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Markus Berndt

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"The Israeli Government's decision to publish construction tenders for the E1 settlement project is unacceptable." - Joint statement from the leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway and Canada.
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Amazon is building the nation’s largest fossil fuel plant exclusively to power artificial intelligence As my colleague @emilypont.bsky.social notes, the plant’s permit allows for essentially double the emissions of the most polluting power plant in the U.S.
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Amazon Is Building America’s Biggest Fossil Fuel Plant to Power AI
The company confirmed its plans to market research company Cleanview.
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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Fish. 🐟 France, Portugal and Germany managed to bloc EU sanctions on Russian fresh fish imports. Apparently Surimi is an indispensable French classic. Germans can only eat fish fingers made from Russian fish. And Portugal's national dish, dried cod, is now Made in Russia.
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Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
When someone responds to a question with "this is what Claude/Gemini/ChatGPT/MarginallyDistinctFromPaulieTheParrot says ..." If I ask you something I am not using you as an intermediary between me and a search engine.
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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
"Monolith" is a deployment strategy, not an architecture. All it tells you is that you deploy the entire system in one go. It tells you nothing about the structure of that system.
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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Three times now the European Parliament has voted against a proposal to allow Meta, TikTok, Snap etc to scan all your private communications for child sexual abuse material, "just in case". 1/
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Horror Makes Us Happy @horrormakesushappy.com · 07/07/2026
I don't feel the need to comment or discuss this. Just repost. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYrM...
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Right v. Wrong
YouTube video by Saul4Democracy
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Chris Oldwood @chrisoldwood.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Choose pair programming Choose energised work Choose test-driven development Choose short iterations and frequent releases Choose continuous integration Choose refactoring the code to keep the design simple and malleable Choose your future. Choose XP.
The trainspotting meme about “choose life”
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Dave Rooney 🇨🇦 supports 🇺🇦 @daverooney.dev · 15/06/2026
When I first learned about XP in 2000, the values of Communication, Feedback and Simplicity were easy to grasp. The 4th value of Courage, though, wasn’t as clear. My recent experiences using LLMs to work with legacy code have helped me understand what Courage actually means! tiny.cc/m025101
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Courage
It only took 25 years to figure it out!
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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I don't teach tokenmaxxing. I teach feedbackmaxxing. Join me tomorrow evening at 18:45 GMT+1 for our final Test-Driven Development workshop for self-funding learners. Yes, your boss *should* be paying for it and giving you the time, but here we are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.tickettailor.com/events/codem...
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Register – Essential Code Craft - Test-Driven Development – Zoom
Essential Code Craft - Test-Driven Development – Zoom, Multiple dates and times - Our new Essential Code Craft training workshops are aimed at software developers who are self-funding their profession...
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mxrt @mxrt.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The most insightful take on Mythos I've seen so far. Everyone should read this but especially those who are currently thinking through the possible regulatory responses.
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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The world is now so full of ridiculous things that I struggle to deal with it all. But this is not an 'us' problem. The world really is idiotic. I made a list of things that are impossible to believe. Seeing it in writing might help you deal better with the situation. berthub.eu/articles/pos...
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The Impossible Things We Have to Believe - Bert Hubert
“Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said. ‘One can’t believe impossible things.’ I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-ho...
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Julia B. Chan @juliachanb.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
losing contact with the earth for 40 minutes sounds nice
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Emmanuel Valverde Ramos @emmanuelvalverde.dev · 02/04/2026
Something we should all think about
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
"The signal that passes without mediation is also the signal that nobody can question." Really important exploration of the dangerous fallacy behind Palantir (as well as dangerous people) www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...
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AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying
LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity
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JP Aumasson @aumasson.jp · 19/03/2026
bfswa.substack.com/p/im-so-tired
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I'm so tired
of correcting quantum computing misconceptions
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Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture. Understood instantly what it meant.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19/02/2026
windows 11 update: for the first time in my life, simply right clicking a file has a load time. unreal
a windows 11 menu showing "convert to adobe pdf", "ask copilot", and 4 more options that take time to load
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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 19/02/2026
I worked on a few fairly prominent efforts in open source (Istio, OpenAPI), but I think of all of them, it’s gRPC that I think has the coolest story. Pull up a chair and set for a spell (any inaccuracies in what follows are 100% my fault for having a bad memory!).
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 23/01/2026
I wasn’t much of a Tesla fan before, but our new house came with two Tesla products pre-installed. Both of these are kinda fucked due to intentional decisions made by Tesla to screw over customers. The EV charger will only charge Tesla EVs and the Powerwall essentially cannot ever be upgraded.
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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
This is the equivalent of a large nuclear power plant in terms of 24/7 power. Except that a nuclear power plant has much lower availability than this solar/battery-combination. The combination also has like a million pages fewer compliance worries.
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Now this is the handwriting (and the organized page layout) of a real crystallographer!
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
We drug discovery types probably have more room to maneuver than we think in picking our candidates for clinical trials:
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What Makes A Drug
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Soren Iverson @soren.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Google Meet show how late people will be based on meeting history
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
For people who don't use screen readers, it can be difficult to understand how screen readers work. If you're interested in learning how people use screen readers, check out this demo from Marc Sutton and The University of California San Francisco. youtu.be/dEbl5jvLKGQ
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Screen Reader Demo for Digital Accessibility
YouTube video by UCSF Documents & Media Photography
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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
One of the worst developments of the web in 2025 has been Google inserting itself into sharing of links through various of their applications. A "share.google" link is full of explicit tracking, so Google knows who is sharing what with who, while also obscuring TO YOU what the origin of the link is:
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JP Aumasson @aumasson.jp · 27/12/2025
2026 will bring more blockchain/quantum/AI scams, hacks, overvaluations, bankruptcies; VC psyops, trolls and bots, paid articles and endorsements. Meanwhile there wont be no... - "AGI" - useful/practical quantum computers - meaningful blockchain use beyond tokenization Like the past 10 years.
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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
6000 people (so far) visited this page about the launch of an EU institute. The majority of readers who made it beyond the first few paragraphs actually read the whole 9000 word article. There is genuine interest in digital autonomy and EU plans:
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Joris Luyendijk @jorisluyendijk.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
We need to talk about this A LOT in Europe. Such a shocking illustration of how we are getting colonized by the Americans. Let's spread this widely so it helps galvanize public opinion.
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Ted M. Young (he/him) aka @JitterTed @ted.dev · 15/11/2025
On Tuesday, Nov 25 at 18:00 UTC, I'll be doing a 90-min online presentation of my #Java based "Event-Sourcing from Scratch" talk. Details and _free_ registration at luma.com/dt9fc391 Lots of room to sign up! Join live to ask questions, or watch for the recording later.
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Java Event-Sourcing from Scratch · Zoom · Luma
Event-sourcing allows the business to ask questions about your application's data that weren't thought of when the system was created, such as "how often are…
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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
You've got to hand it to the software industry for coming up with new and ingenious ways to not solve problems people actually want solved.
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Markus Berndt @markusberndt.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Sad, but understandable. What is wrong with people that they need to flood every corner of the Internet with content created entirely by LLMs?
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
We've just launched the first large, site-less (home, direct to participant) randomized trial for treatment of #LongCovid, testing tirzepatide (a GLP-1 drug) vs placebo. Please help spread the word www.scripps.edu/news-and-eve...
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Scripps Research scientists launch new digital clinical trial to test repurposed drug for long COVID symptom relief
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Making a firm commitment to asking the question that reveals ignorance until said ignorance is gone
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
We're so relieved to see Germany reaffirm its opposition to the dangerous Chat Control proposal--the one that would mandate mass scanning of communications. Germany's long been a solid champion of privacy, and the news that it was considering backing mass surveillance was alarming. 1/
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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Two people arguing about a decision (at least past the point where any new information is emerging) is a bad sign. I'd ask myself a few questions: (1) Has the incentive system within your company encouraged competition? 1/11
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Iain @iainnd.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.
Windows Notepad, the native simple text editor, now has formatting options and a Copilot button.
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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Many EU member states are arguing for forcing WhatsApp to inspect all our photos w/AI. If the AI is in any “doubt” if it might be child pornography, your photo, location & other details get reported to Europol and a local police force. This is a terrible plan: berthub.eu/articles/pos... #chatcontrol
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Chatcontrol 2025 edition in Brief - Bert Hubert
In short, led by Denmark, many EU member states are arguing for forcing WhatsApp/Signal/etc to inspect all our photos and links, using AI. If the AI is in any “doubt” if this might be child pornograph...
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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
I had a great time at the most excellent #why2025 camp! Here a write-up of my own #DNA talks (with links to video & annotated slides), some observations on the tremendously terrible state of security & regulation, and what we could do about it, plus some nice photos! berthub.eu/articles/pos...
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WHY2025 and DNA talks - Bert Hubert
I just got back from the most awesome WHY2025, the tenth installment of the four-yearly Dutch hacker festival series. I’ve been attending these things since 1993, so it is a big deal for me. By being ...
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/07/2025
South Park's Matt Stone and Trey Parker are storytelling geniuses! I highlight their remarkably simple but effective "but/therefore rule" in every science communication lecture I give.
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
An interesting read, and the point about biological data is very valid indeed.
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It's The Big Iron, Charlie Brown @big-iron.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Sometimes I think about Wikipedia, and what they're trying to do, and what they could be, and compare their budget with the funding for LLM slop machines, and it drives me a little insane. We tried to build a library of Alexandria that would not burn, then tried a library of babel for profit.
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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
An excellent thread
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Markus Berndt @markusberndt.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Budgeting around projects is usually a bad idea. You'll be paying your engineers, even if they're sitting around playing canasta, so why not budget accordingly? Create a budget for the entire engineering department (fully loaded salary * some multiplier for expenses). There. You're done. 1/4
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Jeroen Heijmans @jeroenheijmans.nl · 27/06/2025
This #JoyOfCoding 2025 day gets closed out with a presentation by @berthubert.bsky.social helping us "Save the world by writing efficient code" (*measure*, folks, measure!). My notes:
Sketch notes about greener software and measuring impact
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3
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Forced Consent & Consent Bypass
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Meta announced today that it also wants to introduce ads on WhatsApp, which will be based on personal data from Facebook and Instagram. This further integrates WhatsApp into other Meta services - an originally independent app, which initially was available for just $1 per year without ads or data usage. This also means that Meta is consolidating its social networking monopoly. EU law was actually supposed to prevent this."
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