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Was hat das DNS mit dem CVE-System gemeinsam? Ein Blogpost von mir: www.cert.at/de/blog/2025...

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Part of the reason I started doing BoAT wasn't just because I could feel myself losing patience with reading after years of browsing the internet; it was because I could feel myself losing patience with the world. Willing myself to read deeply (and trying to write deeply) is helping....

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After failing to end the war between Russia and Ukraine in the first days of his presidency, Trump is now executing brilliant plan: Cause a global recession which drives down demand for oil, thus lowering its price, thus bankrupting Russia. Why didn't Biden come up with this idea? ;-)

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Der 1. April ist für den Humor was der Valentinstag für die Liebe ist.

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One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

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Journalists are trying to understand Trump’s irrational behavior, and are generally unwilling to consider the possibility that it's not some grand strategy, but a madman with increasingly diminished mental faculties.

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Don't travel to Trump's America.

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The Trump-Putin Pact already exists, and we should act accordingly. There are some things we will never change with nice words or smart clothing. If you are worried about those things, you should understand where Trump's tactics come from. From Russia. A thread. 🧵1/14

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This is a really good summary of the whole Trump tariff clown show in a way that probably only the Canadian Broadcasting Corp cld do. Not like aggressive, just a dispassionate and very clarifying. Even elegant. Quite good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHoZ...

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The EU is updating its Cybersecurity Blueprint. Here is my feedback on the proposal: www.cert.at/en/blog/2025...

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No one in DC can bargain in good faith with Trump because he will not follow laws passed by Congress. No one internationally can bargain in good faith with Trump because he will not respect agreements made by the United States. Being a counterparty just makes you a target for another shakedown.

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Lemme share something with you. A lot of semi-Trumpy types are saying Zelensky blew it. All he had to do was show up, shake hands, say Trump is great and sign the docs. He couldn't do that. But there are also people in DC who are not Trumpy who are saying the same thing. Now, big picture this ...

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I want to address a related point to the one I raised in this thread. A couple years ago the Times did a really strong package about the power of SpaceX. Not only is SpaceX. Not only is it now one if not the preemptive orbital delivery company in the world it also has a fleet of ...

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Hanlon's razor is part of my philosophy of life. Maybe I need to preface it with "except when dealing with malign narcissists,".

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New Blogpost: www.cert.at/en/blog/2025... What can the history of file sharing tell us about the prospects of chat control legislation?

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Oracle? Hard Pass. If past experiences with DB license changes weren't enough, this is a timely reminder that the cloud is simply "other people'scomputers": mastodon.de/@ErikUden/11...

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Who would have thought that the real "high risk vendors" (in EU parlance) aren't the Chinese ones, but the ones Trump might let Musk play gatekeeper for?

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One of the best ways for Mexico to retaliate against Trump tariffs (because "drugs") is to ban or heavily tax imports of high fructose corn syrup for health reasons. There is enough science to support it, and it hits Trumps base.

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Someone should do a "who goes AfD" version.

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Is Trump moving the US cloud providers versus the EU into the same situation that TikTok is versus the US? Let's see: noyb.eu/en/us-cloud-...

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New Blogpost: lendl.priv.at/blog/2025/01...

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Meta is deleting links to Pixelfed, a decentralized, open source Instagram competitor that has had skyrocketing signups in recent days: www.404media.co/meta-is-bloc...

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Stolzer Vater: sport.orf.at/stories/3136...

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Can someone please tell Trump that the reason why Greenland is called Greenland is not because it is famous for its golf greens?

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Feels genuinely wrong if you say we are quarter of the way through this century

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This terrific @nplusonemag.com article on Netflix is such a perfect illustration of one of Marx’s cardinal rules of capitalism: the capitalist must produce a commodity with a use value, but they quite literally do not care what it is. Netflix thus embodies the pure commodification of tv/film.

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Christmas in Carinthia.

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Lesenswert: www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft... Im Süden macht PV schlicht ganz viel Sinn.

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