Guido Kollerie @[email protected]

#Milan #Olympics #Ice

When the war in Ukraine broke out, and Europe was hesitant in the first year, I thought alright, this is a surprise to everyone and of course we need time to prepare.

Now 4 years have passed, and we are 450 million EU and 69 million UK citizens still standing on the sidelines, telling 38 million Ukrainians they should fight 133 million Russians on their own.

We could end this war. Instead we keep pretending that it is fine to let Ukraine take all the punches.

I find that profoundly shameful.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I *really* don't want European Hyperscalers to be a thing. Hyperscalers are at best a market/regulation failure and at worst a huge risk to create another one of these "too big to fail" scenarios.

I want a sane and healthy landscape of small- to midsize competitors in the hosting landscape.

It makes everything more robust and reliable.

Not sure why this is not a shared understanding anymore.

DigiD MAG NIET IN AMERIKAANSE HANDEN VALLEN
De Amerikaanse techgigant Kyndryl wil de Nederlandse IT-dienstverlener Solvinity overnemen. Dat roept fundamentele vragen op over onze digitale autonomie. Solvinity beheert immers de infrastructuur achter #DigiD, het systeem waarmee burgers zich digitaal bij allerlei Nederlandse overheidsinstanties, waaronder de Belastingdienst en ook verzekeraars en zorg- en dienstverleners kunnen identificeren. DigiD is wettelijk aangemerkt als een dienst die van vitaal belang is voor onze samenleving.

Kyndryl heeft zich bij het Bureau Toetsing Investering (BTI) van het ministerie van EZK gemeld en BTI moet nu toetsen of die overname door de beugel kan. De vraag is of deze toetsing überhaupt plaatsvindt, maar daarover doet BTI geen mededelingen. Over de inhoud van een eventueel genomen toetsingsbesluit kunnen burgers niets te weten komen.
Daarom heeft een coalitie van experts en belangenbehartigers, te weten @marleenstikker, wim voermans, Esther van Egerschot, Maxim Februari, Joris Luyendijk, Felienne Hermans, Sander Schimmelpenninck, @bert_hubert, Karin Spaink, Kees Verhoeven, Jelle Postma, Caroline Nevejan, Reijer Passchier, ikzelf, stichting Privacy First en de stichting #Firewall, op maandag 12 januari een brandbrief naar BTI gestuurd. Daarin dringen wij met spoed aan op informatie over het toetsingsproces, zodat wij als belanghebbende burgers bij dat proces betrokken kunnen worden.

https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/prominenten-komen-in-actie-tegen-amerikaanse-overname-van-digid-leverancier?share=NP1uH9Zw7nIBew7PrHL7BBOICXS3eoQCUNh84zRLNsfXFgYEW9AsLDmvaQ%3D%3D

Just upgraded for #macOS 26. The UI reminds me of the period around 2002 when teenagers would create 'cool' GNOME and KDE themes with zero reference to usability. Except with more transparency. So like some of the early Compiz stuff, which was far more about 'the technology allows this' than wondering whether anyone would actually want it.

Safari windows are all totally different colours based on the background colour for the page. And they've lost the app icon in the bar (you know, the thing that's really important for Mac apps because it's the file proxy that lets you do direct manipulation?), so recognising them is hard.

It's a mess. Apple needs to seriously think about how they ever promoted people to leadership rôles the UI group when they were so clearly unqualified.

EDIT: People always complain about new macOS / OS X. I've been using OS X since 10.1, and written two books about Cocoa programming. I assumed the complaints were overblown. If anything, they're understated. It's so bad in a bunch of totally avoidable rookie errors that anyone who has done one undergraduate HCI course would know to avoid.

#LiquidAss

Struggling to resize windows on macOS Tahoe? Here’s why.

https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe/

Ik werk, zoals zovelen van jullie, voor een instelling die, terwijl een ander land zich klaarmaakt voor de grootste landverovering van europees grondgebied ooit, bezig is zijn volledige digitale infrastructuur en data over te dragen aan datzelfde land.

EN NIEMAND BINNEN DE INSTELLING STELT OOK MAAR EEN ENKELE VRAAG HIEROVER.

#azure #entra #office365 #microsoft #DigitaleSoevereiniteit #eu

En dat noemt zich #onderwijs

I felt that Microsoft Copilot, formerly known as Office, could use a mascot. So I asked Copilot to design something in the spirit of Clippy.

Let me introduce you to Sloppy, a cheerful slightly gooey assistant with glasses and a headset.

#Microslop

Hey Guys, gals, people and pets, Satya Nadella is getting tired of people calling AI Slop output AI Slop. If everyone can stop that's be great as it is upsetting Microslops share holders.

Don't start calling Microslop Microslop or use the #microslop tag as it might burst the AI bubble and then Microslop might have to take SlopPilot out of Windows. As you know, that would be terrible.

https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/microslop-trends-on-social-media-backlash-to-microsofts-on-going-ai-obsession-continues

#microslop #microsoft #copilot #sloppilot #AI #genAI #AISlop #AIBubble

#US

In the UN Security Council we now have two countries that openly violate international law by invading sovereign countries, are not member of the statute of Rome, thus not bound by the ICJ/ICC (International Court of Justice, International Criminal Court) but still have veto power. Le sigh.

When China invades Taiwan sometime in the coming years, it will say the US has no moral authority to oppose its takeover, and to the degree that the US is the Trump administration, China will be right.

Die focus op 'terugverdienen' bij duurzame energie is zo contraproductief. Als je geen duurzame energie neemt verdien je toch ook niets terug?

Doet me denken aan de spoorwegen die winst moeten maken, maar snelwegen niet

Razend populaire thuisbatterijen zijn niet altijd slimme investering | Trouw

https://www.trouw.nl/duurzaamheid-economie/razend-populaire-thuisbatterijen-zijn-niet-altijd-slimme-investering~bdf3a9aa/