kevin ⁂ (he/him)
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🔗 "Introducing ChatGPT Atlas (simonwillison.net)"
Oh boy they did it. They really did a browser. Holy shit we’re in for a very fun SecOps ride!
👉 https://kevingimbel.de/link-blog/re-https-simonwillison-net-2025-oct-21-introducing-chatgpt-atlas
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🔗 "The Oldest Known Melody (Hurrian Hymn no.6 - c.1400 B.C.)"
Life is so cool when you can listen to a 3400 year old piece of music played by a Lyre artist, streamed via a globe spanning network.
👉 https://kevingimbel.de/link-blog/re-https-www-youtube-com-watch-v-qpxn2vxpmlc
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Atuin Desktop is in open beta now! 🎉
Run books that actually run, built by @ellie and @binarymuse
I’ve been using it for a while in closed beta and can’t wait to get my team on it as well! :D
Big up to all involved!
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🔗 "As I remember London"
Christian Heilmann on how he remembers living in London - a stark contrast to the racist shit DHH wrote on his blog.
👉 https://kevingimbel.de/link-blog/re-https-christianheilmann-com-2025-09-25-as-i-remember-london
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Container Days is really great so far, looking forward to some relaxed networking tonight and a chair to sit after standing all day 👴🏻
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There’s a community puzzle at Container Days! :D
#CDS2025 #ContainerDays
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🚂 Train day today as I travel to Hamburg for Container Days 2025! #CDS25
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🔗 "Mark Zuckerberg sues Mark Zuckerberg"
This is too funny: A lawyer named Mark Zuckerburg is pissed because Facebook keeps disabling his account on terms of impersonating Mark Zuckerburg (Meta CEO).
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🔗 "Happy Birthday Monkey Island"
Moneky Island turns 35 this year, and I just discovered this old blog post by Ron Gilbert about the development and release process of a game in 1990.
👉 https://kevingimbel.de/link-blog/re-https-www-grumpygamer-com-monkey25
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🔗 "Finnish City Inaugurates 1 MW/100 MWh Sand Battery"
A very interesting concept, and a great example of taking alternative approaches to energy management!
👉 https://kevingimbel.de/link-blog/finnish-city-inaugurates-1-mw-100-mwh-sand-battery
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🔗 "Why 'Silksong' Took Seven Years to Make"
Silksong took 7 years to make and comes out in just two weeks! There were a lot of rumors about it in the past: People talking about the game being discarded, never coming out, the team going silent and not posting any updates... turns out, they were just having a great time!
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#linkblog #SuggestedRead #HollowKnight #Gaming #Silksong https://kevingimbel.de/link-blog/re-https-www-bloomberg-com-news-newsletters-2025-08-21-why-silksong-team-cherry-s-sequel-to-hollow-knight-took-so-long-to-make
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From September 8th to 12th I’ll be in Hamburg for #ContainerDays — this year as an exhibitor and visitor!
Let’s hang out if you’re around! :)
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🔗 "How I accidentally became PureGym's unofficial Apple Wallet developer"
Vadim Drobinin, frustrated with his gym app, reverse engineers the API and makes it Apple Wallet compatible to save a whooping 3.2h each year when going into the gym. This post is why I love being a programmer - finding an issue, working around it, making things work. Beautiful.
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#linkblog #SuggestedRead #PureGym #Reverse Engineering #Apple https://kevingimbel.de/link-blog/re-https-dimsumthinking-com-blog-2019-08-06-applehatesyou-html
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🔗 "I'm never going back to Matrix"
A good post about Matrix and where it comes short - messaging, surprisingly. There's a reason folks use Signal over the decentralized Matrix chat protocol and service.
👉 https://kevingimbel.de/link-blog/re-https-shkspr-mobi-blog-2025-07-im-never-going-back-to-matrix
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🔗 "Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives"
Once again, Perplexity is stealing data it isn't supposed to access - actively circumventing counter measurements like robots.txt files and IP/User Agent blocks.
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🔗 RE: "Record DDoS pummels site with once-unimaginable 7.3Tbps of junk traffic"
That's just insane numbers.
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🔗 RE: "Tiny Robots Can Help Fix Leaky Old Water Pipes Without Having to Dig Up Roads"
So cool! Small-ish Robots living in pipes, cleaning and fixing them from within.
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🔗 RE: "Google Cloud Incident"
Google Cloud Platform suffered an outage on the 12th of June, caused by a null pointer exception in a central component. As always, the post-mortem / incident report by Google is detailed, blameless, and open which is very nice to see - I like reading through them and learning from their takeaways.
👉 https://kevingimbel.de/link-blog/re-https-status-cloud-google-com-incidents-ow5i3ppk96rdumcb1ssw
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Hello friends!
We're looking for multiple people to join my team at AOE Group working on Kubernetes-based Platform Engineering and Open Source:
- Fully remote possible or on-site in Wiesbaden
- In-House Platform project with focus on Kubernetes and Open Source- #DevOpsEngineer https://jobs.aoe.com/en/job/devops-engineer-m-f-d.html
- #PlatformEngineer https://jobs.aoe.com/en/job/platform-engineer-f-m-d.html
- #Go / #Kubernetes expert https://jobs.aoe.com/en/job/kubernetes-docker-expert-m-f-d.html
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In order to further reduce the influence of the USA in my day to day life I’ve replaced “$” with “€” in my terminal prompt.
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A new The Witcher 4 Tech Demo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJtF3wzPSrY) has been published showcasing the new Unreal Engine 5.6 running on a PS5 and it looks amazing!
Once again CD Projekt Red is pushing the limits and creating a wonderful alive world for The Witcher 4. I'm super excited, The Witcher 3 was the game that made me buy a PS4 back in the day, and The Witcher 4 looks like a step forward in so many directions - it looks truly next-gen.
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PSA: If you use AWS Incident Manager and trigger incidents with Lambda you may need to allow the `ssm-contacts:StartEngagement` action for your lambda role.
Our Incident Manager stopped working sometime in the past 2-3 days, and now works again after adding the statement to the policy. Still investigating when and what changed. 🤔
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🔗 RE: "How I Manage My Read Later List"
Sometimes the simplest solution can be the best.
👉 https://kevingimbel.de/link-blog/re-https-marcel-io-posts-how-i-manage-my-read-later-list
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🔗 RE: "European Vulnerability Database"
There's now a European Vulnerability Database which tracks vulnerabilities!
👉 https://kevingimbel.de/link-blog/re-https-euvd-enisa-europa-eu
#linkblog #SuggestedRead #security #vulnerability #cve #secops
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🔗 RE: "A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data"
I asked Gemma 3 running locally about "vegetative electron microscopy" and it gave me a super long answer explaining what it is - only that it is nothing but an error in AI data.
👉
#linkblog #SuggestedRead #AI https://kevingimbel.de/link-blog/re-https-theconversation-com-a-weird-phrase-is-plaguing-scientific-papers-and-we-traced-it-back-to-a-glitch-in-ai-training-data-254463
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I’m collecting ways to defend against AI crawling! Everything from fail2ban rules, to text and image poisoning, to scrambling, delaying, blocking: What are you doing by to avoid AI? What works for you, what doesn’t?
Please share for reach and feel free to drop any tool here!
:boost_requested:
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Core Devices has released two new watches, the Core 2 Duo (149US$) and Core Time 2 (225US$) which are updated versions of the Pebble Smartwatch! https://store.repebble.com
I am super excited, the Pebble Time 2 was my favourite watch ever, and I'd love to get the Core Time 2 but cannot justify it at this time since I just got a Garmin Fitness Tracker watch last year.
#Smartwatch #PebbleOS
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Got my Kirby license and Kirby on a server behind basic auth, finishing up the last bits and setting up the content syncing and stuff.
And then I want to fix some issues with mobiles before I go live! Very excited, and very very much looking forward to the relaunch.
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Started putting together a sticker book with all the (tech) stickers I got over the years. It’s already a lot of fun and I’m looking forward to collecting at conferences next year!
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🔗 Just saved: „X's Objection to the Onion Buying InfoWars Is a Reminder You Do Not Own Your Social Media Accounts“
Just fucked up, really.
"What is interesting is that X has decided to involve itself at all, and it highlights that you do not own your followers or your account or anything at all on corporate social media, and it also highlights the fact that Elon Musk’s X is primarily a political project he is using to boost, or stifle, sp https://www.404media.co/xs-objection-to-the-onion-buying-infowars-is-a-reminder-you-do-not-own-your-social-media-accounts/
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Next up is “Cloud Native Security: A New Paradigm for a New World” by Mario Fahlandt of Kubermatic #ContainerDays #cds24
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It has been a very exciting and exhausting day and I’m looking forward to the second part of #ContainerDays tomorrow! ✨
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Today's the day! I’m very excited* for my talk at Container Days Hamburg later today, talking about „Vulnerability Management in Kubernetes“ at 2:25pm on stage K4. See you there! ✨
(*hella nervous!)
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I don’t know what I was thinking taking such early trains, but I’m on my way to Hamburg for #ContainerDays 🚂💤
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One week untill I'll be in Hamburg talking about Container Vulnerability Management in Kubernetes at #ContainerDays!
I'm super excited! 🎉
14:25 on stage K4!
https://www.containerdays.io/containerdays-conference-2024/agenda/
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🔗 Just saved: "One Million Checkboxes"
It's one million checkboxes on a website, and if you click one it gets checked for everyone. Gotta love the WWW!
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Updated my blogroll from a list of blogs to include some screenshots of the websites.
First image is the before, the other three the after. ✨
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Just published a new version fakedata_generator! 🎉
New ✨
- tvshow dataset
- prime numbers dataset
- error handling for unknown datasets
- updated TLDs list
- updated corpora submoduleCode: https://github.com/KevinGimbel/fakedata_generator
crates.io: https://crates.io/crates/fakedata_generator/0.5.0
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New profile pic who dis?
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I've published a new thing!
ndice is a dice-roller cli tool written in Rust.
Supports all dices, including non-existing ones.
Usage example, rolling one six-sided dice:
$ ndice 1d6
...or one six-sided and two 13 sided!
$ ndice 1d6 2d13
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✨ new on my website! ✨
mip & yip —
https://kevingimbel.de/oss/mip-yip/mip is a library that can get the current IP based on a HTTP request to a service such as httpbin.org/ip
yip is a server that responds with the callers' IP address
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POV: You run a WordPress site.
(It's been up for three maybe four month!)
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"Die Dunkelheit darf niemals siegen" - Frittenbude
Der erste neue Song seit 2015 wenn ich mich nicht irre. Sehr sehr Gesellschaftskritisch. Gefällt mir.
https://open.spotify.com/track/4zTnZxDCVGbUNdKp5d2x7F?si=ZUXOxtfnQH2jCm2V1JlxEw
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So the next big thing: Google Drive.
What's a good alternative? Nextcloud / ownCloud? Anything else?
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4 years ago I saw @aral speak at a tiny "after work conference" called #NightlyBuild in Cologne, Germany.
He talked about #IndieWeb and how decentralised systems are the future. Back then I had not much fate into these technologies and I was very wrong.
I believe 100% that the next step in the evolution of the web is decentralized.