Armin Weigl @arminweigl@librem.one

@kalisz79

https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1991352574390227129

"In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.

Le Monde has a long article (https://lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/11/19/nicolas-guillou-juge-francais-de-la-cpi-sanctionne-par-les-etats-unis-face-aux-attaques-les-magistrats-de-la-cour-tiendront_6654016_3210.html) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.

Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.

He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.

That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund

and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.

Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic relations."

Warum sollte man „das Amt respektieren“?

Das ist ein Mensch und keine Statue. Der Bundeskanzler ist keine von Gott herbeigerufene Lösung von aller Problemen, sondern ein Mensch.

Und dieser Mensch speziell, #Merz, ist auch noch ziemlich unfähig und hat bisher nichts getan, dass mich als Bürger Respekt vor ihm oder dem Amt, was er ausfüllt, haben lassen könnte.

Die #CDU ist inzwischen so weit von der Realität entfernt, dass es für mich total einfach ist, diese Partei einfach in ihrer Gesamtheit für überflüssig zu empfinden

https://madeinbocholt.de/cdu-kritisiert-protest-von-integrationsstipendiaten-gegen-merz/

BINGO TIME! With CVE-2025-58034, Fortinet secures the crown in my Insecurity Appliance Bingo. This is technically a "high" severity vuln, but since it's being actively exploited and has landed a spot on CISA KEV, I'm admitting it.

https://cku.gt/appbingo25

Reaching a bingo took longer than expected, with FortiNet and Ivanti sitting at 5/6 vulns since about July. But now, there is a well-deserved winner.

I'm now taking new vuln class and vendor suggestions for next year's edition.

Wir verabschieden uns an dieser Stelle von Arduino.

Die Enshittifizierung unter Qualcomm ging dann doch etwas schneller als erwartet. Aber hey, war eine schöne Zeit.

"users are now explicitly forbidden from reverse-engineering or even attempting to understand how the platform works unless Arduino gives permission. That’s a profound shift for a brand long embraced by educators, makers, researchers, and open-source advocates."

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/adafruit_opensource-privacy-techpolicy-activity-7396903362237054976-r14H/

https://archive.is/CghzJ

@pikhq @aud I used to tell the joke that there's only two ways of making money in quantum computing: selling parts and selling lies.

NVIDIA's figured out they can do both.

The only "vibe coding" that has any business existing. 🔥 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YFQm8Hk73ug

I had the displeasure of reading an article in the Harvard student paper by an economics major who said in apparent seriousness that comp sci majors are wasting time on theory classes like “Introduction to Algorithms and their Limitations” when they could be learning REAL skills like prompt engineering.

Algorithms are not useless theory, you unbalanced red-red tree. They’re the entire fucking point of the degree, you empty hash bucket. Go gamble daddy’s money on a startup your buddies thought up last night, you quadratic insert operation

I am told that there was a Cloudflare outage today. I was not aware.

Damn, that must have been rough. It really must have sucked. I'm so sorry.

Twitter down: Langjähriger Nutzer gezwungen, Wildfremde auf der Straße zu beleidigen https://www.der-postillon.com/2025/11/twitter-down.html

@phoronix It really is a double-edged sword.

A win, because generally speaking, better interoperability is good, and making software more portable is good, and if it can improve systemd, the world will be better for it.

A win, because getting to that point proves that musl is finally, at last, being taken seriously by one of the most reluctant players in the ecosystem, so it's a sign that musl is a real, believable alternative now, and it will push more people and projects to try it out.

But also a danger, because it now means that systemd actually sees musl systems as targets. Systems that opted for musl were safe from systemd so far; maintainers were not tempted to switch to it because it was not a technically sound proposition. Now that systemd officially supports musl, no distribution is safe, and the survival of the non-systemd ecosystem now only depends on the technical judgment of distribution maintainers. Which has been subverted before, as Debian has painfully and dishonorably shown.

I would like to say I am cautiously optimistic. But I am actually terrified.

This is my new favorite #design #fail.

No notes.
#ai #technology #aislop #aiart

Journalism 101: Dog bites man not news. Man bites dog is.
Journalism 102: Dog shoots man is definitely news.

https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/berks/shillington-man-hospitalized-after-gun-mishap-involving-dog/article_96b2c43a-edf1-4a85-a907-b81fe027b248.html

Man darf wegen hunderten faschistischen Polizisten nicht die Polizei unter "Generalverdacht" stellen.

Man darf wegen hunderten korrupten Politikern nicht die Politiker unter "Generalverdacht" stellen.

Aber man darf alle dunkelhäutigen, alle Flüchtlinge, alle Bürgergeldempfänger, alle Nicht-Bio-Deutschen, alle Alten, alle Armen, unter Generalverdacht stellen.

Sagen Polizisten und Politiker

Die Klimapolitik der Union seit Regierungsübernahme:

- Habeck verteufeln
- Habeck kopieren
- Global Klimaschutz predigen
- National Klimaschutz sabotieren
- Sozialverträglichkeit beim Klimaschutz betonen
- ÖPNV verteuern, Fliegen verbilligen.
- Auf europäische Lösung beim Klimaschutz pochen
- Auf europäischer Ebene Klimaschutz blockieren

via @Perowinger94

my husband made it so the home assistant voice assistant can use full-on ollama to interpret instructions. then he told it to turn the lights on. it's been explaining its thought process for over five minutes now and the lights are still off.

Eine verarmte deutsche Mittelstandsfamilie erhält 270 Mio. Steuergelder, um weiter halluzinieren zu können. Die Vertragsurkunde wurde von einem bekannten Bratwurstblogger übergeben.
https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/bmw-foerdergelder-wasserstoff-suv-100.html

Es klingt wie ein schlechter Scherz: Die Bundesregierung will die hohen Kosten des Fliegens in Deutschland senken. Dabei müssten wir die verheerende Normalität des Fliegens dringend überwinden: https://www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025/mai/die-verheerende-normalitaet-des-fliegens-und-wie-wir-sie-ueberwinden-koennen

Gute Nachrichten für Google, Meta, Apple & Co. Es gibt ein fettes Geschenk vom deutschen Steuerzahler.

"Expertenschätzungen zufolge nimmt Deutschland mit der Lizenzschranke jedes Jahr eine Summe zwischen fünf und 30 Milliarden Euro zusätzlich ein. Künftig dürfte dieses Geld aber nicht mehr genutzt werden, um Schulen, Straßen oder Stromleitungen in Deutschland zu bauen, sondern wieder in den Bilanzen der Tech-Firmen verschwinden."

https://www.zeit.de/geld/2025-11/finanzministerium-bundestag-tech-konzerne-steuern-lizenzschranke/komplettansicht

Merz fordert junger Ukrainer zum "Dienst in ihrem Land" auf.
Ich fordere Merz zum Dienst an seinem Land auf!
Damit meine ich das der unbeliebteste Kanzler zurücktreten sollte.
#merzkannesnicht