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Was ein krasses Bild aus Aleppo. Auf jedem Dach steht eine Solaranlage. Syriens Stromnetz wurde durch den Krieg massiv geschwächt. Jetzt versorgen sich die Menschen mit Sonnenstrom einfach selbst. Ein beeindruckendes Beispiel das zeigt, wie man sich selbst in schwierigster Lage, mit PV ein kleines Stück Unabhängigkeit bewahren kann🙏

Putin: „In der westlichen Kultur steht materieller Wohlstand immer an erster Stelle. In Russland nicht. Wir stellen die Moral stets in den Vordergrund.“ Moral: Miller – 138.000.000 Rubel pro Monat Setschin – 124.000.000 Rubel pro Monat Gref – 91.000.000 Rubel pro Monat

This is a really spectacularly good retrospective on the BeBox and BeOS, with oodles of technical and historical detail that answer questions I've been carrying around for decades. There's one omission I find very curious, though. The author never examines or even considers the impact of Linux on BeOS's competitive environment. And I think there was a major one. A major thrust of the BeBox was its attempt to capture the imagination of tinkerers and hackers. Thus the GeekPort with its pin spacing designed to be friendly to people who weren't already electronics technicians. That goal persisted when the company went software-only in 1997 - they counted on those forward thinkers to be early adopters and evangelize BeOS into mainstream acceptance. Alas, by 1997 the forward thinkers willing to take a flyer on something that wasn't Windows or MacOS had a more appealing alternative. Linux didn't have pervasive multithreading, or an uber-cool file system that was also a database, but it did have one advantage that trumped those: open source. Paradise for tinkerers, who could expect to achieve a degree of comprehension and control impossible while the OS remained an opaque proprietary blob. I don't think this alone doomed BeOS, but it was a blocker for the takeoff trajectory that Gassee and his crew had planned. Then they fumbled their negotiation with Apple, apparently thinking they held stronger cards than they did. It's a sad story. Some of BeOS's innovations, most notably the file system, were striking and worthy. I wish we'd gotten to keep those. jdhodges.com/blog/bebox-bea…

#T2sde #LInux now supports a complete @kdecommunity #Plasma desktop environment on #musl libc + @llvmorg /#Clang based system reddit.com/r/t2sde/commen… #opensource

Kuba kollabiert. 20 bis 22 Stunden täglich ohne Strom in Havanna. Kubaner blockieren Straßen mit brennendem Müll, schlagen auf Töpfe und schreien: „Schaltet das Licht an." Kubas Energieminister im Staatsfernsehen: Die Reserven an Heizöl, Diesel und Rohöl sind vollständig aufgebraucht – einschließlich der russischen Lieferungen. Die Energieversorgung befindet sich im „kritischen Zustand." Seit Januar hat Trump Kuba vom Treibstoff abgeschnitten und Länder die Kuba beliefern mit Zöllen bedroht. Venezuela und Mexiko haben daraufhin ihre Lieferungen eingestellt. Russland hat nichts mehr zu liefern. Und Russland rekrutiert gleichzeitig verzweifelte Kubaner für seinen Krieg in der Ukraine. Trump drückt Kuba in die Armut. Putin schickt einen Bus. (Quellen: Reuters, France 24, The Insider) 🇨🇺🇪🇺🇺🇦

The DC-ROMA RISC-V Mainboard III for #Framework Laptop 13 is now open for preorder: bit.ly/4ttksdl Powered by the SpacemiT K3: • RVA23 support — a major milestone for Linux standardization • Up to 60 TOPS AI compute • Ubuntu & Fedora support This isn’t just another dev board — it’s a usable RISC-V laptop. #RISCV #OpenSource #Linux #Ubuntu #Fedora #DCROMA

I've been coding for 40 years. Here are the top 5 things I wish I knew when I started. 1. 90% of the job is debugging and fixing, not creating new code. Which is still fun if you're good at it. I used to think programming was mostly writing fresh, clever stuff. In reality, most of your time is spent in other people's (or your own past self's) messy code, chasing down why something that "should" work doesn't. Get really good at debugging early. Learn assembly reading, call stacks, and kernel debuggers. It pays off hugely. The best engineers I saw were absolute magicians at this. 2. Manage complexity from day one (ie: don't write slop and "fix it later" if it goes somewhere). Very early on, I'd hammer out code and refactor afterward. Big mistake. Now I start with clean, skeletal structure (minimalism first) and flesh it out carefully, with AI or not. Messy code compounds and becomes unfixable. Upfront discipline on architecture, naming, and simplicity saves enormous pain later, especially in large systems like Windows. 3. Tools and processes matter more than you think We suffered with basic diff/manual deltas instead of modern source control like Git. Branching, testing, and good tooling would have made porting and collaboration way smoother. Invest in your environment, automation, and reproducible builds early. Good tools amplify your output; bad ones (or none) drag everything down. 4. Understand the problem and existing code deeply before writing Don't jump straight to coding. Map out the problem, study what's already there (you'll inherit a lot), and plan. Low-level knowledge (hardware quirks, alignment issues on different architectures like MIPS/Alpha) was crucial. Also: assert early and often. It forces clarity. 5. People, politics, and "the right tool for the job" beat pure tech arguments. Brilliant engineers still argue endlessly. Sometimes it's about ego, not merit. Learn to spot the difference and "steer" the conversation rather than "winning" it. Bonus from experience: Side projects like Task Manager (started at home because I wanted the tool) can become your biggest hits. Ship small, useful things often. If you're just starting, focus on fundamentals, patterns over syntax, and building resilience for the long haul. It's going to be a wild ride, but the fundamentals still matter.

The NSA called this operating system “catastrophic." ☠️ It fits on an 8GB USB stick. It's called Tails OS. > Released in 2009 by a nonprofit team backed by the Tor Project. > Built for one thing: leaving no trace behind. > Runs entirely from a USB stick. > Plug it into almost any computer and boot instantly. > Tails loads fully into RAM. > Never touches the computer’s hard drive. > Shut it down and everything disappears. > Files gone. > Passwords gone. > Browsing history gone. > Like the session never happened. > Every internet connection routes through Tor automatically. > Your traffic bounces across 3 encrypted relays worldwide. > No single server sees the full picture. > In 2013, journalists working with Edward Snowden used Tails. > Leaked NSA documents later called it a “major threat.” > Combined with other privacy tools, they called it “catastrophic.” > Free and fully open source. > Fits on a tiny USB drive. > Still one of the most powerful privacy tools ever made. Most operating systems are designed to remember everything. Tails OS was designed to forget you ever existed. 🕶️

I just reverse engineered the YellowKey BitLocker bypass Microsoft shipped code that checks for a flag called "FailRelock" in every Windows 11 recovery image. When it's set to 1, after recovery unlocks your BitLocker drive, it never relocks it. All you need is a USB stick. This code only exists in the recovery environment. Not in normal Windows. They left an entire debug testing framework in production.

🇩🇪 German defence company Rheinmetall has started mass production of kamikaze drones, - CEO Armin Papperger The drones, called FV-014 loitering munitions, can fly for up to 70 minutes and strike targets up to 100 km away. Production is expanding to Rheinmetall’s Neuss plant, which is being converted from car parts manufacturing to defence production.

ChatGPT allegedly shares your chat query topics, user IDs, and email addresses with Google and Meta, according to a new class action lawsuit filed today.

Pressure for a peace deal with Ukraine increasingly smells like pressure to rescue the regime in Moscow, writes Holman Jenkins on.wsj.com/4u2KjtD

Kyiv is under a massive Russian attack from ballistic missiles and drones right now, according to the Air Force and local authorities, with explosions reverberating across the Ukrainian capital. Air defense is actively working to beat back the threat. Authorities warning residents to seek shelter.

🚨🇫🇷 Le chômage grimpe à 8,1 % en particulier chez les jeunes et tout le monde fait semblant de tomber des nues ?? Ça fait 20 ans que l’Éducation nationale, les conseillers d’orientation et les gouvernements poussent des générations entières vers les mêmes filières pseudo-“prestigieuses” : écoles de commerce hors de prix, marketing, communication, management, merchandising, “sciences sociales” saturées… pendant qu’on dégoûtait les jeunes des filières scientifiques, techniques et industrielles. Résultat ? Une armée de bac+5 surqualifiés sur le papier, mais avec des diplômes qui ne valent plus grand-chose sur le marché du travail. Des jeunes qui ont fait 5 ans d’études pour finir en stage sous-payé, en CDD précaire ou au chômage. Et pendant ce temps, on manque d’ingénieurs, de techniciens, d’informaticiens, d’ouvriers qualifiés, de soignants, de chercheurs. On a détruit la valorisation des métiers utiles et productifs pour fabriquer des générations entières de “managers” sans industrie à manager. Aujourd’hui, des jeunes refusent des métiers moins payés que leurs attentes après 5 années d’études et des dizaines de milliers d’euros investis. Ce n’est pas de la paresse, c’est le résultat d’un système qui leur a vendu du rêve avec des filières bouchées pendant qu’on compensait les pénuries de main-d’œuvre ailleurs par l’immigration. La France a sacrifié son industrie, son excellence scientifique et l’avenir de sa jeunesse pour des diplômes en carton et des illusions de statut social.

Interesting new paper documents clearly how the IAEA has been overestimating the growth of nuclear time and time again. It's the inverse of what I've documented for solar and batteries. doi.org/10.1016/j.erss…

Ukraine is under one of the biggest Russian drone and missile attacks of the entire war today.

May 1945 did not mean the end of occupation for Poland. The USSR occupied us, used military force to crush the efforts to restore the statehood after WWII, and engaged in history distortion, hiding its crimes. Such “liberators” are called occupiers. #WordsMatter

OTD in 1997 negotiations to end the 1st Chechen war began. As a result we promised to not use force, or the threat of force, “forever”. 2 years later we staged some false flags, invaded & killed over 100,000 civilians. So you can trust us in negotiations now.

Vom Märchenprinzen zum Frosch: Nach einem Jahr steckt die deutsche Regierung in einer tiefen Krise. Das trifft vor allem den Mann an der Spitze. Friedrich Merz füllt die Rolle des Kanzlers nicht aus. Hier lesen Sie den ganzen Artikel aus der Reihe «Der andere Blick»: