Antonio Larrosa

@antlarr
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Mathematician, KDE developer, SUSE engineer. Developing Free Software since 1995
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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

https://blog.cloudflare.com/serverless-matrix-homeserver-workers/

Building a serverless, post-quantum Matrix homeserver

As a proof of concept, we built a Matrix homeserver to Cloudflare Workers — delivering encrypted messaging at the edge with automatic post-quantum cryptography.

The Cloudflare Blog

Una alternativa a 12ft.io. Tu propia web de eliminación de muros de pago, publicidad, cookies.

Veamos cómo poner en marcha un servidor con Python en nuestro propio equipo que haga que podamos sortear los muros de pago, publicidad y cookies de ciertas webs

https://victorhckinthefreeworld.com/2025/07/30/una-alternativa-a-12ft-io-tu-propia-web-de-eliminacion-de-muros-de-pago-publicidad-cookies/

El medio #podnews de @james cubre la bizarrada de #RNE por bloquear a @AntennaPod.

J.J. Hernández Bravo de #RTVE, a petición del medio pidiendo aclaraciones, responde que revisaran el caso. Luego dice que hay plataformas que se están lucrando con su contenido. Y, precisamente, este cliente no tiene publicidad y es software libre. Para luego citar los acuerdos de RTVE con Spotify, YouTube y Apple; estas *sí* se lucran. Para rematar que se la suda que somos cuatro gatos.

https://podnews.net/article/rne-blocks-open-rss

Spanish broadcaster RNE breaks open RSS apps

The broadcaster has decided to block a free podcast app without notice.

Podnews

Take a long hard look at this graphic, the longest continuous direct measurement of atmospheric carbon dioxide. This is the famous Keeling Curve from the station atop Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
Trump and the GOP are closing the observatory.

https://scripps.ucsd.edu/bluemoon/co2_400/mlo_full_record.png

The monitoring station on Mauna Loa provides the longest direct measurements of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Trump wants to shut it down, which is like taking the batteries out of your screaming smoke alarm and pretending the house isn't on fire. #climatechange

And from the WTAF dept, quite a bombshell from ProPublica today:

"Microsoft is using engineers in China to help maintain the Defense Department’s computer systems — with minimal supervision by U.S. personnel — leaving some of the nation’s most sensitive data vulnerable to hacking from its leading cyber adversary, a ProPublica investigation has found."

"The arrangement, which was critical to Microsoft winning the federal government’s cloud computing business a decade ago, relies on U.S. citizens with security clearances to oversee the work and serve as a barrier against espionage and sabotage."

"But these workers, known as “digital escorts,” often lack the technical expertise to police foreign engineers with far more advanced skills, ProPublica found. Some are former military personnel with little coding experience who are paid barely more than minimum wage for the work."

https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-digital-escorts-pentagon-defense-department-china-hackers?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=7-15

A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers

The Pentagon bans foreign citizens from accessing highly sensitive data, but Microsoft bypasses this by using engineers in China and elsewhere to remotely instruct American “escorts” who may lack expertise to identify malicious code.

ProPublica

This essay by @baldur on why individual experiments on the usefulness of "AI" (or similar stuff) don't teach us anything useful and might actually harm us is brilliant.

Go read it. Too many insights to pull a quote TBH: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/trusting-your-own-judgement-on-ai/

Trusting your own judgement on ‘AI’ is a huge risk

Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

Disinformation kills
@jasongorman No, seriously - that's exactly what it is & it's a mechanism exploited by charlatans since always: https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/
The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep…

The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour

Out of the Software Crisis

El gigante BlackRock ha demandado a UnitedHealth porque, después de que our boi Luigi cerrara la sesión de su CEO la compañía empezó a aprobar tratamientos que hasta ese momento estaba negando a la gente que lo necesitaba, y eso está haciendo perder dinero a los accionistas.

Y este es, amiwis, el "mejor de los sistemas posibles". Enjoy capitalism.

https://archive.is/7tgCu