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Nils Goroll 🕊️:varnishcache:
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Does things #FOSS #HTTP and #VarnishCache in particular. :varnishcache:
Is one of the the last MSc in #AI graduates of the University of Edinburgh (1999) and […]

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Reposted by Nils Goroll 🕊️:varnishcache:
Lately I have noticed that when you purchase a ticket you don’t get a static PDF/PNG anymore.

Increasingly often, you get a .pkpass file, which is supposed to be opened in wallet apps (like Google Wallet or any 3rd-party).

Since I don’t like to share information about the events I attend with […]
Original post on manganiello.eu
manganiello.eu
December 24, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Reposted by Nils Goroll 🕊️:varnishcache:
Gutachten von Spirit Legal warnt: Der „digitale EU-Omnibus“ der EU-Kommission droht eine uferlose Sonderrechtszone für KI zu schaffen. Art. 88c würde die Logik der DSGVO aushebeln, Datensparsamkeit ins Gegenteil verkehren und Big Tech privilegieren. Verbraucherschutz, Rechte Minderjähriger […]
Original post on digitalcourage.social
digitalcourage.social
December 22, 2025 at 6:50 AM
#fluxcd is _the_ most under-delivering tool (compared to its marketing claims) which i have been "forced" to work with in recent times.

today

- it made it super hard to spot my own error where i had a string in a yaml instead of a []string
- i found out that it had never reported three […]
Original post on fosstodon.org
fosstodon.org
December 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Reposted by Nils Goroll 🕊️:varnishcache:
Annas Archive hat einfach mal Spotify heruntergeladen. Und die Zahlen sind echt interessant: Bei 300TB Größe bräuchte man aktuell 13x 24TB Platten für 447€ pro Stück. Das macht also 5811€ für Festplatten - und dann hätte man theoretisch die größte Musiksammlung der Welt bei sich zu Hause.

Und […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Reposted by Nils Goroll 🕊️:varnishcache:
One thing I wish folks knew better about "Linux" that the annoying evangelists never seem to care to mention.

One of the most important differences from other platforms if *how you get your software*.

You don't download it from the author/publisher who might be (these days, is) bundling […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
December 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Reposted by Nils Goroll 🕊️:varnishcache:
Here's a copy of the filesystem that has been extracted as a .tar file: http://squoze.net/UNIX/v4/
UNIX - v4
squoze.net
December 20, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Reposted by Nils Goroll 🕊️:varnishcache:
The attempt to read the UNIX V4 tape is underway!
December 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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CDU und FDP hatten beantragt, dass die Genehmigung für die Walter Lübcke-Statue zurückgenommen werden solle. Gerade hat die BVV Berlin-Mitte diesen Antrag klar abgelehnt: Nur 12 Verordnete stimmten für den CDU-Antrag, 27 stimmten dagegen.
December 18, 2025 at 8:48 PM
i want to disable all of #copilot on #github

not possible

now more than ever i want to leave github
December 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
wie validiert man ein signiertes pdf eines notars, für das eine #pkcs7 datei vorliegt mit #openssl? ich habe es auf die schnelle nicht hinbekommen bzw bekomme einen padding fehler.
December 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Reposted by Nils Goroll 🕊️:varnishcache:
RE: https://eupolicy.social/@je5perl/115696467286859905

Some good news from Denmark! The government has withdrawn the #vpn proposal after just five days, claiming that the proposal was misunderstood and that banning VPN use was never the intention. In that case, the drafting was exceptionally […]
December 16, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Reposted by Nils Goroll 🕊️:varnishcache:
A completely unhinged post from the head of Norway's oil fund: to hunt down the "leaders" of groups resisting AI implementation in companies and "remove" them

archive.ph/r0u2r
December 16, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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"In Finland, tax records are considered public data, and every November, the tax authorities release a dataset to the media containing the incomes earned and taxes paid by Finland’s richest."

"At the top spot this year was Mikko ”Miki” Kuusi, founder of food delivery company Wolt and CEO of […]
Original post on mastodon.online
mastodon.online
December 16, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Continuing the #nationalid debate, here’s the key part of the #digitalid experience in #poland core mobile application called mObywatel.

When I want to log in to any government website, they display a QR code which I scan with the app. What then happens you […]

[Original post on agora.echelon.pl]
December 16, 2025 at 12:09 PM
hey #paypal, it's super trustworthy to learn about the new report that passed your QA
December 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
my mastodon feed always has either too few or too many new posts
December 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@slink/115705971068831153

or: how the "90% of code gets written by #ai" actually works: blow up the code base 10x
December 12, 2025 at 11:21 AM
and this concludes most of the #llm coding assistant debate

https://gricha.dev/blog/the-highest-quality-codebase

#ai #claude
The highest quality codebase
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gricha.dev
December 12, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Ein AfD-Verbot sei der "sicherste Weg in den Bürgerkrieg".

Wenn wir eine Partei verbieten müssen, dann ganz sicherlich die Partei, deren Anhänger so radikal und so gewalttätig sind, dass sie einen Bürgerkrieg anzetteln würden bei einer grundgesetzkonformen Entscheidung des Verfassungsgerichts.
December 10, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Conversation at our #osxp #paris booth.

Customer: “I’m looking for someone from OpenProject.”

Me: “Hi, I’m Rosanna from OpenProject. How can I help you?”

Customer: “Oh, but I have a technical question.”

I’m wondering what made the gentleman hesitant to share his technical question with me… […]
Original post on fosstodon.org
fosstodon.org
December 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Reposted by Nils Goroll 🕊️:varnishcache:
It is really very simple. Putin does not fear NATO (he has lived with it in Turkey for decades and knows that it is a purely defensive alliance), he hates the EU for spreading the idea of democracy and the rule of law (even if imperfectly) Silicon valley hates the EU for attempting to regulate […]
Original post on mastodon.dias.ie
mastodon.dias.ie
March 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM