There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.

- Admiral William Adama

I'm not believing my own eyes when reading that the Danish Ministry of Digitalization is replacing Microsoft internally 🤯

Half of employees are supposed to be changing to LibreOffice and Linux within the next month or so, and by the fall, all staff of the Ministry should be rid of Microsoft.

Source: https://politiken.dk/viden/tech/art10437680/Caroline-Stage-udfaser-Microsoft-i-Digitaliseringsministeriet

I finally sat down with htpy. Very nice. All the edge cases look covered. Has a Django template backend and support for streaming responses. The HTML to HTPY converter looks lush. I think I shall be giving it a run.

https://htpy.dev/ #Django

I just filled out the Python Packaging Ecosystem Survey and you should too!

https://anaconda.surveymonkey.com/r/py-package-2025

If you've ever typed "pip install X" or clicked the install button on an IDE, you've interfaced with the Python packaging ecosystem.

Please don't worry that you don't know enough about packaging! If only super experienced people fill the survey out, then the changes that get made won't serve less experienced folks.

Cheers to Anaconda and the 30 other groups that put this survey together :)

I learned a lot writing this, and there is a lot more here to pick at.

Ukraine has seen nearly one-fifth of its Internet space come under Russian control or sold to Internet address brokers since February 2022, a new study finds. The analysis indicates large chunks of Ukrainian Internet address space are now in the hands of shadowy proxy and anonymity services that are nested at some of America’s largest Internet service providers (ISPs).

"...A cursory review of all Internet address blocks currently routed through AT&T — as seen in public records maintained by the Internet backbone provider Hurricane Electric — shows a preponderance of country flags other than the United States, including networks originating in Hungary, Lithuania, Moldova, Mauritius, Palestine, Seychelles, Slovenia, and Ukraine.

Asked about the apparent high incidence of proxy services routing foreign address blocks through AT&T, the telecommunications giant said it recently changed its policy about originating routes for network blocks that are not owned and managed by AT&T. That new policy, spelled out in a February 2025 update to AT&T’s terms of service, gives those customers until Sept. 1, 2025 to originate their own IP space from their own autonomous system number (ASN), a unique number assigned to each ISP (AT&T’s is AS7018).

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/06/proxy-services-feast-on-ukraines-ip-address-exodus/

Olga of Kyiv

circa 890 - 969

Had vengeance on the Drevlians for murdering her husband

She asked for a tribute of pigeons from their houses

The Drevlians complied, assuming her to be daft, they expected worse

Olga had sulfured bits of cloth tied to the birds' legs, and they returned home, setting their city Iskorosten on fire

I tell this story right now for... no reason, no reason at all

BTW, this is the tamer episode in the epic of her revenge

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

#UkraineWar

#Gukesh Dommaraju

#India's #Chess grandmaster and reigning world champion. Youngest world champion ever. Third youngest grandmaster ever

He just beat #MagnusCarlsen, who many argue is the greatest chess player ever, at Norway Chess 2025

(Magnus doesn't compete in the world championships anymore)

Gukesh is 19 years old

https://www.chess.com/news/view/2025-norway-chess-round-6