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Is dit een soevereine cloud? - Bert Hubert's writings
a day ago
- American cloud providers cannot offer sovereign solutions due to US surveillance laws and sanctions, regardless of server location.
- European alternatives often overstate their capabilities, lacking equivalent services to major providers like AWS or Azure.
- True sovereignty requires confidentiality, availability, and control over data and services.
- US companies' promises like air-gapped clouds or source code escrow are ineffective due to dependency on US updates or complexity.
- Organizations can reduce reliance on Big Tech by hosting their own servers or using simpler European hosting.
Kilo Code has been acquired by Anaconda
13 days ago
- Anaconda acquires Kilo Code to address enterprise AI data and token visibility issues.
- Enterprises lack visibility into AI token usage and data security, risking uncontrolled spending and dependency on single model providers.
- Kilo orchestrates trillions of tokens monthly, highlighting the scale of AI workflows and the need for consolidated management.
- The acquisition aims to eliminate the false trade-off between AI development speed and governance, offering a unified platform.
- Anaconda provides trusted AI foundations, while Kilo adds agentic engineering, enabling any IDE and model with governance.
- Early results show 30-50% token consumption reduction via intelligent routing in the Anaconda Platform.
- The vision promotes open, flexible AI to avoid vendor lock-in, with open source as a key component.
- For builders, it offers tool freedom with governance; for leaders, consolidated visibility and policy enforcement across AI activities.
- The platform covers the full AI development lifecycle, emphasizing speed, capability, and trust for enterprise-scale deployment.
A bear eats a software engineer (satire)
14 days ago
- Dan, a software engineer, was killed by a bear while camping, resulting in data loss as he couldn't push his latest work.
- The company's response focuses on operational and security concerns rather than human loss, including declaring a 'fire' incident, discussing data recovery from Dan's brain and laptop, and developing bear-related policies.
- Cybersecurity proposes extreme measures like snipers and honey-coated hair to protect intellectual property from bear attacks.
- People Resources resists bear safety training due to legal risks, arguing it could imply liability or create hostile work environment claims.
- A new bear encounter SOP leads to another employee's death during an office party when he follows protocol to assess a bear, highlighting absurd corporate priorities.
AI notetakers promise easy meeting recaps, but some question their use
17 days ago
- AI notetakers can provide quick meeting summaries but raise significant privacy concerns.
- They turn spoken words into data, risking exposure of confidential information like trade secrets and personnel details.
- Key risks include uncertain data storage, creation of voiceprints without consent, and potential loss of legal privileges.
- Professionals advise checking for AI notetakers in meetings and establishing boundaries against unauthorized recording.
- Some states, like Illinois, have laws regulating voiceprint collection, requiring consent and data retention policies.
- Users should understand where data goes, including if it's used to train AI models or stored indefinitely.
- Tips include asking for consent, stating company policies against recording, and shutting off notetakers for sensitive discussions.
Show HN: Free Online GIS Viewer and Format Converter
a month ago
- GeoDataViewer is a free online GIS viewer and format converter that processes data locally in the browser using WebAssembly, ensuring no data leaves your device.
- It supports over 20 geospatial formats, including Shapefile, KML, GeoJSON, GPX, DXF, DWG, GeoPackage, and more, with conversion between 19 format families.
- The tool offers professional features like viewing data on interactive maps, inspecting attribute tables, filtering data, styling maps, and exporting to formats like GeoJSON or FlatGeobuf.
- No installation, uploads, accounts, or server use is required; it works directly in any modern browser on Windows, Mac, or Linux.
- It is designed for quick data inspection, previewing, and conversion, complementing but not replacing full GIS software like QGIS or ArcGIS.

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Is dit een soevereine cloud? - Bert Hubert's writings

Kilo Code has been acquired by Anaconda

A bear eats a software engineer (satire)

AI notetakers promise easy meeting recaps, but some question their use

Show HN: Free Online GIS Viewer and Format Converter