ah yes, good ol' #1172

(referencing XKCD of course)

My look at the #Euro-Office – #OnlyOffice situation:

blog.ensko.at/2026/04/02/e...

Not a journalist, but hopefully still a well-referenced, factual overview of what happened.

#EuroOffice #Nextcloud

> April Fools day feels redundant in 2026.

Ironically, this made me laugh and thus counts as an April fools joke

Steht übrigens im Absatz direkt unter der Überschrift "OnlyOffice-Code auf Hintertüren geprüft" – so, jetzt brauchst du nicht mal den ganzen Artikel lesen, sondern kommst mit unter 100 Wörtern weg, ich hoffe das ist nicht zu viel.

I am on Codeberg, private repos are no problem in principle. I fall squarely under what's described in the next FAQ question: I mostly do open source, but have private repos e.g. for Uni courses and uninteresting experiments.
Commercial code is a different matter, but private repos are fine.

If you need custom domains rn, then grebedoc.dev is an option. Works great for my blog and my association's stuff, and should be easy to move to codeberg.page since it's the same software: bsky.app/profile/ensk...

If you're interested in using grebedoc/git-pages, my blog has a Forgejo Actions setup that deploys an Astro site to it: codeberg.org/ensko/blog/s... (the custom withastro action is there to skip the upload-artifact step that doesn't work on Codeberg; the basic Grebedoc setup is more "vanilla")

codeberg.page is being revitalized. A month ago, it said "the software behind this feature is currently in maintenance mode", now it "is currently migrating ... to the newer git-pages codebase" (codeberg.org/Codeberg/Doc...)

If you want git-pages + custom domains *now*, have a look at grebedoc.dev

Onlyoffice, but without the convoluted, ultimately Russian ownership, developed by major European players? Sounds intriguing!

When I memed basically this a couple years ago, this being weird was surprisingly controversial www.reddit.com/r/loljs/comm...

"[new director] put aside the debate over data flow diagrams and instead attempted to examine evidence from Microsoft. But these reviewers soon arrived at the same conclusion ... He came back and said, ‘Yeah, this thing sucks,’"

Seems multiple parties and methodologies all reached same conclusion.

idk, an architecture diagram showing how encrypted data flows through a system sounds pretty basic, and "It was the kind of detail that other major cloud providers ... routinely provided".
Also, “each time we’ve actually been able to get visibility into a black box, we’ve uncovered an issue.”

Someone in the comments put it greatly: "Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. But it surely looks like incompetence at a malicious scale."

Kinda crazy. Nexi claims they only wanted test account credentials to check FSFE's supporter's donation experience. That _does_ sound more likely than asking someone for all their users' passwords, but how incompetent can you be to not get that point across, after being asked for clarification??

Microsoft couldn't even convince the US government of its cloud's security – ultimately, it got approved because undoing the pre-approval adoption would have been too painful.

All the same reasons and more speak against using Microsoft in Europe.

Probably the talk from this year's #Typst meetup that stood out the most: #arXiv is, while not concretely planning Typst support, at least evaluating it! Great talk, and also the subsequent conversations were very interesting.

Hear me out: why don't we replace the oil tankers with oil jets? That way we're not bound to any geography at all!

> From frontend wizards to Reddit community ninjas, each agent is a specialized expert with personality and processes

Whenever I read a trending AI repo's description like this, I kinda miss the times when people who like writing elaborate character descriptions did RPGs or fan fiction...

Pam Bondi memes sind gerade hoch im Kurs.

Aber wisst ihr was noch hoch im Kurs ist? Der Dow Jones, über 50.000!

TIL about I³C, "Improved Inter-Integrated Circuit" (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I3C_(bus>). I assume the next generation will be named "Immensely Improved Inter-Integrated Circuit"

When I was signing up for mailbox.org and looking through the settings, it was the first time I thought, "wait, I actually *do* want to sign up for this newsletter!"

Respekt: X (bzw. unbekannte Mitarbeiter) geklagt, weil sie durch Nichtunterstützen der österreichischen Justiz (mutmaßlich) Begünstigung einer Straftat begehen.

How it began: www.arminwolf.at/2025/06/28/x...
How it's going: www.arminwolf.at/2025/10/27/a...

#X #DigitalServicesAct #DSA

lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 49m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

Word of the day – how many "customers" can Mister Wizard hornswoggle out of their money?

#giggs #giggsdnd #goodtimeswithscar

To move my #Typst packages over to #Codeberg, I have adapted the community's package template to be more compatible with #Forgejo 's action runners. It's not drop-in, but simplifies the task.

blog.ensko.at/2026/02/03/t...

hmm, I guess that's true. I'm not sure if you could observe this since there's more going on on Typst's main branch, but in principle...

A screenshot of the text "-2 commits to main since this release", where "-2 commits" is a link

When you create a release from an unmerged PR on #Codeberg (to test the release workflow, fyi), the number of "commits to main since this release" is reported as negative

#TechnicallyTheTruth

Why there’s no European Google? Why there’s no European Google? par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

A public answer to the European Commission’s „call for evidence on Open Source“: Success is a collective endeavour. We dream big: We hope that our work will benefit humankind as a whole! ploum.net/2026-01-22-w...

Microsoft Gave FBI BitLocker Encryption Keys, Exposing Privacy Flaw The tech giant said providing encryption keys was a standard response to a court order. But companies like Apple and Meta set up their systems so such a privacy violation isn’t possible.

Microsoft and BitLocker: If you have access to keys, eventually governments are going to come. And MS provided the keys www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

Abschied von Microsoft und VMware: Österreichs Roadmap zur digitalen Souveränität - Golem.de Österreich ist nicht gerade für Softwareinnovationen bekannt. Nun führt es aber eine Initiative für mehr digitale Souveränität in der EU an.

Nach jedem neuen außenpolitischen Trump-Willkürakt wichtiger: Österreich und die EU-Initiative für digitale Souveränität www.golem.de/news/abschie...