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  I guess I start to understand the "grumpy old man" thing. At a certain age you grow tired of all the childish jokes people make to deflect from actually dealing with the real problem. And you recognise you did this yourself for many years.

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  Serbia, you did it! What a victory for democracy and what a huge opportunity! https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/oct/25/europe-serbia-elections-aleksander-vucic-student-list-protests-bulgaria-latest-news-updates#top-of-blog

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  99,83% counted: Lula wins! Congratulations, Brasil :) (The result is final, the yet unreported votes cannot swing the result any longer) https://resultados.tse.jus.br/oficial/app/index.html#/eleicao/6258/uf/br/cargo/1/vis/nominal/resultados

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  Trump, Meta, Twitter/X failed to swing the election in Brazil. It is a shame that the US administration and their oligarchs even tried.

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  Nachdem Merz das Verbrenneraus auf Wunsch der Autolobby aufgeweicht hat, kündigt der Audi Chef an genau die schlimmsten Drecksschleudern in seinem Sortiment zukünftig in den USA bauen zu lassen. Genau mein Humor! #Zusammengefasst

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  Donnie Darko is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. It’s been on my all-time top 5 movies list ever since it was released. This article looks back through the eyes of those involved. Loving it! (Gift article, needs email) https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/movies/donnie-darko-oral-history-25-year-anniversary.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LlE.w5uf.ITUcVqMlnlyl&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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  (Disclaimer. I work at Red Hat, which is owned by IBM. But my opinions here are my own. So don't quote me) On-Prem "AI" works and is Good Enough™ so more companies are running Open Weight LLM inference on their own bare metal. Says IBM CEO Arvind Krishna. I am not surprised. If you can save 90% of the costs and, more importantly, keep your data and prompts local, err, sovereign, as it is called now —it not only makes business sense, it also keeps the lawyers happy. ht...

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  Do you notice how many in politics and the media work hard to make sure you do NOT connect the young people protests all over Europe and beyond to the election result in Serbia? Because while there is an obvious connection, thinking it through would lead to results they are not ready for. So. Keep on taking the streets and vote whenever you can :)

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  A Band Aid concert. But for the Open Web.

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  In #Munich, you might see (and hear, feel) this weird machine, making weird vibration and sound sweeps. This is part of the Giga-M project. Its goal is to create a detailed 3D map of the underground in Munich and surrounding areas (in total 1100 square kilometres) that will be made available as #OpenData to assist in planning geothermic plants. Switching away from fossil fuel for heating. Impressive! https://giga-m.de (in German) #Geothermic #Vibroseis #Research

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  And if you have a moment while consuming all that PHP stuff: There is a severity 10.0 issue in #Gitlab you all should have fixed yesterday too. https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-5-1-released/

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  ING Bank wanted to get rid of Gazprom bank accounts. Gazprom claims they can't find any other European bank willing to open accounts for them. Court decides: ING must keep the Gazprom accounts operational. Le sigh. Of what use are sanctions when Russia can ignore them? Dear ING, maybe claim that Gazprom is an antifascist organisation? That makes #debanking easy! #SarcasmButOnlyHalf https://nltimes.nl/2026/10/20/ing-allowed-stop-offering-banking-services-russian-gazprom-court-rules

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  Certificate trust bundles are the (not that) new timezone files. If you think you only have one on the operating system level that is authoritative you are very wrong ;) java-tz, anyone? #emudhra #SarcasmButOnlyHalf

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  Chrystia Freeland, the former Canadian deputy prime minister, wants you to read "The Player Of Games" by Iain M. Banks and I fully agree.

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  Bayern trocknet aus. "Seit 2003 verzeichne man kontinuierlich sinkende Grundwasserstände, 2013 und nochmals 2018 habe sich der Trend verschärft. 2025 seien die Niederschlagsmengen in Bayern um etwa 17 Prozent geringer ausgefallen als im langjährigen Mittel. Besonders trocken war die Phase zwischen Februar und Mai. Auch im vergangenen Winter fiel weit weniger Niederschlag als gewöhnlich." (paywalled) https://www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/bayer-freyung-knappes-trinkwasser-duerre-ge...

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  German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung titles: "Trump helps Russia to kill Ukrainians"

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  Italy continues its ridiculous fight wth Spain over the Ceuta incident. Austria will soon catch up with the other Top 6 Germany, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and France that are celebrating 7 years of "exceptions" and the @EUCommission still prefers to ignore all of that. Source https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/policies/schengen/schengen-area/temporary-reintroduction-border-control_en?prefLang=de Graphs by me. #SchengenIsDying

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  When I am overwhelmed and need a moment to gather myself, I put https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxxajLWwzqY on repeat. #LifeHack

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  I just checked all my servers and the installed containers and the minimal setup I use has paid of once again. No PHP anywhere. So I can relax and stick to my weekly update schedule. Sending sysadmin hugs to all folks out there dealing with getting the PHP updates installed and working :( https://www.php.net/archive/2026.php#2026-10-20-1 #SysAdminLife @homelab

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  The Autistici/Inventati (A/I) server case (it was located in Amsterdam, seized by dutch authorities on request of US agencies) show that #DigitalSovereignty is not limited to running your software on machines in the EU. It actually is about real sovereignty. Why did the dutch authorities feel obliged to do this? The @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu should start a thorough review of the agreements with the US under that perspective, in my opinion. First effects: https://nltimes.nl/2026/...

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  Dear friends from the U.S. My friends over here in Europe wonder why you let all of this happen. Why your congress and senate seem to be a useless collection of puppets that at max care about infighting. Why you let your Supreme Court become a partisan rubberstamp club. Why you haven’t even tried to impeach your president. You don’t have to explain any of that. Fix it :)

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  On the current spam wave some of you experience on the Fediverse: I think @stux@mstdn.social is right by suspecting it might be one or more 3rd party apps or services that got hacked or are leaking authentication tokens. So. Go to your account settings and check the "Authorized Apps" part. Revoke the permissions of apps you don't use anymore. Consider it housekeeping and make it a regular Todo :)

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  In the UK a ban on #PervertGlasses in the parliament is absolutely possible while on the streets they somehow can't be stopped. Animal Farm vibes. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/14/smart-glasses-ai-technology-reform-senedd-westminster-ban

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  Trump: - Starts a war in the Middle East - Can’t open the Strait of Hormuz - Refuses military aid to Saudi-Arabia to fight the Huthis - Lifts embargoes against Russia so Putin (who openly supports Iran) can sell oil - US allies in the ME can’t ship their oil and LNG due to the closed strait Soon Arab countries will be open to find more reliable allies. The smart thing for us all is to get rid of our dependency on fossil fuels ASAP.

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  Dear non-native English speakers (I am one too :). Your presentations do not get better when you let ChatGPT or another LLM go over your speaker notes before presenting. Trust yourself. Be yourself. Your audience is forgiving. But when I notice you are just reading what the LLM has strung together, you lose my attention :( 1/3

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  The current marketing approach of "Big AI" seems to be: "Give us all your money to make sure that doomsday arrives faster". It's more and more looking like a weird death cult to me. No sarcasm.

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  20 pallets with donations for Ukraine, including wheelchairs, blankets, stove ovens and firefighting equipment burned down in Frankfurt am Main. Arson is suspected. The organisation that collects these donations, Frankfurt for Ukraine, is obviously devastated. They ask to ONLY donate money at the moment, as the fire destroyed their storage capacities for material donations. This makes me angry and sad. https://frankfurt-for-ukraine.de

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  Mit dem was heute in Sachsen-Anhalt passiert ist, ist eines für mich absolut klar. Der CDU kann man nicht vertrauen. Ist ja eigentlich auch nichts Neues. Und das BSW sollte sich schnellstmöglich auflösen und ihre Mitglieder in die noAfD überführen. Den verbliebenen Demokraten im Landtag sichere ich meine Unterstützung zu.

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  Save the all-consuming "AI" step, just share your prompts! We can talk in prompts. I am Dutch. I understand them better than the gibberish produced by word-extruders :) #SarcasmButOnlyHalf

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  "Our research produces dangerous viruses and due to bad security they continue to escape from our labs, causing havoc and death. So you really should invest in our IPO. We totally promise to slow down our research a bit." I am talking about "AI".