So hercules-ci.com breaks during football games, because my ISP bans its Cloudflare IP range. 🫠 #nix #nixos

Many comments on the great election victories in Brazil and Serbia state that the authorian right is in decline or that voters have rejected far-right authoritarianism. That is a wrong interpretation of what happened. Progressive movements mobilized and beat the authoritarian right. That's different

Image-based systems make it much easier to comply with regulation, be that the #CRA or VS-NfD. We just made building such a system really simple with #NixOS. Add this to your #nix config, get a batteries-included disk img: cyberus-linux.image.enable = true; 📖 docs.cyberus-linux.com/modules/cybe...

Cyberus Linux Image-based Systems - Cyberus Linux: CRA-compliant NixOS with Long-Term Support

A guide for creating and updating an image-based Cyberus Linux system featuring a read-only Nix store and A/B update support.

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This would be a war crime. Obviously. Collective punishment.

Is the decline in oil and gas production capacity and the surge in fossil fuel prices because of the two wars a good thing to fight climate change? 🤔

The USA has asked Ukraine for weapons to defend against Iranian drones. Zelensky told them to negotiate as they don't have any cards.

More news on #Nix #meetups The December installment of the Dresden Nix Meetup took place at the local SAP office. Martin from Cyberus Technology introduced a NixOS module for declarative VM management, which can be found at CTRL-OS Modules. We hear the next one is on 17th March in the SAP Office.

FIFA must be so proud

Axios@axios.com · 8mo ago

💥 No president in the modern era has ordered more military strikes against as many different countries as Donald Trump. He's attacked 7 nations, three of which had never been targeted by U.S. military strikes. He authorized more individual air strikes in 2025 than Biden did in four years.

A compromised password manager company can just push an update that uploads all passwords somewhere. No need to do complicated stuff. arstechnica.com/security/202...

Password managers' promise that they can't see your vaults isn't always true

Contrary to what password managers say, a server compromise can mean game over.

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The Atlantic finally catching up with what some of us have been saying for *years*

Linux is re-enabling Intel TSX?! These are lovingly called Transactional Sidechannel Extensions ... Apparently they don't suffer from the TAA vulnerability anymore, but they also (used to?) make other exploits so much easier. Call me skeptical ... www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7...

Linux 7.0 Looks To Enable Intel TSX By Default On Capable CPUs For Better Performance

A patch queued up into tip/tip.git's x86/cpu Git branch ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle enables the Intel Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) functionality by default on t...

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We finally have a bluesky account for work. We'll be posting our journey around our NixOS LTS offering (CTRL-OS). At the moment we are having fun enabling Nvidia hardware. You can also follow us on YouTube: youtube.com/@ctrl-os?si=...

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CTRL-OS by Cyberus Technology. Impressum: https://www.cyberus-technology.de/en/impressum

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Cyberus Technology@cyberus-technology.de · 10mo ago

We almost bricked a Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano by selecting ACPI mode #ctrlos #jetson #nix #nixos #nvidia

Das war auch mein erster Gedanke. Dass es eine russische Info-Op ist, wäre ja auch nichts neues. www.rbb24.de/panorama/bei...

Sicherheitsbehörden sehen Russland hinter Auto-Sabotageserie

Hunderte Autos wurden in Deutschland beschädigt - viele auch in der Region. Die Täter wollten offenbar eine falsche Fährte legen: Sicherheitsbehörden gehen davon aus, dass nicht Klimaaktivisten, sonde...

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Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela. Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law. Both of those facts are simultaneously true.

The US kidnapped Maduro?

This article misses the important point why they didn't invest: They tried to privatize it and didn't invest/maintain to make the numbers look good. www.npr.org/2025/12/12/g...

Germany's train service is one of Europe's worst. How did it get so bad?

You won't arrive on time and may not even get a seat. Your booking might get lost. Things have gotten so dire that a foreigner has been brought in to shake things up.

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Wenn man einen Scheißprozess digitalisiert...

Gabriel Yoran@yoran.com · last yr.

Letzte Woche musste ich in einen weit entfernten Teil Berlins, für das Vorgespräch für eine Darmspiegelung. Den Termin hatte ich per Doctolib vereinbart. Im Verlauf des Prozesses bat man mich, die hinterlegten Ananemnesebögen und Einverständniserklärungen herunterzuladen und ausgefüllt hochzuladen.

If anyone’s struggled to keep up with my threads on why the genAI bubble Is a bubble, here’s a simplified pictorial explanation, the plug is OpenAI and the sockets are Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Nvidia, and AMD

My wife is currently documenting our challenges with having a baby with hip displasia. This is surprisingly common, yet took us by surprise. Check it out here: www.instagram.com/hip_dysplasi...

What's up with Linus these days? Can someone explain to him that insulting people is just not ok... Exhibit 1: www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-T... #linux #riscv #rust

Linus Torvalds Vents Over "Completely Crazy Rust Format Checking"

After Linus Torvalds yesterday shot down RISC-V big endian prospects for the Linux kernel, today he has used his authority to wage a war on 'crazy' Rust code formatting as well as to critique poor tex...

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I still don't understand why some people prefer vinyl over CDs for the sound quality. Look how people perceived this when CDs were introduced. 🤷🏻‍♀️ youtu.be/_Tx6TYnPat8?...

Introducing The Amazing Compact Disc | 1982 | Retro vintage 80s technology

YouTube video by ABC Science

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Windsor Castle Tuesday night. Four of us arrested for 'malicious communications'. Now released. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8V4...

Hey Donald, welcome to Windsor Castle

YouTube video by Led By Donkeys

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BREAKING — U.S. Vetoes Gaza Ceasefire Resolution For ‘Failing’ To Adequately ‘Condemn Hamas’ The United States has again vetoed a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate, permanent ceasefire in Gaza and the release of captives — its sixth veto since the war began...

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

Commission’s 72-page legal analysis cites examples including scale of killings, aid blockages and forced displacement * Middle East crisis – live updates A UN commission of inquiry concluded on Tuesday that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza and that top Israeli officials including the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had incited these acts. It cited examples of the scale of the killings, aid blockages, forced displacement and the destruction of a fertility clinic to back up its genocide finding, adding its voice to rights groups and others that have reached the same conclusion. Continue reading...

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It's great to see the work of my colleagues at Cyberus Technology around supporting large VMs in a release! www.phoronix.com/news/Cloud-H...

Cloud Hypervisor Will Block AI Generated Code, Raises x86_64 VM Limit To 8,192 vCPUs

Cloud Hypervisor 48.0 is now available for this Intel-started, open-source and Rust-based VMM focused on modern cloud workloads

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I'm the reason initrds are removed from the Linux kernel. 🤣🤯 www.phoronix.com/news/Initrd-...

Initrd Support Could Finally Be On Its Way To Being Removed From The Linux Kernel

Linux's classic initial RAM disk 'initrd' support might finally be on its way out of the Linux kernel depending upon feedback from stakeholders

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Another security fluctuation for Intel TDX: www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-C...

Intel CPU Microcode Updates Released For Six High Severity Vulnerabilities

This Patch Tuesday has brought a slew of Intel CPU microcode updates for the past few processor generations to address six new high severity vulnerabilities.

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Finally!!!

CNN@cnn.com · last yr.

JUST IN: Germany halts arms exports to Israel that could be used in Gaza, after Israeli security cabinet approves plan to take over Gaza City. cnn.it/46NoO7r

Just when I thought bureaucracy in Spain is not so bad: To get a health insurance card, you need to get the birth certificate (not automatic for foreigners), then apply for a passport from your home country. With that you can apply for a NIE (foreigner ID number) and with that hopefully the card...