On May 13, 2026, the website SecurityBaseline.eu was launched. It is a spin-off from the Dutch "Basisbeveiliging", which has monitored baseline security for over a decade and is part of governmental policy. Three months ago we sent tens of thousands of e…

Tom Millar thought he had unlocked the secrets of the universe.

On digital sovereignty, and why European cloud is better than you think

I’ve been working on improving how we schedule maintenance in Akamai’s cloud infrastructure, especially disruptive maintenance on hypervisor hosts serving hundreds of thousands of guest VMs. The problem is fairly complex, with competing constraints such as…

I left GitHub for self-hosted Forgejo on a hardened NUC. The reason is digital sovereignty, not reliability outages. Here's the thinking and the architecture.

The Dutch suicide prevention hotline 113 shared data from website visitors with third parties without consent, BNR reports based on research by ethical hacker Mick Beer of Hackedemia.nl. After being confronted with this research, Stichting 113 temporarily…

Energy matters for AI, but the decisive layers are cloud infrastructure, data, and commercialization. On those layers the United States is ahead by a wide margin.

“It's making me dumber for sure.”

In the US, you can get a domain name like `somename.city.state.us` for free. If your town has its own domain, you can get nameservers from Amazon Lightsail, send the *Interim .US Domain Template* to the delegated manager for your locality, then point DNS…

Kickstarter has updated its content guidelines to prohibit several forms of NSFW content, and payment processor Stripe may be to blame

A direct-action manifesto for maintainers keeping open source alive on company time.

Haiku is an open-source operating system that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by BeOS, Haiku is fast and easy to learn but very powerful.

Roughly 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could lose 75% of their power after their energy provider said it's directing energy to neighboring data centers.

Create copies of any Postgres database in under 6 seconds. Zero risk to production.

"Is Rust a great fit for this project?" I get this question quite frequently so I think it's time to write down my thoughts if it can help to avoid

Very painful": Altman relives his Muskian reaction to losing control over OpenAI.