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Liz Rice 💛💙🐝 @lizrice.com · Feb 17

Stumbled onto this on Reddit..I mean, these are good questions 🤣

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🗳️Spread the word! @cncf.io Graduated and Incubating maintainers need to fill in this form BY TUESDAY to vote for their rep on the Governing Board docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #opensource #cloudnative

CNCF 2026 Governing Board Developer Seat Election - Voter Opt In Form

Please submit this form to opt into being a voter for the non-Kubernetes developer seat on the CNCF Governing Board. Only maintainers from non-Kubernetes Graduating and Incubating projects that submi...

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January 9, 2026 at 5:49 PM

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Join us in about half an hour for a Family Feud-style quiz, AMA and more! #eBPF #Cilium #CloudNative

Cilium @cilium.io · 4d

Today's the day! Join Thomas Graf, André Martins, Daniel Borkmann, and Joe Stringer for the 200th episode of eCHO! Liz Rice will host as we celebrate a decade of Cilium and look forward to the next.

eBPF & Cilium Office Hours
📆 Friday, January 9, 4pm CET
📺 Join live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYqE...

January 9, 2026 at 2:38 PM

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Join me on the KubeTrain to #kubecon in March - see you St Pancras or at the arrival party! Tickets going fast at kubetrain.io

Departure Sunday 22 March 2026
08:59 Zurich - Amsterdam
13:01 London - Amsterdam
15:17 Paris - Amsterdam

January 8, 2026 at 8:57 AM

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Sad to be getting AI-generated security reports that fundamentally don’t understand the technology they are dealing with

January 6, 2026 at 5:14 PM

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Just hearing Suede’s “Antidepressants” on @laurenlaverne.bsky.social BBC 6 Music. Brett Anderson’s voice sounds really different?!

January 6, 2026 at 12:55 PM

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Made an omelette with a dash of soy, a few chilli flakes, and pinch of the Katsuobushi flakes that were a Christmas gift. It wasn’t a photogenic omelette, but taste-wise: OMG, life-enhancing!

January 5, 2026 at 8:43 AM

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Wouldn’t it be awesome if “the secret barrister” Harriet is in fact
@barristersecret.bsky.social ? I mean, barrister AND crime writer…

#traitors

January 4, 2026 at 8:50 PM

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This Friday in eCHO Episode 200: Celebrating a Decade of Cilium meetu.ps/e/PJJQS/Y326/i #eBPF #opensource

eCHO Episode 200: Celebrating a Decade of Cilium, Fri, Jan 9, 2026, 4:00 PM | Meetup

Join us for a very special 200th episode of eCHO where we will be joined by creators and maintainers of Cilium to celebrate a decade of the project. In December 2015, Thom

meetu.ps

January 4, 2026 at 8:22 AM

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Plan A for NYE has been foiled by an evil winter lurgy that friends have picked up, but I am happy with Plan B which involves playing an escape room game with @philpearl.bsky.social and eating as many of the desserts I made for Plan A as we like!

Chocolate dome on an almond shortbread biscuit with an accompanying amaretto brandy snap

Cracking open the chocolate dome there is hazelnut chocolate mousse inside

December 31, 2025 at 6:14 PM

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For once, ChatGPT is not wrong

A gold and silver trophy labelled “Your year with ChatGPT: Most Likely to eBPF Everything”

December 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM

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Our final eCHO episode for 2025 showed the incredible winning submissions to the #eBPF Summit Hackathon! www.youtube.com/live/CFEqXwO...

eCHO Episode 199: eBPF Summit Hackathon Edition

YouTube video by eBPF & Cilium Community

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December 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM

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Unbelievably bad news for free speech. The BBC that we knew is being dismantled in front of our very eyes, and we will be worse off for its loss

Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · Dec 13

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

This is the saddest day of my professional life.
Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage.
I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys.
I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show,
A show that I named and helped develop over all those years.
Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry.
These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter

In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices.
Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'.
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I chose the latter.
It broke my heart.
I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make.
I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer.
I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence.
One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career.

I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more.
I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost".
James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice.
Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences.
I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness.
Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire.
I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal.
I am so sorry to let you down.
I hope that you can understand my reasoning.
I have to accept that I am not what the current
BBC expects of their freelance presenters.

Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not
"just a job"
I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world.
From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too.
The strawberry is dead.
Long live the strawberry. B

December 13, 2025 at 11:13 AM

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As hosts for the #openuk awards, Nico Vibert and I did our best to be Tess & Claudia for the evening ✨

December 8, 2025 at 10:33 AM

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@openuk.bsky.social Awards Dinner at the House of Commons #openuk

December 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM

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Kind of shocked that @gozwift.bsky.social only just worked out how to calculate draft shadows on slopes! I always thought this didn’t seem realistic, particularly downhill. Thanks @zwiftinsider.com! zwiftinsider.com/drafting-upd...

Zwift Updates Drafting on Inclines and Declines

Drafting a supertucker? Easy.

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November 28, 2025 at 9:53 AM

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If you’re going to and from rail stations in TfL’s Oystercard area, the contactless fare for the EXACT SAME journey can be dramatically cheaper than if you pay for a rail ticket

Pay as you go with Oyster or Contactless: £10.50
National Rail tickets, standard from £20.35

November 27, 2025 at 11:05 PM

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Joseph Ligier 🐝

@littlejo.bsky.social

This week, I looked into how to mitigate DDoS attacks using XDP:
blog.littlejo.link/en/ebpf-anot...

November 25, 2025 at 9:16 AM

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Enjoyable and interesting episode

Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social · Nov 25

“Enshittification” is the word of the moment. It’s the reason Google is all ads and Amazon serves you crappy overpriced products. Cory Doctorow, who coined the term, joins @nndroid.bsky.social and @rafaelbehr.bsky.social to discuss how we can combat it ➡️ linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnowpod

November 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM

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📺 Down Cemetery Road had 🎶 Black Steel by Tricky at the end of this week’s episode, which is an awesome track I hadn’t heard in many years. Looking it up I learned it’s a Public Enemy cover. TIL!

November 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM

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I imagine a lot of folks are hurriedly writing system prompts to ignore human-illegible text (too small, not enough contrast, positioned off the screen, obscured by images…)

Matthew Somerville @dracos.co.uk · Nov 26

www.promptarmor.com/resources/go...

bughunters.google.com/learn/invali...
“Impact: Data exfiltration through prompt injection via multiple vectors like Markdown, tool invocation, etc.”
“Impact: Code execution through prompt injection”

This is fine, they know this happens, don’t worry about it.