lab interacts with repositories on GitLab, including creating/editing merge requests, issues, milestones, snippets and CI pipelines.

The development team has focused on keeping lab a simple and intuitive command line interface for commands provided in the GitLab API. lab's aim is to provide GitLab users an experience similar to the GitLab WebUI with respect to errors and messages.

If you do a significant amount of programming, you'll probably end up with build artifacts scattered about. sn is a tool to help you find those artifacts.

sn is also a replacement for du. It has nicer output, saner commands and defaults, and it even runs faster on big directories thanks to multithreading.

I'm taking a look at twelve "obscure" window managers.

systemd is, to put it mildly, controversial. Depending on who you ask it's either a complete violation of the UNIX philosophy, a bloated pile of bugs, a complete violation of the elegant simplicity it replaced or, it most cases, some or all of the above.

So why have so many Linux distributions taken to it? Is it as bad as people say? Are the BSD projects right to be avoiding it?

Let's look into the history of UNIX userland bootstrapping and the factors that lead to the creation of systemd, why it's turned out the way it has, and what there is to be learned from it.

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In the linux world they can all look the same from the point of view of the user at the keyboard. The differences are in how they interact with each other.

The shell is the program which actually processes commands and returns output. Most shells also manage foreground and background processes, command history and command line editing. These features (and many more) are standard in bash, the most common shell in modern linux systems.

A terminal refers to a wrapper program which runs a shell. Decades ago, this was a physical device consisting of little more than a monitor and keyboard. As unix/linux systems added better multiprocessing and windowing systems, this terminal concept was abstracted into software. Now you have programs such as Gnome Terminal which launches a window in a Gnome windowing environment which will run a shell into which you can enter commands.

The console is a special sort of terminal. Historically, the console was a single keyboard and monitor plugged into a dedicated serial console port on a computer used for direct communication at a low level with the operating system. Modern linux systems provide virtual consoles. These are accessed through key combinations (e.g. Alt+F1 or Ctrl+Alt+F1; the function key numbers different consoles) which are handled at low levels of the linux operating system -- this means that there is no special service which needs to be installed and configured to run. Interacting with the console is also done using a shell program.

Einige Straßenlaternen in Leicester brennen seit Wochen ununterbrochen. Die Stadtverwaltung musste ihre IT-Systeme aufgrund eines Cyberangriffs abschalten.

"Maßnahmen zum Schutz der Privatsphäre wie Ende-zu-Ende-Verschlüsselunug werden ausgerollt, was Tech-Unternehmen daran hindert, Verstöße auf ihren Plattformen zu sehen. Das wird auch unterbinden, dass Strafverfolger an diese Beweise gelangen und sie in Untersuchungen nutzen können, um die schlimmsten Verbrechen wie sexuellen Kindesmissbrauch, Menschenhandel, Drogenschmuggel, Tötungsdelikte, Wirtschaftskriminalität und Terrorismus zu verhindern und verfolgen", erläutert Europol.

Medienpädagoge Daniel Schlep kritisiert, dass der Digitalpakt Technik in die Schulen spülte, aber langfristige Konzepte und echte Kompetenzen fehlen.

So our 2016 Subaru Outback has been having horrible battery drain issues for a couple years now. We got the attached service bulletin recently that explained the issue.

It turns out that the Data Communications Module that powers Subaru's Starlink service (emergency assistance/safety/etc. service) now causes a battery drain because it is trying to talk to a 3G network that is no longer there, and it just tries its little heart out.

Laut einem Gutachten des Landesrechnungshofs wurden für die eingestellte Plattform 8,7 Millionen Euro versenkt. Für das Nachfolgeprojekt stünden bis Ende 2024 insgesamt Mittel in Höhe von 24 Million Euro zur Verfügung

Digitale Amtswege
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Künstliche Intelligenz
Leben mit zunehmender Digitalisierung
Sicherheit im Internet

Die App Digitales Amt, die erst vor Kurzem in Vollbetrieb gegangen ist, ist auf Mobiltelefonen mit dem Betriebssystem Android seit Tagen nicht mehr funktionsfähig. Der Fehler bei ID Austria wurde auch seitens der Servicehotline bestätigt. Schuld sei ein Update, das am Freitag ausgerollt wurde, der Fehler soll bald behoben werden. Auch Auswirkungen auf die Arbeit der Untersuchungsausschüsse hat der Bug, gewährt das Digitale Amt doch Akteneinblick.

Die vor allem von ÖVP-Seite geforderte Überwachung von Messengerdiensten soll in einem ersten Schritt die Metadaten betreffen. Dafür notwendig wäre eine Anpassung der auf Grundlage des Telekommunikationsgesetzes bestehenden Verordnung zur Überwachung des Fernmeldeverkehrs, hieß es heute auf APA-Anfrage aus dem Innenministerium.

Ever wondered whether htop could be used to render the graphics of cult video games? I know I have. In order to quench our curiosity and for your viewing pleasure, I created doom-htop

Sixty years ago today, IBM announced the System/360, a line of computers that took over the computer industry. The big idea was that all the systems were compatible and supported all applications (a 360° range from business to scientific). 1/9

Die EU empfiehlt öffentlichen Stellen die Verwendung der international akzeptierten Creative-Commons-Lizenzen. Trotzdem lehnen einige deutsche Behörden diese Lizenzen bis heute ab. Ein neues Gutachten hat die typischen Vorbehalte analysiert und stellt fest: In der Praxis spielen sie allesamt keine Rolle.

The new "Simple standalone #SSH Agent for #OpenPGP cards" (https://crates.io/crates/openpgp-card-ssh-agent) is now available as a package for #Arch Linux, by the way :arch: 😏

This agent offers a frictionless UX when using ssh with keys that are stored on OpenPGP card devices: No more ongoing PIN entry required! 🚀

@dvzrv has once again done amazing packaging and documentation work! 🥳 Thank you 😃

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SSH_keys#OpenPGP_card_ssh-agent for details.

LH Kaiser: Land baut eigenes datengeschützten ChatGPT auf und übernimmt Vorreiterrolle in Österreich – rd. 450 Landes-Serviceleistungen schneller beim Bürger – 40 % weniger Lands-Personal durch Pensionierungen - KI soll Wissen und Erfahrung erhalten und Personalabgang kompensieren

You may have came across this infographic being shared on various social media platforms. However, at face value and taken out of context, it can be considered misinformation — and I will explain why.

This is giving people an absolute false sense of security! It gets much more complicated than just a simple chart like this. This chart gives NO information on the contributing [critical] factors towards these calculations.

But Stephenson is far more pessimistic about today’s AI than he was about the Primer. “A chatbot is not an oracle,” he told me over Zoom last Friday. “It’s a statistics engine that creates sentences that sound accurate.” I spoke with Stephenson about his uncannily prescient book and the generative-AI revolution that has seemingly begun.