Julien Gabel

Multi-platform UNIX systems consultant and administrator in mutualized and virtualized environments.

@[email protected]
@thilellidotnet.bsky.social

[Bottles @usebottles]

Bottles Next Got Its First Runner for macOS!
Read more: https://t.co/VHGgaeml8J

#Windows #MacOS #Linux #Gaming #OpenSource #Development #Design

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

Anthropic just announced it will take the Trump administration to court over the supply chain risk designation. And in the same breath, Axios revealed the detail that changes everything about this story.

While Anthropic was being blacklisted for refusing to allow mass surveillance, the Pentagon’s own “compromise deal” that Under Secretary Emil Michael was offering on the phone at the exact moment Hegseth posted the designation on X would have required Anthropic to allow the collection and analysis of Americans’ geolocation data, web browsing history, and personal financial information purchased from data brokers.

Read that again. The Pentagon spent two weeks saying it has no interest in mass surveillance of Americans. Then the deal they actually put on the table asked for access to your location, your browsing history, and your financial records.

They told us Anthropic was lying. The contract language told us Anthropic was right.

Now here is where this becomes an existential question for a $380 billion company.

The supply chain risk designation means every company that does business with the Pentagon must certify they do not use Claude. Eight of the ten largest companies in America use Claude. Defense contractors, cloud providers, consulting firms, banks. The blast radius is not the $200 million Pentagon contract. It is the enterprise ecosystem that generates $14 billion in annual revenue.

Anthropic’s legal argument is specific: under 10 USC 3252, the designation can only restrict use of Claude on Pentagon contract work. Your commercial API access, your https://t.co/koW5OJjjaM subscription, your enterprise license are, in Anthropic’s reading, completely unaffected.

But here is the problem. That is a legal argument. It will take years to resolve in court. And in the meantime, every general counsel at every Fortune 500 company with any Pentagon exposure is going to ask one question: is using Claude worth the risk?

The IPO, which was expected this year at a $380 billion valuation backed by $30 billion in fresh capital, is functionally frozen. No underwriter will price an offering while a company carries the same designation as Huawei.

And here is the final detail nobody has processed yet. Hours after blacklisting Anthropic, the Pentagon accepted OpenAI’s proposed safety framework, which contains the identical red lines: no mass surveillance, no autonomous lethal weapons.

They destroyed one company for a position they then accepted from its competitor.

Full analysis on Substack. https://t.co/AEv8EMPdsZ

[Brendan Gregg @brendangregg]

New blog post: Why I joined OpenAI https://t.co/xwcPrOA5SR

[Quentin '🐧' ADAM @waxzce]

Question (for engineers, managers, policy folks):
In 2026, what does it mean to work for a major U.S. tech company?
Is it still “just a job”… or is it becoming a form of collaboration—structurally, whether we like it or not?

[Quentin '🐧' ADAM @waxzce]

We’ve crossed a threshold.

Greenland: Trump appoints Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry as “U.S. Special Envoy to Greenland.” Landry publicly says the goal is “to make Greenland a part of the U.S.”

Europe: Washington targets EU regulators, incl. Thierry Breton (then a European Commissioner) — sanctioned for doing his job: enforcing European digital sovereignty (DMA/DSA).

Venezuela: Maduro is seized in a U.S. operation abroad and brought to the U.S. — without a Congressional mandate.

Let’s be clear: no one needs to defend Maduro’s corrupt regime. That’s not the point.

The point is method: sovereignty becomes optional, even for allies — and democracy is bypassed at home.

Because this is not a collection of incidents. It’s a doctrine.

The 2025 National Security Strategy makes it explicit: a “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine, and a worldview that treats Europe with open contempt.

Here’s the deeper pattern: techno-feudalism.

When a handful of digital empires control cloud, platforms, payments, distribution, identity, and public discourse, states end up negotiating their sovereignty on infrastructures they don’t own.

And here’s the dangerous illusion: “the deal.”

We keep believing we can secure sovereignty with paper—contracts, clauses, compliance promises, “reversibility.”

But U.S. big tech — and increasingly the U.S. state itself — has entered an era where contracts are treated as revocable, and extraterritorial power as normal.

If the other side doesn’t respect the very sovereignty that makes contracts meaningful, paper cannot protect you. Only power can.

Still: resistance is possible.

With the Open Internet Project, we won 8 out of 8 lawsuits over more than a decade. Not by magic — but because law + industrial choices + political will still matter.

France’s Senate warned back in 2013: the EU could become a “digital colony.” Many called it exaggerated.

In 2026, it looks like understatement.

Conclusion: Europe must act as Europe.

This is not ideology — it’s economics.

If you want sovereignty, stop funding your own dependency: buy European for critical digital infrastructure. Build, regulate, and defend.

Link dump (for the follow-up tweet)

Conference (context): https://t.co/9l3x6Ztp1L
NSS (official PDF): https://t.co/FgU3mO2g0L
Landry quote (PBS/AP): https://t.co/rfgZEzaX5a
EU “visa bans” / Breton coverage (example): https://t.co/usC9oceMIb
Senate report (Morin-Desailly, 2013): https://t.co/NMtL7GGpjT
Vie-publique summary: https://t.co/ASxdA8PH6v

[GNU/Linux Magazine @gnulinuxmag]

Pour bien finir et/ou débuter l'année, notre nouveau numéro vous invite à tirer parti de #Git au quotidien.

À découvrir dès aujourd'hui en kiosque ou en ligne (frais de ports offerts ou lecture en ligne immédiate) : https://t.co/bZ7ErSEeq7.

Bonne lecture & bonnes fêtes🎄 !

[Brendan Gregg @brendangregg]

New post: Leaving Intel https://t.co/rkcGw8VdyU

[Sébastien Blanc 🇪🇺 🥑 @sebi2706]

🚨 So after 21 years of career, it finally happen, I have been let go from my company, in fact the complete marketing team has been let go ... It came really as a complete surprise, I was not expecting that at all since they were super happy with and the significant impact I had. Also the company is doing really well ...

But it's life, it's not easy, I'm recovering slowly and I'm already looking for my next adventure.

So if you are looking for a experienced IT professional with expertise going from advocacy (community, pre-sales & customers) to Java, with a lot of knowledge and opinions on Platform Engineering/k8s ecosystem and how all of this can be infused with AI, don't hesitate to ping me. Remote EMEA
Also don't hesitate to RT this post.

Love you all, my network of friends has already been beyond awesome helping when I told them in private last week.

[France Musique @francemusique]

Alexandre Astier, en plus d'écrire et de réaliser "Kaamelott", en compose la bande originale. Ce qui lui permet de faire un aller-retour permanent entre le montage et la musique. Il nous explique.

[Kaamelott officiel @Kaamelott_tweet]

BO : @AAstierOff x @Auditorium_ONL !
🎧 https://t.co/49ExtuUWsH

[FreeBSD Frau @freebsdfrau]

What what WHAT?! I thought I knew it all when it came to regex (including all of PCRE) and now I discover this gem? What a time to be alive! I say … -oP plus \K for the ever-lovin’ win!

[Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill]

"If anyone from Oxide ever reads this, keep at it." Words cannot convey how meaningful this is -- it is a tremendous blessing to have so many believe in our mission so deeply; thank you!
https://t.co/oa3uIcVBBY

[Alex Kuleshov @0xAX]

Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS - https://t.co/pR7kaZaiUN

[Chafik Bel @ChafikBelhaoues]

CockroachDB is changing its licensing again, moving out of open core after they moved away from Open Source a few years ago.
While I understand the "no free ride", I start to believe that Open Source is just a Go-To-Market hack. As soon as the company works, they threw it away.

[Olivier Poncet 🦝 @ponceto91]

Article à lire, même si vous pensez connaître l'histoire de git ⤵️

[Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill]

Engineering a culture: https://t.co/9xYDB67O9B

[Brendan Gregg @brendangregg]

New blog post: Linux crisis tools https://t.co/uTAXexoQCM

[Brendan Gregg @brendangregg]

New blog post: The Return of the Frame Pointers (Fedora, Ubuntu) https://t.co/7JPatBZpIf

[Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill]

Great piece from @sjvn. The acquisition of VMware by Broadcom reminds me of the acquisition of Sun by Oracle in several ways -- not least the total disdain for customers...

[The Register @TheRegister]

The successor to Research Unix was Plan 9 from Bell Labs https://t.co/wG3KgNyPNj