Tootfinder

TFW you notice that your Synology-local-backup to cloud-backup hasn't been working since you moved in October 2024 because you’d stupidly hardwired the Synology DNS to the former residence’s now-wrong 192.168. Would have been sad if the house burned down. Would have been nice if the Synology had complained.
Discovered this in the course of a search for a non-US (ideally Canadian) Synology-friendly cloud backup. Promising: eazyBackup and ionos.ca HiDrive.

Q&A with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on Gemini Enterprise, AI's labor implications, hype around AI agents, AI industry's circular investments, and more (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/google-cloud-ceo-thomas-kurian-on-ecd

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on Gemini Enterprise, AI's Labor Implications, Investment Frenzy
What's going wrong in the AI enterprise rollout, and what fundamentals are needed to make it work, according to the Google Cloud chief.

My take for #silentSunday . Seen yesterday from the summit that I was #hiking to. I had to zoom in quite a bit to capture this distant scene.
Whenever I see a trailrunner passing me with his ultralight / small backpack, I'm wondering why I'm carrying that heavy gear up those mounta…

She Lies

REACH: Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Microservice Rescheduling in the Cloud-Edge Continuum
Xu Bai, Muhammed Tawfiqul Islam, Rajkumar Buyya, Adel N. Toosi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06675

REACH: Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Microservice Rescheduling in the Cloud-Edge Continuum
Cloud computing, despite its advantages in scalability, may not always fully satisfy the low-latency demands of emerging latency-sensitive pervasive applications. The cloud-edge continuum addresses this by integrating the responsiveness of edge resources with cloud scalability. Microservice Architecture (MSA) characterized by modular, loosely coupled services, aligns effectively with this continuum. However, the heterogeneous and dynamic computing resource poses significant challenges to the op…

Grad applicants, what's preventing your Brown PhD application prose looking like this?
This is from NotebookLM. We're experimenting with it because a handful of apps statements…
Also: I can't think of a worse description for how the Brown formal methods group works.

The fourth #AAS247 press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZmP4fC07-Q about The Milky Way and Stellar Explosions covered the paper Resolving the Fe K-alpha Doublet of the Galactic Center Molecular Cloud G0.11-0.11 with XRISM (https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02482), 25 years of observing the Kepler supernova remnant with Chandra (https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2026/kepler/ and https://chandra.si.edu/press/26_releases/press_010626.html and https://www.nasa.gov/missions/chandra/supernova-remnant-video-from-nasas-chandra-is-decades-in-making/) and the paper Where do stars explode in the ISM? -- The distribution of dense gas around evolved massive stars in M33 (https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17694 with https://public.nrao.edu/news/stars-that-die-off-the-beaten-path/).

The current "Never Post" episode on DIYing your "cloud" is great. Not just cause it shows what is possible, that you actually can do a lot, but also the cost (financial and others). Because hosting things (especially for others) is and requires care work. Great interview.
https://www.neverpo.st/dont-do-it-yourself…

🆕 Never Post! Don’t Do It Yourself
Unless you know what you're doing.

SAP has listened to customers on cloud migration, but it could still be clearer on communicating the 'why', and it should use some apps as loss-leaders, says UK and Ireland SAP User Group chair Conor Riordan.
https://www.computing.co.uk/interview/2025

SAP should offer some apps for free, says user group head
SAP has listened to customers on cloud migration, but it could still be clearer on communicating the 'why', and it should use some apps as loss-leaders, says UK and Ireland SAP User Group chair Conor Riordan.

Source: Lambda, which rents access to AI chips and is backed by Nvidia, is in talks to raise $350M led by Mubadala Capital, ahead of an IPO planned for H2 2026 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-back…

Nvidia-Backed Cloud Provider Lambda in Talks to Raise $350 Million Ahead of IPO
Lambda, an upstart cloud provider that rents out Nvidia AI chips—and whose biggest customer was recently Nvidia itself—is trying to raise at least $350 million before a potential initial public offering this year, according to a person familiar with the discussions. Mubadala Capital, which ...

A few snaps from last week’s trip to Forrest, VIC, in the Otway ranges. Taken on a morning run. #running #straya

Terrain-Aided Navigation Using a Point Cloud Measurement Sensor
Abd\"ulbaki \c{S}anlan, Fatih Erol, Murad Abu-Khalaf, Emre Koyuncu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06470 https://…

Terrain-Aided Navigation Using a Point Cloud Measurement Sensor
We investigate the use of a point cloud measurement in terrain-aided navigation. Our goal is to aid an inertial navigation system, by exploring ways to generate a useful measurement innovation error for effective nonlinear state estimation. We compare two such measurement models that involve the scanning of a digital terrain elevation model: a) one that is based on typical ray-casting from a given pose, that returns the predicted point cloud measurement from that pose, and b) another computatio…

Shit people, idioms only work if we all agree on the definitions!
After nearly 200 years of "Out-Of-Pocket" meaning "Paid for it yourself", some ignorant bonehead mashed "Out of office" together with it, and now all of corporate America says "Out-of-pocket" when they mean "unavailable".
Culturally it important? No, of course not. Am I irrationally furious every time I spend time during a meeting looking like an idiot because I h…

huh, the cloud really did eat everything
[src: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/32d6m0d1]

"One workload I now support would cost an estimated £6000 per month to run on one of the large cloud providers, which would allow me to purchase the actual hardware in use four times over every year. But “spinning up an instance” today using free credits means you can worry about that cost later, whereas ordering a box from Dell means waiting two to three business days by which time the hackathon is over."

Five Computers
There is no direct evidence that Thomas Watson, Sr. predicted in 1943 that there would be "a world market for five computers". First, he probably didn't know about computers back then: in the 1940s computers were classified research projects at the UK Government Code and Cipher School and the US Army, while Watson's IBM were famously involved with the other side during the war.

@… draw for me a black and white scetch of a man in a suit looking stressed out in front of his computer. The upper part of his head is gone and it comes a muschroom cloud out of his head. The background is a cluttered office space

Tigris, which is building a network of localized data storage centers that it claims can meet the compute needs of AI workloads, raised a $25M Series A (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/09/this-distributed-data-stor…

This distributed data storage startup wants to take on Big Cloud | TechCrunch
Tigris has raised $25 million to expand its growing network of localized data storage centers — the storage layer for decentralized computing infrastructure.

Good morning from Harlem
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NYC

I don’t know about you, but I carry my Raspberry Pi every where I go.
https://boingboing.net/2026/01/05/raspberry-pi-and-flipper-zero-banned-from-mamdanis-inauguration.html

Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero banned from Mamdani's inauguration
In a blog post, Adafruit's Phillip Torrone reports that the Raspberry Pi has been banned from Zohran Mamdani's inauguration as mayor of New York City. The city has banned the…

"Demokratische Kultur entsteht durch Übung. Jedes Gespräch, das von aufmerksamem Zuhören und aufrichtigem Sprechen geprägt ist, ist ein kleiner Schritt hin zu einer menschlicheren, inklusiveren und effektiveren Demokratie."
Josef Merk
#SprechenUndZuhören
#DemokratieStärken

Bridging Political Divides Through Democratic Dialogue: The »Speaking & Listening« Approach in Germany — Democracy & Belonging Forum
It is important to oppose authoritarian populism with fact-checking and critique, but we believe it is also crucial to pursue a positive, alternative vision. For us, this vision is an embodiment of democratic values, best expressed by the narrative: “Even when I strongly disagree with your opinion,

The 247th meeting of the American Astronomical Society #AAS247 is underway, coming with 8 press conferences - https://aas.org/meetings/aas247/press-kit#briefings - streaming on https://www.youtube.com/@AASPressOffice. There were already two yesterday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gAjRP1xLtQ about Galaxies Big and Small, covering e.g. https://public.nrao.edu/news/hidden-giants-of-the-early-universe/ / https://news.ucmerced.edu/news/2026/astronomers-reveal-hidden-activity-early-universe’s-most-massive-galaxies / https://keckobservatory.org/aas247-magaz3ne/ and https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae1584 (The First RELHIC? Cloud-9 is a Starless Gas Cloud) -> https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-examines-cloud-9-first-of-new-type-of-object/ / https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Cloud-9_a_new_celestial_object_found_by_Hubble / https://public.nrao.edu/news/starless-dark-matter-failed-galaxy-near-m94/.
And https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvpDVq-7h6E about Stars and Their Behavior, covering e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00470 (Betelgeuse: Detection of the Expanding Wake of the Companion Star) -> https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/cfa-scientists-detect-wake-betelgeuses-elusive-companion-star / https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasa-hubble-helps-detect-wake-of-betelgeuses-elusive-companion-star/ and https://aas.org/sites/default/files/2026-01/Steven and Tyler AAS Press Release.pdf and https://public.nrao.edu/news/alma-devours-cosmic-hamburger-reveals-potential-for-giant-planet-formation/

Novel point cloud registration approach for noninvasive patient specific estimation of leaflet strain from 3D images of heart valves
Wensi Wu, Matthew Daemer, Jeffrey A. Weiss, Alison M. Pouch, Matthew A. Jolley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06578

Novel point cloud registration approach for noninvasive patient specific estimation of leaflet strain from 3D images of heart valves
Valvular heart disease is prevalent and a major contributor to heart failure. Valve leaflet strain is a promising metric for evaluating the mechanics underlying the initiation and progression of valvular pathology. However, robust and generalizable methods for noninvasively quantifying valvular strain from clinically acquired patient images remain limited. In this work, we present a novel feature-tracking framework for quantifying leaflet strain in atrioventricular valves using 3D echocardiogra…

HOW TO PROVE IT, PART 7
proof by forward reference:
Reference is usually to a forthcoming paper of the author,
which is often not as forthcoming as at first.
proof by semantic shift:
Some of the standard but inconvenient definitions are changed
for the statement of the result.
proof by appeal to intuition:
Cloud-shaped drawings frequently help here.

On the way to Gepatschferner, September 2025... How I miss this place!
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

Send this article to your friend who still thinks the #cloud is a good idea
https://rameerez.com/send-this-article-to-your-friend-who-still-thinks-the…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Blur:
🎵 The Narcissist
#NowPlaying #Blur
https://hotelofthelaughingtree.bandcamp.com/track/cloud-caverns-the-narcissist-blur
https://open.spotify.com/track/35d93v9AXADp8Wc0qJ3mIo

The thing is, if at all, I love my geeking. Slackware, Gentoo, FreeBSD, you get it. But Jorge Castro just put up a new Bluefin template to build your own cloud based container image. Similar to how I did it before with Bluebuild. This is irresistible. I'll be back.
#bluefin #cloudcomputing

And then there is Atlassian's "Confluence" which now has a new "cloud" editor for documents.
Gark that is an awful tool. It looses keystrokes and makes it really hard to do simple things like add a forward slash character. (The slash character invokes a rather silly pop up that one can't actually reach before it vanishes.) To enter a / character one has to very - and I mean very - quickly enter the / followed by a space.
Does anyone at Atlassian act…

For hosting our internal source code repositories, we're using #gitea. There are a bunch of other options and all of them seem to mimic github's look and feel. Gitea was the one I found out about first some years ago and it stuck. It has an issue tracker and works well for doing pull requests and reviewing them online.
There's a commercial cloud hosting offer and an enterprise opt…

If Letchworth State Park is the Grand Canyon of New York, Monkey Run is the Letchworth State Park of Tompkins County -- here's a spot you can only get to if you're willing to walk the creek in water shoes
#photo #photography

I think that one thing that kicked "being an AI thought leader" into higher gear than what happened with "the cloud" or whatnot is that to be an "AI expert" you literally don't have to know or be capable of anything.

RE: https://social.tchncs.de/@Ascendor/115852716403981312
This doesn't really affect me since I don't mess w/ cloud robots, but it sure would be neat(o) if they released the source code for all the vacuum 'bots!

Pebble unveils the Pebble Index 01, a $99 smart ring with an on-device LLM for processing voice notes, shipping in March 2026, initially for $75 (Julian Chokkattu/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/pebble-index-ring/

Pebble Index: Everything You Need to Know About the $75 Smart Ring
You can speak into the Pebble Index to have it remember things or set reminders, timers, and tasks. No cloud processing, no subscription, and best of all, no charging.

The cloud is an excellent tool for many workloads, I won't deny that.
But it is important to remember that “The Cloud” is still, essentially, "Someone Else’s Computer."
That means your data exists inside someone else’s jurisdiction, logs, metadata, and access paths.
And in the age of AI, being aware of that matters more than ever.

So according to initial measurements, this month so far I've generated... five percent of my total house/lab energy demand (I'm 100% electric, no gas) from solar lol.
That's honestly not half bad considering it's winter with the sun low in the sky the few hours it's up at all, and we've had pretty much 100% cloud cover. I actually got up to 47% of my instantaneous usage from the array at peak.
Far from grid independent but it's a step in the right dire…

North wind and gray cloud
Shift the pallor of the sky
'Til it looks like snow.
#dailyhaikuprompt - north wind
#haiku
#poem

I'm at the Alasca Cloud summit in Dresden today. Feel free to come say hi! #Alasca #Cloud

Without wanting to detract from the main thrust of the article, I find the usage "new species" interestingly anthropocentric.
A new frog species emerges from Peru’s cloud forests — and it’s already at risk
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/a-ne<…

A new frog species emerges from Peru’s cloud forests — and it’s already at risk
Deep within the cloud forests of the San Martín region of Peru lie two places so high, cold and remote that they remained virtually unexplored for decades. In 2022, and again in 2025, monitors from three Indigenous and local associations guided a team of scientists from Peru and France on a series of expeditions to […]

Is it just me, or does this mushroom cloud have a clown face and clown hair in it?

I guess the plans for Sunday swimming are off the table at the current temperatures. #Uckermark #coldswim

the flip side of this is that of course you will get groupthink because Filipinos only recommend Filipinos etc etc :-) where Filipinos could be any group LOL
https://mastodon.cloud/@jasongorman/115631797677448363

🎶#Pruef !!!
In the Name of Love,
Before they Break my Staat…🎶
📻This is #PruefRadio 📻
🤫It‘s all in your Head

Currently most biggest email providers put mails from my domain in TLD .cloud and my server to spam. Even tho I have all the shiny things set up like SPF, DKIM, DMARC, reverse dns, the domain is not new, and there was never spam sent from my server. I am not on any blacklist of course.
And I don't get why ppl actually don't check what is in spam folder, like they really receive so much spam, so that they can't notice there is something? I have plenty of mail accounts in var…

Wow, what a wonderful day at @… ! They put on a great conference and I was honored to have been part of it. I held a privacy workshop and gave a #fedvierse talk. I just posted the worksheets from the workshop and the presentation from the talk over on the …

Moody Urbanity - Old & New 🔆
情绪化城市 - 新与旧 🔆
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Donald Trump signed into law this month a measure that 👉 prohibits anyone based in China and "other adversarial countries" from accessing the Pentagon’s cloud computing systems.
The ban, which is tucked inside the $900 billion defense policy law,
was enacted in response to a ProPublica investigation this year that exposed how Microsoft used China-based engineers to service the
Defense Department’s computer systems for nearly a decade
— a practice that left s…

Trump Signs Defense Bill Prohibiting China-Based Engineers in Pentagon IT Work
The measure, which emerged in response to a ProPublica investigation, bars Microsoft engineers in China and other adversarial countries from servicing sensitive Pentagon cloud computing systems.

Ich hatte ja Sorge, dass die Sprachbarriere Europa und insbesondere Deutschland zurückhält. Jetzt bin ich froh darum. Wir haben selber ne Wagenladung voll Probleme, wir müssen nicht noch importieren. https://silvan.cloud/@gersande/115647757482315486

Good morning from Harlem
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NYC

#Stromberg #fritzemerz im Guardian 🫣
‘Embodying the zeitgeist more than ever’: German sitcom character Stromberg revived for Merz era

NextEra Energy expands its partnership with Google Cloud to develop data centre campuses across the US and secures 2.5 GW of clean energy contracts from Meta (Vallari Srivastava/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/next…

#enshittification
simply don‘t use Uber and similar schemes. https://gaysex.cloud/notes/ah0fzy5pnmk302qh

Current situation... Could be worse. Could be tenting... Heavy rain watch for the next dozen or so hours... Have a great finish to your year! It was... a year, eh. Ok to put it behind us.

Sehr lesenswert: Der Verband »Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe« #CISPE bewertet das neue 🇪🇺 »Cloud Sovereignty Framework« in einem Statement als Fehlschlag:
> No Such Thing as “75% Sovereign” – Europe Needs a Clear Definition of “Sovereign Cloud” - The #EU

"How are we to live as people of faith and morals in such a world? As we come upon All Saints Day again this year, I am seeking answers by dwelling in the great cloud of witnesses, looking to my ancestors and to their stories."
—YDS Associate Dean Vicki Flippin '08 M.Div. in her new "Faith Matters" column for the New Haven Independent.

"On July 23rd, 1984, the song was recorded at the Flying Cloud Drive Warehouse in Eden Prairie with the entire band. The song was played and recorded live. After 21 minutes the tape was full and the band were still playing."
It was never released before, with a reason, 21 minutes is a bit long 😆, still interesting for any Prince fan. And the song has an amazing groove...

America (12" Version) - 2025 Remaster
Prince · Around the World in a Day (Deluxe Edition) [2025 Remaster] · Song · 2025

Replaced article(s) found for physics.ao-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.ao-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Structured dataset of reported cloud seeding activities in the United States (2000-2025) using an...
Jared Joseph Donohue, Kara D. Lamb

To my mind the following article suggests that the present day "AI" approach is very wrong.
Why? Because biological RI (Real Intelligence) out performs CI (Computer Intelligence) by orders of magnitude on many dimensions: power required (perhaps 20 to 50 watts for the human brain), weight, size, cooling, and ability to innovate in new ways.
Our present digital computer approach to intelligence seems about as apt as trying to power passenger airplanes using onboard coal…

OpenAI Signs $38 Billion Cloud Computing Deal With Amazon
After signing agreements to use computing power from Nvidia, AMD and Oracle, OpenAI is partnering with the world’s largest cloud computing company.

#Kubernetes 1.35 Released with In-Place Pod Resize and AI-Optimized Scheduling
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/12/kubernetes-1-35/

One one side i'd rather have those large corporations spend their money in the economy instead of holding cash in the bank account of their billionnaire owners.
On the other hand, it's hard to think there is anything sustainable to the amount of money spent on AI right now.
Screenshot from Bloomberg this morning
#FAANG

In order to report my phone as lost, I have to log in to the carrier's website. In order to log in to the carrier's website, I have to type in my password as usual, and *then* I have to type in the 9 digit code they sent to my phone... My lost phone.
2-factor authentication has never *once* done me any good, but it sure has fucked up plenty of significant events in my life! Good job, Comp. Sci., you made everything suck.

Okay, here's the promised follow-up with more authors I respect who didn't make it onto this list. I won't do deep dives but I'll list at least one work per author:
YA novelists:
- Randi Pink ("Girls Like Us")
- Louisa Onomé ("Twice as Perfect")
- Emery Lee ("Meet Cute Diary")
- Robin Benway ("Far from the Tree")
- Angela Velez ("Lulu and Milagro's Search for Clarity")
Children's book authors:
- Jacqueline Davies ("Bubbles Up")
- Freya Hartas ("Slow Down in the Park")
Novelists:
- Rimma Onoseta ("How You Grow Wings")
Graphic novelists:
- Linda Medley ("Castle Waiting")
- 🖋️Magsalene Visaggio 🖌️Paulina Ganucheau ("Girlmode")
- Ursula Vernon ("Digger")
- SJ Sindu ("Tall Water" w/ Dion MBD)
- Hope Larson ("Be That Way"; "Salt Magic" w/ Rebecca Mock)
- Lily Williams Karen Schneemann ("Go With the Flow")
- Maia Kobabe ("Gender Queer")
- Kay O'Neill ("Tea Dragon Society")
- Marjane Satrapi ("Persepolis")
Mangaka:
- Kaoru Mori ("Young Bride's Stories")
- Ryoko Kui ("Delicious in Dungeon")
- Natsuki Takaya ("Fruits Basket")
Anime writers/directors and/or Japanese light/fantasy/SF novelists:
- Nahoko Uehashi ("Moribito")
- Sayo Yamamoto ("Michiko & Hatchin"; "Yuri!!! On Ice")
- Mari Okada ("Ano Hana: The Flower we Saw That Day"; "Toradora!")
Game designers/programmers:
(Upon review I was pretty remiss in skipping over a few of these people, some of whom I wasn't aware of but most of whom I just didn't remember when writing my short list. Subconscious misogyny in action. Short & Thorson probably would have squeezed out some of the YA authors I included, although I have no real regrets.)
- Junko Kawano ("Suikoden")
- Elizabeth LaPensée ("When Rivers Were Trails")
- Momo Pixel ("Hair Nah")
- Zoë Quinn ("Depression Quest"; narrative designer on "Solar Ash")
- Kellee Santiago ("Cloud"; "Flower")
- Tanya X. Short ("Moon Hunters")
- Kim Swift ("Portal")
- Maddy Thorson ("Celeste")
- Andi McClure @… ("Jumpman")
Note: I haven't included composers or artists here, but there's a deep bench.
Games journalists/steamers:
- Tanya DePass @… (#/INeedDiverseGames; twitch streams)
- Anita Sarkeesian (Feminist Frequency)
Game/play scholars:
- Mary Flanagan ("Critical Play")
- Tracy Fullerton ("Game Design Workshop")
- Brenda Laurel ("Toward the Design of a Computer-Based Interactive Fantasy System")
- Janet Murray ("Hamlet on the Holodeck"l
- Susana Tosca ("A Pragmatics of Links")
- Jichen Zhu ("Agency Play: Dimensions of Agency for Interactive Narrative Design")
- Magy Seif El Nasr ("Design patterns to guide player movement in 3D games")
- Kate Compton ("Causal Creators"; also "Spore")
P.S. upon consideration I've decided not to include any authors who are men in this coda.
There are definitely others who probably deserve to be here that I'm forgetting...
#GsmeDesign #Authors

Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
AVON: The magnetic barrier must have triggered automatically. The freighter was impervious to it, therefore its fuselage must've been demagnetized. Ours hasn't. If it hadn't been for the force wall, we would be a cloud of agitated atoms.
VILA: I wish I was a cloud of agitated atoms!
https://

How can the European Open Science Cloud (#EOSC) evolve into a truly sustainable and federated ecosystem post-2027?
This is the question we explored together with our partners in the European e-Infrastructures Assembly – EGI Foundation, EUDAT, @…, and PRACE – in a…

Amazon Web Services announces AWS RTB Fabric, a real-time bidding service for ad buyers and sellers, aiming to cut integration hours between ad tech partners (Seb Joseph/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/marketing/amazons-next-frontier-in-ad…

Amazon’s next frontier in advertising: the cloud infrastructure it runs on
The ad dollars are nice but the real prize for Amazon is the infrastructure itself -- the rails on which the entire system runs.

★ Do you get excited or upset about AWS SCPs, or GCP Org Policies?
★ Do you have experience developing software to solve cloud security challenges?
★ Do you downplay your cloud security knowledge but actually you know a lot of niche oddities of cloud IAM?
★ Do you like working in diverse security teams that care about your wellbeing?
★ Do you want to get paid to work on cloud security for one of the most sophisticated AWS environments in the world?
I'm hiring a…

Security Software Engineer (L5), Cloud Infrastructure Security | USA - Remote | Netflix
Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time. Netflix operates our streaming service control plane on Amazon Web Services, which has led to one of the largest and most sophisticated AWS environments in the world. C…

Don't mess with the #zohran 🥳

BananaFin, my mix of project Banana (immutable KDE/Aurora) and BlueFin, is reaching finalization.Tomorrow some more testing (have brew and flatpak install my own applications upon first boot), but it is all running very smoothly. Aside from this being my hobby as well, you'd just install this and get on with it. And yes, it's a bootc container, from the cloud, secure boot enabled and it runs flatpaks and systemd. And very well, thank you!

Scientists Discover Building Blocks of Life in Ice Around a Forming Star (ST6) in Neighboring Galaxy (Large Magellanic Cloud).
https://cmns.umd.edu/news-events/news/marta-sewilo-discovers-building-blocks-life-ice-around-forming-star…

PlayStation starts rolling out cloud streaming to the PlayStation Portal, after a beta in 2024, to let some users stream select titles without a PS5 connection (Ash Parrish/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/814078/playstation-portal-ps5-cloud-streaming

Cloud streaming finally arrives on the PlayStation Portal
Sony’s official launch of PS5 cloud streaming to the PlayStation Portal comes with refreshed menus, PlayStation Plus games, and 3D audio support.

"Spoiler alert: unless there happens to be some breakthrough in physics that will drive more gigahertz to our CPUs, more crypto to those GPUs, more watts to our batteries, and more money to cloud providers, we most probably will not see any difference between the computer you are using today and the one you will receive as a gift in Christmas 2033. Get used to this fact."

Return to Innocence
The pages of this magazine have often orbited around the subject of retrocomputing. Take, for example, the editions about sustainability, computer museums, hardware, hobbies, gaming, operating systems, or the one about BASIC published last summer. If you pay attention, you most probably have realized how much retrocomputing has grown in popularity in the past few decades, with more and more people learning on YouTube or TikTok how to replace the batteries or leaking capacitors from the motherbo…

I usually post in the evening today's post inthe morning for the 'Fotovorschlag' somehow broke my routine.
Anyways, I wanted to share this photo from my hike on sunday. It was my first winter-hike this season! Saturday was a great cloud inversion - which I missed - sunday greeted me (and QUITE some more hikers) with a plain blue sky.
I hope I can get out again on the weekend to test warmer socks.
Well - enjoy!

Good morning from Harlem
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NYC

Sources: Nvidia has struggled to monetize its Omniverse software and the company shuttered the Omniverse Cloud service in August 2025 due to lack of demand (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidias-big-ambitions…

Nvidia’s Big Ambitions to Solve Manufacturing Shows Slow Returns So Far
In the past two years, Nvidia’s business of selling chips for AI has rocketed into the stratosphere, lifting the company’s revenue to nearly $148 billion in the nine months through October, up from $27.5 billion for the same period in 2023. But CEO Jensen Huang isn’t satisfied. Perpetually ...

Cheap Self-Hosted #Kubernetes on #Hetzner Cloud
https://blog.qstars.nl/posts/cheap-sel

"Such an update allows the company in China to create an update that allows the bus to not run in any way. "
https://www.zetland.dk/historie/svNwC3c5-aOPVxA4K-224e5

Dybt i et norsk fjeld blev en kinesisk bybus splittet ad. En status på vores frygt
En kinesisk bus blev nøje analyseret for mystiske signaler.

The "cloud" thing everyone's always talking about.
#Cloud #Datacenter

A profile of Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, who said his 2025 re:Invent keynote was his last to make room for other voices and warned devs about "verification debt" (Marcus Schuler/Implicator.ai)
https://www.implicator.ai/werne…

Werner Vogels' Final Keynote: The Renaissance Developer Era
Werner Vogels ends his 14-year keynote streak by handing out printed newspapers and warning developers about "verification debt." His parting message: AI generates code faster than humans can understand it. The work is yours, not the tools.

I am mixed on this one...
On one hand I can see the risk of having Chinese people in China work on (which means "have access to", and often "have privileged access to") US DoD systems.
However, I don't see the other half of the issue - What do do about people who are not in China (perhaps in the US, even US citizens) who are, or have been induced, to use their access to promote the interests of a foreign power?
Given that under Cheato the US is dumbi…

Trump Signs Defense Bill Prohibiting China-Based Engineers in Pentagon IT Work
The measure, which emerged in response to a ProPublica investigation, bars Microsoft engineers in China and other adversarial countries from servicing sensitive Pentagon cloud computing systems.

Lewis Perelman hatte es 1992 schon drauf:
„The mission of hyperlearning is not only vision but action. HL's purpose is to enhance the human user's ability to direct the potent technology of the smart environment, lest the human be reduced to technology's object.

for those who can't be bothered with the bogus age limit thing, check it out at: https://skyview.social/?url=https:%2F/bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ragtjsm2j2vknwkz3zp4oxrd/post/3mbcvjmqdtk…

I escaped the #fog today for a while, took some photos, noticed that I should start training a bit more in the next weeks.
But most importantly, I just enjoyed being out, had some friendly words with some hikers and had some fresh air.
#hiking

Isn't it funny how the right constantly wrings their hands over how members of any societal group they don't like, be it trans people, gay people, or even just users of recreational drugs, need to lose a bunch of their rights because somehow, they are a danger to children?
And by "funny", I mean "infuriating", because so many of them are themselves the actual threat to children...

Christian youth pastor who shared anti-LGBTQ+ post arrested on child sexual abuse charges
A Christian youth pastor who shared anti-LGBTQ+ posts has been arrested on child sexual abuse charges in California.

Sources: Fluidstack, an AI cloud provider that is aiding Google's effort to expand access to its TPUs, is in talks to raise $700M led by Situational Awareness (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-cloud-pr…

AI Cloud Provider Aiding Google’s Chip Push Is in Talks to Raise $700 Million
Fluidstack, a cloud provider aiding Google’s AI chip push, is in talks to raise more than $700 million in new financing, according to two people with knowledge of the deal. A one-year-old investment fund started by ex-OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner is in talks to lead the financing, one ...

We Deleted #Tokio From Our Payment System and Cut Cloud Costs by $127,000
https://medium.com/@the_atomic_architect/we-deleted-tok…

Am I the only one who gets a little subversive thrill every time I type in my unnecessarily required birthdate as January first, 1970, knowing that somebody, somewhere, someday, maybe an AI, is going to expend a lot of effort trying to determine if a) that's my actual birthday, b) there's a bug in their signup processing, or c) I somehow hacked the web form to let me submit it without the date filled in?

Brookfield is launching a cloud company called Radiant and a new $10B AI fund, and plans to acquire up to $100B in land, data centers, and power assets for AI (Miles Kruppa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/brookfield-start-cloud-b…

Brookfield to Start Cloud Business to Lower Cost of AI
Private-equity firm Brookfield is starting its own cloud business, going up against tech giants like Amazon by arguing it can bring down the costs of developing AI. The firm, which has long invested in infrastructure and energy, is becoming the first major investment firm to try to lease chips ...

On the plus side, given Emperor Trumps' history of using shoddy materials and stiffing the folks who actually build his construction projects, there's a good chance that he'll be killed or incapacitated by his new ballroom!

Google Cloud partners with Replit to expand the use of Google's cloud offerings and AI models and to jointly support AI use cases for enterprise customers (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/google-replit-ai-vibe-coding-anthropic-cursor.html

Google taps AI vibe-coder Replit in challenge to Anthropic and Cursor
Replit will expand usage of Google Cloud services, add more of Google's models onto its platform, and support AI coding use cases for enterprise customers.

Source: Google is in early talks to deepen its strategic investment in Anthropic that could value the AI company at more than $350B (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-deepen-investment-in-ai-anthropic-2025-11

Google is in early discussions to deepen its investment in Anthropic
Google is in early discussions to deepen its investment in Anthropic. The two companies announced a massive cloud computing deal in October.

In case you were wondering what an *actual* snowflake looks like...
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-claims-its-illegal-for-late-night-host-seth-meyers-to-mock-him/

Trump, 79, Claims It’s ‘Illegal’ for Late-Night Host to Mock Him
The president is once again shouting at the TV.

As part of the AWS deal, OpenAI says it will immediately begin running workloads on AWS infrastructure, tapping hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs in the US (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/03/open-ai-amazon-aws-cloud-deal.html

Amazon closes at record after $38 billion OpenAI deal with AWS
OpenAI will immediately begin tapping Nvidia's AI processors using infrastructure from Amazon Web Services.

Why do hundreds and hundreds of websites all incorrectly, and weirdly using identical phrases, insist that the the term 'blog' is short for 'web log' (True), "which was originally a record of server requests" (False)?
https://mybookjoy.com/2020/06/23/word-

Word origins: Why is it called a “blog?”
I’ve been blogging for over a year now, which is a big exciting accomplishment for me! And yet, it wasn’t until this week that I stopped and thought about how weird the word blog is. It…

Filing: Nvidia says it plans to rent $26B worth of servers over the next six years, doubling the cloud spending commitments it disclosed three months ago (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/nvidia-doubles-clou…

Nvidia Doubles Cloud Spending Commitment to $26 Billion
Nvidia said Wednesday it had struck deals to rent $26 billion of servers from cloud providers over the next six years, doubling the cloud spending commitments it disclosed just three months ago. The cloud spending plan implies Nvidia will rent several hundred thousand of its own graphics processing units from cloud providers like Amazon and Google that purchase them. Nvidia said in a

Nvidia announces native apps for its GeForce NOW cloud gaming service for select Linux distributions and Amazon Fire TV sticks, available in early 2026 (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/854688/nvidias-geforce-now-is-getting…

Nvidia’s GeForce Now is getting native Linux and Fire TV apps
Nvidia is launching new GeForce Now apps for Linux and Amazon’s Fire TV devices. It’s also adding flight control support to its streaming service.

Microsoft plans to spend $7.9B on data centers, cloud, and staff in the UAE over the next four years, taking its total UAE investment to $15B from 2023 to 2029 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11…

Datadog's stock jumps 20% after reporting Q3 revenue up 28% YoY to $885.7M, above $852.8M est., and forecasting Q4 revenue at $912M-$916M, above $877M est. (Jaures Yip/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/datadogs-ddog-stock-earnings.html

Datadog's stock soars 20% on revenue beat, strong forecast
Datadog has rolled out multiple artificial intelligence technologies as the AI boom boosts demand for cloud security.

Sources: Nvidia's DGX Cloud is merging with the engineering unit, pivoting from selling cloud services to enterprises to supporting internal AI development (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-restructures-clou…

Nvidia Restructures Cloud Team After Retreating From AWS Competition
More than two years after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang shared his vision to develop a cloud service that could rival Amazon Web Services, he has backed away from competing with such firms and last week reorganized his company’s cloud team, according to several people with knowledge of the ...

An interview with AWS CEO Matt Garman on his AI vision, how he plans to extend Amazon's cloud market lead, adding AI to AWS services, AI efficiencies, and more (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-aws-ceo-matt-garman-ai-agents/

AWS CEO Matt Garman Wants to Reassert Amazon’s Cloud Dominance in the AI Era
As Google and Microsoft continue to surge, the AWS chief lays out his pitch: cheaper, reliable AI delivered at hyperscale.

Sources: Google has begun pitching customers, including Meta and big financial institutions, on the idea of using TPUs in their own data centers (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-encroaches-nvidias-turf-new-ai-chip-push

Google Further Encroaches on Nvidia’s Turf With New AI Chip Push
Google is picking up the pace of its efforts to compete directly with Nvidia in the AI chip business. For years, the search giant has rented its own AI chips, known as tensor processing units, to cloud customers who use them in its Google Cloud data centers. Now, though, Google has begun ...