Articles by sam_lowry_
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Belgian politicians would rather risk treason charges than trust engineers (mova.org)

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Our politicians fear engineers so much that they risk high treason charges (mova.org)

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Lex Friedman talks about FFmpeg and there's only one mention of Fabrice Bellard [video] (youtube.com)

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Two-factor authentication in the Funding and Tenders Portal (europa.eu)

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Commission responds to cyber-attack on its Europa web platform (europa.eu)

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Final Report of Grid Incident in Spain and Portugal on 28 April 2025 [pdf] (windows.net)

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European municipalities leak citizen data to US companies

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Linux laptop with < 0.3w standby power draw?

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Poll: Meaningless Work or Boring Colleagues?

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What chat app does Trump use?

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Europe's executives need to skill up to solve our total US cloud dependency (berthub.eu)

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AWS and Microsoft are selling more than cloud services (berthub.eu)

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(nossl) What do Ursula von der Leyen and Putin have in common? (mova.org)

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(nossl) Looking for an alternative to GitHub? Look no further than Git itself (mova.org)

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(nossl) Flow Is Considered Harmful (mova.org)

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Putin anx Xi talk about immortality (politico.eu)

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Flightradar refutes GPS interference with von der Leyen plane (twitter.com/flightradar24)

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Ask HN: Anyone working on bringing software back from US clouds?

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Ask HN: How to find work in bringing software back from clouds?

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How to find work in bringing software back from clouds?

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Looking for a European alternative to GitHub? Look no further than Git (mova.org)

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The imminent death of HTTP/1.1 and its risks are not understood (mova.org)

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[nossl] Loss of Digital Sovereignty via Multi-Factor Authentication (mova.org)

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The Curvy Cucumber of DNS4EU and How to Do It Right Next Time (mova.org)

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Looking for a European alternative to GitHub? Look no further than Git itself (mova.org)

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Looking for a European alternative to GitHub? Look no further than Git itself (mova.org)

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The pointless churn of SHA1 deprecation (mova.org)

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I want to help clear EU skies from US clouds

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Power grid outage across Spain and Portugal (politico.eu)

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There will be no "European Cloud" as you understand it (mova.org)

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Hillary Clinton: How Much Dumber Will This Get? (archive.ph)

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2FA or Not 2FA (mova.org)

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2FA or Not 2FA (mova.org)

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2FA or Not 2FA (mova.org)

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Resume vs. Curriculum Vitae (mova.org)

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What have we forgotten? (mova.org)

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PHP Must Die (mova.org)

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PHP Is King (mova.org)

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Putin isn't a politician, he's a gangster, by Yulia Navalny (washingtonpost.com)

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The worst kind of programmer (mova.org)

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Is there a SETI-like project to train LLM on libgen, scihub and the likes?

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There Is Nothing Fair About the European Commission’s “Fair Share” Proposal (eff.org)

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Azure Down in Western Europe (status.microsoft)

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Russia’s population nightmare is going to get even worse (economist.com)

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Europe needs more factories and fewer dependencies (ft.com)

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Amazon.com (amazon.com)

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Cyber and information security: have we all gone mad? [pdf] (berthub.eu)

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What Liberalism Did to Kyrgyzstan (lefteast.org)