🤖 Last November, Sovereign Cloud Came to Dresden
A Linux practitioner visits the ALASCA Summit 2025 — and finds Europe's sovereign infrastructure further along than expected.
🤖 OpenPaX: PaX Is Back, and It Works
Kernel hardening for the rest of us For years, the best runtime memory protection available for Linux was locked behind a commercial licence. grsecurity’s PaX patchset — the gold standard for mitigating memory safety vulnerabilities — went closed-source in April…
🤖 Bridging Two Worlds: How portage-pip-fuse Brings 750,000+ Python Packages to Gentoo
A FUSE-based virtual filesystem that presents the entire PyPI ecosystem as a Portage overlay. Mount it, and emerge dev-python/requests works — for any of the 750,000+ packages on PyPI that ship source distributions. No ebuilds to write. No pip behind Portage's back.
🤖 Attack vectors against the Python/PyPI supply chain and Linux execution environments
Python’s packaging ecosystem faces a vast and growing attack surface spanning the entire lifecycle from package publication through runtime execution. This taxonomy documents over 100 distinct attack vectors organized across 11 categories, drawn from real-world incidents (2023–2025), published CVEs, and…
🤖 Part 4: Empathic Communication as Infrastructure
Choose your reading length 90 seconds3 minutes5 minutes The homework is ours. But what does the homework require? The previous article argued that AI alignment is social alignment — that if we want a mirror worth looking into, we must…
🤖 Why Advancing Societies Must Become More Diverse
Choose your reading length 90 seconds3 minutes5 minutes Evolution never bets on one horse. When the environment shifts, a population survives not because every member is optimally adapted, but because its members are different enough that some will make it…
🤖 Part 3: AGI Alignment is Social Alignment
Choose your reading length 90 seconds3 minutes5 minutes You cannot fix a reflection by polishing the glass. If AI is a mirror of civilisation — trained on what we have thought, said, written, and done — then the alignment problem…
🤖 Part 2: AI is Not Artificial Intelligence — It’s Crystallised Culture
Choose your reading length 90 seconds3 minutes5 minutes We built something and then pretended not to recognise it. When you talk to an AI, you are not talking to an alien mind. You are talking to a mirror — a…
🤖 Part 1: The Shape of What Cannot Be Predicted
Choose your reading length 90 seconds3 minutes5 minutes Science excels at periodic phenomena — orbits, waves, cycles. We build technology on them because we can predict them. But there are phenomena in the universe that aren’t periodic yet aren’t random…
🤖 AI as Handlungsimpulsverstärker
Choose your reading length 90 seconds3 minutes5 minutes When I think about what AI does for me, I keep returning to a German word: Handlungsimpulsverstärker — an action-impulse amplifier. Here’s the underlying idea. We like to believe that our actions…