Wir nehmen die Schwerkraft meist nicht als störend war, oder Reibung, oder beschweren uns, daß wir atmen oder essen müssen. Sondern das ist halt die Umwelt, die wir als gegeben wahrnehmen, und mit der wir interagieren. Unser Handeln setzt sie implizit voraus, und was wir bauen, bauen wir oben drauf.
Und wir Geeks verstehen dann nicht, daß die meisten Menschen mit Computern, Software, Smartphone, Internet genauso umgehen, das sind halt Teile der Umwelt, in der sie leben.
Und das g…
Over the past month, the US paused talks on a tech pact with the UK, canceled a South Korea trade meeting, and threatened the EU over Big Tech regulations (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/23/trump-administra…
Former Microsoft employee Andrew Harris says the software giant dismissed his warnings about a critical flaw because it feared losing government business.
Russian hackers later used the weakness to breach the National Nuclear Security Administration, among others.
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The EU warns of possible action after the US imposes travel bans on five Europeans, saying it will defend its "regulatory autonomy against unjustified measures" (Lorne Cook/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/europe-bret
Trump administration warns of "insufficient funds" for food stamps if shutdown continues
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/10/food-stamps-trump-administration-warning-shutdown
The Trump administration is warning states that there will be "insufficient funds" to pay full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits if the government shutdown extends past October.
It's the administration's latest threat of painful consequences if the shutdown continues, as military service members are set to miss their first paycheck and federal agencies begin mass layoffs.
Scoop: Trump admin warns of "insufficient funds" for food stamps (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/10/food-stamps-trump-administration-warning-shutdown
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p140#a251010p140
So, I think we are really, really close to a 1.0 release of https://www.drupal.org/project/config_warning that adds a nice little warning to admin pages that will alter the running configuration.
It would be really, really good to get more people testing it on their
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
issued a new warning after the
High Court ruled in favor of the Trump Administration
to list sex designations based on birth certificates on passports.
Justice Jackson said in part that with the ruling, the Court
"has once again paved the way for the immediate infliction of injury without adequate (or, really, any) justification."
Investigation: the US government allowed and even helped US companies sell tech used for China's surveillance across five GOP and Democratic administrations (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/chinese-sur