Pires
@pires.dev
Trouble maker, insolent and a pain in the neck. Into distributed-systems. Mostly-retired DJ. Triathlete-wannabe. 🇵🇹
People who do this but wire their devices to the airplane’s USB ports first thing after boarding 🤷🏻♂️
Euronews@euronews.com · yesterdayAn unusual travel trend is causing a stir online: More and more holidaymakers are wrapping their passports in aluminium foil, clogging up passport control.
It’s been expensive and there’s better content at higher cadence elsewhere, so I was already considering not renewing. A few days ago, these changes nailed it for me. Bye
IGN@ign.com · 3d agoDisney+ has altered its user agreement to clarify that ads will be allowed on all subscription tiers. https://bit.ly/4hhOjBo
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
Does anyone know of any other stories like this? Please, share.
Euronews@euronews.com · 7d agoIn a highly unusual move, fast-growing German AI start-up Langdock has moved its legal headquarters from the US to Germany as it seeks to become a "European hyperscaler".
Great opportunity in @carmatrocity.bsky.social's team for #Kubernetes platform engineers! Job listing says San Jose but could be other locations US/UK for the right candidate. Check it out! careers.cisco.com/global/en/jo...
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Obvious result of the last couple decades dumbing down our youth and normalizing mediocrity. Social media and now the AI just add fuel to a fire that even grownups don’t seem to be prepared to handle. Proper education is the solution to all our problems.
Euronews@euronews.com · 2w agoThe OECD's latest PISA report, based on a standardised test taken by 15-year-olds, found that student performance across OECD countries reached a record low in maths and reading. #EuropeNews
io_uring strikes again - and seccomp-bpf let it
Mark Manning@antitree.com · 3w agoI've been spending most of my time lately researching sandboxing areas and I wrote up what I think is interesting about Firecracker, seccomp and how it has an io_uring bypass if seccomp were to ever be the last line of defense during a breakout. www.antitree.com/2026/09/fire...
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A century before we would move from fixed-program computers to reprogrammable ones, Ada Lovelace realized that the Analytical Engine was capable of universal computation. Reading her Notes is thrilling for her awestruck articulation of these ideas. Available now; link in reply.
And this, good people, is how you move the industry forward. MEOW 😻
Tailcat: An open-source CLI for Tailscale’s WireGuard®, NAT traversal, and DERP
Tailcat connects clients and servers using Tailscale’s WireGuard®, NAT traversal, and DERP data plane, with no Tailscale control plane or accounts.
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TIL: a GPU-aaS control-plane powered by Virtual Kubelet
GitHub - InftyAI/Nebula: The control plane for GPUaaS.
The control plane for GPUaaS. . Contribute to InftyAI/Nebula development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Should play really nice with SPIRE and other x509-oriented identity providers.
Kubernetes@kubernetes.io · 3w agoKubernetes v1.37: Pod Certificates and Cluster Trust Bundles-
#7wolves is about training the next generation of #linux maintainers. Working in #linux and open source is a great start to an amazing career. Learn the tools, master your craft. Greatness awaits.
The Linux Foundation@linuxfoundation.org · 4w ago"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby...)" On Aug 25, 1991, a 21-year-old student shared his side project to a Usenet newsgroup. 35 years later, Linux powers the global cloud, space exploration, and billions of devices. Happy 35th Birthday, Linux! 🐧✨ bit.ly/4gkst16 #Linux35
If you care about securely building software - if you sell software, you MUST - take a look at this. Thanks to the @edera.dev folks, much respect <3
Edera@edera.dev · last mo.SLSA says builds should run isolated. Can you prove yours did? Aug 19, 11am ET: Marina Moore & @puerco.mx show how to verify hermetic builds: cryptographic proof, full SBOM coverage, provenance to the exact VM that ran it. Powered by Cocoon in Edera Protect zones. edera.link/vev-820
"Crackling is a daemon and CLI that boot OCI images as lightweight Linux VMs on both platforms, with one agent inside the guest and one protocol driving it either way. Firecracker remains the backend on Linux, and on macOS it is Apple's Virtualization.framework"
We rebuilt the Linux microVM stack on Apple Silicon
Firecracker needs KVM and therefore a Linux host, and the image tooling around it needs loop mounts and Linux userland. We rebuilt the stack on Apple's Virtualization.framework to boot the same OCI im...
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A fingerprinting script from Alibaba’s AliExpress was invasive enough someone noticed when it interrupted their headphone's bluetooth connection. In response, one of our team wrote up how Firefox has largely eliminated WebAudio fingerprinting 👇 ritter.vg/blog-webaudi...
webaudio fingerprinting on alibaba - ritter.vg
Tom Ritter's personal homepage, where he rambles about tech-related topics.
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“Go 1.27 is released” by Nicholas Husin, on behalf of the Go team — https://go.dev/blog/go1.27 #golang
I am mostly done implementing crypto/passkey, but now I need YOUR help collecting real-world traces for its test suite! Please go to help-test-crypto-passkey.exe.xyz and click the buttons. It should take 1–3 minutes. 𝘌𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 if you have some unusual Linux-on-the-desktop xkcd 1987 passkey setup.
Just saw my first solar eclipse. A++. Would recommend. (Currently on Liberty of the Seas, just north of Spain) Here it is at 4x rate:
As always, an awesome release by @cilium.io. Particularly interested in ztunnel identity supporting SPIFFE, opt-in auto netkit selection on newer kernels (instead of veth), extensible datapath.
Release 1.20.0 · cilium/cilium
🎉 Release Announcement 🎉: We are excited to announce the Cilium 1.20.0 release! More than 2,660 new commits have landed in this release, supported by a community of over 1,100 contributors and more...
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“Every 6mo delete your CLAUDE.md, delete your skills, delete your hooks. See what the model does, it might surprise you”
Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code’s Prompt
YouTube video by Y Combinator
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cool job(s) alert! A few jobs I've heard about that may interest folks — if any of the below sound like you, drop me a line. PLEASE, no recruiters! * Security / Applied-Cryptography Engineer (Senior/Staff): Experience building with hardware enclaves (AWS Nitro), remote attestation, and key mgmnt.
Sweet baby jesus, this is an incredible read. Kudos to HF for transparency.
Simon Willison@simonwillison.net · 2mo agoHugging Face just published a highly detailed technical account of OpenAI's accidental cyberattack on their systems - it's wild how sophisticated this was: huggingface.co/blog/agent-i... Wrote up some of my own notes here: simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/28/...
