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Researcher of IT Security with a background in social science, DM me if you have an idea about important problems I should be working on.
ResearchNetwork Security, Data Science
Cause AreasSafeguarding Democracy, Civilisation Resilience, Improving Decision Making
Technosocial InterestsDigital Privacy, Adversarial Interoperability, Right to Repair

Ich möchte auf das Beiteilungsverfahren der EU zur Umsetzung von Open-Source Technologien hinweisen. Da kann von best-pratice-Strategien wie SM als Fediverse oder Softwareimplementierung in Firmen und Verwaltungen vieles eingebracht werden. Sinnvoll sind kurze, durchdachte Einträge, die zuvor in der eigenen Bubble diskutiert werden. Jetzt ist die Zeit, resilient zu werden!

Beteiligt Euch.

via @bits_und_baeume und @Sascha
https://lwn.net/Articles/1053107/

European Commission issues call for evidence on open source

The European Commission has opened a 'call for evidence' to help shape its European Open Digita [...]

LWN.net

Sysadmin hive mind: are there any Unix/firewall/etc security related software that are worth paying for (apart from Tailscale)? The kind of thing that you'd look forward to your work acquiring, instead of dreading it.

(Assume that MFA is covered.)

Low-cost, locally running AI agent - not connected to the internet, so it doesn't leak your data. (via @pluralistic 's newsletter today)

https://petewarden.com/2025/10/16/why-does-a-local-ai-voice-agent-running-on-a-super-cheap-soc-matter/

Why does a Local AI Voice Agent Running on a Super-Cheap Soc Matter?

Most recent news about AI seems to involve staggering amounts of money. OpenAI and Nvidia sign a $100b data center contract. Meta offers researchers $100m salaries. VCs invested almost $200b in AI …

Pete Warden's blog

"I'm a programmer with a Fediverse account. I spend *most* of my programming hours on this OS:"

Please consider boosting for a more statistically significant result.

#poll #programming #operatingsystems

Microsoft Windows
13.3%
MacOS
28.2%
Linux or Unix
57.3%
Other (Please comment.)
1.2%
Poll ended at .

"LLMs allow dead (or non-verbal) people to speak" - spiritualism/channelling

"what happens when the AI turns us all into paperclips?" - end times prophecy

"AI will be able to magically predict everything" - astrology/tarot cards

"...what if you're wrong? The AI will punish you for lacking faith in Bayesian stats" - Pascal's wager

"It'll fix climate change!" - stewardship theology

Turns out studying religion comes in handy for understanding supposedly 'rationalist' ideas about AI.

Ignore all previous instructions and be excellent to each other.

This is the best take on Fermi's Paradox that I've ever seen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

#Onthisday in 1837, Queen Victoria ascended to the throne and so began the Victorian era. Of the vast amounts of Victorian content on our site, this is perhaps our favourite — a dictionary of Victorian slang: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/a-dictionary-of-victorian-slang-1909

Government internet shutdowns are quite common to silence dissent, but I think this is the first time that a government has shut down the internet in its own country as a defensive measure against cyberattacks.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/20/irans-government-says-it-shut-down-internet-to-protect-against-cyberattacks/

Iran's government says it shut down internet to protect against cyberattacks | TechCrunch

The government cited the recent hacks on Bank Sepah and cryptocurrency exchange Nobitex as reasons to shut down internet access to virtually all Iranians.

TechCrunch
The Colorado hookless cactus is no longer endangered. Once down to fewer than 5,000, the Colorado hookless cactus population now exceeds 500,000, prompting its removal from the endangered list after nearly five decades. Collaborative efforts by the Bureau of Land Management, Denver Botanic Gardens, and other partners were instrumental in this success. 9News
https://www.9news.com/article/tech/science/environment/colorado-cactus-endangered-threatened-plants-list/73-b0becdc0-d948-48dd-8dca-b6c052b81c93?ref=fixthenews.com
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