Caring about Software, Caring about People | Matthew Tift

What if caring about software is one way to care about people? Paul Cantrell's Minnebar talk challenged common assumptions about tech and solutionism. I came away thinking about values, free software, and where the work really begins.

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Sustainability-Constrained Workload Orchestration for Sovereign AI Infrastructure: A Joint Compute-Network Optimization Framework

AI infrastructure has transitioned from a software-centric paradigm to a system tightly bound by physical and environmental limits. Energy availability, cooling capacity, and network connectivity now impose hard operational boundaries that cannot be relaxed through software optimization alone. This paper proposes a sustainability-constrained orchestration framework that treats carbon intensity, water usage, and power capacity as strict feasibility constraints rather than tunable penalties, and that jointly optimizes compute placement and optical network routing in a single closed-loop system. We introduce the Feasible Sovereign Operating Region (FSOR) - a conceptual and operational construct that characterizes the set of workloads a given infrastructure can actually sustain under its physical and regulatory endowment. Scenario-based analysis demonstrates that joint optimization yields lower environmental impact relative to baseline formulations. Infeasibility events, rather than being optimizer failures, constitute precise, telemetry-grounded signals that sovereign AI operation requires infrastructure investment or workload reduction.

Programm

22. Augsburger Linux-Infotag (2. Mai 2026)

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European civil servants are being forced off WhatsApp

Governments want to move away from “platforms over which we have no control,” says Dutch minister.

Degoogling

The Hubzilla @ tschlotfeldt.de

Axel Knauf (@[email protected])

After a little bit of reading up on the docs I've now set up my personal #fediverse instance using #GoToSocial - smooth sailing so far, esp. with the provided compose file for use with podman: https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/getting_started/installation/ I am using a #Caddy reverse proxy in front for SSL termination, since it does all the LetsEncrypt ACME stuff out of the box and the virtual host config is literally three lines long: https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/patterns#reverse-proxy This also includes WebSockets without additional parameters, so live updates from clients will work nicely. Speaking of clients, I now settled with panphy.social. A modern web-based UI, highly configurable, and the #vim-like key bindings are lovely <3 #selfhosting