choutos @choutos@qoto.org

The day has come – my new hacker thriller is out! Including hardcover and paperback.
· Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/SUBMERGED-hacker-thriller-John-Wilander-ebook/dp/B0F5BLSYGY/
· Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/book/id6745112316
· Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/submerged-38

This is near-future fiction involving internet sovereignty, superpower cyber conflict, real hacking, and the continued personal saga of West William Wilder.

Data hoarding is more important than ever
https://www.spacebar.news/data-hoarding-more-important-than-ever/

#Authoritarians are often very fond of #engineering, because they always want better ways to kill people. But they hate and fear #science, because the laws of #nature don't care about their #ideology at all. This is a reaction as instinctive as a rattlesnake's bite.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01396-2

Google, Facebook, Skype, and HTC's emoji designs propagate the negative stereotype that people who wear glasses are nerds. https://emojipedia.org/nerd-face/

Compostela-Madrid: 3 horas, viaxe directa
Compostela-Donosti: 10 horas con transbordo e parte da viaxe en bus

Se xuntas tódolos minutos que perdes agardando polo código de autenticación de doble factor cada vez que te conectas dende o navegador de sempre no ordenador de sempre á web de Renfe, sacas varios anos de vida que podías ter pasado rañando a paxara.

O processo de masificaçom turística afeta todos os aspetos das nossas vidas.

Por isso a manifestacom do 10 de Maio será umha representaçom da nossa sociedade: sindicalismo, associaçons vizinhais, culturais, desportivas, de proteçom do património, ecologistas, musicais... sairemos para a rua mostrar que a sociedade morracense quer outro modelo de comarca.

10 de Maio, 12:00 na Casa da Cultura de Cangas.
O MORRAZO TEN UN LÍMITE

Orbital data centers are a really, really dumb idea, for innumerable technical, logistical, and purely practical reasons. And buying a space launch company to build them is a terrible waste.

But if you are a tech CEO and all you know is data centers, and you're willing to ignore literally everyone with spaceflight experience, go ahead and waste your ill-gotten adtech money...

The COVID vaccines have been taken by billions of people, saved millions of lives, and are some of the most rigorously tested medical products in history.

Someone who has zero experience in vaccine development should not be influencing the approval process. This will kill people.

You want to know what #climate scientists got wrong about #climatechange?
We were too cautious. It's happening faster than we anticipated and the impacts are going to be worse.

Looking for some nice images to use as the background on your computer? A few times a year I release images you can use. They cover a wide range of things from birds to landscapes to abstracts. 

They are free to download with no obligation: https://www.chuq.me/wallpapers

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump has brought me to my breaking point with US tech.

I’m going to keep pushing for governments to get serious about digital sovereignty, but in the meantime I’m looking for non-US alternatives — and will have more on what I’ll be using instead soon.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/why-im-getting-off-us-tech

#tech #digitalsovereignty #eutech #donaldtrump #cdntech #elonmusk

I’m proud to be joining @Mastodon’s Board of Directors to guide and support this important platform.

I believe that #Mastodon and the #Fediverse represent some of the most important advancements in social networking design and technology. They have the potential to reverse the harms wrought by the monolithic social media platforms of yesterday.

But even more than that, Mastodon and the Fediverse can be so much more than what we are against. We have so much potential. I believe in all of our power to build and change the world. We start by building and convening in healthier online communities because we are strength together is far more than the sum of our differences. I believe in building technologies that help bring out the best in humanity; I believe in the amazing things we can do and be when we work together.

I love Mastodon. I love what we are and what we will be. Now let’s build a better world together

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/05/evolving-the-team/

Mastodon has taken the strategic decision not to accept venture capital investments for growth, but rather restructure to a European non-profit organisation.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/05/evolving-the-team/

People who say "I just speak my mind" rarely consider that their mind might benefit from an editor.

Launch mission successful accomplished

Congratulations to @esa & @CopernicusEU
[ ~12:15 CEST ]

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/ESA_Web_TV

#EuropeanSpaceMissions #ClimateObservatory #PlanetaryScience #BioMass #BioDiversity #LandUse #PlanetaryHealth #PlanetaryBoundaries #PBScience

I recently wrote a bit on how you can easily get stuck on a cloud. @Quinnypig got there way ahead of me in 2020 and this is a very worthwhile piece on cloud-based workers & why they'll try their hardest to stick with their favorite cloud: https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/the-lock-in-you-dont-see/

Catception
#memes #caturday