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
First of: no fan of cancer. In both cases: Fission and Fusion the user is dealing with cancer causing nuclear (gamma and neutron) radiation. The advantage of Fusion over Fission is: no need for colonial style of war efforts 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 […]
fascinating video(s) thanks for making & sharing 🙂 will do the best to assemble an informative article 🙂 https://ytpak.net/watch?v=CkNn98WE5_k https://ytpak.net/watch?v=oIiqVrKDtLc market share of players fascinating book https://duckduckgo.com/?q=AI+Superpowers+China+Silicon+Valley+and+the+New+World+Order+-+Kai-Fu+Lee+ebook+converter+DEMO+Watermarks&ia=web “If (when!) it works it’s going to be glorious, but that’s not to […]
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not necessarily help each other the best “help” you can get from another “team” is “it is somewhere in the (incomplete, outdated, […]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 […]
why are those data leaks problematic? because scammers and spammers will use this data to even better scam (social engineer) the affected users that is why it is essential to give those platforms (if the user needs them) as little […]
computers are no way perfect: the rise of the machines: who is scared of killer robots? who is scared of doctors, judges and police blindly trusting in AI and computer output? “we are driving in (heavy) rain right now with […]
SecurityLab, [22.12.20 10:00] Google has explained the reasons for the massive failure of its services that took place last week. Recall that on December 14 of this year, users around the world for 47 minutes could not access Gmail, YouTube […]
Update: 2021-05: https://www.golem.de/news/irland-erste-patientendaten-im-netz-aufgetaucht-2105-156599.html Drei Krankheiten: erfolgreich kaputt gespart: schlechte Bezahlung: im Vergleich mit anderen EU-Ländern und auch USA steht Deutschland schlecht da was die Entlohnung von Ärzte an geht auch schlechter als Japan und gar Italien (!) das ist vermutlich […]
to learn something new is fun to have one’s head messed up… not so much… ever heard of Buckminster Fuller? the guy wo inveted the “fish car” and big fan of geodesic domes the idea was great… but the marketing? […]
“floating point arithmetic is considered an esoteric subject by many people” (src: What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating Point Arithmetic – David Goldberg 1991.pdf) some even do “transcendental calculations” (src) make no mistake: computer make mistakes too! not […]
“Better Than Nothing” Starlink-Beta started across the US & Canada Starlink: amazing but and also a bit “crazy” “On 15 October 2019, the United States Federal Communications Commission submitted filings to the International Telecommunication Union on SpaceX’s behalf to […]
contains advertisement. to be honest, it is hard to keep up the speed at which cyber incidents are reported. here is the latest take on “Russian IT Sec Updates”. have phun! SecurityLab, [28.09.20 08:20] Last month, TikTok developers rolled […]
Bitcoin’s annual electricity consumption adds up to 45.8 TWh (45.800.000.000 kWh) The corresponding annual carbon emissions range from 22.0 to 22.9 MtCO2 This level sits between the levels produced by the nations of Jordan and Sri Lanka src: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542435119302557 a […]