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For those of you worried about the exposure of the UK state to the activities & money of Palantir, here's a diagram from The Nerve that is going to do nothing to reassure you at all....

For more details see the investigation published today by The Nerve.

#politics #Palantir

thenerve.news/p/palantir-techn…

Every year, I share the memory book of the lost shtetl of Zaromb, near Treblinka. It is a haunting catalogue of horrors, compiled in 1946. One of the recurring themes of the accounts: Zarombers faced as much danger from Poles as they did from Germans.

“As we saw later, the Poles took an active part in the massacre of the Jews of Zaromb. Several days before, a number of Polish cart drivers had been given orders to be ready to transport the "Zshides" (derogatory term for Jews) of Zaromb. They kept that order secret.”

#Jews #Jewish #History #Holocaust #Poland #Shoah #HolocaustRemembranceDay #Zaromb

jewishgen.org/yizkor/Zareby/za…

Die Kirchenzeitung hat mit mir einen Podcast gemacht. Es geht um: “Liebet eure Feinde”. Es geht auch ein bisschen um die #TZI und um die #Mediation (meine Lieblings-Arbeitsfelder neben dem Pfarramt).

Leider nur innerhalb des E-Papers (mit Anmeldung) und über Spotify zu hören. Bei Spotify könnt ihr ihn aber auch ohne Abo oder Anmeldung hören: open.spotify.com/episode/5qLpV…

#Livinglearning #Erwachsenenbildung #Podcast #Fedikirche

In the hours after a man was shot in Minneapolis, but before his name was released, @theverge's creative director Kristen Radtke was working on coverage of the aftermath. Then his name was announced, Alex Pretti, and she realized he was her childhood best friend. She writes about how they met, when he was three and she was four, the things they did together, and the person he was. "As social media does its work putting bits and pieces together about each day of unfolding tragedy, more and more of us will realize that those pieces belong to someone we know."

flip.it/29XN-o

#AlexPretti #Minneapolis #Immigration #BorderControl #TrumpAdministration

I have switched the repeater on my balcony in Munich from #meshtastic to #Meshcore and after 1 hour I already see nodes and repeaters in Zürich, Switzerland and many other places. Impressive. My repeater, a Heltec T114 with a decent antenna, named DE81827_01 is solar powered and has a 2200 mAh battery so it should JustWork™️ at all times :) Oh. And use the „EU/UK narrow“ radio settings as that is the popular default, but not the default after installing the firmware. Why? Dunno.
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@lyda true, but it's for integration on the end points. I haven't really seen something like bypassing traffic through a faster channel between two Meshcore nods. It's really all LoRa hops between repeaters. My maximum is 14 hops. I wonder what it's like in larger networks like in Germany. If the network really scales to dozens of hops (theoretical maximum is AFAIK 64).

Really? Rebel Alliance?

An interview with Mozilla president Mark Surman about plans to deploy its ~$1.4B in reserves to fund an AI "rebel alliance" to challenge companies like OpenAI?

cnbc.com/2026/01/27/mozilla-bu…

Cloudflare just published a vibe coded blog post claiming they implemented Matrix on cloudflare workers. They didn't, their post and README is AI generated and the code doesn't do any of the core parts of matrix that make it secure and interoperable. Instead it's littered with 'TODO: Check authorisation' and similar

blog.cloudflare.com/serverless…

in reply to The Matrix.org Foundation

@matrix I do understand that matrix.org should really not pile on and at least maintain a good relationship with cloudflare, but this blogpost seems a bit too starry-eyed about cloudflare building a shitty excuse for a matrix server and having the audacity of calling their crap a "serverless" matrix server.

Also, like mentioned elsewhere in this thread: even if cf built something halfway decent, that really just gives them a position where they can vendorlock anyone who uses it.

Franz-Josef Strauß, 25.01.1957: „Atomenergie wird eines Tages elektrische Energie in so großen Mengen und zu so niedrigen Kosten liefern, daß sie praktisch nichts mehr kostet.“

Friedrich #Merz, 27.01.2026: Deutschland solle „den ersten #Fusionsreaktor der Welt ans Netz nehmen“. Dann werde Strom so günstig, „dass es keine anderen Erzeugungsmethoden mehr brauche“.

Deutsches Schulbuch, 2095: „Jahrzehntelang hielten konservative Politiker an teuren Technologien fest und verursachten hohe Kosten“

in reply to Ulrich Kelber

Ich bin definitiv pro Fusion. Das sollte massiv ausgebaut werden! Auf jedem Dach, an den Balkonen, und überhaupt. Wir können diesen riesigen Fusionsreaktor, den wer-auch-immer vor Milliarden Jahren da ins Zentrum unseres Sonnensystems gesetzt hat, doch nicht auf ewig halb im Leerlauf belassen! Der liefert so viel, dass wir eigentlich keine anderen Erzeu… oh, der wird doch nicht etwa DAS gemeint haben? 🤪

Okay, so our generator's doing the weird thing again. We've all diagnosed it as a partially frozen regulator on our propane tank. What you're about to hear is AC hum recorded while this is going on. UPS's do not like what you're about to hear, almost certainly because the AC frequency is wobbling back and forth all the time. This is *not* normal!

So ginge es auch:

"Die Regierung in Spanien will den Aufenthaltsstatus hunderttausenden Migranten ohne Papiere legalisieren - und verfolgt damit einen deutlich anderen Kurs als viele EU-Staaten.
(...)
begründet die migrationsfreundliche Politik seiner Koalition mit der Gefährdung des Sozialstaats und der Rentensicherung aufgrund fehlender Arbeitskräfte und einer überalterten Bevölkerung."

Erscheint mir irgendwie cleverer...

#migration #spanien

n-tv.de/der_tag/Spanien-legali…

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brought you 13 updated and 1 added apps:

* Punch-hole Download Progress: Xposed module that renders download progress as an animated ring around the camera cutout 🛡️

RB Status: 812 apps (62.4%)
Google Bot Status: DeepSleep. 24h since our last request for clearance, no response yet.

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository :awesome: And feel welcome in the Droidiverse 😜

Preparations for #FOSDEM (continued):

✅ Ordered @snikket_im stickers
✅ LED blinkenlights for #XMPP stand with DI.DAY
❌ Camera API bridge for #Mastodon and #XMPP demo

#DidIt #DutGemacht #DIDAY

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@bogo
I'll bring a big pack of DI.DAY flyers for migrating to XMPP to our stand in AW, see chaos.social/@ge0rg/1159380981…

I'm also planning to meet one of the organizers of that initiative in Brussels.


🎉 The DI.DAY folder flyers for XMPP are being printed now, in English and German! 🎉

Grab one at the #FOSDEM #XMPP stand in AW level 1!

Huge thanks to @padeluun from @digitalcourage for making this possible, to @jssfr for baking the recipe photo, to @marcuwekling for #DIDay and to everybody who contributed!

High-res version: shop.digitalcourage.de/flyerfo…

#DIDit #DUTgemacht


in reply to Shawn Webb

#HardenedBSD applies the following compiler flags to #OpenSSL in the base operating system:

  1. -ftrivial-var-auto-init=zero
  2. -fsanitize=safe-stack
  3. -fzero-call-used-regs=used

The OpenSSL port (in the HardenedBSD ports tree exclusively) only enables the first option.

I wonder if the combination of these features would mitigate the OpenSSL stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability announced today. I hope to answer that question this evening unless someone else beats me to it.

For reference: openssl-library.org/news/vulne…

#CVE202515467 #infosec #FreeBSD

#AlexPretti broke a rib in confrontation with federal agents a week before death edition.cnn.com/2026/01/27/us/…

"about a week before his death, he suffered a broken rib when a group of federal officers tackled him while he was protesting their attempt to detain other individuals."

In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security said that “DHS law enforcement has no record of this incident.”

It sure looks like they knew who he was, but don't want to reveal it was an #ICE #execution

** 2025 Wrapped - the traditional summary of my year. which also serves as an award eligibility post.

(Spoiler - I'm elibible for the Best Fan Writer Hugo Award. I have been a finalist every year since 2023, and I hope you will consider nominating me this year too.)

microsff.com/2025-wrapped
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in reply to Micro SF/F by O. Westin

** If you're not familiar with how the Hugo Award nomination and voting works, Reactor Magazine has a good write-up.
reactormag.com/anyone-can-vote…
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