The President of Germany's Federal Audit Court, Kay Scheller, has launched a stark warning regarding planned staffing cuts within his institution, raising signi... https://news.osna.fm/?p=24710 | #news #auditor #cuts #finances #german

Yet another #security related job opening at my employer, #GitLab. Apply if interested, and if we know each other let me know and I can pass on a recommendation.

https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gitlab/jobs/8295708002

#infosec #AllRemote

Let’s all take a moment to remember the classic 🪱 that provided many sysadmins with the worst day of their lives in November ‘88…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm

Abstract verbalizations about personal liberty, freedom of the press, and so on, will not be convincing in most parts of the world.

idk if you know this but you can always simply apologize when you fuck up and then stop engaging, instead of letting it become A Drama.

What do you suppose Donald Duck did in the Navy? I'm thinking JAG.

Gentle reminder that it's okay to start taking COVID precautions again even if you dropped them before.

EVERY infection steals years from your life, either by earlier death or via chronic illness.

EVERY precaution you take makes space for disabled, young, old, immunocompromised, & other COVID-realist folks to participate more safely in society.

EVERY masked event that you plan or host normalizes clean air precautions.

EVERY conversation about COVID safety spreads awareness & saves lives.

Soms kan ik me ineens verbazen of iets wat al heel "gewoon" is nu, maar ik 30 jaar geleden niet had voorzien.
"gewoon" even interactie met een enorme actuele dataset op basis van sat. data en complexe (wetenschappelijke) berekeningen. Met nog een leuk visueel jasje. Op mijn schoot nu...
https://pulse.climate.copernicus.eu/

The best resource I have come across about text legibility! 😍

https://legibility.info

Offered by The German Federation of the Blind and Partially Sighted (DBSV), available in German and English, based on DIN 1450 and WCAG standards.

Interesting perspective here -

"things" like a table or a chair, don't change and don't demand constant attention because we can trust them to just keep being tables and chairs. Screens constantly change, or might, and thus require constant attention; vigilance. When we turn away from screens, we must be turning towards something else, and it's useful if that alternative we turn towards is also something with a stable, reliable presence. (a thing)

https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/thingness

People ask why I work in finance.

Most of the time, it’s boring. Truly boring. Markets drift. People get in their feels. Nothing happens except sentiment swinging from euphoria to despair and back again.

But when it isn’t boring? It’s the greatest show on Earth.

We just spent two straight weeks screaming about an AI bubble. Every headline was doom. Every pundit was prophesying collapse. You’d think Western civilization was getting priced for liquidation.

Meanwhile, my position never changed: whether or not we’re in a bubble, sentiment didn’t match the fundamentals. On a macro level, the Fear & Greed Index was sitting at extreme fear. Volatility was spiking. Tech sold off hard. But at the company level? The numbers weren’t cracking. Not at Microsoft. Not at Google. And certainly not at Nvidia.

For saying that, I got called an apologist more than once. As if noticing a disconnect between emotion and data is somehow ideological. It isn’t. It’s my job. I don’t declare boom or gloom. I look for when the narrative and the numbers stop lining up.

And sure enough—here we are. Nvidia beats expectations again. EPS $1.30 vs $1.26. Revenue $57B vs $55.2B expected. Data center revenue alone at $51B versus the $49B consensus. Then they guide Q4 revenue to $65B when Wall Street was bracing for $62B.

That’s not a miss. That’s a statement.

I don’t know where the market goes next. Nobody does. But I can tell you this much: the world didn’t end. Western civilization continues. The apocalypse has been postponed.

De overgang naar een goed ov-netwerk, waar treinen een stevig onderdeel van uitmaken, kan ervoor kan zorgen dat er echt mobiliteit voor iedereen is. Bovendien biedt openbaar vervoer veel meer mogelijkheden voor echte democratische controle van onderop. https://www.doorbraak.eu/links-techno-optimisme-veel-meer-treinen/

Anyone got any recommendations for a good to-do list app?

I'm using Todoist right now.

The only feature I really need is recurring tasks. Like, "pay credit card bill" on the 1st of each month. That sort of thing.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@joynewacc/115603564851743470

The only one who donated is my friend!
donate please
#gaza #genocide

Curiosity Stream expects to make most of its money from AI deals by 2027
Curiosity Stream's owner has more content for AI companies than it does for subscribers.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/curiosity-stream-expects-to-make-most-of-its-money-from-ai-deals-by-2027/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social