somewhat helpless

Many organizations have over the years outsourced a lot of their IT. Even very information heavy things like banks have decided that IT and computing are not their core competence. They are now realizing they were wrong about this. However, it is very common to first outsource non-core competences, and then not know when to stop. It is extremely difficult to stop doing 80% of what you did while remaining good at the 20% you must retain. If you have no native IT skills left, you end up depending 100% on someone else’s skills, most likely from the cloud. I expand on this hard problem in Your tech or my tech: make up your mind quickly.

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Kristian Kiehling @kristian-kiehling.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2025

This clip must be shown in schools and shopping centres in all regions of eastern Germany. The hapless German reporter asks whether it would have been possible to commemorate the end of the war alongside the Russians, "not necessarily hand in hand", but […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Alberto Cottica @alberto-cottica.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2025

"Make war not just unthinkable, but materially impossible." Today marks 75 years since the Schuman Declaration. A bit of European history to be proud of. Let's cherish it.

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Hacker Memes @i0null.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2025

sneak level 💯

Infamous newspaper clipping from “The Sacramento Bee”
(Tue, 23 Jun 2015) with the headline “China may be using the sea to hide its submarines”

Over annotated to read: “USA may be using the sea to hide its fighter jets”

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Ruth Mottram @ruth-mottram.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2025

Long but cheering+ practical from @bert_hubert berthub.eu/articles/posts/a-coheren… "Europe has ample compute capacity and skills.... the carrot won’t be enough to make Europe sovereign again. We must have our own technology under our own control, but we must […]

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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert-hubert.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2025

Everyone agrees something needs to be done about our total dependence on US clouds. But what? And who should do it? Ample words have been written on the 'why', and we also have a lot of text on our values and that *someone* should do *something*. Here I elaborate on an earlier suggestion with a […]

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Marcel Waldvogel @marcel.waldvogel.family.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2025

"«In der Schweiz wird es keine private, digitale und datenschutzfreundliche Kommunikation mehr geben», so Alexis Roussel." Die @republik_magazin -Recherche von @adfichter rüttelt auf. #VÜPF #BÜPF #Überwachung […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2025

Spaceweather's website has some rather ominous notes about the giant sunspot that's now pointed directly towards us... spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1…

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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert-hubert.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2025

"Underlying this is the idea that common sense always wins in the end. And yet the peculiar horror of the present moment is that we cannot be sure that this is so. It is quite possible that we are descending into an age in which two and two will make five when the Leader says so." - George […]

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Rop Gonggrijp @rop.gonggri.jp · 05/05/2025

Y’all know my take on the world, but in case you’re up for reading an interview: I recently sat down with journalist Maurits Martijn of De Correspondent, and the result was just published. It’s in Dutch, but it’s likely quite readable still through your favorite translation service.

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Deze visionaire activist slaat alarm: als de Trump-regering geen fascisme is, wat dan wel?

Activist en hacker Rop Gonggrijp heeft een zorgwekkende boodschap: in Nederland laten wij niet écht tot ons doordringen hoe snel de Verenigde Staten afglijden in fascisme. ‘Ik weet niet wat er nu nog ...

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2025

Our #SaveVOA Twitter/X social media account, run by a team of VOA News staffers silenced by USAGM since mid-March, was suspended this afternoon.

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What's Going on With Shipping (Sal Mercogliano) @mercoglianos.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

US Port Update - May 4, 2025 | Trade Wars: Port of Los Angeles Says Imports are Dropping ▶️ Executive Director of Port of LA talks China trade ▶️ Impact on US Ports? ▶️ What are the options if you ship cargo from China? ▶️ Impact to the #supplychain? youtu.be/43VMteILGOI

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US Port Update - May 4, 2025 | Trade Wars: Port of Los Angeles Says Imports are Dropping

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2025

Black and white photo of Dave Brubeck, in a suit and bowtie, sitting with his hands on a piano.

Caption is:

SORRY NERDS, 5/4 IS DAVE BRUBECK DAY

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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert-hubert.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2025

Quick note on giving talks. It is not enough to have great content. Expectations are low. When you start off, quickly establish some kind of bond with your audience. Once that is in place, your listeners will give your presentation a decent chance […]

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Ben Werdmuller @ben.werd.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2025

This is obvious, but if people broadly rely on a black box to give them answers that help them understand the world, whoever controls the black box controls those answers and therefore the understanding that comes from them. Openness is safety.

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