repat

remote certified @laravelphp developer (@repatllc) · from Hamburg 🇩🇪 · (motor)bike, sky / scuba dive, paragliding & podcast enthusiast · KN6DZC

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Did you know?

NASA only uses 15 digits of π for calculating interplanetary travel.

At 40 digits, you could calculate the circumference of a circle the size of the visible universe with an accuracy that'd fall off by less than the diameter of a hydrogen atom.

π Day 2026

[Tom Antonov @Tom_Antonov]

Close call. Thank god there weren’t 99 of them.

[Moxie Marlinspike @moxie]

If you're feeling lonely on X, just post about how Telegram isn't an encrypted messenger. It'll reliably fill your mentions with 40 accounts named 'Priv8User420', all sharing made-up cryptography facts and Telegram memes. It's the closest thing X has to a support group.

[Norbert Bolz @NorbertBolz]

Auf die Ausrede "Jugendschutz" ist Orwell nicht gekommen.

[E L H O T Z O @elhotzo]

2026 bisher:

• Brand in der Schweiz
• Maduro-Kidnapping
• Stromausfall in Berlin
• ICE-Mord
• Massaker im Iran
• Trump will Grönland
• Strafzölle
• IS ist zurück
• doch keine Strafzölle lol

es ist der 22. Januar

[E L H O T Z O @elhotzo]

ich liebe die paar Minuten nach dem Aufwachen bevor man zum 1. Mal aufs Handy geschaut hat und man noch nicht weiß, ob Trump über Nacht einen neuen Krieg begonnen hat, immer wieder spannend

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Nike’s marketing department is having a wild year so far

[Matthew Prince 🌥 @eastdakota]

Yesterday a quasi-judicial body in Italy fined @Cloudflare $17 million for failing to go along with their scheme to censor the Internet. The scheme, which even the EU has called concerning, required us within a mere 30 minutes of notification to fully censor from the Internet any sites a shadowy cabal of European media elites deemed against their interests. No judicial oversight. No due process. No appeal. No transparency. It required us to not just remove customers, but also censor our 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver meaning it risked blacking out any site on the Internet. And it required us not just to censor the content in Italy but globally. In other words, Italy insists a shadowy, European media cabal should be able to dictate what is and is not allowed online.

That, of course, is DISGUSTING and even before yesterday’s fine we had multiple legal challenges pending against the underlying scheme. We, of course, will now fight the unjust fine. Not just because it’s wrong for us but because it is wrong for democratic values.

In addition, we are considering the following actions: 1) discontinuing the millions of dollars in pro bono cyber security services we are providing the upcoming Milano-Cortina Olympics; 2) discontinuing Cloudflare’s Free cyber security services for any Italy-based users; 3) removing all servers from Italian cities; and 4) terminating all plans to build an Italian Cloudflare office or make any investments in the country.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. While there are things I would handle differently than the current U.S. administration, I appreciate @JDVance taking a leadership role in recognizing this type of regulation is a fundamental unfair trade issue that also threatens democratic values. And in this case @ElonMusk is right: #FreeSpeech is critical and under attack from an out-of-touch cabal of very disturbed European policy makers.

I will be in DC first thing next week to discuss this with U.S. administration officials and I’ll be meeting with the IOC in Lausanne shortly after to outline the risk to the Olympic Games if @Cloudflare withdraws our cyber security protection.

In the meantime, we remain happy to discuss this with Italian government officials who, so far, have been unwilling to engage beyond issuing fines. We believe Italy, like all countries, has a right to regulate the content on networks inside its borders. But they must do so following the Rule of Law and principles of Due Process. And Italy certainly has no right to regulate what is and is not allowed on the Internet in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Brazil, India or anywhere outside its borders.

THIS IS AN IMPORTANT FIGHT AND WE WILL WIN!!!

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

The periodic table mapped according to lickability

Please note: Every element can be licked once

[English Grammar @GrammarUpdates]

How long should a written sentence beHow long should a written sentence be?

[Pentagon Pizza Report @PenPizzaReport]

Pizzato Pizza, a late night pizzeria nearby the Pentagon, has suddenly surged in traffic.

As of 2:04am ET

[Florian Roth ⚡️ @cyb3rops]

MongoBleed (CVE-2025-14847) is basically Heartbleed for MongoDB

- unauthenticated memory disclosure
- public POC, trivial to exploit
- leaks creds, tokens, cloud keys straight from RAM
- huge exposed surface on the internet

Good writeups and technical details here:
https://t.co/LgK4RABmJu
https://t.co/DWtByJQ3au
https://t.co/LUwfnF6uXG

Patch fast, rotate secrets, and assume exposed instances were scanned(!)

[pedram.md @pdrmnvd]

oh you’re using claude code? everyone’s using open code. just kidding we’re all on amp code. we’re using cline, we’re using roo code. we just forked our own version of roo. were using kilo code. we were on coderabbit but their ceo yelled at us so now we’re using qorbit. apple just acquired them for $30bn so we just migrated our entire team to slash commands. one guy is still on aider. the PM is on loveable. he just shipped a new product on replit. the intern installed a slackbot that lets you chat with your spreadsheet. legal is still reviewing devin’s enterprise contract. we evaluated junie for three ukrainians using jetbrains. someone in slack just asked “has anyone tried amp?” we are using goose for scripts. next week we’re piloting augment code. the CTO heard good things about trae.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ our CEO is friends with the guy from conductor. our CFO resigned. our CISO said we’ve had fourteen supply chain attacks in the last week. we’re shipping the worlds most expensive todo app.

[JT @jiratickets]

ever since I was a little boy I dreamed of configuring IAM polices for an enterprise AWS environment

[Joscha Bach @Plinz]

@_mihir_sathe Computers don't imitate brains at all. The computer is a very general mathematical idea: a system that can execute functions via arbitrary sequences of state transitions. Both brains and GPUs are in this category.

[Dev Agrawal @devagrawal09]

Thanks Docker

[Patrick Blumenthal @PatrickJBlum]

"i deleted social media and stopped reading the news, and honestly, my mental health has been so much better"

[nixCraft 🐧 @nixcraft]

Compiling Software on Linux, summarized:
1. configure
2. make
* Error: Missing obscure library from 2007

[Programmer Humor @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R]

compileCircleOfLife https://t.co/TaqTDa8gzc