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" Hi all,

As you might have just seen on the livestream or witnessed in person, I disrupted the speech of Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman during the highly-anticipated 50th anniversary celebration. Here’s why.

My name is Ibtihal, and for the past 3.5 years, I’ve been a software engineer on Microsoft’s AI Platform org. I spoke up today because after learning that my org was powering the genocide of my people in Palestine, I saw no other moral choice. This is especially true when I’ve witnessed how Microsoft has tried to quell and suppress any dissent from my coworkers who tried to raise this issue. For the past year and a half, our Arab, Palestinian, and Muslim community at Microsoft has been silenced, intimidated, harassed, and doxxed, with impunity from Microsoft. Attempts at speaking up at best fell on deaf ears, and at worst, led to the firing of two employees for simply holding a vigil. There was simply no other way to make our voices heard.

We are witnessing a genocide

For the past 1.5 years, I’ve witnessed the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people by Israel. I’ve seen unspeakable suffering amidst Israel’s mass human rights violations - indiscriminate carpet bombings, the targeting of hospitals and schools, and the continuation of an apartheid state - all of which have been condemned globally by the UN, ICC, and ICJ, and numerous human rights organizations. The images of innocent children covered in ash and blood, the wails of mourning parents, and the destruction of entire families and communities have forever fractured me.

At the time of writing, Israel has resumed its full-scale genocide in Gaza, which has so far killed by some estimates over 300,000 Gazans in the past 1.5 year alone. Just days ago, it was revealed that Israel killed fifteen paramedics and rescue workers in Gaza, executing them “one by one,” before burying them in the sand -- yet another horrific war crime. All the while, our “responsible” AI work powers this surveillance and murder. The United Nations and the International Court of Justice have concluded that this is a genocide, with the International Criminal Court issuing arrest warrants for Israeli leaders."

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Source: https://www.theverge.com/news/643670/microsoft-employee-protest-50th-annivesary-ai

Anyone working with printers in their #activism should know about tracking dots. This project helps deal with them.

https://github.com/dfd-tud/deda

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43551397

We’re devastated to announce that our great friend and colleague @mtaht has passed away 🥲 https://libreqos.io/2025/04/01/in-loving-memory-of-dave/

Dave is forever in our hearts and souls, in our routers and… in production. https://github.com/LibreQoE/LibreQoS/pull/684

We will miss you so much, Dave <3

Robert, @herberticus & Frank

#RFC8290 #DaveTaht #FQ_CoDel #sch_CAKE #OpenSource #FLOSS
#BandwidthIsALIE #schCAKE #FQCoDel #LibreQoS

Unfortunate news today that an internet friend and important engineer Dave Täht died recently. Dave was responsible for the bufferbloat project and the development of the Cake qdisc in the Linux kernel. He also pushed for much better control of latency across all internet hardware. He's a major reason why cable modem all have queue management algorithms. I interacted with him off and on for 15 years or so. He was about 59 years old so far too young.

via @toke

https://social.kernel.org/objects/bb4f56d3-5c79-4942-ab00-2b0310eb72d0
#openwrt

I was devastated to learn that Dave Täht passed away. Wrote a bit about it.

https://blog.tohojo.dk/2025/04/remembering-dave-t%C3%A4ht.html

“eBPF Announces Support for Tolkien Ring”
Oh wow! 🐝 🧝 💍

https://ebpf.io/blog/support-for-tolkien-ring/

Let's take a moment to remember the guy who made sure we don't have to change Every Goddamn Clock today, David L. Mills, creator of Network Time Protocol (NTP) who passed last year.

My wristwatch is synced to my phone, which is synced to the internet, which knows that time it is right now thanks to David Mills. Cheers to his memory 🥃

https://cse.engin.umich.edu/stories/remembering-alum-david-mills-who-brought-the-internet-into-perfect-time//

#DST #NTP #FOSS

Today I got a cheery email from somebody who claims to be the "ethics and compliance" officer for a company called Bright Data. He wanted to have a "no pressure" conversation about the whole AI scraperbot problem. Looking at their web site, this company offers an API that, and I quote, "Bypasses anti-scraping mechanisms and solves CAPTCHAs, ensuring uninterrupted access to the most protected web sites".

After careful consideration for several milliseconds, I have concluded that I really don't have anything to discuss with this person.

But at least their claimed "100M+" of residential IP addresses that they use for their DDOS attacks are "ethically sourced".

The internet of things is truly a wonder. 😝

#dishwasher #parody #iot

restic 0.18.0 is released! Blog: https://restic.net/blog/2025-03-27/restic-0.18.0-released/

GitHub: https://github.com/restic/restic/releases/tag/v0.18.0

New blog post: "ECN, ECMP and anycast: a cocktail of broken connections"

Just over five years ago, I was seeing weird "connection reset" errors when trying to connect to Cloudflare sites.

This turned out be due to an unholy alliance between ECN, ECMP and anycast routing, and figuring this out was quite interesting.

I meant to write up the experience in a blog post at the time, but somehow never got around to it. I was just reminded of this, so better late than never!

https://blog.tohojo.dk/2025/03/ecn-ecmp-and-anycast-a-cocktail-of-broken-connections.html

Trying to make it easier to debug RTNL lock contention...

https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/pull/5230

#GNUTerryPratchett

Ten years ago, Sir Terry Pratchett died. But "A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken."

We carry his memory with each DokuWiki release being named after one of his many Discworld characters.

If you never read a book by him - now is a good time to do so!

#GNUTerryPratchett

X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett

(That's been in all my outbound e-mail for a decade now.)

#RIP #TerryPratchett

If your criticism of "big tech" is merely a result of the unhappiness about the fact that Meta, Google and Microsoft aren't EU-corporations you are missing the point.

There is nothing that indicates that SAP or Deutsche Telekom would hesitate a second at the chance of becoming equally violent and exploitive forces.

The solution to Big Tech isn't EU Big Tech. It's de-commercialisation and democratization of tech.

That ESP32 thing has a CVE: CVE-2025-27840: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-27840 .

And, pretty much everything all of the well-known infosec people have been saying is correct: physical access required (or, high privileges and high attack complexity; the score is kinda 'wrong' in some sense because it is combining two exploitation vectors but I think it gets across the point: this is not wormable and is not exploitable via wireless, at least not on its own. and if your threat model allows for physical access but still treats this as a big deal somehow, go home, your threat model is drunk).

“The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit,” Musk said. “There it’s they’re exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response.”
-Elon Musk, March 6, 2025

“In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trials 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
-Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/05/politics/elon-musk-rogan-interview-empathy-doge/index.html