Bei jedem vierten Paar hat sich die Beziehung während der Corona-Krise verändert: bei 17% hat sie sich verbessert und bei 8% verschlechtert.
Junge Paare erleben deutlich häufiger eine Verbesserung ihrer Beziehung als Paare im mittleren Lebensalter und im Pensionsalter.
In Familien mit Kindern ist eine Tendenz zur Polarisierung erkennbar: die Paarbeziehung hat sich in einem Teil verbessert, in einem anderen Teil verschlechtert.
Finanzielle Einbußen, z.B. durch Kurzarbeit oder Verlust des Arbeitsplatzes, gehen zu Lasten der Beziehungsqualität
Häufiger Anlass für Streit in Partnerschaften ist – auch in der Corona-Krise – die Hausarbeit.

Die Corona-Krise hat das Augenmerk auch auf eine Gruppe gerichtet, der in der Öffentlichkeit ansonsten wenig Beachtung geschenkt wird: nämlich der Gruppe der Alleinlebenden. Aber wer lebt überhaupt alleine? Und wie bewältigen diese alleinlebenden Personen die Krise? Würde man die Frage, welche Merkmale jemand mit dem Begriff „alleinlebend“ verbindet, verschiedenen Personen stellen, dann wären die Antworten bunt und vielfältig – genauso wie die Wissenschaft keine eindeutige Antwort darauf hat. Das Spektrum der Antworten würde das klassische Bild vom Single, Anfang 30, beruflich erfolgreich ebenso beinhalten wie die alleinwohnende Studentin, den geschiedenen Familienvater wie die alleinlebende, verwitwete Seniorin. Alleinleben hat viele Gesichter und die typisch alleinlebende Person gibt es nicht.

This is the recipe for building the DisplayLink driver in a RPM package for Fedora and CentOS. This driver supports the following device families:

DL-6xxx
DL-5xxx
DL-41xx
DL-3xxx

The package includes the Open Source evdi library.

Packages get automatically built by Travis CI and get uploaded to GitHub releases.

Ecoji encodes data as 1024 emojis, its base1024 with an emoji character set. As a bonus, includes code to decode emojis to original data.

NUS researchers have created a device called a ‘shadow-effect energy generator’ that makes use of the contrast in illumination between lit and shadowed areas to generate electricity. This novel concept opens up new approaches in harnessing indoor lighting conditions to power electronics.

”Whoa. The wait is finally over, dudes!”

The concept of a mechanical, 3D printed smart dress, to safeguard one's proximity and personal space, was first explored by Anouk Wipprecht several years ago with her Spider Dress. In times of social distancing, the Dutch designers is presenting an evolution of that early work, extending her research into proxemics and the body. The new Proximity Dress creates physical barriers when a person is detected in the immediate surroundings of the wearer. These twin dresses respond based on proximity and thermal sensors and indicate strangers within the intimate, personal, social and public space around the wearer.

“He relaxed and spread his two arms lazily across the seat back. He steered with an extra arm he’d recently fitted just beneath his right one to help improve his ski-boxing.” – Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

This is a working display based on Star Trek TNG. Uses APIs and sensors for weather, VOCs, power measurement, calendar, fitness, and news.

With the digital equivalent of trowels and shovels, archaeologists are digging into the code of early video games to uncover long forgotten secrets that could have relevance today.

Autodetecting autogenerated text: The answer to the machine is the machine.

There have been modern designs for portable Commodore 64s, and the official portable Commodore 64 you perhaps didn't even know about, but none of them are as handsome as Cem Tezcan's.

Using a terminal from 1976 as home automation hub, because why not?

In 2003, Eileen Gunn's pioneering online sf magazine shut down, and so did @bruces' early seminal blog, the Schism Matrix.

But thankfully, that wasn't the end of Bruce Sterling's blogging career: Wired gave him an (unpaid) online home for a new blog, every bit as cranky, esoteric, gnomic and darkly comic as Bruce himself: Beyond the Beyond.

Now, Beyond the Beyond is done. Wired publisher Conde Nast is in such deep financial trouble that they're realizing minuscule savings like those to be gleaned from shutting down an unpaid blog.

Pricing constraints brought further limitations. The ZX Spectrum had no dedicated sprite generation ICs. This was in contrast to other emerging micro-computers of the period, such as the Commodore 64. The Spectrum’s Z80 CPU and ULA would do all the graphical heavy lifting. The ULA or Un-committed Logic Array is similar in function, but not in implementation to today’s CPLD’s where the work of many TTL logic chips is combined into one IC. The Spectrum’s minimal graphics processing hardware and constrained 16k of RAM led to Altwasser’s’ invention of an extremely efficient and somewhat esoteric display system.

The conceived design was unique, allowing Sinclair Research and Richard Altwasser to patent the implementation. The Spectrum set aside 6912 Bytes of RAM to be used for a display file and an attribute array. The display file holds 256×192 pixel data in 32×24 characters blocks, taking 6144 bytes of RAM, leaving 768 bytes for the attribute array. The attribute array stores colour information for each character block. One byte per block holds foreground and background colours, plus a blink value for on or off. This is an excellent space saving solution for displaying coloured text, though slightly limiting in advanced graphics usage.

In vielen österreichischen Unternehmen undenkbar. Da zieht noch immer der geistige Mief der 1970er Jahre durch die neu eingerichteten Großraumbüros mit den vorgeschriebenen 2 m²/MA: "wer nicht kontrolliert wird, arbeitet nicht".

The Big List of Naughty Strings is an evolving list of strings which have a high probability of causing issues when used as user-input data. This is intended for use in helping both automated and manual QA testing; useful for whenever your QA engineer walks into a bar.

Why Test Naughty Strings?
Even multi-billion dollar companies with huge amounts of automated testing can't find every bad input. For example, look at what happens when you try to Tweet a zero-width space (U+200B) on Twitter:

I am a cynical skeptic system administrator, or as we are sometimes called nowadays a “DevOps” engineer. I started with Vax\Vms, Dos, NT 3.51 and Novell net ware. Nowadays I work as a DevOps consultant for Polar Squad in Berlin Germany. Polar Squad is the best DevOps company (according to us). In the following series of blog posts, I will try and guide an old sysadmin on how to work with Kubernetes.
Why?

When I started learning about all the new tools and methodologies that are used today, I felt a bit overwhelmed. I worked with containers in the past (good old LXC and Proxmox), so my first notion of it was: Why should I learn Docker now? Why should I care about Kubernetes? What is it good for?

When I started studying it, I found out it’s bloody hard to actually make sense of it. I mean, I am not a genius (my mom says I am, but not sure how valid her view is), but I was able to learn many things in my life. I mean I could learn Martin Heidegger’s “Being and Time” at University, I could also learn many concepts in computer science and networking for many years. So I asked myself: Why is Kubernetes giving me so much trouble? How can I try and fix that?
What’s the purpose of this blog post series?

I found out that there is a huge gap in the documentation about Kubernetes that is available online. If you want to start something easy and just see a simple deployment, you have a lot of options. You can use Minikube or Google Cloud and have something running very fast.

If you want to create your own cluster on any infra, may it be VMs on AWS or KVM server running on bare metal, it’s almost impossible to find good documentation for that. I am not new to hypervisors nor to namespace or cgroups in Linux, (I was also Solaris guy, so I worked with Solaris Zones a long time ago) but still, some of those new tools I checked really got me frustrated. The purpose of these blog posts is to guide old school sysadmins to understand and use Kubernetes without making them bash their heads on the wall and curse horrible words.

7 a.m. Wake up and check Twitter, which feels a bit like walking into the lobby of a Las Vegas casino at 6 a.m. to head to the airport and seeing all the people, dead-eyed, playing the slots: They’ve either been there all night or they woke up and started playing slots first thing in the morning.

I used to roam the streets of Ibiza as I normally roam streets of
any strange city, toting an efficient global-nomad shoulder-bag,
crammed with electronics and travel-survival knickknacks. This year
I just carry a floppy canvas grocery bag.

Admittedly, it's a tote-bag from the distant "Bangalore Literary
Festival," but nobody cares about branding. If you carry groceries
around in a bag, nobody sees you. Because obviously you must be local.

It's the foreigners and tourists who have those ergonomic,
airplane-centric, efficient bags. They don't slop around with cheap canvas bags meant for onions.

So what I'm sporting in Ibiza in MMXX is camouflage for our new
era of ethnonationalism and "overtourism," a term recently invented in nearby Barcelona.