I'm the guy who was crazy enough to build the Bitronix JTA transaction manager with the help of @BrettWooldridge. Use ZFS or die.
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Ludovic Orban retweeted
Apr 30
L’Etat belge et ENGIE entrent officiellement en négociations en vue de la reprise par la #Belgique de l’ensemble des activités nucléaires d’ENGIE et de sa filiale Electrabel.
Toutes les opérations de démantèlement sont dès lors suspendues.
Moins d’un an après l’entrée en vigueur de la loi ouvrant la voie au retour du #nucléaire dans notre pays, la dynamique se concrétise à travers notre volonté de reprendre la main sur nos actifs et nos capacités.
Cette démarche s’inscrit dans une vision politique cohérente : garantir une énergie abordable, pilotable et décarbonée, tout en renforçant l’autonomie stratégique et la souveraineté de la Belgique.
@Bart_DeWever @ENGIEgroup
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Ludovic Orban retweeted
Apr 30
Er is een akkoord bereikt met ENGIE om de voorwaarden te bepalen en de nodige studies op te starten voor een volledige overname van het Belgische nucleaire park. In afwachting daarvan worden alle ontmantelingsactiviteiten per direct stopgezet.
Deze regering kiest voor zekere, betaalbare en duurzame energie. Met minder afhankelijkheid van fossiele import en meer controle over onze eigen voorziening.
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Un accord a été conclu avec ENGIE afin de définir les conditions et de lancer les études nécessaires en vue d’une reprise complète du parc nucléaire belge. D'ici là, toutes les activités de démantèlement sont suspendues avec effet immédiat.
Ce gouvernement fait le choix d'une énergie sûre, abordable et durable, avec moins de dépendance aux importations fossiles et plus de contrôle sur notre propre approvisionnement.
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Here is an insane piece of lore inside SQLite's source code
I am researching VACUUM and I was studying their code. In VACUUM, SQLite creates a temp file prefixed with `etilqs_`
Here is why:
ALT ** 2006-10-31: The default prefix used to be "sqlite_". But then ** Mcafee started using SQLite in their anti-virus product and it ** started putting files with the "sqlite" name in the c:/temp folder. ** This annoyed many windows users. Those users would then do a ** Google search for "sqlite", find the telephone numbers of the ** developers and call to wake them up at night and complain. ** For this reason, the default name prefix is changed to be "sqlite" ** spelled backwards. So the temp files are still identified, but ** anybody smart enough to figure out the code is also likely smart ** enough to know that calling the developer will not help get rid ** of the file. */ #ifndef SQLITE_TEMP_FILE_PREFIX # define SQLITE_TEMP_FILE_PREFIX "etilqs_" #endif
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Ludovic Orban retweeted
22 Dec 2025
Merci à @lalibre pour cet entretien – le seul que j’ai jamais demandé à conduire.
Au-delà de l’affaire Euroclear et des risques systémiques (pour la BE, mais aussi la santé éco. de l’UE), il était nécessaire de revenir plusieurs des attendus des déclarations de @Bart_DeWever :
17 Dec 2025
Joseph Henrotin : “Certains politiques (comme De Wever) ont peur des représailles de Poutine. On verra comment l’Histoire retiendra cette séquence” lalibre.be/economie/conjonct… #Russia #Ukraine #Euroclear #CAPRI @DSI_Magazine
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Ludovic Orban retweeted
26 Nov 2025
How fast can #Java really go? @MarcoBehler sits down with Jetty maintainer @bitronix to discuss scaling web servers, JVM internals, distributed transactions, and performance myths.
Watch the full episode: youtu.be/fJvg5zTKHeE
#TheMarcoShow #IntelliJIDEA #Java #Jetty #Tomcat
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Ludovic Orban retweeted
16 Nov 2025
I've had a lot of fun reading about FreeBSD today and I have a question.
Is ZFS the greatest filesystem/volume manager ever or what? All the features I've seen today make it sound too good to be true.
What are the downsides of ZFS?
12 Nov 2025
The BSD journey continues.
After the extremely smooth OpenBSD serial install, I tried FreeBSD.
The installer was, somehow, even faster.
But the real shock wasn't the install speed. It was what I found when I opened the package manager config in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf.
This is what I saw:
FreeBSD: {
url: "pkg pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/quarterly",
mirror_type: "srv",
signature_type: "fingerprints",
fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
enabled: yes
}
It's... just simple. It's perfectly clear. I can see it uses variables like ${ABI}, which as a perfectly clear meaning, and that I'm on the "quarterly" branch. I instantly understand what's happening.
Now, contrast that with my time-tested Debian /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free ...
deb security.debian.org/ bookworm-security main contrib ...
As a first-time reader (or even a 10-year user), what does "bookworm" mean?
It's a codename. It tells me nothing about the version, the release, or its support status. I have to go Google it. Then I have to decode what "main," "contrib," "non-free," and "non-free-firmware" all mean relative to each other.
The FreeBSD config is transparent. The Debian one requires tribal knowledge.
The simplicity is just refreshing. Has the Linux world lost a bit of this over time?
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Ludovic Orban retweeted
19 Aug 2025
Here we go! Get it while it's hot @JettyProject 12.1.0 just released github.com/jetty/jetty.proje… #jakartaee #javarocks
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Ludovic Orban retweeted
2 Aug 2025
C’est ce qui nous serait arrivé si nous n’étions pas dans l’Union Européenne
1 Aug 2025
🚨🇨🇭🇺🇸🇪🇺 ALERTE - Face aux 39% de droits de douane imposés par les États-Unis, la presse suisse juge l’isolement de la Suisse intenable. Sans poids face aux grandes puissances, un rapprochement avec l’UE devient une nécessité stratégique, pas un choix idéologique. (BlueNews)
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Ludovic Orban retweeted
29 Apr 2025
Let's call it:
The first big blackout of the green electricity era
(Below my notes from the conference call the Spanish grid operator held earlier today with reporters. I added extra information from my initial post, and corrected a location: it was the south-west). 🧵1/2
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Ludovic Orban retweeted
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Ludovic Orban retweeted
20 Sep 2024
AMAZON NOW HIRING NUCLEAR ENGINEERS
All these companies claimed for years to be 100% renewable-powered.
It was always untrue, and now they can't get into nuclear fast enough.
They watched nuclear plants die rather than lift a finger to help. Not anymore.
Time to build.
ALT Article from Data Center Dynamics: AWS hiring for data center 'principal nuclear engineer to evaluate SMRS and nuclear fuel strategy roadmaps
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Ludovic Orban retweeted
20 Sep 2024
However big you think this Microsoft nuclear deal is, I am telling you, it's bigger.
One of the biggest power deals ever.
~$800 million/yr for 20 years
$16 BILLION for one nuclear reactor
From a 40-year-old reactor, just to get to age 60.
We now have a market for newbuild.
20 Sep 2024
BREAKING: BLOCKBUSTER MICROSOFT DATACENTER DEAL RESURRECTING THREE MILE ISLAND NUCLEAR PLANT
Microsoft and nuclear plant owner Constellation have agreed to a massive, unprecedented deal to restart the closed Three Mile Island by 2028 to power its datacenters, per the New York Times.
The deal? Microsoft purchasing as much power as possible from its 880 MW reactor over 20 years for prices rumored to be above $100 per MWh.
Most famous for its 1979 meltdown, TMI closed in 2019 because of cheap fossil fuels and tech companies refusing at the time to consider buying its electricity to meet clean energy goals.
ALT Three Mile Island Plans to Reopen as Demand for Nuclear Power Grows https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/20/climate/three-mile-island-reopening.html
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Ludovic Orban retweeted
20 Sep 2024
Hans Rosling on how washing machines liberate women from hours of hard, time consuming labour
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Ludovic Orban retweeted
20 Sep 2024
“You get books out of the machines”
The best response to degrowth is to share Hans Rosling’s experience of washing machines
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extend the distance out a few miles and the human wins btw
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Ludovic Orban retweeted
18 Jun 2024
This Thursday I will be speaking about @JettyProject 12, hosted by @javaBin Oslo!
Jetty Core APIs, Jakarta EE 8-11, Virtual Threads, and more!
meetup.com/javabin/events/30…
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Wanna see my recent beef with mathematicians?
12 Jun 2024
Mathematicians have had beef with Computer Scientists since the being of time lol
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Ludovic Orban retweeted
17 May 2024
PSA: the list of DNS servers in Windows is not supposed to be an ordered list of DNS servers to try - if you put 8.8.8.8 (Google) or 1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare) as a "fallback" after your internal DNS server, you'll just cause random name resolution failures for internal DNS
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Ludovic Orban retweeted
29 Mar 2024
This "xz" and "liblzma" backdoor story is increasingly looking like a sophisticated effort to target FOSS supply chains, getting this backdoor into Debian and Kali etc. It's also not the only library the backdoor author has added code too, libarchive and others may have issues.
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