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apexalphaon UK Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power

Good point, good chance very few individual minds actually changed their stance.

It's hard to convince people to change a stance they made a part of their political and personal identity.

apexalphaon UK Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power

Yep, it did. And (brown)coal kills much more people and the dependence on Russian gas made the geopolitics much worse than any nuclear reactor ever would.

The chances of a Soviet leadership-induced meltdown like at a German nuclear reactor that is properly designed and maintained is laughable.

It is, however, extremely hard to film the slow killing of people by browncoal. It's easy to film a nuclear reactor incident.

apexalphaon UK Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power

Oh great because the practical alternative, fossil fuels, definitely doesn't burden anyone after us.

apexalphaon UK Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power

It was part emotional response to Chernobyl, part is was full on Russian propaganda infiltrating parliaments in Europe.

The leader of Germany that phased out nuclear and made Germany fully reliant on Russia then took a job... at Gazprom. The VP from the Greens responsible took a very high paying job lobbying for foreign Gas firms, too.

It has to be one of the most successful foreign influencing campaigns in history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schr%C3%B6der#Business... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joschka_Fischer#Business_activ...

apexalphaon UK Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power

It's admirable they changed their stance but good Lord they are slow learners...

apexalphaon French lawmakers approved a tax of €0.055 for every gigabyte of internet traffic

For paid streaming?? Or even YouTube?

Won't YouTube just restrict everyone to 480p unless paying?

This is such a dumb idea I feel shame in their place, or whatever the English expression for that is.

apexalphaon Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements

They aren't rogue, they're what you call "kings guard". They're there to protect the President, not serve the country.

They're doing exactly what you expect of such a 'secret police' based on the history of basically all other secret polices.

apexalphaon Anthropic S-1

I really struggle to see this company make this amount of money when Deekseek runs on a Apple Mac Studio I can just buy.

Or any hardware, really.

apexalphaon Serbia's Vucic concedes election defeat in historic win for student movement

This is very welcome news. Well done Serbia!

apexalphaon Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner's phone

Might as well post the actual article: https://www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-kushner-hacked-phone-...

apexalphaon Docker is weird

Interesting read! Thanks.

Though it would be better if it compared Dockers ways to say Podman, which does things a little different I think.

For others, like me:

Footgun:

A footgun is a programming or system design term for a feature, tool, or API that makes it very easy for a user or developer to shoot themselves in the foot—meaning it causes self-inflicted damage or severe errors while working exactly as intended.

apexalphaon eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business

Offtopic: collapsing comments with a flair like ‘off topic’ or ‘me too’ is a great idea and really adds to keep the discussion on track.

This was a good read on the situation, thanks for the link.

Is the Mozilla bugtracker usually a / the Go to party for these issues? Or just a coincidence in this case?

apexalphaon CVE-2026-111943: Compromised Intermediate Certificate Authority

This is not the first that RHEL is comically slow with updates...

We pay good money for their highest support tier and they are almost always the latest to bring a needed update.

Can't exactly remember what it was but it has happened before. It's a shame.

apexalphaon eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business

This is the exact opposite I hoped to read from them.

I will never trust any brand that even remotely sounds like this company.

apexalphaon There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability

This was absolutely exploitable. The fact 1000 not-working PoCs exist does not invalidate the one that does.

Sure maybe not on a vanilla install but most people don't install Php, they use a pre-made container or a platform using Php under the hood.

Yesterday I simply wasn't confident in the security anymore and the data in my database is important enough to go offline for a few hours.

apexalphaon Dutch National Cyber Security Center is Offline because it uses PHP

A WAF can block known _exploits_ it doesn't prevent the vulnerability from being abused by a new / other / slightly changed exploit.

apexalphaon Dutch National Cyber Security Center is Offline because it uses PHP

Exactly!

Unfortunately my static HTML is pre-rendered by a PHP engine before being served.

apexalphaon AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right

Would it be a good thing or bad thing if this was scaled up so email servers and instance messages services was all public if the message involved a member of a political party, without allowing any back channel or ways to avoid the public record?

They did this in the Netherlands and the result is that politicians started sending voice notes...

You also sometimes need to be able to just discuss stuff, privately. Not all phrases uttered in the context of government do well when interpreted by the general public.

apexalphaon I Became a Citizen of Japan

Why is allowing creation of a new culture, a mixture of multiple cultures, such a bad that thing?

Because all evidence points to mixing cultures resulting in (extremely) low trust societies.

I mean no offense but both the US and Europe's demographic 'issues' probably don't look very attractive from a Japanese perspective.

apexalphaon I Became a Citizen of Japan

>I sincerely wonder what kind of country Japan will be in 50 years.

You could wonder the same if they would accept a massive influx foreigners, like Europe did.

apexalphaon Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr

TIL the *arr stack has windows ports!

No idea. But any software that autodownloads from untrusted sources should NOT be run in an environment with information available.

My *arr runs in a Linux container on a VM, suggest you do the same.

apexalphaon California is building a $400M shield for Yosemite's most dangerous highway

“There’s not anything like this in the world,” said Corey Casey, Caltrans’ project manager for the shed.

Is there a word for the phenomenon that Americans will just always claim something they do is the worlds best / biggest / most unique until essentially proven otherwise.

How would anyone come to the conclusion that this is a new thing unique to California?

apexalphaon What I self-host

My *arr stack is so rock solid and hands-off that the only downside is that I get 'inactivity' warnings from certain websites that the *arr stack uses to get 'stuff' done because they don't count API access as activity.

apexalphaon What I self-host

Just looked up Clan since I'm a big fan of Nix but currently run my cluster with k3s, which indeed has some overhead.

It seems however that Clan is one of those classic projects where the website and the docs assume that everyone already knows what it is and how it works and goes straight to the benefits of doing it this (whatever 'this' is) way.

After reading both the site, docs and guides I am now scouring Reddit and YouTube for an actual explanation of whatever the hell it is and how it works.

apexalphaon Passkeys are not a trap

I think my use case covers >99% of all organisations.

apexalphaon Passkeys are not a trap

What's the unique id leaking issue?

I mean you're logging in to some software, surely they need some info from you?

apexalphaon Passkeys are not a trap

I introduced Passkeys in my company.

Every single IT person thought it would be an extreme mess, too complicated for regular users. In my company we work on the (gas) grid so lot's of blue collar types.

We went there, gave the pilot group a Yubikey and said: This is like the company pass you already have. Without the company pass you cannot enter any buildings. Without the Passkey you cannot enter a computer or app.

If you lose it report to the same people (service desk).

The response has been EXTREMELY POSITIVE. People fucking LOVE getting rid of passwords, password requirements and taking off their gloves to enter it every time.

We are now rolling it out to everyone and next year when we stop our silly "phishing game" contract we will actually save money while reducing a massive cyber security risk for our company: (voice) phishing.

apexalphaon Starlink limit hits Ukraine's drones

Give France $30 billion and launch a few orbits full of LEO.

We don't need to cover the globe like SpaceX, just Ukraine and from there North-Westward into Russia.

Imagine Britain in the fucking Blitz where Roosevelt starts to buy oil from Nazi Germany and JP Morgan cuts off the Telegraph somehow.

Crazy times.

apexalphaon NAZA: Netanyahu orders identification and prosecution of film's interviewees

I would've said no, confidently but I googled it just now and think many people do consider it middle east.

So now I don't know anymore.

apexalphaon NAZA: Netanyahu orders identification and prosecution of film's interviewees

Yes we hold Western democracies to a higher standard than random Islamic dictatorships.

Islamic countries being dictatorships doesn't excuse you.