My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.
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I chatted with Branimir Lambov from IBM on a decade of contributing to Cassandra, including his recent work to replace the Skiplist in Cassandra's LSM tree with a Trie. (no paywall) theconsensus.dev/p/2026/04/26...
[RELEASE] Apache Cassandra 6.0-alpha1 is out ‼️ This is a quarterly alpha release, for testing and development purposes. Download it at: downloads.apache.org/cassandra/6.... News: github.com/apache/cassa... Changelogs: github.com/apache/cassa...
New blog post, on the changing role of principal/staff+ IC leaders: brooker.co.za/blog/2026/03... Core message: get building, get learning.
My heuristics are wrong. What now? - Marc's Blog
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The Norwegian Consumer Council (Forbrukerrådet) released a report on the trend of "enshittification" in digital consumer goods and services, suggesting ways for consumers to resist, accompanied by this satirical video. youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ
A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator
YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council
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otava.apache.org Great to see leading performance engineering tools coming to the ASF
Welcome | Apache Otava
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Apache Software Foundation announced the opening of Travel Assistance Applications for next Community Over Code in Glasgow next October. tac.apache.org If you are planning to be around, please come and say hi on the @cassandra.apache.org track!
Travel Assistance Committee - TAC
The Travel Assistance Committee helps people get to ASF related events that they could not otherwise afford to attend.
tac.apache.org
Giving @vivaldi.com a go, switching from Firefox. I like it! Being norwegian is a bonus! The inbuilt proton vpn was a very pleasant surprise, having a proton account already.
indeed. "when Holden Karau created FightHealthInsurance, she really was fighting—not just for access to easy and affordable healthcare, but also for a better world for the people around her." stackoverflow.blog/2026/02/12/h...
How everyone and anyone can use AI for good - Stack Overflow
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Bad Bunny's superbowl performance was pure brilliance. Last time I saw anything that good was Childish Gambino's This is America. But it was the opposite of dark and cynical, and live!
New: Trio of Dem senators urge Apple and Google to enforce their own terms of service and ban X, Grok apps for their flood of nonconsensual sexual imagery. I've repeatedly asked both Apple and Google about this for three days. They're completely silent, seemingly hoping the question just goes away.
Senators urged Apple and Google to remove X and Grok from app stores over sexual deepfakes
“Turning a blind eye to X’s egregious behavior would make a mockery of your moderation practices,” three Democratic senators wrote to Apple’s and Google’s CEOs.
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Aftersun (2022) is another movie rated 7+ in Scandinavia and R in USA. One of the best movies I've watched. watched with the family. So many things in america are now the opposite of common sense. Pilgrims might have gone there for religious freedoms, but the tables have certainly turned now.
This has everything: malleabile encryption, complex packets, memory safety, unsafe terminal UI, wontfix. Incredible. Plaintext exfiltration if you just click a link. I can’t be convinced gpg can be used safely.
"The Holdovers" is the perfect (quality) family xmas movie. it's also hilarious americans have rated it R while Sweden rates it 7 and Italy 6. (ps you can trust sweden and italy)
The Bear episode "Fishes" (s02e06) is our new pre-xmas tradition. bring on some family time 😁
Learned about Wanaku #MCP Router project, a brand new OSS by IBM/RedHat presented by lead developer @orpiske.net at #DevoxxMA Uses Apache Camel for routing 👀 github.com/wanaku-ai/wana…
Friendly reminder NoSQL ≠ anti-SQL NoSQL (2009, Johan Oskarsson & Eric Evans) is about architecture & needs, not the query syntax It's about scale-out design, multiple writers, no single primary, & predictable growth as you add nodes New APIs don’t define NoSQL; the distributed system design does
The benevolent dictator model feels tempting for #OSS - faster, fewer debates. Then a PR argument with the single person in charge reminds me: Speed isn’t health. Community is.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
84% say open source is vital to finance’s future. 93% report better software quality. The data is clear, open collaboration is driving the next wave of innovation in financial services. 📘 Watch the highlights + read the full report: www.linuxfoundation.org/research/the... #OpenSource
Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
