Notices by bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺 (bert_hubert@fosstodon.org), page 3

@luis_in_brief @sovtechfund I'm in their orbit & they sometimes listen to me, if there is any specific worry I'd love to hear about it!

@luis_in_brief @sovtechfund Got it. I've often argued here in the EU that we could achieve so much for 1 euro per European/year... But we have to start somewhere.

@luis_in_brief @sovtechfund we probably spend more on subsidizing cheese. Very good cheese though.

This blog post comes from deep inside the world of advertising, from people trying to move away from cookies. And along the way offer a VERY rare insight into the dark technology behind advertising and tracking ("hashed offline passbacks", "first and multi-touch attribution"), stuff you almost never read about. https://blog.sentry.io/we-removed-advertising-cookies-heres-what-happened/

One specific thing that changed is that Wirth blamed the software size explosion on "too many features". In his view both developers and users should learn not to do that (still true). These days software has mostly exploded because we ship a whole ass full-fledged browser to create an app that opens a garage door if you press a button.

Typing in a blog on the dire state of software only to find out that Niklaus Wirth already wrote most of it in 1995. Some things have changed since then, but mostly his article is even more true today (in new ways) than it was in 1995. https://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf

@phiofx https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/is-europe-just-not-good-at-innovating/ touches on this related problem..

@phiofx Thanks! And well said - now to get there somehow...

Europe has no position in "cloud" at all, but (government) initiatives abound to change this. In the post below I argue that AWS & friends are "IKEA clouds", attractive because they offer everything. And no one can compete with IKEA. I also argue that modern clouds are incredibly advanced (like airliners), and that you don't just replicate those either. Instead, Europe might might be better served by a narrower initial ambition:
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/taking-the-airbus-to-the-ikea-cloud/

@Brendanjones my pleasure! And always happy to hear that people find the work useful.

New post! The EU Cyber Resilience Act is now (almost) final, but what does it ACTUALLY mean for open source? It is mostly good news, and there are real opportunities to use the #CRA to our advantage: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/eu-cra-what-does-it-mean-for-open-source/

The EU Cyber Resilience Act latest text has some pretty good words on open source. These words are to be found in the preamble & "recitals". Contrary to what some people are now claiming, these words on open source do determine what the act means & how judges will read it. These are not just 'non-binding comments':
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/eu-cra-recitals-comments-compiler-judge/

You may have heard of the Y2038 32 bit epoch problem, but ARE YOU READY FOR Y287586 when in May we cross the point where Javascript millisecond time exceeds Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER & it can no longer do time math? Get your compliance plans ready! https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Number/MAX_SAFE_INTEGER

"Like and subscribe!" has come to GitHub https://github.com/daeuniverse/dae/issues/368#issuecomment-1859984256

I've updated my blog post on the worries about open source and the EU Cyber Resilience Act to reflect that the agreed upon #CRA text appears to be a lot better for open source and free software. But we still await the final details, when I get those I'll do another writeup.

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/eu-cra-best-open-source-security/

@aral @0xtdec no you are needlessly leaving up information you know is false. There is enough misinformation already in this world without adding more of it. But apparently that is fine with you.

@aral @0xtdec they worked on it until midnight, I assume they need some time to formalise the results of their negotiations. I don't know when the new stuff becomes public. Meanwhile your misleading post that refers to the September version as the current version is still up, which is not helpful for anyone.

@aral @0xtdec no there is nothing public, but I assure you that the September version you cited is not close to what was agreed yesterday.

@0xtdec @aral these clauses have all been revamped in the latest version.

The EU has reached agreement on the Cyber Resilience Act. The situation for open source has changed remarkably compared to earlier versions, it appears in a good way. Before issuing fresh hot takes, please take the time to understand what the (not yet published text) actually says. Even people well versed are still processing things!
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_23_6168