cfillekes
@cfillekes.bsky.social
Red Hat Partner Engineer at IBM.
Current project: OpenShift Virtualization on s390x architecture
PhD in Geophysics Thesis: The nonlinear dynamics of thermal convection at infinite Prandtl number.
https://linktr.ee/cfillekes
Current project: OpenShift Virtualization on s390x architecture
PhD in Geophysics Thesis: The nonlinear dynamics of thermal convection at infinite Prandtl number.
https://linktr.ee/cfillekes
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Do you work with Kubernetes or OpenShift Container Platform?
Do you live in upstate New York, southern Vermont or western Massachusetts?
Well then please consider joining the Cloud Native Upstate NY CNCF community group!
Do you live in upstate New York, southern Vermont or western Massachusetts?
Well then please consider joining the Cloud Native Upstate NY CNCF community group!
Cloud Native Upstate New York | CNCF
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December 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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How do you “jailbreak” a LLM? AI security filters have come a long way since the days of “Ignore all previous instructions and…” prompts. But new work in cryptography shows that even the best filters have fundamental limits.
Cryptographers Show That AI Protections Will Always Have Holes | Quanta Magazine
Large language models such as ChatGPT come with filters to keep certain info from getting out. A new mathematical argument shows that systems like this can never be completely safe.
www.quantamagazine.org
December 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
How do you “jailbreak” a LLM? AI security filters have come a long way since the days of “Ignore all previous instructions and…” prompts. But new work in cryptography shows that even the best filters have fundamental limits.
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Kubernetes (K8s) manages & scales containerized workloads across many platforms.
An apple contains the history & future of apples, in one delicious fruit, to be replicated and distributed across the land, the state fruit of New York.
Be the Johnny Appleseed of Kubernetes in upstate NY.
Join us.
An apple contains the history & future of apples, in one delicious fruit, to be replicated and distributed across the land, the state fruit of New York.
Be the Johnny Appleseed of Kubernetes in upstate NY.
Join us.
Cloud Native Upstate NY Inaugural Event | CNCF
Virtual Event - Frist Post, y'all! Get in on the ground floor!
community.cncf.io
December 16, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Kubernetes (K8s) manages & scales containerized workloads across many platforms.
An apple contains the history & future of apples, in one delicious fruit, to be replicated and distributed across the land, the state fruit of New York.
Be the Johnny Appleseed of Kubernetes in upstate NY.
Join us.
An apple contains the history & future of apples, in one delicious fruit, to be replicated and distributed across the land, the state fruit of New York.
Be the Johnny Appleseed of Kubernetes in upstate NY.
Join us.
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Under current climate policies, 79 per cent of the world’s glaciers will disappear by 2100, endangering the water supply for 2 billion people and raising sea levels dramatically
The world will soon be losing 3000 glaciers every year
Under current climate policies, 79 per cent of the world’s glaciers will disappear by 2100, endangering the water supply for 2 billion people and raising sea levels dramatically
www.newscientist.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Under current climate policies, 79 per cent of the world’s glaciers will disappear by 2100, endangering the water supply for 2 billion people and raising sea levels dramatically
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Take a journey through time down a new NSF COLDEX ice core borehole just completed by the team in #Antarctica!
If you’re at #AGU25 stop by the COLDEX booth in the Exhibit Hall to talk to COLDEX team members from across the 15-institution center funded by NSF! @agu.org Follow us on IG @ coldex_stc
If you’re at #AGU25 stop by the COLDEX booth in the Exhibit Hall to talk to COLDEX team members from across the 15-institution center funded by NSF! @agu.org Follow us on IG @ coldex_stc
December 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Take a journey through time down a new NSF COLDEX ice core borehole just completed by the team in #Antarctica!
If you’re at #AGU25 stop by the COLDEX booth in the Exhibit Hall to talk to COLDEX team members from across the 15-institution center funded by NSF! @agu.org Follow us on IG @ coldex_stc
If you’re at #AGU25 stop by the COLDEX booth in the Exhibit Hall to talk to COLDEX team members from across the 15-institution center funded by NSF! @agu.org Follow us on IG @ coldex_stc
If I could ask Rob Reiner one question, it would be why he chose U Chicago for Harry and Sally to meet.
Sigh. I guess now we'll never know.
Sigh. I guess now we'll never know.
Old friends
An appreciation of Harry, Sally, and all the things they said.
mag.uchicago.edu
December 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
If I could ask Rob Reiner one question, it would be why he chose U Chicago for Harry and Sally to meet.
Sigh. I guess now we'll never know.
Sigh. I guess now we'll never know.
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It is an open secret that admissions standards at selective colleges are lower for men to equalize the # of men and women on campus. This is another way men learn that they can be mediocre and still succeed, while women must attend the highest standards.
thedispatch.com/article/univ...
thedispatch.com/article/univ...
It’s Time to End Affirmative Action for Men
Higher education systematically disadvantages female applicants.
thedispatch.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:10 PM
It is an open secret that admissions standards at selective colleges are lower for men to equalize the # of men and women on campus. This is another way men learn that they can be mediocre and still succeed, while women must attend the highest standards.
thedispatch.com/article/univ...
thedispatch.com/article/univ...
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News: "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy" will be published by Simon & Schuster in the UK and the Commonwealth.
It will also be published in Poland!
It will also be published in Poland!
Cover Reveal!
“The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy" arrives on August 4, 2026.
How extremist tech billionaires are dismantling democracy to crown themselves as kings—and what we can do about it.
Please pre-order! ➡️ www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
“The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy" arrives on August 4, 2026.
How extremist tech billionaires are dismantling democracy to crown themselves as kings—and what we can do about it.
Please pre-order! ➡️ www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
December 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM
News: "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy" will be published by Simon & Schuster in the UK and the Commonwealth.
It will also be published in Poland!
It will also be published in Poland!
The IBM Quantum Developer Conference playlist is up!
Enjoy! ~ 20 hours of Ernst Spaß.
Enjoy! ~ 20 hours of Ernst Spaß.
QDC 2025 - YouTube
The second-annual IBM Quantum® Developer Conference will bring together developers from all over the world to preview the hardware and software that will pow...
www.youtube.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The IBM Quantum Developer Conference playlist is up!
Enjoy! ~ 20 hours of Ernst Spaß.
Enjoy! ~ 20 hours of Ernst Spaß.
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White-sided dolphins seem to help killer whales "scout" and catch Chinook salmon near Vancouver Island, then eat the leftovers
Killer whales and dolphins are ‘being friends’ to hunt salmon together
White-sided dolphins seem to help killer whales "scout" and catch Chinook salmon near Vancouver Island, then eat the leftovers
www.newscientist.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
White-sided dolphins seem to help killer whales "scout" and catch Chinook salmon near Vancouver Island, then eat the leftovers
Join us. 🍎
Do you work with Kubernetes or OpenShift Container Platform?
Do you live in upstate New York, southern Vermont or western Massachusetts?
Well then please consider joining the Cloud Native Upstate NY CNCF community group!
Do you live in upstate New York, southern Vermont or western Massachusetts?
Well then please consider joining the Cloud Native Upstate NY CNCF community group!
Cloud Native Upstate New York | CNCF
The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see our Trademark Usage page. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torv...
community.cncf.io
December 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Join us. 🍎
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Do you work with Kubernetes or OpenShift Container Platform?
Do you live in upstate New York, southern Vermont or western Massachusetts?
Well then please consider joining the Cloud Native Upstate NY CNCF community group!
Do you live in upstate New York, southern Vermont or western Massachusetts?
Well then please consider joining the Cloud Native Upstate NY CNCF community group!
Cloud Native Upstate New York | CNCF
The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see our Trademark Usage page. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torv...
community.cncf.io
December 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Do you work with Kubernetes or OpenShift Container Platform?
Do you live in upstate New York, southern Vermont or western Massachusetts?
Well then please consider joining the Cloud Native Upstate NY CNCF community group!
Do you live in upstate New York, southern Vermont or western Massachusetts?
Well then please consider joining the Cloud Native Upstate NY CNCF community group!
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If you needed bracing commentary in your day about rural politics & how playing victim isn't the flex we think it is... here you go.
youtu.be/hAbU5J-5Z_k
youtu.be/hAbU5J-5Z_k
Farmers: "Why Don't Politicians Care About Us?"
YouTube video by Farm to Taber
youtu.be
December 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
If you needed bracing commentary in your day about rural politics & how playing victim isn't the flex we think it is... here you go.
youtu.be/hAbU5J-5Z_k
youtu.be/hAbU5J-5Z_k
Floods Splintering Earth's Ice Sheets | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2025-l...
Floods Splintering Earth's Ice Sheets | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
A presentation from 2025–2026 Radcliffe fellow Laura A. Stevens
www.radcliffe.harvard.edu
December 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Floods Splintering Earth's Ice Sheets | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2025-l...
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Have questions about the retreat, admissions, or anything else?
Join our Open Info Session via Zoom today at 5pm ET:
luma.com/v209g7hc
Join our Open Info Session via Zoom today at 5pm ET:
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Recurse Center Info Session · Zoom · Luma
Thinking about applying to a Recurse Center (RC) batch? If you want to spend 6 or 12 weeks building what excites you (compilers! games! languages! research!…
luma.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Have questions about the retreat, admissions, or anything else?
Join our Open Info Session via Zoom today at 5pm ET:
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Join our Open Info Session via Zoom today at 5pm ET:
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Build your offensive security lab with 18 DRM-free books worth $700+. Download once, read anywhere, keep forever.
Pay what you want (starting around $36) and support the EFF while you’re at it: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/hacking-no-starch-books
Pay what you want (starting around $36) and support the EFF while you’re at it: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/hacking-no-starch-books
December 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Build your offensive security lab with 18 DRM-free books worth $700+. Download once, read anywhere, keep forever.
Pay what you want (starting around $36) and support the EFF while you’re at it: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/hacking-no-starch-books
Pay what you want (starting around $36) and support the EFF while you’re at it: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/hacking-no-starch-books
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Rook is a Kubernetes Operator that automates deployment, scaling, and lifecycle management of Ceph storage
It delivers cloud-native block, file, and object storage as a self-healing, production-ready service inside Kubernetes
➜ https://ku.bz/cJNB5kLrN
It delivers cloud-native block, file, and object storage as a self-healing, production-ready service inside Kubernetes
➜ https://ku.bz/cJNB5kLrN
December 1, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Rook is a Kubernetes Operator that automates deployment, scaling, and lifecycle management of Ceph storage
It delivers cloud-native block, file, and object storage as a self-healing, production-ready service inside Kubernetes
➜ https://ku.bz/cJNB5kLrN
It delivers cloud-native block, file, and object storage as a self-healing, production-ready service inside Kubernetes
➜ https://ku.bz/cJNB5kLrN
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The recordings from KubeVirt Summit have been posted and have now been added to our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
The playlist description includes a link to the slidedecks used.
The playlist description includes a link to the slidedecks used.
KubeVirt Summit 2025
The session recordings from KubeVirt Summit 2025, our annual virtual event to celebrate all things on the user and developer side of KubeVirt. You can find t...
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The recordings from KubeVirt Summit have been posted and have now been added to our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
The playlist description includes a link to the slidedecks used.
The playlist description includes a link to the slidedecks used.
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In case you missed it, last week we posted a follow-up blog to our 'Stretching Layer 2 Networks across Multiple Kubernetes clusters' post:
Dedicated Migration Networks for Cross-Cluster Live Migration with KubeVirt and EVPN
kubevirt.io/2025/Dedicat...
Dedicated Migration Networks for Cross-Cluster Live Migration with KubeVirt and EVPN
kubevirt.io/2025/Dedicat...
Dedicated Migration Networks for Cross-Cluster Live Migration with KubeVirt and EVPN | KubeVirt.io
Learn how to configure a separate L2VNI for dedicated migration networks to enable secure, efficient cross-cluster live migration with KubeVirt and OpenPERouter.
kubevirt.io
December 1, 2025 at 10:18 AM
In case you missed it, last week we posted a follow-up blog to our 'Stretching Layer 2 Networks across Multiple Kubernetes clusters' post:
Dedicated Migration Networks for Cross-Cluster Live Migration with KubeVirt and EVPN
kubevirt.io/2025/Dedicat...
Dedicated Migration Networks for Cross-Cluster Live Migration with KubeVirt and EVPN
kubevirt.io/2025/Dedicat...
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Looks timely.
Cover Reveal!
“The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy" arrives on August 4, 2026.
How extremist tech billionaires are dismantling democracy to crown themselves as kings—and what we can do about it.
Please pre-order! ➡️ www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
“The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy" arrives on August 4, 2026.
How extremist tech billionaires are dismantling democracy to crown themselves as kings—and what we can do about it.
Please pre-order! ➡️ www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
November 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Looks timely.
So I submitted some issues in a github project in the "this will be necessary eventually" a couple years ago, and froze them.
Well, now I need 'em and it's time to act.
Here's that rainy day!
I love that song. It's _my_ song. 😀
Well, now I need 'em and it's time to act.
Here's that rainy day!
I love that song. It's _my_ song. 😀
Wes Montgomery - Here's that rainy day [[HQ]]
YouTube video by Fabian Cardenas Guitar
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 9:33 PM
So I submitted some issues in a github project in the "this will be necessary eventually" a couple years ago, and froze them.
Well, now I need 'em and it's time to act.
Here's that rainy day!
I love that song. It's _my_ song. 😀
Well, now I need 'em and it's time to act.
Here's that rainy day!
I love that song. It's _my_ song. 😀
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🦆🦢🪿🦩🦜 Come along with us, oh wayward programmers!
Applications are now open for our Winter 2 batch!
Learn more and apply:
www.recurse.com
Applications are now open for our Winter 2 batch!
Learn more and apply:
www.recurse.com
The Recurse Center
The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers in New York City.
www.recurse.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🦆🦢🪿🦩🦜 Come along with us, oh wayward programmers!
Applications are now open for our Winter 2 batch!
Learn more and apply:
www.recurse.com
Applications are now open for our Winter 2 batch!
Learn more and apply:
www.recurse.com
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Have questions about the retreat, admissions, or anything else?
Join our Open Info Session via Zoom on Monday Dec 1, 5pm ET:
luma.com/v209g7hc
Join our Open Info Session via Zoom on Monday Dec 1, 5pm ET:
luma.com/v209g7hc
Recurse Center Info Session · Zoom · Luma
Thinking about applying to a Recurse Center (RC) batch? If you want to spend 6 or 12 weeks building what excites you (compilers! games! languages! research!…
luma.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Have questions about the retreat, admissions, or anything else?
Join our Open Info Session via Zoom on Monday Dec 1, 5pm ET:
luma.com/v209g7hc
Join our Open Info Session via Zoom on Monday Dec 1, 5pm ET:
luma.com/v209g7hc
#CNCF #BackStage Here is a panel I participated in at the KubeCon CloudNative co-located event BackStage Day. Interesting discussion on what DevPortals can do for you in your DevOps and Platform Engineering practice.
Panel: The Future of DevPortals - Fabrizio S, Gerardo F, Graziano C, Cheryl F & Abhinav D
YouTube video by CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
#CNCF #BackStage Here is a panel I participated in at the KubeCon CloudNative co-located event BackStage Day. Interesting discussion on what DevPortals can do for you in your DevOps and Platform Engineering practice.