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Ah yes, another ode to a glorified text editor with a keyboard shortcut fetish 🧙♂️. As our dear author waxes poetic, we can only marvel at their "intimate" connection to a program that’s basically a Rubik's cube for masochists 🧩. Surely, the world will stop turning if the mighty #Vim ever exits stage left 🎭.
https://drewdevault.com/2026/03/25/2026-03-25-Forking-vim.html #KeyboardShortcuts #TextEditor #Programming #Humor #TechCulture #HackerNews #ngated -
𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆: 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗖𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗼𝗹𝗲𝘀
#CyberSecurity #InfoSec #CyberCrime #EthicalHacking #DataProtection #ICO #CyberSecurityTraining #TechEducation #NetworkSecurity #StaySafeOnline
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Sometimes it is fun to do a manual audit of internet history. I just visited http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html and paused for a minute. It is literally the first website in the world.
The technical legacy of CERN is mind-blowing. They did not just smash particles! They gave us HTML, the WWW, and a strong culture of digital privacy. @protonprivacy for example, was founded by scientists who worked at CERN (it originally ran on protonmail.ch), and today it is one of the best tools we have to push back against Big Tech.
But then I got curious and went down a WHOIS rabbit hole. The registry shows cern.ch was registered "before 1 January 1996". However, the historically recognized first domain ever, symbolics.com, was registered on March 15, 1985.
I had a brief moment of cognitive dissonance: how could the first domain be six years older than the first website? Then it clicked. DNS and WWW are fundamentally different protocols. The DNS was already routing emails and networks long before Tim Berners-Lee invented hyperlinks.
To take it a step further, the same Tim Berners-Lee did not just invent the Web - he went on to found the W3C to keep it open and standardized, a mission that still continues today.
First domain != first website. It is basic technical logic, but connecting the dots manually gives that satisfying feeling of closing a mental background process.
#WebHistory #CERN #DNS #W3C #TechPhilosophy #InternetHistory #Proton #InfoSec #TechAudit #Blog #Privacy #History #Fediverse
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Sometimes it is fun to do a manual audit of internet history. I just visited http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html and paused for a minute. It is literally the first website in the world.
The technical legacy of CERN is mind-blowing. They did not just smash particles! They gave us HTML, the WWW, and a strong culture of digital privacy. @protonprivacy for example, was founded by scientists who worked at CERN (it originally ran on protonmail.ch), and today it is one of the best tools we have to push back against Big Tech.
But then I got curious and went down a WHOIS rabbit hole. The registry shows cern.ch was registered "before 1 January 1996". However, the historically recognized first domain ever, symbolics.com, was registered on March 15, 1985.
I had a brief moment of cognitive dissonance: how could the first domain be six years older than the first website? Then it clicked. DNS and WWW are fundamentally different protocols. The DNS was already routing emails and networks long before Tim Berners-Lee invented hyperlinks.
To take it a step further, the same Tim Berners-Lee did not just invent the Web - he went on to found the W3C to keep it open and standardized, a mission that still continues today.
First domain != first website. It is basic technical logic, but connecting the dots manually gives that satisfying feeling of closing a mental background process.
#WebHistory #CERN #DNS #W3C #TechPhilosophy #InternetHistory #Proton #InfoSec #TechAudit #Blog #Privacy #History #Fediverse
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Sometimes it is fun to do a manual audit of internet history. I just visited http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html and paused for a minute. It is literally the first website in the world.
The technical legacy of CERN is mind-blowing. They did not just smash particles! They gave us HTML, the WWW, and a strong culture of digital privacy. @protonprivacy for example, was founded by scientists who worked at CERN (it originally ran on protonmail.ch), and today it is one of the best tools we have to push back against Big Tech.
But then I got curious and went down a WHOIS rabbit hole. The registry shows cern.ch was registered "before 1 January 1996". However, the historically recognized first domain ever, symbolics.com, was registered on March 15, 1985.
I had a brief moment of cognitive dissonance: how could the first domain be six years older than the first website? Then it clicked. DNS and WWW are fundamentally different protocols. The DNS was already routing emails and networks long before Tim Berners-Lee invented hyperlinks.
To take it a step further, the same Tim Berners-Lee did not just invent the Web - he went on to found the W3C to keep it open and standardized, a mission that still continues today.
First domain != first website. It is basic technical logic, but connecting the dots manually gives that satisfying feeling of closing a mental background process.
#WebHistory #CERN #DNS #W3C #TechPhilosophy #InternetHistory #Proton #InfoSec #TechAudit #Blog #Privacy #History #Fediverse
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Sometimes it is fun to do a manual audit of internet history. I just visited http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html and paused for a minute. It is literally the first website in the world.
The technical legacy of CERN is mind-blowing. They did not just smash particles! They gave us HTML, the WWW, and a strong culture of digital privacy. @protonprivacy for example, was founded by scientists who worked at CERN (it originally ran on protonmail.ch), and today it is one of the best tools we have to push back against Big Tech.
But then I got curious and went down a WHOIS rabbit hole. The registry shows cern.ch was registered "before 1 January 1996". However, the historically recognized first domain ever, symbolics.com, was registered on March 15, 1985.
I had a brief moment of cognitive dissonance: how could the first domain be six years older than the first website? Then it clicked. DNS and WWW are fundamentally different protocols. The DNS was already routing emails and networks long before Tim Berners-Lee invented hyperlinks.
To take it a step further, the same Tim Berners-Lee did not just invent the Web - he went on to found the W3C to keep it open and standardized, a mission that still continues today.
First domain != first website. It is basic technical logic, but connecting the dots manually gives that satisfying feeling of closing a mental background process.
#WebHistory #CERN #DNS #W3C #TechPhilosophy #InternetHistory #Proton #InfoSec #TechAudit #Blog #Privacy #History #Fediverse
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Sometimes it is fun to do a manual audit of internet history. I just visited http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html and paused for a minute. It is literally the first website in the world.
The technical legacy of CERN is mind-blowing. They did not just smash particles! They gave us HTML, the WWW, and a strong culture of digital privacy. @protonprivacy for example, was founded by scientists who worked at CERN (it originally ran on protonmail.ch), and today it is one of the best tools we have to push back against Big Tech.
But then I got curious and went down a WHOIS rabbit hole. The registry shows cern.ch was registered "before 1 January 1996". However, the historically recognized first domain ever, symbolics.com, was registered on March 15, 1985.
I had a brief moment of cognitive dissonance: how could the first domain be six years older than the first website? Then it clicked. DNS and WWW are fundamentally different protocols. The DNS was already routing emails and networks long before Tim Berners-Lee invented hyperlinks.
To take it a step further, the same Tim Berners-Lee did not just invent the Web - he went on to found the W3C to keep it open and standardized, a mission that still continues today.
First domain != first website. It is basic technical logic, but connecting the dots manually gives that satisfying feeling of closing a mental background process.
#WebHistory #CERN #DNS #W3C #TechPhilosophy #InternetHistory #Proton #InfoSec #TechAudit #Blog #Privacy #History #Fediverse
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/125624/ Airtel offers STEM scholarships to Nigerian undergraduates #AirtelAfricaFoundation #AirtelNigeria #CorporateSocialResponsibility #DigitalSkills #EngineeringStudents #HigherEducation #NigerianStudents #STEMScholarships #Tanzania #TechEducation #YouthDevelopment
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Apparently, CPU utilization is as misunderstood as your uncle's dance moves at weddings 🎉. This article dives into the complexities of CPU usage with all the charm of a tax return tutorial 📉. Clearly, we all needed a 2025 calendar update on what happened in 2017. 🙄
https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-05-09/cpu-utilization-is-wrong.html #CPUUtilization #CPUUsage #TechHumor #TechEducation #Misunderstandings #HackerNews #ngated -
Apparently, CPU utilization is as misunderstood as your uncle's dance moves at weddings 🎉. This article dives into the complexities of CPU usage with all the charm of a tax return tutorial 📉. Clearly, we all needed a 2025 calendar update on what happened in 2017. 🙄
https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-05-09/cpu-utilization-is-wrong.html #CPUUtilization #CPUUsage #TechHumor #TechEducation #Misunderstandings #HackerNews #ngated -
Apparently, CPU utilization is as misunderstood as your uncle's dance moves at weddings 🎉. This article dives into the complexities of CPU usage with all the charm of a tax return tutorial 📉. Clearly, we all needed a 2025 calendar update on what happened in 2017. 🙄
https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-05-09/cpu-utilization-is-wrong.html #CPUUtilization #CPUUsage #TechHumor #TechEducation #Misunderstandings #HackerNews #ngated -
Apparently, CPU utilization is as misunderstood as your uncle's dance moves at weddings 🎉. This article dives into the complexities of CPU usage with all the charm of a tax return tutorial 📉. Clearly, we all needed a 2025 calendar update on what happened in 2017. 🙄
https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2017-05-09/cpu-utilization-is-wrong.html #CPUUtilization #CPUUsage #TechHumor #TechEducation #Misunderstandings #HackerNews #ngated -
The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Winchester Mystery House
https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/03/26/winchester-mystery-house.html
#HackerNews #Cathedral #Bazaar #WinchesterMysteryHouse #TechCulture #OpenSource #Architecture
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The Value of an Online Master’s in MIS in 2025
In 2025, working professionals across industries are enrolling in online Master’s in MIS programs to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital economy.
https://www.startupeditor.com/....the-value-of-an-onli
#mastersinmis #mis #onlinemasters #techleadership #datascience #futureofwork #techeducation #highereducation #careergrowth #techmasters #misdegree #onlinelearning
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“Boeing 747s still use floppy disks” — true, but not the whole story.
We dive into why some legacy aircraft systems still rely on them, and what that says about IT today: stability > hype.
You are one of us.
Listen: https://www.ithorrorstories.eu/#rants
#ITHorrorStories #Aviation #LegacyTech #FloppyDisk #TechCulture #Tech
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The Rise of Computer Games, Part I: Adventure
https://technicshistory.com/2025/12/13/the-rise-of-computer-games-part-i-adventure/
#HackerNews #TheRiseOfComputerGames #AdventureGaming #GameHistory #TechCulture #GamingEvolution
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🤑 Oh, look! A "Field Guide" that promises to reveal the mystical secrets of angel investors, starring a parade of tech elite who apparently sprinkle magic pixie dust on startups. 🚀 Spoiler alert: it turns out, knowing famous people who throw money around might actually help your company. Who knew? 🧐
https://www.jeanyang.com/posts/angel-investors-a-field-guide/ #AngelInvestors #StartupSecrets #TechElite #VentureCapital #MagicPixieDust #HackerNews #ngated -
European vs. American Investors: Two Worlds, Two Mindsets
Over the past weeks, I had the opportunity to attend two major events shaping my entrepreneurial perspective: the Venture Days in Luxembourg and the Web Summit in Lisbon. Both were intense, inspiring and at times overwhelming, especially because I was wearing all the hats at once.
Building a solid business plan, compelling a pitch deck, developing the software, managing stakeholders and potential customers, while simultaneously running a fast-growing open-source project is challenging. But these events gave me invaluable insights into how differently European and American investors think and why this has such a deep impact on how we must communicate.
European Investors
Pragmatic. Detail-driven. Break-even focused.
In Luxembourg and other European settings, conversations consistently revolved around questions such as:
- How fast can you reach break-even?
- Show me the exact numbers, prices and sources.
- How precisely is the market researched?
- What is the unit economics structure?
European investors tend to value stability, caution and predictability. They expect detailed business plans where every calculation is documented in depth. Market research, pricing models, competitive matrices and break-even analyses carry significant weight.
What is often missing is ambition.
The desire to change the world is frequently overshadowed by a culture centered around minimizing risk. Radical innovation becomes rare. Founders are encouraged to think small, stay safe and avoid big leaps. As a result, Europe produces far fewer breakthrough technologies.American Investors
Vision first. Details later.
The conversations I had with American investors, both in Luxembourg and Lisbon, felt dramatically different.
Their core interests centered around questions such as:
- How do you dominate the global market?
- What is the story and the movement you are building?
- How big can this become?
- What is the monopoly you are aiming for?
American-style investors think in terms of global market power, narrative, category creation and world-changing potential. They want to invest in huge visions and massive outcomes, even if the roadmap is not fully defined yet.
For them, communication must be bold, visionary and transformative.
This Creates a Communication Challenge
Switching between these mindsets is not easy. You cannot pitch the same story in Germany as you would in Silicon Valley.
That’s why I created a communication matrix that highlights the differences between the “German/European Approach” and the “American Approach”. It helps me stay conscious about how to communicate depending on the audience and their cultural expectations.
Pitching is not just about the product — it is about the mindset of the listener.
Why We Are Building Infinito.Nexus
Infinito.Nexus aims to become the universal platform for rapidly building sovereign IT infrastructure. Organizations should be able to operate an essentially unlimited number of SaaS applications behind a single SSO layer, fully sovereign, on any servers or providers they choose, without being exposed to monopoly pressure or external control.
Our vision extends to hardware. Laptops, servers and even smartphones will be delivered preconfigured, ready to use the very next day, and immediately integrated into a sovereign infrastructure. The platform becomes the foundation for sovereign IT by combining automated deployment, full application integration and ready-to-use hardware into one seamless ecosystem.
Different Expectations in the US and Europe
US investors respond strongly to the transformative scale of this vision. For them, we explicitly highlight that Infinito.Nexus aims to become the dominant platform for sovereign IT deployments worldwide. This may sound paradoxical in the context of sovereignty, yet it is entirely compatible. Everything remains open source and users remain free to host wherever they want, but they naturally stay with us because of convenience, automation and usability. The logic is identical to how people today choose Netflix instead of downloading movies or Spotify instead of pirating music. Convenience creates loyalty.
For US investors, we emphasize that this convenience-driven retention enables us to secure long-term platform dominance. In addition, we guarantee enterprise-level SLAs and large-scale managed deployment services when the infrastructure is provisioned through our platform, which further strengthens trust at the enterprise level and reinforces our strategic position.
European investors think differently. They place higher value on predictable steps, measurable risk management and immediate practical value. While they understand the long-term vision, they expect a grounded and incremental approach that fits the realities of the European market.
Adapting the European Narrative
For the European context we present a slower and more conservative scaling strategy. Instead of focusing immediately on global automation, we begin with B2B delivery teams that manually roll out sovereign environments for startups and technologically open young companies. This lowers perceived risk but increases operational cost and reduces speed, and it creates exposure to competitors who scale more aggressively. Nevertheless, this approach aligns with the European preference for reliability, trust-building and controlled expansion.
In addition, the European narrative places a much stronger emphasis on consulting. Unlike in the US narrative, where consulting is downplayed due to poor scalability, in Europe consulting is both expected and necessary. It gives us the ability to tailor environments more deeply to customer needs, particularly for complex ERP and CRM integrations that require significant customization. Consulting also reinforces the perception of reliability and competence, which is essential for conservative investors.
A Unified Perspective
Both narratives describe the same product and the same mission. The US approach highlights global market leadership, platform dominance supported by convenience retention and enterprise-level services. The European approach emphasizes concrete value, trust-building, customization and predictable growth. The difference is not in the substance of the platform, but in how the story is framed so each audience sees exactly why Infinito.Nexus fits their worldview and investment culture.
#americanInvestors #breakEvenAnalysis #businessPlan #cloudDeployment #digitalSovereignty #entrepreneurship #europeanInvestors #founderInsights #fundingStrategy #globalScaling #infinitoNexus #innovationMindset #investmentCulture #investorCommunication #itInfrastructureMarketplace #openSource #pitchStrategy #saasAutomation #sovereignCloud #startupEurope #startupFinancing #startupUsa #techEcosystem #unitEconomics #ventureCapital #ventureDaysLuxembourg #webSummitLisbon
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Why the #OMN works with #ActivityPub – And why we need a bridge to #p2p
Let's look at this. #ActivityPub is not a product. It’s not even really a “protocol” in the narrow, rigid sense that vertical tech likes to imagine. ActivityPub is a shared vocabulary, a public language for moving meaning and connection across the #openweb. It gives you nouns and verbs, and the community defines the grammar through lived use. This is why the #OMN works with ActivityPub, a metadata and meaning layer, not a platform, flows, not silos. ActivityPub is the widely deployed […]https://hamishcampbell.com/why-the-omn-works-with-activitypub-and-why-we-need-a-bridge-to-p2p/
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STV Group and Post-Quantum have trialed what they claim is the world's first quantum-resilient drones, combining combat-proven UAV systems with post-quantum cryptography to secure communications against future quantum threats. The system is ready for battlefield deployment in contested environments like Ukraine. https://tech.eu/2026/03/31/stv-group-and-post-quantum-unveil-quantum-safe-drones-ready-for-battlefield-deployment/ #Tech #Startup #News #DefenseTech #STV
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Due to business expansion, BuySellRam.com is now acquiring a large volume of server-grade CPUs!
As demand for AI and data center hardware continues to rise, we’re expanding our purchasing network to include more:
Intel Xeon (Silver, Gold, Platinum Series)
AMD EPYC (7001–9004 Series)
All conditions.🔗 learn more: https://www.buysellram.com/sell-cpu-processor/
#SellCPU #Server #Xeon #EPYC #ITAD #DataCenterIT #AIHardware #tech #SustainableIT #BuySellRam #ITRecycling #ServerHardware #intel #TechBuyback #RAM #computer -
Oh joy, another tech article full of #jargon and buzzwords 🤯! "Gemma 4" sounds like the latest Marvel superhero, but it's just another AI model pretending to be useful. Go on, sprinkle more "innovation" and "faster inference" nonsense—we're all holding our breath 🙄.
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/multi-token-prediction-gemma-4/ #techbuzzwords #AIinnovation #overload #Gemma4 #AIhype #HackerNews #ngated -
Abrasive Working Practices:
‘IETF working groups are characterized by frank exchanges and robust conversations. […] #Confrontation is a test, a way to guarantee high-quality contributions.’Dr. Corinne Cath @C__CS https://criticalinfralab.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/LoudMen-CorinneCath-CriticalInfraLab.pdf
#standardization #norms #networkPolitics #standards #excellence #internet #internetGovernance #anthropology #sociology #tech #neutrality #STS #techCulture #engineering #ethics #masculinity #reputation #workPlace #workCulture #workCollectives #collectives #IETF
