Julian Stecklina

Finally!!!

Just when I thought bureaucracy in Spain is not so bad: To get a health insurance card, you need to get the birth certificate (not automatic for foreigners), then apply for a passport from your home country. With that you can apply for a NIE (foreigner ID number) and with that hopefully the card...

A message to the super rich

Spain awards Huawei contracts to manage intelligence agency wiretaps Huawei will manage and store judicially authorized wiretaps in Spain, under a contract that bucks the trend of Western governments restricting use of the Chinese tech company's products and services.

There are states that don’t take security seriously, states that really don’t take security seriously, and states that really really don’t take security seriously.

And then there is Spain.

therecord.media/spain-awards...

This is a beautiful security vulnerability! I'm by accident not affected because I disabled animations on my phone for less visual clutter. taptrap.click #taptrap

Are people really scared of trams? They are so ubiquitous in Germany that I never thought about it. From experience: They are much more harmless than cars. 😃

Am I just old or are applications that are basically web pages just annoying and a step back in usability? The Outlook PWA opens links in its own window and doesn't offer an ability to go back to the email you just viewed. 🫠

If you’re not enjoying the worst people in the world tearing each other apart? How sad for you.

#rustlang 1.0, ten years later steveklabnik.com/writing/rust...

Training Solo: New Set Of Serious Security Vulnerabilities Exposed For Intel & Arm CPUs The VUSec security researchers are at it again..

Does anyone know how long the embargo was for www.phoronix.com/news/Trainin... ?

The status quo of confidential computing: Tired old men. #oc3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBpx...

Intel calls remote attestation of TDX VMs via SGX "legacy". The text is written as if there were more attestation methods, but they are not included in the public document. Only a matter of time until SGX is gone. #intel #tdx #sgx #infosec.

How cool! I wonder whether there is a good way to check whether derivations don't pick up the wrong compiler. Also do you know of anyone working on a full LLVM bootstrap (without GCC)?

Btw, what's your usecase for it? I'm curious!

Feel free to work in it. I don't have a lot of time for it, so I would be really glad if you can push it over the finish line!

Idealerweise bekommst du als Nutzer nichts davon mit. Aber Linux on the desktop. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Because I can't attend FOSDEM this year, I wrote down some thoughts about the microkernel community. x86.lol/generic/2025... #fosdem #microkernel

Can't summarize the current situation better than this cartoon. 🎯 www.npr.org/2025/01/04/n...

The main argument for a Strategic BItcoin Reserve seems to be that Bitcoin holders worry about an impending shortage of greater fools and need the US government to act as the greatest fool of last resort.

Finally abandoned my Twitter account after I learned from @oxide.computer and Friends that I can have my blog domain as user handle. 🚀 It's much nicer here anyway.

Israel strikes Syria 480 times and seizes territory

Winning hearts and minds in Syria. #syria #israel edition.cnn.com/2024/12/10/m...