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__bjoernd··on One-man campaign ravages EU 'Chat Control' bill
If they can put Twitter links into their article, one would think they can also add links to the website they're writing about.

Thanks OP for adding it here!

__bjoernd··on Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels
Are you seriously asking why individuals are supposed to take responsibility for themselves?
__bjoernd··on Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels
I don't think you understand how this works. People voluntarily do this. No one is forced to. Public power providers exist and work. Balcony solar is added and helps save some cost because you don't buy those 800W from the public utility provider.
__bjoernd··on Google appears to have deleted its political ad archive for the EU
But they stored Google links! /s
__bjoernd··on Tabby – A Terminal for the Modern Age
How does it compare to iterm2 or kitty?
__bjoernd··on The FIPS 140-3 Go Cryptographic Module
Luckily, FedRAMP have updated their FIPS guidance just this year to allow using crypto modules that have been validated and then received security patches. They realized that security patching is important and you don't need to recertify every patch before using it anymore.

https://www.fedramp.gov/rev5/fips/

__bjoernd··on Kiro: A new agentic IDE
It uses the same models as Claude Code. I've been using Q CLI a lot and love it, but I'm amazed by what Claude Code can do.
__bjoernd··on Death by a Thousand Slops
How do I gather reputation to submit without being able to submit something?
__bjoernd··on The SeL4 Microkernel: An Introduction [pdf]
After Liedtke's passing, L4 research was continued in groups at UNSW (Gernot Heiser, formal verification -> SeL4) and TU Dresden (Hermann Haertig, Fiasco/L4Re, focusing on real-time and secure systems).

Genode (already mentioned in another comment) [1] came out of the TU Dresden group with some nice ideas around managing compartmentalized systems. Kernkonzept [2] is a startup commercializing the L4Re microkernel.

[1] https://genode.org/ [2] https://www.kernkonzept.com/

__bjoernd··on MiniOS – a lightweight Linux distribution designed for USB drive
And no one notices the name clash with Xen's mini-os [1]. We've come a long way since Xen and the Art of Virtualization [2].

[1] https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Mini-OS [2] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/papers/2003-xens...

__bjoernd··on Putting the “You” in CPU
Certainly not because the developer didn't learn all the x86 machine code mnemonics by heart.
__bjoernd··on Putting the “You” in CPU
And pages like this are the exact great resources that you can learn from. :)
__bjoernd··on Putting the “You” in CPU
Confirmation Bias. How many "programmers" went through a traditional university CS course?
__bjoernd··on Is something wrong with Amazon Photos? I lost 240k photos
Commentator's voice: it had not.
__bjoernd··on Duolingo Max, a learning experience powered by GPT-4
Does it give the right information or just some that sounds reasonable to you?
__bjoernd··on France's baby bust
It's called Laicism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laicism
__bjoernd··on Rise of ‘zombie’ VCs as startup valuations plunge
So there are downsides and risks with certain businesses models and these fluctuate based on the state of the real world? Consider me shocked!
__bjoernd··on Promotion of alternative social platforms policy
Walled garden. The whole point of the internet is linking to other content. What a mess have we made of it.
__bjoernd··on Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE
I once debugged a kernel memory leak in an internal module that manifested after around 6 years of (physical) server uptime. There are surprises lurking very far down the road.
__bjoernd··on Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE
Knowing how to run a software company and knowing how to build software are two things. The first thing usually implies hiring the right people for the second thing. I’m sure Musk knows at least a bit of that, but everything we see with Twitter is that he’s axing those people at a rate that you can’t keep up hiring at. So there is some obvious disconnect here and I don’t think “Ah, he knows what he is doing “ is a sufficient explanation.
__bjoernd··on Liz Truss resigns as UK prime minister
> All arguments from leftists…

Clearly unbiased opinion. /s

__bjoernd··on OCI vulnerability allows unauthorized access to customer cloud storage volumes
This is not good. Even though they fixed it quickly, there must have been multiple misses for this to be ending up in production.
__bjoernd··on Oncall Compensation for Software Engineers
That depends. If your oncall is spent fixing bugs in your product - great. If you're just chasing whatever "upgrade campaign" some other corp team came up with, but forgot to properly document - not so great.
__bjoernd··on NYC Mayor demands CEOs end work from home as economy struggles
They still use those services, just not in downtown NYC.
__bjoernd··on Forget about teaching kids to code
We should teach kids coding for the same reason we teach them woodworking or repairing stuff. It's a basic craft that may help you later in life. Of course you still have to apply the craft in the right situations. But just because you're not going to build a house right now, there's still sense in teaching you how do hold a hammer.
__bjoernd··on Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files
It's a fancy frontend for plain-text markdown files stored in a folder tree. Nothing proprietary about it.
__bjoernd··on Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefinitely
I can tell you that when training interviewers, Amazon makes it very clear that candidate experience is the most important thing about the interview. Stoically asking questions without a wink of emotion certainly does not fit that. :(
__bjoernd··on The Zettelkasten Method (2019)
You might want to check out the Obsidian.md forums. Obviously, focusing on Obsidian as a note taking tool, but they have sections where users demonstrate their workflows: https://forum.obsidian.md
__bjoernd··on Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
Indeed, Switzerland is very conservative. Like in every other country you have a divide between the progressive/liberal/young-ish big cities (Zurich, Bern, Lausanne, Basel, ...) and the conservative/old-ish rest of the country (great skylines, very low population density).

And then you look at the actual rules (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_initiative_(Switzerlan...): "A double majority of people and cantons is required to change the constitution."

--> Swiss cantons are split up historically, not by population, similar to US states. The conservative, low-pop cantons can hold the progressives hostage on anything they don't like because even if you get the liberal cities behind you that is still way beyond the majority of cantons.

__bjoernd··on Husband of Amazon employee sentenced to prison for insider trading Amazon stock
It doesn't per se. The Insider Trading rules at my company speak about anyone living in your household as well as any close family members. Guess that's because there is reasonable assumption you'd be able to tell those people about internal knowledge.
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