Posts by bert_hubert@eupolicy.social
(DIR) Post #B1Xk8ahGxkaLzrJFlA by bert_hubert@eupolicy.social
2025-12-23T12:03:50Z
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@jiska
(DIR) Post #B1cHEtBnCDHCCs2GpM by bert_hubert@eupolicy.social
2025-12-19T17:48:55Z
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“Don’t say you are good at Vibe Coding. Say you are a… Smooth Sloperator”
(DIR) Post #B1nQFheSc9qv2UT104 by bert_hubert@eupolicy.social
2025-12-30T18:37:00Z
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@blotosmetek @mikeolson @publius are you now saying we need nuclear for rotational inertia? That is quite a stretch, you can get that in lots of other ways that do not cost dozens of billions! If you have a specific source I use that you think is biased, do let me know. You mention what the Koreans are doing, which is nice, but they are refusing to do it here, so there's not much point.
(DIR) Post #B1sUV5df5HqhNuUA1g by bert_hubert@eupolicy.social
2026-01-02T12:19:07Z
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Nonsense in the FT: "Miguel De Bruycker, director of the Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB), told the Financial Times that it was “currently impossible” to store data fully in Europe because US companies dominate digital infrastructure". Nonsense, yet policymakers believe this - I talk about our *Self-inflicted* cloud crisis in this piece: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/our-self-inflicted-cloud-crisis/
(DIR) Post #B1sUVDbTTIqw5RWWjA by bert_hubert@eupolicy.social
2026-01-02T12:21:24Z
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An FT sharing link: https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/4eeead06-2f92-483c-a73e-e9f6a1fef950Let me know when it stops working, I'll try to make a new one
(DIR) Post #B22MZ5Zj5HbNLXxKBk by bert_hubert@eupolicy.social
2026-01-04T19:35:34Z
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It is the time of the year to think about if maybe you should make some life changes. I wrote about this earlier, and I've slightly updated the page with a reminder that if the world is depressing, you might not be able to solve that by improving your professional life. But conversely, it might still be that your work is dragging you down: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/on-being-useful/
(DIR) Post #B2ArO5g50xEQK3qJH6 by bert_hubert@eupolicy.social
2026-01-10T11:21:45Z
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In a recent FT article, the director of Cybersecurity Belgium claimed it was impossible to store data within the EU. "Dream on" he said. This reflects the widespread lack of IT understanding among executives, who should urgently wise up & help us regain our digital autonomy: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/ft-on-european-cloud/
(DIR) Post #B2PjdmmLABz64z8vT6 by bert_hubert@eupolicy.social
2025-06-22T15:29:16Z
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Might reread some old Tom Clancy books a bit to remind myself of calmer geopolitics.
(DIR) Post #B2U42XuC640odrI4VE by bert_hubert@eupolicy.social
2026-01-20T17:52:22Z
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Don’t threaten me with a good time Satya
(DIR) Post #B2qdtr4l2YsSdV3Dqy by bert_hubert@eupolicy.social
2026-01-31T04:54:51Z
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Finding that it is a great tell when a European technology "leader" continues to prefer WhatsApp.
(DIR) Post #B2upfcCRWp7WWjSgnA by bert_hubert@eupolicy.social
2026-02-02T14:16:30Z
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so I like to make plaintext outlines of presentations I do. Today is a banger.
(DIR) Post #B39TFHtj6WWUPc9BM8 by bert_hubert@eupolicy.social
2026-02-08T13:28:48Z
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I am losing it at how many of my peers have forgotten what software engineering is. It is not typing in lines of code.
(DIR) Post #B3kACGnW1qpXqobgPI by bert_hubert@eupolicy.social
2026-02-27T08:58:30Z
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RE: https://social.overheid.nl/@stasdigi/116137945588485139I'm not often hopeful, but The Netherlands now has a (junior) minister for digital affairs & sovereignty, and her office has joined the Fediverse, from the official Dutch government Mastodon server:
(DIR) Post #B3stlVDCTlNLtRTT3g by bert_hubert@eupolicy.social
2026-03-03T15:04:53Z
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RE: https://mastodon.nl/@tkdocs/116165803809325677Dutch parliament has just moved that government must verify what happens when "the cloud" fails & report what vital systems stop working. And also, deliver a plan how to remedy these dependencies.
(DIR) Post #B4JnWIXLy6mrmXBYtk by bert_hubert@eupolicy.social
2026-03-15T14:55:54Z
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@stux/116233310369807694It might also be a good idea to work on the efficiency of Mastodon. The server apparently requires significant resources for what appears to not intrinsically require a lot of CPU cycles.
(DIR) Post #B4PZqUY7rvDw8nBV3I by bert_hubert@eupolicy.social
2026-03-19T09:39:25Z
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@bortzmeyer This, amazingly, is not the first time this has happened! https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/history-of-powerdns-2003-2013/#:~:text=A%20bit%2Dby%2Dbit%20comparison
(DIR) Post #B4i7PNo9ifO8hVCqGW by bert_hubert@eupolicy.social
2026-03-27T21:12:15Z
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After receiving the first LLM-generated pull requests, I have decided to blanket no longer look at those. When studying a PR, I take into account who made it, and if they've previously been careful developers. LLM-generated code I have no idea about, and the amount of scrutiny required is just too much. Because I have to assume you have no idea what you are doing.
(DIR) Post #B4i7PWB8b6Wcf61JCK by bert_hubert@eupolicy.social
2026-03-27T21:54:48Z
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This in addition to the many other reasons not to accept LLM-generated code, btw.
(DIR) Post #B4oPGBYIsef6CvJZzs by bert_hubert@eupolicy.social
2026-03-31T08:59:04Z
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"Graphic design is my passion"
(DIR) Post #B53ZlvDP4QZliai3km by bert_hubert@eupolicy.social
2026-04-07T16:03:48Z
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Amazing that to stay sane in 2026 you have to convince yourself that a presidential threat that "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again" is actually not serious.