Willkommen in QualityLand, in einer nicht allzu fernen Zukunft: Alles läuft rund - Arbeit, Freizeit und Beziehungen sind von Algorithmen optimiert.

Trotzdem beschleicht den Maschinenverschrotter Peter Arbeitsloser immer mehr das Gefühl, dass mit seinem Leben etwas nicht stimmt. Wenn das System wirklich so perfekt ist, warum gibt es dann Drohnen, die an Flugangst leiden, oder Kampfroboter mit posttraumatischer Belastungsstörung? Warum werden die Maschinen immer menschlicher, aber die Menschen immer maschineller? Marc-Uwe Kling hat die Verheißungen und das Unbehagen der digitalen Gegenwart zu einer verblüffenden Zukunftssatire verdichtet, die lange nachwirkt. Visionär, hintergründig – und so komisch wie die Känguru-Trilogie.

Historian Rutger Bregman, whose speech at the Davos World Economic Forum went viral, explains why often-dismissed plans to correct inequality can actually work.

The big bang, the beginning of our universe. The one universe. But is this the whole story? Professor Sir Roger Penrose brings us fascinating new insights and possibilities – and that the universe we live in could be just one of an infinite succession of universes.

A recent theory, conformal cyclic cosmology, proposes that what we presently regard as the entire history of our universe is merely one phase, an ‘aeon’, of an infinite succession of similar aeons. The ultimate expansion of each aeon appears - infinitely scaled down - as the big bang of the next one. Collisions between supermassive black holes in the aeon prior to ours would leave an observable imprint on our cosmic microwave background - apparently already detected by WMAP and Planck space satellites.

BICEP2 south-pole telescope observations have recently been claimed as providing the ‘smoking gun’ of an inflationary beginning to our universe’s expansion. Conformal cyclic cosmology provides an alternative explanation, with intriguing consequences. Penrose’s illustrated talk shows us how.

Penrose is a world-renowned physicist, mathematician, cosmologist, and author of Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe; The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe; The Emperor’s New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics; and Shadows of the Mind: An Approach to the Missing Science of Consciousness. He will be introduced by Clive Cookson, science editor at the Financial Times.

The decentralised web, or DWeb, could be a chance to take control of our data back from the big tech firms. So how does it work and when will it be here?

With a great ecosystem, comes great responsibility, and application security is not one to wave off. Let’s review some black clouds of security horror stories in the Node.js ecosystem, and learn how to mitigate them to build secure JavaScript and Node.js applications.

Liran Tal
Developer Advocate, Snyk
Liran has been advocating for Node.js and JavaScript, through core lead for the MEAN.js framework, docker container tool Dockly, and author of several npm packages.He’s a member of the Node.js Security WG, the author of Essential Node.js Security.

Wie wird sich die politische Landschaft nach der Corona-Krise verändern? Werden die Folgen der Wirtschaftskrise möglicherweise dazu führen, dass Menschen empfänglicher werden für Populismus jeder Art, etwa von rechts? Was hilft dagegen?

This is a conky interface with a bit of py and sh here and there. Got inspo from various vidya and films for creating this and it's projected to be rendered on a 1920x1080 display. If you have greater or lower resolution, please feel free to adapt it for your needs.

It uses a color scheme of a maximum of three colors (including all the images) so it is easy to change it as you prefer with a maximum of three lines of bash.

SciFi theme for Conky

PlusDm's Pastebin

Debian Xfce Conky

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.

This is a project, deticated to creating custom voice packs for roborock s50 and s55
Feel free to add more voices

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.

The speaker you will create is equipped with everything you can imagine. It has six speaker drivers, a charging indicator, a battery indicator, a bass boost, a treble boost, and an easy handle to help you carry it wherever you go.

Using an old VFD serial communication display for use with Arduino based microcontrollers.

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:

The TURN Server is a VoIP media traffic NAT traversal server and gateway. It can be used as a general-purpose network traffic TURN server and gateway, too.

On-line management interface (over telnet or over HTTPS) for the TURN server is available.

The implementation also includes some extra experimental features.

Das STUN-Protokoll erkennt Clients, die sich bspw. hinter einem Router oder einer Firewall befinden und eine NAT-Adresse haben. Mit Hilfe des STUN-Servers können NAT-Clients ihre öffentliche IP-Adresse erfahren und sind anschließend in der Lage eine direkte Kommunikationsverbindung zwischen (zwei) Teilnehmern herzustellen. Um die Übermittlung der IP-Adresse an externe Anbieter zu vermeiden, könnt ihr einen eigenen STUN- / TURN-Server betreiben. Alternativ könnt ihr natürlich auch einfach bestehende STUN-Server wählen, die öffentlich zur Verfügung gestellt werden.

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.