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.

In the past 10 years, the median size for a desktop webpage has gone from 468 KB to 2284 KB, a 388.3% increase. For mobile, this jump is even more staggering — 145 KB to 2010 KB — a whopping 1288.1% increase.

That’s a lot of weight to ship over a network, especially for mobile. As a result, users experience terrible UX, slow loading times, and a lack of interactivity until everything is rendered. But all that code is necessary to make our sites work the way we want.

This is the problem with being a frontend dev today. What started out fun for frontend developers, building shit-hot sites with all the bells and whistles, has kinda turned into not fun. We’re now fighting different browsers to support, slow networks to ship code over, and intermittent, mobile connections. Supporting all these permutations is a giant headache.

How do we square this circle? By heading back to the server (Swiss basement not required).

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.

Several attacks have been carried out on universities in German-speaking countries in recent weeks, resulting in suspension of their IT services for extended periods of time

Als viele Leute Mitte der 1990er Jahre über Unis E-Mailadressen bekamen, haben sie dieses Medium für sich erschlossen. Daher finde ich es natürlich auch wertvoll, wenn die Unis auf diesem Umweg einen Beitrag zur allgemeinen Etablierung von nicht-kommerziellen dezentralen sozialen Kommunikationsinfrastrukturen leisten könnten. Dieser Beitrag würde in zweierlei Hinsicht bestehen: einerseits im Betreiben von Instanzen, aber andererseits auch im Mitbringen von Menschen. Das ist ja gerade für das Funktionieren von dezentralen und allgemein von sozialen Netzwerken das Entscheidende: Wie kriege ich die Leute, wie komme ich auf eine kritische Masse?

Damit würden die Unis auch einen Beitrag leisten, von dem wir als Gesellschaft ganz allgemein etwas hätten. Das ist auch der Sinn von öffentlich finanzierten Hochschulen: dass sie ganz allgemein Wissen produzieren für die Gesellschaft. Dass sie in dem Maße, in dem es sinnvoll und möglich ist, auch zum Beispiel Kommunikationsinfrastruktur liefern. Ich glaube, das würde gut passen zu dem Auftrag einer Hochschule als wissensbasierte Institution in einer arbeitsteiligen Gesellschaft.

export SWT_GTK3=0

Accenture released its Technology Vision 2020 report with a call for corporations to build trust as they develop new services for a "post-digital" population that has moved beyond the wow-factor with new technologies and understands the dystopian possibilities in an unplanned future.
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Both Chomsky, King, and every other voice for justice and human rights would agree that the people need to act instead of relying on movement leaders. Whatever actions one can take—whether it’s engaging in informed debate with family, friends, or coworkers, writing letters, making donations to activists and organizations, documenting injustice, or taking to the streets in protest or acts of civil disobedience—makes a difference. These are the small individual actions that, when practiced diligently and coordinated together in the thousands, make every powerful social movement possible.