Rob Bos

@Rob_Bos@mstdn.social
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GitHub focused DevOps person who shares a lot on this topic 😊. Microsoft MVP & GitHub Star, working at Xebia | Microsoft Services. #DevOps #GitHub #Trainer
Bloghttps://devopsjournal.io
WorkDevOps Consultant and Trainer
FocusGitHub (all of it, esp Advanced Security)
GitHubhttps://github.com/rajbos

https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/115698651300339937

Scary, brilliant thread and paper about things in low earth orbit, and trying to quantify risk of a crash.

#space

Naturae

Telegraph

Simply remarkable fall off in tourism to the United States.

"The US is down at least $30 billion in tourism for 2025. International boycotts and a loss in appeal to visit due to Donald Trump has resulted in millions of trips canceled." source: Anonymous on Bluesky

Edit: original source https://flowingdata.com/2025/04/15/decline-in-european-travelers-to-u-s/

Anthropic openly acknowledges the pitfalls of the MCP system, sparking crucial discussions on AI reliability and accountability. #mcp

https://isaacl.dev/gxa

US plans to start checking all tourists' social media

The potential social media mandate being proposed by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) would apply to anyone visiting, whether they require a visa or not.

Sky
The NS (the Dutch train company) was selling some old emergency brakes, and well... one thing led to another, and now I have this in my home 😂
I don't know who came up with this idea but I love it 😂
Microsoft, after embracing Elon Musk on stage at Build and in product, has abandoned their yearly diversity report. https://www.theverge.com/tech/838079/microsoft-diversity-and-inclusion-changes-notepad

The opposite of schadenfreude is
mudita, a Buddhist term for sympathetic or vicarious joy. It's the joy you feel when someone else succeeds

I could use a little mudita today. What do you have for me, fediverse? Hit me with your successes, the more mundane the better (but I'm all for hearing about your big wins, too)

Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.

"The short version: this is an absolutely terrible idea, and really makes zero sense whatsoever. There are multiple reasons for this, but they all amount to saying that the kind of electronics needed to make a datacenter work, particularly a datacenter deploying AI capacity in the form of GPUs and TPUs, is exactly the opposite of what works in space. If you've not worked specifically in this area before, I'll caution against making gut assumptions, because the reality of making space hardware ..."

https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/

#datacenters #electronics #space #sysadmin
Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.

There is a rush for AI companies to team up with space launch/satellite companies to build datacenters in space. TL;DR: It's not going to work.

Taranis