Die IT-Branche in Wien sucht dringend Fachkräfte, vor allem im Bereich der Softwareentwicklung. Der Wiener ArbeitnehmerInnen Förderungsfonds (WAFF) startet deshalb ein Pilotprojekt für Arbeitssuchende, die in dieser Branche Fuß fassen wollen.Mehr dazu in wien.ORF.at

In der Coronavirus-Krise will das Europaparlament seine Entscheidungsfähigkeit mit Notmaßnahmen sichern. So sollen schriftliche Abstimmungen per E-Mail eingeführt werden, an denen auch Abgeordnete im Heimbüro teilnehmen dürfen, wie es heute aus Parlamentskreisen hieß.Für den 26. März sei eine Plenarsitzung in Brüssel geplant, an der alle Abgeordneten teilnehmen könnten, die sich in der belgischen Hauptstadt aufhalten. Alle anderen Mandatsträgerinnen und -träger sollten zu Hause bleiben und dort an Abstimmungen teilnehmen, hieß es aus dem Parlament. Für alle Abgeordneten werde es das schriftliche Abstimmungsverfahren per E-Mail gelten. Ausschüsse und Fraktionen könnten ebenfalls in einem Televerfahren tagen.Das Parlament hatte schon Anfang März erste Konsequenzen aus der Coronavirus-Welle gezogen und seine Sitzung von Straßburg nach Brüssel verlegt und auf einen Tag verkürzt. Zuletzt war ein Plenum in Brüssel für den 1. und 2. April vorgesehen. Doch herrscht inzwischen in Belgien eine Ausgangssperre, sodass die Regelung erneut verändert wurde. Das vorgesehene Plenum Anfang April finde nicht statt, hieß es aus den Parlamentskreisen.

Die Polizei hat die Auslieferung von zwei Nationalratsabgeordneten beantragt – wegen zwei relativ geringer Vergehen. Michael Reimon soll eine Geldstrafe von 150 Euro wegen einer Sitzblockade vor dem OMV-Gelände in Wien-Simmering nicht bezahlt haben, berichtete die Tageszeitung „Österreich“ (Onlineausgabe) gestern. 100 Euro sind noch bei David Stögmüller offen, der auf einen Baukran auf dem Parlamentsgelände geklettert war.In beiden Fällen beantragte die Polizei die Aufhebung der Immunität der Abgeordneten, bestätigte ein Sprecher des Parlaments gegenüber der APA. Beide Fälle sind dem Immunitätsausschuss des Nationalrats zugewiesen. Die Beratungen dazu sind noch nicht aufgenommen.

“We can safely say that in modern seismology, we’ve never seen such a long period of human quiet,” says Raphael De Plaen at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Querétaro, one of the paper’s 76 authors.

• ssh(1), ssh-keygen(1): support for FIDO keys that require a PIN for
  each use. These keys may be generated using ssh-keygen using a new
  "verify-required" option. When a PIN-required key is used, the user
  will be prompted for a PIN to complete the signature operation.

• sshd(8): authorized_keys now supports a new "verify-required"
  option to require FIDO signatures assert that the token verified
  that the user was present before making the signature. The FIDO
  protocol supports multiple methods for user-verification, but
  currently OpenSSH only supports PIN verification.

• sshd(8), ssh-keygen(1): add support for verifying FIDO webauthn
  signatures. Webauthn is a standard for using FIDO keys in web
  browsers. These signatures are a slightly different format to plain
  FIDO signatures and thus require explicit support.

• ssh(1): allow some keywords to expand shell-style ${ENV}
  environment variables. The supported keywords are CertificateFile,
  ControlPath, IdentityAgent and IdentityFile, plus LocalForward and
  RemoteForward when used for Unix domain socket paths. bz#3140

• ssh(1), ssh-agent(1): allow some additional control over the use of
  ssh-askpass via a new $SSH_ASKPASS_REQUIRE environment variable,
  including forcibly enabling and disabling its use. bz#69

• ssh(1): allow ssh_config(5)'s AddKeysToAgent keyword accept a time
  limit for keys in addition to its current flag options. Time-
  limited keys will automatically be removed from ssh-agent after
  their expiry time has passed.

Piloting an ocean exploration ship or Martian research shuttle is serious business. Let’s hope the control panel is up to scratch. Two studs wide and angled at 45°, the ubiquitous “2x2 decorated slope” is a LEGO minifigure’s interface to the world.

These iconic, low-resolution designs are the perfect tool to learn the basics of physical interface design. Armed with 52 different bricks, let’s see what they can teach us about the design, layout and organisation of complex interfaces.

kb is a text-oriented minimalist command line knowledge base manager. kb can be considered a quick note collection and access tool oriented toward software developers, penetration testers, hackers, students or whoever has to collect and organize notes in a clean way. Although kb is mainly targeted on text-based note collection, it supports non-text files as well (e.g., images, pdf, videos and others).

The project was born from the frustration of trying to find a good way to quickly access my notes, procedures, cheatsheets and lists (e.g., payloads) but at the same time, keeping them organized. This is particularly useful for any kind of student. I use it in the context of penetration testing to organize pentesting procedures, cheatsheets, payloads, guides and notes.

I found myself too frequently spending time trying to search for that particular payload list quickly, or spending too much time trying to find a specific guide/cheatsheet for a needed tool. kb tries to solve this problem by providing you a quick and intuitive way to access knowledge.

In few words kb allows a user to quickly and efficiently:

collect items containing notes,guides,procedures,cheatsheets into an organized knowledge base;
filter the knowledge base on different metadata: title, category, tags and others;
visualize items within the knowledge base with (or without) syntax highlighting;
grep through the knowledge base using regexes;
import/export an entire knowledge base;

Basically, kb provides a clean text-based way to organize your knowledge.

GitHub CLI brings GitHub to your terminal. It reduces context switching, helps you focus, and enables you to more easily script and create your own workflows. Earlier this year, we announced the beta of GitHub CLI. Since we released the beta, users have created over 250,000 pull requests, performed over 350,000 merges, and created over 20,000 issues with GitHub CLI. We’ve received so much thoughtful feedback, and today GitHub CLI is out of beta and available to download on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

With GitHub CLI 1.0, you can:

Run your entire GitHub workflow from the terminal, from issues through releases
Call the GitHub API to script nearly any action, and set a custom alias for any command
Connect to GitHub Enterprise Server in addition to GitHub.com

Endlessh is an SSH tarpit that very slowly sends an endless, random SSH banner. It keeps SSH clients locked up for hours or even days at a time. The purpose is to put your real SSH server on another port and then let the script kiddies get stuck in this tarpit instead of bothering a real server.

Since the tarpit is in the banner before any cryptographic exchange occurs, this program doesn't depend on any cryptographic libraries. It's a simple, single-threaded, standalone C program. It uses poll() to trap multiple clients at a time.

query-json is a faster and simpler re-implementation of the jq language in Reason Native and compiled to binary thanks to the OCaml compiler. query-json, allows you to write small programs to operate on top of json files in a cute syntax:

I wrote a post over the weekend which said a lot about libraries letting people down, and other people becoming overly dependent on them. There was an aside of sorts in there which mentioned teaching people about all of the things to look out for when you're writing to a file on a Unix-ish/POSIX-ish filesystem situation. A friend reached out asking if I had a post talking about that stuff, and near as I can tell, I do not.

That brings us to right now. I will attempt to lay down a few things that I keep in mind any time I'm creating files.

Linking-it-all-together asks: I came across this article about the benefits of static linking over dynamic linking. If dynamic linking is slower and doesn't offer practical benefits then why do most distros still dynamic link? Is this a hold over from the past or is there a reason I'm missing that make distros still use dynamic linking?

DistroWatch answers: I read through the article provided and it does share some interesting statistics on dynamically linked programs versus statically linked programs. The author appears to be making a case against dynamic linking and in favour of static linking, or at least presenting facts which would support such a case. For the sake of this discussion I am going to assume the observations the article's author makes are accurate and factually correct, at least for their own distribution.

The author addresses some interesting questions, such as how often are dynamically libraries used on the system, which indicates how many resources avoid duplication by sharing libraries. They also explore how quickly dynamic and static programs load and how much larger statically linked programs are compared to their dynamically linked counterparts. The author points out that many libraries on their distribution are not shared by many programs, that statically linked programs can load faster, and that not a lot of bandwidth is saved by using dynamically linked programs.

Reading through the page of observations the author shares, it's understandable we might wonder why developers continue to favour dynamically linked applications in most situations. Let's look at some of the specific arguments from the article.

There are quite a few things that set Zork and other Infocom games apart from the competition. For one, Infocom games had creative, addictive puzzles and mazes that drove players batty. Some gamers even wrote Infocom letters, asking for a hint to help them get past particularly tough brain teasers. 

Crush is an attempt to make a traditional command line shell that is also a modern programming language. It has the features one would expect from a modern programming language like a type system, closures and lexical scoping, but with a syntax geared toward both batch and interactive shell usage.
What features of a traditional shell does Crush retain?

The basic structure of the Crush language resembles a regular shell like bash.

How to invoke commands, pass arguments and set up pipelines are unchanged, as is the central concept of a current working directory. This means that trivial invocations, like ls or find .. | count look the same, but under the hood they are quite different, and nearly everything beyond that is different.

Ilya Grigorik (@igrigorik) Tweeted:
TIL, httpstat: visualizes curl(1) statistics in a way of beauty and clarity -- nifty and instant replacement for my own curl timing script...

GitHub: https://t.co/L1jpopqyyq https://t.co/eNzCQQzDoW https://twitter.com/igrigorik/status/1293380686808662016?s=20
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Pywal is nifty Python-based command line tool that changes the terminal colors based on the colors of that wallpapers.

You can use it to set the wallpaper and you’ll see that the terminal colors change immediately.

This week’s events in Wall Street and the City of London mark this turning point – the historic moment that future historians will undoubtedly pick to say: It was in the summer of 2020 when financial capitalism finally broke with the world of real people, including capitalists antiquated enough to try to profit from producing goods and services.

from 2008 to 2020, the policies to re-float the banking sector from 2009 onwards resulted in the almost complete zombification of corporations. Covid-19 found capitalism in this zombified state. With consumption and production hit massively and at once, governments were forced to step into the void to replace all incomes to a gargantuan extent at a time the real capitalist economy has the least capacity to generate real wealth. The decoupling of the financial markets from the real economy, that was the trigger for this talk, is a sure sign that something we may defensibly label postcapitalism is already underway.

ytt (pronounced spelled out) is a templating tool that understands YAML structure. It helps you easily configure complex software via reusable templates and user provided values. Ytt includes the following features:

Structural templating: understands yaml structure so users can focus on their configuration instead of issues associated with text templating, such as YAML value quoting or manual template indentation
Built-in programming language: includes the "fully featured" Python-like programming language Starklark which helps ease the burden of configuring complex software through a richer set of functionality.
Reusable configuration: You can reuse the same configuration in different environments by applying environment-specific values.
Custom validations: coupled with the fast and deterministic execution, allows you to take advantage of faster feedback loops when creating and testing templates
Overlays: this advanced configuration helps users manage the customization required for complex software. For more, see this example in the online playground.
Sandboxing: provides a secure, deterministic environment for execution of templates

Archivy is a self-hosted knowledge repository that allows you to safely preserve useful content that contributes to your knowledge bank.

Features:

If you add bookmarks, their webpages contents' will be saved to ensure that you will always have access to it, in sync with the idea of digital preservation.
Allows you to sync up with Pocket to gather bookmarks from there too.
Everything is a file! For ease of access and editing, all the content is stored in markdown files with yaml front matter.
Extensible search with Elasticsearch and its Query DSL

I apologize to @natoscott and @fasterit who tried to contact me; I understand that forking the project must not have been an easy decision to make, and any response of mine might have made it a little easier.

I want to thank you all of you for taking on this initiative, starting from @afontenot for opening up this topic. I am extremely grateful for all the amazing feedback I've received for htop over the years. This has been by far my most successful project, it has brought me many many great things, and I think it's indeed flattering to see it forked