Marco Frissen

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I like to play around with 8-bit computers and games, enjoy the occasional film photography.

Drinks craft beers, whisk(e)y, bourbon, coffee. Smokes cigars.

Traveling, reading, mountainbiking, indoor rowing and walking/hiking

Work related stuff and expertises: telecommunication, privacy, security, cloud and containers.

Lives in #Ulestraten, #Meerssen near #Maastricht in 🇪🇺 🇳🇱

Pro-nuclear environmentalist. #ecomodernist

Humanist and atheist.

Tooting in English and Dutch

Verificationhttps://frissen.tech

🇬🇧 Vote on #ChatControl postponed – a triumph in our fight to defend the digital privacy of correspondence and secure encryption. 💪 Thank you!
But the next attempt will come. The critical governments need to get their act together now:

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-control-vote-postponed-huge-success/

With the Bing down time, you can see how many of those "private" search engines are just shells on top of Bing. Duckduckgo, Startpage, Qwant, all down too.
Well, I tried, and failed.. Navigating #vim on this is pretty challenging. How did we get anything done on this? #zxspectrum #recreatedzxspectrum
Commodore 64 claimed to outperform IBM's quantum system — sarcastic researchers say 1 MHz computer is faster, more efficient, and decently accurate

'Qommodore 64' born from 2,500 lines of MOS 6502 assembly code.

Tom's Hardware
What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world https://arstechnica.com/?p=2013894
What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world

Malicious updates made to a ubiquitous tool were a few weeks away from going mainstream.

Ars Technica

Status update on the Voyager 1 spacecraft which has been sending a 0101 pattern since Nov 2023.

The problem seems to be a failed memory part in the FDS computer; engineers are planning to move ~200 words of software from one region to another, according to Joseph Westlake, director of NASA’s heliophysics division, who was speaking at a March 20 meeting of the National Academies’ Committee on Solar and Space Physics.

Westlake sounded very optimistic.
👍
https://www.nationalacademies.org/documents/embed/link/LF2255DA3DD1C41C0A42D3BEF0989ACAECE3053A6A9B/file/D727AF88E8C806D7A1F75C8401AF9CF23BCCC2EC9F3A?noSaveAs=1
17/n

De Nederlandse middenpartijen zijn grotendeels zelf de oorzaak van de crisis waarin ze zitten. Steeds meer verzuimden zij om zich op inhoud van elkaar te onderscheiden. Kiezers kregen in het midden geen alternatieven en verdwenen naar de flanken. https://buff.ly/3x46Vl2
Middenpartijen hebben hun eigen graf gegraven. Kiezers verdwijnen naar de flanken

De Nederlandse middenpartijen zijn grotendeels zelf de oorzaak van de crisis waarin ze zitten. Steeds meer verzuimden zij om zich op inhoud van elkaar te onderscheiden. Kiezers kregen in het midden geen alternatieven aangereikt en verdwenen naar de flanken.

De Groene Amsterdammer
Blij met mijn aanwinsten. #strips
 Hello and a good meowing everyone!   Have a most wonderful day and stay safe ♥️😸