Links, November 12, 2025

The Good

§Small Acts Build Great Cultures

This is where your values become tangible. We can talk about believing in quality, caring about users, or the psychological safety of our teams. But how does that boil down to a junior designer filing a P0 bug the night before launch?

§Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process

Out here, we prefer settlin’ disputes the old-fashioned way, by addressin’ the harmful impact of a crime head-on, then determinin’ what can be done to repair that harm while holdin’ the person who caused it accountable for their actions. Lemme tell ya, we don’t take kindly to strangers whose idea of restitution relies solely on dehumanizin’ punishment.

If The Daily Show is what helped me get through the 2000s, The Onion is what’s helping me get through the 2020s.

§DOCTYPE magazine 🚀⌨️

Q: I don’t understand, it’s a magazine of HTML source code?
A: Yes, you type it in then you get to play the games and run the apps.

Q: Can I cheat and get a PDF instead?
A: No.

The Bad

§FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs

The fundamental problem remains that the FFmpeg team lacks the financial and developer resources to address a flood of AI-created CVEs.

On the other hand, security experts are certainly right in thinking that FFmpeg is a critical part of the Internet’s technology framework and that security issues do need to be made public responsibly and addressed.

One of the two main things we should be paying a lot more attention to with regard to software: funding.

§Microsoft didn’t cut services to International Criminal Court, its president says

June:

The Associated Press reported in May that Microsoft “cancelled” the email address of Karim Khan, the prosecutor who was directly targeted by a February executive order by United States President Donald Trump that claimed the court had “engaged in illegitimate and baseless actions” against the U.S. and Israel.

Tuesday, meeting notes between Forgejo and the Dutch government:

== Motivation for Dutch government to contact Forgejo

/ Gi: This a good start, are there any questions?

/ Gu: What was the primary motivation for switching away from proprietary platforms?

/ Gi: ICC having their MS accounts blocked
- Made them very aware of ecosystem fragility
- Looked at their dependencies and alternatives
- Digital sovereignty: Hot topic ^^

You can believe the International Criminal Court, or you can believe Microsoft, but you can’t believe them both. The other of the two main things we should be paying a lot more attention to: digital sovereignty.

The Ugly

§FISSION FOR ALGORITHMS: The Undermining of Nuclear Regulation In Service of Al

This paper is worth at least skimming, but from the conclusion:

Furthermore, potential control of sensitive nuclear data by AI companies and the monopolization of nuclear energy to explicitly power AI raises serious concerns over whether their possession of such data and operations may lead to nuclear destabilization and proliferation, thereby further entrenching power asymmetries.