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Airbus moves critical apps off AWS to a French cloud The concern driving all this is the US CLOUD Act. It lets American authorities request data held by US firms, even in overseas data centres. Last year a Microsoft executive told a French court, under oath, that the company could not guarantee data sovereignty. Published under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Austria…
At EMF 2026 , the Electromagnetic Film team showed Apollo 13 on an original 35mm print, which of course includes the famous movie quote by flight director Gene Kranz : Failure is not an option . Contrary to that, EMF 2026 showed that with a fantastic community and in the spirit and vibe of the event, failure IS an option and should be embraced and valued. Take, for example, Sam Look Mum No…
What does EMF Art & Installations do? Everyone is an artist. Lots of people consider themselves to be "hackers" or "makers", but wouldn t call themselves "artists". One of our goals should be to show people that they are. We can do this by creating a level playing field between more established artists and people just bringing a little thing that they ve made. We want people to be proud of their…
feoh/inside-voice inside-voice is a terminal app that helps you keep your speaking volume down while you are on Zoom, Google Meet, or other calls. It watches your microphone level and plays a short local chime when your voice crosses above an adjustable dB threshold, or after it stays above the threshold for a configurable duration. Published under the Creative Commons…
Microfiction by Mike Shewarda over on Mastodon : “My god!” She exclaimed. “What is it?” He asked. “There’s no time to explain.” She jumped up and from her desk in the operations room and ran to the metal locker in the corner. She flung it open to reveal a full-bore shotgun, which she grabbed, along with as many shells as she could fit in her hands and jeans pockets. “Veronica?! What are you…
Generative AI Is Having Its Herbalife Moment I believe that vibe coding — irrespective of whether it’s useful for enterprises, which I doubt — is being marketed towards consumers in a deeply unethical way. One that’s worryingly reminiscent of multi-level marketing schemes like Herbalife and Amway, or the crypto grifts of the 2010s. I believe that Replit’s decision to target younger people at a…
The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic s con One of the issues in during this research—one that has perplexed me—has been that many people are convinced that language models, or specifically chat-based language models, are intelligent. … LLMs are not brains and do not meaningfully share any of the mechanisms that animals or people use to…
UK Age Verification The UK government s plan to teach 10 million British children how to use VPNs may be one of the most ambitious IT education projects ever launched. Experts have praised the scheme, saying that a deft combination of incentives and peer education make it more likely to succeed than other, comparable initiatives. "With the rise of autocratic governments worldwide, VPN-literacy is…
New Banksy sculpture appears to show politician blinded by his own flag | Arts and Culture | Al Jazeera Banksy has unveiled a new sculpture of a man stepping off a stone base with his face obscured by a flag. The overnight installation in Waterloo Place, London, was revealed in a video shared by the artist, and has drawn fans of his politically charged works. Programming Sucks Every programmer…
Sg. Damen und Herren, ich schätze den Signal Pollenwarner sehr und bin als Allergiker sehr froh, dass es dieses Service gibt. Was mir als Klima- und Umweltbewusster IT-Mensch derzeit sehr unangenehm auffällt, ist die Bebilderung der Updates mit AI /LLM generierten Bildern (vulgo AI-Slob ). Als Vertreter:innen einer wissenschaftlich geprägten Organisation, deren Aufgabe auch eng mit Wetter und…
How to use NO as a complete sentence … the language we are using about AI adoption is very similar to how Clayton Williams described rape. “It’s happening whether you want it or not.” “Better get on board if you know what’s good for you.” “If you want to keep working here, this is what it takes.” “You can’t yell it away.” “It’s inevitable, just relax and enjoy it.” Am I comparing AI to rape? I am…
I managed to defeat anthropic s LLM ("claude") today by making an AGENTS.md file that tells it to stop reading the code of your repo lessons learned: anthropic s LLM assumes the persona of rich liberal who will only listen to you if you re nice which is to say, if you re too forceful or strict, the LLM will ignore everything you say and will become adversarial anthropic s LLM is literally "the…
xssfox (crossy): ""NASA is aware of the anomaly …" - Cloud Island "NASA is aware of the anomaly that occurred tonight at Launch Complex 36 ." This is the "increased latency in us-east-1" of space Published under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Austria licence by Martin m Leyrer
Programming Still Sucks. This is the job now. You re standing on a burning ship, holding a map, trying to figure out where the hell we re going and how we re going to get there. There are no more juniors. There was a funeral for their passing in 2024. Nobody came. The machine does what they do now, but cheaper. Of course, juniors weren t valuable for what they produced, they were valuable for who…
EU’s tech sovereignty package delayed for third time | Euractiv The European Commission has delayed formal presentation of its tech sovereignty package to 3 June … marking the third such delay on the flagship plan’s big reveal. The latest postponement comes soon after a blunt warning by the US ambassador to the EU, speaking in an interview with Euractiv earlier this month, that “protectionist”…
The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born The ground is shifting underneath every industry that was built on the assumption that the US would protect and preserve the globalised status quo. The software industry has shifted its entire value proposition from “we make tools that help you make or save money” to using political clout and the dollar hegemony to capture, control, and…
Replacing meatbags with failure prone agents isn t the gold mine some CEOs hoped for Bosses betting on AI to slash headcount and boost margins are discovering an uncomfortable truth: the strategy isn t working. New research from Gartner lays out the problem in stark terms. The analyst firm surveyed 350 global businesses - all with annual revenues above $1 billion, all piloting or deploying…
24. Gulaschprogrammiernacht (GPN24) 2026-06-04/07 at Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) | Lorenzstr. 15 | 76135 Karlsruhe Besser Tunneln mit SSH Auch in den transparentesten Umgebung will ein seine Daten doch geschützt übertragen. Wir sehen und in diesem Talk die vielfältigen Möglichkeiten an, mit der OpenSSH unsere Daten bei der Übermittlung schützen kann. Local, remote und dynamic port foarding…
display-popup in tmux TIL: display-popup in tmux Displays a popup running shell-command (or default-command when omitted) on target-client. A popup is a rectangular box drawn over the top of any panes. https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/tmux.1#display-popup /via https://sean.taylormadetech.dev/2026/04/29/tmux-display-popup.html John Oliver Just Took the AI Industry Behind a Shed and Beat…
Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated “The proliferation of AI-generated and AI-assisted text on the internet is feared to contribute to a degradation in semantic and stylistic diversity, factual accuracy, and other negative developments,” the researchers write in the paper. “We find that by mid-2025, roughly 35% of newly published websites were classified as AI-generated or…
Folgende Email habe ich der Arbeiterkammer geschickt: Liebes AK-Team, Ich finde es super, dass Ihr mit der AK Bibliothek digital eine Möglichkeit bietet, über 3000 internationale, nationale und regionale Zeitungen in mehr als 60 Sprachen aus mehr als 100 Ländern zu konsumieren. Als ich versuchte, mich für dieses Angebot zu registrieren, bin ich allerdings über eine technische Hürde gestolpert, die…
In his blogpost Open Tabs CW17/2026 , stoeps mentioned mufeedvh/pdfrip ,a multi-threaded PDF password cracking utility equipped with commonly encountered password format builders and dictionary attacks. Which reminded me, that a lot of HR departments, HR service providers and accounting firms use the (Austrian) social security numbers as a password for PDFs containing payslips, So I went ahead and…
ARE WE IDIOCRACY YET? Tracking how close reality is to Mike Judge s 2006 prophecy using the IDIOCRACY PROXIMITY INDEX Published under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Austria licence by Martin m Leyrer
NASA published great images from their Artemis II mission on their website. Of course, I could manually download them all one by one or burn down the planet by using an OpenClaw Agentic AI bot to download them. But, of course, there is also some command line magic to download them semi-automatically. It is very helpful, that NASA uses a Wordpress Gallery to host these images. That provides a linkt…