People don't seem to understand how much of a threat the remote attestation use of the EU ID Wallet's reference implementation (which will be the preferred method for mandatory age verification for all user-generated content under the EU Kids Act in starting next year) is to software freedom.

Next year, unless there is some kind of law or movement to stop remote attestation the way it's being done in the EU ID wallet, you won't be able to read this post if you're on a Linux/BSD/etc. system.

Thank you PHP2Shell for making me do the thing I've should have done a long time ago and yeeting my NextCloud instance off the public internet and into a VPN.

TIL about the STM32C593 which has 256k RAM, 256k flash and RMII at <1.5EUR in quantity

I am not great with enameled wire, but now we can do topology auto-discovery

I'm all for doing outreach on how transparency logs are a useful architectural building block and people should consider using them more, so on the one hand I'm happy that LLMs seem to have learned that things like https://witness-network.org/ exist.

On the other hand, 99% of the participation requests on the ML in the past 6 months have been undifferentiated slop projects with even some of the emails being obviously auto-generated.

I'd wish people would do something *interesting* with this tech.

Is it a bad sign if one of your future coworkers maintains an overtime tracking app? 😬

Statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged

humans accepting what points on lines are saying challenge: impossible

apropos nothing I have very vivid memories of early 2020 when I was fitting the first COVID cases in Germany to a simple model and they were lining up perfectly week-by-week and various colleagues were like "it can't possibly be that bad"

Old and busted: 4 day work-week
New hotness: 6 day *week* (so much grief has been caused by having a prime number of days in a week)

I have spent *way* too much time thinking about this https://blog.n621.de/2026/10/a-good-serial-number-scheme/

*automation noise intensifies*

Of course it seems ridiculous to me too to consider LLMs to be conscious (and I seriously doubt it).

But either (consciousness relies on incomputable physics or some metaphysical spark) or (some kind of software must *in principle* exist that can produce consciousness).

To me it seems that many people reject both which seems incoherent.

(FWIW I think the character's take is the obviously correct one)

I've been rereading Permutation City and this seems worth a quote given the state of the discourse

Go home Toshiba, you're drunk

:3

Current set of HW designs and some docs at https://github.com/florolf/lab-automation

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