Dr. Juande Santander-Vela
@juandesant.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy
PhD in radio astronomy and VO; Joint ALMA Observatory Development Systems Engineer. Half astronomer, half Systems engineer, half developer (those halves […]
🌉 bridged from https://mathstodon.xyz/@juandesant on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/
🌉 bridged from https://mathstodon.xyz/@juandesant on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/
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"The EU is an open, rules-based single market, with the sovereign right to regulate economic activity in line with our democratic values and international commitments. Our digital rules ensure a safe, fair, and level playing field for all companies, applied fairly and without discrimination…
If […]
If […]
Original post on social.vivaldi.net
social.vivaldi.net
December 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
"The EU is an open, rules-based single market, with the sovereign right to regulate economic activity in line with our democratic values and international commitments. Our digital rules ensure a safe, fair, and level playing field for all companies, applied fairly and without discrimination…
If […]
If […]
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The EU's public consultation on the proposed Digital Fairness Act showed 86% of respondents support consumers having more control over personalised advertising. 77% said personalised pricing based on surveillance/ profiling should be restricted. You'll be startled to learn that business […]
Original post on social.vivaldi.net
social.vivaldi.net
December 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The EU's public consultation on the proposed Digital Fairness Act showed 86% of respondents support consumers having more control over personalised advertising. 77% said personalised pricing based on surveillance/ profiling should be restricted. You'll be startled to learn that business […]
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Airbus is preparing to tender a major contract to migrate mission-critical workloads to a digitally sovereign European cloud – but estimates only an 80/20 chance of finding a suitable provider. https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/19/airbus_sovereign_cloud
Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud
Exclusive: Tech exec admits not dead cert it'll find the right solution
www.theregister.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Airbus is preparing to tender a major contract to migrate mission-critical workloads to a digitally sovereign European cloud – but estimates only an 80/20 chance of finding a suitable provider. https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/19/airbus_sovereign_cloud
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HyperComposer
https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/hypercomposer
HyperComposer is the sound and music toolkit for HyperCard. Designed for enthusiasts at any level, HyperComposer makes HyperCard music mouse-click simple!
#macgarden #1988 […]
[Original post on bitbang.social]
https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/hypercomposer
HyperComposer is the sound and music toolkit for HyperCard. Designed for enthusiasts at any level, HyperComposer makes HyperCard music mouse-click simple!
#macgarden #1988 […]
[Original post on bitbang.social]
December 20, 2025 at 4:16 AM
HyperComposer
https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/hypercomposer
HyperComposer is the sound and music toolkit for HyperCard. Designed for enthusiasts at any level, HyperComposer makes HyperCard music mouse-click simple!
#macgarden #1988 […]
[Original post on bitbang.social]
https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/hypercomposer
HyperComposer is the sound and music toolkit for HyperCard. Designed for enthusiasts at any level, HyperComposer makes HyperCard music mouse-click simple!
#macgarden #1988 […]
[Original post on bitbang.social]
Reposted by Dr. Juande Santander-Vela
i don’t post a lot of personal stuff here but I want to say
a) in september 2024 I had a mild case of covid and I spent almost a year dealing with the fatigue
b) dealing with mysterious health stuff is hard and scary and I wish the best to anyone else who is in the middle of something like that […]
a) in september 2024 I had a mild case of covid and I spent almost a year dealing with the fatigue
b) dealing with mysterious health stuff is hard and scary and I wish the best to anyone else who is in the middle of something like that […]
Original post on social.jvns.ca
social.jvns.ca
December 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
i don’t post a lot of personal stuff here but I want to say
a) in september 2024 I had a mild case of covid and I spent almost a year dealing with the fatigue
b) dealing with mysterious health stuff is hard and scary and I wish the best to anyone else who is in the middle of something like that […]
a) in september 2024 I had a mild case of covid and I spent almost a year dealing with the fatigue
b) dealing with mysterious health stuff is hard and scary and I wish the best to anyone else who is in the middle of something like that […]
Reposted by Dr. Juande Santander-Vela
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115737483111161917
I'll elaborate. I believe we're in an AI bubble. AI companies are pushing the overton window on AI discourse. They want the most extreme anti-AI sentiment to be "Sure, it's an overhyped technology right now but there will be reasonable […]
I'll elaborate. I believe we're in an AI bubble. AI companies are pushing the overton window on AI discourse. They want the most extreme anti-AI sentiment to be "Sure, it's an overhyped technology right now but there will be reasonable […]
December 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115737483111161917
I'll elaborate. I believe we're in an AI bubble. AI companies are pushing the overton window on AI discourse. They want the most extreme anti-AI sentiment to be "Sure, it's an overhyped technology right now but there will be reasonable […]
I'll elaborate. I believe we're in an AI bubble. AI companies are pushing the overton window on AI discourse. They want the most extreme anti-AI sentiment to be "Sure, it's an overhyped technology right now but there will be reasonable […]
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I've finally switched to the @Vivaldi browser. I've been using Firefox for as long as I've been on the internet, but the focus on AI means it's no longer the browser for me. Thankfully unlike Chrome, Vivaldi supports the uBlock Origin extension which is the most important extension for being […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 17, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I've finally switched to the @Vivaldi browser. I've been using Firefox for as long as I've been on the internet, but the focus on AI means it's no longer the browser for me. Thankfully unlike Chrome, Vivaldi supports the uBlock Origin extension which is the most important extension for being […]
Reposted by Dr. Juande Santander-Vela
If you find the fediverse useful, don’t forget to support your instance (assuming they accept support). While the software is free, running instances is far from it. I am glad to be part of the community and want to see it continue on as a viable alternative. Thank you all for being here and I […]
Original post on infosec.exchange
infosec.exchange
December 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
If you find the fediverse useful, don’t forget to support your instance (assuming they accept support). While the software is free, running instances is far from it. I am glad to be part of the community and want to see it continue on as a viable alternative. Thank you all for being here and I […]
RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@juandesant/115742312095171541
BTW, what is the bset alternative for GitHub right now? I still have GitLab from my time at SKAO, but it looks like Forgejo/Codeberg seems to be the platform of choice…
In particular, I miss something similar to Gists in GitHub, is that […]
BTW, what is the bset alternative for GitHub right now? I still have GitLab from my time at SKAO, but it looks like Forgejo/Codeberg seems to be the platform of choice…
In particular, I miss something similar to Gists in GitHub, is that […]
December 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@juandesant/115742312095171541
BTW, what is the bset alternative for GitHub right now? I still have GitLab from my time at SKAO, but it looks like Forgejo/Codeberg seems to be the platform of choice…
In particular, I miss something similar to Gists in GitHub, is that […]
BTW, what is the bset alternative for GitHub right now? I still have GitLab from my time at SKAO, but it looks like Forgejo/Codeberg seems to be the platform of choice…
In particular, I miss something similar to Gists in GitHub, is that […]
RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@juandesant/115185770828187450
I thought I had written this in my `.zshrc` file… and it seems I did not!
I have created a gist (`ksdiffstr.sh`), see link below, just to remind myself again of it…
https://gist.github.com/juandesant/ffb074be10035e83c920484d9e39d9b4
I thought I had written this in my `.zshrc` file… and it seems I did not!
I have created a gist (`ksdiffstr.sh`), see link below, just to remind myself again of it…
https://gist.github.com/juandesant/ffb074be10035e83c920484d9e39d9b4
I've been a Kaleidoscope.app user for a long time, for sure since version 2, but maybe even from version 1, I'd have to check. In any case, I love the way they do comparisons, and is my main driver for making diffs. It integrates very well with git, for instance, and with many other tools.
But […]
But […]
Original post on mathstodon.xyz
mathstodon.xyz
December 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@juandesant/115185770828187450
I thought I had written this in my `.zshrc` file… and it seems I did not!
I have created a gist (`ksdiffstr.sh`), see link below, just to remind myself again of it…
https://gist.github.com/juandesant/ffb074be10035e83c920484d9e39d9b4
I thought I had written this in my `.zshrc` file… and it seems I did not!
I have created a gist (`ksdiffstr.sh`), see link below, just to remind myself again of it…
https://gist.github.com/juandesant/ffb074be10035e83c920484d9e39d9b4
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i started trying to write a small site in Django recently and I think I'm really enjoying it? I've failed to learn Rails a few times but my Django site is set up so that there's a `models.py` with all my models, `views.py` with all my views and it feels easier for me to find things than it was […]
Original post on social.jvns.ca
social.jvns.ca
December 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
i started trying to write a small site in Django recently and I think I'm really enjoying it? I've failed to learn Rails a few times but my Django site is set up so that there's a `models.py` with all my models, `views.py` with all my views and it feels easier for me to find things than it was […]
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I see a lot of complaints about untested AI slop in pull requests. Submitting those is a dereliction of duty as a software engineer: Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/code-proven-to-work/
Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
In all of the debates about the value of AI-assistance in software development there’s one depressing anecdote that I keep on seeing: the junior engineer, empowered by some class of …
simonwillison.net
December 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I see a lot of complaints about untested AI slop in pull requests. Submitting those is a dereliction of duty as a software engineer: Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/code-proven-to-work/
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'My year end reading statistics' (originally for @theguardian.com books).
p.s There's still time to pick up new book Physics for Cats at good bookshops and online www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
p.s There's still time to pick up new book Physics for Cats at good bookshops and online www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
December 18, 2025 at 11:50 AM
'My year end reading statistics' (originally for @theguardian.com books).
p.s There's still time to pick up new book Physics for Cats at good bookshops and online www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
p.s There's still time to pick up new book Physics for Cats at good bookshops and online www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
Reposted by Dr. Juande Santander-Vela
Reposted by Dr. Juande Santander-Vela
#LegoStarWarsAdvent door 17: This battledroid, built from spare parts, is anything but armless.
December 17, 2025 at 8:27 PM
#LegoStarWarsAdvent door 17: This battledroid, built from spare parts, is anything but armless.
Love this comment from Simon: «These megacorps tend to point to the huge number of cases they have and how we cannot expect them to be able to manually deal with and resolve all these cases. To that all I can say is: why not? Nobody forced Apple to take on a billion iCloud+ users. Nobody forced […]
Original post on mathstodon.xyz
mathstodon.xyz
December 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Love this comment from Simon: «These megacorps tend to point to the huge number of cases they have and how we cannot expect them to be able to manually deal with and resolve all these cases. To that all I can say is: why not? Nobody forced Apple to take on a billion iCloud+ users. Nobody forced […]
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It's hard to comprehend just how huge PUBG was, and still is. It still holds Steam's all-time player count record at 3.2M concurrents, eight years undisputed champion. And eight years on, seven years after it 'fell off', it still is in Steam's top 3 daily concurrents, with about 650K players at […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
It's hard to comprehend just how huge PUBG was, and still is. It still holds Steam's all-time player count record at 3.2M concurrents, eight years undisputed champion. And eight years on, seven years after it 'fell off', it still is in Steam's top 3 daily concurrents, with about 650K players at […]
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A Christmas cartoon from my new book of science cartoons PHYSICS FOR CATS. In good bookshops and online now: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
December 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
A Christmas cartoon from my new book of science cartoons PHYSICS FOR CATS. In good bookshops and online now: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
Reposted by Dr. Juande Santander-Vela
Blogged some notes on the new ChatGPT Images model that launched today https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/16/new-chatgpt-images/
The new ChatGPT Images is here
OpenAI shipped an update to their ChatGPT Images feature - the feature that gained them 100 million new users in a week when they first launched it back in March, …
simonwillison.net
December 17, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Blogged some notes on the new ChatGPT Images model that launched today https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/16/new-chatgpt-images/
Reposted by Dr. Juande Santander-Vela
Revelando archivos en el Finder desde el Terminal utilizando AppleScript
Una de las mejores y más únicas características de macOS (nacido como Mac OS X, y transitoriamente como OS X) es…
https://santander-vela.net/2025/12/16/revelando-archivos-en-el-finder-desde-el-terminal-utilizando-applescript/
Una de las mejores y más únicas características de macOS (nacido como Mac OS X, y transitoriamente como OS X) es…
https://santander-vela.net/2025/12/16/revelando-archivos-en-el-finder-desde-el-terminal-utilizando-applescript/
December 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Revelando archivos en el Finder desde el Terminal utilizando AppleScript
Una de las mejores y más únicas características de macOS (nacido como Mac OS X, y transitoriamente como OS X) es…
https://santander-vela.net/2025/12/16/revelando-archivos-en-el-finder-desde-el-terminal-utilizando-applescript/
Una de las mejores y más únicas características de macOS (nacido como Mac OS X, y transitoriamente como OS X) es…
https://santander-vela.net/2025/12/16/revelando-archivos-en-el-finder-desde-el-terminal-utilizando-applescript/
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I find it somehow cool that we are still figuring out how romans did concrete.
#concrete #beton #romanempire
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/12/study-confirms-romans-used-hot-mixing-to-make-concrete/
#concrete #beton #romanempire
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/12/study-confirms-romans-used-hot-mixing-to-make-concrete/
arstechnica.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I find it somehow cool that we are still figuring out how romans did concrete.
#concrete #beton #romanempire
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/12/study-confirms-romans-used-hot-mixing-to-make-concrete/
#concrete #beton #romanempire
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/12/study-confirms-romans-used-hot-mixing-to-make-concrete/
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December 16, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Reposted by Dr. Juande Santander-Vela
Today will be mostly re-reading the EU's Digital Omnibus, which purports to be a 'simplification' of GDPR and to rid the world of the scourge of cookie banners. Of course, the real cause of cookie banners is greedy surveillance by Big Tech, but they're not choosing to regulate that; instead […]
Original post on social.vivaldi.net
social.vivaldi.net
December 16, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Today will be mostly re-reading the EU's Digital Omnibus, which purports to be a 'simplification' of GDPR and to rid the world of the scourge of cookie banners. Of course, the real cause of cookie banners is greedy surveillance by Big Tech, but they're not choosing to regulate that; instead […]