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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦
@bert-hubert.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
Software developer, entrepreneur, former government regulator, current government advisor, amateur scientist. https://berthub.eu/

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@gnss_changes The status display on https://galmon.eu/ is none too happy. Every row with an IOD > 127 means a satellite is broadcasting 'vintage' orbital data. As in, old.
May 14, 2025 at 8:48 AM
@gnss_changes Here is what the Galileo agency mailed round last week. Not easy to understand what they mean, and I guess this is by design:
May 14, 2025 at 8:22 AM
As I type away into the void, hoping to achieve something, I sometimes wonder if it is worth it. Do people read this stuff? There are now 222 articles on https://berthub.eu/articles/ and sometimes one of these gets read really well. But what about the "back […]

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May 13, 2025 at 8:48 AM
I too have an important announcement tomorrow! It is good news, so no worries.
May 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I have improved the cloud overview article with headlines that should make things somewhat clearer. Previously it was a bit of a wall of text. https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cloud-overview/
May 9, 2025 at 9:28 AM
With some luck, I'll be presenting tomorrow. And I'll again be talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures "So the great edifice of modern physics goes up, and the majority of the cleverest people in the western world have about as much insight […]

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April 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Thank you everyone. The answer to 'does the Microsoft Customer Lockbox protect your data against the US government' is a resounding NO. According to Microsoft that is […]

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April 23, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Relevant for parent post.
April 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
From an upcoming blog post, in which I argue that cloud providers are actually more like proprietary software providers: "These days under the guise of ‘cloud as a commodity’ we are gluing ourselves to specific suppliers, without realizing that they are not in fact supplying commodity services."
April 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
It is time to repost this (and I know Asimov was a terrible person).
April 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
As @Sustainable2050 likes to say, CO₂ PPM still speeding up in the wrong direction:
April 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
#berlin looking pretty this morning!
April 1, 2025 at 4:43 AM
The good news is: we made it out of winter without depleting European gas storage sites! The bad news, we'll need to refill ~twice as much gas as past years to refill to healthy levels. Every new heat pump, solar panel and wind turbine will help us reach that goal more easily:
March 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Even the pretty partial solar eclipse caused a (fully expected and planned for) **2GW** decrease in electricity exports from The Netherlands today. Data via ENTSO-E, TenneT, processing by me. Graphs: https://berthub.eu/nlelec/
March 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Added some reassurance beyond the cheery 🥳 telling you there are no alerts:
March 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Doing some work on my unreleased yet widely used availability & performance monitoring thing Simplomon. https://codeberg.org/berthubert/simplomon
March 29, 2025 at 9:11 AM
This presentation is going to be *lit*
March 25, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Me, being subtle.
March 25, 2025 at 7:03 AM
@GossiTheDog I see something similar but wonder if they maybe aren't passing referrer information anymore.
March 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Sometimes a graph tells a story. Every month I convert the laborious and huge XML version of the Dutch Buildings & Addresses Database, and convert it to ready to use SQLite and CSV. The big peak on the left is the download of the compressed XML. On the right […]

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March 9, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Due to popular demand (really) I've had a newsletter for a little while now. Due to slightly smaller but still appreciable popular demand, the various newsletter channels now have #rss feeds. https://berthub.eu/ckmailer/channel.html?channelId=qXN2Hp8xLw4zggLTYlB71E
March 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Happy to announce I'll be speaking over at Webdevcon 2025. As a non-web person I had a great time there last year, and I presented on software quality and issues. Apparently they want more of this pain. https://webdevcon.nl/session/small-is-beautiful-microstacks-or-megadependencies/
March 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
It works for some people, but it fails for (many) others:
March 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
March 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ #pubmed is down, the world's database of (bio)medical research. "PubMed® comprises more than 37 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books" - it is a LIFELINE for research and medical practice.
March 1, 2025 at 10:47 PM