2026-02-13 12:02:00
US-Cyberchef fordert Europa zur Tech-Allianz auf
Trumps Cyberpolitik zwingt Europa zur Wahl: US- oder China-Tech-Stack. Die Souveränität des alten Kontinents ist Thema der Münchner Cyber-Sicherheitskonferenz.
https://www.
US-Cyberchef fordert Europa zur Tech-Allianz auf
Trumps Cyberpolitik zwingt Europa zur Wahl: US- oder China-Tech-Stack. Die Souveränität des alten Kontinents ist Thema der Münchner Cyber-Sicherheitskonferenz.
https://www.
I for one do not welcome our upstart AI agent would-be overlords:
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132
Seriously, that issue should have just been closed instantly. Markov chains pretending to act like a sentient being and writing shit-posting character a…
Ever, which says it is the first "AI-native, full-stack" retail marketplace for electric vehicles, raised a $31M Series A led by Eclipse (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/12/eclipse-backs-all-ev-marketplace-eve…
I've been enjoying living with my record collection again (my parents decided a few decades of dust from their house was enough). While I bought most of my LPs at the Salvation Army, almost all my 7 inches - except for one I recall very clearly buying at record show at Serb Hall (a story for another day) - came from Atomic Records, #Milwaukee's much regretted mecca for underground music. This o…
So the #ArtemisII FRR went "go" on all counts, they hope to roll out the stack to the pad again on 19 March and be ready to launch on 1 April at 22:24 UTC - the table of possible launch dates in April https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/artemis-ii-mission-availability.pdf just had another one added for 2 April.
Weekend Reads
* Post-quantum RPKI framework
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.06968
* DNSSEC negative trust anchors
https://
Ranking the best remaining free agents: Who are the top unsigned players? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48162895/2026-nfl-free-agency-ranking-best-remaining-available-unsigned-players
stackoverflow: Stack Overflow favorites (2011)
A bipartite network of users and the posts they have favorited, from the online Q&A site Stack Overflow. An edge (i,j) connects a user i to a post j if that user "favorited" that post (a kind of a rating). Edges are timestamped.
This network has 641876 nodes and 1301942 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Timestamps
Love how the network stack on Windows 11—an operating system more than 30 years old and having had dozens of major releases since NT 3.1—just occasionally hoses itself so bad I can't reven restart the computer without it hanging
“The Accessibility Problem Isn't Design. It's Engineering.”
https://gbbns.co/journal/accessibility-problem-isnt-design/
Looking at EAA as a compliance concern, with LLMs as the accelerant going the wrong direction.
Just had a "software engineer specializing on full stack AI/ML development" show up in the ngscopeclient dev chat, give like two lines of what looked like human generated feedback on the CI/build setup, then descend into AI slop completely misunderstanding the infrastructure.
What is the world coming to...
Next season already? Our way-too-early NFL Power Rankings stack all 32 teams for 2026 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47807175/nfl-way-too-early-power-rankings-poll-2026-offseason-three-words
The Document Foundation (TDF),
the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice,
welcomes the inclusion of the Open Document Format (ODF) as a mandated standard format in
Germany’s Deutschland-Stack,
the federal government’s sovereign digital infrastructure framework for all public administrations.
The Stack, published by the German Federal Ministry for Digital and State Modernisation
(Bundesministerium für Digitales und Staatsmodernisierung),
establishes the…
🗜️ The Silicon Valley Stack Doesn’t Work Here: Why Africa Will Lead the Post-Bloat Web
https://paulallies.medium.com/the-silicon-valley-stack-doesnt-work-here-why-africa-will-lead-the-post-bloat-web-e7c34b577c61
Old MacLinus had a stack/l-i-n-u-x/and on this stack he had a trace/l-i-n-u-x
with an Oops-Oops here and an Oops-Oops there
here an Oops, there an Oops, everywhere an Oops-Oops.
-- tjimenez@site.gmu.edu, linux.dev.kernel
How independent of the US corporations is your website that you use or even operate?
«Replace US tech with European alternatives:
Your current stack sends EU data to US servers under US law. Find sovereign, GDPR-native replacements in seconds.»
🇪🇺 https://www.cloudinfraatlas.eu
Three solutions to secure Europe’s digital sovereignty
1. Eurostack: building an independent European tech stack
2. Homegrown European social networks
3. Strong enforcement of Europe’s digital laws
https://www.techpolicy.press/europe-cant-de…
another photo from yesterday:-
#texture #mosstodon
Seattle's Defense Showed the Cowboys the Way in 2026 https://insidethestar.com/seattles-defense-showed-the-cowboys-the-way-in-2026
from my link log —
The asymmetry of Internet identity.
https://crawshaw.io/blog/identity-stack
saved 2019-09-30 https://dotat.at/:/P78ZV.html
I saw this on Reddit, and having the data to hand, I thought I'd replicate it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1s61cou/how_european_cities_stack_up_in_density/#lightbox
Just learned that https://eurostack.eu/ is a European Industrial Policy initiative for Europe-focused investments to build and adopt suites of digital infrastructures.
This policy initiative is different from
Oops: Error: Maximum call stack size of 2048000 bytes (zend.max_allowed_stack_size - zend.reserved_stack_size) reached. Infinite recursion?
#PHP
Israel-based Fig Security, which makes tools for companies to monitor their security stack, raised $38M in seed and Series A funding (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/03/fig-security-emerges-from-stealth…
pretty impressed with this crowdsourced product from a few years ago, it just got support merged into the latest product line, the old #SDRs getting again support. https://www.crowdsupply.com/fa…
One of the weirder cold contacts I've gotten:
> I cannot write this email opener.
>
> The research signals explicitly disqualify this contact and company. City of Cape Town operates municipal infrastructure (water, sanitation, electricity, waste) with no database technology stack, distributed systems, or data engineering workloads that align with <cold email org>'s offerings.
Misfiring LLM or some dark pattern, Edgelord nonsense?!?
“The barrier to creating software has genuinely dropped. That is not hype. What it means for professional engineers is not that their skills are less valuable, but that the skills that matter have shifted up the stack, as they have in every previous transition.
The developers who thrived after the move from assembly to C were not the ones who could write the most clever assembly. They were the ones who understood what the machine needed to do and could express that intent clearly in a higher-level language. The developers who thrived after the move to managed languages and frameworks were not the ones most resistant to garbage collection. They were the ones who saw the freed-up cognitive capacity as an opportunity to solve harder problems.
The developers who will thrive in the agentic era are the ones who understand this as another step in the same arc and invest accordingly. Not in resisting the tools. Not in deferring to them uncritically. In developing the judgment, clarity, and systems thinking that make the tools maximally effective.
That means writing better specs. Investing in test infrastructure. Developing genuine architectural understanding rather than surface familiarity. Building the taste to evaluate output rigorously. Practicing problem decomposition until it becomes second nature.
The era of programming as primarily a keystroke activity is over. The era of programming as primarily a thinking and judgment activity has been accelerating for decades and just shifted into a higher gear.”
#AITransition
#
https://addyosmani.com/blog/factory-model/
stackoverflow: Stack Overflow favorites (2011)
A bipartite network of users and the posts they have favorited, from the online Q&A site Stack Overflow. An edge (i,j) connects a user i to a post j if that user "favorited" that post (a kind of a rating). Edges are timestamped.
This network has 641876 nodes and 1301942 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Timestamps
🔁 Good tests are the first feedback loop — #AIAgents iterate until the tests go green
🥞 Any stack is your stack — conceptual understanding transfers even without hands-on framework experience
🤖 Agents are not just for coding — UX, infra, ops, analytics, ad campaigns, even accounting workflows
🧠 The context bottleneck is in your head — not in the model
🏗️ Build over Buy …
Amazon Ads announces the open beta of its Model Context Protocol, which lets advertisers connect AI agents to Amazon Ads through a single integration (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/amazon-agentic-ads-model-context-protocol/
This is, like, a geological slice of the manga I read those last few weeks. At some point I’ll find the energy to store them where they belong, but not today
#manga
«Schwachstellen in der Schweizer Digitalinfrastruktur:
Eine tiefgreifende Security-Untersuchung von mehr als 3,3 Millionen .ch-Domains zeigt teils erhebliche Sicherheitsmängel, zurückzuführen unter anderem auf starke Plattformkonzentration bezüglich Hosting-Anbieter und Technologie-Stack»
Interessant wäre es zusätzlich noch wie die .ch-Domains weltweit sichertsmässig relativ zugeordnet wären.
🌐
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
Gareth Farr, Mere Boynton, Virginia-Marie Stack, Simon O'Neil, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra & Kenneth Young:
🎵 Te Papa
#GarethFarr #MereBoynton #VirginiaMarieStack #SimonONeil #NewZealandSymphonyOrchestra
Miller's final 2026 NFL draft rankings: Let's stack the 482 best prospects https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2026/story/_/id/47190881/2026-nfl-draft-rankings-matt-miller-top-prospects-players-positions
It's April 2026 and Windows 11, the idk 15th (?) major release of Windows NT, an operating system first released 32 years ago just crashed it's networking stack so bad that rebooting doesn't work and I will have to force power-down and power-up my PC.
This happens about every 2 days.
The lengths ChatGPT goes to squirm out a answer putting OpenAI in a good light when you ask if its reasonable that they lost as much money as a stack of dollar bills as high as the length of Italy in one quarter is really funny.
What's with right-wingers gleefully hurting dogs?
https://bsky.app/profile/evanhurst.substack.com/post/3me62hgkkyc2u
Different Corners V ▶️
不同的角落 V ▶️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Application-level observability for adaptive Edge to Cloud continuum systems
Kaddour Sidi (IMT Atlantique - DAPI, STACK), Daniel Balouek (IMT Atlantique - DAPI, STACK), Baptiste Jonglez (LS2N, Inria, STACK)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14923
Where I'm at on post scarcity:
* The garbage collector is doing even worse than it was on 4th
February, when I did the last serious look at it.
* The bignum bugs are not fixed.
* You can (optionally) limit runaway stack crashes with a new command line option.
* If you enable the stack limiter feature, `(member? 5 '(1 2 3 4))` returns `nil`, as it should, but if you do not enable it, `(member? 5 '(1 2 3 4))` still causes a segfault. WTAF?
Does no…
Emdash, CloudFlare's "spiritual successor to WordPress" has been released.
Some of my findings
* Install/onboarding for non-technical users is simply not present (They will need hosting with Node.JS or deploy on CF.
* No ability to install plugins via ACP (Has to be through a config file)
* No theming options? (Might just be the 'playground' that it might not be on)
* Basic WYSIWYG editor
To me, it is like the old versions of
As Ukraine Burns, Trump Hangs a Photo of Himself With Putin in the White House
https://theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/as-ukraine-burns-trump-hangs-a-photo
Interesting, autoresearch by Karpathy. Problem is I don't even have one Nvidia GPU so I can only read about it.
https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch?utm_source=the new stack&utm_…
@… it’s very frustrating not to have any tech stack autonomy! sorry you’re going through it ❤️
The philosophy of the IT folks at my organization is “move fast and break things”
Move fast: add “implemented xyz technology” to my CV as fast as possible
Break things: the organizations tech stack.
Hey, look; @… and Studioworks featured in a blog post on #swift .org!
I'm also still very happy with our choice of Swift for web development.
Singapore-based Startale, developer of the Strium blockchain for tokenized securities and JPYSC and USDSC stablecoins, raised a $63M Series A from SBI and Sony (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/03/…
Deutschland-Stack 2.0: Vom abstrakten Fundament zum digitalen Betriebssystem
Nach der ersten Konsultationsrunde schärft der Bund das Gesamtbild für die nationale Cloud- und IT-Infrastruktur nach – mit neuen Schwerpunkten wie KI-Agenten.
Consumers caught in triple stack of pain (Neil Irwin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/28/iran-war-inflation-costs
http://www.memeorandum.com/260328/p21#a260328p21
Skip, the SwiftUI for Android stack is now open source.
The post details how they are going to fund their future work:
https://skip.dev/blog/skip-is-free/
The @… newsletter is really dangerous ... every week I'm adding services to my self-hosted stack because of them... #selfhosting #self-hosting
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Archibald:
🎵 Stack-A-Lee, Pts. 1 & 2
#Archibald
https://open.spotify.com/track/7eyfc3qx98PF84KAH8y7Zh
stackoverflow: Stack Overflow favorites (2011)
A bipartite network of users and the posts they have favorited, from the online Q&A site Stack Overflow. An edge (i,j) connects a user i to a post j if that user "favorited" that post (a kind of a rating). Edges are timestamped.
This network has 641876 nodes and 1301942 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Timestamps
Looking forward to #FOSDEM this weekend but I doubt it will be a recurring event for me, with it being in peak flu and COVID season. :blobcateyes: May my stack of FFP2 masks protect me well.
To ChatGPT: How does ReVision Implant stack up to Neuralink Blindsight? #BCI
How well do you remember these title-winning teams? See how you stack up https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/47541913/super-bowl-quiz-patriots-cowboys-49ers-seahawks
Agentic #AI #Patterns Reinforce #Engineering Discipline
The #Artemis stack on the pad in a good image from the ISS: https://x.com/Astro_ChrisW/status/2018365716181705015 - processed with IrfanView, using AutoAdjustColors and contrast adjustment. Meanwhile the Wet Dress Rehearsal is in trouble because of - you guessed it - a hydrogen leak. Since the updates on https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/ have become super-sparse it's hard to tell how serious the problem is.
qa_user: User interactions on Q&A websites (2016)
Networks of interactions among users from four online Q&A sites: Stack Overflow, Math Overflow, Super User, and Ask Ubuntu. A directed edge (i,j) indicates a user i responded to user j's post. Edges are timestamped. For each Q&A site, four differently defined networks are provided, based on the definition of an edge: (i) a user answered a question, (ii) a user commented on a question, (iii) a user commented on an answer…
Wall Street's idea that a software pure play will "vanish" into an LLM is "nonsense": we need more software, and AI-enabled software moves up the product stack (Steven Sinofsky/@stevesi)
https://x.com/stevesi/status/2019167552794948020
We ranked every Super Bowl champion, 1-60: How do the 2025 Seahawks stack up? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39416873/ranking-every-nfl-super-bowl-champion-history
Some City Some Nature V 🏙️
一些城一些自然 V 🏙️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
from my link log —
From Pratt parsing to the Dijkstra shunting yard.
https://matklad.github.io/2020/04/15/from-pratt-to-dijkstra.html
saved 2020-04-23
qa_user: User interactions on Q&A websites (2016)
Networks of interactions among users from four online Q&A sites: Stack Overflow, Math Overflow, Super User, and Ask Ubuntu. A directed edge (i,j) indicates a user i responded to user j's post. Edges are timestamped. For each Q&A site, four differently defined networks are provided, based on the definition of an edge: (i) a user answered a question, (ii) a user commented on a question, (iii) a user commented on an answer…
Right, problems for today. First. #Lisp problems. I think the bug in `cond` fires when a clause succeeds but returns `nil`.
First, write a unit test which checks for that, but run that test on my laptop where it physically cannot generate millions of stack frames.
Second, rewrite `cond` to call a separate helper function, `cond_clause`, which takes one arg and returns `nil` on failure, `…
@… out of order rendering might convince those full stack folks …wait
How independent of the US corporations is your website that you use or even operate?
«Replace US tech with European alternatives:
Your current stack sends EU data to US servers under US law. Find sovereign, GDPR-native replacements in seconds.»
🇪🇺 https://www.cloudinfraatlas.eu
A live view of the #ArtemisII stack on the pad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCrPD7tfcr0 - where the countdown for the Wet Dress Rehearsal has begun at 1:13 UTC; see https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/01/31/countdown-begins-for-artemis-ii-wet-dress-rehearsal/ for the timeline and https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/generalprobe-wet-dress-rehearsal-fur-artemis-ii/ for maaany Artemis-related links going back to 2023.
We’ve been saying this for years now, and we’re going to keep saying it until the message finally sinks in:
mandatory age verification creates massive, centralized honeypots of sensitive biometric data that will inevitably be breached.
Every single time.
And every single time it happens,
the politicians who mandated these systems and the companies that built them act shocked—shocked!
—that collecting enormous databases of government IDs, facial scans, and bio…
stackoverflow: Stack Overflow favorites (2011)
A bipartite network of users and the posts they have favorited, from the online Q&A site Stack Overflow. An edge (i,j) connects a user i to a post j if that user "favorited" that post (a kind of a rating). Edges are timestamped.
This network has 641876 nodes and 1301942 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Timestamps
If assumptions hold, SpaceX-xAI could own a full stack of capabilities, from launch to orbital bandwidth to frontier AI models, and offer AI on demand anywhere (Eric Berger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/spacex-acq…
2026 NFL offseason resource rankings: How do all 32 teams stack up by salary cap space and draft capital? https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-nfl-offseason-resource-rankings-how-do-all-32-teams-stack-up-by-salary-cap-space-…
Cloudflare debuts EmDash, an MIT-licensed, TypeScript-based CMS built on Astro, designed as a serverless "spiritual successor" to WordPress, available on GitHub (Cloudflare)
https://blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-wordpress/
The Wet Dress Rehearsal for #ArtemisII has begun in earnest with the tanking of the SLS Core stage now underway as planned: frequent updates on https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zDlM8d4Q7g (the pictures here from https://images.nasa.gov/ show yesterday's sunrise and moonrise behind the stack on the pad).
stackoverflow: Stack Overflow favorites (2011)
A bipartite network of users and the posts they have favorited, from the online Q&A site Stack Overflow. An edge (i,j) connects a user i to a post j if that user "favorited" that post (a kind of a rating). Edges are timestamped.
This network has 641876 nodes and 1301942 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Timestamps
Ty Cobb, an employee of the first Trump administration and a now outspoken critic of the president,
told The Beat on MS NOW Tuesday that the recent shift in Trump’s psychological condition was “palpable.”
That day alone, Trump spent a 90-minute press briefing mumbling to himself over a stack of papers,
alleging that “pirating ships” is the only thing that Somalis succeed at,
claiming that “God is very proud” of his first year back in office,
and alleging that a …
Source: Sam Altman told employees the DOD is willing to let OpenAI build its own "safety stack" and won't force OpenAI to comply if its model refuses a task (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/27/openai-in-talks-with-pentago…
And the #ArtemisII stack is back in the VAB, arriving around 1:00 UTC today: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/25/nasa-artemis-ii-rocket-returns-for-repairs/ - while in the assembly building, technicians will troubleshoot the helium flow issue to the rocket’s upper stage, replace batteries on the rocket’s upper stage, core stage, and solid rocket boosters as well as service its flight termination system.
Ranking every NFL team by salary cap space and draft capital ahead of free agency https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-ranking-every-nfl-team-by-salary-cap-space-and-draft-capital-ahead-of-free-agency
Cool picture of the #ArtemisII stack in front of the first quarter #Moon at the #KSC - supplied by ULA: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ulalaunch/55063964129/
Israel-based Gambit Security, which offers an AI-native cyber resilience platform that autonomously maps infrastructure, raised $61M across seed and Series A (Globes)
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-israeli-startup-ggambit-security-raises-61m-1001…
stackoverflow: Stack Overflow favorites (2011)
A bipartite network of users and the posts they have favorited, from the online Q&A site Stack Overflow. An edge (i,j) connects a user i to a post j if that user "favorited" that post (a kind of a rating). Edges are timestamped.
This network has 641876 nodes and 1301942 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Timestamps
Near the end of a sad journey ... the #ArtemisII stack almost back at the VAB after crawling for 9 1/2 hours, from the live feed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCrPD7tfcr0 - see https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/ for updates.
Ranking the NFL's top 100 free agents: Which players should land big contracts? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48043945/2026-nfl-free-agency-top-100-players-ranking-available-hendrickson-willis
Mumbai-based digital payments processor BillDesk agrees to acquire the Indian business of Worldline for an equity value of ~$70M, set to close in H2 2026 (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t
This image shows the #Kreutz comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) "on a stack build from (star subtracted) difference images [from the PUNCH satellites] between March 26, 7:28 UT and 13:36 UT. The visible tail extends to about 6 degrees" - but the recent brightness surge has levelled off at about 8.8 mag.: https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/message/35114
Bengaluru-based Swish, which offers a 10-minute food delivery service, raised a $38M Series B at a $139M post-money valuation, bringing its total raised to $54M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/23/bengaluru-f…