Der EU-Rat hat eine Empfehlung zur digitalen Bildung herausgegeben. Demnach sollen 80 Prozent der EU-Bevölkerung im Alter von 16 bis 74 Jahren bis 2030 über mindestens grundlegende digitale Kompetenzen verfügen. Für das Gelingen macht der Rat einige Vorschläge und stellt Forderungen an die Mitgliedstaaten.

Enabling Private DNS Mode on Android means your searches and other DNS queries are encrypted and safe from prying eyes. Here's everything else you need to know.

Recently, I became aware that Exim has a relatively aggressive list of message headers to sign with DKIM, and as a result we somewhat reduced the list of headers to sign in our environment. As it happens, Exim has several options for how it signs headers, which are briefly covered in the documentation for the dkim_sign_headers setting in (DKIM) Signing outgoing messages. The effects of these options aren't really clear until we understand the various meanings of DKIM signing message headers.

Wer künftig Dokumente wie etwa eine Geburts- oder Heiratsurkunde braucht, kann diese ab sofort über die App Digitales Amt herunterladen. Voraussetzung dafür ist neben der Registrierung in der App der Besitz einer Handysignatur oder ID-Austria sowie die Entrichtung einer Gebühr. Dieses neue "Urkundenservice" soll künftig auch noch weiter ausgebaut werden, hieß es in einer Aussendung des Finanzministeriums am Donnerstag.

Bereits im Frühjahr hatte Digitalisierungsstaatssekretär Florian Tursky (ÖVP) die Notwendigkeit einer eigenen KI-Behörde für Österreich betont. Seitdem ist viel Zeit vergangen, es wurde auch entsprechend Vorarbeit geleistet – doch es fehlt an der passenden inhaltlichen Basis. Denn die Behörde soll vor allem für die Umsetzung des AI Act in Österreich verantwortlich sein, und dieser wird noch immer zwischen den drei EU-Institutionen verhandelt.

In Österreich gibt es derzeit 220.000 offene Stellen – vor allem in den Bereichen Pflege, Digitalisierung, Gastronomie und Tourismus fehlt Personal. Geht es nach der Regierung, soll die Lücke vermehrt mit „qualifizierter Zuwanderung“ aus dem Ausland gefüllt werden.

Mit dem Integrationsservice für Fachkräfte gibt es seit Oktober eine neue Servicestelle vor allem für Menschen, die mit der Rot-Weiß-Rot-Karte ins Land kommen, sagte Integrationsministerin Susanne Raab (ÖVP) heute.

In episode six of Faculty Spotlight, Mark and Lauren sit down with R.H. Lossin, postdoctoral fellow at Harvard’s Warren Center of Studies in American History and a leading scholar of the theory and practice of sabotage. The three discuss: what led R.H. to the study of sabotage; why sabotage is more ordinary than you think; R.H.’s beef with the “universal library”—i.e., the total digitization of books; how readers have become producers; why Luddites have a bad rap; the meaning of “capitalist sabotage”; and the violent origins of all private property—among other scintillating subjects.

A lot has changed in 20 years. In 2003, the main question was: what encoding is this?

In 2023, it’s no longer a question: with a 98% probability, it’s UTF-8. Finally! We can stick our heads in the sand again!

Interessensverband fordert Umwidmung der Breitband-Fördergelder in eine Digitalisierungsoffensive für Privatpersonen und Unternehmen

nur fünf Prozent der DNS-Server, der Kontrollinfrastrukturen, um Domänen aufzulösen, in Österreich stehen. Auch nur 20 Prozent der Mail-Server befinden sich in Österreich. 80 Prozent der Mail-Server sind im Ausland, auch von Behörden und Gemeinden.

Customers want flexibility and control in how they consume and deploy Enterprise Linux systems. If they can’t get it from Red Hat or any of the rebuilders, they will go somewhere else. Maybe not immediately, but eventually RHEL will fade as the gold standard.

That's determined by a) what characters does the terminal emulator send when the BackSpace key is pressed (^H/BS or ^?/DEL) and b) what character is used as VERASE by the tty driver (see and change the latter with stty(1) -- stty erase ^H).

If the terminal emulator is sending ^H but the tty isn't recognizing it as a special character, presssing the BackSpace key will visually "erase" the last character on the screen[1], but the character will be sent as-is (together with the character before it) to the process reading from the tty (cat).

Editors and interactive programs with line-editing capabilities set the tty to raw mode and do their own handling of special characters, and may treat ^H and ^? the same; cat isn't one of those ;-)

[1] this is subject to the echoctl stty setting -- if that is set, the terminal will echo control characters back in the "^"+chr(char^0x40) format (^H for BS = 8, etc).

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.

Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif + slab-serif, monospace + quasi‑proportional typeface family, designed for writing code, using in terminals, and preparing technical documents.

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.

Dutch privacy negotiators have spurred major changes at Google, Microsoft and Zoom, using a landmark European data protection law as a lever.