Paying taxes is no fun Paying taxes double and tripple is even less fun. Because let’s face it: when buying a pair of NEW shoes in Germany the average German Joe already pays at least 19% MwSt. plus the income […]
there was an educational but DRAMATIC animation series of German publicly funded broadcasting service (they got more money than sh**, why don’t THEY sponsor the next StarTrek season? 😀 70*365/7 = 3650 weeks (at the age of 70) a lot […]
why it’s really time to occupy Mars & how the internet has changed post-babyboomer attitude to sharing Had an interesting conversation with a 65 year old, babyboomer, who has never personally seen war and who has not grown up with […]
have to give a HUGHE praise to the Tor Project! just checked and they DO AN EXCELLENT job at keeping the user private the developers who constantly work to make the system better the thousands of volunteering admins that run […]
(knowing that manually auto-translating Russian CyberSec news to English, is not a feasable concept and need to be automated, but as this blog is non-profit, it is for curiosity.) Booking.com found an authentication vulnerability that allows account hijacking A vulnerability […]
It is a wrongful simplification to reduce humans to robots. No matter how much humans treat humans like robots (behaving like robots in the process), it does not right the wrong. Humans are not robots, they never will be Humans […]
subtitles: this video is a mix (to gain more attention -> views & clicks by users) so YES it MIGHT exaggerated. BUT: if there is one thing SciFi can do for mankind is: think ahead what could be possible! Don’t […]
Efficiency is good in terms of: saving resources. Same results with less (power and other) input. BUT: good people need to be cultivated, by culture. Culture does not simply mean “gifts on Christmas” and “Lederhosen”. (that’s what it has become, […]
“nobody knows” Google? What is it? “The Google Wi-Fi Provisioner is a “set up” app/device that is used to connect you to or “provision” Google Wi-Fi and/or Google Nest WiFi products only.” (src) fun fact: if it is uninstalled… wifi […]
let’s face it: the internet has become a gigantic surveillance machine, with hundreds of private companies, trying to collect as much data on the user as possible in order to “predict the market” while also using with AI to analyze […]
update: major of Berlin fooled by Klitschko LIVE deep fake video conference (actually not so funny) it would mean: do not trust phone calls, even if the number is shown as “police” “doctor” “friend” trust no video conference what can […]
the risks of all digital (no cash) payment systems & amok AI: “This happens quite often with customers of the Cashgroup banks (@DeutscheBank / @Postbank / @Commerzbank / @Comdirect) as soon as their algorithms hit your account is directly without […]
md5sum ./osx/OSX_Install_DVD.iso 1f6da0e4c7f1442eedf77e003d47cafe # okay osx install dvd… what is it trying to tell me?
will be redone soon
Old Fusion-joke: “Fusion is always 30 years away” But Update: helionenergy.com wants to end this long wait by 2024 by producing the first fusion reactor that actually produces more energy than it consumes. First of: no fan of cancer. In […]
what is great about books vs blogs? (+) paper books don’t need electricity and hightech to function. energy grid and tcp networks (up to now) have worked pretty reliably, but at any given day, a massive solar flare or a […]
equals to: one neat function of the find command, it that what it found can be passed to another program for further processing. or: it can delete the file by adding the option -delete BUT (!!!) THIS IS DANGEROUS! as […]
Motorola, Apple, Samsung, and now even Fairphone 4: NO 3.5mm headphone jack!!! For the audio junkies among us, this is a no go. Was so looking forward to the Fairphone, but will probably use a phone with audio jack as […]
update: 2022-12 wow 3 and 4nm is very very small “TSMC recently announced that it is upping its U.S. investment in Arizona to US$40 billion (NT$1.23 trillion) and will manufacture 4nm and 3nm chips there. The 4nm chips are expected […]
team, team, team team… In Germany, everyone is his/her own team, there are only one-man, one-woman teams. teams not necessarily help each other the best “help” you can get from another “team” is “it is somewhere in the (incomplete, outdated, […]
the positive vision (always start with something positive) if big data about every keystroke every step we make (the police: every step you make) algorithms determine how mankind will live and thus: technology is “neutral” until it is used for […]
the most fundamental networking settings are ever changing it used to be /etc/resolv.conf where nameservers are set systemd is doing it’s own thing /etc/systemd/resolved.conf and Ubuntu (based on Debian) is doing (again) it’s entirely own thing (netplan) frankly: this sucks […]
first off the praise: kvm-qemu is a high performance nicely scriptable virtualization system if it works, it can do pretty things 🙂 especially like the x11 forwarded virt-manager gui over ssh (yes it is a bit slow… but simplicity at […]
in short: humans per default, without an education might just be “better” apes. Some parts of mankind behave very primitive and clearly show no signs of higher intelligence or education. The troubles start, when the tools become more and more […]
update: join me @ online-coworking-space.com https://play.workadventu.re/@/online/coworking/space.com first of: the online conferecing as RPG game format is really fun and innovative idea to make online events more fun! 🙂 (it is accompanied by live streams via vimeo or youtube) Corona will […]
it sounds crazy but… as machines as cars and tractors become more complicated and computerized not only are their parts DELIBERATELY designed to break after a certain time (planned obsolescence) (in order to sell more spare parts, make more profit) […]
long story… good alternative? https://minidvblinux.de/ having had various frustrating experiences with the topic: TV + PC (even tried a cheap DreamBox 520 HD from eBay… which are probably good devices, but this one turned out to be faulty/unstable) now… in […]
as retro as it gets… seems to be a clone of MoonPatrol. hostnamectl; # tested on Static hostname: lenovo Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-16-amd64 Architecture: x86-64 apt update apt install moon-buggy apt show moon-buggy Package: moon-buggy […]
NVIDIA = games + servers? yes NVIDIA servers! NVIDIA wants to become the “NetFlix of gaming” streaming screen output of games (actually running on their servers via GeForce NOW) on Tablets and SmartPhones but not only that… since BitCoin & […]
I once asked Rupert Murdoch why he was so opposed to the European Union. ‘That’s easy,’ he replied. ‘When I go into Downing Street they do what I say; when I go to Brussels they take no notice.’ https://www.indy100.com/people/this-terrifying-rupert-murdoch-quote-is-possibly-the-best-reason-to-stay-in-the-eu-yet-7291931 src […]