Im Sommer 2021 haben Hacker die Server des Landkreises Anhalt-Bitterfeld lahmgelegt. Die Verwaltung musste viel Technik neu anschaffen. Die Kosten dafür sind höher gewesen, als bisher bekannt war. Nach dem Cyberangriff hatte der Kreis den Katastrophenfall ausgerufen – das hatte es bislang in Deutschland nicht gegeben.

I hate apps that don't allow you to copy text from a comment field. It gives you a taste of the world without Larry Tesler and Tim Mott, and it's not a magnificent one

[Note: Tesler worked at Xerox PARC, Apple, Amazon, and Yahoo!. While at PARC, Tesler's work included Smalltalk, the first dynamic object-oriented programming language, and Gypsy, the first word processor with a graphical user interface (GUI) for the Xerox Alto. During this, along with colleague Tim Mott, Tesler developed the idea of copy and paste functionality and the idea of modeless software. ]

In particular, the Commission has failed to provide appropriate safeguards to ensure that personal data transferred outside the EU/EEA are afforded an essentially equivalent level of protection as guaranteed in the EU/EEA.

"Furthermore, in its contract with Microsoft, the Commission did not sufficiently specify what types of personal data are to be collected and for which explicit and specified purposes when using Microsoft 365."

The EC has been ordered to suspend all data flows through the use of Microsoft 365 to Microsoft and any of its tentacles that might reside outside the EU / EEA and not covered by an adequacy decision.

ChatGPT is a great example of a not-thinking tool: a tool that you use to avoid having to think.

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Not-thinking tools have the appearance of creating efficiency, but ultimately they just make you faster at doing the wrong thing.

Product professionals (whether designers, PMs, or developers) would do well to take away the same lesson: we ask too much of our tools. Doing perfect Agile will not produce good software, but that’s not Agile’s fault.

A lot of people ask me, what should we use instead? My answer is always: use your brain.

Let’s say I want to keep the latest version of each file as they are replaced or removed; essentially I want a “trash can”-like behavior. For this, I create the following script and store it as /Users/jb/bin/onlylatest.sh (i.e. the bin directory in my home directory):

Happy Little Dumpster Fire.

Dumpster Dateien sind die hier: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5084117/files
Das Feuer ist von hier: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5156430

Das Feuer habe ich im Slicer einfach so skaliert, dass es genau in das Loch passt.

A tasty, self-hostable Git server for the command line. 🍦

Das Problem lag in den Weiterleitungsregeln des HTTP-Servers. Hier war "/Verse" als Startseite mit einem großgeschriebenen Anfangsbuchstaben definiert, was dazu führte, dass die HTTP-Weiterleitung nicht ordnungsgemäß funktionierte. Nachdem dies korrigiert wurde und "/verse" als Startseite festgelegt wurde, funktionierte die HTTP-Weiterleitung einwandfrei, und somit war das ACME-Protokoll auf den jeweiligen Domino-Servern einsatzbereit.

Right now, I want to talk about the heritage of these input/output mechanisms. Why is it that punched paper tape and the teleprinter were the most obvious way to interact with the first electronic computers? As you might suspect, the arrangement was one of convenience. Paper tape punches and readers were already being manufactured, as were teleprinters. They were both used for communications.

The tools I used and will describe are:

VPS – in this case, I used a basic Hetzner Cloud VPS, but any provider that provides IPv6 connectivity will do – if you want IPv6, of course.
FreeBSD – a versatile, stable, and secure operating system.
Wireguard – lightweight, secure, and at the same time, not very “chatty,” so it is also gentle on mobile device batteries. When there is no traffic, it simply does not transmit/receive anything. Well supported by all major desktop and server operating systems as well as Android and iOS devices.
Unbound – can make DNS queries directly to root servers, not through forwarders. It also allows you to insert block-lists and have a result similar to that of Pi-Hole (i.e., ad-blocking).
SpamHaus lists – to immediately stop connections to and from users on blacklists.

Wer in letzter Zeit auf einer Demonstration in Wien war, hat sie vermutlich bemerkt: Die Polizei setzt Drohnen ein, um Teilnehmer*innen vom Himmel aus zu beobachten. Aktuell baut das Innenministerium die Drohnenüberwachung aus. Dafür legte es sich ein „IMSI-Catcher-System zur Verwendung mit Drohnen“ zu.

Mit dieser Anschaffung wird eine neue Ära der Überwachung eingeläutet. Die Kombination aus Drohnen und IMSI-Catcher ermöglicht es, Personen unbemerkt zu überwachen oder Teilnehmer*innen von Versammlungen zu identifizieren.

I experienced the disconnect between the torture I was comfortable with and the torture that drove me away during my first year in college. As I've mentioned here a few times, most recently in my post on Niklaus Wirth, from an early age I had wanted to become an architect (the kind who design houses and other buildings, not software). I spent years reading about architecture and learning about the profession. I even took two drafting courses in high school, including one in which we designed a house and did a full set of plans, with cross-sections of walls and eaves.

Then I got to college and found two things. One, I still liked architecture in the same way as I always had. Two, I most assuredly did not enjoy the kind of grunt work that architecture students had to do, nor did I relish the torture that came with not seeing a path to a solution for a thorny design problem.

That was so different from the feeling I had writing BASIC programs. I would gladly bang my head on the wall for hours to get the tiniest detail just the way I wanted it, either in the code or in the output. When the torture ended, the resulting program made all the pain worth it. Then I'd tackle a new problem, and it started again.

Earlier jobs for women with computer:
Locherin - femal keypunch operator
a trainingbook.

Xapian is a highly adaptable toolkit which allows developers to easily add advanced indexing and search facilities to their own applications. It has built-in support for several families of weighting models and also supports a rich set of boolean query operators.

If you're after a packaged search engine for your website, you should take a look at Omega: an application we supply built upon Xapian. Unlike most other website search solutions, Xapian's versatility allows you to extend Omega to meet your needs as they grow.

In December 2023, Voyager started sending back gibberish instead of data. A software glitch, though perhaps caused by an underlying hardware problem; a cosmic ray strike, or a side effect of the low temperatures, or just aging equipment randomly causing some bits to flip.

The problem was, the gibberish was coming from the flight direction software — the operating system, as it were. And no copy of that operating system remained in existence on Earth.

Kunden des kommunalen IT-Dienstleisters Südwestfalen IT (SIT) brauchen momentan Nerven. Chaos ist seit November 2023 "das neue Normal". Die Südwestfalen IT leidet unter massivem Personal-Schwund, und nun kam zum Wochenende die nächste Hiobsbotschaft. Wegen Schwachstellen waren viele Verwaltungen in Nordrhein-Westfalen seit Freitag nicht per Mail erreichbar.

This book is for college students who are serious about being successful in study, and teachers who want to know how best to help their students learn.

Being a successful student is far more about being a smart user of effective strategies than about being 'smart'. Research has shown it is possible to predict how well a student will do simply on the basis of their use of study strategies.

This workbook looks at the most important group of study strategies – how to take notes (with advice on how to read a textbook and how to prepare for a lecture). You’ll be shown how to:

When Niklas Luhmann, the German sociologist, became professor, he was asked about his research project. His famous answer:

"My project: theory of society. Duration: 30 years. Costs: zero."

Twenty-nine and a half years later, he published the last chapter of what is probably the most systematic and comprehensive sociological theory ever written. In these 29 and a half years, he published roughly another 60 books and hundreds of articles on a huge variety of subjects. And all of it was achieved by writing one smart note at a time.

Think about how you take notes during class. Do you use a specific system? Do you feel that system is working for you? What could be improved? How might taking notes during a lecture, section, or seminar be different online versus in the classroom?

Adjust how you take notes during synchronous vs. asynchronous learning (slightly).