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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · May 14

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

Stopping anthropogenic climate change is terraforming on "easy" mode.

Until we can sort out global warming we have no business considering terraforming Mars.

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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert-hubert.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · May 14

Hi everybody - this account will soon migrate to @bert_hubert@eupolicy.social - with many thanks to the fosstodon.org maintainers for many years of great service.

bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 (@[email protected])

2 Posts, 0 Following, 5 Followers · Software developer, entrepreneur, former government regulator, current government advisor, amateur scientist. https://berthub.eu/

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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert-hubert.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · May 14

@gnss_changes The status display on https://galmon.eu/ is none too happy. Every row with an IOD > 127 means a satellite is broadcasting 'vintage' orbital data. As in, old.

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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert-hubert.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · May 14

@gnss_changes Here is what the Galileo agency mailed round last week. Not easy to understand what they mean, and I guess this is by design:

NOTICE ADVISORY TO GALILEO USERS (NAGU) 2025016

DATE GENERATED (UTC): 2025-05-07 13:15

NAGU TYPE: GENERAL (NOTICE)
NAGU NUMBER: 2025016
NAGU SUBJECT: TESTING ACTIVITIES
NAGU REFERENCED TO: N/A
START DATE EVENT (UTC): 2025-05-12 06:00
END DATE EVENT (UTC): 2025-05-19 16:00
SATELLITE AFFECTED: ALL

EVENT DESCRIPTION: USERS ARE INFORMED THAT DUE TO TESTING ACTIVITIES, THE
OPEN SERVICE AND THE HIGH ACCURACY SERVICE WILL EXPERIENCE DEGRADATIONS UP
TO TEMPORARY DISRUPTION OF SERVICE FROM 2025-05-12 AT 06:00 UTC.

THE COMPLETION OF THE TESTING ACTIVITIES IS ESTIMATED TO BE ON 2025-05-19
16:00 UTC.

DURING THIS PERIOD THE SIGNAL IN SPACE IS EXPECTED TO DEVIATE FROM THE
MINIMUM PERFORMANCE LEVELS DEFINED IN THE PUBLISHED OS AND HAS SERVICE
DEFINITION DOCUMENTS AND SIGNAL IN SPACE INTERFACE CONTROL DOCUMENTS.

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · May 13

Happy bats in the margin

Bodl. Library MS. Ashmole 304; 13th century; England, St. Albans; f.47v @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert-hubert.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · May 14

The bot is making a lot of noise about Galileo, the EU GPS. This is because Galileo is being very weird and is clearly running on outdated orbital data. It might still be accurate enough though. This was announced very cryptically last week that there would be “deviations”. Galileo […]

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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert-hubert.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · May 13

@briankrebs True - I do keep track of if people make it to the end of articles. This informs me if I should spend more time on making things readable or not. https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/tracking-free-audience-statistics/

Tracking-free audience statistics - Bert Hubert's writings

As regular readers of this blog will know, I am no friend of the surveillance capitalism that currently powers the web. It is becoming well-neigh impossible to develop any software or host any content without some component tracking your users & sending data to third parties. Even though I try very hard not to fall for this, periodically I discover that my sites also embed things that embed things that potentially leak your details to third parties.

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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert-hubert.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · May 13

@briankrebs Thanks, been at it for a bit! I also took a lot of inspiration from your talk in Rotterdam many moons ago on the whole spam ecosystem. Was an eye opener. The conference with the boat where I understand you had an interesting meeting afterwards!

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Michele Bannister @astrokiwi.bsky.social · May 13

Do the things that are meaningful while you can, because gosh it makes a difference

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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert-hubert.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · May 13

As I type away into the void, hoping to achieve something, I sometimes wonder if it is worth it. Do people read this stuff? There are now 222 articles on https://berthub.eu/articles/ and sometimes one of these gets read really well. But what about the "back […]

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1 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/maar-hoe-bou... 2292
2 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/a-coherent-n... 1797
3 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-european... 1723
4 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/dear-hosting... 1604
5 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/beware-cloud... 1461
6 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cloud-kootwi... 882
7 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cyber-securi... 864
8 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/out-of-offic... 855
9 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/you-can-no-l... 742
10 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/manifest-big... 658
11 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cloud-in-soo... 582
12 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/is-europe-ju... 556
13 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cloud-overview/ 543
14 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/taking-the-a... 516
15 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/how-tech-los... 460
16 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/beste-hoster... 446
17 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/servers-in-d... 438
18 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engi... 424
19 https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/on-long-term... 411

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juliette @juliette.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · May 12

OK, I'm going to hammer on this one. Five days might not seem like much to get 700,000 signature, but I've seen petitions get to 1 million in a day to save baby seals, so why not this one.
We have 4 countries above the threshold, but even if you're in those, your signature can make a different […]

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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert-hubert.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · May 12

I celebrate my 50th birthday today 🥳! I used to be quite dramatic about this prospect but thanks to some recent health setbacks in my family (from which we are now thankfully recovering well it appears) I’ve come to realize that my life, even at 50, is quite a feast!

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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert-hubert.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · May 11

I too have an important announcement tomorrow! It is good news, so no worries.

"My next TRUTH will be one of the most important and impactful I have ever issued. ENJOY!"

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Jan Schaumann @jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · May 11

Students not merely cheating with, but utterly relying on AI in "a society that treats schooling as [nothing more than] a means to a high-paying job" is deeply concerning as AI may actually make you dumber:

"research shows that when students off-load cognitive duties onto chatbots, their […]

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · May 10

Most Americans have never seen a tea cosy in the wild, and that’s a tragedy I can no longer abide. 😤🫖

Behold: the humble yet fabulous knitted tea cosy. Not just a warm hug for your teapot, but a whole vibe. British ingenuity at its most delightful. Why just […]

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A white ceramic teapot wearing a green knitted tea cosy designed to look like a whimsical snail. The cosy features yellow lines mimicking a shell spiral, frilly edges around the base and spout, and two tall yellow stalks with crocheted eyes perched on top.

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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert-hubert.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · May 8

I've written an unhealthy amount of words on "the cloud" and specifically Europe's woes. In the post below I tie many articles together into a hopefully useful overview. It may be good to know that nothing what I write on the cloud is novel or original, I mostly hope to report things as they are […]

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · May 11

In hindsight they were right. This is exactly what Republicans are now.

Tweet from @Judiciary GOP:

Kanye. Elon. Trump.

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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · May 10

ESA reports K482SA reentered between 0604 UITC (seen by radar on pass over Europe) and 0732 UTC (not seen by European radars on the next orbit). Roskosmos reports that reentry was at 0624 UTC over the Indian Ocean, but with no details on how they conclude that.

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · May 9

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · May 10

LEO sat disposal is a new environmental disaster brewing, mostly because of the actions of a single private company, but really, it's everyone's operating procedure in LEO. Just burn those sats up in Earth's atmosphere when they're done! They just disappear! And if they don't, they probably […]

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Viss @viss.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · May 10

uh, yeah
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/ai-use-damages-professional-reputation-study-suggests/

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Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris.me · May 9

During my time in the European Parliament, I attended a crucial final negotiation between Portuguese, Danish, German, Romanian and French MEPs, only to discover there had been a mixup and we would have no interpretation (translators) for the meeting.

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Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris.me · May 9

Happy Europe Day from Brussels! Today marks 75 years since Europe's Nations chose peaceful cooperation over war. On Europe Day I wanted to share a personal anecdote about that cooperation.

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