Das hat das Internet Institute der Universität Oxford jetzt bekannt gemacht, wo die Analyse vorgenommen wurde.Ausgewertet wurden dafür Daten von zwei Millionen Menschen im Alter zwischen 15 und 89 Jahren aus 168 Staaten und aus dem Zeitraum von 2005 bis 2022. Man habe intensiv nach einem "schlagenden Beweis" gesucht, der einen Zusammenhang zwischen Technologie und dem Wohlbefinden herstellt, den aber nicht gefunden, fasst Studienleiter Andrew Przybylski zusammen.

EU take a knee to the USA:

A crucial aspect of the sovereignty requirements has been to what extent the European subsidiary of a cloud provider can be considered under the parent company’s or group’s control.

The requirement that the cloud service providers would have to be operated only by EU-based companies with no non-European entity exerting effective control has been slightly softened for the level of assurance high+.

In particular, the new text adds the possibility to demonstrate that they have put in place effective technical, organisational and legal measures that prevent non-EU companies linked with the cloud provider from exerting a decisive influence in decisions related to investigation requests.

Ethernet wired LAN was invented at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in 1973, inspired by the ALOHAnet packet radio network and the ARPANET. In 1980 Xerox, DEC, and Intel published a specification for 10 Mbps Ethernet over coaxial cable that became the IEEE 802.3-1985 Standard. Later augmented for higher speeds, and twisted-pair, optical, and wireless media, Ethernet became ubiquitous in home, commercial, industrial, and academic settings worldwide.

Currently, the IEEE 802 family consists of 67 published standards, with 49 projects under development. The committee works with standards agencies worldwide to publish certain IEEE 802 standards as international guidelines.

From the "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" department:

This commit added automated scaling of scheduler settings with the number of cores in 2009.

It was accidentally hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores. Oops. The magic value comes from an older commit and remained as it was.

Die Austria Presse Agentur (APA) kategorisiert "IT" immer noch unter "Wirtschaft".

Themen wie eGovernment, Netzpolitik, usw. ... existieren auch 2023 noch immer nicht für die Marktbeherrschende Nachrichtenagentur Österreichs.

"Digitale Grundbildung" wäre nicht nur in den Schulen dringend notwendig ...

“So it says here you’ve held executive positions at Theranos, FTX and most recently, WeWork.”

“That’s right, I’ve dedicated my career to non-profits.”

Thirty-five years ago today (November 2nd), the Internet Worm program was set loose to propagate on the Internet. Noting that now to the computing public (and cybersecurity professionals, specifically) often generates an "Oh, really?" response akin to stating that November 2nd is the anniversary of the inaugural broadcast of the first BBC TV channel (1936), and the launch of Sputnik 2 with Laika aboard (1957). That is, to many, it is ho-hum, ancient history.

Perhaps that is to be expected after 35 years -- approximately the length of a human generation. (As an aside, I have been teaching at Purdue for 36 years. I have already taught students whose parents had taken one of my classes as a student; in five or so years, I may see students whose grandparents took one of my classes!

I interpret this as a positive sign that common sense is returning to the UK.

All tech news and especially social media posts are about hyperbole. Everything has to be the fastest, biggest, most growing and most disruptive. And when you don’t know about it or are not part of it, you are falling behind. And if that happens you will be irrelevant as a voice or outdated for the market. I’m sick of it and I am done with it.

Size isn’t everything. In fact, fast growth and inflated salaries are both red flags.

From the "no shit, Sherlock" department:

The legacy of layoffs—and how they were carried out—could “come back to haunt companies when the pendulum of the labor market inevitably swings back,”

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.

The tech industry layoffs are basically an instance of social contagion, in which companies imitate what others are doing. If you look for reasons for why companies do layoffs, the reason is that everybody else is doing it. Layoffs are the result of imitative behavior and are not particularly evidence-based.

I’ve had people say to me that they know layoffs are harmful to company well-being, let alone the well-being of employees, and don’t accomplish much, but everybody is doing layoffs and their board is asking why they aren’t doing layoffs also.

Do you think layoffs in tech are some indication of a tech bubble bursting or the company preparing for a recession?

Could there be a tech recession? Yes. Was there a bubble in valuations? Absolutely. Did Meta overhire? Probably. But is that why they are laying people off? Of course not. Meta has plenty of money. These companies are all making money. They are doing it because other companies are doing it.

Shell is a thing you want to understand and then not use, because you learned to understand it. (in German, from 1998 )

For the rest of this discussion, we assume “Python 3” as an instance of “something else”, but if you are older than 50, feel free to use “Perl” instead.

If you are already doing Python, the rest of this is not for you. You already know these things.

This is an ongoing effort for documenting and understanding the Austrian "ID Wallet" apps:

Digitales Amt
eAusweise

First, the user logs in at the Digitales Amt app. Then, the eAusweise app is set-up, which sends an intent to the first app.

Based on a reverse-analysis, the ./demo.py script re-implements this procedure. After a successfull run, it provides you with TLS Client Certificates (and keys) for use with:

The Digitales Amt backend API endpoints
The eAusweise backend API endpoints

You will need some eIDAS compliant identity token during the process, such as the german national identity card.

The strength in hiring, which occurred despite layoffs in the technology sector as well as in sectors like housing and finance that are sensitive to interest rates, poured cold water on market expectations that the U.S. central bank was close to pausing its monetary policy tightening cycle.

Of course, it already has. Layoffs are contagious across industries and within industries. The logic driving this, which doesn’t sound like very sensible logic because it’s not, is people say, “Everybody else is doing it, why aren’t we?”

Retailers are pre-emptively laying off staff, even as final demand remains uncertain. Apparently, many organizations will trade off a worse customer experience for reduced staffing costs, not taking into account the well-established finding that is typically much more expensive to attract new customers than it is to keep existing ones happy.

The concept of radical novelties is of contemporary significance because, while we are ill-prepared to cope with them, science and technology have now shown themselves expert at inflicting them upon us. Earlier scientific examples are the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics; later technological examples are the atom bomb and the pill. For decades, the former two gave rise to a torrent of religious, philosophical, or otherwise quasi-scientific tracts. We can daily observe the profound inadequacy with which the latter two are approached, be it by our statesmen and religious leaders or by the public at large. So much for the damage done to our peace of mind by radical novelties.

I raised all this because of my contention that automatic computers represent a radical novelty and that only by identifying them as such can we identify all the nonsense, the misconceptions and the mythology that surround them. Closer inspection will reveal that it is even worse, viz. that automatic computers embody not only one radical novelty but two of them.

'uppercase' and 'lowercase' are remnants of the moveable type practice of keeping capital letters on a separate case, above the miniscule letters.

What turns weakness into catastrophe is monoculture. All software has flaws, all systems have weaknesses, and you design around that by having multiple different systems with different weaknesses. If the world's banana crop is a single strain, then a single pathogen can take out the lot.

You're not going to harden your IT infrastructure by rewriting Active Directory in FORTH under VMS, much as such an exercise may appeal to the more perversely creative. But the more experience you have of seeing things done differently, of analyzing and understanding systems that don't make the current industry standard assumptions, the better you'll be at assessing and working with different contemporary options.

Almost all systems using traditional relational database management systems (RDBMSs) rely on leader election to pick a leader database which handles all writes, and sometimes, all reads. In these systems, election may be automated, but it’s frequently done manually by a human operator.