Der Aufruf von @SafeguardingResearch ist (ohne Überraschung) seit gestern noch dringlicher und wichtiger geworden:
https://safeguar.de/src_sachsen-anhalt/

Nominiert weiter Webseiten zur Archivierung (~30 [Update: >50 [Update2: >150]] haben wir schon).
Aber vor allem: Weist Leute in bedrohten Einrichtungen, Initiativen, Projekte, etc. auf unser Angebot hin! Ihr seid nicht alleine ✊
(Alle Infos und Details im verlinkten Aufruf)

#Safeguarding #Sachsen-Anhalt

@matherion

#IA #Microsoft
Microsoft est sur le point de laisser CoPilot accéder à tous vos fichiers. Mais Microsoft promet que ça sera sûr.
WHAT COULD GO WRONG ?
https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/10/07/microsoft-is-about-to-let-copilot-loose-on-your-file-system/5301763

@rolle What did you do? 😄

…I hold to the view that before it is anything else, the primary role of governance is the maintenance of the status quo. When its foundations are fundamentally flawed, it is just not capable of integrating that.

But because we have false narratives that it is and that it has, we get political projects that pursue what it cannot do.

And so we end up with collective energies directed into dead ends

#internet #LogicielLibre
Un article long mais intéressant sur quelques personnalités (et Logiciels Libres) sur lesquels reposent toute l'infrastructure informatique actuelle (internet, ordinateurs et systèmes connectés).
Des personnes qui le plus souvent donnent bénévolement de leur temps pour maintenir ces projets, ou alors payés des clopinettes.
(On y retrouve par exemple Paul Eggert (tzdata), Mark Adler (zlib), Chet Ramey (bash) ou Daniel Stenberg (curl))
https://sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-the-internet

The Fediverse story is also:

You found a cool software, and realise the dev is an idiot.

You found a cool service, and realise the CEO is an idiot.

You found a cool OS, and realise the maintainer is an idiot.

You realise that 2/3 of these idiots have a questionable understanding about democracy and confuse their "non-politicalness" with privilege.

Fediverse = the constant rise and fall of your heroes.

I think our Mastodon server has never been this fast. I love it.

After the Ethiopian army's push into Tigray and capture of Mekele, Eritrean soldiers have now unsurprisingly intervened on behalf of the Ethiopian rebel alliance. This dangerous new plot twist threatens to exacerbate an already dire situation on the ground.

Ethiopia responded by attacking arriving Eritrean units with drones, near the border town of Zalambessa.

Reporting by my good friend Yemane Nagish of the BBC.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckvgd63rj92lo

🎓 Last Thursday, Dr. Paul Donner successfully defended his PhD thesis at Leiden University. Congratulations on this fantastic achievement! 👏

🔎 In his dissertation, Paul explored how errors in bibliometric data contribute to uncertainty in commonly used indicators for research assessment. He was supervised by Paul Wouters and @neesjanvaneck.

📰 Learn more about his research in the news item 👉 https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2026/10/bibliometric-uncertainty-data-quality-reliability-and-validity

💡 Read Paul's PhD thesis 👉 https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/handle/1887/4310427

@ewen @JamesAshburnerCBR my 22, 21 and 19 year olds all work with kids (including with disability) or in retail, I think it would reduce transmission to those at most risk if people working in close contact with children / people with health conditions / older people, or in busy retail environments, were vaccinated. All the evidence during the pandemic showed that it worked, why wouldn’t it continue to work now that it’s endemic?

Wir sagen klar: Es werden jetzt schon mehr Rechenzentren geplant und gebaut als benötigt werden. Gleichzeitig sehen wir, dass der Klimakollaps sich konkret auswirkt und wir jetzt schon Wasserknappheit in Deutschland haben. In dieser Situation die Vorgaben zum Energieverbrauch aufzuweichen ist das völlig falsche Signal!

(Geplante Rechenzentren findet man auf https://heisseluft.org/)

@pixelfed
Pixelfed for Android (F-Droid edition) is now available!

THANK YOU

I was upset at the previous announcement appearing to mean full embracement of metas hyper tracker playstore.

Es braucht stattdessen:

🔴 Strenge Vorgaben für den Energie- und Wasserverbrauch von Rechenzentren

🔴 Rechenzentren müssen komplett mit erneuerbaren Energien versorgt werden

🔴 Echte Transparenz von Anfang an

🔴 Keine weitere Flächenversiegelung für Rechenzentren

🔴 Ein Moratorium für den Bau bis der echte Bedarf geklärt ist

Unseren kompletten Antrag findet ihr hier:

➡️ https://dserver.bundestag.de/btd/21/081/2108111.pdf

It's not every day that someone you have a Lego Mini-figure of passes away.

Rest in Peace, Margaret Hamilton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_%28software_engineer%29?wprov=sfla1

Am Montag gab es eine Anhörung zur Änderungen des #Energieeffizienzrichtlinie. Ich wurde dafür extra in den #Wirtschaftsausschuss eingewechselt, damit wir dort zum Thema #Rechenzentren sprechen zu können. Danke an @algorithmwatch , dass ihr eure Expertise dort bereitgestellt habt!

https://www.bundestag.de/ausschuesse/a09_wirtschaft/wp21_a09_Anhoerungen/1217440-1217440

"When I first came up with the term [Software Engineering], no one had heard of it before, at least in our world. It was an ongoing joke for a long time. They liked to kid me about my radical ideas. It was a memorable day when one of the most respected hardware gurus explained to everyone in a meeting that he agreed with me that the process of building software should also be considered an engineering discipline, just like with hardware."

#RIP #margarethamilton

As was foretold, once you abandon GDP as a measure of economic success, the key premise of the Draghi report falls apart. On wellbeing, the EU is not losing ground to the US, on the contrary. The EU is also outperforming the US on distribution and environmental performance.

#economics
#draghi

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2026.109238

RE: https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:44ybard66vv44zksje25o7dz/post/3mxcu5paxu22l

RIP to a legend and a reminder that this field was pioneered by women as much, if not more, than men.

It was such a great experience to join the open source conference in luxembourg!
Huge thanks to the amazing @_elena@mastodon.social and @Gina@fosstodon.org for organising and curating the Decentralised Technologies for Digital Sovereignty track, It brought together lots of the people and conversations we need right now.
And thanks to @samvie@chaos.social to keep pushing the fediverse forwards ✊️