Queen Mary University had an important role in the history of the Vim editor. It was here that, in 1973, the first UNIX system of the UK was installed, and it was also here that professor George Coulouris developed an editor called em. The creation of em ended up snowballing into the development of vi and many other vi clones after that.

After “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” ended, Graham Chapman worked with an up-and-coming young writer named Douglas Adams on a new sketch comedy show for the BBC. It was called "Out of the Trees," and it bombed. Only one episode was made, and that aired only once, on January 10, 1976.

Once the Beeb gave up on "Out of the Trees," they did to it what they did to so many other programs of that era: they erased it. They wiped the master tapes so they could be re-used. "Out of the Trees" went into the history books as lost media.

That changed nearly 30 years later, when Chapman's partner, David Sherlock, approached Dick Fiddy, an archivist at London's National Film Theatre. Sherlock revealed that Chapman had in fact recorded a copy of "Out of the Trees" onto videotape from his home TV the one and only time it aired.

But there was a problem. That air date was in 1976, before VHS or Betamax became global videocassette standards. Chapman had recorded the show on one of the very earliest home videotape formats -- Philips' "Video Cassette Recording" (VCR), which had reached the market in 1972. The rise of Beta and VHS had, however, led Philips to abandon its VCR format. The last compatible players had been made in 1979. By the mid-2000s, they were impossible to find. Sherlock had been left with an historic tape, and no machine to play it on.

Fiddy says it took two years to build a compatible player, but eventually it was done.

Once we were acquired, Yahoo helped us on the tech side, but not as much as it said it would. I think this is common for acquisitions. Before you’re acquired, you’re an important visionary. Afterward, you’re a crazy person who just wants to burn money.

Any decision was an endless discussion. I remember once, we had to present to a senior vice-president. We had a 105-slide deck prepared, and we didn’t get past the second slide because they ratholed about one fucking slide. It was a miserable environment.

Bezirksrichter Amit Mehta wusste am ersten Prozesstag nicht, ob Mozillas Firefox ein Browser oder eine Suchmaschine ist

So as you may know, I've been getting interested in CRDTs lately. For the uninitiated, CRDTs (Conflict-Free Replicated Data types) are fancy programming tools which let multiple users edit the same data at the same tim

I’ve always loved building tools and platforms, and have long been fascinated with the world of operating systems. Apart from reading through the source code (where that’s legally available, of course…) I think there’s no better way to explore and understand a system - and the mindset that produced it - than to develop for it.

What follows is a brain-dump of what I’ve learned about developing for the AmigaOS, both on classic 68k-powered hardware to modern PowerPC systems like the X5000. I’ll cover development environments, modern workflows like CI builds on containerised infrastructure, distribution of packages and even a look back in time before C existed, thanks to AmigaDOS’s odd heritage.

A reconstructed version of a KLF album most of whose copies were destroyed after a legal dispute with Abba has been donated by the band to the British Library.

The library said it had acquired The Acetate, the only physical copy of a new version of 1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?) by the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, who later renamed themselves the KLF.

OpenSSL, which encrypts an estimated 66% of the web, is currently maintained by 18 engineers compensated through donations and elective corporate contracts.

The OpenForum Europe (OFE) by Eclipse Foundation, Open Source Initiative (OSI), APELL, CNLL, and The OSB Alliance stated in its letter to the EC: "The current formulation of the CRA interferes with almost every software development model other than the case of a single company developing the entire code-base behind closed doors and making periodical releases." And who does these days? Apple maybe, but no one else of any importance comes to mind

I mention PTSD. She reminds me that the term “post-traumatic stress disorder,” or “PTSD,” is being overused at the moment.

The problem with a lot of us, Amanda, she says, is that we are not “post”-anything.

You’re still in the thick of it. You have acute anxiety, because none of these things are in the past.

It’s still happening to you.

This is true, and I find it strangely comforting.

Post-anything, my ass.

So, in these days of attackers with access to a pile of GPUs, a purely computationally expensive KDF is just not a good choice. And, unfortunately, the subject of this story was almost certainly using one of those. Ubuntu 18.04 used the LUKS1 header format, and the only KDF supported in this format is PBKDF2. This is not a memory expensive KDF, and so is vulnerable to GPU-based attacks. But even so, systems using the LUKS2 header format used to default to argon2i, which is memory strong, but not designed to be resistant to GPU attack . New versions default to argon2id, which is. You want to be using argon2id.

What makes this worse is that distributions generally don't update this in any way. If you installed your system and it gave you pbkdf2 as your KDF, you're probably still using pbkdf2 even if you've upgraded to a system that would use argon2id on a fresh install.

Wandteller stehen für Heimat, Idylle, Nostalgie, für Windmühlen in Delfter Blau. Was Windmühlen früher waren, sind Atomkraftwerke heute: Energiebauwerke. Ihre ikonenhaften Silhouetten prägen die Landschaft und damit unser Heimatbild. Als Kathedralen einer technologischen Weltanschauung versprachen sie Unabhängigkeit und unendliches Wachstum. Sie sind Zeugnis ihrer Epoche, Relikte des Fortschritts und Zeichen einer Zeitenwende. Die Tage der Windmühlen sind längst vergangen und nun neigt sich die Dämmerung über die Ära der deutschen Atomkraft. Höchste Zeit also, Atomkraftwerke als das zu zeigen, was sie sind:
Denkmäler des Irrtums - Hoffnung von Gestern - Folklore von Morgen

Laut Verordnung gelten Berufe als Mangelberuf, sobald auf eine unbesetzte Stelle weniger als 1,5-mal so viele Arbeitssuchende kommen. Ein einziger Faktor bestimmt, wo Mangel am Arbeitsmarkt herrscht und wo nicht. Landet ein Beruf einmal auf der Liste, dürfen Unternehmen Arbeitskräfte außerhalb der EU rekrutieren.
Was passiert, wenn Berufe für Menschen aus EU-Drittstaaten geöffnet werden? Der Pool an potenziellen Arbeitskräften wächst schlagartig für Unternehmen. Das vergrößerte Angebot wiederum befreit Unternehmen vom Druck, ihre angebotenen Stellen zu verbessern. Es findet sich schon wer der’s macht. Weil im Herkunftsland die Arbeitsbedingungen noch schlechter sind.

Accordingly, space organisations have started considering how to keep time on the Moon. Having begun with a meeting at ESA’s ESTEC technology centre in the Netherlands last November, the discussion is part of a larger effort to agree a common ‘LunaNet’ architecture covering lunar communication and navigation services.

Grady Booch, chief scientist for software engineering at IBM Research, on Web3 and cryptocurrencies: Web3 is a flaming pile of feces orbiting a giant dripping hairball. Cryptocurrencies—ones not backed by the full faith and credit of stable nation states—have only a few meaningful use cases, particularly if you are a corrupt dictator of a nation with a broken economic system, or a fraud and scammer who wants to grow their wealth at the expense of greater fools.

I'm old enough to remember when the Internet wasn't a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four.

t reveals that public resolvers dominate the internet, accounting for nearly 60% of recursive DNS usage. Telecom giants represent nearly 9%, with Google the clear front-runner at a little over 30%, followed by Amazon Web Services at 16%. The report also highlights the declining usage of EDNS Client Subnet (ECS), the slow adoption of IPv6 and DNSSEC, and the emergence of HTTPS records as a solution to the “CNAME-at-apex” challenge.

As Bender says, we've made "machines that can mindlessly generate text, but we haven’t learned how to stop imagining the mind behind it." One potential tonic against this fallacy is to follow an Italian MP's suggestion and replace "AI" with "SALAMI" ("Systematic Approaches to Learning Algorithms and Machine Inferences"). It's a lot easier to keep a clear head when someone asks you, "Is this SALAMI intelligent? Can this SALAMI write a novel? Does this SALAMI deserve human rights?"

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At law firm Nixon Peabody LLP, associates have started saying no to working weekends, prompting partners to ask more people to help complete time-sensitive work.

“The passion that we used to see in work is lower now, and you find it in fewer people—at least in the last two years,” says Sumithra Jagannath, president of ZED Digital, which makes digital ticket scanners.