bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺

The legality (not wisdom) of putting European private data on US clouds hinges on the availability of the US Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. Trump neutered this board, and the European parliament has taken notice & asked the European Commission what they think:

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My call for European governments to retain at least a core IT/communication/email/file capability that is independent of US clouds. Named after the iconic Radio Kootwijk which we built in response to the English cutting off our communications with Indonesia in 1916: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/communicating-without-musk-and-trump-cloud-kootwijk/

George #Orwell’s 1940 review of Mein Kampf is an astounding read. It is very educational to study primary literature from just before historical events. In here we read that up to 1939 Hitler was regarded rather favorably by many, for reasons we might recognize today. Frightening: https://bookmarks.reviews/george-orwells-1940-review-of-mein-kampf/

Doing a (brief) presentation Monday on long term software development (>10 years). Things you regret in year 8. I'd love to hear things you found out and wished you'd done differently. Or conversely, what worked out really well. Will turn this into a public presentation & blog post. To kick it off: PLEASE KEEP YOUR CODE AS SIMPLE AS POSSIBLE.

Dear fedifriends, I'm attempting to add a Mastodon logo to my blog, but my SVG skills are failing me. Behold the sad anemic Mastodon under this post, https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/europe-must-invest-in-xyz/ - it is created by my Hugo theme applying something to the <path> I got & scaled from https://joinmastodon.org/branding - any help is welcome!

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Mastodon plushie 1136 has arrived in Nootdorp, and is keeping an eye on me as I type this! #plushtodon

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After receiving a bunch of feedback today, I'm a bit dismayed. If based on your just formed gut feeling you think world renowned experts (not me) are all wrong on something, it is extremely unlikely you are right. And even if you are, the onus is then on you to come up with a well researched rebuttal. You can't just cite your gut feeling and challenge the world to prove that your novel idea is wrong. It is up to you to do the work.

Recently, some countries have restarted attempts to buy new nuclear reactors. In this post, I first set out why getting new nuclear power by 2038 is a nuts idea, but then take a look at energy diversification, which changes the picture a bit. However, the way we are going about ordering nuclear power is just plain wrong, and it is unlikely we'll do better. If so, we are better off spending the nuclear trillions on other ways of getting carbon-free and reliable energy: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/nuclear-no-yes-maybe-but-not-like-this/?a=2

“Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of tape” coming for your power grid.
https://www.economist.com/interactive/essay/2024/06/20/solar-power-is-going-to-be-huge
from The Economist

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After the recent publicity I have updated the Google beeper / googerteller somewhat, including new Google IP addresses. I've browsed the web a bit with it and things are as terrible as ever. Lots of noise. I've also reinstated the bpftrace based per-process capability. https://github.com/berthubert/googerteller