It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds - Bert Hubert's writings The very short version: it is madness to continue transferring the running of European societies and governments to American clouds. Not only is it a terrible idea given the kind of things the “King…

Entrusting all our data and business processes to the new King of America? The legal basis for sharing personal data with American companies is dead

Big Brother is shopping you

Vendor: How many cameras do you need?
Rewe: yes

I only bought unhealthy stuff. Social points -124 I would say.

#bigbrotheraward #bravenewworld #rewe #saycheese

Dozens of PS3s assembled into makeshift server racks

reminiscing about the Air Force PS3 Supercomputer

review on the ground

even the review doesn't deserve that either

Das war der Open Source Day 2023 | OSBA – Open Source Business Alliance Bei der jährlichen Mitgliederversammlung der Open Source Business Alliance und dem anschließenden Open Source Day geht es immer auch um die Frage, welche Themen für den Verband im kommenden Jahr ei...

Rückblick auf den Open Source Day 2023!
Ein inspirierendes Event, bei dem Wirtschaft, Politik und Wissenschaft zusammenkamen, um über die Zukunft von Open Source und digitale Souveränität zu diskutieren.
#OpenSource #DigitaleSouveränität osb-alliance.de/featured/das...

OpenAI Data Partnerships https://openai.com/blog/data-partnerships (“We’re seeking partners to help us create an open-source dataset for training language models. This dataset would be public for anyone to use in AI model training.”) #AI #data #OpenSource

World’s Biggest Bank Forced to Trade via USB Stick After Hack The incident spotlights a danger that bank leaders concede keeps them up at night — the prospect of a cyber attack that could someday cripple a key piece of the financial system’s wiring, setting ...

At least not with a floppy disk.
$500 million of ransomware payments through the end of September and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Perhaps we should start to consider it security and open standards as important.

#security #ransomware #cyberattack

Post Mortem on Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage Beginning on Thursday, November 2, 2023, at 11:43 UTC Cloudflare's control plane and analytics services experienced an outage. Here are the details

high availability is difficult to achieve and always a lot of work. Even the big ones have outages. But here at least with an honest post mortem.
#highavailability #postmortem #cloudflare #datacenter