Zurzeit gilt auch in Niedersachsen ein Besuchsverbot für Altenheime. Eine betagte Bewohnerin wollte ihrer Tochter trotzdem persönlich gratulieren - und trickste ihre Betreuer aus.

Noch hat die Öffentlichkeit die geplante datenschutzfreundliche App zur Kontaktermittlung von Coronavirus-Infizierten nicht zu sehen bekommen. Aber die Bundesregierung schwört die Bürger schon darauf ein.

Von Ausgangsregeln zur Pandemiekontrolle: Das Innenministerium beschreibt in einem Konzeptpapier, wie Einschränkungen im öffentlichen Leben schrittweise aufgehoben werden könnten.

Jeder, der sich mehrere Tage im Ausland aufgehalten hat und wieder einreisen will, muss sich zunächst zwei Wochen in Quarantäne begeben. Dieses Verfahren schlägt die Regierung jetzt den Bundesländern vor.

Überschwemmungen, einstürzende Gebäude: Ein Wirbelsturm hat Teile des Inselstaats Vanuatu verwüstet.

Boris Johnson hat die Nacht im Krankenhaus verbracht. Staatssekretär Jenrick zufolge geht es dem britischen Premier aber gut. Er werde bald wieder in der Downing Street erwartet.

Die Deutsche Bahn kämpft weiterhin mit ihrer maroden Infrastruktur. Sorgen bereitet insbesondere der schlechte Zustand vieler Brücken.

The blaze started on Saturday close to the site of the world’s worst ever nuclear disaster

The first of McIlroy's dicta is often paraphrased as "do one thing and do it well", which is shortened from "Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new 'features.'"

McIlroy's example of this dictum is:

Surprising to outsiders is the fact that UNIX compilers produce no listings: printing can be done better and more flexibly by a separate program.

If you open up a manpage for ls on mac, you’ll see that it starts with

ls [-ABCFGHLOPRSTUW@abcdefghiklmnopqrstuwx1] [file ...]

That is, the one-letter flags to ls include every lowercase letter except for {jvyz}, 14 uppercase letters, plus @ and 1. That’s 22 + 14 + 2 = 38 single-character options alone.

WireGuard, created by security researcher Jason A. Donenfeld, is smaller and simpler than most other VPN software. The first version of WireGuard contained fewer than 4,000 lines of code—compared with tens of thousands of lines in other VPN software. That doesn't make WireGuard more secure, but it makes it easier to find and fix problems.

WireGuard clients are already available for Android, iOS, MacOS, Linux, and Windows. Cloudflare's VPN service Warp is based on the WireGuard protocol, and several commercial VPN providers also enable users to use the WireGuard protocol, including TorGuard, IVPN, and Mullvad.

Apple may have discontinued the last of the click-wheel iPods years ago, but a large community of iPod modders resurrects them for their sound and nostalgia

I recently asked our writer community to share with us what they're reading. These folks come from all different walks of life and roles in tech. What they have in common is that they are living and breathing Linux and open source every day.

Drink in this fantastic list. Many of them are free and available to download.

You may see books you've been meaning to get around to, books that are completely new to you, and some that feel like old friends.

One of the things that makes the shell an invaluable tool is the amount of available text processing commands, and the ability to easily pipe them into each other to build complex text processing workflows. These commands can make it trivial to perform text and data analysis, convert data between different formats, filter lines, etc.

When working with text data, the philosophy is to break any complex problem you have into a set of smaller ones, and to solve each of them with a specialized tool.

Linux Kernel Teaching

This is a collection of lectures and labs Linux kernel topics. The lectures focus on theoretical and Linux kernel exploration.
https://linux-kernel-labs.github.io/refs/heads/master/index.html

Once in a while a new program really surprises me. Reminiscing a while
ago, I came up with a list of eye-opening Unix gems. Only a couple of
these programs are indispensable or much used. What singles them out is
their originality. I cannot imagine myself inventing any of them.

fail2ban is an intrusion prevention framework that reads server (Apache, SSH, etc.) and uses iptables profiles to block brute-force attempts:

Meld is a visual diff tool that makes it easier to compare and merge changes in files, directories, Git repos, and more.

The LoRaWAN protocol, which efficiently supports low-power wireless devices over wide area networks, has become standard in the world of the industrial internet of things (IoT). One of its benefits is its support for end-to-end encryption. However, researchers are warning that while LoRaWAN itself is perfectly secure, poor device security and user mistakes in configuration and implementation can still lead to hacks and widespread operational disruption.

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The ISS cupola

As we can see the default Linux disk encryption implementation has a significant impact on our cache latency in worst case scenarios, whereas the patched implementation is indistinguishable from not using encryption at all. In other words the improved encryption implementation does not have any impact at all on our cache response speed, so we basically get it for free! That’s a win!