Notices by bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 (bert_hubert@eupolicy.social)

I have converted my general dissatisfaction with the world tonight into two minor openstreetmap edits. I added my favorite local bench, and moved a picknick table from a ditch (which it actually sits next to). A remarkably soothing activity.

@pietervdvn @MapComplete will do!

BBC2 has started its election result broadcast. #countbinface #clacton

They are not half-assing this either:

If you can't access BBC2, they are hosting a liveblog here: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c5y40d11zewt

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116752805722997877

Actual IT departments. Most places now only have "Big Tech Departments".

So to mentally prepare for an eventual bursting of the AI-bubble, perhaps this Friday, this is how it went for the dot com boom. There was an initial retraction, followed several partial recovery/bust events, and finally the NASDAQ lost 80% of its value: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble

Context: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgz237n40jo

You can do it bubble!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@CuratedHackerNews/116664258011821912

There are some weird assumptions in this piece, like that AI is inevitable, but also some good observations and links:

Not to be outdone by Ireland, The Netherlands has just picked TikTok, Meta and Uber's lawyer as the new head of the Dutch Privacy Authority. Well done everyone. For shame. https://nos.nl/artikel/2614241-advocaat-van-tiktok-en-meta-wordt-voorzitter-privacywaakhond-ap

The world is now so full of ridiculous things that at least I struggle to deal with it all. But this is not an 'us' problem. The (political) world really is idiotic. I needed to vent a bit, so I made a list of things that are impossible to believe, yet are very much what is happening. Perhaps seeing it in writing will help you deal better with the situation. https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-impossible-things-we-have-to-believe/

@jmorris you are missing that other users do not care as much as you do about quality.

RE: https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/116210928508477743

Hot on the heels of this, @bpreneel & team have analysed the Microsoft PhotoDNA technology that is often suggested for flagging CSAM material through mass scanning. The tl;dr: the previously secret tech thoroughly sucks: https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/486.pdf

Don’t threaten me with a good time Satya

People, with #Greenland raising awareness of our massive 24/7 dependence on US clouds for vital services, I made a list of what (government) stuff would break here under US sanctions. It is EXTREMELY depressing. Can I suggest that people also make a list like this one for their own countries? It is getting quite some traction here: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/dashboard-amerikaanse-afhankelijkheden/

Now, in the Obama/Bin Laden version of this photo, you could spot different colored wires indicating different classified networks. Not so much here. Also note the Twitter screen in the background. /cc @Electrospaces

So out of the blue I got a request for access to a 10 year old Google Docs file. This request also came from someone who actually might be interested in that file, so I contacted him. Turns out he was making **exercise schedules** and had asked Google Gemini for help, and Gemini decided it needed access to my document on a new government law (from 2015). So be careful out there!

I do appreciate the US state department strengthening my case here with their sanctions on former EU officials & other supporters of EU digital safety acts just now: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/you-can-no-longer-base-your-government-and-society-on-us-clouds/

US issues sanctions / visa bans on several EU (former) officials. Amazing stuff, check out the language used. But by all means let us run our governments & vital services on US cloud providers! (let us NOT, to be clear).
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/12/announcement-of-actions-to-combat-the-global-censorship-industrial-complex/